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2942928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajjika%20League | Vajjika League | Organisation
The Vajjika League was administered by the Vajjika Council, which consisted of eighteen members, of which nine were from the confederacy's leading Licchavika tribe while the other nine members were from the Videha, Nāya, Vajji, and Malla tribes.
Since the Licchavikas were the leading tribe of the confeder... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2942928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajjika%20League | Vajjika League | The relations of the Licchavikas who led the Vajjika League with their southern neighbour, the kingdom of Magadha, were initially good, and the wife of the Māgadhī king Bimbisāra was the Vesālia princess Vāsavī, who was the daughter of the Licchavika Sakala's son Siṃha. There were nevertheless occasional tensions betw... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2942982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronimo%20Miani | Hieronimo Miani | Hieronimo Miani, also known as Hieronymus Miani, was an Italian history painter, who worked in Denmark as both a painter to the royal court of King Christian VI, and as a teacher.
He was born in Venice, Italy, and was in the service of Karl Philip Emanuel of Pfalz in Mannheim, Germany before being called to Denmark in... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | Social alienation is a person's feeling of disconnection from a group whether friends, family, or wider society with which the individual has an affiliation. Such alienation has been described as "a condition in social relationships reflected by (1) a low degree of integration or common values and (2) a high degree o... | 2.96875 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | In the history of literature, the German Romantics appear to be the first group of writers and poets in whose work the concept of alienation is regularly found. Around the start of the 19th century, Hegel popularized a Christian (Lutheran) and Idealist philosophy of alienation. He used German terms in partially differe... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | Marx was initially in the Young Hegelian camp and, like Feuerbach, rejected the spiritual basis, and adapted Hegel's dialectic model to a theory of (historical) materialism. Marx's theory of alienation is articulated most clearly in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and The German Ideology (1846). The 'y... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | In the concept's most prominent use, it refers to the economic and social alienation aspect in which workers are disconnected from what they produce and why they produce. Marx believed that alienation is a systematic result of capitalism. Essentially, there is an "exploitation of men by men" where the division of labor... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | Political Alienation refers specifically to the idea that "politics is the form that organizes the productive forces of the economy" in a way that is alienating because it "distorts the logic of economic development".
Through Human Alienation, individuals become estranged to themselves in the quest to stay alive, wher... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | Late 1800s to 1900s
Many sociologists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were concerned about alienating effects of modernization. German sociologists Georg Simmel and Ferdinand Tönnies wrote critical works on individualization and urbanization. Simmel's The Philosophy of Money describes how relationships become... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | In a broader philosophical context, especially in existentialism and phenomenology, alienation describes the inadequacy of the human being (or the mind) in relation to the world. The human mind (as the subject who perceives) sees the world as an object of perception, and is distanced from the world, rather than living ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | This critical program can be contrasted with traditions that attempt to extract problems of alienation from the broader socioeconomic context, or which at least accept the broader context on its own terms, and which often attribute problems to individual abnormality or failures to adjust.
After the boom in alienation ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | In discussing powerlessness, Seeman also incorporated the insights of the psychologist Julian Rotter. Rotter distinguishes between internal control and external locus of control, which means "differences (among persons or situations) in the degree to which success or failure is attributable to external factors (e.g. lu... | 1.953125 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | Meaninglessness
A sense of meaning has been defined by Seeman as "the individual's sense of understanding events in which he is engaged". Seeman writes that meaninglessness "is characterized by a low expectancy that satisfactory predictions about the future outcomes of behaviour can be made." Whereas powerlessness ref... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | Normlessness (or what Durkheim referred to as anomie) "denotes the situation in which the social norms regulating individual conduct have broken down or are no longer effective as rules for behaviour". This aspect refers to the inability to identify with the dominant values of society or rather, with values that are pe... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | Familial estrangement between parents and adult children "is attributed to a number of biological, psychological, social, and structural factors affecting the family, including attachment disorders, incompatible values and beliefs, unfulfilled expectations, critical life events and transitions, parental alienation, and... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | Political alienation
One manifestation of the above dimensions of alienation can be a feeling of estrangement from the political system and a lack of engagement therein. Such political alienation could result from not identifying with any particular political party or message, and could result in revolution, reforming... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2943008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20alienation | Social alienation | Disability
Differences between persons with disabilities and individuals in relative abilities, or perceived abilities, can be a cause of alienation. One study, "Social Alienation and Peer Identification: A Study of the Social Construction of Deafness", found that among deaf adults one theme emerged consistently acros... | 2.859375 | 0 |
2943019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Petrov%20%28army%20general%29 | Ivan Petrov (army general) | Ivan Yefimovich Petrov (; – 7 April 1958) was a Soviet Army General from 1941.
Early military career
Born in Trubchevsk in 1896, he began his military service in the Red Army in 1918, the year when he also joined the Bolshevik Party. Petrov fought in the Russian Civil War near Samara, the Polish–Soviet War in 1920 an... | 1.9375 | 0 |
2943025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder%20law%20%28United%20States%29 | Elder law (United States) | Elder law is an area of legal practice that specializes on issues that affect the senior population. Some say the purpose of elder law planning is to prepare the elderly person for financial freedom and autonomy through proper financial planning and long-term care options. However, the purpose of elder law is not so n... | 2.125 | 0 |
2943025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder%20law%20%28United%20States%29 | Elder law (United States) | In 1972 Amendments to the OAA added the national nutrition program for the elderly. The OAA of 2000 was amended on November 13, 2000, to include the National Family Caregiver Support Program, which was intended to help hundreds of thousands of family members who are struggling to care for their older loved ones who are... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2943026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna%20Sack | Erna Sack | From this point onwards Sack's career took off. She seemed to work tirelessly, at the opera, in concert tours, and touring, including to Rome where she appeared in Mozart's The Magic Flute with a cast that included Tito Schipa and Licia Albanese, Copenhagen, Oslo, and, for the first time, the United States, where she s... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2943028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malla%20%28tribe%29 | Malla (tribe) | Malla (Prakrit: ; ; ) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-eastern Indian subcontinent whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. The population of Malla, the Mallakas, were divided into two branches, each organised into a (an aristocratic oligarchic republic), presently referred to as the Malla Republics,... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2943028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malla%20%28tribe%29 | Malla (tribe) | Statehood
The Mallakas were an Indo-Aryan tribe in the eastern Gangetic plain in the Greater Magadha cultural region. Similarly to the other populations of the Greater Magadha cultural area, Mallakas were initially not fully Brahmanised despite being an Indo-Aryan people, but, like the Vaidehas, they later became Brahm... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2943039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%20Calasso | Roberto Calasso | Roberto Calasso (30 May 1941 – 28 July 2021) was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German, Latin and ancient Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He has been called "a literary institution of one". The fundamental thematic concept of his œuvre is... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2943050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20language%20romanisation%20in%20Singapore | Chinese language romanisation in Singapore | The romanisation of the Chinese language in Singapore is not dictated by a single policy, nor is its policy implementation consistent, as the local Chinese community is composed of a myriad of topolect groups. Although Hanyu Pinyin is adopted as the preferred romanisation system for Mandarin and the standard of Chinese... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2943050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20language%20romanisation%20in%20Singapore | Chinese language romanisation in Singapore | When there was a need to record place names by the British administration, Chinese place names were anglicised using an almost ad hoc means of finding the closest set of letters reflecting local pronunciations of these names; a situation which often spawned conflicting spellings, some of which still persist to this day... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2943070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Rochester%20Arboretum | University of Rochester Arboretum | The University of Rochester Arboretum is an arboretum located across the River Campus of the University of Rochester, 612 Wilson Boulevard, Rochester, New York.
The River Campus is located beside the Genesee River on a site previously owned by the Oak Hill Country Club. Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted,... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2943103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixodarus | Pixodarus | Pixodarus or Pixodaros (in Lycian 𐊓𐊆𐊜𐊁𐊅𐊀𐊕𐊀 Pixedara; in Greek Πιξώδαρoς; ruled 340–334 BC), was a satrap of Caria, nominally the Achaemenid Empire Satrap, who enjoyed the status of king or dynast by virtue of the powerful position his predecessors of the House of Hecatomnus (the Hecatomnids) created when they s... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2943106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Entomological%20Society | Royal Entomological Society | They decided that a society should be created for the promotion of the science of entomology in its various branches and it should be called the Entomological Society of London. J. G. Children, F. W. Hope, J. F. Stephens, W. Yarrell and G. Rudd were elected to form a committee, with G. R. Gray as secretary. J. G. Child... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2943106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Entomological%20Society | Royal Entomological Society | Secretary G. R. Gray resigned in the same year then and was replaced by J. O. Westwood. Under the impulse of this last entomologist, who had many functions, the society made great strides. It was in particular attended regularly by Charles Darwin (1809–1882) on his return from the voyage on H.M.S. Beagle: he became a m... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2943106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Entomological%20Society | Royal Entomological Society | Structure and activities
The society's patron was Her Majesty The Queen and its vice-patron is The Earl of Selborne. The society is governed by its council, which is chaired by the society's president, according to a set of by-laws. The members of council, the president and the other officers are elected from the socie... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2943162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Australian%20Army | History of the Australian Army | In January 1788, following the arrival of the First Fleet, the accompanying New South Wales Marine Corps came ashore to become the first modern infantry on the Australian continent. This would start the more than 80 years of precedent that the only professional soldiers in Australia were members of British Army garriso... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2943162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Australian%20Army | History of the Australian Army | Formation
As the Boer War raged, the Commonwealth of Australia was founded on 1 January 1901. On 1 March, 28,923 colonial soldiers, being 1,457 professional soldiers, 18,603 paid militia and 8,863 unpaid volunteers, were transferred to the new Australian Army. However, the individual units continued to be administered... | 3.109375 | 0 |
2943162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Australian%20Army | History of the Australian Army | Because the existing Citizens Forces were unable to serve overseas, an all-volunteer expeditionary force, the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) was formed on 15 August 1914 with a pledge to supply 20,000 men. It was organised as one infantry division and one light horse brigade plus supporting units, with its first comma... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2943162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Australian%20Army | History of the Australian Army | When the Second World War broke out between Britain and Germany in September 1939, the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF) was formed, to fight in France. The AIF's main strength would consist of four divisions raised in 1939–1940: the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th. Major General Thomas Blamey was appointed commander of... | 2.796875 | 0 |
2943162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Australian%20Army | History of the Australian Army | General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Allied Commander in the South West Pacific, was resented for his treatment of Australian forces. After the surrender of American forces in the Philippines, Australian ground forces constituted almost all of MacArthur's ground forces. As US forces re-built, however, he increasingly... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2943162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Australian%20Army | History of the Australian Army | Australia was one of the countries to provide combat forces for the US-led invasion of Iraq. In Australia it was known as Operation Falconer. In all Australia contributed some 2,000 personnel. The Army contribution to this was 500 soldiers. Following the end of major combat operations, Australia announced a withdrawal ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2943190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy%20O%27Brien | Lucy O'Brien | Lucy O'Brien (born 13 September 1961) is a British author and journalist whose work focuses on women in music.
Early musical and writing career
O'Brien was born in Catford, London and grew up in Southampton. In 1979, whilst attending a convent school in Southampton, she formed a punk band aptly named "the Catholic Gir... | 1.96875 | 0 |
2943190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy%20O%27Brien | Lucy O'Brien | After leaving NME, O'Brien worked as Music Editor at the London listings magazine City Limits. It was here that she interviewed Dusty Springfield, an interview which led to her being contacted by the publishers Sidgwick & Jackson, and to her being offered the chance to write Springfield's biography.
Freelance writing,... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2943192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldwater%20fish | Coldwater fish | The term coldwater fish can have different meanings in different contexts.
In the context of fishkeeping, it refers to ornamental fish species that tolerate the temperatures of a typical indoor aquarium well and do not require a heater to remain active, as opposed to tropical fish whom need a heater to survive in the ... | 3.15625 | 0 |
2943192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldwater%20fish | Coldwater fish | Wild fisheries
The term "coldwater" is also used to refer to wild fish species that prefer bodies of water that are colder than most temperate waters. In recreational fishing, anglers may loosely break down fish into categories of warm-water fish, cool-water fish, and cold-water fish. Warm-water fish, such as largemout... | 3.296875 | 0 |
2943200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthenol | Panthenol | Panthenol (also called pantothenol) is the alcohol analog of pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), and is thus a provitamin of B5. In organisms, it is quickly oxidized to pantothenic acid. It is a viscous transparent liquid at room temperature. Panthenol is used in pharmaceutical and children's products as a moisturizer and t... | 2.25 | 0 |
2943219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aussurucq | Aussurucq | A wealth of heritage in Aussurucq commune is contained in its sub-soil. Most of the territory of the commune is karstic. The environment is characterized by the presence of natural cavities in complex shapes that have not all yet been discovered or much less explored to date. Departmental cavers have undertaken the exp... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2943250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20incident%20technique | Critical incident technique | The critical incident technique (or CIT) is a set of procedures used for collecting direct observations of human behavior that have critical significance and meet methodically defined criteria. These observations are then kept track of as incidents, which are then used to solve practical problems and develop broad psyc... | 3.03125 | 0 |
2943250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20incident%20technique | Critical incident technique | CIT is also widely used in organizational development as a research technique for identification of organizational problems and is suitable for knowledge management in project-based organizations. CIT is used as an interview technique, where the informants are encouraged to talk about unusual organizational incidents i... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2943250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20incident%20technique | Critical incident technique | Advantages and disadvantages
By identifying possible problems associated with major user–system or product complications, CIT recommendations try to ensure that the same type of situations do not result in a similar loss. There are both advantages and disadvantages to using this method, as shown below. Overall, however... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2943273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Transport%20Commission | Canadian Transport Commission | The Canadian Transport Commission (CTC) was Canada's first fully converged, multi-modal regulator.
The body was created by Canada's Parliament on September 19, 1967, to assume the responsibilities of two bodies: the Board of Transport Commissioners (1938–1967), which oversaw air and railway regulation, and the Canadia... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2943305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat%20knife | Combat knife | A combat knife is a fighting knife designed for military use and primarily intended for hand-to-hand or close combat fighting.
Since the end of trench warfare, most military combat knives have been secondarily designed for utility use (clearing foliage, chopping branches for cover, opening ammunition crates, etc.) in ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2943305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat%20knife | Combat knife | Designed for military use, with input for Capt. George Ingraham, a combat surgeon in the U.S. Army's 94th Medical Detachment, the No. 14 Randall "Attack" Model was a popular combat knife designed for military use, and the knife was widely purchased by individual soldiers and Marines. During the conflict, Randall recei... | 2.25 | 0 |
2943322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuujjuaq%20Airport | Kuujjuaq Airport | Kuujjuaq Airport is an airport located southwest of Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Canada.
History
The airport site at Fort Chimo was located and surveyed on 12 July 1941 by a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) team under Captain Elliott Roosevelt, operating by amphibious aircraft out of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador. Th... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2943322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuujjuaq%20Airport | Kuujjuaq Airport | Crystal I was planned to be a transport hub between the Eastern Route, which originated at Presque Isle Air Force Base (now Presque Isle International Airport), Maine, and the Central Route, which originated at Romulus Army Airfield (Detroit Airport), Michigan. From Crystal I, the aircraft would be ferried via Baffin I... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2943370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Kok%20III | Adam Kok III | Griqualand East
In 1861, Kok III accepted a British offer to settle his people in the eastern section of the Cape Colony. He then led his people on a two-year trek across South Africa. During the trek, the Griqua lost most of their cattle and horses as they suffered through droughts and raids by the Basotho. In Februar... | 2.984375 | 0 |
2943371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait%20of%20Bindo%20Altoviti | Portrait of Bindo Altoviti | The Portrait of Bindo Altoviti is a painting finished around 1515 by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. It is housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., United States.
Bindo Altoviti, a wealthy banker born in Rome in 1491 of Florentine descent, was a cultured man with a strong appreciation f... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2943390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossau%2C%20St.%20Gallen | Gossau, St. Gallen | Gossau is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of St. Gallen in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
History
Gossau is first mentioned in 824 as Cozesaua.
Geography
Gossau has an area, , of . Of this area, 63% is used for agricultural purposes, while 16.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 20.1% ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2943397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx%20literature | Manx literature | Literature in the Manx language, which shares common linguistic and cultural roots with the Gaelic literature and Pre-Christian Celtic mythology of Ireland and Scotland, is known from at least the early 16th century, when the majority of the population still belonged to the Catholic Church in the Isle of Man. Even so, ... | 2.625 | 0 |
2943397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx%20literature | Manx literature | Yn Çheshaght Ghailckagh, the Manx Language Society, was founded at the end of the 19th century. The recent revival of Manx, the creation of the Eisteddfod-inspired Cooish literary and cultural festival, and the rise of Manx-medium education beginning with the Bunscoill Ghaelgagh has resulted in new original works and t... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2943397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx%20literature | Manx literature | The island, whose people since the days of the Celtic Church had held a particularly strong devotion to Saint Patrick, Saint Brigid of Kildare, and Saint Maughold, saw the holy wells and other places of Christian pilgrimage slowly fall into ruin once the population no longer believed in the intercession of the saints. ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2943406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocriticism | Ecocriticism | Ecocriticism is the study of literature and ecology from an interdisciplinary point of view, where literature scholars analyze texts that illustrate environmental concerns and examine the various ways literature treats the subject of nature. It was first originated by Joseph Meeker as an idea called "literary ecology" ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2943406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocriticism | Ecocriticism | Definition
In comparison with other 'political' forms of criticism, there has been relatively little dispute about the moral and philosophical aims of ecocriticism, although its scope has broadened from nature writing, romantic poetry, and canonical literature to take in film, television, theatre, animal stories, arch... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2943406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocriticism | Ecocriticism | More recently, in an article that extends ecocriticism to Shakespearean studies, Estok argues that ecocriticism is more than "simply the study of Nature or natural things in literature; rather, it is any theory that is committed to effecting change by analyzing the function–thematic, artistic, social, historical, ideol... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2943406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocriticism | Ecocriticism | Ecologically minded individuals and scholars have been publishing progressive works of ecotheory and criticism since the explosion of environmentalism in the late 1960s and 1970s. However, because there was no organized movement to study the ecological/environmental side of literature, these important works were scatte... | 1.96875 | 0 |
2943406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocriticism | Ecocriticism | Ecocriticism’s second wave emerged in the 2000s through a more complex understanding of the overall history of global environmentalism and environmental justice. According to Lawrence Buell, former Harvard professor and proponent of ecocriticism, the second wave of ecocriticism aligns with public health environmentalis... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2943414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%2C%20Warwickshire | Arrow, Warwickshire | In the village are the gates to Ragley Hall which has been home to the Marquess of Hertford's family since the mid-18th century. At the Domesday Book, the Count of Meulan, later created Earl of Leicester, held 3 hides of land in Oversley, and until the close of the Middle Ages the manor remained part of the honour of L... | 2.25 | 0 |
2943418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech%20Chrzanowski | Wojciech Chrzanowski | Wojciech Chrzanowski (14 January 1793 – 26 February 1861) was a Polish general who participated in Napoleon's Russian campaign and in the battles of Leipzig, Paris, and Waterloo. After Napoleon's final defeat he served in the national army of Poland, and served in the Imperial Russian Army under Hans Karl von Diebitsch... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2943432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost%20of%20equity | Cost of equity | In finance, the cost of equity is the return (often expressed as a rate of return) a firm theoretically pays to its equity investors, i.e., shareholders, to compensate for the risk they undertake by investing their capital. Firms need to acquire capital from others to operate and grow. Individuals and organizations who... | 2.828125 | 0 |
2943442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrey%2C%20Warwickshire | Austrey, Warwickshire | Origins of the parish
The village was sometimes spelt 'Alestry'. In the Saxon era Austrey formed part of a great block of seventy or eighty Midlands vills belonging to Wulfric Spot, the Mercian nobleman who founded Burton Abbey. In Wulfric Spot's will of 1004 Wulfric left Austrey "as it now stands with meat and with me... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2943442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrey%2C%20Warwickshire | Austrey, Warwickshire | St. Nicholas' parish is now part of the Parish of All Souls, North Warwickshire along with the villages of Newton Regis, Seckington, Shuttington and Warton.
Settlement
The line of earthworks below the church in the area known as the Bishop's Field are part of a complex of water management ducts and ponds with this are... | 2.375 | 0 |
2943447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20Photographer | War Photographer | War Photographer is a documentary by Christian Frei about the photographer James Nachtwey. As well as telling the story of an iconic man in the field of war photography, the film addresses the broader scope of ideas common to all those involved in war journalism, as well as the issues that they cover.
The documentary ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2943461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20nobility | Croatian nobility | Croatia was elevated to the status of Kingdom around 925, and the notions of nobility quickly followed. The nobility of the continental and island states of Croatia played a major role in shaping the history of the country, although in the present day even hereditary peers have no special rights, privileges or responsi... | 2.9375 | 0 |
2943461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20nobility | Croatian nobility | As soon as Stjepan Držislav had died in 997, his three sons, Svetoslav (997–1000), Krešimir III (1000–1030), and Gojslav (1000–1020), opened a violent contest for the throne, weakening the state dramatically. Each of the three brothers already firmly placed in the upper tier of the country's nobility required more powe... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2943461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20nobility | Croatian nobility | According to the Supetar Cartulary, a new king was elected by select members of the nobility which included seven bans: ban of Croatia, ban of Bosnia, ban of Slavonia etc. The bans were elected by the first six Croatian tribes, while the other six were responsible for choosing župans (see Twelve noble tribes of Croatia... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2943461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20nobility | Croatian nobility | Etiquette
A noble's status in the royal court required appropriate and conspicuous consumption; a strict etiquette was required by: a word or glance from the king could make or destroy a career. Nobles often went into debt themselves to build prestigious urban mansions and to buy clothes, paintings, silverware, dishes... | 3.015625 | 0 |
2943461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20nobility | Croatian nobility | Between 925 and 1102, the Kingdom of Croatia's nobility had various titles and forms of address that varied from region to region and position to position. The King of Croatia was afforded the right of choosing his royal handle, for example in 1941, Prince Adimone, Duke of Aosta, took the name of King Tomislav II upon ... | 3.0625 | 0 |
2943471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Dale | David Dale | The business grew rapidly and Dale became a wealthy merchant in the city. In 1777, at the age of 38, he married 24 year old Anne Caroline (Carolina) Campbell, whose late father had been the Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland. In 1783 Dale had his own mansion built in Glasgow's fashionable Charlotte Street. ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2943471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Dale | David Dale | He was involved in a number of other cotton mills. Not long after spinning began in New Lanark, Dale built a new mill in Blantyre and a school for the apprentices. He sold the venture to James Monteith in 1792. In 1788, Dale went into partnership with Claud Alexander of Ballochmyle (former Paymaster for the East India... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2943471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Dale | David Dale | Dale was also involved with Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The Infirmary was intended '...for the reception of indigent persons under bodily distress in the west of Scotland'. Dale was involved in this project from its very beginning in 1788. He chaired the group which raised the funds, found the land and supervised the buil... | 2.84375 | 0 |
2943480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20ownership | Fractional ownership | Fractional ownership is a method in which several unrelated parties can share in, and mitigate the risk of, ownership of a high-value tangible asset, usually a jet, yacht or piece of resort real estate. It can be done for strictly monetary reasons, but typically there is some amount of personal access involved. One of ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2943480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20ownership | Fractional ownership | History
The term fractional ownership originally became popular for business jets. Richard Santulli of NetJets pioneered the concept of allowing businesses to purchase shares in a jet to reduce costs. With a fractional jet plan, members will typically fly in any jet available, not necessarily the one in which they own ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2943480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20ownership | Fractional ownership | Another type of fractional ownership, not part of a securitized business plan is Tenancy in Common, which is grounded in the real property laws of most, if not all states. The main difference is there is no right of survivorship to the sponsor or other owners if one or more of owners were to pass away. Where there are ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2943480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20ownership | Fractional ownership | The popularity of the term fractional ownership has caused extensive rebranding in other industries where similar concepts, such as real estate timeshares, were already well established. The main distinction between timeshare and fractional ownership is that with a timeshare you buy the right to use a property, but wit... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2943486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi%2C%20Finland | Levi, Finland | Levi is a fell located in Finnish Lapland, and the largest ski resort in Finland. The resort is located in the village of Sirkka, Kittilä municipality and is served by Kittilä Airport and Kolari railway station. At a latitude of 67.8° north, it is located approximately north of the Arctic Circle.
The peak of the Levi... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2943516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid%20Airship%20Design | Rigid Airship Design | Rigid Airship Design B.V. was a company founded in the Netherlands in 1998 with the aim of building a modern rigid airship. In 1996, Scottish intellectual and airship expert Ian Alexander initiated a project in the Netherlands in co-operation with the Technical University of Delft, to design and construct a modern clas... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2943519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%20Gamba | Enrico Gamba | Enrico Gamba (3 June 1831, in Turin – 19 October 1883, in Turin) was an Italian painter of genre scenes, period pieces and a few portraits.
Biography
His father worked for the Royal Accounting Office. He was the younger brother of Francesco Gamba, who was already well-established as a painter when Enrico was a boy. A... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2943553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witherley | Witherley | Witherley is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. The civil parish of Witherley includes Atterton, Fenny Drayton, and Ratcliffe Culey as well as the village of Witherley itself. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,373.
Location
Witherley ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
2943595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Anthony%20Richardson | William Anthony Richardson | William Anthony Richardson (August 27, 1795 – April 20, 1856) was an early California entrepreneur, influential in the development of Yerba Buena, the forerunner of the city of San Francisco.
Richardson was the first to receive a land grant in the city, deeded to him by the alcalde, José Joaquín Estudillo. He was subs... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2943595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Anthony%20Richardson | William Anthony Richardson | Before filing his claim, Richardson had already capitalized on the freshwater source by establishing a watering station near the present-day town of Sausalito. This station provided fresh water to visiting vessels, serving as a lucrative venture. The inlet between Sausalito and the Tiburon Peninsula, known today as Ric... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2943639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Val%20Jean | Jean Val Jean | Jean Val Jean is a 1935 novel by Solomon Cleaver. It is a much abbreviated retelling in English of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.
According to the publisher's preface, around the turn of the 20th century, Cleaver, a young minister from Winnipeg, read through Les Misérables and often retold it in his own word... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2943640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic%20sensitivity%20testing | Antibiotic sensitivity testing | Antibiotic sensitivity testing or antibiotic susceptibility testing is the measurement of the susceptibility of bacteria to antibiotics. It is used because bacteria may have resistance to some antibiotics. Sensitivity testing results can allow a clinician to change the choice of antibiotics from empiric therapy, which ... | 3.015625 | 0 |
2943640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic%20sensitivity%20testing | Antibiotic sensitivity testing | Genetic methods
Genetic testing, such as via polymerase chain reaction (PCR), DNA microarray, and loop-mediated isothermal amplification, may be used to detect whether bacteria possess genes which confer antibiotic resistance. An example is the use of PCR to detect the mecA gene for beta-lactam resistant Staphylococcus... | 2.953125 | 0 |
2943640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic%20sensitivity%20testing | Antibiotic sensitivity testing | Using magnetic nanoparticles studded with a beta-2-glycoprotein I peptide imitating a plasma protein, microbial pathogens could selectively be retrieved from blood culture specimens within hours, in a study published September 2024. Magnets are used to fish out the peptide-bacterial complex, followed by genetic testing... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2943640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic%20sensitivity%20testing | Antibiotic sensitivity testing | Reporting
Bacteria are marked as sensitive, resistant, or having intermediate resistance to an antibiotic based on the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), which is the lowest concentration of the antibiotic that stops the growth of bacteria. The MIC is compared to standard threshold values (called "breakpoints") fo... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2943640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic%20sensitivity%20testing | Antibiotic sensitivity testing | Ideal antibiotic therapy is based on determining the causal agent and its antibiotic sensitivity. Empiric treatment is often started before laboratory microbiological reports are available. This might be for common or relatively minor infections based on clinical guidelines (such as community-acquired pneumonia), or fo... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2943646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%20Lichtenstein | Morris Lichtenstein | Morris Lichtenstein (1889–1938) was a rabbi and founder of the Society of Jewish Science. Born in Lithuania, he later moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was ordained by the Reform Jewish Hebrew Union College in 1916, becoming the first Eastern European student to study at the institution.
Lichtenstein served as a rab... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2943800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20Television%20Network | People's Television Network | PTNI has pioneered educational and cultural programming. Some of its award-winning programs were Tele-aralan ng Kakayahan (which predated ABS-CBN's The Knowledge Channel by decades), Ating Alamin, Small World and its successor Kidsongs, For Art's Sake, Coast to Coast and Paco Park Presents. In the 1990s, at the core of... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2943837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiri-Avion%20PIK-20 | Eiri-Avion PIK-20 | The PIK-20 sailplane was designed at the Helsinki University of Technology by Pekka Tammi, with advice from Ilkka Rantasalo and Raimo Nurminen. The prototype first flew on 10 October 1973. It was produced initially by Molino Oy who were taken over by Eiri-Avion Oy (currently Eirikuva Oy) between 1974 and 1980. Later,... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2943846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial%20of%20Saddam%20Hussein | Trial of Saddam Hussein | The deposed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein was tried by the Iraqi Interim Government for crimes against humanity during his time in office.
The Coalition Provisional Authority voted to create the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST), consisting of five Iraqi judges, on 9 December 2003, to try Saddam and his aides for charge... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2943884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzaffer%20Ozak | Muzaffer Ozak | Muzaffer Ozak (formally: Sheikh Muzaffer Özak Âșkî al-Jerrahi) (1916 – 12 February 1985) was a Turkish Muslim spiritual author, imam, and the 19th Grand Sheikh of the Halveti-Jerrahi Order of Dervishes, a traditional Ottoman Sufi order based in Istanbul, Turkey. He served the position from 1966 to 1985, becoming rever... | 1.914063 | 0 |
2943911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-fired%20controller | Phase-fired controller | Phase-fired control (PFC), also called phase cutting or phase-angle control, is a method for power limiting, applied to AC voltages. It works by modulating a thyristor, SCR, triac, thyratron, or other such gated diode-like devices into and out of conduction at a predetermined phase angle of the applied waveform.
Overv... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2943911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-fired%20controller | Phase-fired controller | For industrial applications previously, extremely expensive and heavy multi-tapped transformers were used as the supplies for such elements, with the corresponding winding tap being connected to the element to produce the desired temperature. This limited the temperature resolution to the number of tap combinations av... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2943928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster%20Clubs | Ulster Clubs | The Ulster Clubs was the name given to a network of Unionist organisations founded in Northern Ireland in November 1985. Emerging from an earlier group based in Portadown, the Ulster Clubs briefly mobilised wide support across Northern Ireland and sought to coordinate opposition to the development of closer relations b... | 1.992188 | 0 |
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