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9189679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Holman | Benjamin Holman | Benjamin F. Holman (1930 – January 20, 2007) was a pioneering American newspaper and television reporter.
Holman was born in Columbia, South Carolina. His father died when he was four years old, and his mother moved with him and his sister to Bloomfield, New Jersey. As a young man, he hoped to combine his love for wri... | 2.0625 | 0 |
9189698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldberg%20Pass | Feldberg Pass | In 1908, plans were drawn up to widen the road, but they initially failed to secure funding from the parishes. In 1912, the parish of Bärental was committed to make a contribution and work began in 1913, which led to it being widened by 33%, and its gradient reduced from an average of 10.3 to 7.85%. On 1 April 1926, it... | 2.515625 | 0 |
9189698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldberg%20Pass | Feldberg Pass | For the last few decades, there have been winter sports areas at Feldberg on both sides of the pass. They include 14 lifts and 16 slopes, from simple family runs to sophisticated FIS World Cup routes. Using a Feldberg Pass, cross-country skiers have access to the trails at the Herzogenhorn (about 20 km), the Köpfle (3 ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
9189715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oosterhesselen | Oosterhesselen | Oosterhesselen is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is located in the municipality of Coevorden, about 9 km north of the city. Oosterhesselen was a separate municipality between 1819 and 1998, when it was merged with Coevorden.
History
Oosterhesselen is an esdorp which developed in the early Middle Ages.... | 1.9375 | 0 |
9189739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing%20of%20L%C3%BCbeck%20in%20World%20War%20II | Bombing of Lübeck in World War II | A group of three Catholic clergymen, Johannes Prassek, Eduard Müller and Hermann Lange, and an Evangelical Lutheran pastor, Karl Friedrich Stellbrink, were arrested following the raid, tried by the People's Court in 1943 and sentenced to death by decapitation; all were beheaded on 10 November 1943, in the Hamburg priso... | 2.53125 | 0 |
9189784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roden%2C%20Netherlands | Roden, Netherlands | Roden () is a town in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is located in the municipality of Noordenveld, about 16 km (10 miles) southwest of Groningen.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1139 as Rothen, and means "settlement near a clearing in the forest". Roden is an esdorp which developed in the Early Middle ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
9189860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruinen | Ruinen | Ruinen is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is located in the municipality of De Wolden, about 10 km northwest of Hoogeveen. The Dwingelderveld National Park is located near Ruinen.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1139 as de Runa. The etymology is unknown. Ruinen is an esdorp from the Early Mi... | 1.921875 | 0 |
9189897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Myers%20%28translator%29 | Alan Myers (translator) | Alan Myers (18 August 1933 – 8 August 2010) was a noted translator, most notably of works by Russian authors.
Biography
Myers was born in South Shields, County Durham, in 1933. He attended the University of London between 1957 and 1960 and Moscow University from 1960 to 1961. Subsequently, he taught Russian and Englis... | 1.984375 | 0 |
9189897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Myers%20%28translator%29 | Alan Myers (translator) | Essays
Myers translated poems and essays for his friend, Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, which appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Vogue, The Times Literary Supplement and later in Brodsky's books: A Part of Speech; Less than One; Urania; So Forth and Collected Poems in English. His extended Brodsk... | 2.03125 | 0 |
9190181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s%20End%20%28Chadbourn%20novel%29 | World's End (Chadbourn novel) | World's End is a novel written by British author Mark Chadbourn and the initial entry in The Age of Misrule trilogy. It was first published in Great Britain by Millennium on 14 September 2000. An edition collecting all three books in The Age of Misrule series (World's End, Darkest Hour and Always Forever) was published... | 1.984375 | 0 |
9190182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Cameo%20of%20France | Great Cameo of France | The Great Cameo of France () is a five-layered sardonyx Imperial Roman cameo of either about 23 AD, or 50–54 AD. It is 31 cm by 26.5 cm. It is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.
It is the largest Roman imperial cameo to have survived. It would have been an object of great value and prestige, almost certainly... | 2.390625 | 0 |
9190182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Cameo%20of%20France | Great Cameo of France | History
It appears to have come to France from the treasury of the Byzantine Empire, and is first attested in the first inventory of the treasure of the Sainte Chapelle before 1279. It was then known as the Triumph of Joseph at the Court of the Pharaoh. It was sold by Baldwin II, emperor of the Latin Empire, to Louis ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
9190226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midrash%20Taame%20Haserot%20ve-Yeterot | Midrash Taame Haserot ve-Yeterot | Midrash Taame Haserot ve-Yeterot (Hebrew: מדרש טעמי חסרות ויתרות) is one of the smaller midrashim.
Contents
It gives aggadic explanations not only of the words which are written defective or plene, as the title of the work implies, but also of a great number of those which are not read as they are written (comp. on th... | 2 | 0 |
9190237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20rat | Cloud rat | The cloud rats or cloudrunners are a tribe (Phloeomyini) of arboreal and nocturnal herbivorous rodents endemic to the cloud forests of the Philippines. They belong to the family Muridae and include five genera: Batomys (hairy-tailed rats), Carpomys (dwarf cloud rats), Crateromys (bushy-tailed cloud rats), Musseromys (... | 2.484375 | 0 |
9190237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20rat | Cloud rat | Conservation
Several species of cloud rats are classified as endangered or critically endangered by the IUCN. Cloud rats are primarily threatened with habitat loss and human encroachment due to the extensive deforestation of the Philippines. Larger species of cloud rats (Phloeomys and Crateromys spp.) are also hunted ... | 2.890625 | 0 |
9190286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20%28science%29 | Protocol (science) | In natural and social science research, a protocol is most commonly a predefined procedural method in the design and implementation of an experiment. Protocols are written whenever it is desirable to standardize a laboratory method to ensure successful replication of results by others in the same laboratory or by other... | 3.015625 | 0 |
9190286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20%28science%29 | Protocol (science) | Experiment and study protocol
Various fields of science, such as environmental science and clinical research, require the coordinated, standardized work of many participants. Additionally, any associated laboratory testing and experiment must be done in a way that is both ethically sound and results can be replicated b... | 2.953125 | 0 |
9190286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20%28science%29 | Protocol (science) | bias: Many protocols include provisions for avoiding bias in the interpretation of results. Approximation error is common to all measurements. These errors can be absolute errors from limitations of the equipment or propagation errors from approximate numbers used in calculations. Sample bias is the most common and som... | 2.484375 | 0 |
9190286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20%28science%29 | Protocol (science) | Blinded protocols
A protocol may require blinding to avoid bias. A blind can be imposed on any participant of an experiment, including subjects, researchers, technicians, data analysts, and evaluators. In some cases, while blinding would be useful, it is impossible or unethical. A good clinical protocol ensures that bl... | 2.9375 | 0 |
9190316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Woodwark | Graham Woodwark | George Graham Woodwark CBE (1 July 1874 – 26 December 1938) was an English Liberal politician.
Family and education
Born in 1874 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Woodwark was the son of the Alderman G S Woodwark JP. He was educated at King Edward VII’s Grammar School, King’s Lynn. In 1930 he married Isabel Palmer. He was alwa... | 2.234375 | 0 |
9190355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Wijk | De Wijk | De Wijk () is a village in the Netherlands province of Drenthe. It is located in the municipality of De Wolden, and is about 7 km southeast of Meppel. It is home to Rijksmonument 39657, De Wieker Meule.
De Wijk was a separate municipality until 1998, when it became a part of De Wolden.
History
De Wijk originated in... | 1.992188 | 0 |
9190415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%20Monta%C3%B1ez%20Ortiz | Raphael Montañez Ortiz | Raphael Montañez Ortiz (born in Brooklyn, New York January 30, 1934) is an American artist, educator, and founder of El Museo del Barrio, in East Harlem, New York City.
Education
Montañez Ortiz graduated from Art and Design High School of New York City, and studied at Pratt Institute, where he began as a student of ar... | 2.6875 | 0 |
9190415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%20Monta%C3%B1ez%20Ortiz | Raphael Montañez Ortiz | During the late 1960s in East Harlem and Central Harlem, a group of African-American and Puerto Rican parents, educators and community activists urged the district that they provide their children an education that addressed their diverse and cultural heritages. Due to these demands, William W. Frey, the superintendent... | 2.96875 | 0 |
9190415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%20Monta%C3%B1ez%20Ortiz | Raphael Montañez Ortiz | The Destruction in Art Symposium
In London, 1966, a group of artists like Yoko Ono, Wolf Vostell, Peter Weibel and Al Hansen came together to participate in the first Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) led by Gustav Metzger. According to the event's press release, the principal objective of DIAS was “to focus attentio... | 2.75 | 0 |
9190415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%20Monta%C3%B1ez%20Ortiz | Raphael Montañez Ortiz | This interest in the discussion about destruction in society is crucial to understanding the anger and violence implied by some of the artist's works. Destroying functional objects such as beds, sofas, and chairs or appropriating objects that refer to the human body, such as shoes, was the way in which Montañez Ortiz e... | 2.484375 | 0 |
9190415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%20Monta%C3%B1ez%20Ortiz | Raphael Montañez Ortiz | While Montañez Ortiz was no longer actively creating destructive art, he was still asked to perform piano destructions throughout Europe and the United States in the 1980s and 1990s and was sometimes even asked to do private commissions. In 1988, Ortiz was honored with a retrospective exhibition at El Museo del Barrio,... | 1.9375 | 0 |
9190415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%20Monta%C3%B1ez%20Ortiz | Raphael Montañez Ortiz | Montañez Ortiz's most recent projects continue to focus on participatory artworks, many evoking new ways to combat the inhumanity of the world. His Virtual Presence Video Interactive Installation instructions encourage participants to give a fellow human being a virtual hug via digital technology. Montañez Ortiz's life... | 2.140625 | 0 |
9190415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%20Monta%C3%B1ez%20Ortiz | Raphael Montañez Ortiz | "There are today throughout the world a handful of artists working in a way, which is truly unique in art history. Theirs is an art which separates the makers from the unmakers, the assemblers from the disassemblers, the constructors from the destructors. These artists are destroyers, materialists, and sensualists deal... | 2.1875 | 0 |
9190432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekketsu%20Saiky%C5%8D%20Go-Saurer | Nekketsu Saikyō Go-Saurer | Kenichi Minezaki is the sixth-grade pilot of Mach Ptera and main pilot of Gosaurer. His parents run a sports store named "Minezaki Sports". He is an active and cheerful boy who likes to skateboard and is good at sports, but like his two Eldran predecessors, he is having academic problem issues. He is friends with Saney... | 2.171875 | 0 |
9190501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Heirens | William Heirens | Claims of innocence
Within days of his confession in open court, Heirens denied any responsibility for the murders. Mary Jane Blanchard, daughter of murder victim Josephine Ross, was among the first to believe him, saying:I cannot believe that young Heirens murdered my mother. He just does not fit into the picture of ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
9190501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Heirens | William Heirens | Polygraph test
In 1946, after Heirens underwent two polygraph examinations, Tuohy declared the results inconclusive. However, John E. Reid and Fred E. Inbau published the test findings in their 1953 textbook, Lie Detection and Criminal Interrogation, which seem to contradict that assertion. According to the book, the ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
9190501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Heirens | William Heirens | The Degnan ransom note was first examined by the Chicago Crime Detection Laboratory, but they couldn't find any usable prints on the note. Captain Timothy O'Connor took the note to the FBI crime laboratory in Washington, D.C. on January 18, 1946, with the idea of enlisting the FBI's more sophisticated technology in fin... | 2.25 | 0 |
9190501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Heirens | William Heirens | The Chicago detectives dismissed Thomas' claims after Heirens became a suspect. Thomas died in 1974 in an Arizona prison. His prison record and most of the evidence of his interrogation regarding the Chicago murders have been lost or destroyed.
George Hodel is also a prominent suspect according to the findings of his ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
9190555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midrash%20Temurah | Midrash Temurah | Midrash Temurah (Hebrew: מדרש תמורה) is one of the smaller midrashim, consisting of three chapters.
Contents
It develops the view that God in His wisdom and might has created all things on earth as contrasted pairs which mutually supplement each other. Life is known only as opposed to death, and death as opposed to li... | 2.28125 | 0 |
9190644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelungula | Spelungula | Spelungula is a monotypic genus of South Pacific large-clawed spiders containing the single species, Spelungula cavernicola, or the Nelson cave spider.
Taxonomy
This species was described in 1987 by Ray Forster from specimens collected in caves around Nelson. The holotype is stored at Te Papa Museum under registratio... | 2.484375 | 0 |
9190792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%20Brahma%20Sanyal | Ram Brahma Sanyal | Ram Brahma Sanyal (1850 – 13 October 1908) was the first Indian superintendent of the Alipore Zoological Gardens in Kolkata (then Calcutta). He was a pioneer in captive breeding, and was one of the first zookeepers trained as a biologist. He was a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London and wrote a han... | 2.34375 | 0 |
9190799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah%20Morton | Jeremiah Morton | Jeremiah Morton (September 3, 1799 – November 28, 1878) was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer, physician and architect from Virginia. He was a younger brother of Florida senator Jackson Morton.
Early and family life
Born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to wealthy landowner Jeremiah Morton and his wife, the former M... | 2.3125 | 0 |
9190827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midrash%20Veyechulu | Midrash Veyechulu | Midrash Veyechulu () is one of the smaller midrashim, named after Genesis 2:1 ("Veyechulu ha-Shamayim"). It contained both halakhic and aggadic material, and doubtless covered several books of the Pentateuch; but it now exists only in citations by various authors after the middle of the 12th century.
In Ha-Rokeach, pa... | 2.03125 | 0 |
9190903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20Grey | Point Grey | Point Grey () is a headland marking the southern entrance to English Bay and Burrard Inlet in British Columbia, Canada. The headland is the site of Wreck Beach, Tower Beach, Point Grey Beach and most notably, since 1925, on its top is the Point Grey Campus of the University of British Columbia.
During World War II T... | 2.453125 | 0 |
9190950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Environmental%20Citizen%20Award | Global Environmental Citizen Award | In 2007, Charles, Prince of Wales, (now King Charles III), was presented with the Global Environmental Citizen Award for his work towards preserving the environment. In 1990, Prince Charles started Duchy Originals, a company dedicated to providing small farmers new markets to sell their goods and delivering high-quali... | 2.328125 | 0 |
9190999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Modisane | William Modisane | William Modisane (28 August 1923 – 1 March 1986), better known as Bloke Modisane, was a South African writer, actor and journalist.
Biography
William "Bloke" Modisane, the eldest son of Joseph and Ma-Willie Modisane, grew up in Sophiatown, a multiracial suburb in Johannesburg, South Africa. His father was murdered and... | 2.140625 | 0 |
9191083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Blake | James H. Blake | James Heighe Blake (11 June 1768 – 29 July 1819) was an American physician and politician who served as the third mayor of Washington, D.C., elected by the council of aldermen in 1813 and serving until 1817.
Birth
Born on June 11, 1768, to Joseph Blake and Mary Heighe in Calvert County, Maryland, descendant of Admiral... | 2.375 | 0 |
9191083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Blake | James H. Blake | Blake was the mayor of Washington when British troops laid siege to the city on August 24, 1814, as part of the War of 1812. He put the city on alert a few days before the siege, insisting that "I would exert myself to the last moment and agree to die in the streets rather than give up the city, but, if all resistance ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
9191108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braughing%20%28Roman%20town%29 | Braughing (Roman town) | Braughing was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Its name in Latin is unknown.
Location
Today the site is partially occupied by the hamlet of Ford Bridge and straddles the civil parish boundary between Braughing and Standon, located in the English county of Hertfordshire. It is located at the navigable e... | 2.046875 | 0 |
9191142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezinge | Ezinge | Ezinge ( or ) is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Westerkwartier, about 15 km northwest of the city of Groningen. Ezinge is the oldest, constantly inhabited village in The Netherlands and is in archeological context referred to as "the Pompeii of the North".
Ezinge wa... | 2.109375 | 0 |
9191142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezinge | Ezinge | Around the end of the 1920s peat diggers found curious old objects that attracted the attention of archeologist Albert van Giffen. The following decade Ezinge was the centre of attention for archeologists and historians. Van Giffen found evidence for one of the oldest Dutch instances of constant habitation. Among the o... | 2.5625 | 0 |
9191150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20H.%20Procter | Ben H. Procter | Ben Hamill Procter (February 21, 1927 – April 17, 2012) was a historian who served from 1957 to 2000 on the faculty of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.
A native of Temple, Texas, Procter moved with his family to Austin, where he graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School. He obtained Bachelor of Arts... | 2.25 | 0 |
9191153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midrash%20Vayosha | Midrash Vayosha | Midrash Vayosha () is an 11th-century CE midrash, one of the smaller midrashim. It is based on Exodus 14:30-15:18. It is an exposition in the style of the later aggadah, and seems to have been intended for Shabbat Shirah or for the seventh day of Passover.
Sources
Entire sections of Midrash Vayosha are taken verbat... | 2.375 | 0 |
9191166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%20Highway%2062 | Ontario Highway 62 | Within urbanized Belleville, Highway62 serves as the primary north–south route. It is maintained under a Connecting Link agreement from the northern end of the Norris Whitney Bridge to the southern end of the Highway 401 interchange. The Connecting Link follows Bay Bridge Road, Dundas Street, Pinnacle Street, and Front... | 1.921875 | 0 |
9191166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%20Highway%2062 | Ontario Highway 62 | Within the village of Madoc, Highway62 is maintained under a Connecting Link agreement as it passes through the centre of town. The Connecting Link begins just north of Charles Street and extends to south of Highway7.
Now following the Hastings Colonization Road, an early pioneer settlement road,
the highway travels st... | 2.28125 | 0 |
9191166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%20Highway%2062 | Ontario Highway 62 | Parting ways with the York River, Highway62 enters Hastings Highlands and passes through the communities of York River and Birds Creek, which form a continuous stretch of urban development along with the village of Bancroft. The highway then returns to thick forests, although the occasional farm dots the journey north,... | 2.125 | 0 |
9191189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien%20Rale | Sébastien Rale | Sébastien Rale (; also Racle, Râle, Rasle, Rasles, and Sebastian Rale; January 20, 1657 – August 23, 1724) was a French Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who preached amongst the Abenaki and encouraged their resistance to British colonization during the early 18th century. This encouragement culminated in Dummer's Wa... | 2.75 | 0 |
9191189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien%20Rale | Sébastien Rale | Governor Dudley put a price on Rale's head. In the winter of 1705, 275 New England militiamen were dispatched under the command of Colonel Winthrop Hilton to seize Rale. The priest was warned in time, however, and escaped into the woods with his papers, but the militia burned the village and church. Rale wrote to his n... | 2.78125 | 0 |
9191189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien%20Rale | Sébastien Rale | Chief Taxous died, and his successor was Wissememet who advocated peace with the Colonists, offering beaver skins as reparation for past damages, and four hostages to guarantee none in the future. Rale, however, continued to stir up individuals within the tribe, urging armed resistance. He declared: "Any treaty with th... | 2.90625 | 0 |
9191189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien%20Rale | Sébastien Rale | Sebastien Rale and the Abenaki
Rale was tasked with one of the longest and most eventful periods of priesthood in this area of the New World. Rale devoted himself to his mission work and began to study the Abenaki dialect to be a more effective priest. In addition, he also studied the Algonquin dialect in order to run... | 2.75 | 0 |
9191189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien%20Rale | Sébastien Rale | Father Rale was sent to North America with the fur traders and Fishermen and was said to have been the reason the Abenaki people were planning to help the French forces in their conflicts against the British in the Americas. This began in 1721 when Rale demanded that the New Englanders return their Abenaki hostages whi... | 2.484375 | 0 |
9191193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup%20of%20the%20Ptolemies | Cup of the Ptolemies | On the upper-left side of what is today considered the back of the vessel, the mask of Pan can be seen in the tree. Below, a goat is reaching for ripened grapes. Behind the goat lies fruit and a table, most likely an anclabris with five ceremonial vessels on top. On the left side of the table stands a small female figu... | 2.5 | 0 |
9191193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup%20of%20the%20Ptolemies | Cup of the Ptolemies | Sometime during the Carolingian period, a base "in the shape of a truncated cone" was constructed to make the vessel appear more like a traditional chalice, and the cup's knob was "partially covered with cloisonné goldsmith work". Later, in the 12th century, Abbot Suger of Saint Denis (who served from AD 112251) probab... | 2.515625 | 0 |
9191207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnese%20Cup | Farnese Cup | The Farnese Cup or Tazza Farnese is a 2nd-century BC cameo hardstone carving bowl or cup made in Hellenistic Egypt of four-layered sardonyx agate. It is at the Naples National Archaeological Museum. It is about wide and similar in form to a Greek phiale or Roman patera, with no foot. It features relief carvings on bo... | 2.359375 | 0 |
9191207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnese%20Cup | Farnese Cup | Eugene J. Dwyer
In his analysis of the Tazza Farnese, Dwyer builds upon previous analyses by experts in the field, including Ennio Quirino Visconti, Frederic Louis Bastet, and Reinhold Merkelbach, among others. Dwyer's two major assertions are that the iconography found in the interior and exterior carvings is a sophi... | 2.328125 | 0 |
9191207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnese%20Cup | Farnese Cup | Fischer is one of the few who have assigned the Tazza Farnese an Augustan date rather than a Hellenistic one. Her analysis of the piece therefore focuses on reexamining preconceived notions arrived at by other scholars who have assigned it a Hellenistic date, as well as attempting to provide evidence for her assertion ... | 2.625 | 0 |
9191328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20%C5%A0tiljanovi%C4%87 | Stefan Štiljanović | In 1634, Serbian Patriarch Pajsije I Janjevac sojourned at the Šišatovac Monastery and there he wrote the biography of Stefan Štiljanović in a modern revival of the traditional Serbian hagiographical literature. During World War II, as part of organized destruction of Serbian cultural heritage and history, the Croatian... | 2.546875 | 0 |
9191438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20G.%20Orr | Benjamin G. Orr | Benjamin Grayson Orr (1762–1822) was the fourth mayor of Washington, D.C., elected by the council of aldermen in 1817 and serving for two years. He was often called Colonel Orr, but it is unclear how he obtained that title.
Orr was probably born in Virginia. He was married to Elizabeth Flood, also of Virginia, and ha... | 2.125 | 0 |
9191520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tread%20Softly%20in%20This%20Place | Tread Softly in This Place | Tread Softly in this Place is a novel set in the town of Ross, located in a remote part of rural Ireland, and written over the course of 1970/71 by the Irish-based author, Brian Cleeve. The narrative takes place over four days and charts the interconnecting lives and loves of a disparate collection of characters. Tread... | 2.09375 | 0 |
9191585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20Bay%2C%20South%20Australia | Rapid Bay, South Australia | Rapid Bay is a locality that includes a small seaside town and bay on the west coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. It lies within the District Council of Yankalilla and its township is approximately 100 km south of the state capital, Adelaide. A pair of jetties are popular attractions for recreational f... | 2.390625 | 0 |
9191692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intra%20Bank | Intra Bank | Intra Bank (also known as Banque Intra or بنك انترا) was a Lebanese bank, and the largest financial institution in Lebanon until its collapse in 1966.
Foundation and rise of the bank
The bank was founded in 1951 by Yousef Beidas and three partners as a trading company. The law in Lebanon in 1951 did not cover banking ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
9191692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intra%20Bank | Intra Bank | Intra Bank started in Lebanon but as the recipient of much of the oil income from the Arabian Peninsula it embarked on an expansion program that saw it opening branches all over the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the Americas. This was not all done in the Intra Bank name, banks in other countries were often local enti... | 2.5625 | 0 |
9191727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readex | Readex | The latter includes Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971, published in partnership with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980, published in partnership with the University of Houston, and African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, created from repositori... | 2.46875 | 0 |
9191782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gio.%20Ansaldo%20%26%20C. | Gio. Ansaldo & C. | Ansaldo was one of Italy's oldest and most important engineering companies, existing for 140 years from 1853 to 1993.
History
19th century foundation
The company was founded in 1853 as Gio. Ansaldo & C. S.A.S. by renowned players in the Genoese business world, such as Giovanni Ansaldo, Raffaele Rubattino, Giacomo F... | 2.15625 | 0 |
9191782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gio.%20Ansaldo%20%26%20C. | Gio. Ansaldo & C. | Following a financial crisis with its largest creditor, Banca Italiana di Sconto, and problems in reconverting factories after the end of World War I, the Perrone family abandoned the company in 1921, and the Banca d'Italia led a consortium to save it from bankruptcy. Company strategies were drastically sized down, an... | 1.9375 | 0 |
9191790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Bank%20of%20Scotland | Royal Bank of Scotland | The Royal Bank of Scotland plc () is a major retail and commercial bank in Scotland. It is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of NatWest Group, together with NatWest (in England and Wales) and Ulster Bank. The Royal Bank of Scotland has around 700 branches, mainly in Scotland, though there are branches in many larg... | 2.234375 | 0 |
9191790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Bank%20of%20Scotland | Royal Bank of Scotland | During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Royal Bank was the subject of three separate takeover approaches. In 1979, Lloyds Bank, which had previously built up a 16.4% stake in the Royal Bank, made a takeover approach for the remaining shares it did not own. The offer was rejected by the board of directors on the basi... | 2.109375 | 0 |
9191790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Bank%20of%20Scotland | Royal Bank of Scotland | From 1988 to 2015, it owned Citizens Financial Group, a bank in the United States, and from 2005 to 2009 RBS Group was the second-largest shareholder in the Bank of China, itself the world's fifth-largest bank by market capitalisation in February 2008.
Recent history
Following the implosion of the Royal Bank of Scotl... | 1.914063 | 0 |
9191790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Bank%20of%20Scotland | Royal Bank of Scotland | In February 2017, HM Treasury suggested that the bank should abandon the plan to sell the division, and instead focus on initiatives to boost competition within business banking in the United Kingdom. The plan would be subject to approval by the European Commission. A final agreement, known as the "Alternative Remedies... | 2.21875 | 0 |
9191796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Webb%20Davies | Stanley Webb Davies | "Hundreds of thousands of citizens live their working lives in bondage. They are machine minders and no call is ever made on them to use their skill, their initiative or their intelligence." It was, he felt, "more important that industry should turn out excellent men and women than a flood of cheap and useful goods." H... | 1.96875 | 0 |
9191829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman%20Palace%20Theatre | Everyman Palace Theatre | The Everyman, also referred to as the Everyman Theatre and historically known as the Everyman Palace, is a 650-seat Victorian theatre on MacCurtain Street in Cork, Ireland. It opened in 1897, and is the oldest purpose-built theatre building in Cork. The theatre is housed in a protected Victorian building with a large s... | 2.0625 | 0 |
9191893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20F.%20Strother | James F. Strother | Strother returned to Virginia and was admitted to the bar, as had generations of family members before him. Strother began his legal practice in Washington, Virginia in Rappahannock County on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As Strother's wealth grew, directly and by inheritance, he may have invested in ... | 2.375 | 0 |
9191893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20F.%20Strother | James F. Strother | Afterward, Strother resumed his legal practice in Culpeper, Virginia until his death near there on September 20, 1860. He was interred in Masonic Cemetery. Within a year, the American Civil War had begun destroying the area. His cousin James E. Slaughter would become a Confederate Brigadier General, and some of his son... | 2.40625 | 0 |
9191901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Illinois | Northern Illinois | Politically, the region is quite diverse, with Cook County and Rock Island County being long-time strongholds for Democrats and north-central Illinois counties (Boone, Ogle, Lee, etc.) being reliable for Republicans. Suburban Chicago counties such as DuPage, Kane, Kendall and McHenry Counties were also very reliably Re... | 2.171875 | 0 |
9191901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Illinois | Northern Illinois | Collar counties
The collar counties are the five counties of Illinois that border on Chicago's Cook County. The collar counties (DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will) are tied to Chicago economically, but, like many suburban areas in the United States, have very different political leanings than does the core city. Ch... | 2.28125 | 0 |
9192019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPAD%20%28complexity%29 | PPAD (complexity) | In computer science, PPAD ("Polynomial Parity Arguments on Directed graphs") is a complexity class introduced by Christos Papadimitriou in 1994. PPAD is a subclass of TFNP based on functions that can be shown to be total by a parity argument. The class attracted significant attention in the field of algorithmic game t... | 2.234375 | 0 |
9192217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho%20Laguna%20Seca | Rancho Laguna Seca | Rancho Laguna Seca was a Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1834 by Governor José Figueroa to Catalina M. Munrás. "Laguna Seca" means "Dry Lake" in Spanish, referring to the seasonal lake, Laguna Seca. The grant was east of present-day Monterey.
History
The half square league gr... | 2.765625 | 0 |
9192220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef%20Club | Clef Club | The Clef Club was an entertainment venue and society for African-American musicians in Harlem, achieving its largest success in the 1910s. Incorporated by James Reese Europe in 1910, it was a combination musicians' hangout, fraternity club, labor exchange, and concert hall, across the street from Marshall's Hotel. In i... | 2.5625 | 0 |
9192249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%20Golf%20Club | Toronto Golf Club | The Toronto Golf Club is a private golf club in Mississauga, Ontario, a suburban municipality to the west of Toronto. Established in Toronto in 1876, it is the third-oldest golf club in North America, after the Royal Montreal Golf Club and the Royal Quebec Golf Club. The Toronto Golf Club adopted its current name in 19... | 2.03125 | 0 |
9192393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Allan%20%28rugby%29 | Trevor Allan (rugby) | Trevor Allan (26 September 1926 – 27 January 2007) was an Australian dual-code rugby international who captained Australia in rugby union before switching to rugby league with English club Leigh.
Rugby union club career
A North Sydney rugby union junior, Allan was educated at North Sydney Technical High School. His s... | 2.140625 | 0 |
9192393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Allan%20%28rugby%29 | Trevor Allan (rugby) | In 1949, he led the Wallabies to New Zealand where they won the Bledisloe Cup for the first time in New Zealand and posted eleven wins from twelve games on tour. The Rugby Almanack of New Zealand that year named him one of the world's top 5 players.
He missed the Test against the British Lions in 1950 due to injury bu... | 1.921875 | 0 |
9192512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Roach | Ruth Roach | Ruth Scantlin, later Ruth Scantlin Roach, later Ruth Scantlin Roach Salmon (1896 – June 26, 1986), was a professional bronc rider, and world champion rodeo cowgirl.
Biography
Ruth Scantlin 24-year career began in 1914 and ended in 1938, when she retired from the rodeo and started a ranching business in Nocona, Texas,... | 2.03125 | 0 |
9192641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20variable | External variable | A variable must be defined exactly once in one of the modules of the program. If there is no definition or more than one, an error is produced, possibly in the linking stage. A variable may be declared many times, as long as the declarations are consistent with each other and with the definition (something which header... | 2.6875 | 0 |
9192660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka%20Tiensuu | Jukka Tiensuu | Jukka Santeri Tiensuu (born 30 August 1948) is a Finnish contemporary classical composer, harpsichordist, pianist and conductor.
Career
Tiensuu was born in Helsinki. After extensive musical studies (piano, harpsichord, conducting, composing, historically informed performance, electroacoustic and computer music a.o.t.)... | 1.953125 | 0 |
9192698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Arthur%20Banks | Charles Arthur Banks | Charles Arthur Banks, (18 May 1885 – 28 September 1961) was the 17th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
In New Zealand, Banks studied engineering at the Thames School of Mines and Colorado School of Mines. After obtaining his degree, Banks immigrated to British Columbia. During World War I, Banks served with th... | 2.28125 | 0 |
9192701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kearny%20Mesa%2C%20San%20Diego | Kearny Mesa, San Diego | Kearny Mesa is a community in the central part of San Diego, California. It is bounded by State Route 52 to the north, Interstate 805 to the west, Aero Drive to the south, and Interstate 15 to the east. Adjacent communities include Serra Mesa, Clairemont and Tierrasanta.
Kearny Mesa has a population of 2,837.
History... | 1.953125 | 0 |
9192701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kearny%20Mesa%2C%20San%20Diego | Kearny Mesa, San Diego | The presence of Asian businesses in the Convoy District area is said to have started with the establishment of a Woo Chee Chong grocery store on Convoy Street in 1979. The Korean market chain Zion opened its first store in the Convoy District, also in 1979. A few years later, in 1986, Nijiya Market (a Japanese market l... | 1.921875 | 0 |
9192705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atolovo | Atolovo | Atolovo (, from the Bulgarian transliteration of Atholl and the Slavic toponymic suffix "-ovo") is a village in southeastern Bulgaria, part of Straldzha Municipality, Yambol Province. , it has a population of 219. Atolovo lies at 128 m above sea level, in the Straldzha Plateau of the Sliven Valley.
The village, intend... | 2.234375 | 0 |
9192808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20al-Hasan | Ahmed al-Hasan | There are other verses in the old testament that Jews also believe in, and Ahmed al-Hasan has brought them up as his identifying text. For example, in the book of Isaiah chapter 11, he has interpreted that the shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse as Imam Al-Mahdi, and the branch from his roots as himself.
Ahmed al-... | 1.90625 | 0 |
9192808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20al-Hasan | Ahmed al-Hasan | Publications
Ahmed al-Hasan has published books in various domains, including Islam, Christianity, and Judaism ideology, interpretation of the Qur'an, the Bible, and other ancient religious texts, criticism of atheism, and social-political issues. In the book The Atheism Delusion, he discusses the relationship between... | 1.96875 | 0 |
9192854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litchfield%20Jazz%20Festival | Litchfield Jazz Festival | The Litchfield Jazz Festival began in 1996 at the White Memorial Conservation Center in Litchfield Hills in Connecticut. The parent organization that runs the festival is Litchfield Performing Arts, Inc, a not-for-profit founded in 1981. After two years at the White Memorial Conservation Center the festival moved to... | 2.109375 | 0 |
9192854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litchfield%20Jazz%20Festival | Litchfield Jazz Festival | The Litchfield Jazz Camp began in 1997. The camp has been featured in TIME Magazine, on CNN and in the JazzTimes Education Guide. Litchfield Jazz camp offers students of all ages and abilities the opportunity to study with internationally recognized jazz musicians on the campus of a Connecticut boarding school. Studen... | 2.6875 | 0 |
9192883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound%20heterozygosity | Compound heterozygosity | In medical genetics, compound heterozygosity is the condition of having two or more heterogeneous recessive alleles at a particular locus that can cause genetic disease in a heterozygous state; that is, an organism is a compound heterozygote when it has two recessive alleles for the same gene, but with those two allele... | 3.21875 | 0 |
9192883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound%20heterozygosity | Compound heterozygosity | Compound heterozygosity is one of the causes of variation in genetic disease. The diagnosis and nomenclature for such disorders sometimes reflects history, because most diseases were first observed and classified based on biochemistry and pathophysiology before genetic diagnosis was available. Some genetic disorders ar... | 2.859375 | 0 |
9192883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound%20heterozygosity | Compound heterozygosity | For some genetic diseases, environmental cofactors are an important determinant of variation and outcome. In the case of hemochromatosis, penetrance is incomplete, even for the classic HFE mutation, and is affected by gender, diet, and behaviors such as alcohol consumption. Compound heterozygotes are often observed onl... | 2.578125 | 0 |
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