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9195321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Kantor | Roman Kantor | Roman Józef Kantor (15 March 1912 – 1943) was a Polish Olympic épée fencer.
Early life
Kantor was born in Łódź, Poland, and was Jewish. He was the son of Elchanan and Barbara (née Bekier) Kantor. After finishing local primary school, he left for Paris in 1924 to continue his education. He played tennis and was captai... | 2.21875 | 0 |
9195361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokanui%2C%20Southland | Tokanui, Southland | Tokanui is a community in the eastern portion of Southland District Council, located on the Southern Scenic Route about east of Invercargill and southwest of Balclutha, New Zealand. The Tokanui River runs just to the north of the village and occasionally floods the lower parts, as it did when the railway yard flooded... | 2.015625 | 0 |
9195484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20James | Lake James | Lake James is a large reservoir in the mountains of Western North Carolina which straddles the border between Burke and McDowell Counties. It is named for tobacco tycoon and benefactor of Duke University James Buchanan Duke. The lake, with surface elevation of 1200 ft (366 m), lies behind a series of 4 earthen dams. ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
9195515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Eagle%20Lodge | White Eagle Lodge | The White Eagle Lodge is a spiritual organisation first founded in England, founded by Grace and Ivan Cooke in 1936. Grace was a medium who claimed to have received the teachings from a spirit in the higher realms named White Eagle. The White Eagle Publishing Trust distributes the teachings of White Eagle worldwide in ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
9195602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne%3A%20The%20Castle | Carcassonne: The Castle | Carcassonne: The Castle is a two-player German board game. It is designed by Reiner Knizia, although Carcassonne series creator Klaus-Jürgen Wrede is also credited. Like other games in the Carcassonne series, it is published by Hans im Gluck in German and Rio Grande Games in English.
Unlike other games in the series... | 2.5 | 0 |
9195602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne%3A%20The%20Castle | Carcassonne: The Castle | With the exception of fields, features are scored whenever they are completed. Roads are considered completed when they are terminated on every end with either a square (a feature found on certain tiles with roads on them - certain intersections do not have squares on them), a starter tile or the castle wall, or if it... | 2.71875 | 0 |
9195648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%20Gault | Hamilton Gault | Andrew Hamilton Gault (18 August 1882 – 28 November 1958) was a Canadian Army officer and British politician. At his own expense, he raised the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, the last privately raised regiment in the British Empire. Hatch Court in Somerset today once housed a small museum commemorating G... | 2.359375 | 0 |
9195648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%20Gault | Hamilton Gault | The Governor-General's daughter, Princess Patricia of Connaught, was known for her public appreciation of Canada's vast wilderness and its people. The Gaults had entertained the Connaughts during their visits to Montreal, and they had also been frequent guests at Rideau Hall. Colonel Farquhar approached the Duke of Con... | 2.78125 | 0 |
9195648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%20Gault | Hamilton Gault | Despite the loss of his left leg, Gault refused repatriation to Canada and returned to France where he was initially seconded as Aide-de-camp to Major General Victor Williams, the General Officer Commanding 3rd Canadian Division. Later Gault commanded the 3rd Canadian Division Reinforcement Camp (CCRC) with the local r... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9195648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%20Gault | Hamilton Gault | Gault purchased a biplane before the First World War. Both he and his second wife were enthusiastic aviators. Gault also introduced the daughter of his deceased fiancée, Patricia Blackader, to flying when he and his wife took her up in their Gypsy Moth in Lausanne. After flying over Paris with disregard for aviation ru... | 1.953125 | 0 |
9195666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervecer%C3%ADa%20de%20Baja%20California | Cervecería de Baja California | Cervecería de Baja California (founded in 2002) is a Mexican brewery located in the city of Mexicali, and is one of a handful of Mexican microbrews. The product they brew is Cucapá Beer. This name comes from one of the five Indian tribes that live in the Mexicali Valley. The Cucapá tribe was the first settlers of the r... | 2.109375 | 0 |
9195680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntumbachushi%20Falls | Ntumbachushi Falls | Ntumbachushi Falls (also spelled Ntumbacusi and Ntumbacushi) are situated on the Ngona River in Luapula Province, Zambia where it runs over the edge of the northern Zambian plateau into the valley of the Luapula River.
The main falls occur where the river splits into two channels to form two parallel waterfalls each a... | 2.328125 | 0 |
9195683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi%20Kuromiya | Kiyoshi Kuromiya | Kiyoshi Kuromiya (, May 9, 1943 – May 10, 2000) was a Japanese-American author and civil rights, anti-war, gay liberation, and HIV/AIDS activist. Born in Wyoming at the World War II–era Japanese American internment camp known as Heart Mountain, Kuromiya became an aide to Martin Luther King Jr. and a prominent opponent ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
9195683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi%20Kuromiya | Kiyoshi Kuromiya | Kuromiya was a third-generation Japanese American and grew up primarily attending white schools in the Los Angeles suburbs, he says in an interview with Marc Stein in 1997. He was arrested in a public park with a 16-year-old boy when he was only 9 or 10 for lewdness and was put in juvenile hall for three days as punish... | 2.671875 | 0 |
9195683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi%20Kuromiya | Kiyoshi Kuromiya | In 1965 Kuromiya and other activists took over Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—calling it the Freedom Hotel in support of people injured at Pettus Bridge in Selma during the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama. A week later, on March 13, 1965, after flying down South, Kuromiya was ass... | 2.09375 | 0 |
9195683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi%20Kuromiya | Kiyoshi Kuromiya | In addition to deceptively luring thousands of people to the Penn library, Kuromiya was very involved in the antiwar movement throughout the early years of his activist career. On October 20 and 21, 1967, Kuromiya joined a large demonstration organized by Abbie Hoffman that attempted to levitate the Pentagon building b... | 1.914063 | 0 |
9195683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi%20Kuromiya | Kiyoshi Kuromiya | Kuromiya co-founded the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in 1969 following the Stonewall riots in 1969 with Basil O'Brien, who he met later while attending a Homophile Action League meeting in Philadelphia. Kuromiya describes the idea behind gay liberation as a sort of male-consciousness raising that served to help individua... | 2.40625 | 0 |
9195683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi%20Kuromiya | Kiyoshi Kuromiya | AIDS advocacy
Kuromiya began working earnestly on the AIDS movement once the AIDS epidemic began in America in the early 1980s. Kiyoshi was most involved with ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)— of which he founded the Philadelphia chapter. After being diagnosed with AIDS himself in 1989, Kuromiya only inten... | 2.34375 | 0 |
9195743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oda%20Nobutoshi | Oda Nobutoshi | Viscount was a daimyō of the tozama feudal domain of Tendō in Dewa Province, northern Japan. He was a direct descendant of the famed Oda Nobunaga, through Nobunaga's son Oda Nobukatsu. He had the ceremonial court titles of junsanmi (Junior Third Rank) and Hyōbu-taifu.
Biography
Nobutoshi was born at Tendō Domain's Ed... | 2.140625 | 0 |
9195744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Carbery | Thomas Carbery | Thomas Carbery (or Carberry) (June 26, 1791 – May 23, 1863) was the sixth mayor of the City of Washington (now Washington, D.C.), serving from 1822 to 1824. He ran again for mayor in 1824 and 1826 but was not re-elected.
Early life
Thomas Carbery was born and raised in St. Mary's County, Maryland, one of at least elev... | 2.078125 | 0 |
9195744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Carbery | Thomas Carbery | During the 1820s, Carbery was a member of the prestigious Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, who counted among their members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medica... | 1.992188 | 0 |
9195819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffy%20Ayers | Duffy Ayers | Betty Mona Desmond Ayers (née FitzGerald; 19 September 1915 – 10 November 2017), known as Duffy Ayers, was an English portrait painter. She was known for most of her life by the nickname "Duffy".
Born in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, one of a pair of identical twin girls of an American mother and an Irish father, ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
9195856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Danleers | The Danleers | The Danleers were an American doo-wop group formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1958. The group's original and most famous lineup consisted of Jimmy Weston, Johnny Lee, Willie Ephraim, Nat McCune, and Roosevelt Mays. One of many streetcorner vocal groups in Brooklyn, they rose to prominence in 1958 on the strength of the ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
9195874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Johnson%20%28politician%29 | Isaac Johnson (politician) | Isaac Johnson (November 1, 1803 – March 15, 1853) was an American politician and the 12th Governor of the state of Louisiana.
Born on his father's plantation "Troy" near St. Francisville in West Feliciana Parish, Johnson was the fourth son of John Hunter Johnson and Thenia Munson. Johnson's grandfather, Isaac Johnson,... | 2.484375 | 0 |
9195970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxton%2C%20Scottish%20Borders | Oxton, Scottish Borders | Oxton is a small rural village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, just off the A68. It is north of Lauder, and southeast of the centre of Edinburgh, yet in a quiet rural position.
History
The village of Oxton lies in the parish of Channelkirk. This name for the parish appears to have come into general use in ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
9196021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%20pocket%20mouse | Desert pocket mouse | The desert pocket mouse (Chaetodipus penicillatus) is a North American species of heteromyid rodent found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. True to its common name, the medium-sized desert pocket mouse prefers sandy, sparsely vegetated desert environments.
Description
Chaetodipus penicillatus is a medium... | 2.625 | 0 |
9196021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%20pocket%20mouse | Desert pocket mouse | Six subspecies are currently recognised:
C. pencillatus pencillatus - south-central Arizona
C. pencillatus angustirostris - southern California, eastern Baja California
C. pencillatus pricei - southern Arizona, Sonora
C. pencillatus seri - Tiburón Island
C. pencillatus sobrinus - southern Nevada
C. pencillatus st... | 2.984375 | 0 |
9196027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermolysin | Thermolysin | Thermolysin (, Bacillus thermoproteolyticus neutral proteinase, thermoase, thermoase Y10, TLN) is a thermostable neutral metalloproteinase enzyme produced by the Gram-positive bacteria Bacillus thermoproteolyticus. It requires one zinc ion for enzyme activity and four calcium ions for structural stability. Thermolysin ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
9196080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltonville%2C%20Illinois | Coltonville, Illinois | Coltonville was a community in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States.
History
In June 1839, DeKalb County was considering building a courthouse and, as such, placement of a county seat. Rufus Colton, Clerk of the Court in the county, was leading a push for Coltonville, where he lived. Through political wrangling, and... | 2.296875 | 0 |
9196090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aclla | Aclla | Aclla (Quechua: aklla), also called Chosen Women, Virgins of the Sun, and Wives of the Inca, were sequestered women in the Inca Empire. They were virgins, chosen at about age 10. They performed several services. They were given in marriage to men who had distinguished themselves in service to the empire; they produc... | 3.09375 | 0 |
9196090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aclla | Aclla | The girls were trained for about four years in religion, spinning and weaving, preparation of food, and brewing chicha. They then became mamakuna (priestesses) and were married to prominent men or assigned to religious duties. The most skilled and physically perfect were sent to Cuzco, the capital of the empire, and ... | 3.296875 | 0 |
9196090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aclla | Aclla | However, their labor may have even been more specialized and nuanced than this general understanding of their role. Some sources suggest that there were many different types of acllas with specific titles. These included Guayrur acllas who served the sun and moon, Uayror aclla sumacs who were dedicated to the princip... | 3.28125 | 0 |
9196090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aclla | Aclla | While less common, there is some evidence that acllas were used in human sacrifice. This was tied to their role as gifts and the system of reciprocity throughout the entire empire due to their economic significance. In a ritual context, they were an extremely valuable sacrifice because they represented the capacity fo... | 3.15625 | 0 |
9196106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20of%20Children%20and%20Families | Minister of Children and Families | The Minister of Children and Families (, ) is a Councilor of State and Chief of Norway's Ministry of Children and Family Affairs. Since 14 October 2021, Kjersti Toppe has held the position. The ministry is responsible for policy and public operations related to children, youth and families as well as consumer rights. M... | 2.109375 | 0 |
9196115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupicinus%20%28comes%20per%20Thracias%29 | Lupicinus (comes per Thracias) | Lupicinus ( 368–377) was a Roman army officer in late antiquity who served under the emperors Valentinian I and Valens. He distinguished himself in the fighting the Alemanni in 368. He was serving as a military tribune in Pannonia in 376.
Lupicinus was serving as the commander of Roman troops in the diocese of Thrace... | 2.015625 | 0 |
9196129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Weald%20School | The Weald School | The Weald School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form. It caters for around 1,700 pupils in years 7 to 13, including over 300 in its sixth form. The school opened in 1956, and celebrated its 60th anniversary in the academic year 2016-17. In December 2008 Mr P May, headteacher since 1998, retired and Peter... | 1.9375 | 0 |
9196129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Weald%20School | The Weald School | The Africa Project (Classrooms for Kenya)
Since a visit to Kenya by a number of staff and now ex-students in the summer of 2006 the school has had close links with a number of schools in Kenya. When the project started after this visit all of these schools had mud buildings which regularly got washed away and needed re... | 2.25 | 0 |
9196144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Elmendorf | Dave Elmendorf | David Cole Elmendorf (born June 20, 1949) is an American former professional football player who was a safety for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was a part of the Los Angeles Rams Super Bowl XIV team. In 1997, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
David attended and graduated,... | 2.015625 | 0 |
9196243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achimi | Achimi | Achimi was the buffalo god of the Kabyle people of Algeria. With his father, the buffalo god Itherther, they were responsible for the development of hunting and meat-eating in Kabyle mythology.
Mythology
Achimi was the son of the first buffalo Itherther and Thamuatz. After a close encounter with the first humans, Ach... | 2.9375 | 0 |
9196294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend%20and%20befriend | Tend and befriend | Tend-and-befriend is a purported behavior exhibited by some animals, including humans, in response to threat. It refers to protection of offspring (tending) and seeking out their social group for mutual defense (befriending). In evolutionary psychology, tend-and-befriend is theorized as having evolved as the typical fe... | 2.953125 | 0 |
9196294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend%20and%20befriend | Tend and befriend | Tending under stress
Female stress responses that increased offspring survival would have led to higher fitness and thus were more likely to be passed on through natural selection. In the presence of threats, protecting and calming offspring while blending into the environment may have increased chances of survival for... | 3.0625 | 0 |
9196294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend%20and%20befriend | Tend and befriend | Humans are born helpless and altricial, mature slowly, and depend on parental investment well into their young adult lives, and often even later. Humans have spent most of human evolution as hunter-gatherer foragers. Among foraging societies without modern birth control methods, women tend to give birth about every fou... | 3.03125 | 0 |
9196294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend%20and%20befriend | Tend and befriend | Group living provides numerous benefits, including protection from predators and cooperation to achieve shared goals and access to resources. In modernized societies at least, it is found that women create, maintain, and use social networks—especially friendships with other women—to manage stressful conditions. During ... | 3.078125 | 0 |
9196294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend%20and%20befriend | Tend and befriend | Neuroendocrine underpinnings
Human and animal studies (reviewed in Taylor et al., 2000) suggest that oxytocin is the neuroendocrine mechanism underlying the female "befriend" stress response. Oxytocin administration to rats and prairie voles increased social contact and social grooming behaviors, reduced stress, and lo... | 2.734375 | 0 |
9196294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend%20and%20befriend | Tend and befriend | Women have higher life expectancies from birth in modernized countries where there is equal access to medical care. In the United States, for example, this difference is almost 6 years. One hypothesis is that men's responses to stress (which include aggression, social withdrawal, and substance abuse) place them at risk... | 2.5625 | 0 |
9196294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend%20and%20befriend | Tend and befriend | Group living and affiliation with multiple unrelated others of the same sex (who do not share genetic interests) also presents the problem of competing for access to limited resources, such as social status, food, and mates. Interpersonal stress is the most common and distressing type of stress for women. Although the ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
9196294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend%20and%20befriend | Tend and befriend | Lower variance in reproductive success and higher costs of physical aggression may explain the lower rates of physical aggression among human females compared to males. Females are in general more likely to produce offspring in their lifetimes than males, although this difference lessens or disappears in societies wher... | 2.90625 | 0 |
9196294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend%20and%20befriend | Tend and befriend | Informational warfare
Women befriend others not only for protection, but also to form alliances to compete with outgroup members for resources, such as food, mates, and social and cultural resources (e.g. status, social positions, rights and responsibilities). Informational warfare is the strategic, competitive tactics... | 2.625 | 0 |
9196294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend%20and%20befriend | Tend and befriend | As mentioned above, befriending can serve to protect women from threats, including harm from other people. Such threats are not limited to physical harm but also include reputational damage. Women form friendships and alliances in part to compete for limited resources, and also in part to protect themselves from relati... | 2.9375 | 0 |
9196294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend%20and%20befriend | Tend and befriend | One major issue from an anthropological standpoint is the considerable diversity of gendered norms and behaviors in traditional societies, and the difficulty for western researchers to interpret these adequately using quantitative and etic means. Social and behavioral scientists often struggle to keep their personal bi... | 2.03125 | 0 |
9196294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend%20and%20befriend | Tend and befriend | In spite of the perceived universal and biological basis for the tend and befriend response in human women, there is actually a great deal of controversy as to how consistently replicable western gender norms are across the broad range of human societies. Some researchers have found apparently consistent differences ac... | 2.359375 | 0 |
9196294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend%20and%20befriend | Tend and befriend | The tend and befriend model also assumes a lower emotional and psychological quality to male same-sex friendships as compared to those between women, interpreting the former as largely "instrumental" and focused on giving and returning favors, building coalitions or acquiring resources while the latter function as supe... | 2.359375 | 0 |
9196353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20Sealand | Short Sealand | The Short SA.6 Sealand was a light commercial amphibious aircraft designed and produced by Short Brothers. It was sized to accommodate between five and seven passengers as well as to suit the general overseas market in territories with suitable water access and/or runways. It could take off from and land on rivers, lak... | 2.15625 | 0 |
9196353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20Sealand | Short Sealand | The compact SA.6 concept appeared to have considerable sales potential, being sized as to facilitate its use from inland lakes and other bodies of water. During July 1946, the company announced its intention to produce the SA.6, assigning it the name Sealand, as a five-seven passenger commercial amphibious aircraft. De... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9196366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect%20High%20School%20%28Saratoga%2C%20California%29 | Prospect High School (Saratoga, California) | Prospect High School (PHS) is a public high school in Saratoga, California, United States. It is part of the Campbell Union High School District.
Academics
Prospect offers a mix of advanced and on-level classes. Its curricula are continually evaluated and modified to reflect the needs of students and to assure that al... | 1.976563 | 0 |
9196366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect%20High%20School%20%28Saratoga%2C%20California%29 | Prospect High School (Saratoga, California) | Campus
Prospect has a relatively small campus at the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Spanning twenty-nine acres and 14 buildings, Prospect serves 1,550 students with an average class size of 32 students. The original construction began in what was originally a cherry orchard in 1966, the campus opening in September ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
9196376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza%20Rafindadi%20Zayyad | Hamza Rafindadi Zayyad | Hamza Rafindadi Zayyad (1937–2002) was the former head of the Technical Committee on Privatization and Commercialization in Nigeria. The Committee was designed to strengthen government's control of the direction of the country's then nascent privatization exercise.
Alhaji Rafindadi was one of the few individuals who h... | 1.90625 | 0 |
9196376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza%20Rafindadi%20Zayyad | Hamza Rafindadi Zayyad | Professional career
As one of the few Nigerians with a post-graduate degree in accounting and the potential for positive influence in the post-colonial period, Rafindadi's post-graduate career was promising. In 1963, he started work at the Ministry of Finance, Northern Nigeria as an accountant. He rose through the rank... | 2.234375 | 0 |
9196430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Cathedral%20of%20Rio%20de%20Janeiro | Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro | Royal Chapel and Cathedral
In 1808, prince regent John, the future King John VI of Portugal and his court arrived in Rio, fleeing Napoleonic troops which had invaded Portugal. Several of the buildings of Rio started being used by the Portuguese court, including the old Vice-Regal Palace (now known as Paço Imperial), th... | 2.5625 | 0 |
9196430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Cathedral%20of%20Rio%20de%20Janeiro | Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro | Important events in the Imperial Chapel include the coronations of Emperor Pedro I (on 1 December 1822) and his successor, Pedro II (on 18 July 1841); the signing of the Constitution of the Empire of Brazil, followed by the Emperor's oath to the Constitution and by a Te Deum (on 25 March 1824); the bestowal of the Nupt... | 2.53125 | 0 |
9196430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Cathedral%20of%20Rio%20de%20Janeiro | Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro | Brazil's Imperial Parliament (the General Assembly) also worshipped at the Imperial Chapel. In particular, an annual Solemn Mass of the Holy Spirit was celebrated there in the presence of members of the Senate and of the Chamber of Deputies, before the ceremony of the opening of Parliament, when the Emperor appeared in... | 2.78125 | 0 |
9196430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Cathedral%20of%20Rio%20de%20Janeiro | Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro | In 1905, with the elevation of the then Archbishop of Rio, Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti, to the rank of Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church (the first Brazilian member of the College of Cardinals), the Church became the first seat of a Cardinal in Brazil.
The façades of the church were remodelled in the e... | 2.5625 | 0 |
9196436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th%20Marine%20Division%20on%20Okinawa | 6th Marine Division on Okinawa | The 6th Marine Division on Okinawa is a 1945 Kodachrome color documentary film produced about the action of the 6th Division during the Battle of Okinawa. The film was released shortly after the event.
The film begins by outlining the strategic and psychological importance of Okinawa, including its use as a supply bas... | 2.015625 | 0 |
9196474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-pan%20salt%20making | Open-pan salt making | Open-pan salt making is a method of salt production wherein salt is extracted from brine using open pans.
Virtually all European domestic salt is obtained by solution-mining of underground salt formations, although some is still obtained by the solar evaporation of seawater.
Types of open-pan salt production
Salt is ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
9196474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-pan%20salt%20making | Open-pan salt making | Inland open-pan salt production
Open-pan salt production was confined to a few locations where geological conditions preserved layers of salt beneath the ground. Only five complexes of inland open-pan salt works now survive in the world: Lion Salt Works, Cheshire, United Kingdom; Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans, Salin... | 2.828125 | 0 |
9196474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-pan%20salt%20making | Open-pan salt making | These fell into two categories: Smaller fine pans were and about wide and about deep. They were housed in pan houses and had associated stove houses. The salt was evaporated in the pan at a high temperature of around . This produced higher quality grades of salt including 'Butter Salt', 'Dairy Salt', 'Calcutta Salt'... | 2.90625 | 0 |
9196550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dundee%20United%20F.C.%20managers | List of Dundee United F.C. managers | Dundee United Football Club is a professional football club based in Dundee, Scotland. Since being formed in 1909 as Dundee Hibernian, the club has employed a manager to run the team, the first being Pat Reilly. The club's longest serving and most successful manager is Jim McLean, who held the position from 1971 to 199... | 2.140625 | 0 |
9196550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dundee%20United%20F.C.%20managers | List of Dundee United F.C. managers | Building on Kerr's achievements, McLean instituted a successful youth policy that set the foundations for future success. The club won their first major honour, the Scottish League Cup, in 1979 and retained the trophy in 1980. The club became champions of Scotland for the first time when they won the Scottish Football ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
9196559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayelet%20Ohayon | Ayelet Ohayon | Ayelet Ohayon (איילת אוחיון; born October 20, 1974) is a three-time Olympian Israeli foil fencer. She also won the silver medal at the 1993 Junior World Cup Championships, the gold medal at the 2000 European Championships, and a gold medal at the 2009 Maccabiah Games in women's team foil, as part of Team Israel.
Early... | 2.09375 | 0 |
9196632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo%20Evasio%20Soliva | Carlo Evasio Soliva | Carlo Evasio Soliva (27 November 1791 – 20 December 1853) was a Swiss-Italian composer of opera, chamber music, and sacred choral works. Soliva was born in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont to a family of Swiss chocolatiers who had emigrated from the canton of Ticino. He studied pianoforte and composition at the Milan Conser... | 2.0625 | 0 |
9196650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Louis%20Schwendler | Carl Louis Schwendler | Carl Louis Schwendler (1838–1882) was a German electrician and one of the first proponents of the tungsten based incandescent light bulb. He also published an influential textbook on telegraphs, and worked in British India at a senior post in the Telegraph Department. He was involved in setting up telegraphic communica... | 2.359375 | 0 |
9196652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Fran%C3%A7ois%20Richer%20Lafl%C3%A8che | Louis-François Richer Laflèche | Louis-François Laflèche (September 4, 1818 – July 14, 1898) was a Catholic bishop of the diocese of Trois-Rivières, in the province of Quebec, Canada.
Early life and career
Laflèche was born on September 4, 1818, in the village of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade to Louis-Modeste Richer dit Laflèche and Marie-Anne Richer dit... | 2.484375 | 0 |
9196675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Richards%20Castle | William Richards Castle | William Richards Castle (March 19, 1849 – June 5, 1935) was a lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii and Republic of Hawaii.
Family
William Richards Castle was born in Honolulu on March 19, 1849. His father was Samuel Northrup Castle (1808–1894), and mother was Mary Tenney Castle (1819–1907). He was a namesake... | 2.21875 | 0 |
9196710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Indian%20Air%20Force | History of the Indian Air Force | The Indian Air Force was established on 8 October 1932 independently of the army and navy and in a similar format to the British Royal Air Force. It had been a recommendation of the Skeen Committee, which had been tasked to look into demands for the Indianisation of the Indian army. Its first squadron was raised on 1 A... | 2.703125 | 0 |
9196710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Indian%20Air%20Force | History of the Indian Air Force | The IAF was mainly involved in strike, close air support, aerial reconnaissance, bomber escort and pathfinding missions for RAF and USAAF heavy bombers. RAF and IAF pilots would train by flying with their non-native air wings to gain combat experience and communication proficiency. Besides operations in the Burma Theat... | 2.640625 | 0 |
9196710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Indian%20Air%20Force | History of the Indian Air Force | Operation Pawan (1987)
The IAF supported the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. About 70,000 sorties were flown by the IAF's transport and helicopter force in support of nearly 100,000 troops and paramilitary forces without a single aircraft lost or mission aborted. IAF An-32s maintain... | 2.53125 | 0 |
9196757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia%20Longley | Lydia Longley | Lydia Longley (Sainte-Madeleine) (12 April 1674 – 20 July 1758), an English colonist from Groton, Massachusetts, in the mid-20th century became known as "The First American Nun" from a popular 1958 children's novel about her decades in a Catholic congregation in Montreal, New France.
Born into a Puritan family in Grot... | 2.359375 | 0 |
9196757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia%20Longley | Lydia Longley | The Longley household was a farmstead built on in the remote northern part of the small town. Lydia's mother died when the girl was 11. Her widowed father, William, Jr., quickly remarried to Deliverance Crispe. The upkeep of the Longley homestead was a family effort. The children helped maintain the cattle, other live... | 2.765625 | 0 |
9196757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia%20Longley | Lydia Longley | In Montreal, Longley was influenced by the people she encountered. These likely included Jeanne Le Ber, a daughter of Jacques, who was a noted recluse and would a short time later enter the Congregation de Notre Dame as a nun. Longley likely met Marguerite Bourgeoys, founder of the convent, who established it as a non-... | 2.546875 | 0 |
9196757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia%20Longley | Lydia Longley | Representation in other media
Helen A. McCarthy Sawyer published a children's biographical novel about Longley, The First American Nun (1958). She donated her research materials for her book to the Groton Historical Society. A review reveals that certain dates and family data for the Longleys are contradicted by some ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
9196778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyespot%20rasbora | Eyespot rasbora | The eyespot rasbora is an elongate fish, with a pointed snout, whose base colour is a reflective, metallic silver, though under some lighting conditions, the fish can take on a yellowish hue, with a slight pink flush present in the ventral area of the body between the operculum and the pelvic fins (corresponding roughl... | 2.984375 | 0 |
9196778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyespot%20rasbora | Eyespot rasbora | The species is relatively peaceful, though it is possible that some 'fin nipping' behaviour may occur if the species is kept with slow-moving and long-finned fishes in an aquarium. The incidence of this behaviour is not considered to be particularly marked, however, and is certainly not as visibly manifest as is the ca... | 2.890625 | 0 |
9196778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyespot%20rasbora | Eyespot rasbora | Once the matter of water chemistry has been settled, the breeding aquarium should be furnished with fine-leaved aquatic foliage. Cabomba and Myriophyllyum are suitable choices, and Java moss is likely to be a useful addition to the breeding aquarium as well. Synthetic substitutes can also be utilised if live plants are... | 2.796875 | 0 |
9196804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian%20Black-headed | Lithuanian Black-headed | The Lithuanian Black-Headed Sheep (Lithuanian: "Lietuvos vietinės šiurkščiavilnės") is a multipurpose breed developed in Lithuania during the mid-20th century.
The breed was created through crossing local sheep with English Shropshire and meaty German black-headed rams, in an attempt to combine the best characteristic... | 2.796875 | 0 |
9196819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dragon%20and%20the%20George | The Dragon and the George | The Dragon and the George is a 1976 fantasy novel by American writer Gordon R. Dickson, the first in his "Dragon Knight" series. A shorter form of the story was previously published as the short story, "St. Dragon and the George" in the September 1957 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
The novel was... | 2.28125 | 0 |
9196883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCroskey%20State%20Park | McCroskey State Park | McCroskey State Park—officially Mary Minerva McCroskey State Park—is a public recreation area in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, located in the Palouse region of northern Idaho. The park's stretch along a ridge in Latah and Benewah Counties, along the border with Washington.
History
McCroskey State Park w... | 2.34375 | 0 |
9196909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20Island%20Inlet | Fire Island Inlet | Fire Island Inlet is an inlet on the south shore of Long Island, New York.
It connects the Great South Bay with the Atlantic Ocean, passing between Robert Moses State Park (the western end of Fire Island) on the south and Oak Beach and Captree State Park (the eastern end of Jones Beach Island) on the north. The inlet... | 2.078125 | 0 |
9197161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland%20Park%20School | Holland Park School | The school formally joined United Learning in January 2023, and became a part of a cluster with The Hurlingham Academy in Fulham and The Elms Academy in Clapham.
School organisation
When the school opened in September 1958, it was divided into eight houses. The eight houses were originally called Addison, Fox, Hunter,... | 2.765625 | 0 |
9197161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland%20Park%20School | Holland Park School | In the 1960s and 1970s, the philosophy was to ensure large student numbers (over 1,900), with the idea that the resulting size would enable more subject choices for the students. Indeed, amongst the more typical foreign languages, Latin, French and Spanish were taught. A similar philosophy and scale applied to other co... | 2.390625 | 0 |
9197195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Lee | Robin Lee | Robin Huntington Lee (December 2, 1919 in Saint Paul, Minnesota – October 8, 1997 in Minneapolis) was an American figure skater. He was the 1935-1939 U.S. national champion. At age 12, he became the youngest skater to win the junior national title. At the 1935 United States Figure Skating Championships, at the age of ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
9197211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axomamma | Axomamma | Axomamma (also Acsumamma and Ajomamma) is a goddess of potatoes in Inca mythology. She is one of the daughters of Pachamama, the earth mother. Potatoes forms a vital part of the food supply of the Incan people, and most villages had a particularly odd-shaped potato to worship and to beg for a good harvest. Potatoes we... | 2.875 | 0 |
9197308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20James%20Caird%2C%201st%20Baronet%2C%20of%20Glenfarquhar | Sir James Caird, 1st Baronet, of Glenfarquhar | Interest in maritime history and heritage
Having accumulated a significant fortune, Caird became interested in preserving British naval and shipping memorials. As a member of the Society for Nautical Research, he provided the largest amount of money necessary to repair and restore HMS Victory in the 1920s, giving an in... | 2.84375 | 0 |
9197310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dragon%20Knight%20%28novel%29 | The Dragon Knight (novel) | The Dragon Knight is a fantasy novel by American writer Gordon R. Dickson, the second in his Dragon Knight series. The novel begins five months after the battle at Loathly Tower, which took place in The Dragon and the George.
Plot
Jim and Angie are adjusting to their new lives within this parallel dimension of 14th-c... | 1.984375 | 0 |
9197329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vel%20Phillips | Vel Phillips | Velvalea Hortense Rodgers "Vel" Phillips (February 18, 1924 – April 17, 2018) was an American attorney, politician, jurist, and civil rights activist, who served as an alderperson and judge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and as secretary of state of Wisconsin (1979–1983). She was the first African American woman to graduate ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
9197329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vel%20Phillips | Vel Phillips | In 1953, Phillips ran for a seat on the school board of the Milwaukee Public Schools, and was the first black candidate to make it past the non-partisan citywide primary election, though she lost the runoff. Both she and her husband became active locally in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People... | 2.859375 | 0 |
9197614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Pascagoula%20High%20School | Old Pascagoula High School | The Old Pascagoula High School is a building in Pascagoula, Jackson County, Mississippi. It opened in January 1939 and closed in June 1997.
Designed by the Gulfport architectural firm of Smith & Olschner, the High School was hailed as the "most modern and complete high school unit in the state." Housed within the Ar... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9197621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vartan%20Pasha | Vartan Pasha | Hovsep Vartanian (, Yovsēpʿ Vartanean), better known as Vartan Pasha (; 1813 – 1879), was an Ottoman Armenian statesman, author, and journalist of the 19th century, promoted to the rank of pasha after three decades in the service of the state. He is also notable for his novel "Akabi's Story" (Akabi Hikâyesi), published... | 2 | 0 |
9197621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vartan%20Pasha | Vartan Pasha | Biography
Hovsep Vartanian (), was born in 1813 to Catholic Armenian parents. At the age of 13, he set out for Vienna, where he was enrolled in the school of Mechitarists. Upon returning to the Ottoman Empire, he worked as a teacher for a couple of years, after which he took up a post in 1837 in the Dragoman's office o... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9197621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vartan%20Pasha | Vartan Pasha | The novel relates an impossible love story between two young people issued from different communities which cultivate hostility between each other, either latent or evident, in the true fashion of Romeo and Juliet and many other stories produced by different cultures throughout the ages. Akabi is a daughter of Orthodox... | 2.0625 | 0 |
9197625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panam%20Sports | Panam Sports | Panam Sports (officially English: Pan American Sports Organization and ) is an international organization which represents the current 41 National Olympic Committees of the American continent.
It is affiliated with the International Olympic Committee and its affiliated bodies, including ANOC, the Association of Nation... | 2.34375 | 0 |
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