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11667302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20San%20Antonio | Culture of San Antonio | The Holiday River Parade and Lighting Ceremony is presented by the Paseo del Rio Association and the City of San Antonio the day after Thanksgiving when over 122,000 lights are switched on to illuminate the River Walk. Decorated floats travel down the river ending with a float featuring Santa Claus, as well as a San An... | 2.125 | 0 |
11667302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20San%20Antonio | Culture of San Antonio | Cowboy culture
San Antonio is the birthplace of the American cowboy. Rope steering, bull riding, and busting broncos date back to the city's earliest days with vaqueros on the Mission ranches. In the past, when Spain ruled Texas, vaqueros (cowboys) filled Mission ranches to rope and round up cattle.
Cuisine
Because of... | 2.515625 | 0 |
11667302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20San%20Antonio | Culture of San Antonio | The Blue Star Contemporary Art Center (BSCAC) was established as a grassroots response to the cancellation of a contemporary arts exhibit at the San Antonio Museum of Art in 1985. The effort aimed to establish a venue for the exhibition of contemporary and new art in San Antonio. The center is housed in an adapted 1920... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11667302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20San%20Antonio | Culture of San Antonio | The San Antonio Museum of Art is housed in the 1884 Lone Star Brewery and was opened in 1981. The building's renovation and adaptive reuse, designed by the Cambridge Seven Associates, has won several architectural awards. The building was placed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The museum has o... | 2.53125 | 0 |
11667302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20San%20Antonio | Culture of San Antonio | The Lila Cockrell Theatre, opened in 1968 as part of the HemisFair '68, is a performing arts venue that hosts ballet, opera, theater and individual concert events. The building is on the banks of the River Walk, and being a part of the adjacent convention center it also hosts general assembly and multi-media presentati... | 2.375 | 0 |
11667302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20San%20Antonio | Culture of San Antonio | The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, was founded in 1980 as a nonprofit, multidisciplinary organization. Located at the heart of San Antonio's west side, the Guadalupe is the largest community-based, multidisciplinary organization in the United States. The Guadalupe presents and produces annual seasons of events, exhibi... | 2.3125 | 0 |
11667310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme%20Court%20of%20South%20Africa | Supreme Court of South Africa | The Supreme Court of South Africa was a superior court of law in South Africa from 1910 to 1997. It was made up of various provincial and local divisions with jurisdiction over specific geographical areas, and an Appellate Division which was the highest appellate court in the country.
The Supreme Court of South Africa... | 2.6875 | 0 |
11667315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon%20%C5%8Cdai%20Ichiran | Nihon Ōdai Ichiran | The original multi-volume text was compiled in the early 1650s by Hayashi Gahō. His father, Hayashi Razan, had developed a compelling, practical blending of Shinto and Confucian beliefs and practices. Razan's ideas lent themselves to a well-accepted program of samurai and bureaucrat educational, training and testing p... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11667400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhoods%20and%20districts%20of%20San%20Antonio | Neighborhoods and districts of San Antonio | Near East Side
Sports and live music fans flock to the Near East Side to visit the Alamodome. Once home to actress Joan Crawford, this part of San Antonio includes charming Saint Paul Square, Ellis Alley (one of the first African-American neighborhoods in San Antonio) The Historic up and coming neighborhoods of Digno... | 1.90625 | 0 |
11667400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhoods%20and%20districts%20of%20San%20Antonio | Neighborhoods and districts of San Antonio | One of the most notable homes in Government Hill is the Romanesque Revival-style Lambermont (aka Terrell Castle), built in 1894. Originally the residence was owned by Edwin Holland Terrell, Ambassador and Plenipotentiary to Belgium during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. Terrell commissioned architect Alfred Gi... | 2.203125 | 0 |
11667414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzus%20fastener | Dzus fastener | The shank (13) of the button contains spiral bayonet slots (16) that engage the spring. These slots include holes (18) that hold the spring in place once fastened, with projections (17) preventing accidental unfastening. The button’s head (14) is pressed against the cowling, keeping it firmly in place.
Improvements
Ov... | 2.015625 | 0 |
11667541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20End%20of%20Time%20%28book%29 | The End of Time (book) | The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe, also sold with the alternate subtitle The Next Revolution in Physics, is a 1999 popular science book in which the author Julian Barbour argues that time exists merely as an illusion.
Autobiography
The book begins by describing how Barbour's vi... | 2.25 | 0 |
11667541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20End%20of%20Time%20%28book%29 | The End of Time (book) | He investigates configuration spaces and best-matching mathematics, fleshing out how fundamental physics might deal with different instants in a timeless scheme. He calls his universe without time and only relative positions "Platonia" after Plato's world of eternal forms.
Plausibility
Why, then, is the instant in co... | 2.09375 | 0 |
11667576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lumsden | John Lumsden | Sir John Lumsden KBE (14 November 1869 – 3 September 1944) was an Irish physician. He was famous for his role as Chief Medical Officer of Guinness Brewery, during which time he founded both St James's Gate F.C. and the St John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland. During the Easter Rising of 1916, he was noted for treating any... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11667576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lumsden | John Lumsden | The Guinness family had a tradition of noblesse oblige and philanthropy and therefore Lumsden's work for Guinness focused on the well-being of the employees, many of whom lived in appalling conditions in the slums and tenements of inner city Dublin.
After the Great Irish Famine (1845–1846) many people moved from rural... | 2.921875 | 0 |
11667576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lumsden | John Lumsden | The brigade was involved with many major events in Irish history, including treating casualties from the clashes during the General Strike of 1913 (sometimes referred to as the Dublin Lockout). However, the brigade became prominent in Dublin during the Easter Rising of 1916 where it treated casualties on both sides and... | 2.75 | 0 |
11667660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Paul%20II%20High%20School%20%28Plano%2C%20Texas%29 | John Paul II High School (Plano, Texas) | John Paul II High School is a private Roman Catholic college preparatory high school in Plano, Texas. The school is within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas. The school's Vision is "We will make a difference in the world by walking in the footsteps of Pope John Paul II" and the school's Mission is "To develop leade... | 2.109375 | 0 |
11667719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Domingo%20de%20Zu%C3%B1iga%20y%20Fonseca | Juan Domingo de Zuñiga y Fonseca | Juan Domingo Méndez de Haro y Fernández de Córdoba (Madrid, 25 November 1640 – Madrid, 2 February 1716) was a Spanish military and political figure. He was the son of Don Luis Méndez de Haro, 6th Marquis of Carpio, Prime Minister to King Philip IV of Spain, and of Doña Catalina Fernández de Córdoba.
Biography
He marri... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11667726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20Students%20Learn | How Students Learn | How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom is the title of a 2001 educational psychology book edited by M. Suzanne Donovan and John D. Bransford and published by the United States National Academy of Sciences's National Academies Press.
The book focuses on "three fundamental and well-establ... | 3.078125 | 0 |
11667749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fer%20Beerberg | Großer Beerberg | The Großer Beerberg is a mountain, , whose summit is the highest point in the Thuringian Forest and the state of Thuringia. It is located between the three villages of Heidersbach, Goldlauter and Gehlberg in the borough of Suhl. The mountain is made of rhyolite (quartz porphry) that was formed through volcanic processe... | 2.1875 | 0 |
11667783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaan%20Valckenier | Adriaan Valckenier | During Adriaan Valckenier's tenure as Governor-General, Batavia witnessed the infamous event known as the Chinese Massacre. Previously, Governor-General Henricus Zwaardecroon had encouraged a significant influx of Chinese immigrants to Batavia, resulting in the Chinese population approaching 50% of the total. These imm... | 2.796875 | 0 |
11667783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaan%20Valckenier | Adriaan Valckenier | Dismissal and death
Gustaaf Willem, Baron van Imhoff, a contemporary of Valckenier, expressed disapproval of the violence during the Batavia massacre. Valckenier responded by having van Imhoff arrested and sent back to the Netherlands. However, van Imhoff's perspective resonated with the Directors, who supported his st... | 1.984375 | 0 |
11667848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern%20Public%20Service%20Authority | Southeastern Public Service Authority | The Southeastern Public Service Authority (SPSA) is the solid waste management agency for the one-million-population region south of Hampton Roads Harbor and the lower James River in Virginia. Based in Chesapeake, Virginia, it services the independent cities of Chesapeake, Franklin, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Vi... | 2.515625 | 0 |
11667854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl%20Roa%20Garc%C3%ADa | Raúl Roa García | Raúl Roa García (18 April 19076 July 1982) was a Cuban intellectual, politician and diplomat. He served as Foreign Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976. He was a lawyer and was also a university professor in the 1940s and 1950s. He was also Director of Culture of the Ministry of Education from 1949 to 1951.
Born in Hava... | 2.234375 | 0 |
11667905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio%20SD%20Synthesizers | Casio SD Synthesizers | Casio's SD ("Spectrum Dynamic") Synthesizers were a late-1980s line of analog synthesizers featuring a resonant filter. SD synthesis was traditional DCO-analog synthesis, with the main difference being that some of the SD waveforms' harmonic spectrums changed temporally, or dynamically in relation to the amplitude enve... | 2.296875 | 0 |
11667905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio%20SD%20Synthesizers | Casio SD Synthesizers | The 1987 Casio HZ-600 was the initial model and was considered an entry-level offshoot of the "Z" series of synthesizers that included the CZ and VZ lines. The subsequent SD synthesizers were marketed as advanced home keyboards (i.e., including speakers and programmable accompaniment) launched under the HT prefix (with... | 2.328125 | 0 |
11667905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio%20SD%20Synthesizers | Casio SD Synthesizers | The HT-6000 introduced for the HT line some of the more high-end features previously only included by Casio in the CZ line, such as ring-modulation, detuning, key-follow, and initial-touch (which, among the CZ's, was only found on most advanced model, the CZ-1). The HT-6000 used an impressive 4 DCOs per voice (vs. 1 on... | 2.1875 | 0 |
11667930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largs%20Branch | Largs Branch | Within a short time, promoters began raising support for a railway between Glasgow and Ayr, and Glasgow and Kilmarnock. This scheme became the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway (GPK&AR); it was authorised in 1837, and opened in stages between 1839 and 1840. It was a locomotive railway on the standard gauge, ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11667930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largs%20Branch | Largs Branch | The Glasgow and South Western Railway
The GPK&AR too found its financial resources strained, and an independent ally, the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway took a share of building the line to Carlisle. The two companies completed the task on 28 October 1850 and on that day they merged, forming the Glasgow and Sou... | 2.484375 | 0 |
11667930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largs%20Branch | Largs Branch | The extension from Fairlie Pier Junction to Largs was over flatter terrain, but there was a long section at the shore line requiring a sea wall. It opened on 1 June 1885. Ten trains ran to and from Glasgow daily.
Competition on the Firth of Clyde
Some of the early rationale in building the line had been to pre-empt in... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11667967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Pedersdotter | Anne Pedersdotter | After Beyer's death, Anne Pedersdotter received a letter exempting her from taxes and allowing her to settle anywhere in the country. Despite this promising turn of events, the witchcraft accusations had taken a toll on her. She became bitter and withdrawn, and rumors persisted despite her acquittal. She responded to t... | 1.921875 | 0 |
11667967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Pedersdotter | Anne Pedersdotter | Many of the witnesses were close friends and neighbors. Her servant of 20 years, Elina, made some of the most serious accusations. Anne Pedersdotter was said to have used her as a ride when flying through the air to witch gatherings on Lyderhorn and Fløyen. She was said to have participated in the witch gatherings on L... | 1.929688 | 0 |
11667967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Pedersdotter | Anne Pedersdotter | The family was devastated by how the verdict had destroyed their reputation, and as a result, they "were despised and scorned by everyone". Some years later, Anne's daughter Cecilien and son-in-law Werner Schellenberger traveled to Copenhagen with a letter to Christian IV, asking for the verdict to be overturned as unj... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11667996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Jackson%20%28Continental%20Army%20general%29 | Henry Jackson (Continental Army general) | Henry Jackson (bapt. October 19, 1747January 4, 1809) was a Continental Army officer from Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, during the American Revolutionary War. For most of the war, he was colonel of Jackson's Additional Continental Regiment, which was redesignated the 16th Massachusetts in 1780. He commanded ... | 2.25 | 0 |
11667998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Brocard | Saint Brocard | Brocard is said to have been one of the first leaders of hermits at Mount Carmel, and was perhaps the leader of the community on the death of Berthold of Calabria around 1195. Various details of his life are legendary.
History
Brocard (or Burchard, as he is sometimes called), was of French ancestry and a hermit monk a... | 2.21875 | 0 |
11668008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20S.%20McIntosh | W. S. McIntosh | William Sumpter McIntosh (February 2, 1921 – March 4, 1974) was a civil rights leader from Dayton, Ohio. In 1960, McIntosh went to Atlanta, Georgia to observe the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and on February 26, 1961, he led one of the first major civil rights protests in the Dayton, Ohio community. He challenged s... | 2.671875 | 0 |
11668030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmodan | Kilmodan | Kilmodan is a civil parish situated on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. It includes the valley of Glendaruel and surrounding areas, with Kilmodan Church located in the Clachan of Glendaruel. The alternative historical spelling, Kilmadan, is no longer used.
The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, ... | 2.125 | 0 |
11668038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20and%20Stella%20in%3A%20Breaking%20the%20Ice | Stanley and Stella in: Breaking the Ice | Stanley and Stella in: Breaking the Ice, also known as Love Found, is a 1987 American animated short film.
Synopsis
Birds and fish are moving around different halves of a sphere, separated by a sheet of ice. One bird and one fish (Stanley and Stella) notice each other and approach their sides of the ice sheet. They l... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11668043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Bairoch | Paul Bairoch | Paul Bairoch (24 July 1930 in Antwerp – 12 February 1999 in Geneva) was a (in 1985 naturalised) Swiss economic historian of Belgian descent who specialized in urban history and historical demography. He published or co-authored more than two dozen books and 120 scholarly articles. His most important works emphasize the... | 2.03125 | 0 |
11668043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Bairoch | Paul Bairoch | Paul Bairoch sought through quantitative, empirical research of historical trends to question and challenge many beliefs which are nowadays generally accepted in economics (see in particular his work Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes), among which: the idea that free trade historically led to periods of ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
11668044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%20the%2011th | Beyond the 11th | Beyond the 11th is a charitable foundation that supports widows in Afghanistan affected by war and terrorism. The organization makes grants to programs run by NGOs (non-governmental organizations) already working in the country, such as CARE, Women for Women International, and Arzu. These programs help Afghan widows be... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11668046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooper%20Island%20Light | Hooper Island Light | The Hooper Island Light is a lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay, west of Middle Hooper Island in Maryland.
History
The initial request of a light at this site was made in 1897, but construction was delayed until 1901 after the Variety Iron Works Company failed to deliver materials in time. Unlike earlier caisson lights ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11668053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Hungary%20%281920%E2%80%931946%29 | Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) | The Kingdom of Hungary ( ), referred to retrospectively as the Regency and the Horthy era, existed as a country from 1920 to 1946 under the rule of Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary, who officially represented the Hungarian monarchy. In reality there was no king, and attempts by King Charles IV to return to the throne s... | 2.71875 | 0 |
11668053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Hungary%20%281920%E2%80%931946%29 | Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) | Nazi Germany's influence in Hungary has led some historians to conclude that the country increasingly became a client state after 1938. The Kingdom of Hungary was an Axis power during World War II, intent on regaining Hungarian-majority territory that had been lost in the Treaty of Trianon, which it mostly did in early... | 2.390625 | 0 |
11668053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Hungary%20%281920%E2%80%931946%29 | Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) | On 6 November 1921 the Diet of Hungary passed a law nullifying the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, dethroning Charles IV and abolishing the House of Habsburg's rights to the throne of Hungary. Hungary was a kingdom without royalty. With civil unrest too great to select a new king, it was decided to confirm Horthy as Regent... | 2.328125 | 0 |
11668053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Hungary%20%281920%E2%80%931946%29 | Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) | During his first ten years, Horthy led increased repression of Hungarian minorities. In 1920, the numerus clausus law formally placed limits on the number of minority students at university, and legalized corporal punishment for adults in criminal cases. Although the law seemingly applied in equal measure to all minori... | 2.71875 | 0 |
11668053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Hungary%20%281920%E2%80%931946%29 | Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) | In power, Gömbös moved Hungary towards a one-party government like those of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Pressure by Nazi Germany for extreme antisemitism forced Gömbös out and Hungary pursued antisemitism under its "Jewish Laws". Initially, the government passed laws restricting Jews to 20 percent in a number of pr... | 2.21875 | 0 |
11668053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Hungary%20%281920%E2%80%931946%29 | Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) | Initially, despite a move towards nationalism, the new state under Horthy, in an effort to prevent further conflicts, signed the Treaty of Trianon on 4 June 1920, thereby reducing Hungary's size substantially: the whole of Transylvania was taken by Romania; much of Upper Hungary became part of Czechoslovakia; Vojvodina... | 2.5625 | 0 |
11668053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Hungary%20%281920%E2%80%931946%29 | Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) | After the successful revision policy Hungary sought further solutions to the remainder of its former territories and demanded the concession of Transylvanian territory from Romania. The Axis powers were not interested in opening a new conflict in Central Europe; both countries were facing strong diplomatic pressures to... | 2.53125 | 0 |
11668053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Hungary%20%281920%E2%80%931946%29 | Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) | By early 1944, with Soviet forces fast advancing from the east, Hungary was caught attempting to contact the British and the Americans to secretly escape the war and establish an armistice with the Allies. On 19 March 1944, the Germans responded by invading Hungary in Operation Margarethe. German forces occupied key l... | 2.21875 | 0 |
11668053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Hungary%20%281920%E2%80%931946%29 | Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) | The new Quisling regime, however, was to be short-lived, for in November 1944 the Red Army had already reached Budapest and a long siege started, while Szálasi fled the capital. On 21 December 1944, a Hungarian "Interim Assembly" met in Debrecen, with the approval of the Soviet Union. This assembly elected an interim c... | 2.78125 | 0 |
11668073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Yogurt%20Connection | The Yogurt Connection | The Yogurt Connection was a drug smuggling ring that operated out of Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Prosecutors estimated that the gang ran an estimated 250,000 pounds of Colombian, Jamaican and Thai marijuana. Distribution reached into eleven midwestern states and was valued a... | 2.171875 | 0 |
11668074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s%20Dance%20%28radio%29 | Let's Dance (radio) | Let's Dance was a Saturday night radio music program broadcast by NBC in the mid-1930s.
Sponsored by the National Biscuit Company (initially to promote their new Ritz Crackers), it aired for three full hours in any given Time zone, starting at 10:30pm on the East Coast. This late-night time slot gave the program a muc... | 2.0625 | 0 |
11668104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Park%20%28Pittsburgh%29 | North Park (Pittsburgh) | North Park is a county park that is located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the largest in the county's 12,000-acre (49 km2) network of nine distinct parks.
History and notable features
Completed in 1931, North Park is sited northeast of downtown Pittsburgh in Hampton, McCandless, and Pine To... | 2.28125 | 0 |
11668108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino%20Realino | Bernardino Realino | Bernardino Realino (1 December 1530 – 2 July 1616) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Jesuits. His entire career was devoted to the areas of Naples and Lecce. Realino pursued a career in law and served in several municipal capacities before feeling called to the Jesuit life and being ord... | 2.15625 | 0 |
11668108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino%20Realino | Bernardino Realino | In Naples a Jesuit preacher's sermon so moved him that he sought out the priest and had him hear his confession; the priest noted his inclination to the religious life and – with some other Jesuit priests – invited him in August 1564 to make a week-long spiritual retreat with them, to discern his call. He joined the Je... | 2.5 | 0 |
11668117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobras%20%28Serbia%29 | Cobras (Serbia) | The Detachment of the Military Police for Special Operations "Cobras" () is a military police unit of the Serbian Armed Forces directly subordinated to the General Staff. The unit is responsible for close protection, counter-terrorism and special operations.
History
The unit was first established by the order of the F... | 2.078125 | 0 |
11668184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FableVision | FableVision | FableVision Studios has collaborated with broadcasters, publishers, nonprofits, research groups, and museums, including PBS, The Jim Henson Company, Nick Jr. Channel, Smithsonian, MIT, and National Geographic Society to design and develop websites, games, animated films, museum kiosks, and mobile apps.
FableVision Lea... | 2.40625 | 0 |
11668199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna%20and%20Marvin%20Schwartz%20Center%20for%20Performing%20Arts | Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts | The Donna & Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts is a multi-discipline performing arts facility on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Completed in early 2003, the Schwartz Center provides a multidisciplinary teaching and performance center for the performing arts programs at Emory including dan... | 2.046875 | 0 |
11668256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Patrick%20Hurley | Joseph Patrick Hurley | Joseph Patrick Hurley (January 21, 1894 – October 30, 1967) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine in Florida from 1940 until his death in 1967.
Hurley also served as a Vatican diplomat in Asia during the 1920s and 1930s, and as regent ad interim in ... | 2.25 | 0 |
11668256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Patrick%20Hurley | Joseph Patrick Hurley | Priesthood
On May 29, 1919, Hurley was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Cleveland by Bishop John Farrelly at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Cleveland. His first assignment was as an assistant pastor at St. Columba's Parish in Youngstown, Ohio, where he remained for four years. In 1923, he received an ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11668256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Patrick%20Hurley | Joseph Patrick Hurley | Opposition to Nazism
Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II, Hurley was considered the most outspoken interventionist among the American Catholic bishops. He made enemies among isolationist Catholic clergy and laity by labeling the Nazi Party "public enemy No. 1" of the United States and the Cathol... | 2.0625 | 0 |
11668256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Patrick%20Hurley | Joseph Patrick Hurley | Service in Yugoslavia
In 1945, in addition to his role as bishop, Hurley was appointed by Pius XII as regent ad interim to Yugoslavia. He thus became the first American to be raised to the equivalent rank of a nuncio. Relations between the Vatican and Yugoslavia had been deteriorating following the end of the war; the... | 2.390625 | 0 |
11668306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikes%20Peak%20State%20Park | Pikes Peak State Park | Pikes Peak State Park is a state park in Clayton County, Iowa, United States, featuring a bluff overlooking the Upper Mississippi River opposite the confluence of the Wisconsin River. The park is operated by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. It is nearly a thousand acres (4 km2) in extent. The nearest city is... | 2.25 | 0 |
11668395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy%20Green | Ivy Green | Ivy Green is a historic house museum at 300 West North Commons in Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States. Built in 1820, it was the birthplace and childhood home of Helen Keller (1880–1968), who became well known after overcoming deaf-blind conditions to communicate; she became an author and public speaker. Designated as ... | 2.375 | 0 |
11668399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20NFL%20season | 2008 NFL season | New formations result in high scores
The 2008 season saw a marked increase in the use of two new offensive philosophies (at least for the NFL, these offenses previously saw extensive use in college or Canadian football for a few years): the "wildcat formation", a formation based on the halfback option play, the "spread... | 2.015625 | 0 |
11668431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren%20Long | Loren Long | Loren Long (born 1964) is an American author of children's books best known for illustration. He won the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' (SCBWI) Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration in 2004 for I Dream of Trains by Angela Johnson.
Biography
Long was born in Joplin, Missouri. He graduat... | 2.59375 | 0 |
11668491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater%20model | Groundwater model | Groundwater models are computer models of groundwater flow systems, and are used by hydrologists and hydrogeologists. Groundwater models are used to simulate and predict aquifer conditions.
Characteristics
An unambiguous definition of "groundwater model" is difficult to give, but there are many common characteristics... | 2.78125 | 0 |
11668491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater%20model | Groundwater model | The primary coupling between groundwater and hydrological inputs is the unsaturated zone or vadose zone. The soil acts to partition hydrological inputs such as rainfall or snowmelt into surface runoff, soil moisture, evapotranspiration and groundwater recharge. Flows through the unsaturated zone that couple surface w... | 2.25 | 0 |
11668491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater%20model | Groundwater model | The parameters usually concern the geometry of and distances in the domain to be modelled and those physical properties of the aquifer that are more or less constant with time but that may be variable in space.
Important parameters are the topography, thicknesses of soil / rock layers and their horizontal/vertical hyd... | 2.234375 | 0 |
11668491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater%20model | Groundwater model | When sufficient data have been assembled, it is possible to determine some of missing information by calibration. This implies that one assumes a range of values for the unknown or doubtful value of a certain parameter and one runs the model repeatedly while comparing results with known corresponding data. For example,... | 2.125 | 0 |
11668527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter%20of%201815 | Charter of 1815 | The Charter of 1815, signed on 22 April 1815, was the French constitution prepared by Benjamin Constant at the request of Napoleon I when he returned from exile on Elba. Officially named the Additional Act to the Constitutions of the Empire, the document extensively amended (in fact virtually replacing) the previous Na... | 2.28125 | 0 |
11668561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20Transportation%20Centers%20Program | University Transportation Centers Program | The University Transportation Centers (UTC) program is a federal program to improve transportation research and education in the United States and to strengthen the country's competitiveness in the global transportation industry.
History
The UTC program was established by the United States Department of Transporta... | 2.40625 | 0 |
11668632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragib%20Ali | Ragib Ali | Ragib Ali (; born 10 October 1936) is a Bangladeshi-born British industrialist, pioneer tea-planter and educationalist. He is also associated with bank, insurance companies, and many other businesses. He is the founder of Leading University, Sylhet. In 2017, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption by the ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
11668713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive%20research | Unobtrusive research | Unobtrusive research (or unobtrusive measures) is a method of data collection used primarily in the social sciences. The term unobtrusive measures was first coined by Webb, Campbell, Schwartz, & Sechrest in a 1966 book titled Unobtrusive Measures: Nonreactive Research in the Social Sciences. The authors described metho... | 2.515625 | 0 |
11668713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive%20research | Unobtrusive research | The proliferation of digital media opened a new era for communication researchers in search of unobtrusively obtained data sources. Online communication creates digital footprints that can allow an analysis of data that are obtained through unobtrusive methods, and are also massively larger than any corpora obtained vi... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11668758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashalim | Ashalim | Ashalim () is a small community settlement in southern Israel. Located in the Negev desert about 35 km south of Be'er Sheva and on the eastern side of Nahal Besor, the largest stream in the Negev, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Ramat HaNegev Regional Council. In its population was . Nearby settlements include ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
11668876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichibabin%20reaction | Chichibabin reaction | The Chichibabin reaction (pronounced ' (chē')-chē-bā-bēn) is a method for producing 2-aminopyridine derivatives by the reaction of pyridine with sodium amide. It was reported by Aleksei Chichibabin in 1914. The following is the overall form of the general reaction:
The direct amination of pyridine with sodium amide ca... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11668876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichibabin%20reaction | Chichibabin reaction | σ-adduct (Meisenheimer adduct) formation
Evidence indicates that before addition of the amino group, the ring nitrogen atom is sorbed onto the surface of sodium amide and the sodium cation forms a coordination complex. This increases the δ+ on the α-carbon atom, thus 1,2-addition of sodium amide is favored over 1,4-add... | 2.234375 | 0 |
11668876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichibabin%20reaction | Chichibabin reaction | Factors influencing reaction
Different aromatic nitrogen heterocyclic compounds proceed through the Chichibabin reaction in a matter of minutes and others can take hours. Factors that influence the reaction rate include:
Basicity - The ideal pKa range is 5-8 and the reaction either does not proceed, or proceeds poorl... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11668940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20golden%20mole | Giant golden mole | The giant golden mole (Chrysospalax trevelyani) is a small mammal found in Africa. At in length, it is the largest of the golden mole species. This mole has dark, glossy brown fur; the name golden comes from the Greek word for green-gold, also the source of the name of the family, Chrysochloridae.
Characteristics
Th... | 2.90625 | 0 |
11668947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endre%20B%C3%A1lint | Endre Bálint | Endre Bálint (1914 – 1986, in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter and graphic designer. He was one of the most significant figures of modern, avant-garde Hungarian art.
His career path
He was born in 1914 into an intellectual Jewish family. His father, Aladár Bálint, was a well-known art critic in the West and his uncl... | 2.140625 | 0 |
11668948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Jenkins%20%28film%20producer%29 | Chris Jenkins (film producer) | Christopher Jenkins (born November 1961) is a Welsh effects animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, director and producer.
Early life
Jenkins was born and raised in Ton Pentre, Rhondda Valley in South Wales. He attended the Ton Pentre Junior School and later went to the Upper Rhondda Comprehensive School. He atten... | 1.90625 | 0 |
11668996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Bertilla%20Boscardin | Maria Bertilla Boscardin | Maria Bertilla Boscardin (6 October 1888 – 20 October 1922) was an Italian nun and nurse who displayed a pronounced devotion to duty in working with sick children and victims of the air raids of World War I. She was later canonised a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Life
Early life
She was born Anna Francesca Bosc... | 1.9375 | 0 |
11668996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Bertilla%20Boscardin | Maria Bertilla Boscardin | Treviso
She was then sent to Treviso to learn nursing at the municipal hospital there, which was under the direction of her order. During her training period, she was once placed to work in the kitchen. However, upon completing her training, she was promoted to working with victims of diphtheria in the hospital's child... | 2.296875 | 0 |
11669074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharkfin%20Shoal%20Light | Sharkfin Shoal Light | The Sharkfin Shoal Light was a screw-pile lighthouse located at the mouth of the Nanticoke River in Chesapeake Bay, US.
History
This light was constructed in 1892 to replace the Clay Island Light to the northeast.
During an accident on 21 December 1947, two men, Charles E. Palmquist and G. F. Cotte, died by Tangier I... | 1.914063 | 0 |
11669109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Guinness%20Partnership | The Guinness Partnership | The Guinness Partnership is one of the largest providers of affordable housing and care in England. Founded as a charitable trust in 1890, it is now a Community Benefit Society with eight members. Bloomberg classify it as a real estate owner and developer.
, the Partnership owns and manages around 66,000 homes with a ... | 2.125 | 0 |
11669185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit-spinetail | Tit-spinetail | Tit-spinetails are small passerine birds of the genus Leptasthenura, belonging to the ovenbird family Furnariidae. They are found in South America, particularly the southern and Andean parts of the continent. They are somewhat similar to birds of the tit family in their shape and feeding behaviour, hence the first part... | 2.515625 | 0 |
11669187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20rehearsal | Memory rehearsal | Memory rehearsal is a term for the role of repetition in the retention of memories. It involves repeating information over and over in order to get the information processed and stored as a memory.
Types
Maintenance rehearsal
Maintenance rehearsal is a type of memory rehearsal that is useful in maintaining informati... | 3.296875 | 0 |
11669187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20rehearsal | Memory rehearsal | Maintenance rehearsal has the potential to assist in long-term memory in certain situations. In a previous study, researchers looked at the difference in recall for a set of words between participants who knew they were going to be asked to recall the words, in which they repeated the words multiple times and the parti... | 3.40625 | 0 |
11669187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20rehearsal | Memory rehearsal | Working memory is commonly cited as more of a process than an actual storage and is critical to the ability to maintain and manipulate information in one's mind. Because of its importance to cognition, working memory is responsible for that novel information that has immediate importance, but is not needed so much tha... | 2.984375 | 0 |
11669187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20rehearsal | Memory rehearsal | Elaborative rehearsal is a type of memory rehearsal that is useful in transferring information into long-term memory. This type of rehearsal is effective because it involves thinking about the meaning of the information and connecting it to other information already stored in memory. It goes much deeper than maintenanc... | 3.09375 | 0 |
11669206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Bruns | Ludwig Bruns | Ludwig Bruns (25 June 1858 – 9 November 1916) was a German neurologist who was a native of Hanover.
He studied medicine in Göttingen (since 1878: member of Corps Hannovera Göttingen) and Munich, receiving his doctorate in 1882. Subsequently, he was an assistant to Eduard Hitzig (1839-1907) at the insane asylum in Nie... | 2.59375 | 0 |
11669259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap%20Repository%20Tracts | Cheap Repository Tracts | The Cheap Repository Tracts consisted of more than two hundred moral, religious and occasionally political tracts issued in a number of series between March 1795 and 1817, and subsequently re-issued in various collected editions until the 1830s. They were devised by Hannah More and intended for sale or distribution to ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
11669259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap%20Repository%20Tracts | Cheap Repository Tracts | The new tracts were intended to point out the pitfalls of drunkenness, debauchery, idleness, gambling, riotous assembly, and seeking to rise above one's station, whilst simultaneously praising the virtues of honesty, industry, thrift, patience and an acceptance of one's pre-ordained place in society, by means of simple... | 2.53125 | 0 |
11669259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap%20Repository%20Tracts | Cheap Repository Tracts | Watson Dublin Series (1796-1800)
In March 1795, Hannah More authorised the Association for the Discountenancing of Vice and Promoting the Knowledge and Practice of Religion and Virtue, in Dublin, (of which she was an honorary member) to reprint her tracts in Ireland. This was undertaken by William Watson, Secretary to ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
11669259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap%20Repository%20Tracts | Cheap Repository Tracts | 'Spa Fields' tracts (1817)
The period immediately following the Napoleonic Wars saw popular dissatisfaction in England culminating in the Spa Fields riots of December 1816 and an abortive attempt to take control of the government. Hannah More therefore issued a number of entirely new, pro-establishment, titles during 1... | 2.25 | 0 |
11669284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20in%20Chicago | Crime in Chicago | By 2010, Chicago's homicide rate had surpassed that of Los Angeles (16.02 per 100,000), and was more than twice that of New York City (7.0 per 100,000).
By the end of 2015, Chicago's homicide rate rose to 18.6 per 100,000. By 2016, Chicago had recorded more homicides and shooting victims than New York City and Los Ang... | 2.40625 | 0 |
11669284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20in%20Chicago | Crime in Chicago | Murder rates in Chicago vary greatly depending on the neighborhood in question. Many of the predominantly African American neighborhoods on the South Side are impoverished, lack educational resources and noted for high levels of street gang activity. The neighborhoods of Englewood on the South Side, and Austin on the W... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11669284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20in%20Chicago | Crime in Chicago | In 2017, the number of homicides fell to 653, dropping to 561 in 2018 and 492 in 2019. Chicago's deadliest day since reliable digital records began in 1991, was on May 31, 2020, with 18 murders committed. That day was part of a three-day weekend that had 85 shootings, and 24 murders, the all-time highest number killed ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
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