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5415030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20hero | False hero | The false hero is a stock character in fairy tales, and sometimes also in ballads. The character appears near the end of a story in order to claim to be the hero or heroine and is usually of the same sex as the hero or heroine. The false hero presents some claim to the position. By testing, it is revealed that the clai... | 2.578125 | 0 |
5415030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20hero | False hero | Hans Christian Andersen's literary tale "The Little Mermaid" makes a variation not usually found in more traditional fairytales. The Temple Girl fits the above prototype, since she gets the credit (which actually belongs to the Mermaid) for saving the Prince's life and wins his love. But unlike in the above-mentioned e... | 2.328125 | 0 |
5415031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Poston | Elizabeth Poston | Poston composed scores for radio and television productions – over 40 for radio alone – and collaborated with C. S. Lewis, Dylan Thomas, Terence Tiller and other writers. She wrote the score for the 1970 BBC television production of Howards End (broadcast on 26 December 1970 as Play of the Month, now lost) while living... | 2.359375 | 0 |
5415031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Poston | Elizabeth Poston | Writing and editing
In addition to composing, Poston was an academic, writer and editor. In 1947 she created a five-part lecture series on Peter Warlock for the BBC. Much later, she defended his reputation in a very personal broadcast talk.
She wrote articles and programme notes for the Arts Council of Great Britain a... | 2.359375 | 0 |
5415035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20of%20Virginia%20Tech | Campus of Virginia Tech | The main campus of Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia; the central campus is roughly bordered by Prices Fork Road to the northwest, Plantation Road to the west, Main Street to the east, and U.S. Route 460 bypass to the south, although it also has several thousand acres beyond the central campus. The Virgi... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5415035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20of%20Virginia%20Tech | Campus of Virginia Tech | Burchard Hall
Constructed in 1998 and named after Charles Burchard, the founding dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies between 1964 and 1979, Burchard Hall provides studio space for students in the architecture and industrial design programs. The building also provides office and classroom spaces as wel... | 2.34375 | 0 |
5415035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20of%20Virginia%20Tech | Campus of Virginia Tech | Norris Hall
Norris Hall is a four-story (1 floor below grade) Hokie Stone academic building located between Burruss and Holden Halls. The two wings of the building, built in 1960 and 1962, encompass approximately 70,000 gross square feet and house the main office for the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics,... | 2.375 | 0 |
5415035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20of%20Virginia%20Tech | Campus of Virginia Tech | When women were integrated into VPI, it was the first and only women's dormitory and was built on what was then the far corner of the campus near several large livestock barns used by the College of Agriculture that once stood near where Harper Hall now stands. When Hillcrest opened in 1940 it was promptly dubbed the "... | 2.078125 | 0 |
5415035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20of%20Virginia%20Tech | Campus of Virginia Tech | Hoge Hall was formerly known as Lee Hall for more than half a century. It was named for Dr. Claudius Lee, an 1896 alumnus of Tech and a professor of electrical engineering who served the university in various capacities for nearly seventy years. In 1997, students in a history class found a page in the 1896 Bugle (Virgi... | 2.421875 | 0 |
5415035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20of%20Virginia%20Tech | Campus of Virginia Tech | The issue of Lee Hall re-emerged in 2004, and the Virginia Tech Commission on Equal Opportunity and Diversity issued recommendations to broaden education on the subject of Claudius Lee and also for strengthening diversity efforts across the university. On August 13, 2020 the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors voted to re... | 1.960938 | 0 |
5415035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20of%20Virginia%20Tech | Campus of Virginia Tech | Slusher Hall
The twelve-storey Slusher Tower built in 1972 is the tallest building in Blacksburg. Slusher Tower, including a three-story annex, Slusher Wing, was originally an all male dorm is a co-ed residence hall, that houses 630 students and is home to the WING and MOSAIC theme housing programs. In 1997, Melinda Ma... | 2.109375 | 0 |
5415035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20of%20Virginia%20Tech | Campus of Virginia Tech | Other residence halls
Whitehurst Hall – (1962) originally known as Barringer Hall named for Dr. Paul Brandon Barringer is an all-male residence hall. Located in the President's Quad and houses about 220 students. Barringer, a prominent physician who was chairman of the faculty at University of Virginia from 1895 to 19... | 2.40625 | 0 |
5415035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20of%20Virginia%20Tech | Campus of Virginia Tech | Living Learning Programs (LLPs)
Virginia Tech offers 23 Living Learning Communities (LLCs) and 3 Residential Colleges for on-campus students. They serve as an alternative experience for their residents and communities range across a variety of topics and shared experiences. Most of these programs have course requiremen... | 2.4375 | 0 |
5415035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20of%20Virginia%20Tech | Campus of Virginia Tech | Julian Ashby Burruss (1876–1947) was President from 1919 to 1945. The first alumnus president, Burruss guided VPI through tremendous increases in faculty, student body, and degree offerings; vast growth in the physical plant; and efficient changes in administrative structure. He successfully pushed to admit women and s... | 2.15625 | 0 |
5415035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20of%20Virginia%20Tech | Campus of Virginia Tech | Other miscellaneous buildings
Alumni Hall
Armory
Cranwell International Center
The Grove (President's Residence)
Health and Safety Building
Henderson Hall (formerly the President's Residence from 1876 to 1902)
Information/Visitors Center
McComas Hall
Media Building
Moss Arts Center (formerly Shultz Dining Hal... | 1.921875 | 0 |
5415151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland%20Symphony%20Orchestra | Portland Symphony Orchestra | The Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) was established in 1923 in Portland, Maine as the Amateur Strand Symphony Orchestra. Started by a small group of musicians who had sent out invitations to join their organization to people in the area, they had their first rehearsal the following year with 75 instrumentalists, givi... | 2.78125 | 0 |
5415151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland%20Symphony%20Orchestra | Portland Symphony Orchestra | In 1952, the concertmaster and associate conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Richard Burgin, became the PSO's conductor. His legacy was to help improve the string section.
Rouben Gregorian took over in 1958, after Burgin's administration ended. He was a graduate of Central College in Iran, where he had been th... | 2.171875 | 0 |
5415218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism%20Every%20Day | Autism Every Day | Autism Every Day is a controversial 2006 documentary film sponsored by Autism Speaks, and produced by Lauren Thierry, Jim Watkins and Eric Solomon. It follows mothers of high support needs autistic children, and consists mainly of interviews with the mothers.
A 13-minute version of Autism Every Day debuted at a fundra... | 2 | 0 |
5415237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quimper%20Peninsula | Quimper Peninsula | The Quimper Peninsula is a narrow peninsula forming the most northeastern extent of the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state in the northwestern United States of America.
The peninsula is named after the Peruvian-born Spanish explorer Manuel Quimper who, in command of , charted the north and south coasts of the Stra... | 2.8125 | 0 |
5415277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20State%20Route%2079 | New York State Route 79 | History
From Lisle to its western end, NY 79 almost exactly follows the Catskill Turnpike, originally maintained by the Susquehanna and Bath Turnpike Company, which also maintained the Catskill Turnpike east to Bainbridge along NY 206, and east along local roads and NY 54 to Bath. The only notable deviations are local,... | 2.203125 | 0 |
5415341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20K.%20Ayliff | H. K. Ayliff | H. K. Ayliff was an English theatre director who directed Shakespeare in contemporary dress as early as the 1920s, as well as Yellow Sands on Broadway.
H.K. Ayliff was one of a triumvirate of celebrated British theatre directors during the years between the two world wars, the others being Tyrone Guthrie and Basil Dea... | 2.265625 | 0 |
5415360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest%20ringlet | Forest ringlet | The forest ringlet (Dodonidia helmsii), also known as Helms' butterfly, or te pēpepe pōuri or pepe pouri in the Māori language, is a rare butterfly of the family Nymphalidae endemic to New Zealand. It is the only species in the genus Dodonidia.
Taxonomy
The forest ringlet was first described by Richard William Fereda... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5415362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbert%20I.%20King | Colbert I. King | Colbert Isaiah King (born September 20, 1939) is an American columnist for The Washington Post and the deputy editor of the Post's editorial page. In 2003, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
Early life
King was born to Amelia Colbert King and Isaiah King III and grew up in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Was... | 2.15625 | 0 |
5415403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptopelis%20vermiculatus | Leptopelis vermiculatus | Leptopelis vermiculatus, also known as the peacock tree frog, Amani forest treefrog, or vermiculated tree frog, is a species of frog found in forest areas in Tanzania. Sometimes the common name big-eyed tree frog is used, but this may also refer to another species, Leptopelis macrotis.
Description
This species is a m... | 2.703125 | 0 |
5415484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Macarthur | Elizabeth Macarthur | Elizabeth Macarthur (14 August 1766 – 9 February 1850) was an English-born landowner and businesswomen who was wife of John Macarthur.
Early life
Elizabeth Macarthur was born in Bridgerule England, the daughter of provincial farmers, Richard and Grace Veale of Cornish origin. Her father died when she was aged four yea... | 2.34375 | 0 |
5415484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Macarthur | Elizabeth Macarthur | Elizabeth's work centred on her family, the education of her children, and the management of a modest household. Elizabeth died in 1850, having first been estranged from her husband as his melancholia and paranoia deepened, and then surviving him by 16 years. She was an Anglican.
Role in founding Australian wool indus... | 2.703125 | 0 |
5415484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Macarthur | Elizabeth Macarthur | From nine pregnancies, seven children survived childhood. Her sons, Edward (1789–1872), James (1793-1794), John (1794-1831), James (1798-1867) and William (1800-1882), made worthy contributions to colonial governance, agriculture, politics and trade. Her eldest daughter Elizabeth (1792-1842) remained unmarried, despite... | 2.421875 | 0 |
5415553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyrini | Satyrini | The Satyrini is one of the tribes of the subfamily Satyrinae. It includes about 2200 species and is therefore the largest tribe in the subfamily which comprises 2500 species.
Distribution
Satyrini butterflies have a worldwide distribution, but the distribution pattern differs between subtribes. Some subtribes are alm... | 2.78125 | 0 |
5415565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20Penguin | Club Penguin | Club Penguin was a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) that ran from 2005 to 2017. The game featured a virtual world that included a wide range of online games and activities. It was created by New Horizon Interactive (now known as Disney Canada Inc.). Players used cartoon penguin-avatars and played in an Antarctic... | 1.953125 | 0 |
5415565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20Penguin | Club Penguin | Predecessors (2000–2004)
The first seeds of what would become Club Penguin began as a Flash 4 web-based game called Snow Blasters that developer Lance Priebe had been developing in his spare time in July 2000. Priebe's attention was brought to penguins after he "happened to glance at a Far Side cartoon featuring pengu... | 1.929688 | 0 |
5415565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20Penguin | Club Penguin | Early history (2004–2007)
Work commenced on the project in 2004, and the team settled on a name in the summer of 2005. The developers used the previous project Penguin Chat 2 – which was still online – as a jumping-off point in the design process, while incorporating concepts and ideas from Experimental Penguins. Peng... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5415565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20Penguin | Club Penguin | Child safety Club Penguin was designed for the ages of 6–14. Thus, one of the major concerns when designing Club Penguin was how to improve both the safety of participants and the suitability of the game to children. As Lane Merrifield stated, "the decision to build Club Penguin grew out of a desire to create a fun, vi... | 2.515625 | 0 |
5415565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20Penguin | Club Penguin | Coins for Change was an in-game charity fund-raising event which first appeared in 2007. The fund-raising lasted for approximately two weeks each December during the game's annual "Holiday Party". Players could "donate" their virtual coins to vote for three charitable issues: Kids who were sick, the environment, and ki... | 2.140625 | 0 |
5415565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20Penguin | Club Penguin | Critical reception Club Penguin received mixed reviews. The site was awarded a "kids' privacy seal of approval" from the Better Business Bureau. Similarly, Brian Ward, a Detective Inspector at the Child Abuse Investigation Command in the United Kingdom, stated that it was good for children to experience a restricted sy... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5415639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh%20Crane%20Iron%20Company | Lehigh Crane Iron Company | The Lehigh Crane Iron Company, later renamed Crane Iron Company, was a major ironmaking firm in the Lehigh Valley from its founding in 1839 until its sale in 1899. It was based in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, and was founded by Josiah White and Erskine Hazard, who financed its development through their Lehigh Coal & Navig... | 2.328125 | 0 |
5415639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh%20Crane%20Iron%20Company | Lehigh Crane Iron Company | By late winter, LC&NC was seeking suitable real estate, with water power and access to iron ores. Suitable acres were available a few miles below the Lehigh Gap in Northampton County. The company put its first furnace into blast in 1840, and quickly gained a reputation for efficiency and ironmaking prowess among the ma... | 2.421875 | 0 |
5415639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh%20Crane%20Iron%20Company | Lehigh Crane Iron Company | History
In 1837, the Yniscedwyn Works in Wales became the first ironworks in Britain to produce anthracite iron in commercial quantities, by use of the hot blast method. The works were owned by George Crane, and superintended by David Thomas. This discovery promised to provide a large market for anthracite, and the man... | 2.796875 | 0 |
5415639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh%20Crane%20Iron%20Company | Lehigh Crane Iron Company | The limestone flux for the furnaces was largely shipped from local quarries. A mixture of about 75% limonite and 25% magnetite ore was used to supply the furnace. Most of the limonite was mined locally: the first batch of ore smelted at the furnace was supplied by Henry Hoch's mine in Schoenersville nearby, and the min... | 2.5625 | 0 |
5415639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh%20Crane%20Iron%20Company | Lehigh Crane Iron Company | By this time, the iron furnaces also boasted a substantial plant railroad. This began with the construction of a private wagon and rail bridge, which the company opened to the public, across the Lehigh River in 1847 to facilitate ore shipment. This rail line would connect with the Lehigh Valley Railroad in West Catasau... | 2.40625 | 0 |
5415746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Jourdain | Bernard Jourdain | Bernard Jourdain (born August 16, 1950 in Brussels) is a Belgian born Mexican racing driver. Jourdain is the uncle of racer Michel Jourdain Jr., and a pivotal figure in Michel Jr.’s progression from novice to Champ Car race winner. Now retired from racing, Bernard runs a restaurant in California, as well as other busin... | 2.046875 | 0 |
5415761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20Musicians%27%20Union | Swedish Musicians' Union | The Swedish Musicians' Union (, Musikerna) is a trade union representing musicians in Sweden.
The union was founded on 19 December 1907 in Stockholm, with about 700 members. It grew very slowly until World War II, but this changed after it joined the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in 1939. It moved from 1,954 mem... | 2.734375 | 0 |
5415771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erebiola | Erebiola | Erebiola butleri, or Butler's ringlet, is an elusive New Zealand endemic butterfly, discovered in 1879 by John Enys at the alpine pass at the head of the Rakaia River. It is the only member of the genus Erebiola.
Erebiola is derived from Erebus, the ancient Greek world of darkness between Earth and Hades, while the sp... | 2.640625 | 0 |
5415771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erebiola | Erebiola | It favours subalpine terraces at altitudes of 900 to 1300 m in areas of snow-tussock with Hebe and Dracophyllum shrubs. Its preferred locations are often damp, almost boggy, or next to mountain lakes. It is very difficult to find even in areas where it has previously been seen, and so little is known about its actual ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
5415799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ferritto | John Ferritto | John E. Ferritto (January 20, 1937 – January 7, 2010) was an American composer, conductor, and music professor.
He graduated with honors in piano and violin performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and also holds a M.M. in composition from Yale University, where he studied piano with Ward Davenny, conducting... | 2.203125 | 0 |
5415825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojuelos%20de%20Jalisco | Ojuelos de Jalisco | Ojuelos de Jalisco is a town and municipality in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, being the easternmost municipality in Jalisco. The town's 1990 population was 7,265, although by the year 2010 it had increased to 11,881.
It sits at the junction of Mexico Highways 51, 70, and 80.
The municipality is located in the North-... | 2.671875 | 0 |
5415830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Jorion | Paul Jorion | Paul Jorion (born 22 July 1946 in Brussels) is by training an anthropologist, sociologist with a special interest in the cognitive sciences. He has also written seven books on capitalist economics.
Paul was born and raised in Belgium, and has been a professor at the universities of Brussels, Cambridge, Paris VIII and... | 1.921875 | 0 |
5415830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Jorion | Paul Jorion | Memory and consciousness
In an article published in 1999, Jorion offered a new theory of consciousness which goes beyond the Freudian notion that some of our decisions have unconscious motives by suggesting that in fact all our decision-making has unconscious roots, revealing freewill to be an illusion. Consciousness i... | 2.140625 | 0 |
5415847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earlene%20Brown | Earlene Brown | Earlene Brown (née Dennis; June 11, 1935 – May 1, 1983) was an American athlete notable for her careers in track and field and roller games. She competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics in the shot put and discus throw and won a bronze medal in the shot put in 1960; she finished fourth in the discus in 1956.
Life
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5415847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earlene%20Brown | Earlene Brown | Brown joined the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) at 21 in 1956, by which time she was already married to Henry Brown, a bricklayer, and had a baby boy, Reginald, born November 14, 1955. There, she started weight lifting under the tutelage of Des Koch, while America's original javelin technician Steve Seymour coached her i... | 2.390625 | 0 |
5415847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earlene%20Brown | Earlene Brown | In 1965 she retired from shot put competition. The same year she became a skater. As a blocker for the New York Bombers Roller Derby team, she was dubbed the "Brown Bomber". In 1975, after retiring from all athletic endeavors, she returned to her practice as beautician. She died aged 47, on May 1, 1983, in Compton, Cal... | 2.25 | 0 |
5415930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Tackett | Tim Tackett | Tim Tackett is a martial arts instructor and author from Redlands, California who runs a non-profit group dedicated to preserving Bruce Lee's art of Jeet Kune Do.
Martial arts history
Tackett began training in the martial arts when he was stationed in Taiwan in 1962 while serving in the United States Air Force. On the... | 2.265625 | 0 |
5415960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz%20Brodzi%C5%84ski | Kazimierz Brodziński | Kazimierz Brodziński (8 March 1791 in Królówka – 10 October 1835 in Dresden) was an important Polish Romantic poet.
Life
He was born in Królówka near Bochnia. He came from the low nobility. He was a student at schools in Tarnów, where he also graduated from the grammar school. He served in the army of the Duchy of Wa... | 2.484375 | 0 |
5415960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz%20Brodzi%C5%84ski | Kazimierz Brodziński | Work
Brodziński's knowledge of the German language, obtained at school, led to his very early interest in German literature. He read S. Gessner's pastorals, the works of Schiller and Goethe. Brodziński was, above all, a writer of elegies and pastorals. In his pastorals he aimed at giving a modern form to this ancient ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
5415988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashir%20Badr | Bashir Badr | Bashir Badr (born Syed Muhammad Bashir; 15 February 1935) is an Indian poet. He was teaching Urdu in Aligarh Muslim University. He primarily writes in Urdu language particularly ghazals. He also wrote a couplet titled Dushmani Jam Kar Karo in 1972 during Shimla Agreement that revolves around the partition of India.
... | 2.390625 | 0 |
5416001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-English%20Academy%20Building | German-English Academy Building | The German-English Academy Building is a school built in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1891 for the German-English Academy (founded in 1851), which later became the University School of Milwaukee. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is now owned by the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Since... | 2.15625 | 0 |
5416014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiogynium%20timoriense | Pleiogynium timoriense | Pleiogynium timoriense, commonly known as the Burdekin plum, sweet plum, tulip plum, or in the Djabugay language guybalum, is a medium-sized fruit-bearing tree in the cashew and mango family Anacardiaceae native to Malesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands.
Description
Pleiogynium timoriense is a semi-deciduous rain... | 2.4375 | 0 |
5416015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natan%20Gamedze | Natan Gamedze | Early life and education
Gamedze was one of eight children born to his parents in Swaziland. He grew up in Swaziland until the age of eight and was educated in private schools there and in London. He went on to earn his Honours at the University of Oxford, earning his undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in Modern L... | 2.21875 | 0 |
5416091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alojzy%20Feli%C5%84ski | Alojzy Feliński | Hymn, written in honour of Tsar Alexander I on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Congress Kingdom of Poland was published on 20 July 1816 in Gazeta Warszawska (The Warsaw Gazette). It was emphasised that the hymn "was written in the spirit of the English God Save the King. The fact was also mentioned that "H... | 2.140625 | 0 |
5416118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altar%20cards | Altar cards | Altar cards are three cards placed on the altar during the Tridentine Mass. They contain certain prayers that the priest must say during the Mass, and their only purpose is as a memory aid, although they are usually very beautifully decorated.
History
Altar cards were not used before the sixteenth century, and even to... | 2.375 | 0 |
5416143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Doll%20%28Prus%20novel%29 | The Doll (Prus novel) | The Doll () is the second of four acclaimed novels by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus (real name Aleksander Głowacki). It was composed for periodical serialization in 1887–1889 and appeared in book form in 1890.
The Doll has been regarded by some, including Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, as the greatest Polish novel.... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5416143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Doll%20%28Prus%20novel%29 | The Doll (Prus novel) | Wokulski begins his career as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant. The scion of an impoverished Polish noble family dreams of a life in science. After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising against the Russian Empire, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
5416193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butkara%20Stupa | Butkara Stupa | The Butkara Stupa (Pashto: بت کړه سټوپا) is an important Buddhist stupa near Mingora, in the area of Swat, Pakistan. It may have been built by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, but it is generally dated slightly later to the 2nd century BCE.
The stupa was enlarged on five occasions during the following centuries, every time... | 2.53125 | 0 |
5416228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon%20Keats | Jonathon Keats | Jonathon Keats (born October 2, 1971) is an American conceptual artist and experimental philosopher known for creating large-scale thought experiments. Keats was born in New York City and studied philosophy at Amherst College. He now lives in San Francisco and Italy.
Art projects
Early work
Keats made his debut in ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
5416228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon%20Keats | Jonathon Keats | Keats copyrighted his mind in 2003, claiming that it was a sculpture that he had created, neural network by neural network, through the act of thinking. The reason, he told the BBC World Service when interviewed about the project, was to attain temporary immortality, on the grounds that the Copyright Act would give him... | 2.34375 | 0 |
5416228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon%20Keats | Jonathon Keats | Around the same time, he became interested in extraterrestrial abstract art, and began producing canvas paintings based on signals detected by the Arecibo Observatory radiotelescope in Puerto Rico. This was the basis of the First Intergalactic Art Exposition, a 2006 solo show at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
5416228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon%20Keats | Jonathon Keats | In 2007, Keats created a mobile ring tone based on the John Cage composition 4'33", a remix comprising precisely four minutes and 33 seconds of digital silence, sparking controversy in the classical music community, and the world of technology, while attracting a following in the world of astrology. Titled "My Cage (... | 1.960938 | 0 |
5416228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon%20Keats | Jonathon Keats | Keats brought his honeybee ballet to San Francisco in 2008 as part of Bay Area Now, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts triennial. He also erected the first temple devoted to the worship of science, dubbed "the Atheon", in downtown Berkeley, CA, a public art project commissioned by the Judah L. Magnes Museum and funded... | 2.46875 | 0 |
5416228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon%20Keats | Jonathon Keats | Keats introduced four new projects in 2010. In January he created a pinhole camera intended to take a single 100-year-long exposure. Printed in Good Magazine, the simple box camera was designed to be cut out, folded, and glued together, and then left to take a picture which the magazine promised to publish in a "specia... | 2.625 | 0 |
5416228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon%20Keats | Jonathon Keats | Keats turned his attention to flora again in early 2011, opening a "photosynthetic restaurant" where plants could enjoy "gourmet sunlight". Recipes were prepared by filtering solar radiation through colored plexiglass. The restaurant was installed in the outdoor gardens of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Californ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
5416228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon%20Keats | Jonathon Keats | Keats opened a "Microbial Academy of Sciences" in January 2012. Situated in the San Francisco Arts Commission gallery, his academy provided colonies of cyanobacteria with access to imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope, which he said would allow the photosynthetic microbes to do astrophysical research. In an intervie... | 2.390625 | 0 |
5416267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asher%20Joel | Asher Joel | Sir Asher Alexander Joel (4 May 1912 – 12 November 1998) was an Australian public figure and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council for 20 years. Although he was Jewish, he received a papal knighthood in 1994.
Career
In the 1930s he worked in journalism and public relations.
During World War II, he enli... | 1.960938 | 0 |
5416310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrol | Metrol | Metrol is the central control centre of the Melbourne suburban rail network. It controls signalling, passenger information, and emergency procedures. It is located at 595 Collins Street, Melbourne.
Operations
Metrol has two key functions—train control and signalling. Operations are split, with train control covering ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
5416310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrol | Metrol | The Metrol train control complex was built as part of the City Loop project of the 1970s. The original site was on Batman Avenue, beside the Jolimont Yard, and adjacent to Electrol, the control centre for the railway electrical substations and traction power supply. During construction, it was revealed that the Metrol ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
5416311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20built-in%20macOS%20apps | List of built-in macOS apps | Books, previously known as iBooks, is an eBook reading application first released with OS X Mavericks. It allows users to read and purchase digital books, as well as listen to audiobooks. Reading goals can be set which encourage users to read for an amount of time each day.
Calculator
Calculator is a basic calculato... | 2.40625 | 0 |
5416359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yizhou%20riots | Yizhou riots | The Yizhou riots occurred in the fall of 2002.
Description
Yizhou (宜州) is a county-level city located in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in the southern part of the People's Republic of China. The city is home to several hundred thousand inhabitants, while the surrounding countryside is dotted with the villages of ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
5416468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Hooton | Elizabeth Hooton | Back home, she discovered that some of her cattle had been confiscated. She petitioned King Charles II for justice, and used the opportunity to preach to him and inform him of the religious intolerance occurring in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He gave her a letter authorizing her to settle anywhere she liked in the Am... | 2.765625 | 0 |
5416536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladby%20ship | Ladby ship | The Ladby ship is a major ship burial at the village of Ladby near Kerteminde in Denmark. It is of the type also represented by the boat chamber grave of Hedeby and the ship burials of Oseberg, Borre, Gokstad and Tune in South Norway, all of which date back to the 9th and 10th centuries. It is the only ship burial from... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5416536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladby%20ship | Ladby ship | The site was discovered on or around February 28, 1935, near Kerteminde in northeastern Fyn, Denmark, by pharmacist and amateur archaeologist Poul Helweg Mikkelsen. Original drawings by Mikkelsen and Danish National Museum conservator Gustav Rosenberg constitute the primary source-material for information on the find .... | 2.703125 | 0 |
5416536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladby%20ship | Ladby ship | It was initially impossible to tell if the wood came from the ship or not, and if so which part. However, within days Mikkelsen discovered a section of an undisturbed burial chamber—“the usual, which originally must have lain from gunwale to gunwale and covered over the contents of the ship”. Because wood lying to the ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
5416536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladby%20ship | Ladby ship | Carl V. Solver visited the Ladby ship in 1940 and measured the anchor and chain and removed links from the chain to be analyzed at the State testing laboratory. Solver estimated that the chain contained roughly 60 links and was a total length of roughly 10–12 meters in length. In a later publication, Solver estimated t... | 2.65625 | 0 |
5416572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intravitreal%20administration | Intravitreal administration | Subconjunctival hemorrhage is the most common type of hemorrhage following intravitreal injection with a reported incidence of nearly 10% of injections. People taking aspirin may be at higher risk for hemorrhage after intravitreal injection. Choroidal hemorrhage and subretinal hemorrhage are less common than subconjunc... | 2.078125 | 0 |
5416592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartosz%20Kizierowski | Bartosz Kizierowski | Bartłomiej "Bartosz" Kizierowski (born 20 February 1977) is a freestyle who represented Poland in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996.
Biography
Kizierowski began his career as a backstroke swimmer, but changed to freestyle in the mid-1990s.
Kizierowski trained at The Race Club, a swimming techniques t... | 2.5 | 0 |
5416660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Railway%20Service%20of%20Engineers | Indian Railway Service of Engineers | The Indian Railways Service of Engineers (IRSE) is one of the oldest group 'A' central engineering services recruited through the Indian Railway Management service exam conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. The officers of this service are responsible for administering the Civil Engineering organisation of ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
5416685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Needleman | Herbert Needleman | Herbert Leroy Needleman (December 13, 1927 – July 18, 2017) researched the neurodevelopmental damage caused by lead poisoning. He was a pediatrician, child psychiatrist, researcher and professor at the University of Pittsburgh, an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, and the founder of the Alliance to End Child... | 2.65625 | 0 |
5416685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Needleman | Herbert Needleman | Needleman designed the first forward study of lead exposure during gestation, and showed that such exposure is associated with cognitive deficits later in life. His most recent research has shown that boys with high levels of lead concentrated in their bones are more likely to develop aggressive or delinquent behavior,... | 2.5625 | 0 |
5416692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Railway%20Stores%20Service | Indian Railway Stores Service | Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS) is one of the eight organized services of Indian Railways. The IRSS cadre is responsible for forecasting, planning, procurement of material, logistics management, and warehousing of Indian Railway's assets. It is also responsible for giving material support to production of railw... | 2.25 | 0 |
5416692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Railway%20Stores%20Service | Indian Railway Stores Service | Over the years, Indian Railways' purchases have gone manifold both in terms of value and number of items. The technical, industrial, and commercial scenario of the country has also changed significantly. There are now more standards, specifications, and accrediting bodies, and more central, state and local laws. Purc... | 2.15625 | 0 |
5416721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham%20mudfish | Chatham mudfish | The Chatham mudfish (Neochanna rekohua), formerly known as the Chathams galaxias (Galaxias rekohua), is a galaxiid fish endemic to two small, peaty lakes in southern Chatham Island, New Zealand.
It was discovered in 1994 by C.P. Mitchell, who initially placed it in the genus Galaxias, and gave it the species name reko... | 2.484375 | 0 |
5416803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Railway%20Traffic%20Service | Indian Railway Traffic Service | The Indian Railway Traffic Service, abbreviated as IRTS is a Prestigious Group 'A' Central Civil Service Cadre of the Government of India. IRTS in its present form was reconstituted in 1967. The IRTS Cadre functions under the Administrative Control of the Ministry of Railways, Government of India. The civil servants un... | 2.328125 | 0 |
5416868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20Services%20Examination | Civil Services Examination | Process
The Civil Services Examination is based on the British era Imperial Civil Service tests, as well as the civil service tests conducted by old Indian empires such as the Mauryan Empire and Mughal Empire. It is one of the most difficult competitive examinations in not just India but across the world, with more tha... | 2.421875 | 0 |
5416959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Railway%20Accounts%20Service | Indian Railway Accounts Service | The Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS; Bharatiya Rail Lekha Seva) is one of the Group A Central Civil Service of the Government of India. The civil servants under this Service are responsible for the Accounts and Finance Management of the Indian Railways. About 25–30 IRAS officers are recruited every year through C... | 2.015625 | 0 |
5416959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Railway%20Accounts%20Service | Indian Railway Accounts Service | With the post of Financial Commissioner firmly in place, the requirement for an organisational set up with staff became imminent, and the ground was clearly laid for the growth of a new service which would henceforth meet the burgeoning needs of the increasingly autonomous finance department of Indian Railways.
Conseq... | 1.929688 | 0 |
5416976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Outpost%20%28Prus%20novel%29 | The Outpost (Prus novel) | The Outpost (Polish title: Placówka) was the first of four major novels by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. The author, writing in a Poland that had been partitioned a century earlier by Russia, Prussia and Austria, sought to bring attention to the plight of rural Poland, which had to contend with poverty, ignorance,... | 2.5 | 0 |
5416976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Outpost%20%28Prus%20novel%29 | The Outpost (Prus novel) | Ślimak suffers a series of adversities as he refuses to sell his plot of land to German settlers (who are described not unsympathetically). The stubborn, conservative peasant is not acting from self-interest, since the money he would have gotten could have bought a better farm elsewhere; he is, rather, acting from ine... | 2.15625 | 0 |
5417027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20New%20Woman | The New Woman | Magdalena Brzeska - The central character of the story, Magdalena is a soft-hearted, religious woman from a conservative middle-class family that values education, but still expects Magdalena to focus on marrying into good family. As a child she attended Ms. Latter's boarding school, and is inspired by her progressive ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
5417027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20New%20Woman | The New Woman | Ada Solska - A rich orphan who resides at Ms. Latter's boarding school even though she has already graduated. She loves science and provides Ms. Latter's school with her personal collection of lab equipment for use. She is very close with her older brother Stefan. Unlike Stefan, Ada has always been aware of the societa... | 2.015625 | 0 |
5417083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20signs%20in%20Singapore | Road signs in Singapore | Road signs in Singapore closely follow those laid down in the traffic sign regulations used in the United Kingdom, although a number of changes over the years have introduced some slight deviations that suit local road conditions (such as fonts). Road signs in Singapore conform to the local Highway Code under the autho... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2942891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripura%20National%20Volunteers | Tripura National Volunteers | Tripura National Volunteers (also Tribal National Volunteers or Tripura National Volunteer Force) was a Tripuri nationalist militant group in the Tripura region of India that launched an armed struggle in the early 1980s to separate Tripura from India. TNV was led by Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl.
Christians made up a large ... | 2 | 0 |
2942910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullesthorpe | Ullesthorpe | Until the mid 19th century, Ullesthorpe was a minor settlement within the Ancient Parish of Claybrook. Other villages included Claybrooke Magna, Claybrooke Parva, and Wibtoft. These four villages formed the parish of St Peter's Church Claybrooke. However, deemed under the 1866 Act, many villages became their own civil ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2942928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajjika%20League | Vajjika League | The Vajjika (Pāli: ) or Vrijika () League, Confederacy, or Sangha, also called simply Vajji (Pāli: ) or Vriji (), was an ancient Indo-Aryan league which existed during the later Iron Age period in the north-eastern Indian subcontinent.
Name
The Vajjika League was named after one of its constituent tribes, the Vajjika... | 2.640625 | 0 |
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