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2945123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20brocket | Red brocket | The red brocket (Mazama americana) is a species of brocket deer from forests in South America, ranging from northern Argentina to Colombia and the Guianas. It also occurs on the Caribbean island of Trinidad (it also occurred on the island of Tobago until very recent historical times, but has been extirpated there).
Ta... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2945139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Authentication%20Service | Internet Authentication Service | Internet Authentication Service (IAS) is a component of Windows Server operating systems that provides centralized user authentication, authorization and accounting.
Overview
While Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) security is sufficient for small networks, larger companies often need a dedicated infrastructur... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2945164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism | Ecofascism | Ecofascism (sometimes spelled eco-fascism) is a term used to describe individuals and groups which combine environmentalism with fascism.
Philosopher André Gorz characterized eco-fascism as hypothetical forms of totalitarianism based on an ecological orientation of politics. Similar definitions have been used by other... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2945164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism | Ecofascism | Ecofascists often believe there is a symbiotic relationship between a nation-group and its homeland. They often blame the global south for ecological problems, with their proposed solutions often entailing extreme population control measures based on racial categorisations, and advocating for the accelerated collapse o... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2945164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism | Ecofascism | Helen Cawood and Xany Jansen Van Vuuren have criticised previous attempts to define ecofascism as focusing too heavily on environmental and ecological conservationism in historical fascist movements, and the subsequent definitions being too broad and encompassing many ontologically different ideologies. In their critic... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2945164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism | Ecofascism | In his book "", the political scientist Carlos Taibo characterises the phenomenon as a response to crises brought about by climate change. The ecofascist solution is to "[P]reserve increasingly scarce resources for a select minority. And to marginalize – in the mildest version – and exterminate – in the harshest – what... | 2.5 | 0 |
2945164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism | Ecofascism | In addition to his conservationist work, Grant was a racist. In 1906, Grant supported the placement of Ota Benga, a member of the Mbuti people who was kidnapped, removed from his home in the Congo, and put on display in the Bronx Zoo as an exhibit in the Monkey House. In 1916, Grant wrote The Passing of the Great Race,... | 2 | 0 |
2945164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism | Ecofascism | The authors Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier suggest that the synthesis of fascism and environmentalism began with Nazism, stating that 19th and 20th century Germany was an early center of ecofascist thought, finding its antecedents in many prominent natural scientists and environmentalists, including Ernst Moritz Ar... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2945164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism | Ecofascism | During the 1990s a highly militant environmentalist subculture called Hardline emerged from the straight edge hardcore punk music scene and established itself in a number of cities across the US. Adherents to the Hardline lifestyle combined the straight edge belief in no alcohol, no drugs, no tobacco with militant vega... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2945180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superplasticizer | Superplasticizer | Traditional plasticizers are lignosulphonates as their sodium salts. Superplasticizers are synthetic polymers. Compounds used as superplasticizers include (1) sulfonated naphthalene formaldehyde condensate, sulfonated melamine formaldehyde condensate, acetone formaldehyde condensate and (2) polycarboxylates ethers. Cr... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2945225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor%20Ai%20of%20Tang | Emperor Ai of Tang | Emperor Ai of Tang (27 October 89226 March 908), also known as Emperor Zhaoxuan of Tang (), born Li Zuo, later known as Li Chu (), was the last emperor of the Tang dynasty of China. He reigned—as a puppet ruler—from 904 to 907. Emperor Ai was the son of Emperor Zhaozong. He was murdered by Zhu Wen.
Emperor Ai ascended... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2945232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josias%20Rowley | Josias Rowley | Admiral Sir Josias Rowley, 1st Baronet, (1765 – 10 January 1842) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Birth and family
Rowley was born in 1765 the second son of Clotworthy Rowley and Letitia (née Campbell), of Mountcampbell, Drumsna, County Leitrim, in th... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2945266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Kelly%20%28civil%20servant%29 | Christopher Kelly (civil servant) | Sir Christopher William Kelly, KCB (born 18 August 1946) is a former senior British Civil Servant who was the Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life and Chairman of the NSPCC.
Early life
Born in Bromley, Kent, Kelly is the son of Dr. Reginald Kelly (1917–90), a former President of the Association of Bri... | 2.25 | 0 |
2945288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Named | The Named | The Named is a fantasy novel written by Marianne Curley. The first novel in the Guardians of Time Trilogy, it follows Ethan, a member of The Named, and his new apprentice, Isabel, who he is training under the guidance of his mentor Arkarian.
Narration
As with all of the Guardians of Time books, the prologue is writte... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2945295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Are%20Glass | We Are Glass | "We Are Glass" is a song by British musician Gary Numan. It was released as a single in May 1980 and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart.
The song was Numan's first release since his 1979 album, The Pleasure Principle, which had been notable in part for its complete absence of guitars. Though the album was a m... | 1.976563 | 0 |
2945299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefschetz%20zeta%20function | Lefschetz zeta function | In mathematics, the Lefschetz zeta-function is a tool used in topological periodic and fixed point theory, and dynamical systems. Given a continuous map , the zeta-function is defined as the formal series
where is the Lefschetz number of the -th iterate of . This zeta-function is of note in topological periodic point... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2945357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur%20rocketry | Amateur rocketry | Interest in the rocketry hobby was spurred to a great extent by the publication of a Scientific American article in June 1957 that described the design, propellant formulations, and launching techniques utilized by typical amateur rocketry groups of the time (including the Reaction Research Society of California). The ... | 2.625 | 0 |
2945357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur%20rocketry | Amateur rocketry | On April 21, 2019, the USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (USCRPL) launched Traveler IV, an eight-inch diameter vehicle from Spaceport America. All of the subsystems were reported as successful, and the vehicle was fully recovered. On May 22, 2019, a whitepaper was published calculating apogee altitude of 339,800 ft ± 16... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2945359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%20Marshall | Bobby Marshall | From 1913 to 1917, in early 1919, and again in 1927, Marshall played for the Minneapolis Marines independent professional team. He originally joined the roster just before the Marines played the Adams Athletic Club of Duluth, a precursor to the Duluth Kelleys of the National Football League. Marshall was the first play... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2945393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian%20Exchange%20Group | Nigerian Exchange Group | Operations began officially on August 25, 1961, with 19 securities listed for trading. However, informal operations had commenced earlier in June 1961. Operations were initially conducted inside the Central Bank building with four firms as market dealers: Inlaks, John Holt, C.T. Bowring, and ICON (Investment Company of... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2945398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giriama%20people | Giriama people | Background
The Giriama people are one of the nine groups which make up the Mijikenda, a Coastal Bantu community which means nine villages and is believed to have migrated from Shungwaya, a place near Fort Dumford in present-day Soma (Temu, 1971, p. 167). The other villages are the Digo, Duruma, Rabai, Ribe, Kauma, Kam... | 2.828125 | 0 |
2945398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giriama%20people | Giriama people | Giriama uprising
Giriama's involvement in the Kenyan resistance of the 1912 is of great historical significance as it inevitably shaped Giriama's history and culture. The British colonial government was attempting to find a source of labour for rapidly emerging cash crop plantations on the coast of Kenya for environme... | 2.75 | 0 |
2945398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giriama%20people | Giriama people | The initial Giriama response to these colonial policies was based on past pressures "on their whole way of life by strangers who were probably perceived by them as independent or semi-independent warlords; men who pillaged and abused the people in order to enrich themselves and perhaps also the other strangers who now ... | 2.875 | 0 |
2945398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giriama%20people | Giriama people | The Giriama people express their own unique lifestyle and kinship through their affinal terms and marriage tradition. The Giriama use their language of kinship to how importance of family and relationship where the “terms of address between alternate generations are reciprocated by members of the same sex or are recipr... | 2.953125 | 0 |
2945398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giriama%20people | Giriama people | There are numerous religions and traditions that the people of Giriama people practice. Some people follow the traditions of the past whilst some indulged in the faith of Islam or Christianity after the influence of the foreigners such as the British or Arab. The Giriama people traditionally believed in the spiritual g... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2945418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda%20Securities%20Exchange | Uganda Securities Exchange | The Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) is the principal stock exchange of Uganda. It was founded in June 1997. The USE is operated under the jurisdiction of Uganda's Capital Markets Authority, which in turn reports to the Bank of Uganda, Uganda's central bank.
The exchange opened to trading in January 1998. At that time... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2945425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe%20Stock%20Exchange | Zimbabwe Stock Exchange | The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, or ZSE, is the official stock exchange of Zimbabwe. Its history dates back to 1896 but has only been open to foreign investment since 1993. The exchange has about a dozen members, and currently lists 63 equities. There are two primary indices, the ZSE All Share and the ZSE Top 10.
History
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2945428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry%20Hughes%20%28sailor%29 | Gerry Hughes (sailor) | Gerry Hughes is a British sailor who became the first profoundly deaf man to sail single-handed across the Atlantic Ocean. He crossed the finishing line off Castle Hill, Newport at 11:30 am local time (4:30 pm UTC) on Saturday 3 July 2005 after 35 days of sailing. Hughes also became the world's first deaf yachtsman to ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2945430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahearn%20Field%20House | Ahearn Field House | Ahearn Field House is one of the athletic buildings on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. It is the former home of the Wildcats men's basketball and volleyball teams and is currently home to the indoor track and field squad. It also houses facilities for the Department of Kinesiology and the D... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2945461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procyclical%20and%20countercyclical%20variables | Procyclical and countercyclical variables | Procyclical and countercyclical variables are variables that fluctuate in a way that is positively or negatively correlated with business cycle fluctuations in gross domestic product (GDP). The scope of the concept may differ between the context of macroeconomic theory and that of economic policy–making.
The concept... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2945461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procyclical%20and%20countercyclical%20variables | Procyclical and countercyclical variables | Procyclical
Procyclical has a different meaning in the context of economic policy. In this context, it refers to any aspect of economic policy that could magnify economic or financial fluctuations. Of course, since the effects of particular policies are often uncertain or disputed, a policy will be often procyclical, c... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2945481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc%20Northwest | Disc Northwest | Disc Northwest (also DiscNW or Northwest Ultimate Association) is a Seattle based ultimate frisbee organization with the aim of increasing participation in the sport of Ultimate at all levels. DiscNW claims to be the largest and most active Ultimate organization in the United States, supporting many teams at the club, ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2945494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit%20concert | Benefit concert | A benefit concert or charity concert is a type of musical benefit performance (e.g., concert, show, or gala) featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis.
Benefit concerts can have both subjective and concrete ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2945494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit%20concert | Benefit concert | Benefit concerts are a major example of celebrity charity for they involve popular musicians; actors and actresses; and other kinds of entertainment figures volunteering to a greater cause. The efficiency of celebrity charity is explained by the theory of Catalytic Philanthropy designed by Paul Schervish. His thesis ex... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2945494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit%20concert | Benefit concert | Finally, the quality of entertainment is key to the creation of a public sphere where discussions about the concert's cause can occur. The better the entertainment, the more people watch the concert, and thus the more people become aware of the cause. Furthermore, the music played in the concerts can lead spectators to... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2945494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit%20concert | Benefit concert | As media events
Large-scale benefit concerts attract millions of viewers and are usually broadcast internationally. As powerful means of mass communication, they can be highly effective at raising funds and awareness for humanitarian causes. Media scholars Dayan and Katz classify benefit concerts as "media events": s... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2945529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-executive%20director | Non-executive director | A non-executive director (abbreviated to non-exec, NED or NXD), independent director or external director is a member of the board of directors of a corporation, such as a company, cooperative or non-government organization, but not a member of the executive management team. They are not employees of the corporation or... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2945546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture%20%28software%29 | Aperture (software) | Aperture also offers a range of image adjustment tools, including specific color retouching, a luminance-based edge sharpener, and spot repair. It also has lens correction tools, such as chromatic aberration correction, to help improve the overall quality of an image. In terms of project management, Aperture offers ext... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2945549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Latin%20School | Royal Latin School | The Chantry Chapel dedicated to St John the Baptist and Thomas Becket had an original Romanesque doorway, and served as the main schoolroom. An early 19th-century Master was the Oxford-educated aristocrat Rev William Eyre MA, the vicar of Padbury. It remained the home of the Royal Latin School until 1907 when Buckingh... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2945549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Latin%20School | Royal Latin School | Brookfield House was formerly the boys' boarding house. It is a former hunting lodge that houses the school offices and reception, the school library, conference room, art department, music department and some science and drama laboratories and rooms. Rotherfield House was formerly the girls' boarding house. It houses ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
2945560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20media%20in%20Turkey | Mass media in Turkey | The mass media in Turkey includes a wide variety of domestic and foreign periodicals expressing disparate views, and domestic newspapers are extremely competitive. However, media ownership is concentrated in the hands of a few large private media groups which are typically part of wider conglomerates controlled by weal... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2945560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20media%20in%20Turkey | Mass media in Turkey | Turkish consumers are the second-most media illiterate when compared to countries in Europe, leaving them especially vulnerable to fake news, according to a 2018 study. A combination of low education levels, low reading scores, low media freedom and low societal trust went into making the score, which saw Turkey being ... | 2.375 | 0 |
2945560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20media%20in%20Turkey | Mass media in Turkey | The 2007 Press Law was coupled with a “Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Suppression of Crimes Committed Through Such Publications”, authorising the Telecommunications Communication Presidency (TIB) to execute court orders to block websites and to issue blocking orders for the content providers in or outsi... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2945560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20media%20in%20Turkey | Mass media in Turkey | Turkey hosts around 3,100 newspapers, including 180 national ones. Only 15% of these are daily newspapers. Turkish print outlets privilege columns and opinions over pure news, and are often politically polarised. Broadcast media include hundreds of TV stations and thousands of radio stations including some in minority ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2945560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20media%20in%20Turkey | Mass media in Turkey | The broadcast media have a very high penetration as satellite dishes and cable systems are widely available. The "Radio and Television Supreme Council" (RTÜK) is the government body overseeing the broadcast media.
TV channels gather around half of the advertising market revenues, i.e. 1 billion dollars (56% in 2005, 5... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2945560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20media%20in%20Turkey | Mass media in Turkey | The main news agencies in Turkey are Anadolu Ajansı (AA), Demirören Haber Ajansı (DHA), İhlas Haber Ajansı (İHA), Ajans HaberTürk (Ciner Group) and ANKA. They often have access to expensive technical facilities thanks to being embedded in big media conglomerates.
Anadolu Ajansı (AA) was founded by Mustafa Kemal Pasha ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
2945561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rald%20Poussin | Gérald Poussin | Gérald Poussin (born 1946) is a Swiss artist, illustrator, painter, sculptor, animator and comics artist.
Biography
Poussin was born on 13 August 1946 in Carouge, Switzerland. He was involved in the animated films Trou attention (1970), Colonel Zabu (1970), Alphon au pays des merveilles (1972), La Nuit des Ploucs (197... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2945580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial%20Pipeline | Colonial Pipeline | A ceremonial ground-breaking near Atlanta, the pipeline's eventual headquarters, on June 20, 1962, was attended by U.S. Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges and company, city and state officials.
On July 2, 1962, Colonial Pipeline Company solicited bids from contractors to build 15 segments of the pipeline's mainline. Eac... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2945580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial%20Pipeline | Colonial Pipeline | 1991
Colonial Pipeline Company relocated its corporate headquarters in Atlanta from Lenox Towers to Resurgens Plaza.
1992
Colonial's annual throughput attained 676.2 million barrels. Colonial completed 4,000 miles of pipeline inspections with caliper pigs and corrosion inspections on 3,000 miles of pipe with magnetic ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2945580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial%20Pipeline | Colonial Pipeline | As a result of seven different spills on Colonial Pipeline in four years in the 1990s, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a complaint in 2000 against Colonial for violations of the Clean Water Act. It alleged gross negligence specifically in three cases noted above: 1996 Reedy River, 1997 Bea... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2945580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial%20Pipeline | Colonial Pipeline | Early on September 2, 1970, residents of Jacksonville, Maryland, detected gasoline odors and noticed gasoline in a small creek flowing beneath a nearby road. That afternoon, a resident notified Colonial at 6:19 p.m. of concern. Colonial had 30-inch-diameter pipeline situated about east of the point where the creek pas... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2945580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial%20Pipeline | Colonial Pipeline | In October 1994, after heavy rainfall in the Houston area, failures of eight pipelines occurred with damage to 29 others. Two of the failures included Colonial Pipeline lines. The failures occurred at a crossing of the San Jacinto river. The river, which normally flows at 2.5 feet above sea level, crested at 28 feet a... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2945580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial%20Pipeline | Colonial Pipeline | On May 30, 1997, Colonial Pipeline spilled approximately 18,900 US gallons (72,000 L) of gasoline, some of which entered an unnamed creek and its adjoining shoreline in the Bear Creek watershed near Athens, Georgia. During the spill, a vapor cloud of gasoline formed, causing several Colonial employees to flee for safet... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2945580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial%20Pipeline | Colonial Pipeline | September 21, 2015, a leak was discovered in Centreville, Virginia by a local restaurant employee. The leak was estimated to have released 4,000 gallons of hydrocarbon product over the course of the preceding 2 weeks. Product was located and removed from the downstream retention pond adjacent to a townhome community.
O... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2945595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoroutes%20of%20France | Autoroutes of France | Autoroutes are often given a name, even if these are not very used:
A1 is the autoroute du Nord (Northern motorway).
A4 is the autoroute de l'Est (Eastern motorway).
A6 and A7 are autoroutes du Soleil (Motorways of the Sun), as both lead from northern France to the sunny beach resorts of southern France.
A8 is named La... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2945602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20M%C3%B8ller%20Nielsen | Richard Møller Nielsen | However, UEFA banned Yugoslavia from participating in the championship as a result of the Yugoslav wars, and Denmark was chosen as the replacement because the team had finished second behind Yugoslavia in the qualification group. The Danish team started out with a 0–0 against England and a defeat against hosts Sweden.... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2945604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s%20in%20fashion | 1990s in fashion | One of the most influential group of models during the early 1990s was the Big Five, whose fame and social power allegedly surpassed that of many movie stars. The Big Five consisted of supermodels Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista and Tatjana Patitz. Whether booked as individuals or ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2945604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s%20in%20fashion | 1990s in fashion | By the late 1990s, the grunge look became unfashionable, and there was a revival of interest in streetwear clothing, with name brand designers such as Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren making a comeback. In Europe, jeans were more popular than ever before. From 1997 to 1998 brighter colors came into style, including plum, ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2945604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s%20in%20fashion | 1990s in fashion | Women's hair in the early 1990s continued in the big, curly style of the 1980s. High and high sided ponytails continued through most of the decade, especially when playing sports and at the gym. These were worn with a scrunchie until the mid-1990s, when they were replaced by hair ties. Bangs remained big throughout the... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2945604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s%20in%20fashion | 1990s in fashion | For teenage girls and younger children, hair was worn long with heavily teased bangs called "mall bangs" which were long fringes covering the forehead. From 1994 through the 2000s they got smaller, somewhat flatter, and laid closer to the forehead. Alice bands, headbands and scrunchies of various styles and colors (esp... | 1.992188 | 0 |
2945604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s%20in%20fashion | 1990s in fashion | In the late 1990s, it was considered unstylish and unattractive for men and boys to have longer hair. As a result, short hair completely took over. From 1997 onwards, aside from curtained hair (which was popular throughout the decade), spiky hair, bleached hair, crew cuts, and variants of the quiff became popular among... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2945624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychonomic%20Society | Psychonomic Society | The society was founded in 1959 by a small group of experimental psychologists, who recognized the need for a distinct society that would support open and accessible communications about new research on experimental and cognitive psychology. They broke away from the dominant association of the day, the American Psychol... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2945624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychonomic%20Society | Psychonomic Society | Its organizing committee included: Wilfred J. Brogden, William K. Estes, Frank A. Geldard, Clarence H. Graham, Lloyd G. Humphreys, Clifford T. Morgan, William D. Neff, Kenneth W. Spence, Stanley Smith Stevens, Benton J. Underwood, and William S. Verplanck (Secretary-Treasurer).
Past chairs of the society's governi... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2945668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikey%20Solomon | Ikey Solomon | Isaac "Ikey" Solomon (c. 1787 – 1850) was a British criminal who acted as a receiver of stolen property. His well-publicised crimes, escape from arrest, recapture and trial led to his transportation to the Australian penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (now known as Tasmania).
He is widely regarded as the model for the ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2945668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikey%20Solomon | Ikey Solomon | Arrest and return to England
The warrants for Solomon's arrest finally arrived in November 1829 aboard the Lady of the Lake. Hobart authorities immediately arrested him.
Solomon's counsel, however, had him brought before the court on a writ of habeas corpus. The judge approved Solomon's release because of a technical ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2945676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Oufkir | Mohamed Oufkir | General Si Mohamed ben Ahmed Oufkir (; 14 May 1920 − 16 August 1972) was a Moroccan senior military officer who held many important governmental posts. It is believed that he was assassinated for his alleged role in the failed 1972 Moroccan coup attempt.
Biography
Mohamed Oufkir was a native of , in the Tafilalt regio... | 1.976563 | 0 |
2945702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Asia%20Foundation | The Asia Foundation | The Asia Foundation (TAF) is a nonprofit international development organization focused on improving lives across Asia. Its programs operate in various sectors, including governance, women's empowerment and gender equality, inclusive economic growth, environmental and climate action, and regional and international coop... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2945733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Seik | Alexander Seik | Alexander Seik (also known as Alex Sejk; 6 September 1824 – 2 October 1905) was a Czech photographer, painter and mayor of Tábor. He was a pioneer of Czech photography, one of foremost exponents of chromophotography.
Biography
Alexander Seik was born in Mirotice near Písek, Austrian Empire (today the Czech Republic).... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2945733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Seik | Alexander Seik | Seik often spoke about his many photographic inventions, but the details of these have not been preserved. His special interest was chromophotography – a portrait technique with a three-dimensional effect. This technique was mastered by only a few photographers, and was a specialty of Central Europe. An article in the ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2945818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Wanger | Walter Wanger | Walter Wanger (born Walter Feuchtwanger; July 11, 1894 – November 18, 1968) was an American film producer active from the 1910s, his career concluding with the turbulent production of Cleopatra, his last film, in 1963. He began at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and eventually worked at virtually every major studio as ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
2945818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Wanger | Walter Wanger | Paramount
Wanger's job at Paramount was to help meet the studio's large annual requirement for fresh stories. One of Wanger's major successes in his early years with the company was his identification of the British novel The Sheik as a story with potential. In 1921, it was turned into an extremely successful film star... | 2 | 0 |
2945818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Wanger | Walter Wanger | In 1926, Warner Brothers premièred Don Juan, a film with music and sound effects, and the following year released The Jazz Singer with dialogue and singing scenes. Along with other big companies, Paramount initially resisted adopting sound films and continued to exclusively make silent ones. Wanger convinced his collea... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2945818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Wanger | Walter Wanger | Columbia
After leaving Paramount, Wanger tried unsuccessfully to set himself up as an independent. Unable to secure financing for films, he joined Columbia Pictures in December 1931. Wanger was recruited by Harry Cohn, the studio's co-founder, who wanted to move Columbia away from its Poverty Row past by producing seve... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2945832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Gerritsz.%20Cuyp | Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp | Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp or Cuijp (1594–1652) was a portrait and landscape painter, best known for his portraits.
He was born and died in Dordrecht, the son of the stained glass designer Gerrit Gerritsz. Cuyp, who moved to Dordrecht from Venlo. He was the half-brother of Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp and the father of the muc... | 1.953125 | 0 |
2945847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto%20Rafti | Porto Rafti | Porto Rafti (), officially named Limni Markopoulou (), is a seaside resort town located in East Attica, Greece.
Porto Rafti's main source of income is tourism and winemaking. It is part of the municipality of Markopoulo Mesogaias. In the 2011 census data, its permanent population was 9,686. Today, the permanent popula... | 2.375 | 0 |
2945851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20stamping | Progressive stamping | Progressive Die is a metalworking method that can encompass punching, coining, bending and several other ways of modifying metal raw material, combined with an automatic feeding system.
The feeding system pushes a strip of metal (as it unrolls from a coil) through all of the stations of a progressive stamping die. Eac... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2945851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20stamping | Progressive stamping | Progressive stamping can also be produced on transfer presses. These are presses that transfer the components from one station to the next with the use of mechanical "fingers". For mass production of stamped parts which do require complicated in-press operations, it is always advisable to use a progressive press. One o... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2945853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Christian%20Lillie | Joseph Christian Lillie | Joseph Christian Lillie (20 March 1760 – 29 January 1827), also known as J.C. Lillie, was a Danish neoclassical architect and
interior designer. His early career was in Denmark, where he is mainly known for his interior designs and furniture production. His later career was in Schleswig-Holstein, where he is known f... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2945853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Christian%20Lillie | Joseph Christian Lillie | In early 1784 the cabinetmaking guild tried to prevent his getting a license to run the family cabinetmaking workshop, which his recently deceased mother had run as a widow after the death of his father. The guild did not recognize him as having guild rights, because he had not received guild recognition for a work su... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2945853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Christian%20Lillie | Joseph Christian Lillie | In 1790 Lillie did the interior design for Crown Prince and Regent Frederik’s apartments both at Christiansborg Palace and at Frederiksberg Palace. On 3 November 1790 he was appointed interior designer to the Danish court.
He travelled in Norway in 1793.
The interior decoration in 1794-1795 of various apartments in ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2945882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agi%20Mishol | Agi Mishol | Agi Mishol (; born October 20, 1947) is an Israeli poet. Mishol's work has been published in several languages, and has won various awards including the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, the Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry and the Yehuda Amichai prize for literature.
Biography
Agi (Agnes) Fried (later Mish... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2945882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agi%20Mishol | Agi Mishol | Mishol was an educator and Hebrew literature teacher at Be'er Tuvia high school during the years 1976 to 2001. After retiring, she served as a senior lecturer at Alma College for Hebrew Culture in Tel Aviv between the years 2002 and 2008. In 2006 she was the artistic director of the International Poetry Festival, held ... | 2.25 | 0 |
2945882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agi%20Mishol | Agi Mishol | In 2022, Mishol served as Poet in Residence in the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is also a member of the university's board of trustees. She appeared extensively in various international events, and in 2006 was the artistic director of the international poetry fe... | 2.125 | 0 |
2945894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20invisibility | Social invisibility | Social invisibility refers to a group of people in the society who have been separated or systematically ignored by the majority of the public. As a result, those who are marginalized feel neglected or being invisible in the society. It can include disadvantaged, elderly homes, child orphanages, homeless people or anyo... | 3.09375 | 0 |
2945916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona%20Wallach | Yona Wallach | Yona Wallach (; June 10, 1944 – September 26, 1985) was an Israeli poet. Her surname also appears as Volach. She is considered a revolutionary Israeli feminist and post-modernist.
Wallach was wrote poetry from a young age. Her work was influenced by Jewish mysticism. Throughout her life, she struggled with periods of ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
2945916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona%20Wallach | Yona Wallach | Yona Wallach began performing her poetry with a rock band she formed with two musician friends, though they insisted she recite rather than sing her poetry, as she struggled to stay in tune. Wallach captivated audiences with her provocative clothing and overtly sexual poetry.
In 1981, at the age of 36, Wallach found... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2945942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirth%20Brass%20Band | Rebirth Brass Band | In a press conference, Derrick Tabb expressed that although he was angry about the incident, he chose to use that frustration to develop an organization to help children in the city learn to play music and by using that energy to build and expand The Roots of Music, a non-profit after school program for at-risk middle ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2946006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermal%20bone | Dermal bone | A dermal bone or investing bone or membrane bone is a bony structure derived from intramembranous ossification forming components of the vertebrate skeleton, including much of the skull, jaws, gill covers, shoulder girdle, fin rays (lepidotrichia), and the shells of turtles and armadillos. In contrast to endochondral... | 3.03125 | 0 |
2946018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Orton%20Jones | Elizabeth Orton Jones | Elizabeth Orton Jones (June 25, 1910 – May 10, 2005) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. She won the 1945 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing Prayer for a Child, after being a runner-up one year earlier.
Life
Early life
She was born "half past Christmas" in Highlan... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2946018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Orton%20Jones | Elizabeth Orton Jones | After Paris, Jones began writing and illustrating her first book, Ragman of Paris and His Ragamuffins (1937), which was based on her experiences in France. Other books followed and evidenced her experiences as well: Maninka's Children was influenced by the Bohemian girls she knew growing up. Her home in Mason, New Hamp... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2946173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linga%2C%20Bluemull%20Sound | Linga, Bluemull Sound | Linga is a very small uninhabited island in the Bluemull Sound, Shetland, Scotland. It is one of many islands in Shetland called Linga. It has an area of 45 ha and is 26m at its highest point.
Geography and geology
Linga is made up of "coarse mica-schist and gneiss".
It is situated off the east coast of Yell, near th... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2946186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge%20Ryan | Inge Ryan | Professional career
While attending secondary school, Ryan had several small jobs, including for Øyvind Johansen. When 18, Ryan worked at a fish factory in Sørvær. Ryan worked as a teacher at Skorovatn School from 1975 to 1977, after which he studied teaching at Levanger College and Alta College, graduating in 1980. He... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2946186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge%20Ryan | Inge Ryan | Political policy
Since the 1970s, Namsskogan had experienced a rapid decline in the population, from 1,750 to 1,000 in the early 1990s. Among Ryan's political changes as mayor was to encourage people to take their holidays in the winter instead of the summer. He argued that the three main industries in Namsskogan—agric... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2946288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie%20the%20Model | Millie the Model | Millie the Model is Marvel Comics' longest-running humor title, first published by the company's 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and continuing through its 1950s forerunner, Atlas Comics, to 1970s Marvel. The comic book series deals with Millie Collins, an aspiring model working for the Hanover Modeling Agency.
Publ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2946332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie%20Theus | Reggie Theus | Reginald Wayne Theus (born October 13, 1957) is an American basketball coach and former player. He played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he was a two-time NBA All-Star. He is currently the men's basketball head coach and athletic director at Bethune–Cookman. He was the head coach for the... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2946354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherstburg%20Freedom%20Museum | Amherstburg Freedom Museum | Members aided other refugee slaves from the United States by using it as a stop on the Underground Railroad. It was associated with Bishop Willis Nazery, the first leader of the British Methodist Episcopal Church, a denomination established by Underground Railroad (UGRR). This wholly Canadian denomination was expressiv... | 2.96875 | 0 |
2946424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington%20Mall%20%28Massachusetts%29 | Burlington Mall (Massachusetts) | Burlington Mall is a shopping mall located in Burlington, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1968. Anchor stores are Nordstrom and Macy's, with one vacant anchor building formerly housing Lord & Taylor. The mall currently includes retailers Primark, Fabletics, Madewell, Tory Burch, Marc Jacobs, and Kate Spade New York.
H... | 1.945313 | 0 |
2946450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcus%20Howe | Darcus Howe | Leighton Rhett Radford "Darcus" Howe (26 February 1943 – 1 April 2017) was a British broadcaster, writer and racial justice campaigner. Originally from Trinidad, Howe arrived in England as a teenager in 1961, intending to study law and settling in London. There he joined the British Black Panthers, a group named in sym... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2946450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcus%20Howe | Darcus Howe | At the age of 18, after leaving QRC, Howe moved to England, arriving on the SS Antilles at Southampton on 11 April 1961, after a two-week journey, and taking a train on to London Waterloo station. He intended to study law, but after two years at Middle Temple he left, becoming more involved with journalism. In 1969, he... | 1.9375 | 0 |
2946450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcus%20Howe | Darcus Howe | From 1973 to 1985, Howe served as editor of the magazine Race Today (1973–88), which was originally connected with the Institute of Race Relations. As Howe recalled in 2013: When the institute set up Race Today, it began by publishing mainly academic articles on the colonial territories. It later focused on British imm... | 1.976563 | 0 |
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