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5411460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zrmanja | Zrmanja | Zrmanja (, ) is a river in southern Lika and northern Dalmatia, Croatia. It is long and its basin covers an area of .
It was known to the ancient Romans as Tedanius. The spring of Zrmanja is located in southern part of Lika under Postak - the southern peak of Pljesevica mountain, and close to south end of Velebit mou... | 2.375 | 0 |
5411548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseveration | Perseveration | Associated conditions and manifestations
Perseveration of thought indicates an inability to switch ideas or responses. An example of perseveration is, during a conversation, if an issue has been fully explored and discussed to a point of resolution, it is not uncommon for something to trigger the reinvestigation of the... | 3.140625 | 0 |
5411575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20land%20boom%20of%20the%201920s | Florida land boom of the 1920s | The first real estate bubble in Florida was primarily caused by the economic prosperity of the 1920s coupled with a lack of knowledge about storm frequency and poor building standards.
This pioneering era of Florida land speculation lasted from 1924 to 1926 and attracted investors from all over the nation. The land bo... | 2.625 | 0 |
5411575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20land%20boom%20of%20the%201920s | Florida land boom of the 1920s | The economic prosperity of the 1920s coupled with a lack of knowledge about storm frequency and the poor building standards used by boom developers set the conditions for the first real estate bubble in Florida. Miami had an image as a tropical paradise and outside investors across the United States began taking an int... | 2.78125 | 0 |
5411575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20land%20boom%20of%20the%201920s | Florida land boom of the 1920s | By January 1925, investors were beginning to read negative press about Florida investments. Forbes magazine warned that Florida land prices were based solely upon the expectation of finding a customer, not upon any real land value. The Bureau of Internal Revenue began to scrutinize the Florida real estate boom as a gia... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5411575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20land%20boom%20of%20the%201920s | Florida land boom of the 1920s | Because the railroads were still embargoing non-essential shipments, it now became completely impossible to bring building supplies into the Miami area, and the city's image as a tropical paradise began to crumble. In his book Miami Millions, Kenneth Ballinger wrote that the Prinz Valdemar capsize incident saved many p... | 2.203125 | 0 |
5411575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20land%20boom%20of%20the%201920s | Florida land boom of the 1920s | Florida's economic decline predated the start of the Great Depression. Therefore, it had fewer resources and more debt "than other regions of the nation." Large amounts of local debt financing through bonds worsened the economic situation in the state with most of it coming from the years of the land boom. During the l... | 2.703125 | 0 |
5411583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyson%20Jones | Alyson Jones | Alyson Jones (born 1956) is a British GP and former swimming champion.
Biography
She was born in Middlesbrough in north-east England and attended local schools. She began training as a competitive swimmer at local clubs such as Eston and Hartlepool, winning several titles in the Northumberland and Durham Swimming Ass... | 2.25 | 0 |
5411611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prurigo%20nodularis | Prurigo nodularis | Prurigo nodularis (PN), also known as nodular prurigo, is a skin disorder characterized by pruritic (itchy), nodular lesions, which commonly appear on the trunk, arms and legs. Patients often present with multiple excoriated nodules caused by chronic scratching. Although the exact cause of PN is unknown, PN is associat... | 2.515625 | 0 |
5411659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20ecosystem | Marine ecosystem | Marine ecosystems are the largest of Earth's aquatic ecosystems and exist in waters that have a high salt content. These systems contrast with freshwater ecosystems, which have a lower salt content. Marine waters cover more than 70% of the surface of the Earth and account for more than 97% of Earth's water supply and 9... | 3.515625 | 0 |
5411659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20ecosystem | Marine ecosystem | Mangroves are trees or shrubs that grow in low-oxygen soil near coastlines in tropical or subtropical latitudes. They are an extremely productive and complex ecosystem that connects the land and sea. Mangroves consist of species that are not necessarily related to each other and are often grouped for the characteristi... | 3.234375 | 0 |
5411659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20ecosystem | Marine ecosystem | Seagrasses evolved from marine algae which colonized land and became land plants, and then returned to the ocean about 100 million years ago. However, today seagrass meadows are being damaged by human activities such as pollution from land runoff, fishing boats that drag dredges or trawls across the meadows uprooting t... | 3.265625 | 0 |
5411659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20ecosystem | Marine ecosystem | Estuaries occur where there is a noticeable change in salinity between saltwater and freshwater sources. This is typically found where rivers meet the ocean or sea. The wildlife found within estuaries is unique as the water in these areas is brackish - a mix of freshwater flowing to the ocean and salty seawater. Other ... | 3.296875 | 0 |
5411659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20ecosystem | Marine ecosystem | Lagoons are areas that are separated from larger water by natural barriers such as coral reefs or sandbars. There are two types of lagoons, coastal and oceanic/atoll lagoons. A coastal lagoon is, as the definition above, simply a body of water that is separated from the ocean by a barrier. An atoll lagoon is a circular... | 3.234375 | 0 |
5411659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20ecosystem | Marine ecosystem | Salt marshes are a transition from the ocean to the land, where fresh and saltwater mix. The soil in these marshes is often made up of mud and a layer of organic material called peat. Peat is characterized as waterlogged and root-filled decomposing plant matter that often causes low oxygen levels (hypoxia). These hypox... | 3.296875 | 0 |
5411659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20ecosystem | Marine ecosystem | The ocean's surface acts like a skin between the atmosphere above and the water below, and harbours an ecosystem unique to this environment. This sun-drenched habitat can be defined as roughly one metre in depth, as nearly half of UV-B is attenuated within this first meter. Organisms here must contend with wave action ... | 3.359375 | 0 |
5411659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20ecosystem | Marine ecosystem | Altogether, there are 66 LMEs, which contribute an estimated $3 trillion annually. This includes being responsible for 90% of global annual marine fishery biomass. LME-based conservation is based on recognition that the world's coastal ocean waters are degraded by unsustainable fishing practices, habitat degradation, e... | 3 | 0 |
5411659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20ecosystem | Marine ecosystem | Large marine ecosystems include:
East Bering Sea
Gulf of Alaska
California Current
Gulf of California
Gulf of Mexico
Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf
Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf
Scotian Shelf
Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf
Insular Pacific-Hawaiian
Pacific Central-American Coastal
Caribbean Sea
Humboldt... | 2.921875 | 0 |
5411659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20ecosystem | Marine ecosystem | The productivity of a marine ecosystem can be measured in several ways. Measurements pertaining to zooplankton biodiversity and species composition, zooplankton biomass, water-column structure, photosynthetically active radiation, transparency, chlorophyll-a, nitrate, and primary production are used to assess changes i... | 3.265625 | 0 |
5411727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20description%20coding | Multiple description coding | Multiple description coding (MDC) in computing is a coding technique that fragments a single media stream into n substreams (n ≥ 2) referred to as descriptions. The packets of each description are routed over multiple, (partially) disjoint paths. In order to decode the media stream, any description can be used, however... | 2.078125 | 0 |
5411728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharfe%2C%20North%20Yorkshire | Wharfe, North Yorkshire | Wharfe is a hamlet about a mile north east of the village of Austwick, North Yorkshire, England. Its postcode is LA2 8DQ. The name means 'The bend', The hamlet is the only settlement in Crummackdale, the upper valley of Austwick Beck. Austwick Beck, which runs through Wharfe, flows into the River Wenning which in tu... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5411758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Naval%20College%2C%20Osborne | Royal Naval College, Osborne | The Royal Naval College, Osborne, was a training college for Royal Navy officer cadets on the Osborne House estate, Isle of Wight, established in 1903 and closed in 1921.
Boys were admitted at about the age of thirteen to follow a course lasting for six academic terms before proceeding to the Royal Naval College, Dart... | 2.59375 | 0 |
5411758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Naval%20College%2C%20Osborne | Royal Naval College, Osborne | Boys at the college wore naval uniform and generally stayed for two years of initial training, divided into six terms, then from about the age of fifteen they continued their studies at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. HMS Racer, a ship dating from 1884, was given to the college at Osborne as a tender. All cadets we... | 2.765625 | 0 |
5411762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme%20Haldane | Graeme Haldane | Thomas Graeme Nelson Haldane, known as Graeme Haldane (14 December 1897 – 24 June 1981), was a Scottish engineer.
He was the son of Sir William Haldane and his wife Edith Nelson. He was a nephew of Elizabeth Haldane, Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane and John Scott Haldane, and a cousin of the writer Naomi... | 2.28125 | 0 |
5411790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20Peruvians | Japanese Peruvians | World War II
Although there had been ongoing tensions between non-Japanese and Japanese Peruvians, the situation was drastically exacerbated by the war. Rising tensions ultimately led to a series of discriminatory laws being passed in 1936, the results of which included stigmatization of Japanese immigrants as "bestial... | 3.15625 | 0 |
5411790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20Peruvians | Japanese Peruvians | Fearing the Empire of Japan could sooner or later decide to invade the Republic of Peru and use the Southern American country as a landing base for its troops and its nationals living there as foreign agents against the US, in order to open another military front in the American Pacific, the U.S. government quickly neg... | 2.6875 | 0 |
5411814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arran%20whitebeams | Arran whitebeams | The Arran whitebeams are species of whitebeam endemic to the island of Arran, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Status
These trees, sometimes called the Scottish or Arran whitebeam (Sorbus arranensis), the bastard mountain ash or cut-leaved whitebeam (Sorbus pseudofennica) and the Catacol whitebeam (Sorbus pseudomeinichii) are, if... | 2.15625 | 0 |
5411814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arran%20whitebeams | Arran whitebeams | History
The oldest preserved specimen is from the bastard mountain ash, S. pseudofennica, collected in 1797 from North Arran and another of the same species is in the British Museum dated 1838, when it was known as Pyrus pinnatifida (the pear group). S. pseudofennica was authoritatively recognised as a separate specie... | 2.296875 | 0 |
5411814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arran%20whitebeams | Arran whitebeams | A number of other Sorbus species have been produced in this way, such as the Devon whitebeam, the Bristol whitebeam, the Cheddar whitebeam, Irish whitebeam, Lancaster whitebeam, etc. All are rare and require careful protection and expert habitat management if they are to survive in the wild.
In Scandinavia, particular... | 2.78125 | 0 |
5411839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngawang%20Choephel | Ngawang Choephel | Ngawang Choephel is a documentary filmmaker, director, producer, and musician.
Early life
Choephel was born in western Tibet in 1966. When he was two years old, he and his mother fled the hardships of Chinese occupation and sought refuge in India. They settled in a Tibetan settlement in Southern India, where Choephel ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
5411905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930%20Polish%20parliamentary%20election | 1930 Polish parliamentary election | Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 16 November 1930, with Senate elections held a week later on 23 November. In what became known as the Brest elections (), the pro-Sanation Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government took 47% of the vote and 249 of the 444 seats in Sejm and 77 of the 111 seats in ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
5411911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese%20Workers%27%20Trade%20Union%20Federation | Sudanese Workers' Trade Union Federation | The Sudanese Workers' Trade Union Federation (SWTUF) is the sole national trade union center in the Sudan.
The current SWTUF is a government sponsored trade union federation that was re-organized in 1992 from the original SWTUF which, along with all other trade unions, was dissolved by Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir when ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
5411915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Water%20Nixie | The Water Nixie | "The Water Nixie" or "The Water-Nix" is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 79. It came from Hanau.
It is Aarne-Thompson type 313A, the girl helps the hero flee and revolves about a transformation chase. Others of this type include
The Master Maid, Jean, the Soldier, and Eulalie, the Devil's D... | 2.171875 | 0 |
5411917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strathaven%20Castle | Strathaven Castle | The castle comprised a three-storey rectangular block, around 11.2m by 21.2m, with a four-storey round tower at the north-west corner, and a small projecting wing at the south-east. Of this, the north wall and the tower remain almost complete, with fragments of the other walls. Internally, the remains of a collapsed ba... | 2.4375 | 0 |
5411925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrin | Agrin | Agrin is a large proteoglycan whose best-characterised role is in the development of the neuromuscular junction during embryogenesis. Agrin is named based on its involvement in the aggregation of acetylcholine receptors during synaptogenesis. In humans, this protein is encoded by the AGRN gene.
This protein has nine ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
5412044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton-on-the-Fosse | Stratton-on-the-Fosse | Stratton-on-the-Fosse is a village and civil parish located on the edge of the Mendip Hills, south-west of Westfield, north-east of Shepton Mallet, and from Frome, in Somerset, England. It has a population of 1,108, and has a rural agricultural landscape, although it was part of the once-thriving Somerset coalfield.... | 2.4375 | 0 |
5412105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20H.%20O%27Brien%20Jr. | George H. O'Brien Jr. | George Herman O'Brien Jr. (September 10, 1926 – March 11, 2005) was a United States Marine Corps officer who received the Medal of Honor, the United States's highest military decoration, for his actions during the First Battle of the Hook in the Korean War.
Biography
O'Brien was born on September 10, 1926, in Fort Wor... | 2.4375 | 0 |
5412111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster%20Orchestra | Ulster Orchestra | The Ulster Orchestra is a full-time professional orchestra in Northern Ireland. Based in Belfast, the orchestra plays the majority of its concerts in Belfast's Ulster Hall and Waterfront Hall. It also gives concerts across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, including performances at the Belfast Festival, ... | 2.375 | 0 |
5412111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster%20Orchestra | Ulster Orchestra | The orchestra's annual turnover in 2001/02 was in excess of £3.4 million. Byers has guided the orchestra through recent financial issues, including the increase of a grant from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from GB £1.34 million (2002) to £1.69 million (2003) and to £2.05 million (2008).
In October 2014, it was... | 2.21875 | 0 |
5412146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Piano%20Teacher%20%28Jelinek%20novel%29 | The Piano Teacher (Jelinek novel) | The Piano Teacher ( ; ) is a novel by Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, first published in 1983 by Rowohlt Verlag. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, it was the first of Jelinek's novels to be translated into English.
The novel follows protagonist Erika Kohut (), a sexually and emotionally repressed piano ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
5412219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Turner%20%28writer%29 | Steve Turner (writer) | Steve Turner is an English music journalist, biographer, and poet, who grew up in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England.
Career
Turner's first published article was in the Beatles Monthly in 1969. His career as a journalist began as features editor of Beat Instrumental, where he interviewed many of the prominent rock mu... | 1.960938 | 0 |
5412240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Kohn | Ralph Kohn | Sir Ralph Kohn FRS FMedSci FBPhS (9 December 1927 – 11 November 2016) was a British medical scientist, recipient of the Queen's Award for Export Achievement for his work in the pharmaceutical industry.
Early life
Ralph Kohn was born in Leipzig on 9 December 1927 into a family of Orthodox Jews. His father, Marcus Kohn,... | 2.53125 | 0 |
5412240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Kohn | Ralph Kohn | He recorded 18 CDs, mostly of lieder, including song cycles by Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven and Mahler, as well as Italian Baroque love songs, and arias from cantatas by Ralph’s beloved J.S. Bach, accompanied by leading British pianists such as Graham Johnson and Roger Vignoles. He also made orchestral recordings with... | 2.21875 | 0 |
5412275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Hunt%20%28golfer%29 | Guy Hunt (golfer) | Guy Lewis Hunt (born 17 January 1947) is an English professional golfer. He won the 1977 Dunlop Masters and played in the 1975 Ryder Cup.
Professional career
Hunt turned professional as a sixteen-year-old in 1963 becoming an assistant at Bishop's Stortford Golf Club. He had some success in 1968, winning the Southern P... | 1.90625 | 0 |
5412285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Enemy%20Offensives | Seven Enemy Offensives | The First Enemy Offensive, the attack conducted by the Axis in autumn of 1941 against the "Republic of Užice", a liberated territory the Partisans established in the western region of the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia. In November 1941, under the codename 'Operation Uzice', German troops attacked and re... | 2.578125 | 0 |
5412367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plattsburgh%20Pioneers | Plattsburgh Pioneers | The Plattsburgh Pioneers were a junior ice hockey team, based in Plattsburgh, New York, who played 17 games in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League during the 1984–85 QMJHL season.
History
The Pioneers were the QMJHL's first expansion into the United States. However, the league refused to hold an expansion draft to s... | 1.929688 | 0 |
5412423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Round%20Top | Big Round Top | Big Round Top is a boulder-strewn hill notable as the topographic high point of the Gettysburg Battlefield and for 1863 American Civil War engagements for which Medals of Honor were awarded. In addition to battle monuments, a historic reconstruction era structure on the uninhabited hill is the Big Round Top Observation... | 2.5625 | 0 |
5412427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baie%20Verte%2C%20Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador | Baie Verte, Newfoundland and Labrador | Baie Verte (2021 Population 1,311) is a town located on the north coast of the island portion of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador on the Baie Verte Peninsula.
The French named the area for its greenness, "green bay."
Geography
Baie Verte is one of 42 communities that make up the Emerald Zone which i... | 2.671875 | 0 |
5412499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Lee%20%28valet%29 | William Lee (valet) | William Lee (c. 17501810) was an American slave and personal assistant of George Washington. He was the only one of Washington's slaves who was freed immediately by Washington's will. Because he served by Washington's side throughout the American Revolutionary War and was sometimes depicted next to Washington in painti... | 2.546875 | 0 |
5412499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Lee%20%28valet%29 | William Lee (valet) | Later life
Lee's wife was Margaret Thomas Lee, a free African-American from Philadelphia who had worked as a servant in Washington's headquarters during the war. Slave marriages were not recognized by Virginian law, but in 1784, at the couple's request, Washington tried to arrange having Margaret move to Mount Vernon t... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5412550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Cardona | George Cardona | George Cardona (; born June 3, 1936) is an American linguist, Indologist, Sanskritist, and scholar of Pāṇini. Described as "a luminary" in Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, and Pāṇinian linguistics since the early sixties, Cardona has been recognized as the leading Western scholar of the Indian grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
5412610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burin%2C%20Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador | Burin, Newfoundland and Labrador | Burin ( ) is a town on the Burin Peninsula in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The Burin Peninsula is often affectionately nicknamed "The Boot" due to its resemblance to the footwear when seen on a map, with the town of Burin located near the "heel". Burin is approximately 318 km from the capital of St... | 2.21875 | 0 |
5412618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Szuminski | Jason Szuminski | Jason Ernest Szuminski (born December 11, 1978) is a former right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher who has the distinction of being the first athlete from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the first United States Air Force reservist (as a First Lieutenant) to play in Major League Baseball.
Career
After a s... | 2.078125 | 0 |
5412689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown%2C%20Victoria | Chinatown, Victoria | The Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia is the oldest Chinatown in Canada and the second oldest in North America after San Francisco. Victoria's Chinatown had its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century in the mass influx of miners from California to what is now British Columbia in 1858. It remains an actively inh... | 2.65625 | 0 |
5412689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown%2C%20Victoria | Chinatown, Victoria | Victoria's revitalized Chinatown is a popular area for tourists as well as for the artistic community. The focus is the 500–600 block of Fisgard Street, including famously narrow Fan Tan Alley, the old Chinese School and a small selection of historic buildings and Chinese businesses. Many historic buildings have been w... | 2.359375 | 0 |
5412703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conche%2C%20Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador | Conche, Newfoundland and Labrador | Conche ( ) is a community on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Its population in 2021 was 149.
The community
Conche is located on the sheltered southwest side of a small bay formed by the south side of a T-shaped peninsula, called the Conche Peninsula, which is joined to the mainland by a ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
5412703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conche%2C%20Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador | Conche, Newfoundland and Labrador | Relations between the French and Irish settlers were ambivalent. The settlers served as protectors of the French property and George Casey reports that many of them were bilingual. The population grew rapidly and by 1867 a school was reported operating in Conche. Although there were concurrent fishing rights on the Fre... | 2.5 | 0 |
5412733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loup%20Canal | Loup Canal | The Loup Canal is a hydroelectric and irrigation canal located in eastern Nebraska, United States. The canal is owned and managed by Loup Power District, a public power electric utility.
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The canal is long. It begins at headworks on the Loup River in Nance County, between Fullerton and Genoa. It passes through a ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
5412746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Magic%20Window | The Magic Window | The Magic Window (also known as The House with the Magic Window) is an American children's television program broadcast on ABC affiliate WOI-TV in Ames, Iowa, from 1951 to 1994. With a run of 43 years, it is the longest-running children's television program in American history. (Bozo's Circus technically had a longer r... | 2.28125 | 0 |
5412762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymah%20Governorate | Raymah Governorate | Raymah ( ) is a governorate of Yemen. Its capital is Al Jabin. The governorate was established in January 2004 from parts of Sanaa Governorate. Its name derives from Wadi Rima, which crosses through the governorate.
Geography and districts
Raymah Governorate is located in the middle of Yemen's western mountain range,... | 2.484375 | 0 |
5412763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayreddin%20Barbarossa | Hayreddin Barbarossa | Hayreddin Barbarossa (, original name: Khiḍr; ), also known as Hayreddin Pasha, Hızır Hayrettin Pasha, and simply Hızır Reis (c. 1466/1483 – 4 July 1546), was an Ottoman corsair and later admiral of the Ottoman Navy. Barbarossa's naval victories secured Ottoman dominance over the Mediterranean during the mid-16th centu... | 2.546875 | 0 |
5412763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayreddin%20Barbarossa | Hayreddin Barbarossa | In 1532, during Suleiman I's expedition to Habsburg Austria, Andrea Doria captured Coron, Patras and Lepanto on the coasts of the Morea (Peloponnese). In response, Suleiman sent the forces of Yahya Pashazade Mehmed Bey, who recaptured these cities, but the event made Suleiman realize the importance of having a powerful... | 2.546875 | 0 |
5412763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayreddin%20Barbarossa | Hayreddin Barbarossa | In 1534, Barbarossa set sail from Constantinople with 80 galleys, and in April, he recaptured Coron, Patras and Lepanto from the Spaniards. In July 1534, he crossed the Strait of Messina and raided the Calabrian coasts, capturing a substantial number of ships around Reggio Calabria as well as the Castle of San Lucido. ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
5412763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayreddin%20Barbarossa | Hayreddin Barbarossa | Mulei Hassan asked Emperor Charles V for help in recovering his kingdom, and a Spanish-Italian force of 300 galleys and 24,000 soldiers recaptured Tunis as well as Bône and Mahdiya in 1535. Recognizing the futility of armed resistance, Barbarossa had abandoned Tunis well before the arrival of the invaders, sailing away... | 2.625 | 0 |
5412763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayreddin%20Barbarossa | Hayreddin Barbarossa | In February 1538, Pope Paul III succeeded in assembling a Holy League (composed of the Papacy, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Republic of Venice and the Maltese Knights) against the Ottomans, but Barbarossa's forces led by Sinan Reis defeated its combined fleet, commanded by Andrea Doria, at the Battle of Preveza in... | 2.859375 | 0 |
5412763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayreddin%20Barbarossa | Hayreddin Barbarossa | Eventually, a violent storm disrupted Charles's landing operations. Andrea Doria took his fleet away into open waters to avoid being wrecked on the shore, but much of the Spanish fleet went aground. After some indecisive fighting on land, Charles had to abandon the effort and withdraw his severely battered force.
Fran... | 2.578125 | 0 |
5412763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayreddin%20Barbarossa | Hayreddin Barbarossa | In the spring of 1544, after assaulting San Remo for the second time and landing at Borghetto Santo Spirito and Ceriale, Barbarossa defeated another Spanish-Italian fleet and raided deeply into the Kingdom of Naples. He then sailed to Genoa with his 210 ships and threatened to attack the city unless it freed Turgut Rei... | 2.5 | 0 |
5412763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayreddin%20Barbarossa | Hayreddin Barbarossa | Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha died in 1546 in his seaside palace in the Büyükdere neighbourhood of Istanbul, on the northwestern shores of the Bosphorus. He is buried in the tall mausoleum (türbe) near the ferry port of the district of Beşiktaş on the European side of Istanbul, which was built in 1541 by the famous archit... | 2.484375 | 0 |
5412763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayreddin%20Barbarossa | Hayreddin Barbarossa | Legacy
Hayreddin Barbarossa established the Ottoman supremacy in the Mediterranean, which lasted until the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
During these centuries of great seamen such as Kemal Reis before him; his brother Oruç Reis and other contemporaries Turgut Reis, Salih Reis, Piri Reis and Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis; or... | 2.59375 | 0 |
5412802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupids | Cupids | Cupids is a town of 699 people (per the 2021 Census) on Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It has also been known as Coopers, Copers Cove, Cupers Cove, and Cuperts. It is the oldest continuously settled official British colony in Canada. Cupids is believed to be the site of the first child born of Eur... | 2.140625 | 0 |
5412817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Eerie%20%28album%29 | Mount Eerie (album) | For the choir of "IV: Mount Eerie", Elverum put up posters in Olympia, Washington, asking for singers. He recorded eight singers. In the section labelled "Big Black Death", referred to by Elverum as "Kyle's rap", Kyle Field wrote and sang the lyrics for the personification of death. A line from the section, “Do you see... | 2.171875 | 0 |
5412864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me%C5%A1trovi%C4%87%20Pavilion | Meštrović Pavilion | The Meštrović Pavilion (), also known as the Home of Croatian Artists () and colloquially as the Mosque (), is a cultural venue and the official seat of the Croatian Society of Fine Artists (HDLU) located on the Square of the Victims of Fascism in central Zagreb, Croatia. Designed by Ivan Meštrović and built in 1938, i... | 2.28125 | 0 |
5412864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me%C5%A1trovi%C4%87%20Pavilion | Meštrović Pavilion | The interior was designed to accommodate three categories of art: sculpture, painting, and photography/works on paper. The main entrance of the pavilion opens into a vestibule flanked on either side by staircases. Directly ahead is the central exhibition hall, a cylindrical space designed for exhibiting sculpture. Abov... | 2.34375 | 0 |
5412864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me%C5%A1trovi%C4%87%20Pavilion | Meštrović Pavilion | The mosque was inaugurated on 18 July 1944 and functioned until 1945. In 1949, the minarets were demolished and the interior decor was removed to make way for the new Museum of the Revolution.
The Museum of the Revolution
Architect Vjenceslav Richter headed the project to design the Museum of the Revolution, which wa... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5412865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Rolle%2C%201st%20Baron%20Rolle | John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle | John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1750 – 3 April 1842) was a British politician and peer who served as a Member of Parliament in general support of William Pitt the Younger and was later an active member of the House of Lords. His violent attacks on Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox in the early 1780s led to his being the ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5412865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Rolle%2C%201st%20Baron%20Rolle | John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle | Career
He was educated at Winchester College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and became a country gentleman in Devon. He lived at Tidwell, within the family owned manor of East Budleigh on the south Devon coast, certainly between 1786 and 1796. The estate of Tidwell had been purchased by the Walrond family in about 17... | 2.234375 | 0 |
5412865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Rolle%2C%201st%20Baron%20Rolle | John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle | He supported the Shelburne government's peace proposals in 1783, although he had not been a consistent supporter of that ministry (being rated by Robinson, the Parliamentary manager, as 'doubtful'). During the Fox-North Coalition, Rolle was appalled when Edmund Burke reappointed two Pay Office officials called Powell a... | 2.59375 | 0 |
5412865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Rolle%2C%201st%20Baron%20Rolle | John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle | The Rolliad
The violence of his attack led the supporters of Fox and Burke to make him the chief object of the Rolliad, which purported to be a literary criticism of an epic poem but was actually a vehicle used by the authors to insult all their opponents. The dedication of the Rolliad reads:
It gives a spoof pedigree... | 1.953125 | 0 |
5412885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20v%20Wigglesworth | R v Wigglesworth | R v Wigglesworth, [1987] 2 S.C.R. 541 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the constitutional right against double jeopardy under Section 11(h) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Court gave a two-part test to determine whether a proceeding deals with a criminal matter.
Background
Roger Wig... | 2.015625 | 0 |
5412907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liland%20affair | Liland affair | New medical experts
Analysis of the victim's blood showed that Larsen had a blood alcohol level of 0.023% at the time of death, while no alcohol was detected in Johansen's blood. There had been a party at the scene of the crime on 22 December and much alcohol had been consumed. Both murder victims were characterised ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5412937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Portuguese%20Americans | List of Portuguese Americans | Science and medicine
Goncalo R. Abecasis (born 1976) – geneticist at the University of Michigan. One of the world's most cited scientists in 2009.
Robert L. Carneiro (1927–2020) – prominent anthropologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History
António Damásio (born 1944) – Portuguese-American neurosci... | 2.46875 | 0 |
5412942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osman%27s%20Dream | Osman's Dream | Osman's Dream is a mythological story about the life of Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire. The story describes a dream experienced by Osman while staying in the home of a religious figure, Sheikh Edebali, in which he sees a metaphorical vision predicting the growth and prosperity of an empire to be ruled by him an... | 2.671875 | 0 |
5412945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eken%C3%A4s%20Castle | Ekenäs Castle | Ekenäs Castle (Ekenäs slott in Swedish) is a castle located outside Linköping in Linköping Municipality, Östergötland, Sweden. The present castle was built in the 17th century on top of the foundations of a medieval fortress from the 14th century. The lake surrounding the castle hill created a natural defense; however,... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5412970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbil%20International%20Airport | Erbil International Airport | Erbil International Airport () (), is an airport in the city of Erbil in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is one of two international airports in the KRI, the other being Sulaymaniyah Airport, with a third in Duhok being under construction. The new modern airport opened in 2005. The airport has one of the longest runways in... | 2.296875 | 0 |
5412973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20G.%20Peter | H. G. Peter | Harry George Peter (March 8, 1880 – January 2, 1958) was an American newspaper illustrator and cartoonist known for his work on the Wonder Woman comic book and for Bud Fisher of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Biography
Harry George Peter was born in San Rafael, California, in 1880, the third of three children. Parents L... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5412973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20G.%20Peter | H. G. Peter | His most lasting work came when the 61-year-old artist brought William Moulton Marston's Amazonian superheroine Wonder Woman to life on the pages of comic books (even though Peter went on to be uncredited in her creation) in October 1941. Peter notably changed his Gibson technique to an Art Nouveau-influenced cartoonin... | 2.390625 | 0 |
5412973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20G.%20Peter | H. G. Peter | In 1972, Ms. magazine compiled a hardcover collection reprinting the Golden Age Wonder Woman stories of Marston and Peter. Gloria Steinem selected the stories and wrote of them, "Wonder Woman symbolizes many of the values of the women's culture that Feminists are now trying to introduce into the mainstream: strength an... | 2.40625 | 0 |
5413025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavernous%20sinus%20thrombosis | Cavernous sinus thrombosis | Cavernous sinus thrombosis (CST) is the formation of a blood clot within the cavernous sinus, a cavity at the base of the brain which drains deoxygenated blood from the brain back to the heart. This is a rare disorder and can be of two types–septic cavernous thrombosis and aseptic cavernous thrombosis. The most common ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
5413025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavernous%20sinus%20thrombosis | Cavernous sinus thrombosis | Ptosis, chemosis, cranial nerve palsies (III, IV, V, VI). Sixth nerve palsy is the most common. Sensory deficits of the ophthalmic and maxillary branch of the fifth nerve are common. Periorbital sensory loss and impaired corneal reflex may be noted. Papilledema, retinal hemorrhages, and decreased visual acuity and blin... | 2.28125 | 0 |
5413025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavernous%20sinus%20thrombosis | Cavernous sinus thrombosis | Diagnosis
The diagnosis of cavernous sinus thrombosis is made clinically, with imaging studies to confirm the clinical impression. Proptosis, ptosis, chemosis, and cranial nerve palsy beginning in one eye and progressing to the other eye establish the diagnosis. Cavernous sinus thrombosis is a clinical diagnosis with l... | 1.976563 | 0 |
5413079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Name%20Is%20Rachel%20Corrie | My Name Is Rachel Corrie | My Name Is Rachel Corrie is a play based on the diaries and emails of activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli soldier when she was aged 23. It was jointly edited by journalist Katharine Viner and actor Alan Rickman, who also directed it.
Rachel Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American Ever... | 1.976563 | 0 |
5413089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotoneaster%20franchetii | Cotoneaster franchetii | Cotoneaster franchetii (Franchet's cotoneaster or orange cotoneaster) is a species of Cotoneaster native to southwestern China, in the provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan, Tibet, and Yunnan, and also in adjacent northern Myanmar and northern Thailand.
It is an evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub growing to tall. The leaves a... | 2.921875 | 0 |
5413091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Irish%20Americans | List of Irish Americans | Margaret Murnane - Physicist who has earned multiple awards including the MacArthur Fellowship award in 2000, the Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Prize in 2017, the highest award of The Optical Society, and the 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.
John P. Hayes - Computer scientist and electrical engineer who in 2013, t... | 1.96875 | 0 |
5413091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Irish%20Americans | List of Irish Americans | Betty Sullivan - Biochemist and first women to win the Osbourne Medal by the American Association of Cereal Chemists. Sullivan was also awarded the Garvan–Olin Medal in 1954 by the American Chemical Society.
Craig Fennie - Physicist and materials scientist. He is best known for winning a MacArthur Award in 2013.
Nevill... | 2 | 0 |
5413091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Irish%20Americans | List of Irish Americans | John McCarthy (mathematician) - Mathematician who won the Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson award in 2016.
Michael J. Flynn - Electrical Engineer who won the Computer Pioneer Award
Michael O'Shaughnessy - Civil Engineer for which O'Shaughnessy Dam (California) is named after.
Joseph Francis Shea - Aerospace engineer an... | 2.234375 | 0 |
5413102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotid%20artery%20dissection | Carotid artery dissection | Carotid artery dissection is a serious condition in which a tear forms in one of the two main carotid arteries in the neck, allowing blood to enter the artery wall and separate its layers (*dissection*). This separation can lead to the formation of a blood clot, narrowing of the artery, and restricted blood flow to the... | 2.796875 | 0 |
5413102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotid%20artery%20dissection | Carotid artery dissection | The carotid arteries are major blood vessels in the neck that branch into smaller vessels called the external and internal carotid arteries. In carotid artery dissection, a tear in the arterial wall allows blood to flow between the layers of the artery, leading to potential narrowing, reduced blood flow, or clot format... | 2.953125 | 0 |
5413102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotid%20artery%20dissection | Carotid artery dissection | Observational studies and case reports published since the early 1980s show that patients with spontaneous internal carotid artery dissection may also have a history of stroke in their family and/or hereditary connective tissue disorders, such as Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, autosomal dominant polycystic ki... | 2.3125 | 0 |
5413102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotid%20artery%20dissection | Carotid artery dissection | Artery dissection has also been reported in association with some forms of neck manipulation. There is significant controversy about the level of risk of stroke from neck manipulation. It may be that manipulation can cause dissection, or it may be that the dissection is already present in some people who seek manipulat... | 2.578125 | 0 |
5413166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainslie%20Meares | Ainslie Meares | Ainslie Dixon Meares (3 March 1910 – 19 September 1986) was an Australian psychiatrist, scholar of hypnotism, psychotherapist, authority on stress and a prolific author who lived and practised in Melbourne.
Early life
Ainslie Meares was born in Malvern, Victoria, on 3 March 1910, the eldest son of medical practitione... | 1.953125 | 0 |
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