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2946451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Really%20Really%20Free%20Market | Really Really Free Market | The Really Really Free Market (RRFM) movement is a horizontally organized collective of individuals who form a temporary market based on an alternative gift economy. RRFM events are often hosted by people unaffiliated with any large organization, and are encouraged to sprout up by anyone, anytime, anywhere. The RRFM mo... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2946490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement%20of%20foreign%20judgments | Enforcement of foreign judgments | In law, the enforcement of foreign judgments is the recognition and enforcement in one jurisdiction of judgments rendered in another ("foreign") jurisdiction. Foreign judgments may be recognized based on bilateral or multilateral treaties or understandings, or unilaterally without an express international agreement.
D... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2946490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement%20of%20foreign%20judgments | Enforcement of foreign judgments | Foreign judgments may be recognized either unilaterally or based on principles of comity, i.e. mutual deference between courts in different countries. In English courts, the basis of the enforcement of foreign judgments is not comity, but the doctrine of obligation.
Between two different States in the United States, e... | 1.96875 | 0 |
2946490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement%20of%20foreign%20judgments | Enforcement of foreign judgments | Exercise of jurisdiction in recognition cases
If the country that issued the judgment and the country where recognition is sought are not parties to the Hague Convention on Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters (as of December 2017, only ratified by Albania, Cyprus, Kuwait, the Netherlands and Portugal ), ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2946490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement%20of%20foreign%20judgments | Enforcement of foreign judgments | First, foreign judgments will only be enforced in Canada if they stem from a final and conclusive decision. "Final and conclusive" refers to any judgment which can no longer be modified by the foreign court; the court must have no power to vary the judgment or to retry the issue. However, the judgment may still be appe... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2946490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement%20of%20foreign%20judgments | Enforcement of foreign judgments | Common law recognition rules
The first of two broad bases for recognition within the Common law rules in England and Wales is set forth in Adams v Cape Industries plc. Where a party was present within the territory of the adjudicating court when proceedings instituted, the court will bind the party to the decision of t... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2946490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement%20of%20foreign%20judgments | Enforcement of foreign judgments | With regard to individuals, the court has held that it will mean that the defendant must be within the jurisdiction of a court when the proceedings were instituted, meaning service or notice that proceedings had begun. Presence at the time of the trial is not used as a defendant could simply leave the jurisdiction upon... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2946521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excludability | Excludability | The easiest characteristic of an excludable good is that the producer, supplier or managing body of the good, service or resource have been able to restrict consumption to only paying consumers, and excluded non-paying consumers. If a good has a price attached to it, whether it's a one time payment like in the case of ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2946536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantwich%20Town%20F.C. | Nantwich Town F.C. | Before World War I, Nantwich also had spells in a variety of leagues including the North Staffs & District, the Crewe & District, Manchester and Lancashire Combination leagues. After the war, the club became founder members of the Cheshire County League in which they were perennial strugglers, though they did finish 6t... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2946566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification | Personification | Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction as a person, often as an embodiment or incarnation. In the arts, many things are commonly personified, including: places, especially cities, countries, and continents; elements of the natural world, such as trees, the four seasons, the "four elements", the... | 2.625 | 0 |
2946566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification | Personification | Personification in the Bible is mostly limited to passing phrases which can probably be regarded as literary flourishes, with the important and much-discussed exception of Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs, 1–9, where a female personification is treated at some length, and makes speeches. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalyp... | 2.625 | 0 |
2946566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification | Personification | Platonism, which in some manifestations proposed systems involving numbers of spirits, was naturally conducive to personification and allegory, and is an influence on the uses of it from classical times through various revivals up to the Baroque period.
Literature
According to Andrew Escobedo, "literary personificat... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2946566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification | Personification | The major works of Middle English literature had many personification characters, and often formed what are called "personification allegories" where the whole work is an allegory, largely driven by personifications. These include Piers Plowman by William Langland (–90), where most of the characters are clear personifi... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2946566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification | Personification | Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty, had been important under the Roman Republic, and was somewhat uncomfortably co-opted by the Roman Empire; it was not seen as an innate right, but as granted to some under Roman law. She had appeared on the coins of the assassins of Julius Caesar, defenders of the Roman Republic. ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2946658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Railroad%20of%20Pennsylvania | Central Railroad of Pennsylvania | The Central Railroad of Pennsylvania was an attempt by the Central Railroad of New Jersey to avoid certain New Jersey taxes on their Pennsylvania lines. The attempt to reduce New Jersey Corporate taxes failed, and CRP operations were merged back into those of the CNJ six years later.
History
Most of the Pennsylvania... | 1.976563 | 0 |
2946704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Boundary%20Commission | International Boundary Commission | The International Boundary Commission () is a bi-national organization responsible for surveying and mapping the Canada–United States border and regulating construction close to the border. The commission was created in 1908 and made permanent by a treaty in 1925.
Its responsibilities also include maintaining boundary... | 2.71875 | 0 |
2946704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Boundary%20Commission | International Boundary Commission | In July 2007, the Bush administration relieved American Commissioner Dennis Schornack of his post in connection with a dispute between the boundary commission and the American government over private construction near the border. Schornack rejected the dismissal, saying that the commission is an independent, internatio... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2946743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvina%20Major | Malvina Major | Dame Malvina Lorraine Major (born 28 January 1943) is a New Zealand opera soprano.
Early life and family
Major was born in Hamilton on 28 January 1943, the daughter of Vincent and Eva Major. She grew up in a large musical family, and as a child she performed at various concerts, singing mainly country and western pop... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2946786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Ragusa | Republic of Ragusa | The Republic of Ragusa was an aristocratic maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik (Ragusa in Italian and Latin; Raguxa in Venetian) in South Dalmatia (today in southernmost Croatia) that carried that name from 1358 until 1808. It reached its commercial peak in the 15th and the 16th centuries, before being ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
2946786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Ragusa | Republic of Ragusa | Origin of the city
According to the of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, the city was founded, probably in the 7th century, by the inhabitants of the Greek city of Epidaurum (modern Cavtat) after its destruction by the Avars and Slavs c. 615. Some of the survivors moved north to a small island ... | 3 | 0 |
2946786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Ragusa | Republic of Ragusa | Early centuries
During its first centuries the city was under the rule of the Byzantine Empire. The Saracens laid siege to the city in 866–867; it lasted for fifteen months and was raised due to the intervention of Byzantine Emperor who sent a fleet under Niketas Ooryphas in relief. Ooryphas' "showing of the flag" ha... | 2.890625 | 0 |
2946786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Ragusa | Republic of Ragusa | Ottoman suzerainty
In 1430 and 1442, the Republic signed short-term arrangements with the Ottoman Empire defining its status. In 1458, the Republic signed a treaty with the Ottomans which made it a tributary of the sultan. Under the treaty, the Republic owed the sultan "fidelity", "truthfulness", and "submission", and... | 2.78125 | 0 |
2946786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Ragusa | Republic of Ragusa | In 1683 the Ottomans were defeated in the Battle of Kahlenberg outside Vienna. The field marshal of the Austrian army was Ragusan Frano Đivo Gundulić. In 1684, the emissaries renewed an agreement contracted in Visegrád in the year 1358 and accepted the sovereignty of Habsburg as Hungarian Kings over Ragusa, with an ann... | 2.984375 | 0 |
2946786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Ragusa | Republic of Ragusa | In 1783, the Ragusan Council did not answer the proposition put forward by their diplomatic representative in Paris, Frano Favi, that they should establish diplomatic relations with America, although the Americans agreed to allow Ragusan ships free passage in their ports.
The first years of the French war were prosper... | 2.84375 | 0 |
2946786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Ragusa | Republic of Ragusa | Regardless of the fact that the government of the Ragusan Republic never signed any capitulation nor relinquished its sovereignty, which according to the rules of Klemens von Metternich that Austria adopted for the Vienna Congress should have meant that the Republic would be restored, the Austrian Empire managed to con... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2946786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Ragusa | Republic of Ragusa | The organization of the government was based on the Venetian model: the administrative bodies were the Major Council (Consilium maius, Maggior Consiglio, Velje vijeće), the Minor Council (Consilium minus, Minor Consiglio, Malo vijeće) (from 1238) and the Senate (Consilium rogatorum, Consiglio dei Pregadi, Vijeće umolje... | 2.78125 | 0 |
2946786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Ragusa | Republic of Ragusa | Relations among the nobility
The nobility survived even when the classes were divided by internal disputes. When Marmont arrived in Dubrovnik in 1808, the nobility was divided into two blocks, the "Salamankezi" (Salamanquinos) and the "Sorbonezi" (Sorboneses). These names alluded to a certain controversy arisen from t... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2946786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Ragusa | Republic of Ragusa | The historian Nenad Vekarić used tax evidence from the Dubrovnik littoral () and a census to find that the Republic of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) had a population of nearly 90,000 by 1500. From then to 1700 the population declined: in the first half of the 16th century it had more than 50,000 inhabitants; in the second half of... | 3.109375 | 0 |
2946786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Ragusa | Republic of Ragusa | The pre-modern people of Ragusa identified themselves as "Ragusans" (Raguseus, Raguseo), which was defined by jurisdictional criteria as a citizen of the city or republic, and confessionallly a Roman Catholic, while in ethnic sense was identified with wider proto-national context of "Illyrians", "Slovincians", "Dalmati... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2946786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Ragusa | Republic of Ragusa | The use of Croatian in everyday speech increased in late 13th century, and in literary works in mid-15th century. At the end of the 14th century, inhabitants of the republic were mostly native speakers of Slavic language, referred to by them as Croatian, Slavic, or Illyrian at the time. For example, in 1284 "a merchant... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2946786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Ragusa | Republic of Ragusa | When Ragusa was part of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, between 1808 and 1810, Italian was still in official use. Croatian was normally spoken among lower classes, Italian among the upper. Ragusans were in general bilingual, speaking Croatian in common day-to-day duties and Italian in official occasions or mixing both... | 2.90625 | 0 |
2946793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9gine%20Robin | Régine Robin | Régine Robin (born as Rivka Ajzersztejn; 10 December 1939 – 3 February 2021) was a historian, novelist, translator and professor of sociology. Her prolific fiction and non-fiction, primarily on the themes of identity and culture and on the sociological practice of literature, earned a number of awards, including the Go... | 1.976563 | 0 |
2946802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sweet | William Sweet | William Sweet (born 1955) is a Canadian philosopher, and a past president of the Canadian Philosophical Association and of the Canadian Theological Society.
Biography
Sweet was born in St. Albert near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and studied political science, theology, and philosophy in Canada, South Africa, France, a... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2946802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sweet | William Sweet | The focus of several of Sweet's articles and books in political philosophy is the theme of rights and obligations. Much of this has been historical – providing substantial and novel reassessments of British idealists such as Bernard Bosanquet but also of Maritain (who, Sweet argues, converge on a number of significant ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2946814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon%20T80 | Canon T80 | The Canon T80 is Canon's first autofocus 35mm single-lens reflex camera. It was introduced in April 1985 and discontinued in June 1986 and is part of the T series of FD mount cameras. It is not compatible with Canon's later EOS system and its autofocus EF-mount lenses. Three special lenses, designated AC, were produced... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2946889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elissa%20Aalto | Elissa Aalto | Elissa Aalto (born Elsa Kaisa Mäkiniemi; 22 November 1922 – 12 April 1994) was a Finnish architect.
Life
Elsa Mäkiniemi graduated in architecture from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1949, and the same year she joined the office of Alvar Aalto. They married in 1952, when she was 29 and he was 54, and they had... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2946889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elissa%20Aalto | Elissa Aalto | Over the decades, Elissa Aalto’s role as a skilled mediator of Alvar Aalto’s ideas in the architect’s office grew greater. She ran the office in 1976−1994, bringing to completion several unfinished building projects, among them the Church of the Cross in Lahti (1969–79) and Riola Church (1966‒80) in Italy, along with E... | 2 | 0 |
2946915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina%20al-Sadr | Amina al-Sadr | Amina Haydar al-Sadr (; 1937 – 1980), known as Bint al-Huda al-Sadr (), was an Iraqi educator and political activist who was executed by Saddam Hussein's regime along with her brother, Ayatullah Sayyid Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, in 1980.
Life and career
Aminah Haidar al-Sadr was born in 1937 in Kazimiyah, Baghdad where s... | 2.375 | 0 |
2946942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnia | Saturnia | Saturnia () is a spa town in Tuscany in north-central Italy that has been inhabited since ancient times. It is a frazione of the comune of Manciano, in the province of Grosseto. Famous for the spa which gives it its name, its population is 280.
Geography
It lies about from Manciano, from Grosseto, northeast of Orb... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2946946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%20Mary%20Leo | Sister Mary Leo | Dame Sister Mary Leo Niccol (3 April 18955 May 1989) was a New Zealand religious sister who is best known for training some of the world's finest sopranos, including Mina Foley, Dames Malvina Major, Kiri Te Kanawa, Mona Ross and Heather Begg.
She was born as Kathleen Agnes Niccol in Auckland and educated by the Siste... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2946966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Maine%20at%20Machias | University of Maine at Machias | The University of Maine at Machias (UMaine Machias or UMM) is a satellite campus in Machias, Maine. It is part of the University of Maine System, and it is the only regional degree-granting campus of University of Maine. The institution was founded in 1909 as a normal school for educating teachers. Enrollment is 293 st... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2946966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Maine%20at%20Machias | University of Maine at Machias | Greek organizations
There are seven Greek organizations on campus, four fraternities and three sororities. Some organizations are nationally affiliated, while others are local and exist solely at the University of Maine at Machias. All groups are run independently and jointly form Greek Council, which oversees Greek li... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2947051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa%20Hurtado%20de%20Mendoza%2C%205th%20Marquis%20of%20Ca%C3%B1ete | García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete | García Hurtado de Mendoza y Manrique, 5th Marquis of Cañete (July 21, 1535 – May 19, 1609) was a Spanish Governor of Chile, and later Viceroy of Peru (from January 8, 1590 to July 24, 1596). He is often known simply as "Marquis of Cañete". Belonging to an influential family of Spanish noblemen Hurtado de Mendoza succes... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2947051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa%20Hurtado%20de%20Mendoza%2C%205th%20Marquis%20of%20Ca%C3%B1ete | García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete | Upon learning that his father had been designated viceroy of Peru, he returned to Spain and asked to be sent to America. During the journey he met Jerónimo de Alderete, who had been chosen by the king to be the successor of Pedro de Valdivia as governor of Chile. It happened that Alderete became sick and died during th... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2947051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa%20Hurtado%20de%20Mendoza%2C%205th%20Marquis%20of%20Ca%C3%B1ete | García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete | Lincoyan and other Indigenous leaders knew that the cavalry was coming by land from Santiago and conceived a plan to attack them at Andalicán, near Concepción. Hurtado learned of the Indigenous plan and was informed that the Mapuches interpreted his attitude as a sign of weakness and fear; he decided therefore to radic... | 2.96875 | 0 |
2947051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa%20Hurtado%20de%20Mendoza%2C%205th%20Marquis%20of%20Ca%C3%B1ete | García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete | The hardships of the struggle began to bother the companions of Hurtado, who had hoped to gain riches for their services. In order to redistribute them to his followers, the governor declared the encomiendas of Concepción vacant. For this reason, the city was refounded for a third time. A short time later, the city of ... | 2.953125 | 0 |
2947051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa%20Hurtado%20de%20Mendoza%2C%205th%20Marquis%20of%20Ca%C3%B1ete | García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete | Sometime later, the governor was informed that his father the viceroy had been replaced by the king and that Francisco de Villagra had been designated governor of Chile. Hurtado expected to receive the same humiliations from Villagra that he had inflicted upon him, and for this reason he decided to leave Chile quickly.... | 2.75 | 0 |
2947051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa%20Hurtado%20de%20Mendoza%2C%205th%20Marquis%20of%20Ca%C3%B1ete | García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete | Juicio de residencia
In Peru he was subject to a juicio de residencia for the arbitrary actions of his government in Chile (the confiscation of the encomiendas, the mistreatment of the soldiers, etc.). He was the first governor of Chile whose performance was judged under the laws of Spain. The tribunal found him guilty... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2947081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypholoma | Hypholoma | Hypholoma is a genus of fungi which are quite well known due to the commonness of sulphur tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare) on stumps in temperate woodlands. Species in this genus are easily recognizable because the dark spores create a distinctive greenish effect on the yellow cap underside. Hypholoma means "mushrooms wit... | 2.71875 | 0 |
2947086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus%20Laberius%20Durus | Quintus Laberius Durus | Quintus Laberius Durus (died August 54 BC) was a Roman military tribune who died during Julius Caesar's second expedition to Britain. Caesar describes how soon after landing in Kent, the Romans were attacked whilst building a camp by the native Britons. Before reinforcements could arrive, Laberius was killed. His buria... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2947088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecan%20Street%20Festival | Pecan Street Festival | The Pecan Street Festival is the common name for the Old Pecan Street Spring and Fall Arts Festival, a free, bi-annual juried fine art and arts and crafts festival held on 6th Street in Austin, Texas.
The festival was first held in Fall 1978. The festival includes juried original artists and artisans featuring painti... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2947102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich%20Topp | Erich Topp | Erich Topp (2 July 1914 – 26 December 2005) was a German U-boat commander of World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords of Nazi Germany. He sank 35 ships for a total of . After the war, he served with the Federal German Navy, in which he reached the rank of Konte... | 1.992188 | 0 |
2947150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Tory | High Tory | In the United Kingdom and elsewhere, High Toryism is the old traditionalist conservatism which is in line with the Toryism originating in the 16th century. High Tories and their worldview are sometimes at odds with the modernising elements of the Conservative Party. Historically, the late 18th-century conservatism deri... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2947150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Tory | High Tory | The change was noticeable from the 1760s with the premierships of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute and William Pitt the Younger. The Land Tax Perpetuation Act 1798 reduced the impact of that tax, though the landed gentry's privileges were reduced by the Reform Act 1832. In the reign of Queen Victoria, High Tories now supp... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2947200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20L.%20Reno | Jesse L. Reno | Mexican–American War
During the Mexican–American War in 1847, Reno commanded an artillery battery under General Winfield Scott and fought in the Siege of Vera Cruz and other battles in Mexico. Reno was brevetted twice during the war—once for "gallant and meritorious conduct" at the Battle of Cerro Gordo, and later for ... | 3.03125 | 0 |
2947200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20L.%20Reno | Jesse L. Reno | Upon leaving Alabama with his small force, Reno was temporarily assigned to command the Fort Leavenworth Arsenal until he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers in the fall of 1861. He transferred to Virginia, took command of the 2nd Brigade, Burnside Expeditionary Force, and soon had organized five regiments. T... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2947200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20L.%20Reno | Jesse L. Reno | Reno had a reputation as a "soldier's soldier" and often was right beside his troops without a sword or any sign of rank. On September 12, 1862, Reno's IX Corps spent the day in Frederick, Maryland, as the Army of the Potomac under Major General George McClellan advanced westward in pursuit of the Confederate Army of N... | 2 | 0 |
2947200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20L.%20Reno | Jesse L. Reno | Reno's body was first taken to Boston, the home of his wife, and placed in a vault in Trinity Church. On April 9, 1867, his remains were reinterred in Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
A memorial marking the location of his death was erected in 1889 by IX Corps veterans on present-day Reno Monument Roa... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2947201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Pride%20%28writer%29 | Mike Pride (writer) | Charles Michael Pride (July 31, 1946 – April 24, 2023) was an American author and journalist best known for his long tenure as editor of the Concord Monitor of Concord, New Hampshire. He was the author or co-author of several books on the American Civil War and World War II.
Life and career
Early life and education
... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2947276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Nicol | Peter Nicol | Peter Nicol (born 5 April 1973) is a former professional squash player from Scotland, who represented first Scotland and then England in international squash. In 1998, while still competing for Scotland, he became the first player from the UK to hold the World No. 1 ranking. During his career, he won one World Open ti... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2947277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Psychopathological%20Association | American Psychopathological Association | The American Psychopathological Association (APPA) is an organization "devoted to the scientific investigation of disordered human behavior, and its biological and psychosocial substrates." The association’s primary purpose is running an annual conference on specific topics relevant to psychopathology research. Leading... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2947414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons%3A%20Fire%20and%20Ice | Dragons: Fire and Ice | Dragons: Fire & Ice is a 2004 animated fantasy adventure film and the first of a two-part series based on the Mega Bloks toyline. The film was released directly to DVD in 2004, but also aired on Jetix in September 2005.
The story concerns two unlikely heroes, Prince Dev of the Norvagen and Princess Kyra of the Draigar... | 2.125 | 0 |
2947432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Taylor%20%28English%20publisher%29 | John Taylor (English publisher) | John Taylor (31 July 1781 – 5 July 1864) was an English publisher, essayist, and writer. He is noted as the publisher of the poets John Keats and John Clare.
Life
He was born in East Retford, Nottinghamshire, the son of James Taylor and Sarah Drury; his father was a printer and bookseller. He attended school first at... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2947447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Chater | River Chater | The River Chater is a river in the East Midlands of England. It is a tributary of the River Welland, and is about long.
Course
It rises near Whatborough Hill in Leicestershire, and then flows east, past Sauvey Castle and Launde Abbey, before crossing into Rutland. Chater Valley is a biological Site of Special Scien... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2947450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Ann%20Gill | Sarah Ann Gill | Sarah Ann Gill (probably 1780 – 25 February 1866) was a social and religious leader in Barbados during the era of slavery. By an act of the Barbadian Parliament in 1998, she was named a National Hero of Barbados.
Biography
She was born of a black mother and a white father (Jordan), and baptised with the name Ann. The... | 2.5 | 0 |
2947450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Ann%20Gill | Sarah Ann Gill | Methodism was brought to Barbados in 1788 by Dr Thomas Coke, a driving force behind early Methodist missionary activity. By 1793, Methodists were often viewed by the Barbadian upper classes as anti-slavery agitators and Methodist missionaries regarded as agents of the England-based Anti-Slavery Society.
Gill was a Fre... | 2.90625 | 0 |
2947479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus%20Trip%2035 | Olympus Trip 35 | The Olympus Trip 35 is a 35mm compact camera, manufactured by Olympus. It was introduced in 1967 and discontinued, after a lengthy production run, in 1984. The Trip name is a reference to its intended market—people who wanted a compact, functional camera for holidays. During the 1970s, it was the subject of an advertis... | 2.625 | 0 |
2947486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapperton%20Canal%20Tunnel | Sapperton Canal Tunnel | The Sapperton Canal Tunnel is a tunnel on the Thames and Severn Canal near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, England. With a length of , it was the longest tunnel of any kind in England from 1789 to 1811.
Construction, following an Act of Parliament, began in 1784. Twenty-six shafts were dug along the line of the tunnel... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2947486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapperton%20Canal%20Tunnel | Sapperton Canal Tunnel | By late summer, the decision had been taken to build a broad tunnel, high and wide, and the company advertised for tunnellers in September. The tunnel would be long and below ground at its deepest point. It was expected to take four years to complete, beginning in early 1784. To speed the work, 26 shafts were sunk f... | 2.984375 | 0 |
2947491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye%20Brook | Eye Brook | The Eye Brook is a watercourse in the East Midlands of England and a tributary of the River Welland. It is around long.
Course
The Eye Brook rises between Tilton on the Hill and Skeffington in Leicestershire and flows east through a narrow valley towards East Norton. Near where it crosses the A47, it starts to form ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2947495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth%20Town%20Hall | Perth Town Hall | The Perth Town Hall, situated on the corner of Hay and Barrack streets in Perth, Western Australia, is the only town hall built by convicts in Australia. Upon completion it was the tallest structure in Perth.
History
Designed by Richard Roach Jewell and James Manning in the Victorian Free Gothic style, the hall was b... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2947508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%20Gregorios%20Orthodox%20Christian%20Student%20Movement | Mar Gregorios Orthodox Christian Student Movement | Mar Gregorios Orthodox Christian Student Movement (MGOCSM) is the oldest Christian Student Organization in Asia. It is a spiritual organization of the Indian Orthodox Church, officially known as the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church for the student community. The MGOCSM headquarters is located in Devalokam, Kottayam, K... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2947508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%20Gregorios%20Orthodox%20Christian%20Student%20Movement | Mar Gregorios Orthodox Christian Student Movement | Objective
The movement has three main objectives. The aims of the movement are to:
bring together students of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church with a view of deepening their spiritual lives and also to create spiritual fellowship
enable members to bear witness to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and spread the gosp... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2947516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyebrook%20Reservoir | Eyebrook Reservoir | Eyebrook Reservoir (or Eye Brook Reservoir) is a reservoir and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which straddles the border between Leicestershire and Rutland in central England. The closest towns are Corby and Uppingham.
The reservoir was formed by the damming of the Eye Brook. It was built between 1937... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2947537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact%20sport | Contact sport | Contact sports are categorised by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) into three main categories: contact, limited-contact and noncontact. In attempting to define relative risk for competitors in sports the AAP have further defined contact sports as containing some element of intentional collision between players.... | 3.21875 | 0 |
2947559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20James%20River%20plantations | List of James River plantations | Tedington Tedington was built ca. 1750 by William Lightfoot on a tract of land at Sandy Point that had been acquired by his grandfather Phillip Lightfoot who arrived in the Virginia Colony in the late 17th century and became a wealthy merchant in Yorktown. The house was a long wood-frame structure with a gambrel roof ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2947559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20James%20River%20plantations | List of James River plantations | Kittiewan, originally known as Millford, overlooking Kittiewan Creek and the James River, is a typical Colonial-period medium-size wood-frame plantation house characteristic of the Virginia Tidewater. Built in the 18th century, its first known owner was Dr. William Rickman. In 1776 Rickman was appointed by the Contine... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2947559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20James%20River%20plantations | List of James River plantations | Upper Weyanoke The plantation site was settled by English colonists during the 17th century and has been continuously occupied ever since, as indicated by archeological investigations. During the 18th century and early 19th century, the locally prominent Minge family owned the property, as well as others on the Weyanok... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2947559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20James%20River%20plantations | List of James River plantations | River Edge Once known as Clover Fields, River Edge, as it has been known for the last hundred years or more, stands just west of State Route 5 South, in Charles City County. The property was a grant of ten thousand acres from the crown to Colonel William Cole, Esquire. The grant originally included all of the land alon... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2947559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20James%20River%20plantations | List of James River plantations | Berkeley Plantation was long the seat of the Harrison family, one of the First Families of Virginia. It was the birthplace of Benjamin Harrison V, son of the builder, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and three-time Governor of Virginia. His third son William Henry Harrison, was born at Berkeley. A fa... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2947559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20James%20River%20plantations | List of James River plantations | Rich Neck Farm Constructed in the early nineteenth century, the house was remarkable for the number of original accessory features that survived into the 21st century. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places, May 19, 1980, Rich Neck provided a vivid impression of life on a prosperous Southside plantation in ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2947559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20James%20River%20plantations | List of James River plantations | Appomattox Plantation is a plantation house located (at City Point) in Hopewell, Virginia, USA. It is best known as the Union headquarters during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864–65. The restored manor house on a bluff overlooking the confluence of the James River and Appomattox River, and the grounds are managed by t... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2947559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20James%20River%20plantations | List of James River plantations | Presquile Plantation In 1780, David Meade Randolph married a cousin Mary Randolph and they settled in Chesterfield County near Bermuda Hundred at Presquile, a plantation just west of the Appomattox River that was part of the Randolph family's extensive property along the James River. While David Randolph saw to the cul... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2947559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20James%20River%20plantations | List of James River plantations | Mont Blanco also known as Mount Blanco was a plantation set on a high bluff overlooking the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The manor house was a frame two-story, sidehall-plan farmhouse, with an ell built in the last decade of the eighteenth century for John Wayles Eppes, a United States representative a... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2947559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20James%20River%20plantations | List of James River plantations | Spring Hill is a -story, double-pile, side-hall, wood-frame plantation house. The house is clad with beaded clapboards and rests upon a brick foundation laid in a Flemish bonc. It is covered with a gabled roof pierced by two dormers on each slope. It has a pair of brick chimneys on the west wall, opposite the interior ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2947611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Save-Ums%21 | The Save-Ums! | The Save-Ums
Jazzi (voiced by Tajja Isen) is a purple passionate girl with red hair tied into two pigtails who dreams to speak the language of wild horses. She is afraid of water and is shown to be the leader in numerous episodes. She is known to say "People, we have a plan!" whenever she, another Save-Um, or a second... | 1.945313 | 0 |
2947631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese%20Joint%20Declaration%20of%201956 | Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 | The Soviet Union did not sign the 1951 Treaty of Peace with Japan, which had reestablished peaceful relations between most other Allied Powers and Japan. On 19 October 1956, Japan and the Soviet Union signed a Joint Declaration providing for the end of the state of war and for the restoration of diplomatic relations b... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2947645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowboard%20Kids%202 | Snowboard Kids 2 | Snowboard Kids 2 is a snowboarding video game developed by Racjin and published by Atlus. It serves as the sequel to Snowboard Kids and was later followed by another sequel, SBK: Snowboard Kids.
Gameplay
Snowboard Kids 2 retains the core gameplay of its predecessor while introducing modifications to the game mechanics... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2947679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Woodward | Roger Woodward | Roger Robert Woodward (born 20 December 1942) is an Australian classical pianist, composer, conductor, teacher and human rights activist. He is widely regarded as a leading advocate of contemporary music.
Early life
Roger Woodward was born in Sydney where he received his first piano lessons from Winifred Pope. Early... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2947679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Woodward | Roger Woodward | Steeped in church music and traditional repertoire, Woodward trained throughout his early life to perform established works side by side with more recent music as part of a belief that music was the essential expression of an experimental process. Most of his concerts reflected this belief even though such programming ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2947679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Woodward | Roger Woodward | He performed with the Arditti, Tokyo, JACK and Alexander String Quartets, with the harpsichordist George Malcolm; jazz pianist Cecil Taylor in Lisbon, Paris, for the Patras Festival, and for extensive tours of the UK Contemporary Music Network from 1986 to 1994. He worked with musicologists Charles Rosen, Paul Griffith... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2947713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reidar%20Kvammen | Reidar Kvammen | Reidar Kvammen (23 July 1914 – 27 October 1998) was a Norwegian footballer. Kvammen was an inside-forward who played his entire career for Viking, and is regarded as one of Norway's greatest footballers of all time. Kvammen was the first Norwegian footballer to reach 50 caps. Overall, he played 51 internationals and sc... | 2.125 | 0 |
2947715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Weiner | Mark Weiner | Mark S. Weiner is an American scholar, writer, and documentary filmmaker. He is the president of Hidden Cabinet Films and is the executive director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute. He was formerly a professor of constitutional law and legal history at Rutgers University School of Law—Newark.
Weiner is co-director... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2947751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20European%20Cup%20and%20UEFA%20Champions%20League%20finals | List of European Cup and UEFA Champions League finals | The UEFA Champions League is a seasonal football competition established in 1955. Prior to the 1992–93 season, the tournament was named the European Cup. The UEFA Champions League is open to the league champions of all UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) member associations (except Liechtenstein, which has n... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2947758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%20Repertory%20Company | Trinity Repertory Company | Trinity Repertory Company (commonly abbreviated as Trinity Rep) is a non-profit regional theater located at 201 Washington Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The theater is a member of the League of Resident Theatres. Founded in 1963, the theater is "one of the most respected regional theatres in the country". Featuri... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2947758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%20Repertory%20Company | Trinity Repertory Company | The Trinity Rep Conservatory opened in 1977, serving as a training ground for actors. A partnership in 2001 between Trinity Rep and Brown University created the Brown/Trinity Rep three-year MFA program for degrees in theatrical arts for actors and directors. Operating along with the MFA playwriting, it has emerged as o... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2947764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Hercules | Port Hercules | Port Hercules ( ) is the only deep-water port in Monaco. The port has been in use since ancient times. The modern port was completed in 1926, and underwent substantial improvements in the 1970s. It covers almost , enough to provide anchorage for up to 700 vessels. The port is located in the La Condamine district. Ha... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2947787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald%20Armstrong | Archibald Armstrong | Archibald "Archy" Armstrong (died March 1672) was a native of Cumberland, and according to tradition first distinguished himself as a sheep thief; afterwards he entered the service of James VI and I as a court jester, with whom he became a favourite.
At court
When James VI succeeded to the English throne, Armstrong wa... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2947787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald%20Armstrong | Archibald Armstrong | In August 1618 John Chamberlain wrote that "Archie the Dizzard" had been granted a lucrative monopoly on the making of clay tobacco pipes. In October 1618, it was reported that "Archy the Fool" had been banished from the court for misbehaviour.
In 1623 he accompanied Prince Charles and Lord Buckingham in their royal m... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2947789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20European%20Cup%20and%20UEFA%20Champions%20League | History of the European Cup and UEFA Champions League | An early attempt to create a cup for national champion clubs of Europe was made by Swiss club Servette in 1930. The tournament called "Coupe des Nations" was a great success and the champions of the ten major European football nations of the time were invited. The cup was won by Hungarian club Újpest. Despite the great... | 2.65625 | 0 |
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