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10701662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim%20M%C3%BCncheberg | Joachim Müncheberg | Death
Müncheberg was killed in an engagement in his Bf 109 G-6 (Werknummer 16 381) on 23 March 1943 over Tunisia when his 135th victim, a USAAF 52nd Fighter Group Spitfire exploded in front of him after a close-range burst of cannon fire, incapacitating Muncheberg's aircraft. The Spitfire was piloted by Captain Theodor... | 2.140625 | 0 |
10701849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw%20College%2C%20Chinese%20University%20of%20Hong%20Kong | Shaw College, Chinese University of Hong Kong | Shaw College () is the fourth constituent college to be established at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a public university in New Territories, Hong Kong.
History
The college is named after its patron, Sir Run Run Shaw, who donated five hundred million Hong Kong dollars toward its establishment in May 1985. In the... | 1.976563 | 0 |
10701855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Ekeblad | Eva Ekeblad | Eva Ekeblad (née De la Gardie; 10 July 1724 – 15 May 1786) was a Swedish agriculturist and salon hostess. She discovered a method to make alcohol and flour from potatoes, significantly reducing Sweden's incidence of famine. She became the first female member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Life
Personal lif... | 2.5625 | 0 |
10701855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Ekeblad | Eva Ekeblad | In 1746, she detailed her discoveries to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. They were reviewed by Jonas Alströmer and Jacob Faggot, who both praised it. She was elected its first female member on 3 December 1748. Her essay, ('Attempts at Producing Bread, Spirit, Starch, and Powder from Potatoes') was also publishe... | 3 | 0 |
10701883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment%20method | Reassignment method | The method of reassignment is a technique for sharpening a time-frequency representation (e.g. spectrogram or the short-time Fourier transform) by mapping the data to time-frequency coordinates that are nearer to the true region of support of the analyzed signal. The method has been independently introduced by several... | 2.375 | 0 |
10701883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment%20method | Reassignment method | A time-frequency representation having improved resolution, relative to the spectrogram, is the Wigner–Ville distribution, which may be interpreted as a short-time Fourier transform with a window function that is perfectly matched to the signal. The Wigner–Ville distribution is highly concentrated in time and frequency... | 2 | 0 |
10701925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Batten%20School%20of%20Leadership%20and%20Public%20Policy | Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy | Center on Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness
Founded in 2011, the center is a collaboration between the School of Education and Human Development (formerly the Curry School of Education) and Batten. The Center aims to draw scholars from the University of Virginia and from around the state to conduct researc... | 2.34375 | 0 |
10701925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Batten%20School%20of%20Leadership%20and%20Public%20Policy | Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy | Social entrepreneurship at UVA
The subject of social entrepreneurship is a fairly new development in public policy curriculum, in 2013 Batten Professor Christine Mahoney and two students received a grant from the Jefferson Trust to fund classes, competitions, field work, and faculty. Social Entrepreneurship @ UVA (SE@U... | 2.390625 | 0 |
10701925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Batten%20School%20of%20Leadership%20and%20Public%20Policy | Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy | Labs
The Batten School holds a variety of labs that conduct research on topics like psychology and economics. The Behavioral Lab focuses on interpersonal dynamics and organizational behavior to better understand how people act in interdependent contexts. The Judgement and Decisions Experimental Lab looks at behavioral ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
10701925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Batten%20School%20of%20Leadership%20and%20Public%20Policy | Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy | Student groups
Students are encouraged to join a number of organizations. Both the undergraduate and graduate programs have a council of student leaders who are elected to run community outreach, events, professional development activities, and head external, internal, and social committees. Batten Builds is a group th... | 2.359375 | 0 |
10701928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springdale%20Cemetery | Springdale Cemetery | Springdale Cemetery is a historic, non-sectarian, active cemetery in the United States city of Peoria, Illinois. It was chartered in 1855, received its first interment in 1857. Almost 78,000 individuals are buried at the cemetery. It contains a public mausoleum and 15 private mausoleums.
The property was acquired in 1... | 1.960938 | 0 |
10701928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springdale%20Cemetery | Springdale Cemetery | History
Interment in the cemetery began in April 1857 after the Illinois State Legislature granted the managers the authority to accept pre-payment for interment services and trust funds for perpetual care. The cemetery remained in private ownership until 1999 at which time Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes seized control... | 2.28125 | 0 |
10702216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20important%20publications%20in%20philosophy | List of important publications in philosophy | Philosophy of mind
Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, 1949
Wilfrid Sellars, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind", 1956
Herbert Feigl, "The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'", 1958
David K. Lewis, "An Argument for the Identity Theory", 1966
Thomas Nagel, "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?", 1974
Jerry Fodor, The Language... | 2.25 | 0 |
10702216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20important%20publications%20in%20philosophy | List of important publications in philosophy | Philosophy of religion
William James, "The Will to Believe", 1896
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, 1902
Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, 1945
Alvin Plantinga, God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God, 1967
Richard Swinburne, ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
10702216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20important%20publications%20in%20philosophy | List of important publications in philosophy | Philosophy of science
Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, 1902, and The Value of Science, 1905
Hermann Weyl, Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, 1927/1949
Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 1934/1959
John Dewey, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, 1938
Rudolf Carnap, Logical Foundations of P... | 2.203125 | 0 |
10702216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20important%20publications%20in%20philosophy | List of important publications in philosophy | Philosophy of biology
Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell, 1945
David Hull, Philosophy of Biological Science, 1974
Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme", 1979
Stephen Jay Gould... | 2.078125 | 0 |
10702240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20convergence%20theory | Symbolic convergence theory | Symbolic convergence theory (SCT) is a communication theory developed by Ernest Bormann proposing that the holding of fantasies in common transforms collections of individuals into cohesive groups. SCT offers an explanation for the appearance of a group's cohesiveness, consisting of shared emotions, motives, and meanin... | 2.359375 | 0 |
10702240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20convergence%20theory | Symbolic convergence theory | Fantasy theme artistry is the rhetorical ability to present situations in a form that appears attractive to people so that they will share them. By presenting situations in a form that appears attractive to an audience, or showing that you have an understanding of the stories that group shares, you can speak to their s... | 2.640625 | 0 |
10702240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20convergence%20theory | Symbolic convergence theory | A good objective theory explains what occurs and why it happens. This theory gives a great explanation of what makes sense for a group discussion and how. It can help us make sense of a chaotic group discussion when group members speak at once or go off on verbal tangents. However, Boston College communication professo... | 2.203125 | 0 |
10702240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20convergence%20theory | Symbolic convergence theory | A good interpretive theory offers a new understanding of people. The SCT method does a great job of directing rhetorical critics to focus on symbolic language. Fantasy theme analysts focus on the rhetorical visions within varied communities, such as a feminist critique looking for patterns of male dominance and how pro... | 2.109375 | 0 |
10702240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20convergence%20theory | Symbolic convergence theory | Assessing communication efforts and persuasive campaigns.
This theory can provide insight within small groups, meetings, lectures, and speeches, but it provides a greater use of assessing effects within the media. It is most heavily used within political campaigns. In the 1976 campaign, the investigators included the r... | 2.3125 | 0 |
10702349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journals%20of%20Expeditions%20of%20Discovery%20into%20Central%20Australia | Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia | As an autobiography of Edward John Eyre, this book was written in the forms of epistolary and confessional. According to Evans (2008), Mr. Eyre made his name early through being an overlander of sheep and cattle as an immigrant from England, which is to plan the route of livestock in the 1830s south-eastern Australia. ... | 2.625 | 0 |
10702349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journals%20of%20Expeditions%20of%20Discovery%20into%20Central%20Australia | Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia | After 8 days of journey through the valley, the great plain and encounter the difficulty of crossing the river through heavy fog, the party discover some grassy and picturesque ranges, which Eyre names its Campbell’s range. Eyre describes this land as scenery, fertile, and the most desirable location among the unoccupi... | 2.390625 | 0 |
10702349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journals%20of%20Expeditions%20of%20Discovery%20into%20Central%20Australia | Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia | Eyre stated in the book that the character of Aboriginals has been constantly and prejudicially misrepresented to the point which they are reviewed as the most degraded and corrupted people of the human species by the world. However, Eyre argued that if the European colonist were forced to face the similar debased situ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
10702517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco%20Pratolini | Vasco Pratolini | Vasco Pratolini (19 October 1913 – 12 January 1991) was an Italian writer of the 20th century.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
Biography
Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the literary world thanks to his acquaintance with Elio Vittorini. In 1938 he found... | 2.234375 | 0 |
10702544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20floating%20nuclear%20power%20station | Russian floating nuclear power station | Floating nuclear power stations () are vessels designed by Rosatom, the Russian state-owned nuclear energy corporation. They are self-contained, low-capacity, floating nuclear power plants. Rosatom plans to mass-produce the stations at shipbuilding facilities and then tow them to ports near locations that require elect... | 2.375 | 0 |
10702544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20floating%20nuclear%20power%20station | Russian floating nuclear power station | The much larger VBER-300 917 MW thermal or 325 MWe and the slightly larger RITM-200 55 MWe reactors have both been considered as a potential energy source for these floating nuclear power stations. The station also incorporates a floating unit (FPU), waterworks, guaranteeing solid establishment, separation FPU and tran... | 2.1875 | 0 |
10702544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20floating%20nuclear%20power%20station | Russian floating nuclear power station | Safety
The safety systems of the KLT-40S are designed according to the reactor design itself, physical successive systems of protection and containment, self-activating active and passive safety systems, self-diagnostic automatic systems, reliable diagnostics relating to equipment and systems status, and provisioned me... | 2.515625 | 0 |
10702544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20floating%20nuclear%20power%20station | Russian floating nuclear power station | Environmental impacts
Both coastal and floating nuclear powerplants may result in similar consequences for the ocean environments. Although the surrounding seawall could provide an artificial reef that is an advantageous environment for some marine life forms, there are potential negative effects on animal and plant li... | 2.84375 | 0 |
10702548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Dieu-le-Veut | Anne Dieu-le-Veut | Anne "Dieu-Le-Veut" de Graaf also called Marie-Anne or Marianne (28 August 1661 – 11 January 1710) was a French pirate. Alongside Jacquotte Delahaye, she was one of very few female buccaneers. While Delahaye was likely fictional, Dieu-le-Veut was real; however, many of her exploits are inventions of later writers.
Bac... | 2.375 | 0 |
10702548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Dieu-le-Veut | Anne Dieu-le-Veut | In 1698, Anne was released and reunited with her spouse. Her later life, as well as that of Laurens de Graff, is not well recorded, though their death dates are known. According to some legends, they eventually settled in Louisiana. de Graaf died in 1704 in Santo Domingo, and Dieu-le-Veut followed in 1710.
Legend and ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
10702618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquotte%20Delahaye | Jacquotte Delahaye | Jacquotte Delahaye (fl. 1656) was a purported pirate of legend in the Caribbean Sea. She has been depicted as operating alongside Anne Dieu-le-Veut as one of very few 17th-century female pirates. There is no evidence from period sources that Delahaye was a real person. Stories of her exploits are attributed to oral sto... | 2.671875 | 0 |
10702719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Country%20Mouse%20and%20the%20City%20Mouse%20Adventures | The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures | Production
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures was initially produced as a 26-episode series costing US$9 million. Production partners Germany's Ravensburger; Reader's Digest in the U.S., and Canadian CINAR (now WildBrain), which contributed US$6 million towards the original project's funding.
The show's m... | 2.0625 | 0 |
10702736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis%20Streetcar%20System | Minneapolis Streetcar System | Vehicles
Each Portland streetcar is long, whereas light rail cars are typically long (Portland's Lightrail are between . long) and streetcars are operated as single cars at all times, never coupled into trains. The shorter cars keeps station construction expense lower than would be the case for a light-rail station, ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
10702749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Howe%20De%20Lancey | William Howe De Lancey | Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey (1778 – 26 June 1815) was an officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. He died of wounds he received at the Battle of Waterloo.
Early life
De Lancey's paternal ancestors were Huguenots who had emigrated from Caen, France, to America following the revocation of the Edi... | 2.234375 | 0 |
10702749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Howe%20De%20Lancey | William Howe De Lancey | A number of De Lanceys and their friends, including Stephen's family, moved to Beverley, Yorkshire, where William Howe De Lancey attended Beverley Grammar School. The family later resided in London. William attended Harrow School from 12 December 1789 until December 1791. In 1798, his father, who was serving as Governo... | 2.25 | 0 |
10702749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Howe%20De%20Lancey | William Howe De Lancey | Peninsular War
De Lancey was stationed for some time at York and in Ireland, and afterwards proceeded to Spain, and as assistant quartermaster-general, and later as deputy quartermaster-general, with various divisions of the Peninsular Army, rendered valuable service throughout the campaigns from 1809 to 1814. He was m... | 2.765625 | 0 |
10702749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Howe%20De%20Lancey | William Howe De Lancey | On 18 June 1815, during the Battle of Waterloo, while he was talking to the Duke of Wellington, De Lancey was struck in the back by a ricocheting cannonball leaving his skin unbroken but causing fatal internal injuries. Believing him dead, Wellington wrote in his dispatch of the battle that his death was "a serious los... | 2 | 0 |
10702868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20quality%20indicator | Design quality indicator | The Design Quality Indicator (DQI) is a toolkit to measure, evaluate and improve the design quality of buildings.
Development of DQI was started in the United Kingdom by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) in 1999. It was initiated in response to the success of Key Performance Indicators devised for assessing cons... | 2.03125 | 0 |
11671249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Navy%20Customs | United States Navy Customs | The United States Navy Customs mission is one that is assigned to the Commander, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group (NAVELSG). The mission is overseen in the Central Command Theater of Operations by Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group Forward Headquarters, as well as the Commander, USCENTCOM.
The Navy ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
11671270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20J.%20Crawford | Samuel J. Crawford | Samuel Johnson Crawford (April 10, 1835 – October 21, 1913) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, and the third Governor of Kansas (1865–1868). He also served as one of the first members of the Kansas Legislature.
Early life
Crawford was born in Lawrence County, Indiana, and grew up on a farm while ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
11671270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20J.%20Crawford | Samuel J. Crawford | With the 2nd Kansas Cavalry he was with General James G. Blunt in Southwest Missouri, Arkansas, and Indian Territory until early in the fall of 1862. During that time he participated in the battles of Newtonia, Old Fort Wayne, Cane Hill, Bald Peak, Cove Creek, Prairie Grove and Van Buren. At Old Fort Wayne he led his b... | 2.59375 | 0 |
11671270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20J.%20Crawford | Samuel J. Crawford | Governor Crawford resigned on November 4, 1868, to take command of the 19th Kansas Cavalry Regiment which was to join the 7th United States Cavalry in the Custer-Sheridan Winter Campaign of 1868–1869.
Retirement
After retiring from the governorship Crawford was in the real estate business at Emporia, Kansas, until 18... | 2.453125 | 0 |
11671311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipscomb%20Academy | Lipscomb Academy | Lipscomb Academy is a private, college preparatory, Christian school serving students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
History
The Nashville Bible School was founded in 1891 by David Lipscomb and James A. Harding. By 1896 the school had three divisions: col... | 2.1875 | 0 |
11671450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlam%C3%A1l | Atlamál | Atlamál in grǿnlenzku (The Greenlandic Lay of Atli) is one of the heroic poems of the Poetic Edda. It relates the same basic story as Atlakviða at greater length and in a different style. The poem is believed to have been composed in Greenland, most likely in the 12th century. It has 103 stanzas and is the only Eddic p... | 2.203125 | 0 |
11671555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D%20Tsutsumi | Yasujirō Tsutsumi | was a Japanese entrepreneur, politician, and business tycoon who founded a dynasty which became the wealthiest, most influential family of 20th century Japan. Tsutsumi served as the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan from May 1953 to December 1954, resigning at the end of the government of Shigeru Yoshida... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11671555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D%20Tsutsumi | Yasujirō Tsutsumi | Post-war (1945-1953)
Shortly after the surrender, Yasujirō was purged by the Occupation Government under American General Douglas MacArthur. In the meantime, Japan was in chaos. People flooded into Tokyo from the countryside. Communists thrived in the poverty-stricken Japan, delivering tirades against the wealthy and p... | 2.390625 | 0 |
11671564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20Australia | IP Australia | IP Australia is an Australian Government agency, responsible for administering intellectual property law in Australia. The agency manages the registration of patents, trade marks, registered designs and plant breeder's rights in Australia. The agency sits under the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. From 19... | 2.3125 | 0 |
11671570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibial%20tuberosity%20advancement | Tibial tuberosity advancement | Tibial tuberosity advancement (TTA) is an orthopedic procedure to repair deficient cranial cruciate ligaments in dogs. It has also been used in cats. This procedure was developed by Dr. Slobodan Tepic and Professor Pierre Montavon at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zurich, in Zurich, Switzerland begi... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11671698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20salinity%20control | Soil salinity control | Worldwide, the major factor in the development of saline soils is a lack of precipitation. Most naturally saline soils are found in (semi) arid regions and climates of the earth.
Primary cause
Man-made salinization is primarily caused by salt found in irrigation water. All irrigation water derived from rivers or grou... | 2.9375 | 0 |
11671698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20salinity%20control | Soil salinity control | Most of the water lost this way is stored underground which can change the original hydrology of local aquifers considerably. Many aquifers cannot absorb and transport these quantities of water, and so the water table rises leading to waterlogging.
Waterlogging causes three problems:
The shallow water table and lack... | 2.96875 | 0 |
11671698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20salinity%20control | Soil salinity control | When reclaiming already salinized soils, the salt concentration of the drainage water will initially be much higher than that of the irrigation water (for example 50 times higher). Salt export will greatly exceed salt import, so that with the same drainage fraction a rapid desalinization occurs. After one or two years,... | 2.796875 | 0 |
11671698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20salinity%20control | Soil salinity control | Owing to the water application in the irrigated strips they have a higher water table which induces flow of groundwater to the unirrigated strips. This flow functions as subsurface drainage for the irrigated strips, whereby the water table is maintained at a not-too-shallow depth, leaching of the soil is possible, and ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11671766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Breward | St Breward | Hamatethy Manor
Hamatethy Manor house and estate lies about half a mile north of St Breward. The Manor of Hamatethy dates back to before the Norman Conquest. After 1066 it was held by Count Robert of Mortain, half-brother of William the Conqueror. From the 12th to the 15th century the Manor was held by the Peverell f... | 2.21875 | 0 |
11671960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Gerstenberg | Alfred Gerstenberg | Alfred Gerstenberg (6 April 1893, in Grainau – 1 January 1959, in Bad Tölz) was a general of the Nazi German Luftwaffe (air force) in World War II, serving as commanding general of the Luftwaffe mission to Romania, and organizing a very effective defensive perimeter around the oil fields in Ploiești.
Career
Gerstenber... | 2.140625 | 0 |
11671960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Gerstenberg | Alfred Gerstenberg | World War II
From 15 February 1942 to 28 August 1944, Gerstenberg served in the Deutsche Luftwaffenmission Rumänien, the Luftwaffe mission to Romania, whose government supported Germany, and later as commanding general of Luftwaffe in Romania (Kommandierender General und Befehlshaber der Deutschen Luftwaffe in Rumänien... | 2.75 | 0 |
11672032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Aragon | High Aragon | Alto Aragón (literally, Upper Aragon or Highlands of Aragon in English; compare Upper Navarre, Upper Rioja) is the northernmost territories or highlands of Aragon, flanking the Pyrenees and includes the Aneto Mountain, the highest peak in the entire Pyrenean chain. The term Alto Aragón, or highlands, is used to contras... | 2.71875 | 0 |
11672037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayr%20and%20Dalmellington%20Railway | Ayr and Dalmellington Railway | The Ayr and Dalmellington Railway was a railway company in Scotland, which connected the growing ironworks community around Dalmellington with Ayr, in Ayrshire, Scotland. Its route was originally planned by the Ayrshire and Galloway Railway as part of a scheme to link Ayr with Castle Douglas, but lack of funds limited ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
11672113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20finance | Social finance | New research in the field calls for increasing the role of government in social finance to help overcome the challenges the industry currently faces, including the struggle to produce desirable returns for investors, high start-up and regulatory costs, neglect from mainstream banks, and a lack of access to retail inves... | 2.5 | 0 |
11672113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20finance | Social finance | Investors: Investors, or capital providers, serve as the initial and primary source of capital in social finance. Examples include retail investors, high-net-worth individuals, pension funds, charitable foundations, and private foundations.
Social enterprises: Social enterprises represent the demand for investment in ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11672113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20finance | Social finance | Proponents of social finance Kent Baker and John Nofsinger claim that these trends of institutionalisation will lead to the legitimisation of the social finance industry, give way to the widespread institutional uptake of social finance, and ultimately embed social finance as a mainstream asset class of financial inves... | 2.171875 | 0 |
11672113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20finance | Social finance | Social investment funds
Social investment funds (SIFs) pool funds from investors to provide not-for-profit organisations with “patient working capital” (funding with a longer-term repayment schedule). The Social Innovation Fund is a well-known example of a SIF. Through a competitive process, it awards grants of up to ... | 2.125 | 0 |
11672113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20finance | Social finance | Challenges and future direction
The social finance industry faces several headwinds, including the struggle to produce desirable returns for investors, high start-up and regulatory costs, neglect from mainstream banks, and lack of access to retail investors, an area that is believed to have perhaps the most demand. Fu... | 2.109375 | 0 |
11672124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther%20Wever%20%28general%29 | Walther Wever (general) | However, after his death, other people, like Ernst Udet and Hans Jeschonnek, favored smaller aircraft as they did not use as much material and manpower. They were proponents of the dive-bomber (Junkers Ju 87) and the doctrine of close support and destruction of the opposing air forces on the 'battle-ground' rather than... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | The architecture of the Philippines reflects the historical and cultural traditions in the country. Most prominent historic structures in the archipelago are influenced by Austronesian and American architectures.
During three hundred thirty years of Spanish colonization, the Philippine architecture was dominated by th... | 2.796875 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | In the late 20th century, modern architecture with straight lines and functional aspects was introduced, particularly in the Brutalist architecture that characterized government-built structures done in the Marcos period. During this period many of the older structures fell into decay due to the imposition of martial l... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | For years the mountainous province of Ifugao have been carefully cultivated with terraced fields. These rice terraces illustrate the ability of human culture to adapt to new social and climate pressures as well as to implement and develop new ideas and technologies. They also epitomize a harmonic, sustainable relations... | 2.8125 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | Maranao torogan
The torogan () is the traditional palace of the Maranao royalty in Lanao, Mindanao. A torogan was a symbol of high social status. Such a residence was once a home to a sultan or datu in the Maranao community. Nowadays, concrete houses are found all over Maranao communities, but there remain torogans a ... | 2.625 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | Fortifications
The architecture of the early Filipinos are also reflected in the historical military structures in the country. There was often competition in trade between the thalassocratic states in the archipelago. Neighboring kingdoms would often wage wars against one another to gain control of trade and territor... | 2.828125 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | During World War II, many heritage districts and towns outside Metro Manila were heavily destroyed and damaged by American and Japanese bombs. Reports of deliberate burning of colonial structures by Japanese soldiers were also rampant. Most destroyed or damaged heritage structures have never been restored and now lay i... | 2.671875 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | The Register of Styles is the first document to detail the historical styles of Intramuros. It was authored by Rancho Arcilla, who was then the Archivist of the Intramural Administration, and under the initiative of Guiller Asido, the former Administrator of Intramuros. Being an integral part of Presidential Decree No.... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | The order of the Augustinians, Augustinian Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines, built many churches all over the Philippines. The Paoay Church in Ilocos Norte is one of the most prominent types of these churches. This unique specimen of Filipino architecture called Filipino Baroque from the Spani... | 2.6875 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | The revival period, popular at the turn of the century, became the foremost architectural parlance of the era as seen in such buildings particularly in Manila under the Philippine Commission. Education of the masses also became the thrust of the American occupation, as such, public education was established, foremost o... | 2.703125 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | The Luneta Hotel, located in Kalaw Avenue, is one of the remaining structures that survived the liberation of Manila in 1945. The hotel was completed in 1918. According to Dean Joseph Fernandez of the University of Santo Tomas, the hotel was designed by Salvador Farre, a Spanish architect and engineer. The structure is... | 2.6875 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | During the rise of cinema in the Philippines as a form of recreation, several theaters were constructed in the 1930s to 1950s in the Art Deco style designed by prominent architects now recognized as National Artists. The Manila Metropolitan Theater is an Art Deco building designed by the Filipino architect Juan M. Arel... | 2.625 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | El Fraile Island or Fort Drum, also known as "the concrete battleship," is a heavily fortified island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island. The reinforced concrete fortress shaped like a battleship was built by the United States in 1909 as one of the harbor defenses at ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | The Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex is home to the National Theater (Tanghalang Pambansa). The theater is the centerpiece of the 77 hectare (190 acres) arts and culture complex located along Roxas Boulevard in Manila. Designed by Leandro V. Locsin, the construction of the National Theater began in 1966 and w... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | The Parish of the Holy Sacrifice is the landmark Catholic chapel in the University of the Philippines Diliman. Known for its architectural design, the church is recognized as a National Historical Landmark and a Cultural Treasure by the National Historical Institute and the National Museum respectively. Five National a... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11672179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20the%20Philippines | Architecture of the Philippines | The Philippines is home to numerous heritage towns and cities, many of which have been intentionally destroyed by the Japanese through fire tactics in World War II and the Americans through bombings during the same war. After the war, the government of the Empire of Japan withheld from giving funds to the Philippines f... | 2.40625 | 0 |
11672189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Taylor%20Blow | Henry Taylor Blow | Henry Taylor Blow (July 15, 1817 – September 11, 1875) was a two-term U.S. Representative from Missouri and an ambassador to both Venezuela and Brazil.
Early life
Henry was born in Southampton County, Virginia, to Captain Peter and Elizabeth (Taylor) Blow, owners of the famous enslaved man Dred Scott. Blow was the eig... | 1.921875 | 0 |
11672189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Taylor%20Blow | Henry Taylor Blow | Charless, Blow, and Company was not the only business that Blow would lead. Henry and his brother, Peter, created the Granby Mining and Smelting Company. Henry also served as president of the Iron Mountain Railroad for a time and helped to establish a furnace for the iron industry in Carondelet.
Political life
Despite... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11672189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Taylor%20Blow | Henry Taylor Blow | Blow returned to politics in 1869 when he was appointed ambassador to Brazil by President Ulysses S. Grant. In 1874, Blow was appointed to the board of commissioners assigned to reorganize the government of the District of Columbia. He resigned, "for personal considerations," only 6 months after taking office.
Persona... | 2.234375 | 0 |
11672237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian%20Legion%20%281915%E2%80%931918%29 | Georgian Legion (1915–1918) | The World War I-era Georgian Legion (, ) was formed in 1915 by Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, a former German vice-consul in Tiflis, who then served as a German liaison officer with the Ottoman 3rd Army. He was supported by the German Empire-based Committee of Independent Georgia. The reinforcements were r... | 2.40625 | 0 |
11672279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddharthnagar%20district | Siddharthnagar district | Siddharthnagar district is one of the 75 districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Siddharthnagar is the district headquarters. Siddharthnagar district is a part of Basti division. It was under the ancient Kosala kingdom and also the Shakya kingdoms.
Administrative divisions
Tehsils
Siddharthnagar district comp... | 2.21875 | 0 |
11672287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20heraldry | Danish heraldry | The National Coat of Arms can be found in the first and fourth quarters of the Danish Royal Coat of Arms (sometimes called the greater national coat of arms). This coat of arms is only used by the royal family.
The Danish military has a long heraldic tradition. Every regiment and naval vessel have a coat of arms.
Mun... | 2.484375 | 0 |
11672287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20heraldry | Danish heraldry | Heraldry first appeared among the warrior class and thus became linked to nobility. But other groups of society quickly took up the heraldic tradition. The first Scandinavian burgher arms is from 1320. As the assumption of arms is free in Denmark not only noble families have coats of arms and today it is estimated that... | 2.796875 | 0 |
11672287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20heraldry | Danish heraldry | Canting coats of arms have been popular in Danish heraldry for a long time; examples include a man with a tree for Holzmann (lit. "wood-man"), a troll for the Trolle family and a unicorn for Langhorn (lit. "long-horn").
Conversely some ancient noble families have coat of arms older than their family names and took a n... | 2.359375 | 0 |
11672287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20heraldry | Danish heraldry | Danish heraldry follows the German-Nordic tradition. As opposed to Gallo-British heraldry, where each individual of a family has his own coat of arms, a Danish coat of arms usually is the same for an entire family as there is no tradition of cadency marks. A specific trait of German-Nordic heraldry is that the crest us... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11672443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice%20and%20Wolf | Spice and Wolf | Holo is a beautiful female wolf harvest deity originally from a place in the north known as Yoitsu, which draws parallels to the legendary land of Hyperborea. She made a promise with inhabitants from a town called Pasloe that she would ensure the town would have good wheat harvests year after year. However, as time wen... | 2.109375 | 0 |
11672606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20and%20restoration%20of%20parchment | Conservation and restoration of parchment | The manufacturing process, which removes the skin's natural fats and oils, means that parchment is more reactive to moisture and relative humidity than other skin-based material. After being stretched, parchment has an inherent desire to revert to its original animal shape, especially if left unrestrained or exposed to... | 3.40625 | 0 |
11672606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20and%20restoration%20of%20parchment | Conservation and restoration of parchment | Relative humidity changes
Changes in relative humidity can cause parchment to change shape, especially if movement is restrained by a frame or mount at certain parts of the object, which leads to uneven distortion. This distortion can result in cockling and destabilization of any pigments affixed to the parchment. Low... | 2.859375 | 0 |
11672606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20and%20restoration%20of%20parchment | Conservation and restoration of parchment | Removal of previous restorations
Previous repairs and conservation treatments are removed if it is determined that the parchment is in good condition and that the repair is not of historic importance to the parchment. Dried out patches are removed via cleaning and humidification techniques. Parchment objects that have ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
11672606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20and%20restoration%20of%20parchment | Conservation and restoration of parchment | If their presence is determined upon examination, insects and pests are eliminated and the parchment disinfected. An appropriate round of fumigation in an autoclave is used to remove pests and sterilize the object. Dry and wet cleaning techniques can both be used effectively on parchment objects. Mechanical cleaning us... | 2.65625 | 0 |
11672606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20and%20restoration%20of%20parchment | Conservation and restoration of parchment | Mending and in-filling losses
Sewing tears is not recommended as a conservation treatment, unless it is replacing a sewn portion original to the object. Correcting non-original splits, tears, perforations and losses in parchment requires careful consideration of its specific condition. For losses that do not require mu... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11672640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret%20News%20Publishing%20Company | Deseret News Publishing Company | The Deseret News, also referred to as the News, was first published on June 15, 1850, in Salt Lake City. The paper was started under the direction of LDS Church president Brigham Young, with Willard Richards as editor and "Truth and Liberty" as its motto. The News would start out as a weekly publication, but eventually... | 2.03125 | 0 |
11672674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murdoch%20MacKinnon | Murdoch MacKinnon | Murdoch MacKinnon (March 15, 1865 – October 12, 1944) was a Canadian politician and served as the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.
MacKinnon was born in Brooklyn, Prince Edward Island to parents of Scottish descent, Lauchlin MacKinnon and Mary MacDonald. He received his higher education from Prince of... | 2.0625 | 0 |
11672683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coutinho%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201943%29 | Coutinho (footballer, born 1943) | Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório (11 June 1943 – 11 March 2019), nicknamed Coutinho, was a Brazilian coach and footballer who played as a forward for Santos Futebol Clube, where he was a teammate and one of the best partners of Pelé, and became a member of the Brazil national team that won the 1962 FIFA World Cup. He is c... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11672683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coutinho%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201943%29 | Coutinho (footballer, born 1943) | Early years
Born in Piracicaba, State of São Paulo in 1943 he was son of Antônia and Waldemar Honório. His start in football occurred in an unusual way, after fleeing his home in Piracibaba, in the countryside of São Paulo, to pursue his dream to become a professional football player. Coutinho was spotted at the age of... | 2.15625 | 0 |
11672683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coutinho%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201943%29 | Coutinho (footballer, born 1943) | In a game at the Olympic Stadium, journalists and people at the stadium reported seeing one of the most beautiful goals in the history of football. Pelé received the ball in the midfield on his head and quickly passed it to Coutinho, who also with his head, gave it back to Pelé. And after a few more head-only passes t... | 1.9375 | 0 |
11672739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Hiawatha | Little Hiawatha | Little Hiawatha (also called Hiawatha) is a 1937 animated cartoon produced by Walt Disney Productions, inspired by the poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It does not appear to have historical correlation to legendary Mohawk leader and peacemaker Hiawatha. It is the last Silly Symphonies short to b... | 2.390625 | 0 |
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