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5408457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20critical%20point | Quantum critical point | A quantum critical point is a point in the phase diagram of a material where a continuous phase transition takes place at absolute zero. A quantum critical point is typically achieved by a continuous suppression of a nonzero temperature phase transition to zero temperature by the application of a pressure, field, or th... | 2.390625 | 0 |
5408457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20critical%20point | Quantum critical point | At a quantum critical point, the critical fluctuations are quantum mechanical in nature, exhibiting scale invariance in both space and in time. Unlike classical critical points, where the critical fluctuations are limited to a narrow region around the phase transition, the influence of a quantum critical point is felt ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
5408457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20critical%20point | Quantum critical point | Quantum critical endpoints
Quantum critical points arise when a susceptibility diverges at zero temperature. There are a number of materials (such as CeNi2Ge2) where this occurs serendipitously. More frequently a material has to be tuned to a quantum critical point. Most commonly this is done by taking a system with a ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5408482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sok%C3%B3%C5%82ka%20County | Sokółka County | Sokółka County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. It was created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Sokółka, whi... | 2.109375 | 0 |
5408502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen%20Cathedral | Bremen Cathedral | Bremen Cathedral (), named after St. Peter, is a church situated in the market square in the center of Bremen. The cathedral belongs to the Bremian Evangelical Church, a member of the umbrella organization Protestant Church in Germany. It is the previous cathedral of the former Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. Since 197... | 2.640625 | 0 |
5408502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen%20Cathedral | Bremen Cathedral | Protestantism in Bremen
When the Protestant Reformation swept through northern Germany, the first Reformed sermon in Bremen was held in 1522, and in 1534 the city established a Protestant rule of churches. The cathedral chapter was still catholic and closed St Peter's cathedral, after on Palm Sunday of 1532 a delegati... | 2.6875 | 0 |
5408502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen%20Cathedral | Bremen Cathedral | Also in 1638, the Prince-Archbishopric's Lutheran Administrator Frederick II reopened St Peter's as a Lutheran place of worship, while meanwhile all other churches in town had become Calvinist. In 1642, a Lutheran Latin School opened at St Peter's. Just eighteen years later, a lightning struck the northern tower and ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
5408502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen%20Cathedral | Bremen Cathedral | In 1803 the cathedral immunity district with St Peter's, meanwhile an extraterritorial enclave of the Electorate of Hanover, which had gained the duchy of Bremen-Verden in, was incorporated into the Free Imperial City of Bremen. Its burgomaster Johann Smidt, a devout member of the Reformed (Calvinist) church, confiscat... | 2.484375 | 0 |
5408502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen%20Cathedral | Bremen Cathedral | In 1817, the city council ordered the withdrawal of some small houses, attached to the northern wall of the cathedral. But the consequent reparations of the wall had to be paid by the parish's construction fund. After more than two centuries of economic decline, for the free city of Bremen investments in its nautic and... | 2.71875 | 0 |
5408502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen%20Cathedral | Bremen Cathedral | Altars and pulpit
On the eve of the reformation, the cathedral contained fifty altars. Now, there are four altars and one pulpit. The main altar is in the choir. For smaller services, there is a central altar beside the pulpit in the middle of the northern side of the central nave. It is decorated with a torso of a sc... | 2.375 | 0 |
5408502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen%20Cathedral | Bremen Cathedral | Museum
The cathedral museum was established in one of the side chapels in the 1970s cathedral restoration.
Bleikeller
An unusual "Bleikeller" or lead basement is located beneath the nave, but has no more direct access from it.
Originally, the roofs of the cathedral were covered with lead. As it had to be repaired v... | 2.78125 | 0 |
5408502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen%20Cathedral | Bremen Cathedral | When the southern tower collapsed in 1638, it contained eight bells. Today both western towers together house the cathedral's four bells. The northern tower has three bells. The oldest surviving bell is the "Maria Gloriosa" cast in 1433 by the famous bell maker Ghert Klinghe. The other bells were removed and melted ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
5408532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20State%20Route%20450 | Ohio State Route 450 | History
As the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) built Interstate 275 through Clermont County in the late 1970s, a cloverleaf interchange was graded just south of Milford in preparation for a direct connection to a relocated U.S. Route 50. The new route would have bypassed Milford, running to Fairfax along the ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
5408532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20State%20Route%20450 | Ohio State Route 450 | The Gatch property was eventually redeveloped in 1995 as Milford Commerce Park. Despite hopes of becoming the county's third largest industrial property, its occupancy rate fell short of expectations. Hoping to attract retail tenants with a more accessible road configuration, the developer, Cincinnati United Contractor... | 2.046875 | 0 |
5408590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajn%C3%B3wka%20County | Hajnówka County | Hajnówka County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Hajnó... | 2.34375 | 0 |
5408615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy%20%28chimpanzee%29 | Lucy (chimpanzee) | Lucy (1964–1987) was a chimpanzee owned by the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma, and raised by Maurice K. Temerlin, a psychotherapist and professor at the University of Oklahoma and his wife, Jane.
Background
Temerlin and his wife raised Lucy as if she were a human child, teaching her to eat with silverware, ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
5408615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy%20%28chimpanzee%29 | Lucy (chimpanzee) | By the time she was 12 Lucy had become very strong and was very destructive in the Temerlin house. Eventually she was shipped to a chimpanzee rehabilitation center in The Gambia, accompanied by University of Oklahoma psychology graduate student Janis Carter. Carter intended to stay with Lucy for only three weeks to eas... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5408644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Brunswick%20Route%20102 | New Brunswick Route 102 | History
The section from Pokiok to Fredericton, a former alignment of the Trans-Canada Highway (Route 2), became part of Route 102 in stages between 2000 and 2006, as sections of the new 4-lane Trans-Canada Highway were opened. This section begins at the interchange of Route 2 and Route 102 in Pokiok, following a newly... | 2.078125 | 0 |
5408662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropidolaemus%20wagleri | Tropidolaemus wagleri | Tropidolaemus wagleri, more commonly known as Wagler's pit viper, is a species of venomous snake, a pit viper in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia. There are no subspecies that are recognized as being valid. It is sometimes referred to as the temple viper because... | 2.578125 | 0 |
5408662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropidolaemus%20wagleri | Tropidolaemus wagleri | The Wagler's pit viper is found in southern Vietnam from the provinces of Minh Hai and Song Be, in southern Thailand recorded from the provinces of Phang Nga, Phuket, Pattani, Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Tammarat, Narathiwat, and Yala, probably distributed throughout the Peninsula in west Malaysia, as well as the island of ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
5408662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropidolaemus%20wagleri | Tropidolaemus wagleri | Venom
The venom of the Wagler's pit viper contains four novel peptides (Waglerins 1-4). The Waglerins produce fatal respiratory paralysis of adult mice. An initial study indicated that micromolar concentrations of Waglerin 1 act both pre- and postsynaptically to inhibit transmission across rat neuromuscular junctions. ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
5408695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9za%20Anda | Géza Anda | Géza Anda (; 19 November 192113 June 1976) was a Swiss-Hungarian pianist. A celebrated interpreter of classical and romantic repertoire, particularly noted for his performances and recordings of Mozart, he was also considered to be a tremendous interpreter of Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms and Bartók.
In his heyday he was... | 2.09375 | 0 |
5408695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9za%20Anda | Géza Anda | His performance of the Andante from Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C on the soundtrack of the 1967 film Elvira Madigan led to the epithet "Elvira Madigan" often being applied to the concerto. For his recording of Mozart's Piano Concertos No. 17 & No. 21 with the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, he received the Grand Pr... | 2.140625 | 0 |
5408727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononobe%20no%20Moriya | Mononobe no Moriya | was an Ō-muraji, a high-ranking clan head position of the ancient Japanese Yamato state, having inherited the position from his father Mononobe no Okoshi. Like his father, he was a devoted opponent of Buddhism, which had recently been introduced to Japan from the continent.
Alongside Nakatomi no Katsumi, Moriya worked... | 2.671875 | 0 |
5408881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981%20Hong%20Kong%20riots | 1981 Hong Kong riots | Multiple disturbances broke out on Christmas Day of 1981 and New Year's Day of 1982 in British Hong Kong. Since the majority of the participants were youths, the riots were also named as the Christmas youth riots of 1981 and New Year youth riots of 1982. The riots had a long-term impact on the government's youth polic... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5408944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin%20Yang%20Yo%21 | Yin Yang Yo! | Yin Yang Yo! is an animated television series created by Bob Boyle for Jetix. Produced by Walt Disney Television Animation as the third Jetix original series, it first aired on August 26, 2006, as a sneak peek and premiered on September 4, 2006, in the United States. The show debuted on Jetix in the United Kingdom on F... | 2.40625 | 0 |
5409030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head%20Games%20%28novel%29 | Head Games (novel) | Head Games is an original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor, Bernice, Chris, Roz, Mel and Ace.
Head Games is a sequel to Lyons' earlier New Adventure Conundrum, and again features the Land of Fiction first see... | 2.015625 | 0 |
5409062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Scarlett%2C%202nd%20Baron%20Abinger | Robert Scarlett, 2nd Baron Abinger | Robert Campbell Scarlett, 2nd Baron Abinger (5 September 1794 – 24 June 1861), was a British barrister-at-law and politician.
Background and early life
Born in London, he was the oldest son of James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger, and his first wife, third daughter of Peter Campbell. In 1844, he succeeded his father as ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
5409063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumberland%20Regional%20High%20School | Northumberland Regional High School | NRHS is the first, and currently only, school in Pictou County to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. It officially became an IB World School on April 21, 2007. NRHS offers the diploma program in English and Immersion-level (high level) French.
Facilities
The NRHS campus is located in Alma, Nova S... | 2.375 | 0 |
5409079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland%20dialect | Shetland dialect | Shetland dialect (also variously known as Shetlandic; broad or auld Shetland or Shaetlan; and referred to as Modern Shetlandic Scots (MSS) by some linguists) is a dialect of Insular Scots spoken in Shetland, an archipelago to the north of mainland Scotland. It is derived from the Scots dialects brought to Shetland from... | 2.640625 | 0 |
5409135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Castine%20%28IX-211%29 | USS Castine (IX-211) | USS Castine (IX-211), formally PC-452, was a submarine chaser of the United States Navy.
PC-452 was laid down on 14 March 1940 at the DeFoe Boat and Motor Works in Bay City, Michigan, as Hull #167, under the Experimental Small Craft program of 17 May 1938. She was launched on 23 August 1941 and towed to the Philadelp... | 2.140625 | 0 |
5409181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20National%20Security%20Enforcement%20Teams | Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams | Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams (INSET; , EISN) are Canadian counterterrorist, counter-foreign interference, and counter-espionage units operating under the auspices of Public Safety Canada. These federal investigative teams were formed in 2002 in response to the September 11 attacks.
Canadian province... | 2.3125 | 0 |
5409281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olching | Olching | The River Amper is neither navigable to leisure craft nor to goods traffic. Smaller watercraft such as dinghies and kayaks are however frequently underway in the summer months.
Public transport
Olching is connected to the Munich S-Bahn network on the line. It takes about 20 minutes to München Hauptbahnhof (Munich Ce... | 2.359375 | 0 |
5409281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olching | Olching | Coat of Arms
Olching's coat of arms originates from the year 1951. The swept blue bar in the lower part symbolises the river Amper, which flows through Olching and is of major significance for the town. The reed in the middle reminds that Olching was once marshland; the head of wheat symbolises the agriculture and la... | 2.546875 | 0 |
5409292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Lee%20Patterson%20Bridge | Isaac Lee Patterson Bridge | History
The Oregon State Highway Department awarded the $568,181.00 ($ in dollars) construction contract to the Mercer, Fraser Company of Eureka, California, on January 16, 1930. Work began on the bridge at Gold Beach in April 1930. In order to avoid problems with concrete shrinkage that had plagued concrete arch brid... | 2.6875 | 0 |
5409344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelchis%20of%20Benevento | Adelchis of Benevento | Adelchis (died May 878) was the son of Radelchis I, Prince of Benevento, and successor of his brother Radelgar in 854.
It was given to Adelchis to preserve the ancient principality and its independence in the face of repeated assaults by the Saracens from the south, the Emperor Louis II from the north, and Byzantine L... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5409396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Scarlett%2C%203rd%20Baron%20Abinger | William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger | Lieutenant General William Frederick Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger (30 August 1826 – 16 January 1892), was a British peer and soldier.
Education
Lord Abinger was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Military career
He became a Captain of the Scots Fusilier Guards regiment of the British Army. He se... | 2.109375 | 0 |
5409406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladesmith | Bladesmith | Bladesmithing is the art of making knives, swords, daggers and other blades using a forge, hammer, anvil, and other smithing tools. Bladesmiths employ a variety of metalworking techniques similar to those used by blacksmiths, as well as woodworking for knife and sword handles, and often leatherworking for sheaths. Blad... | 2.78125 | 0 |
5409406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladesmith | Bladesmith | Due to the quality of metal found in Japan, Japanese bladesmithing became an extremely rigid, precise process, involving folding and forge-welding the steel many times over to create a laminated blade. By the time of the Kamakura period (1185–1333 AD), Japan was under the rule of a military class and repelling Mongol ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
5409406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladesmith | Bladesmith | When forging, the blade material is heated to a high temperature or forging temperature in a forge and shaped with a hammer on an anvil to achieve the desired shape, often to near final dimension, where very little stock removal, if any, is required to finish. Steel can be folded either to form decorative pattern welde... | 2.3125 | 0 |
5409432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mautam | Mautam | Mautâm () is a cyclic ecological phenomenon that occurs every 48–50 years in the northeastern Indian states of Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur, as well as in many places of Assam which are 30% covered by wild bamboo forests, and Chin State in Myanmar, particularly Hakha, Thantlang, Falam, Paletwa and Matupi Townships. It ... | 2.984375 | 0 |
5409432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mautam | Mautam | The 1910-1911 mautam famine was preceded by a locust swarm (thangnang) which engulfed trees and created a noise described as a monsoon. The arrival of Halley's Comet at the same time also induced a bad omen at the time of many chiefs and elders. However, the excessive proliferation of locusts did not see any consumptio... | 2.53125 | 0 |
5409432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mautam | Mautam | The famine began in December 1958 and had hit the people east of the Turini River. By 1959 the Assam Government failed to recognise the famine officially. Due to this relief and aid were withheld. The rat population surged devoured the crops and began to destroy rice stockage overnight. A report was made of rats devour... | 2.375 | 0 |
5409432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mautam | Mautam | The government of Assam took on larger and substantial relief policies between the period of August 1959 to October 1960. Roads were constructed for jeeps and transport to reach settlements to supply emergency food relief. A relief program for the poor was made without any repayment obligations. Subsidies were introduc... | 2.78125 | 0 |
5409432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mautam | Mautam | The nature of famine relief saw the Assam Government grant direct relief without the district council. Nag argues this was a political scheme to sideline the Mizo Union who were already declining from the 1957 election. When complaints of famine aid and relief raised, Chaliha blamed the Mizo Union for non-cooperation. ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
5409433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gott%20ist%20mein%20K%C3%B6nig%2C%20BWV%2071 | Gott ist mein König, BWV 71 | (God is my King), , is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach written in Mühlhausen when the composer was 22 years old. Unusually for an early cantata by Bach, the date of first performance is known: at the inauguration of a new town council on 4 February 1708.
The text is compiled mainly from biblical sources, three diff... | 2.171875 | 0 |
5409433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gott%20ist%20mein%20K%C3%B6nig%2C%20BWV%2071 | Gott ist mein König, BWV 71 | The librettist is unknown; it has been speculated that the text was written by Georg Christian Eilmar, minister of Marienkirche, who had earlier prompted the composition of Bach's cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131. It has also been thought that Bach himself may have assembled the text, although the... | 2.328125 | 0 |
5409433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gott%20ist%20mein%20K%C3%B6nig%2C%20BWV%2071 | Gott ist mein König, BWV 71 | 3
Another choral movement, (May your old age be like your youth, and God is with you in everything that you do) sets more biblical passages, assuring that God is with people both old and young. It is set as a permutation fugue.
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A bass arioso sets two more verses from the psalm, (Day and night are Yours). In tern... | 2.015625 | 0 |
5409578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Scott | Percy Scott | In 1878 he attended a course at HMS Excellent to qualify as a gunnery lieutenant. It was during this period that, having created a serviceable running track on Whale Island (which had been largely created when dumping the mud spoil from the excavation of the basins which were to form Portsmouth dockyards), he put forwa... | 2.34375 | 0 |
5409578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Scott | Percy Scott | Returning from Australia via South Africa Scott found himself having to deal with a fire on board when moored in Simon's Bay. From this he learned that the "smoke cap" supplied to wear in smoke-filled environments was of little use and the alternative, wearing a diving suit, was little better because of the weight of t... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5409578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Scott | Percy Scott | In his three years in command at Excellent Scott had made great strides in "perfecting Whale Island as a barracks" but "its efficiency as a School of Gunnery advanced but slowly". This was because although there seemed to be plenty of money for bricks and mortar, little was forthcoming for the necessary guns, ammunitio... | 2.65625 | 0 |
5409578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Scott | Percy Scott | In China Terrible and its crew became involved in the Boxer Rebellion and once more Scott found himself dismounting his guns to provide assistance to land forces and making a significant contribution to the Battle of Tientsin. After hostilities ceased Scott returned to working up his ship's gunnery capabilities, devisi... | 2.34375 | 0 |
5409578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Scott | Percy Scott | With the intervention of Jackie Fisher, Scott was posted to HMS Excellent, the naval gunnery school at Whale Island, Hampshire. The Excellent served as a training ground, especially for gunnery, and Scott was able to continue to refine his ideas. This included ways to increase artillery accuracy as well as improve the ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
5409578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Scott | Percy Scott | Before the First World War, Captain Frederic Dreyer developed a system which enabled a target ship's range and bearing to be plotted continuously so that the proper range and deflection to hit it could then be calculated. These data were then relayed to the director, allowing a further improvement to accuracy. In 1903 ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
5409578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Scott | Percy Scott | In July 1908 came what is referred to as the second signalling incident. Beresford signalled to the columns of the third division of the fleet, which were under Scott's command, to turn inwards together. As the two columns were at the time steaming on a parallel course with a separation of only 1,200 yards (six cables ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
5409578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Scott | Percy Scott | Retirement
Scott retired from the navy in 1913 to make way for the promotion of younger men. However he continued to be employed by the Navy in connection with his director-firing work. He also directed his attention to the issue of submarines, against which there was no effective defence at the time. He was aware that... | 2.359375 | 0 |
5409578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Scott | Percy Scott | In November 1914 Scott was called into the Admiralty by Winston Churchill and Lord Fisher, returned once more as First Sea Lord, to be told he was to be employed as an advisor in connection with the gunnery efficiency of the fleet. His first job, however, was to organise the conversion of sixteen merchant vessels into ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
5409578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Scott | Percy Scott | In September 1915, following a Zeppelin raid on London, the First Lord, Arthur Balfour ordered Scott to establish the London Air Defence Area to defend London from the increasing threat of air attack. Little thought had been given to the possibility of air attack and anti-air measures had been given no priority. Scott'... | 2.46875 | 0 |
5409579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Shakespeare | Noah Shakespeare | Noah Shakespeare (January 26, 1839 – May 13, 1921) was a Canadian politician from British Columbia noted for his involvement in the anti-Chinese movement.
Shakespeare was born in Staffordshire, England, arriving in Victoria, British Columbia in 1863. Shakespeare was involved in the photography business, running a gall... | 2.109375 | 0 |
5409609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20bettong | Northern bettong | The northern bettong (Bettongia tropica) is a small, endangered, gerbil-like mammal native to forests in northeast Australia. A member of the rat-kangaroo family (Potoroidae), it moves by hopping and lives in burrows, feeding at night on roots and fungi. It is also a marsupial and carries its young in a pouch. The nort... | 3.109375 | 0 |
5409609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20bettong | Northern bettong | It spends the day in a well concealed nest constructed beneath a tree, within a clump of grass or in other litter collected at ground level. Nesting material is carried using its prehensile tail. Ectomycorrhizal fungal sporocarps are the staple diet of the northern bettong. These are dug from beneath the soil at the ba... | 3.140625 | 0 |
5409619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwmcarn%20High%20School | Cwmcarn High School | Cwmcarn High School was a school in the village of Cwmcarn, in South East Wales. The school (for school years 7–11) also had a sixth form where pupils could return to continue their education in a familiar environment. The students and people in the area always praised Cwmcarn High, and many protests took place to atte... | 2.4375 | 0 |
5409628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piemont-Liguria%20Ocean | Piemont-Liguria Ocean | The Piemont-Liguria basin or the Piemont-Liguria Ocean (sometimes only one of the two names is used, for example: Piemonte Ocean) was a former piece of oceanic crust that is seen as part of the Tethys Ocean. Together with some other oceanic basins that existed between the continents Europe and Africa, the Piemont-Ligur... | 3.09375 | 0 |
5409645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barend%20Cornelis%20Koekkoek | Barend Cornelis Koekkoek | Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (October 11, 1803 – April 5, 1862) was a Dutch landscape artist and lithographer.
Biography
Early life: 1803–1824
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was born on 11 October 1803, in Middelburg, Zeeland. He was the first and eldest son of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoekborn in the province of Zeeland, to Dut... | 2.328125 | 0 |
5409645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barend%20Cornelis%20Koekkoek | Barend Cornelis Koekkoek | This was a popular subject matter in the Golden Age, the main source of inspiration for nineteenth-century artists. A two years stay in the rural setting of Hilversum (1826–1827), housing a colony of landscape and cattle painters, strengthened his decision. The landscapes he painted in the rural surroundings of Hilvers... | 2.4375 | 0 |
5409645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barend%20Cornelis%20Koekkoek | Barend Cornelis Koekkoek | By 1841, Koekkoek had earned such regard from his fellow artists that he decided to publish a book of lessons for students, Herinneringen en Mededeelingen van eenen Landschapsschilder ("Recollections and Communications of a Landscape Painter"), in which he aired the view that an artist must, above all, stay true to nat... | 2.375 | 0 |
5409645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barend%20Cornelis%20Koekkoek | Barend Cornelis Koekkoek | Koekkoek's own paintings reveal a careful study and synthesis of Dutch seventeenth-century painters. His art is firmly rooted in the great Dutch romantic tradition established by the seventeenth-century masters: Hobbema, Cuyp, Ruisdael and Wynants. The golden light and the inclusion of travellers in his work suggests K... | 2.125 | 0 |
5409651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecking%20order%20theory | Pecking order theory | In corporate finance, the pecking order theory (or pecking order model) postulates that
"firms prefer to finance their investments internally, using retained earnings, before turning to external sources of financing such as debt or equity" - i.e. there is a “pecking order” when it comes to financing decisions.
The th... | 2.28125 | 0 |
5409666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wushaoling%20Tunnel | Wushaoling Tunnel | The Wushaoling Tunnel () is a 21.05 km dual-bore railway tunnel in Gansu, north-west China. The east-bound bore opened on 30 March 2006. The second bore opened in August 2006. It was briefly the longest railway tunnel in China until the opening of the 27.84 km Taihang Tunnel in late 2007. In 2018, a one year reconstruc... | 2.328125 | 0 |
5409672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch%20Whisky%20Experience | Scotch Whisky Experience | The Scotch Whisky Experience is a whisky visitor attraction located on Castlehill in the Old Town of Edinburgh, immediately adjacent to the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle. The centre offers tours and whisky tutoring sessions, alongside a shop, corporate spaces and Amber Restaurant & Whisky Bar.
History
Opened in 1988,... | 2.140625 | 0 |
5409729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawe%C5%82%20Finder | Paweł Finder | Paweł Finder (; born as Pinkus Finder; pseudonyms: Paul Finder, Paul Reynot; 19 September 1904 – 26 July 1944) was a Polish Communist leader and First Secretary of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) from 1943 to 1944.
Early life
Finder came from an affluent Jewish shopkeeping family in Bielitz, where he was educated. He ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
5409759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20Sulzer%20Regional%20Library | Conrad Sulzer Regional Library | Conrad Sulzer Regional Library is one of three regional libraries in the Chicago Public Library system in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It was named for Conrad Sulzer, the first white settler in what became Lakeview Township, whose family held multiple civic posts and established a foundation. The library is... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5409759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20Sulzer%20Regional%20Library | Conrad Sulzer Regional Library | A controversy erupted just before the library's opening in 1985 concerning a fresco for the community room commissioned from Irene Yarovich Siegel, a recently retired professor at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle. The fresco on the room's four walls depicts Virgil's Aeneid, and also contains passages from writ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
5409766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Room%20with%20No%20Doors | The Room with No Doors | The Room With No Doors is an original novel written by Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor and Chris.
A missing scene, "Room With No Doors - Cutaway" appears in the charity anthology Shelf Life.
The novel features a Victorian t... | 1.976563 | 0 |
5409770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola%20di%20Lolando | Isola di Lolando | Isola di Lolando is an unfinished artificial island in Biscayne Bay, Florida. Hurricane damage from the 1926 Miami hurricane, as well as the economic downturn that heralded the Great Depression, caused the project to be abandoned shortly after the start of construction, but pilings remain visible in the bay and are a h... | 2.28125 | 0 |
5409770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola%20di%20Lolando | Isola di Lolando | A Miami real estate bubble burst in the mid-1920s as a land boom fueled by outside speculators was stricken by economic realities and unexpected hurricanes. One failed development project left its remains scarring north Biscayne Bay near Miami Beach, Florida. Concrete pilings from the sea wall of the incomplete Isola... | 2.171875 | 0 |
5409780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinogalerix | Deinogalerix | Deinogalerix (from Ancient Greek, "terrible/terror" + Galerix) is an extinct genus of gymnure which lived in Italy in the Late Miocene, 7-10 million years ago. The genus was endemic to what was then the island of Gargano, which is now a peninsula in southeastern Italy bounded by the Adriatic Sea. The first specimens of... | 2.5625 | 0 |
5409784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew%20Catholics | Hebrew Catholics | According to Bloomer in 2008, "There is a broad range of Jewish Catholics. From those who observe nothing much of the Jewish ways up to those who observe the same as Orthodox Jews. There are many different opinions but they all try to accept each other, whatever their level of observance."
Furthermore, David Neuhaus,... | 2.359375 | 0 |
5409784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew%20Catholics | Hebrew Catholics | A significant aspect in Jewish–Christian and Jewish–Catholic relations in Israel is government policy. Ever since the foundation of the State of Israel in 1948, Judaism has been used in government policy and legislation as a means to give Israeli society a sense of identity. As a result, all matrimonial laws in Israel ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
5409786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysimachia%20borealis | Lysimachia borealis | Lysimachia borealis (synonym Trientalis borealis), the starflower, is a North American woodland perennial that blooms between May and June.
Description
Starflowers have creeping rhizomes with vertical stalks. Each stalk has a whorl of 5–10 lanceolate leaves (up to long) at its tip, with one to four (most often one ... | 3.078125 | 0 |
5409814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc%20Ela | Parc Ela | Parc Ela (Rumantsch: Ela Park) is a nature park in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It is intended to protect the regional biotope, help to promote its sustainable use and give a boost to an area rich in scenery and national cultural assets, but weak economically.
Unlike Switzerland's only national park, which i... | 1.914063 | 0 |
5409837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtain%20Fig%20Tree | Curtain Fig Tree | Curtain Fig Tree is a heritage-listed tree at Curtain Fig Tree Road, East Barron near Yungaburra, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. It is one of the largest trees in Tropical North Queensland, Australia, and one of the best known attractions on the Atherton Tableland. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Reg... | 2.578125 | 0 |
5409837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtain%20Fig%20Tree | Curtain Fig Tree | As tourism diversified and private car ownership became more commonplace in the 1960s, tourism numbers to the Cairns hinterland increased, as did numbers visiting the Curtain Fig Tree. More tours became available and the tree was included on the itinerary of the Tableland Circular Tour in 1966. The popularity of the tr... | 2.75 | 0 |
5409837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtain%20Fig%20Tree | Curtain Fig Tree | The Curtain Fig Tree is approximately high with a trunk circumference of . The canopy extends in a radius of approximately from the trunk of the tree. Extensive aerial roots, which are now thick and interwoven, drop to the forest floor, forming a curtain oriented north-west to south-east over approximately . The hos... | 2.140625 | 0 |
5409837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtain%20Fig%20Tree | Curtain Fig Tree | The Curtain Fig Tree (Ficus virens), a 500-year old strangler fig that has been associated with organised tourism on the Atherton Tableland since the 1920s, is important for its association with the evolution of tourism in Far North Queensland, demonstrating the attraction of the North Queensland natural environment fo... | 2.859375 | 0 |
5409857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roztocze | Roztocze | Roztocze () is a range of hills in east-central Poland and western Ukraine which rises from the Lublin Upland and extends southeastward through Solska Forest and across the border into Ukrainian Podolia. Low and rolling, the range is approximately 180 km long and 14 km wide. Its highest peak within Poland is Wielki Dzi... | 2.71875 | 0 |
5409857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roztocze | Roztocze | Medieval and Modern History
In the Middle Ages, Roztocze was a battleground between various Slavic tribes. In the 10th century, the area was incorporated into the Piast state and found itself within the borders of Kievan Rus. In the 14th century, after the conquests of Casimir the Great, Roztocze was annexed to the Kin... | 3.125 | 0 |
5409865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett%20Williams | Emmett Williams | Emmett Williams (4 April 1925 – 14 February 2007) was an American poet and visual artist. He was married to British visual artist Ann Noël.
Williams was born in Greenville, South Carolina, grew up in Virginia, and lived in Europe from 1949 to 1966. Williams studied poetry with John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College, anth... | 2.296875 | 0 |
5409892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodboring%20beetle | Woodboring beetle | The term woodboring beetle encompasses many species and families of beetles whose larval or adult forms eat and destroy wood (i.e., are xylophagous). In the woodworking industry, larval stages of some are sometimes referred to as woodworms. The three most species-rich families of woodboring beetles are longhorn beetle... | 3.203125 | 0 |
5409919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20Am%20Flight%20103 | Pan Am Flight 103 | Pan Am Flight 103 (PA103/PAA103) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City. Shortly after 19:00 on 21 December 1988, while the Boeing 747 "Clipper Maid of the Seas" was in flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, it was destr... | 2.109375 | 0 |
5409919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20Am%20Flight%20103 | Pan Am Flight 103 | As all the accomplices required for such a complex operation were never identified, or convicted, many conspiracy theories have swirled, such as East German Stasi agents having a possible role in the attack. Some relatives of the dead, including Lockerbie campaigner Jim Swire, believe the bomb was planted at Heathrow A... | 2.125 | 0 |
5409919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20Am%20Flight%20103 | Pan Am Flight 103 | After the bombing, the flight number was changed, in accordance with standard practice among airlines after disasters. The Frankfurt–London–New York–Detroit route was being served by Pan Am Flight 3 upon the company's demise in 1991.
Explosion and impact timeline
Departure
On its arrival at Heathrow Terminal 3 on the... | 1.992188 | 0 |
5409919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20Am%20Flight%20103 | Pan Am Flight 103 | Fuselage impact
The fuselage continued moving forward and down until it reached , when its dive became nearly vertical. Due to the extreme flutter, the vertical stabilizer disintegrated, which in turn produced large yawing movements. As the forward fuselage continued to disintegrate, the flying debris tore off both of ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
5409919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20Am%20Flight%20103 | Pan Am Flight 103 | Syracuse University students
Thirty-five of the passengers were students from Syracuse University, who participated in the university's Division of International Programs Abroad (abbreviated as "DIPA Program" and renamed to "Syracuse University Abroad" in 2006, while also known as "Syracuse Abroad" and "Study Abroad Pr... | 2.015625 | 0 |
5409919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20Am%20Flight%20103 | Pan Am Flight 103 | Helsinki warning
On 5 December 1988 (16 days prior to the attack), the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a security bulletin saying that, on that day, a man with an Arabic accent had telephoned the US Embassy in Helsinki, Finland, and told them that a Pan Am flight from Frankfurt to the United States wou... | 1.96875 | 0 |
5409919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20Am%20Flight%20103 | Pan Am Flight 103 | The US National Security Agency's (NSA) alleged interception of an incriminatory message from Libya to its embassy in East Berlin provided US President Ronald Reagan with the justification for Operation El Dorado Canyon on 15 April 1986, with US Navy and US Marine Corps warplanes launching from three aircraft carriers ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
5409919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20Am%20Flight%20103 | Pan Am Flight 103 | Syracuse University holds a memorial week every year called "Remembrance Week" to commemorate its 35 lost students. Every 21 December, a service is held in the university's chapel at 14:03 (19:03 UTC), marking the moment the bomb on board the aircraft was detonated. The university also awards university tuition fees to... | 2.40625 | 0 |
5409978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Maxwell | Robert Maxwell | Early life
Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch in the small town of Slatinské Doly, in the region of Carpathian Ruthenia in Czechoslovakia (now Solotvyno, Ukraine) on 10 June 1923. Like the rest of the then-newly formed Czechoslovakia, the area of Maxwell's birth and upbringing had been part of Austr... | 2.5625 | 0 |
5409978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Maxwell | Robert Maxwell | Aftermath of Maxwell's death
Maxwell's death triggered instability for his publishing empire, with banks frantically calling in their massive loans. Despite the efforts of his sons Kevin and Ian, the Maxwell companies soon collapsed. It emerged that, without adequate prior authorisation, Maxwell had used hundreds of mi... | 1.984375 | 0 |
5410021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waren%20%28M%C3%BCritz%29 | Waren (Müritz) | In 1927 the following big firms were operating in the town: the Naschkatze dairy, the Piechatzek engineering works and iron foundry (today Mecklenburger Metallguss), the Steinborn steam-powered sawmill and the Thiele und Buggisch mill. There was also a milk exporting concern, Natura, a potato factory, the Strubelt ste... | 2.515625 | 0 |
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