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10689967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hlinka%20Gretzky%20Cup | Hlinka Gretzky Cup | The Hlinka Gretzky Cup is an annual international under-18 ice hockey tournament administered by Hockey Canada, the Czech Ice Hockey Association, and the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation.
Held since 1991, it has been contested under various titles and in various countries, including Japan, Mexico, and Canada. From 1997 th... | 2.515625 | 0 |
10690012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Anichkov | Nikolay Anichkov | Nikolay Nikolayevich Anichkov (, often spelled Anitschkow in German literature) (1885, Saint Petersburg – 1964) was a prominent pathologist of Russian heritage. Anichkov first described the specialized myocardial cells (Anitschkow cell, cardiac histiocyte) and discovered the significance and role of cholesterol in athe... | 2.3125 | 0 |
10690012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Anichkov | Nikolay Anichkov | In 1912, Anichkov moved to Freiburg to work under German pathologist L. Aschoff. The latter was interested in Anichkov's experimental work done in Russia. In Germany he became the first to describe cholesterinesterphagozyten, German for 'cholesteryl ester phagocytes', which derive from macrophages and today are known a... | 2.296875 | 0 |
10690033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saqlawiyah | Saqlawiyah | As Saqlāwīyah () is a city in Al Anbar Governorate, in central Iraq. It is located roughly 5 miles (8 km) northwest of the city of Fallujah.
Saqlawiyah is a rural city in between Habbaniyah and Fallujah that sits on the major freeway. The city was named after an Arabian Mare of the Saqlawiyah strain of the Juboor clan... | 1.90625 | 0 |
10690131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta%20Palm%20d%27Aelders | Etta Palm d'Aelders | D'Aelders was eventually based in The Hague where she now spied on French émigrés like Beaumarchais and Dumouriez. However, later in her life, events in France forced her to change sides again and she imposed on the stadtholder himself, referring to her old services. Then in early 1795 the French revolutionary armies i... | 1.96875 | 0 |
10690131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta%20Palm%20d%27Aelders | Etta Palm d'Aelders | During this time she developed a lively correspondence with many political figures including the Dutch Grand Pensionary Van de Spiegel and the French minister Lebrun. Some of her letters have been preserved and they show she was engaged in political discourse. In one letter dated 18 January 1790, de Spiegel is shown to... | 1.914063 | 0 |
10690131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta%20Palm%20d%27Aelders | Etta Palm d'Aelders | Historian Judith Vega writes that ‘d'Aelders in her political views combines loyal adherence to the House of Orange with democratic republican ideals and feminist Zeal’. It is perhaps notable that the de Sitter family, into which d'Aelders's mother was born, is often cited as holding strong Orangeist sympathies and int... | 2.296875 | 0 |
10690131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta%20Palm%20d%27Aelders | Etta Palm d'Aelders | As the president of Société Patriotique et de Bienfaisance des Amies de la Vérité, d'Aelders's speeches on the social and living conditions of women were read and heard widely, garnering popular support from Parisian women. As an eloquent speaker, she gained many listeners at society meetings as she spoke on politicall... | 2.59375 | 0 |
10690183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Bain | Francis Bain | Francis Bain (February 25, 1842 – November 20, 1894) was an author, scientist and farmer from North River, Prince Edward Island.
In 1865, in his time away from managing his family farm, he began a career as an amateur naturalist, collecting and cataloging the flora, fauna, and seashells of the island. He was especial... | 2.859375 | 0 |
10690215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Maddox | Bruno Maddox | Bruno P. Maddox (born 1969) is a British literary novelist and journalist who is best known for his novel My Little Blue Dress (2001) and for his satirical magazine essays.
After graduating from Harvard University in 1992, Maddox began his career reviewing books for The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Po... | 2.09375 | 0 |
10690259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970%20North%20Indian%20Ocean%20cyclone%20season | 1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season | On the morning of November 8, a depression formed in the south-central Bay of Bengal. It moved very slowly to the north, becoming a cyclonic storm on the next day. The cyclone continued to intensify as it approached the head of the Bay, becoming the third severe cyclonic storm of the season on November 11. That evening... | 2.546875 | 0 |
10690343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Lamb | Christina Lamb | Christina Lamb OBE (born 15 May 1965) is a British journalist and author. She is the chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Times.
Lamb has won nineteen major awards including five British Press Awards and the European Prix Bayeux-Calvados for war correspondents. She is an Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxf... | 2.09375 | 0 |
10690343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Lamb | Christina Lamb | In November 2001, Lamb was deported from Pakistan after uncovering evidence of a covert operation by rogue elements in the ISI, Pakistan's military intelligence service, to smuggle arms to the Taliban. In 2006, she narrowly escaped with her life when caught in a Taliban ambush of British troops in Helmand. She was on B... | 2.03125 | 0 |
10690343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Lamb | Christina Lamb | Lamb's book Our Bodies, Their Battlefield was published by William Collins (London) in March 2020 and by Scribner (New York) in September 2020 and was translated into 14 languages. Her latest book The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic was published by William Coll... | 1.90625 | 0 |
10690371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Parish%20Church%20of%20Dorchester | First Parish Church of Dorchester | First Parish Dorchester is a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Dorchester, Massachusetts. It was founded by English Puritans who initially saw themselves as reformers rather than separatists, but increasingly intolerable conditions in England and at the urging of Reverend John White of Dorchester, Dorset, they emi... | 2.359375 | 0 |
10690371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Parish%20Church%20of%20Dorchester | First Parish Church of Dorchester | The current building is the sixth meetinghouse erected by the congregation since 1630, and the fifth building to stand at this location on Meetinghouse Hill since 1673. It is the only example in Boston of Colonial Revival ecclesiastical architecture stylized after the traditional wooden New England meetinghouse.
When ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
10690371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Parish%20Church%20of%20Dorchester | First Parish Church of Dorchester | The few alterations that have occurred on the site were shaped by the minds of other influential Boston architects, also with MIT connections. In 1909, Mr. Everett worked with Arthur Asahel Shurtleff (later known as Shurcliff) to complete a landscape project on the site, including the design and installation of the cas... | 1.914063 | 0 |
10690377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20health%20council | Community health council | Up until 2010 there were 19 CHCs in Wales. However, as a result of the passing by the Welsh Assembly Government of the Community Health Councils (Constitution, Membership and Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2010, these were replaced by eight CHCs. These covered larger geographical areas, and were largely coterminous wi... | 2.515625 | 0 |
10690386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Lucas%20%28baseball%29 | Bill Lucas (baseball) | The job of rebuilding the Braves was compounded by Turner's tempestuous behavior. On May 11, 1977, the owner appointed himself the Braves' field manager during a losing streak. Turner's dugout reign drew national headlines but lasted only one day before the president of the National League ruled that Turner, as an owne... | 1.960938 | 0 |
10690408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluka | Aluka | Aluka was an online digital library focused on Africa-related material. It focused on globally connecting scholars by building a common platform for online collaboration and knowledge sharing. Aluka's intended audience was higher education and research communities.
Aluka was an initiative of Ithaka Harbors, a non-prof... | 2.5625 | 0 |
10690451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Routing%20Protocol | Wireless Routing Protocol | Routing table entries contain distance to a destination node, the previous and next nodes along the route, and is tagged to identify the route's state: whether it is a simple path, loop or invalid route. (Storing the previous and successive nodes assists in detecting loops and avoiding the counting-to-infinity problem ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
10690461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Rigoulot | Charles Rigoulot | Charles Jean Rigoulot (3 November 190322 August 1962) was a French weightlifter, professional wrestler, racing driver, strongman and actor.
Rigoulot was born in Le Vesinet, France and began to train with weights as a child. He was observed by weight trainer Jean Dame lifting heavy lithograph stones when Rigoulot was 1... | 2.015625 | 0 |
10690540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A2slea%20the%20Brave%20and%20the%20Golden%20Apples | Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples | Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples () is a Romanian fairy tale collected by Petre Ispirescu in Legende sau basmele românilor.
Synopsis
A king had a magnificent garden with a tree that bore golden apples, but he never ate them, because every year, the apples were stolen as they became ripe. None of his guards co... | 2.359375 | 0 |
10690540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A2slea%20the%20Brave%20and%20the%20Golden%20Apples | Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples | In a variant from Lower Brittany, collected by François-Marie Luzel with the title Le poirier aux poires d’or ("The Pear Tree with the Golden Pears"), a king owns a peart tree that yields golden fruits, but every night there is a golden pear missing. His three sons stand guard at night, the older two fall sleep fail, b... | 2.34375 | 0 |
10690540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A2slea%20the%20Brave%20and%20the%20Golden%20Apples | Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples | Greece
In a tale from the island of Lesbos, The Three Robes of Wonder, a king owns a beautiful apple-tree that produces golden trees, but the tree is attacked once every year by a dragon. The three princes promise to stay awake to catch the dragon, but only the youngest is successful. He strikes the dragon with a javel... | 2.390625 | 0 |
10690540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A2slea%20the%20Brave%20and%20the%20Golden%20Apples | Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples | In a tale collected by Austrian consul Johann Georg von Hahn in Syra, Der Goldäpfelbaum und die Höllenfahrt ("The Tree of Golden Apples and the Journey to Hell"), a king has a tree with golden apples that attracts some thing to steal its lustrous fruits. The three princes stand guard to watch over the tree: the culprit... | 2.5 | 0 |
10690540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A2slea%20the%20Brave%20and%20the%20Golden%20Apples | Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples | In a tale collected by William Roger Paton from a woman in the island of Lesbos, The Three Apples, a king with a prized apple-tree that bears three golden apples every year finds out that a thief comes and takes the fruits. His three sons promise to stand guard, but only the youngest discovers it is a gigantic ogre. He... | 2.46875 | 0 |
10690540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A2slea%20the%20Brave%20and%20the%20Golden%20Apples | Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples | Albania
In an Albanian tale published by Albanologist Robert Elsie with the title The Scurfhead, a king with three sons has a tree that grows three quinces every year, but a dragon always appears to eat the fruits. His sons decide to protect the tree: the two elders fail, but the youngest, nicknamed "Scurfhead", hurts ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
10690540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A2slea%20the%20Brave%20and%20the%20Golden%20Apples | Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples | In an Armenian tale, The Youngest of the Three, a sick king sends his sons to fetch the Apple of Life in a garden in India, which is guarded by giants. Only the youngest prince, on the third year, hurts the giant and gets the apple, which he takes to his father. The prince then returns to the garden and follows a trail... | 2.046875 | 0 |
10690540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A2slea%20the%20Brave%20and%20the%20Golden%20Apples | Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples | Bulgaria
In a Bulgarian tale, "Тримата братя и златната ябълка" ("The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple" - the name of the tale type in Bulgarian sources), an old widow has a golden apple tree in her backyard. Every year, some creature steals the golden fruits. Her eldest son offers to guard it, but fails. The next y... | 2.21875 | 0 |
10690601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20R.%20Levenson | Joseph R. Levenson | Joseph Richmond Levenson (June 10, 1920 – April 6, 1969) was a scholar of Chinese history and Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
After graduating from Boston Latin School in 1937 and Harvard College in 1941, Levenson enlisted in the United States Navy in 1942. He attended Ja... | 2.28125 | 0 |
10690642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinka | Melinka | Melinka is a Chilean town in Aysén Province, Aysén Region. It is located on Ascención Island and is the administrative center of the commune of Guaitecas since 1979.
The town is on a small peninsula off the main island, and shelters a small harbor. The island is in the Guaitecas Archipelago, at the southern end of th... | 2.171875 | 0 |
10690651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem%20Globetrotters%20%28TV%20series%29 | Harlem Globetrotters (TV series) | Harlem Globetrotters is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera and CBS Productions, featuring animated versions of players from the basketball team of the same name.
Broadcast from September 12, 1970, to October 16, 1971, on CBS Saturday Morning, repeated from September 10, 1972, to May 20, 1973, on CBS ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
10690841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresita%20Fern%C3%A1ndez | Teresita Fernández | Teresita Fernández (born 1968) is a New York-based visual artist best known for her public sculptures and unconventional use of materials. Her work is characterized by a reconsideration of landscape and issues of visibility. Fernández’s practice generates psychological topographies that prompt the subjective reshaping ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
10690841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresita%20Fern%C3%A1ndez | Teresita Fernández | In 1986, Fernández graduated from Southwest Miami High School. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida International University in 1990, and a Masters of Fine Art from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1992.
Career
In 2009 the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin commissioned the lar... | 2.09375 | 0 |
10690841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresita%20Fern%C3%A1ndez | Teresita Fernández | On June 1, 2015, Fata Morgana, her largest public art project to date and the largest installation in the park's history, opened in New York's Madison Square Park. The Madison Square Park Conservancy presented the outdoor sculpture consisting of 500 running feet of golden, mirror-polished discs that create canopies abo... | 2.03125 | 0 |
10690841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresita%20Fern%C3%A1ndez | Teresita Fernández | Also in 2019, Fernández was commissioned to create a permanent, site-specific glazed ceramic installation Viñales(Mayombe Mississippi) for the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). Viñales(Mayombe Mississippi) is a 60-foot-long ceramic mural, placed on the exterior wall of... | 2.0625 | 0 |
10690916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassian%20thrush | Bassian thrush | The Bassian thrush (Zoothera lunulata), also known as the olive-tailed thrush, is a medium-sized mostly insectivorous thrush found from northern Queensland to southeastern Australia. It also occurs in Tasmania, on some larger islands of Bass Strait, and on Kangaroo Island. The thrushes range from in length and average... | 3.09375 | 0 |
10690956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Boone%20Cheatham | Richard Boone Cheatham | Richard Boone Cheatham (December 8, 1824 – May 7, 1877) was an American politician based in Nashville, Tennessee. He was serving as the mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, during the opening years of the Civil War. After the war he served as alderman of the city, and later as a representative to the State House, 1869-1871.
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10691043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20String%20of%20Pearls%20Twined%20with%20Golden%20Flowers | A String of Pearls Twined with Golden Flowers | Romanian folklorist collected a tale titled Inșir te Mărgărite cu dalbe flori aurite from an informant named Ion Georgescu. In this variant, an emperor passes by the castle of a neighbour emperor and overhears the conversation between the three princesses, the youngest promising to bear twin boys of gold in case she m... | 2.59375 | 0 |
10691095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic%20Admirals%20in%20the%20United%20States%20Navy | Hispanic Admirals in the United States Navy | Hispanic American is an ethnic term employed to categorize any citizen or resident of the United States, of any racial background, of any country, and of any religion, who has at least one ancestor from the people of Spain or is of non-Hispanic origin, but has an ancestor from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central or Sout... | 2.828125 | 0 |
10691095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic%20Admirals%20in%20the%20United%20States%20Navy | Hispanic Admirals in the United States Navy | Farragut's greatest victory was the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864. Mobile, Alabama, at the time was the Confederacy's last major port open on the Gulf of Mexico. The bay was heavily mined with tethered naval mines, also known as torpedoes. When the , one of the ships under his command, struck a mine and went d... | 2.734375 | 0 |
10691179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonsei%20University%20Korean%20Language%20Institute | Yonsei University Korean Language Institute | The Yonsei University Korean Language Institute () provides instruction in Korean as a foreign language for international students and businesspeople in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul.
Established in 1959, over 62,000 students from more than 120 countries have studied at Yonsei KLI.
Most students have come from Japan (over 18,0... | 2.640625 | 0 |
10691210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His%20New%20Job | His New Job | Production
The movie's title, His New Job, had a subtle second meaning, as it was Chaplin's first film for Essanay after his contract with Keystone Studios expired at the end of 1914. The use of the name "Lockstone" for the silent film studio was an obvious humorous jab by Chaplin directed at Keystone.
The movie was ... | 2 | 0 |
10691230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20James%20Anderson | Henry James Anderson | Henry James Anderson (February 6, 1799 – October 19, 1875) was an American scientist and educator who worked with the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Dallas Bache. He became Knight Commander, President of the Particular Council of New York, and Head of the Supreme Council.
Biography
He was born in New Y... | 2.3125 | 0 |
10691230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20James%20Anderson | Henry James Anderson | His reports from the expedition, Geological Reconnaissance of Part of the Holy Land, were published by the United States government in 1848 and 1849. Under the aegis of the American Geographical and Statistical Society, Anderson circulated a petition urging the United States to promote Jewish colonization in Palestine,... | 2.0625 | 0 |
10691262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitiveness%20Policy%20Council | Competitiveness Policy Council | The Competitiveness Policy Council was an independent federal advisory committee chartered in 1988 to advise the president and the Congress on more effective policies to promote U.S. competitiveness. The council had a unique quadrapartite membership composed of representatives from business, labor, government, and the... | 2.1875 | 0 |
10691262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitiveness%20Policy%20Council | Competitiveness Policy Council | To help analyze the problems of faltering U.S. competitiveness, the council in its first year, established eight subcouncils to study and recommend solutions for the most critical problems hindering U.S. competitiveness. These subcouncils were: capital formation, education, training, public infrastructure, corporate go... | 2.09375 | 0 |
10691302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His%20Prehistoric%20Past | His Prehistoric Past | His Prehistoric Past is a 1914 American short silent comedy film, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, featuring Chaplin in a stone-age kingdom trying to usurp the crown of King Low-Brow to win the affections of the king's favorite wife. As this film was the final one that Chaplin made at Keystone Studios, it was a... | 1.96875 | 0 |
10691346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20E.%20Kuttner | Robert E. Kuttner | Robert E. Kuttner (March 10, 1927 – February 19, 1987) was an American biologist and white supremacist.
Biography
Kuttner was born in Queens, New York. He obtained a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Connecticut. He was an initial director of the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eu... | 2.34375 | 0 |
10691441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%2020%20in%20South%20Carolina | Interstate 20 in South Carolina | Interstate 20 (I-20) is the main east–west Interstate Highway in the state of South Carolina, linking the state with important transportation and business hubs to the north, west, and south, including Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina (via I-77); Savannah, Georgia (via I-95); and Washington, D.C. (via I-95). ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
10691441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%2020%20in%20South%20Carolina | Interstate 20 in South Carolina | While the extension had support in North Carolina, with justification that a direct route from Atlanta to the Port of Wilmington could be a boom to the economy, this view was not shared by officials in South Carolina. In 2009, soon after Governor Mike Easley left office, the proposed routing was removed from all NCDOT ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
10691456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bay-Tree%20Maiden | The Bay-Tree Maiden | The Bay-Tree Maiden (Romanian: Fata din dafin) is a Romanian fairy tale about a fairy or maiden that comes out of a tree or plant and falls in love with a human prince.
In the story, the prince's mother promises to him marriage with the maiden Sanda-Lucsandra. Years later, she confesses to him that Sanda-Lucsandra doe... | 2.15625 | 0 |
10691456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bay-Tree%20Maiden | The Bay-Tree Maiden | von Hahn cited a Wallachian tale from Banat, collected by the Schott brothers, with the title Die Waldjungfrau Wunderschön. In this story, the heroine lives in a bed atop a tree she calls Dafin. She meets a prince and is abandoned by him. She meets a monk on the way and trades clothes with him. The girl from the tree, ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
10691456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bay-Tree%20Maiden | The Bay-Tree Maiden | In a Turkish tale translated as The Silver Cypress Tree with Golden Fruit, a poor childless woman takes a piece of wood, carves a likeness of a child and cradles it as if a baby. Her husband thinks her mad, and, after some time, takes the wooden image and throws it out the window. Where the wooden image lands, a cypres... | 1.96875 | 0 |
10691568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruda%20%28tribe%29 | Gruda (tribe) | In Mariano Bolizza's 1614 report and description of the Sanjak of Scutari, Gruda had 40 households and 100 soldiers. The Old Kuči constantly were in conflict with the Old Gruda; the Kuči were stronger, thus they stole livestock from Gruda, and if only one Kuči would be killed in conflicts, and several Gruda, they would... | 2.65625 | 0 |
10691568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruda%20%28tribe%29 | Gruda (tribe) | In 1913, the Great Powers at the Conference of London awarded Gruda and Hoti to Montenegro, thus cutting them off from the rest of Albania and from other Albanian highland tribes. Montenegrin forces invaded Gruda territory in the spring on 30 and 31 may, with many dead and injured. In July 1913, emissaries of Prince Ni... | 2.921875 | 0 |
10691641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20von%20Sydow | Emil von Sydow | Emil von Sydow (15 July 1812 – 13 October 1873) was a German military officer, geographer and cartographer born in Freiberg, Saxony.
Prior to 1843, he was a geography instructor at the military academy in Erfurt, afterwards being appointed as a member of the Ober- Militär-Examinationscommission in Berlin. In 1849, he... | 2.484375 | 0 |
10691643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaburra%20School | Inaburra School | Inaburra School, is an independent Christian co-educational primary and secondary day school, located in Bangor, a southern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1982, Inaburra caters for students from Kindergarten to Year 12.
Inaburra is a project of the Menai Baptist Church, however is an inde... | 2.234375 | 0 |
10691720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-28 | Kh-28 | The Kh-28 (; Nisan-28; NATO: AS-9 'Kyle') was the first Soviet anti-radiation missile (ARM) for tactical aircraft. It entered production in 1973 and is still carried on some Sukhoi Su-22s in developing countries but is no longer in Russian service. Use of the Kh-28 was restricted by its weight, limited seeker head, bul... | 2.171875 | 0 |
10691761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastoft | Eastoft | Eastoft became a separate parish on 25 September 1855, when it was created from parts of Adlingfleet and Crowle. In 1900 Kelly's Directory noted that although it was a single ecclesiastical parish, it was still two civil parishes, known as Eastoft, Yorkshire and Eastoft, Lincolnshire. The area of the parish was listed ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
10691761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastoft | Eastoft | The Paupers Drain to the south of Eastoft predates the works of Vermuyden. Following his work, there was social unrest, which was not finally resolved until 1717. After that, some improvements to the drainage of the area were made, including a new sewer, which crossed the Pauper's Drain, and was designed to remove wate... | 2.1875 | 0 |
10691761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastoft | Eastoft | Geography
The village is a linear settlement along the A161 between Crowle and Goole, and includes a junction with the B1392 road leading to the village of Luddington. It comprises more than , and for the most part is little above sea-level. The parish is drained by a network of drainage ditches, which feed into the Ad... | 2.4375 | 0 |
10691761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastoft | Eastoft | Eastoft Hall is another Grade II listed building, built on Eastoft High Street in 1789. It is built of red-brown brick, some of which is rendered, with a slate roof. The east front has four bays, and the building was modified in the early-19th century and in 1905. A screen wall, some outbuildings and an attached garden... | 2.109375 | 0 |
10691764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packraft | Packraft | Packraft and trail boat are colloquial terms for a small, portable inflatable boat designed for use in all bodies of water, including technical whitewater and ocean bays and fjords. A packraft is designed to be light enough to be carried for extended distances. Along with its propulsion system (collapsible paddles or l... | 2.3125 | 0 |
10691764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packraft | Packraft | Contemporary use
Alaska is generally considered the birthplace of packrafting as long distance, non-motorized, landscape travel across untracked wilderness necessitates a small, portable boat for water crossings. Dick Griffith, Roman Dial (author of Packrafting! An Introduction and How-to Guide), the Alaska Mountain Wi... | 2.15625 | 0 |
10691770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20floods | List of floods | Mississippi River Flood of 1882. Intense spring rain storms, beginning on 19 February 1882, led to a rapid rise of the Ohio River and flooding along the river from Cincinnati to St. Louis. The effects were much more devastating in the Lower Mississippi Valley, with an estimated 20,000 people made homeless in Arkansas a... | 2.890625 | 0 |
10691770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20floods | List of floods | 1970s
On the night of 9 June 1972 the people of Rapid City, South Dakota in the United States were struck by a deadly flood that lasted two days. It took 238 lives and caused millions of dollars in damage.
On Luzon island in the Philippines, the "Great Luzon Flood" of 1972 was triggered by a series of storms during ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
10691770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20floods | List of floods | The January 2011 Brazil floods are considered the worst in the country's history. As of 18 January 2011, the floods had taken about 700 lives and 14,000 people were homeless mainly due to landslides.
The Mississippi River floods in April and May 2011 were among the largest and most damaging recorded along the U.S. wat... | 2.21875 | 0 |
10691770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20floods | List of floods | Italy
On 3 November 1844, the Arno river flooded Florence, Tuscany, and the Mugello region, Tuscany.
On 22 October 1951, there were numerous casualties due to floods in the neighbourhoods of Benevento, Campania.
On 14 November 1951, the Po river delta was hit by floods; there were 84 casualties and 180,000 people lo... | 2.4375 | 0 |
10691779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Pocono%20High%20School | North Pocono High School | North Pocono High School is a public, four-year high school located in Covington Township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. The school building was built in 2009. It is the only high school in the North Pocono School District, which covers a vast territory in northeastern Pennsylvania, including parts of Wayne County a... | 2.203125 | 0 |
10691779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Pocono%20High%20School | North Pocono High School | Basic/General: The general program of study prepares students for integration into the 21st Century workforce or transition into some kind of post-secondary education or training.
Business: The business program combines the general or academic program of study with business electives.
Vocational: The vocational progr... | 2.484375 | 0 |
10691877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunitoni | Kaunitoni | Kaunitoni, according to Fijian ancestral story, was a canoe which sailed from an ancient homeland in the West, carrying the ancestor gods Lutunasobasoba and Degei, who are variously considered the ancestors of the Fijian people.
They travelled in the Kaukifera or Kaunitoni, and the canoe landed in the western reef of ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
10691928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Golden%20Stag%20%28fairy%20tale%29 | The Golden Stag (fairy tale) | The Golden Stag (Romanian: Cerbul de aur) is a Romanian fairy tale.
Sources
The tale was originally collected in late 19th century by Romanian folklorist with the title Cerbul de aur. He sourced it from a man named Costache Georgescu, from Telega.
Synopsis
An old woman told her husband that he had to lose his two ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
10691989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder%20pad%20%28fashion%29 | Shoulder pad (fashion) | Shoulder pads are a type of fabric-covered padding used in men's and women's clothing to give the wearer the illusion of having broader and less sloping shoulders. In the beginning, shoulder pads were shaped as a semicircle or small triangle and were stuffed with wool, cotton, or sawdust. They were positioned at the to... | 2.296875 | 0 |
10691989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder%20pad%20%28fashion%29 | Shoulder pad (fashion) | 1930 to 1945
In sports, the shoulder pad was invented in 1877 by a Princeton football player and was used in American football. In women's fashion, shoulder pads originally became popular in the 1930s when fashion designers Elsa Schiaparelli and Marcel Rochas included them in their designs of 1931. Though Rochas may h... | 2.515625 | 0 |
10691989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder%20pad%20%28fashion%29 | Shoulder pad (fashion) | As the decade wore on, exaggerated shoulder pads became the defining fashion statement of the era, known as power dressing (a term that had previously been applied to the more sensibly proportioned business blazers of the mid-seventies) and bestowing the perception of status and position onto those who wore them. Some ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
10691989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder%20pad%20%28fashion%29 | Shoulder pad (fashion) | Throughout the Fall 1978-through-1980s big-shoulder-pads period, designers and fashion writers often said that the current year's shoulders were not as big as the previous year's. Often, means besides or in addition to shoulder pads were used to enlarge the shoulder, including puff-top sleeves, tucks and pleats, should... | 1.984375 | 0 |
10691989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder%20pad%20%28fashion%29 | Shoulder pad (fashion) | 1990s
The shoulder pad fashion carried over from the late 1980s with continued popularity in the early 1990s, but wearers' tastes were changing due to a backlash against 1980s culture. Some designers continued to produce ranges featuring shoulder pads into the mid-1990s, as shoulder pads were prominent in women's form... | 1.992188 | 0 |
10692007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD%20Estrela%20Vermelha | CD Estrela Vermelha | The Clube Desportivo Estrela Vermelha, the Red Star Sports Club, is a sports club from Maputo, the capital of the south-east African state Mozambique. It was founded during the Portuguese colonial era on 4 October 1934 as Clube Desportivo Malhangalene, deriving its name from the historic quarter of the city.
History
... | 2.265625 | 0 |
10692012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Roosevelt%20%28businessman%29 | Isaac Roosevelt (businessman) | Isaac Daniel Roosevelt (September 29, 1790 – December 24, 1863) was an American doctor and farmer. He was the paternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Early life
Roosevelt was born on September 29, 1790, in New York City, he was the oldest surviving son of businessman and politician James Roosevel... | 2.484375 | 0 |
10692028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida%20B.%20Wise | Ida B. Wise | Ida B. Wise (July 3, 1871 – February 16, 1952) was an American temperance activist, best known as the primary author of the Sheppard Bill in 1916 that imposed prohibition on Washington, D.C. She was a member of the Disciples of Christ, and was ordained as a minister, but she never served as a pastor to a congregation. ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
10692045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita%20Bonner | Marita Bonner | Marita Bonner (June 16, 1899 – December 7, 1971), also known as Marieta Bonner, was an American writer, essayist, and playwright who is commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Other names she went by were Marita Occomy, Marita Odette Bonner, Marita Odette Bonner Occomy, Marita Bonner Occomy, and Joseph Maree A... | 2.75 | 0 |
10692045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita%20Bonner | Marita Bonner | After finishing her schooling in 1922, she continued to teach at Bluefield Colored Institute in West Virginia. Two years later, she took on a position at Armstrong High School in Washington, D.C., until 1930, during which time her mother and father both died suddenly. While in Washington, Bonner became closely associat... | 2.5625 | 0 |
10692045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita%20Bonner | Marita Bonner | Bonner also wrote many short stories between 1925 and 1927, including "The Prison-Bound", "Nothing New", "One Boy's Story" and "Drab Rambles". Her short stories explored a multicultural universe filled with people drawn by the promises of urban life.
She wrote three plays — The Pot Maker (1927), The Purple Flower - A ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
10692045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita%20Bonner | Marita Bonner | Bonner contributed a variety of things to the Harlem Renaissance. Her writings addressed the struggles of people who lived outside of Harlem. Her greatest involvement was her emphasis on claiming a strong racial and gender identity. She argued against sexism and racism and advised other black women to remain silent in ... | 2.921875 | 0 |
10692160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn%20Archer | Robyn Archer | Robyn Archer, AO, CdOAL (born 1948) is an Australian singer, writer, stage director, artistic director, and public advocate of the arts, in Australia and internationally.
Biography
Archer was born Robyn Smith in Prospect, South Australia. She began singing at the age of four years and singing professionally from the a... | 1.984375 | 0 |
10692237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BA%A1fliua | Hạfliua | Hạfliua or Hofliua, also known as Split Island, is an islet which falls under the governing jurisdiction of the Fijian dependency of Rotuma.
The island is an important nesting site for sea birds. The seabird nesting colony contributes to its national significance as outlined in Fiji's Biodiversity Strategy and Action ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
10692339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Coke%20Crow | Edward Coke Crow | Edward Coke Crow (December 19, 1861 – May 9, 1945) was a United States Democratic Attorney General from the state of Missouri.
Life
He was born in Oregon, Holt County, Missouri, United States on 19 Dec 1861 and was the sixth of seven children born to Elizabeth Hopkins Barnes and George Washington Crow.
Crow attend... | 1.992188 | 0 |
10692476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Chapel%20and%20Bible%20Training%20Center | Community Chapel and Bible Training Center | In 1969, some members of this group sold many of their possessions, and some put second mortgages on their homes, to finance construction of a Bible school on of rural land which Barbara had found in Burien, Washington. As membership grew the group purchased more of nearby land. The Chapel then constructed elementary... | 2.328125 | 0 |
10692476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Chapel%20and%20Bible%20Training%20Center | Community Chapel and Bible Training Center | On September 14, 1979 the Church Articles of Incorporation were rewritten so that only a four-member board headed by Barnett could make decisions . According to Tim Brown, director of the Colossian Fellowship (an evangelical Christian group concerned with biblical orthodoxy), it was at this point the group "took an aut... | 2.265625 | 0 |
10692476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Chapel%20and%20Bible%20Training%20Center | Community Chapel and Bible Training Center | It was taught that God was using the "spiritual connections" to break down the barriers and inhibitions within the congregation, and promote greater "unity" within the church. Spouses that felt jealousy watching were taught to "release their mates unto the Lord," and Pastor Barnett taught from the pulpit that members w... | 1.96875 | 0 |
10692807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumscribed%20halo | Circumscribed halo | A circumscribed halo is a type of halo, an optical phenomenon typically in the form of a more or less oval ring that circumscribes the circular 22° halo centred on the Sun or Moon.
As the Sun rises above 70° it essentially covers the 22° halo. Like many other halos, it is slightly reddish on the inner edge, facing th... | 2.59375 | 0 |
10692855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoma | Canoma | Canoma was a 3D-modelling application for Windows and Macintosh which is now no longer supported by its company.
Released by MetaCreations Corp. in 1999, this application allowed users to create 3D models based on one or more photographs taken from various angles. This process is known as photogrammetry. The user "pin... | 2.1875 | 0 |
10693078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyles%20%28video%20game%29 | Gargoyles (video game) | Gargoyles is a platform game developed by Disney Software and published by Buena Vista Interactive for the Sega Genesis in 1995. It is an adaptation of the Disney animated series of the same title.
Gameplay
The game loosely follows the plot of the show. The player controls the protagonist Goliath as he seeks to put an... | 2.125 | 0 |
10693131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Wars%20comics | Star Wars comics | Lucasfilm publicity supervisor Charles Lippincott approached publisher Stan Lee at Marvel Comics in 1975 about publishing a Star Wars comic book prior to the film's release. Lee initially declined to consider such a proposal until the film was completed, and was only persuaded otherwise in a second meeting arranged by ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
10693131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Wars%20comics | Star Wars comics | The first original Star Wars stories not directly adapted from the films to appear in print form were Star Wars comics serialized in the Marvel magazine Pizzazz (1977–1979). The first story arc, titled "The Keeper's World", was by Thomas, Chaykin, and Tony DeZuniga. The second story arc, entitled "The Kingdom of Ice", ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
10693291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockeland%20Springs | Lockeland Springs | The Lockeland Springs historic neighborhood is a turn-of-the-20th-century streetcar suburb two miles northeast of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, in East Nashville.
There are over 1,500 households in the neighborhood. The neighborhood association was formed in 1978.
History
In 1786, this land was granted by the State ... | 2.125 | 0 |
10693447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isn%27t%20It%20Romantic%3F%20%281948%20film%29 | Isn't It Romantic? (1948 film) | Isn't It Romantic? is a 1948 American black-and-white comedy musical film from Paramount Pictures, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Veronica Lake and Billy De Wolfe. Supporting actors included Mona Freeman, Richard Webb and Pearl Bailey. Although it takes its title from a 1932 song by Richard Rodgers and Loren... | 1.929688 | 0 |
10693549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda%20Triangle%20Band | Bermuda Triangle Band | Autoharp
Roger Penney, the originator of rock autoharp, redesigned the autoharp's chord bar structure and gave the design to The Oscar Schmidt Company, the largest American crafter of autoharps. Since then, all major autoharp manufacturers worldwide have switched to making autoharps using Roger's design. He used conta... | 2.546875 | 0 |
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