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9192907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Friedrich%20Meckel%2C%20the%20Elder | Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Elder | Johann Friedrich Meckel the Elder (31 July 1724 – 18 September 1774) was a German anatomist born in Wetzlar. He often has "the Elder" appended to his name to avoid confusion with his famous grandson Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781–1833), who was also an anatomist and often has "the Younger" included with his name. The el... | 2.640625 | 0 |
9192943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazdoor%20Kisan%20Party | Mazdoor Kisan Party | The Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP; ; ; lit. "Workers and Farmers Party") is a communist party in Pakistan. It was founded on 1 May 1968 by Afzal Bangash and Sher Ali Bacha. Other prominent leaders included Ishaq Muhammad and Imtiaz Alam. In the 1970s, the MKP led a militant communist movement in Hashtnagar, Charsadda Distri... | 1.921875 | 0 |
9192943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazdoor%20Kisan%20Party | Mazdoor Kisan Party | Finally in 1978, the MKP formally split up into three factions: One led by Bangash, taking most of the NWFP organisation and the party in northern Punjab with him. A second led by Sher Ali Bacha and Imtiaz Alam, taking most of the cadres in Punjab and Karachi and a small number in NWFP (Sher Ali Bacha later separated h... | 2.078125 | 0 |
9192943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazdoor%20Kisan%20Party | Mazdoor Kisan Party | The unity congress also elected Afzal Bangash as president of the MKP, Fatehyab Ali Khan as Senior Vice-President and Shaukat Ali as secretary-general. Mirza Mohammad Ibrahim, a veteran labour leader, was elected to the Central Working Committee of the party. Pakistan Mazdoor Kisan Party was formally adopted as the nam... | 1.945313 | 0 |
9192943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazdoor%20Kisan%20Party | Mazdoor Kisan Party | Internal structure
The MKP was organised according to the principle of democratic centralism. The leadership was collective and political instead of individual and personal. The supreme body was the all-party Congress which was held every four years. It determined the party line and program of action and also elected ... | 2.90625 | 0 |
9192979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt%27s%20dik-dik | Salt's dik-dik | Salt's dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana) is a small antelope found in semidesert, bushland, and thickets in the Horn of Africa, but marginally also in northern Kenya and eastern Sudan. It is named after Henry Salt, who was the first European to acknowledge the species in Abyssinia in the early 19th century.
Description
Salt... | 2.203125 | 0 |
9193004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri%27s%206th%20congressional%20district | Missouri's 6th congressional district | Missouri's 6th congressional district takes in a large swath of land in northern Missouri, stretching across nearly the entire width of the state from Kansas to Illinois. Its largest voting population is centered in the northern portion of the Kansas City metropolitan area and the town of St. Joseph. The district inclu... | 1.945313 | 0 |
9193026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act%20of%20the%20Re-Establishment%20of%20the%20State%20of%20Lithuania | Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania | The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania or Act of 11 March () was an independence declaration by Lithuania adopted on 11 March 1990, signed by all members of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania led by Sąjūdis. The act emphasized restoration and legal continuity of the interwar-period Lith... | 2.671875 | 0 |
9193026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act%20of%20the%20Re-Establishment%20of%20the%20State%20of%20Lithuania | Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania | Two days later, under Soviet pressure, Merkys appointed Justas Paleckis, a left-wing journalist and longtime opponent of the Smetona regime, as prime minister. Merkys then resigned at Moscow's insistence, making Paleckis acting president as well. The Soviets then used the Paleckis government to give the final Soviet t... | 2.375 | 0 |
9193026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act%20of%20the%20Re-Establishment%20of%20the%20State%20of%20Lithuania | Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania | Gorbachev's political agenda went for great and deep changes within the Soviet government, as such, Gorbachev invited the Soviet public into open and public discussions unseen before.
For the Soviet Lithuanian dissidents and activists, it was a golden opportunity not to be missed, to bring their movements from undergr... | 2.25 | 0 |
9193026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act%20of%20the%20Re-Establishment%20of%20the%20State%20of%20Lithuania | Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania | Democratic election
Parliamentary elections of February 1990 were the first free and democratic elections in Lithuania since 1926. The voters overwhelmingly voted for the candidates endorsed by Sąjūdis, even though the movement did not run as a political party. The result was the first post-war non-communist government... | 2.296875 | 0 |
9193026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act%20of%20the%20Re-Establishment%20of%20the%20State%20of%20Lithuania | Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania | On 31 May 1990 the Supreme Soviet of Moldavian SSR voted to recognize the Restoration of the Independence of Lithuania. The Parliament of Moldavia was the first legislature in the world to recognize Lithuania's independence, although Moldavia was still part of the Soviet Union. The Moldavian Supreme Soviet promised to ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
9193026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act%20of%20the%20Re-Establishment%20of%20the%20State%20of%20Lithuania | Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania | After the failed August Coup, Lithuanian independence recognition was reconfirmed by the United States on 2 September. President George H. W. Bush announced that if the Soviet Union were to use armed force against Lithuania, the U.S. would react accordingly. Bush's administration said that he had been waiting to recogn... | 2.1875 | 0 |
9193028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Rocks%20%28SSSI%29 | Red Rocks (SSSI) | Red Rocks (SSSI) is an area of sand dunes and reed beds at the mouth of the Dee Estuary and to the west of Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula, England.
Flora and fauna
The area is home to a variety of dune/reed plants the rarest of which was originally thought to be Mackay's horsetail, but has subsequently been re-identi... | 2.25 | 0 |
9193150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri%27s%208th%20congressional%20district | Missouri's 8th congressional district | Missouri's 8th congressional district is one of 435 congressional districts in the United States and one of eight congressional districts in the state of Missouri. The district encompasses rural Southeast Missouri and South Central Missouri as well as some counties in Southwest Missouri. The district stretches from the... | 2 | 0 |
9193184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Brown%20%28baseball%29 | Dick Brown (baseball) | Richard Ernest Brown (January 17, 1935 – April 17, 1970) was an American professional baseball catcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers and Baltimore Orioles. The native of Shinnston, West Virginia, attended Florida State University. He threw and bat... | 2.0625 | 0 |
9193189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice%20of%20Provence | Beatrice of Provence | Now, Beatrice became one of the most attractive heiresses in medieval Europe, and soon several suitors appeared for her hand. Firstly, the neighboring rulers of her domains began their claims: the twice-divorced Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse and King James I of Aragon, who, despite being married to Violant of Hungary,... | 2.328125 | 0 |
9193189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice%20of%20Provence | Beatrice of Provence | Beatrice and Charles returned to Provence in 1251, where some riots erupted at Arles and Avignon, instigated by Beatrice's mother, who felt Charles had failed to respect her claims in Provence. By July 1252 Charles had managed to defeat the revolt and was in the process of exercising his power as Count of Provence. In ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
9193189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice%20of%20Provence | Beatrice of Provence | In 1265 Charles of Anjou, with a small contingent, embarked and by sea arrived in Rome, where, on 28 June, he was invested as King of Sicily by the Pope. According to the storia di Manfredi, re di Sicilia e di Puglia of Giuseppe di Cesare who followed the narrative of the storia di Saba Malaspina, Beatrice followed her... | 2.296875 | 0 |
9193259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinous%20Farnese | Antinous Farnese | The Antinous Farnese is a marble sculptural representation of Antinous that was sculpted between 130 and 137 CE. Antinous was the lover to Roman Emperor Hadrian; the emperor who, after Antinous's death, perpetuated the image of Antinous as a Roman god within the Roman empire. This sculpture is a part of the Roman Imper... | 2.421875 | 0 |
9193259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinous%20Farnese | Antinous Farnese | Antinous is a free standing marble sculpture in the round. The philhellenic elements of this statue are drawn from its visual style, while the Farnese Antinous was sculpted in the Roman period, Antinous emulates an athlete in the Classical Greek style. Specifically, this sculpture is emulated after Polykleitos' statue ... | 2.75 | 0 |
9193259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinous%20Farnese | Antinous Farnese | By sculpting Antinous with consistent conventions artists could delineate Antinous from other Greek mythological figures. The body and face of this sculpture are in idealized youth, with plump cheeks and round face, and his hair is usually unkempt. Antinous's hair has also been described as artificial looking, even wig... | 2.796875 | 0 |
9193279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Moorhouse | Matthew Moorhouse | Matthew Moorhouse (1813 – 29 March 1876) was an English pioneer in Australia, pastoralist, politician, and Protector of Aborigines in South Australia. He was in charge of the armed party that murdered 30-40 Maraura people, which may have included women and children, now known as the Rufus River massacre.
Early life an... | 2.390625 | 0 |
9193279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Moorhouse | Matthew Moorhouse | The Rufus River Massacre
In 1841, there was a dispute between European overlanders and the Mataura people, a sub–group of the Barkindji. The overlanders had been engaging in sexual relations with Barkindji women without giving the Barkindji the food and clothing that was promised in return. Moorhouse led a group of arm... | 2.625 | 0 |
9193341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Computer%203 | Little Computer 3 | Little Computer 3, or LC-3, is a type of computer educational programming language, an assembly language, which is a type of low-level programming language.
It features a relatively simple instruction set, but can be used to write moderately complex assembly programs, and is a viable target for a C compiler. The langu... | 3.359375 | 0 |
9193341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Computer%203 | Little Computer 3 | Memory accesses can be performed by computing addresses based on the current value of the program counter (PC) or a register in the register file; additionally, the LC-3 provides indirect loads and stores, which use a piece of data in memory as an address to load data from or store data to. Values in memory must be bro... | 2.625 | 0 |
9193341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Computer%203 | Little Computer 3 | While it has not been implemented on a physical chip, the LC-3 can be used in simulation on Linux/Unix, Mac OS X and Windows environments. The simulation tools include an assembler with support for computerized offset computation with labels and the insertion of constants, strings, and blank memory locations into a blo... | 2.609375 | 0 |
9193462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver%20Hall%20Museum%20and%20Workhouse | Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse | The Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse, Northwich, Cheshire, records the social, cultural and industrial history of West Cheshire. Formerly known as the Salt Museum, its early focus was on the history of salt extraction, a local industry dating back to Roman times. The museum was renamed Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse... | 2.671875 | 0 |
9193462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver%20Hall%20Museum%20and%20Workhouse | Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse | The museum collection originally shared a building with Northwich library but mine subsidence – once a significant problem in the town – caused this to collapse. A new combined library-and-museum building was put up in 1909. This building still exists but now houses only Northwich library, though the former title over ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
9193504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isophorone | Isophorone | Isophorone is an α,β-unsaturated cyclic ketone. It is a colorless liquid with a characteristic peppermint-like odor, although commercial samples can appear yellowish. Used as a solvent and as a precursor to polymers, it is produced on a large scale industrially.
Structure and reactivity
Isophorone undergoes reaction... | 2.015625 | 0 |
9193532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dra%20Bankohuset | Södra Bankohuset | As the warehouse was pulled down and the piling started in 1734, the entire eastward extension of the building site, and thus the present extension of the building was settled at 92 ells (approx. 54,5 metres). Exactly where the work of Tessin the Younger ended have been disputed, but as Hårleman paid close attention t... | 2.125 | 0 |
9193545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Fienup-Riordan | Ann Fienup-Riordan | Works
Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1983). The Nelson Island Eskimo: Social Structure and Ritual Distribution. Anchorage, AK: Alaska Pacific University Press.
Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1986). When Our Bad Season Comes: A Cultural Account of Subsistence Harvesting & Harvest Disruption on the Yukon Delta. Alaska Anthropological As... | 2.0625 | 0 |
9193588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor%20and%20Pollux%20%28Prado%29 | Castor and Pollux (Prado) | The Castor and Pollux group (also known as the San Ildefonso Group, after San Ildefonso in Segovia, Spain, the location of the palace of La Granja at which it was kept until 1839) is an ancient Roman sculptural group of the 1st century AD, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Drawing on 5th- and 4th-century BC Greek sc... | 2.140625 | 0 |
9193588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor%20and%20Pollux%20%28Prado%29 | Castor and Pollux (Prado) | Other alternative identifications in the past have included:
Hypnos and Thanatos, interpreting the sphere as a pomegranate, symbol of death
Corydon and Alexis
Winckelmann's suggestion of Orestes and Pylades offering a sacrifice to the statue of goddess Artemis, which they wanted to seize, or in front of the tomb of mur... | 2.46875 | 0 |
9193680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Hulton | Little Hulton | Little Hulton is a suburb in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, south of Bolton, northwest of Salford, and northwest of Manchester. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, Little Hulton is bordered by Farnworth to the north, Walkden to the east and Tyldesley to the south.
In 2014,... | 2.015625 | 0 |
9193680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Hulton | Little Hulton | In 1870 the London and North Western Railway opened a line from Roe Green on the Eccles, Tyldesley and Wigan Railway to serve collieries at Little Hulton and in 1874 an extension to Bolton was opened with passenger services commencing in 1875. The line closed in 1965 and is now an urban cycleway. A ten feet wide Roman ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
9193694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimt%20University%20of%20Vienna%20Ceiling%20Paintings | Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings | The Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings, also known as the Faculty Paintings, were a series of paintings made by Gustav Klimt for the ceiling of the University of Vienna's Great Hall between the years of 1900–1907. In 1894, Klimt was commissioned to paint the ceiling. Upon presenting his paintings, Philosophy,... | 2.203125 | 0 |
9193694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimt%20University%20of%20Vienna%20Ceiling%20Paintings | Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings | Medicine was the second painting, presented in March 1901 at the tenth Secession Exhibition. It featured a column of semi-nude figures on the right hand side of the painting, representing the river of life. Beside it was a young nude female who floated in space, with a newborn infant at her feet, representing life. A s... | 2.296875 | 0 |
9193694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimt%20University%20of%20Vienna%20Ceiling%20Paintings | Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings | Reaction
The Faculty Paintings were attacked by critics when they were presented, as each painting broke different cultural taboos, contradicting the trend of the era to "sublimate reality and to only present its more favourable aspects" (Neret). The paintings also drew the standard charges of obscenity which Klimt of... | 1.992188 | 0 |
9193694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimt%20University%20of%20Vienna%20Ceiling%20Paintings | Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings | Outcome and destruction
The paintings were requested for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri, but the ministry declined, nervous of what the reaction might be. On 11 November 1903, the artistic commission of the ministry of education examined the projects for the panels of the University'... | 2.625 | 0 |
9193727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasuh%20Akar | Nasuh Akar | Nasuh Akar (10 May 1925 – 18 May 1984) was a Turkish sports wrestler, who won the gold medal in the Bantamweight class of Men's Freestyle category at the 1948 Olympics.
Wrestling career
He was born in the village Yiğitler of Boğazlıyan district of Yozgat Province. He attended primary school in his village. He complete... | 2.046875 | 0 |
9193881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20Teachers%27%20Pay%20and%20Conditions%20Document | School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document | These parts also detail the arrangements for planning, preparation and assessment time - that is, the allocation of time which must be set aside for teachers' planning and assessment during the school day, and during which time they cannot be required to teach pupils.
Section Three
This section gives general guidance ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
9194082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collybia%20personata | Collybia personata | Collybia personata (also recognised as Lepista personata, Lepista saeva, Clitocybe saeva and Tricholoma personatum, and commonly known as the field blewit and blue-leg) is a species of edible fungus commonly found growing in grassy areas across Europe and is morphologically related to the wood blewit Collybia nuda (for... | 2.265625 | 0 |
9194192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handgun%20hunting | Handgun hunting | Handgun hunting is a form of hunting primarily done with specialized handguns that have long barrels and mounted scopes (optical aiming devices).
Even the largest animals, such as elephants, can be killed with modern hunting handguns, although most handgun hunters only use handguns when hunting medium-sized game like ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
9194192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handgun%20hunting | Handgun hunting | With the exception of small-game hunting using rimfire cartridges, very few semi-automatic handguns are well suited for hunting, typically lacking both the power necessary and proper sights. Nonetheless, some of the more powerful semi-automatic pistols are sometimes used for hunting medium and large game, particularly ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
9194248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Keller%20%28psychiatrist%29 | Martin Keller (psychiatrist) | Martin Keller is an American psychiatrist. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island.
Career history
Keller earned his BA in psychology at Dartmouth College; his MD at Weill Cornell Medical College; internship at Bellevue Medical Center; and residen... | 2.234375 | 0 |
9194253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Kuhner | Jeff Kuhner | Jeffrey Thomas Kuhner (born 1 September 1969) is an American talk radio host and political commentator, heard on weekdays from 6 am to 10 am on WRKO AM 680 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the editor of Insight on the News and a regular contributor to the commentary pages of The Washington Times, and his articles have ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
9194267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture%20of%20Hamburg | Capture of Hamburg | As the British advanced on the city, it was clear that the Germans would still not give up. The troops of the 1st Parachute Army were now a mix of a few SS, paratroopers, Volkssturm, along with regular Wehrmacht soldiers, supported by sailors, police, firemen, and Hitler Youth. They were supported by 88 mm guns, which ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
9194295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballochney%20Railway | Ballochney Railway | The two inclines are separately worked, in each case by means of a wire-rope, with a short piece of chain at each end; the loaded waggons going down the incline serving, by means of the wire-rope passing over a wheel or drum at the head of the incline, to bring up the waggons from below. Rollers are placed between the ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
9194295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballochney%20Railway | Ballochney Railway | Joint operation
The highly successful period from the opening came to and end in the first half of the 1840s, and all the "coal railways" began to think of economies, and of amalgamation. A first step was implemented on 29 March 1845 when the Ballochney Railway, the Slamannan Railway, and the Monkland and Kirkintilloch... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9194295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballochney%20Railway | Ballochney Railway | The Monkland Mineral Lines presented a petition to Parliament in the following year, 1847, trying to resurrect the scheme for amalgamation among themselves, but this time the E&GR opposed the Bill; the mood within the E&GR had changed considerably and the entire board of directors had changed, and the board now had a h... | 2.0625 | 0 |
9194295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballochney%20Railway | Ballochney Railway | The new Monkland Railways consolidated their core business of serving collieries, adding new colliery connections and building a new branch to Bathgate from the Slamannan line. The "new line" was built in 1861, closing the gap by making a direct line between Bathgate and Airdrie and Coatbridge. For a few months, this i... | 2.25 | 0 |
9194388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T2 | DVB-T2 | According to the commercial requirements and call for technologies issued in April 2007, the first phase of DVB-T2 would be devoted to provide optimum reception for stationary (fixed) and portable receivers (i.e., units which can be nomadic, but not fully mobile) using existing aerials, whereas a second and third phase... | 2.140625 | 0 |
9194388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T2 | DVB-T2 | Romania
Although Romania started DVB-T broadcasting in 2005 with the MPEG-2 standard for SD broadcast and MPEG 4 for HD, it was only experimental. In June 2011 Romania shifted to MPEG4 both for SD and HD. In 2012, the Romanian authorities decided that DVB-T2 will be the standard used for terrestrial broadcasts, as it a... | 2.15625 | 0 |
9194390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Orlando%20Lawrence%20Award | Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award | The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award was established in 1959 in honor of a scientist who helped elevate American physics to the status of world leader in the field.
E. O. Lawrence was the inventor of the cyclotron, an accelerator of subatomic particles, and a 1939 Nobel Laureate in physics for that achievement. The Radia... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9194411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%20Starr%20Award | Bart Starr Award | The Athletes in Action/Bart Starr Award is given annually to an American football player in the National Football League (NFL) who "best exemplifies outstanding character and leadership in the home, on the field, and in the community". The award is presented by Athletes in Action (AIA), a sports ministry associated wit... | 1.914063 | 0 |
9194414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma%20Weiss | Soma Weiss | Soma Weiss (January 27, 1898 – January 31, 1942) was a Hungarian-born American physician.
Early life
Soma Weiss was born in 1898 in Bistriţa, Transylvania, Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied physiology and biochemistry in Budapest. Immediately after the end of World War I, he immigrated to the United States and quali... | 2.09375 | 0 |
9194523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sg%C3%B9rr%20nan%20Ceannaichean | Sgùrr nan Ceannaichean | Sgùrr nan Ceannaichean is a Scottish mountain situated 13 kilometres southwest of the village of Achnasheen on the southern side of Glen Carron within the Glencarron and Glenuig Forest in the Ross and Cromarty district of the Highland council area.
Overview
The mountain's name translates from the Gaelic as Peak of th... | 2.53125 | 0 |
9194582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herdic | Herdic | A herdic was a type of horse-drawn carriage, which was frequently used as an omnibus during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was invented by Peter Herdic of Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania during the 1870s and patented in 1880.
Shortly after the first vehicle's creation, fleets of herd... | 2.671875 | 0 |
9194617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson%20Lake%20Lodge | Jackson Lake Lodge | Jackson Lake Lodge is located near Moran in Grand Teton National Park, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The lodge has 385 rooms, a restaurant, conference rooms, and offers numerous recreational opportunities. The lodge is owned by the National Park Service, and operated under contract by the Grand Teton Lodge Company. The... | 2.078125 | 0 |
9194633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygeburg | Hygeburg | Hygeburg (floruit 760–780), also Hugeburc, Hugeberc, Huneberc or Huneburc, was an Anglo-Saxon nun and hagiographer at the Alemannian monastery of Heidenheim. She is "the first known Englishwoman to have written a full-length literary work" and "the only woman author of a saint's life from the Carolingian period".
Heid... | 2.234375 | 0 |
9194662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towyn%20Jones | Towyn Jones | Josiah Towyn Jones (28 December 1858 – 16 November 1925) was a Welsh clergyman and Liberal Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Carmarthenshire East and later for Llanelli.
He was born in New Quay, Cardiganshire, and began work as a farm labourer aged 11. A year later he went to sea as a cabin boy, ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
9194698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haltemprice%20Priory | Haltemprice Priory | Haltemprice Priory was an Augustinian monastery approximately two miles south of the village of Cottingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The original monastic buildings have long since gone, although ruins of a farmhouse, built in 1584, remain on site and incorporate some of the Priory stonework.
Origins
... | 1.960938 | 0 |
9194717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thringstone | Thringstone | Demographics
The 2001 population of 4,325 compares with 901 in 1801 - the growth in population being a result of the industrial revolution, particularly local coal-mining. However, due to radical boundary changes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such demographic comparatives relate to significantly different ... | 2.75 | 0 |
9194717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thringstone | Thringstone | In 1885, the parish was reduced in size to enlarge Coleorton Civil Parish with the area known as "Rotten Row". But by far the most radical geographical and social changes to the village came during the 20th century, beginning in the years after World War I. In April 1936, Thringstone Civil Parish was dissolved and outl... | 2.140625 | 0 |
9194717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thringstone | Thringstone | Horse-drawn tramroads were built to transport coal mined at Swannington and Coleorton to the canal wharf at Thringstone Bridge, and once at the Nanpantan terminus the coal was re-loaded on to a further stretch of tramroad to take it to the main navigation at Loughborough. These railroads are said to have been the first... | 2.890625 | 0 |
9194717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thringstone | Thringstone | Bauble cottage industry
Thringstone was once the centre of another industry unique to this part of Leicestershire, and which still leaves its mark in the name of 'Bauble Yard'. Bauble was the local term for a variety of alabaster ornaments, some manufactured by John Tugby in around 1850 at Pegg's Green, which was then ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
9194717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thringstone | Thringstone | The church was paid for by grants and public subscription, zealously elicited by Francis Merewether, MA (Vicar of Whitwick and Rector of Coleorton) and cost £750 12s, building work being undertaken by the firms of Messrs William Beckworth of Whitwick and Elliott of Ashby-de-la-Zouch/Burton. Merewether was a theologian ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
9194717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thringstone | Thringstone | The church contains some stained glass by Kempe and Co, including the War Memorial Window, unveiled in 1920 by Lt Col Tom Booth DSO of Gracedieu Manor. This window was originally intended as a personal memorial to Theophilus Jones, the Thringstone headmaster and depicts St Alban (Britain's first Christian martyr). This... | 2.3125 | 0 |
9194717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thringstone | Thringstone | Thringstone House Community Centre
In 1901 Charles Booth purchased an 18th-century farm house on The Green, known as 'Thringstone House', for the purpose of providing local inhabitants with a meeting place for social, recreational and educational activity. This venture, which became known as the 'Thringstone House Club... | 2.234375 | 0 |
9194743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20G.%20Stackhouse%20Jr. | John G. Stackhouse Jr. | John Gordon Stackhouse Jr. (born 1960) is a Canadian scholar of religion. His scholarship has been supported by research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Association of Theological Schools, and the Canadian Embassy to the United States.
Early life
Stackhouse was born in 1... | 1.976563 | 0 |
9194753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Hussenot | François Hussenot | François Hussenot (; 22 March 1912 – 16 May 1951) was a French engineer, credited with the invention of one of the early forms of the flight data recorder.
He attended the École polytechnique from 1930 to 1932. After graduation, he attended two other schools: the Ecole Militaire d'Application de l'Aéronautique in Vers... | 2.40625 | 0 |
9194753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Hussenot | François Hussenot | In July 1945, Hussenot was appointed as an engineer at the Brétigny-sur-Orge flight test center (Centre d'Essais en Vol de Brétigny-sur-Orge) as the director of the Methods and Try-Outs service (Service des Méthodes et Essais). In 1946, with Maurice Cambois and Charles Cabaret, he created the Ecole du Personnel Navigan... | 2.15625 | 0 |
9194792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Race%20Relations | Institute of Race Relations | In 1958, in response to "race riots" in Nottingham and Notting Hill, IRR produced the first study of domestic race relations, Colour in Britain by James Wickendon. In 1963, the Nuffield Foundation funded a five-year survey of British race relations, which commissioned 41 pieces of research, and published its findings a... | 2.25 | 0 |
9194870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-R%C3%A9my%20Mo%C3%ABt | Jean-Rémy Moët | Jean-Rémy Moët (1758–1841) was a French vintner and merchant seaman who helped bring the Champagne house of Moët et Chandon to international prominence. He inherited the house from his grandfather and founder Claude Moët.
Friendship with Napoleon
Jean-Rémy Moët first met Napoleon Bonaparte in 1782 at the military aca... | 2.09375 | 0 |
9194933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangotsfield%20railway%20station | Mangotsfield railway station | The second station was much more extensive than the original. Built on the southern face of Rodney Hill, it had three platform islands, giving six platform faces, with the junction apex forming the western end of the middle island. The northern island platform had two platforms for trains going towards Birmingham: the ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
9194933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangotsfield%20railway%20station | Mangotsfield railway station | The initial service along the Bath branch was 9 trains per day each way, increasing to 18 each way by 1910. From 1870, most Bristol-bound trains were diverted from Temple Meads to , which the Midland Railway had opened after noting that many travellers from Mangotsfield and other branches found the location of Temple M... | 2.328125 | 0 |
9194933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangotsfield%20railway%20station | Mangotsfield railway station | Passenger traffic declined following the war and when the railways were nationalised in 1948 – following the passage of the Transport Act 1947 – Mangotsfield came under the aegis of the London Midland Region of British Railways. The 1950s saw an increase in road travel, and rail passenger numbers declined. The eastern ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
9194933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangotsfield%20railway%20station | Mangotsfield railway station | Following the closure of the railway, the route fell into disuse. The buildings at Mangotsfield became derelict, with some demolition taking place. The central and southern island platforms remained in situ, as did some of the walls of the central platform buildings. The tracks were lifted in 1972, but that same year a... | 2.265625 | 0 |
9194974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20Contemporary%20Art%20Jacksonville | Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville | The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, also known as MOCA Jacksonville, is a contemporary art museum in Jacksonville, Florida, funded and operated as a "cultural institute" of the University of North Florida. One of the largest contemporary art institutions in the Southeastern United States, it presents exhibitio... | 2.359375 | 0 |
9194985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyon%20mouse | Canyon mouse | The canyon mouse (Peromyscus crinitus) is a gray-brown mouse found in many states of the western United States and northern Mexico. Its preferred habitat is arid, rocky desert. Vegetation has little or no effect on the distribution of canyon mice, it is instead associated with rocky substrate than any plant. Canyon mi... | 3.0625 | 0 |
9195048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sak%20Lek%20district | Sak Lek district | Sak Lek (, ) is a district (amphoe) in the northeastern part of Phichit province, central Thailand.
Geography
Neighboring districts are (from the south clockwise) Wang Sai Phun and Mueang Phichit of Phichit Province, Bang Krathum, Wang Thong and Noen Maprang of Phitsanulok province.
History
The minor district was est... | 1.984375 | 0 |
9195098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Wickham | Edward Wickham | Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Thomas Ruscombe Wickham (4 May 1890 – 25 August 1957) was a Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton from 1935 until 1945. He had previously served in India from 1910 until 1935, first as an officer in the British Indian Army, and later a member of... | 2.203125 | 0 |
9195098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Wickham | Edward Wickham | After the First World War, he joined the Indian Political Department, and was temporarily granted the rank of lieutenant colonel "while specially employed" as the officer in attendance for the Shah of Persia during his tour of Europe between August and November 1919, and then again from December 1919 to May 1921. In 19... | 2.359375 | 0 |
9195128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Dubuque%20Community%20School%20District | Western Dubuque Community School District | The Western Dubuque Community School District, (WDCSD; also known as Western Dubuque or WD) is a rural public school district based in Farley, Iowa (USA).
The district, which operates schools in western Dubuque County, is about in area, making it the largest school district (by area) in Iowa.
History
The district ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
9195142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%208th%20Route%20Army | Little 8th Route Army | Little 8th Route Army (Chinese: 小八路) is a stop motion Chinese animated puppet film. It is also referred to as "Little 8th Route Heroes" and "Small 8th Route Army".
Background
The film was produced and released under the term of chairman Mao Zedong when the cultural revolution was still ongoing. The plot backdrop is ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
9195248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apkallu | Apkallu | Apkallu or and Abgal (; Akkadian and Sumerian, respectively) are terms found in cuneiform inscriptions that in general mean either "wise" or "sage".
In several contexts the Apkallu are seven demigods, sometimes described as part man and part fish or bird, associated with human wisdom; these creatures are often referre... | 2.71875 | 0 |
9195283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20Pelly | Lewis Pelly | From Zanzibar, Pelly visited and reported on the Seychelle Islands in 1862. Next, he was transferred back to Persia as political resident (1862 to 1872). On Frere's advice, he sought out William Mackinnon. Frere and Mackinnon had been discussing possible new British India Steam Navigation Company shipping lines from Bo... | 2.171875 | 0 |
9195315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution%20of%20Zoroastrians | Persecution of Zoroastrians | The persecution of Zoroastrians has been recorded throughout the history of Zoroastrianism, an Iranian religion. The notably large-scale persecution of Zoroastrians began after the rise of Islam in the 7th century CE; both during and after the conquest of Persia by Arab Muslims, discrimination and harassment against Zo... | 2.640625 | 0 |
9195315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution%20of%20Zoroastrians | Persecution of Zoroastrians | Until the Arab invasion and subsequent Muslim conquest, in the mid-7th century Persia (modern-day Iran) was a politically independent state, spanning from Mesopotamia to the Hindu Kush and dominated by a Zoroastrian majority. Zoroastrianism was the official state religion of four pre-Islamic Persian empires, the last b... | 2.6875 | 0 |
9195315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution%20of%20Zoroastrians | Persecution of Zoroastrians | Gradually there were increased number of laws regulating Zoroastrian behavior, limiting their ability to participate in society, and making their life difficult in the hope that they would convert to Islam. Over time, persecution of Zoroastrians became more common and widespread, and the number of believers decreased s... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9195315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution%20of%20Zoroastrians | Persecution of Zoroastrians | In the following centuries, Zoroastrians faced much religious discrimination and persecution, harassments, as well as being identified as najis (polluted) and impure to Muslims, making them unfit to live alongside Muslims, and therefore forcing them to evacuate from cities and face major sanctions in all spheres of lif... | 2.9375 | 0 |
9195315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution%20of%20Zoroastrians | Persecution of Zoroastrians | The Abbasids (752–804)
The Umayyads were followed by the Abbasid Caliphate, which came to power with the help of Iranian Muslims in the Abbasid Revolution. The persecution of Zoroastrians increased significantly under the Abbasids, temples and sacred-fire shrines were destroyed. Also during Abbasid rule, the status of ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
9195315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution%20of%20Zoroastrians | Persecution of Zoroastrians | The Zoroastrians moved to India in successive migrations in the Islamic period. The generally accepted narrative of migration emphasises religious persecution by invading Muslims, while identifying Parsis as religious refugees. According to the account, the Zoroastrians suffered at their hands and in order to protect t... | 2.625 | 0 |
9195315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution%20of%20Zoroastrians | Persecution of Zoroastrians | Iranian Zoroastrians are known to have been trading with India for centuries before the dates calculated for arrival of Parsis per Qissa-i Sanjan. Ruksana Nanji and Homi Dhalla while discussing archaeological evidence for 'The Landing of Zoroastrians at Sanjan', conclude that the most likely date for the migration at t... | 2.5 | 0 |
9195315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution%20of%20Zoroastrians | Persecution of Zoroastrians | Many foreign visitors to Iran of the time had commented on their pitiful situation. Traveller A.V.W. Jackson noted that Zoroastrians lived in constant fear of persecution by Muslim extremists and their lives were in danger whenever the fanatical spirit of Islam broke out, such as the one witnessed by him in Yazd. Accor... | 2.6875 | 0 |
9195315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution%20of%20Zoroastrians | Persecution of Zoroastrians | Zoroastrians were subjected to public discrimination through dress regulations – not allowed to wear new or white clothes, and compelled by enactments to wear the dull yellow raiment already alluded to as a distinguishing badge. They were not allowed to wear overcoats but were compelled to wear long robes called qaba a... | 2.625 | 0 |
9195315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution%20of%20Zoroastrians | Persecution of Zoroastrians | On top of all the misery the Zoroastrians had to pay a heavy religious tax known as Jizya. Zoroastrian sources record the method of extracting this as designed to humiliate the dhimmi, the taxed person, who was compelled to stand while the officer receiving the money sat on a high throne. Upon receiving the payment, th... | 2.21875 | 0 |
9195315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution%20of%20Zoroastrians | Persecution of Zoroastrians | Due to the extent of oppression, and destitution, many Zoroastrians ventured to the hazardous journey to India. Those who could not afford the voyage aboard the ships, risked their lives by crossing the hostile desert on donkeys or even on foot. In India, they were recognized for Sedreh and Kushti and were sheltered by... | 2.5625 | 0 |
9195315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution%20of%20Zoroastrians | Persecution of Zoroastrians | However, just like the Armenian, Assyrian and Persian Jewish communities, Zoroastrians are officially recognized and on the grounds of the 1906 Constitution allocated one seat in the Iranian Parliament, currently held by Esfandiar Ekhtiari Kassnavieh. Out-marriage and low birth rates affect the growth of Iran's Zoroast... | 2.375 | 0 |
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