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2947789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20European%20Cup%20and%20UEFA%20Champions%20League | History of the European Cup and UEFA Champions League | 2005 to 2008 – Liverpool's Miracle in Istanbul, Barcelona, AC Milan and Manchester United
There was a similar surprise in 2005. This time, it involved two of Europe's most successful clubs, with six-time European champions Milan facing four-time winners Liverpool in one of the most dramatic finals in the competition's ... | 2 | 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 | After three years of dominance by La Liga from 2000 to 2002, Spain teams were not as successful during 2003–2005 as they only had semi-finalists Real Madrid in 2003 and Deportivo de La Coruña in 2004. In 2006, they made a triumphant return with Barcelona and Villarreal in the semi-finals. The semi-finalists were Villar... | 1.953125 | 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 | 2014 to 2018 – Real Madrid at the center of Spanish dominance: Los Blancos win four titles in five years, Barcelona win their second treble
Real Madrid won their long-awaited La Decima (translates into Spanish as "the tenth"), their record-breaking tenth European Cup/UEFA Champions League title, in the 2013–14 season f... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2947802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Soviet%20Union%20relations | Japan–Soviet Union relations | Relations between the Soviet Union and Japan between the Communist takeover in 1917 and the collapse of Communism in 1991 tended to be hostile. Japan had sent troops to counter the Bolshevik presence in Russia's Far East during the Russian Civil War, and both countries had been in opposite camps during World War II and... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2947802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Soviet%20Union%20relations | Japan–Soviet Union relations | Japan formally recognized the Soviet Union in January 1925 with the Soviet–Japanese Basic Convention. They agreed that the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth (the treaty between the Russian Empire and Imperial Japan which ended the Russo-Japanese War) remained in force, while other agreements and treaties between the two countr... | 2.859375 | 0 |
2947802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Soviet%20Union%20relations | Japan–Soviet Union relations | Due to the invasion, 56 islands of the Kuril chain, as well as the southern half of Sakhalin (i.e. the Northern Territories), were in 1946 incorporated into the Soviet Union. The USSR created a South-Sakhalin Province in the Khabarovsk Region of the Soviet Union. This annexation was never recognized by Japan and preven... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2947802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Soviet%20Union%20relations | Japan–Soviet Union relations | Japan derived few apparent gains from the normalization of diplomatic relations. The second half of the 1950s saw an increase in cultural exchanges. Soviet propaganda, however, had little success in Japan, where it encountered a longstanding antipathy stemming from the Russo-Japanese rivalry in Korea, Manchuria, and Ch... | 2.5 | 0 |
2947802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Soviet%20Union%20relations | Japan–Soviet Union relations | Economic cooperation expanded rapidly during the 1970s, despite an often strained political relationship. The two economies were complementary, for the Soviet Union needed Japan's capital, technology, and consumer goods, while Japan needed Soviet natural resources, such as oil, gas, coal, iron ore, and timber. By 1979 ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2947802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Soviet%20Union%20relations | Japan–Soviet Union relations | 1975–1990: Strains on relations
After 1975, the Soviet Union began openly to warn that a Japanese peace treaty with China might jeopardize Soviet–Japan relations. In January 1976, Gromyko again visited Tokyo to resume talks on the peace treaty. When the Japanese again refused to budge on the territorial question, Gromy... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2947802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Soviet%20Union%20relations | Japan–Soviet Union relations | This economic cooperation was interrupted by Japan's decision in 1980 to participate in sanctions against the Soviet Union for its invasion of Afghanistan and by its actions to hold in abeyance a number of projects being negotiated, to ban the export of some high-technology items, and to suspend Siberian development lo... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2947802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Soviet%20Union%20relations | Japan–Soviet Union relations | The Soviet government also stepped up its diplomacy toward Japan with the announcement in 1990 that Gorbachev would visit Japan in 1991. Soviet officials asserted that their government would propose disarmament talks with Japan and might make more proposals on the Northern Territories in connection with the visit. Obse... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2947902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Ignatius%20Church%20%28San%20Francisco%29 | Saint Ignatius Church (San Francisco) | Saint Ignatius Church is on the campus of the University of San Francisco (USF) in San Francisco, California. The church serves a parish of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and is the university's chapel. Saint Ignatius Church is staffed by priests of the Society of Jesus and is dedicated to the Society's founder, Igna... | 1.992188 | 0 |
2947902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Ignatius%20Church%20%28San%20Francisco%29 | Saint Ignatius Church (San Francisco) | The present church's architecture is a mix of Italian Renaissance and Baroque elements, and its floorplan follows that of ancient Roman basilicas. Though Saint Ignatius Church survived the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake unscathed, it was recently renovated and seismically reinforced. One of the city's largest churches, it... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2947929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harcourt%20Arboretum | Harcourt Arboretum | Harcourt Arboretum is an arboretum owned and run by the University of Oxford. It is a satellite of the university's botanic garden in the city of Oxford, England. The arboretum itself is located south of Oxford on the A4074 road, near the village of Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire, and comprises some . Professor Simo... | 2.25 | 0 |
2947960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Marcellus | John Marcellus | John Marcellus was a trombone musician and teacher. He was Professor of Trombone at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester and Chair of the Woodwind, Brass, and Percussion Department. In addition to his trombone teaching responsibilities at Eastman, Marcellus was the conductor of the Eastman Tromb... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2947960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Marcellus | John Marcellus | Previous to joining the faculty of the Eastman School in 1978, Marcellus served as the Principal Trombonist with the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, DC) for 13 years, and also served as the Associate Principal Trombonist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, soloist with the United States Navy Band, and serve... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2947962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lake%20%28Kawabata%20novel%29 | The Lake (Kawabata novel) | The Lake is a short 1954 novel by the Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata. This book tells the story of a former schoolteacher named Gimpei Momoi. The Lake was adapted into a film by Yoshishige Yoshida under the title Woman of the Lake.
Writing techniques
The writing techniques used by Yasunari Kawabata in this narrati... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2947963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20debt | Medical debt | Medical debt refers to debt incurred by individuals due to health care costs and related expenses, such as an ambulance ride or the cost of visiting a doctor.
Medical debt differs from other forms of debt because it is usually incurred accidentally or faultlessly. People do not plan to fall ill or hurt themselves, an... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2947963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20debt | Medical debt | A 2007 survey found about 70 million Americans either have difficulty paying for medical treatment or have medical debt.
According to research done in 2019, especially adults who are between 18–64 years and those lacking health insurance coverage are familiar with medical financial hardship in the US. It is estimated ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2947963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20debt | Medical debt | In the United States, one of the largest concerns of medical debt stems from high medical costs. For example, in a 2011 study of fees paid to physicians for office visits and hip replacement procedures across the United States and several other wealthy countries, the patients in the United States paid 27% more for offi... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2947963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20debt | Medical debt | In May 2023, President Biden publicly discouraged all Americans from using medical credit cards to pay for their medical bills due to the credit cards' high interest rates.
Medical debt in other countries
The threat of unmanageable medical debts is less common for those in Western Europe, Japan and Australia. A 2019 ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2947963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20debt | Medical debt | Debt negotiation
According to Dr. Marty Makary, the professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a surgeon at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, debt negotiation is achievable before, during and after the health care services in the process of a high costing of medical expe... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2947973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Girl%20Who%20Chased%20Away%20Sorrow | The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow | The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow (1999) is a book by Ann Turner which is part of the Dear America book series. It tells the story of the removal of the Navajos from their land by the U.S. Government – a 400-mile (640 km) forced winter march to Fort Sumner.
Synopsis
The story starts when Sarah Nita and her granddaughter... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2947997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire%20Water | Yorkshire Water | Yorkshire Water is a British water supply and treatment utility company servicing West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire, part of North Lincolnshire, most of North Yorkshire and part of Derbyshire, in England. The company has its origins in the Yorkshire Water Authority, one of ten regional water... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2947997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire%20Water | Yorkshire Water | Environmental record
Yorkshire Water has received fines for breaches of environmental law. For example:
Yorkshire Water was fined twice in April 2007. The first offence was for allowing polluting matter to enter Clifton beck in Brighouse, contrary to section 85(1) of the Water Resources Act 1991. The final incident ki... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2948009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nade%C5%BEda%20Petrovi%C4%87 | Nadežda Petrović | In 1893, she became an art teacher at the school and later taught at the women's university in Belgrade. Afterwards, she obtained a stipend from the Serbian Ministry of Education to study art in the private school of Anton Ažbe in Munich. Here, she met painters Rihard Jakopič, Ivan Grohar, Matija Jama, Milan Milovanovi... | 2.78125 | 0 |
2948062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkes%20de%20Br%C3%A9aut%C3%A9 | Falkes de Bréauté | Sir Falkes de Bréauté (died 1226) (also spelled Fawkes de Bréauté or Fulk de Brent) was an Anglo-Norman soldier who earned high office by loyally serving first King John and later King Henry III in the First Barons' War. He played a key role in the Battle of Lincoln Fair in 1217. He attempted to rival Hubert de Burgh, ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2948062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkes%20de%20Br%C3%A9aut%C3%A9 | Falkes de Bréauté | The failure of de Bréauté and his allies gave the advantage to de Burgh, who in February 1224 ordered de Bréauté to give up Plympton and Bedford castles, rejecting his claim that Plympton Castle was part of his wife's inheritance. De Bréauté refused to give the castles up, and in response the royal court sent justices ... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2948067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ince-in-Makerfield | Ince-in-Makerfield | The earliest mention of the manor of Ince and the Ince family dates from 1202, at which point it was under the barony of Newton in Makerfield (Newton le Willows). There were four halls in Ince. Both the manor of Ince and the original hall on Warrington Road were held by a family of the same name, who also owned the ma... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | In the early morning of 16 September 1810, the Army of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla initiated the independence movement. Hidalgo was followed by his loyal companions, among them Mariano Abasolo, and a small army equipped with swords, spears, slingshots and sticks. Captain General Ignacio Allende was the military brains of... | 2.984375 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | In Aculco, the Royal Spanish forces under the command of Felix Maria Calleja, Count of Calderón, and Don Manuel de Flon (and comprising 200 infantrymen, 500 cavalry and 12 cannons) defeated the insurgents, who lost many men as well as the artillery they had obtained at Battle of Monte de las Cruces. On 29 November 1810... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | In 1838, a French pastry cook, Monsieur Remontel, claimed that his shop in the Tacubaya district of Mexico City had been ruined in 1828 by looting Mexican officers. He appealed to France's King Louis-Philippe (1773–1850). Coming to its citizen's aid, France demanded 600,000 pesos in damages. This amount was extremely h... | 3.015625 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | U.S. territorial expansion under Manifest Destiny in the 19th century had reached the banks of the Rio Grande, which prompted Mexican president José Joaquín de Herrera to form an army of 6,000 men to defend the Mexican northern frontier from the expansion of the neighboring country. In 1845, Texas, a former Mexican ter... | 2.890625 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | On 20 September 1846, the U.S. launched an attack on Monterrey, which fell after 5 days. After this U.S. victory, hostilities were suspended for 7 weeks, allowing Mexican troops to leave the city with their flags displayed in full honors as U.S. soldiers regrouped and regained their losses. In August 1846, Commodore Da... | 2.859375 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | After putting up a fierce defense against the U.S. invasion, the Mexican positions along the state of Chihuahua began to fall. These forces had been organized by general José Antonio de Heredia and governor Ángel Trías Álvarez. The cavalry of the latter made several desperate charges against the U.S. that nearly achiev... | 3.09375 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | The subsequent French invasion resulted in the Second Mexican Empire, which was supported by the Roman Catholic clergy, many conservative elements of the upper class, and some indigenous communities. The presidential terms of Benito Juárez (1858–71) were interrupted by the rule of the Habsburg monarchy in Mexico (1864–... | 2.78125 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | A continuing weakness in the Mexican Army throughout the Diaz period was the low morale and motivation of the rank-and-file. They mostly consisted of Indian and mestizo conscripts, forced into service under the random leva system. Some were enlisted as a means of punishment or because of social discrimination, and a nu... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | Although violence between drug cartels has been occurring long before the war began, the government held a generally passive stance regarding cartel violence during the 1990s and the early years of the 21st century. That changed on 11 December 2006, when newly elected President Felipe Calderón sent 6,500 federal troops... | 2.8125 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | The National Defence Secretariat has three components: a national headquarters, territorial commands, and independent units. The Secretary of National Defence delegates overall command of the Army thru the office of Commander of the Army, a divisional general-ranked officer, who leads the service via a centralized comm... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | The territorial organization of the Mexican Army includes twelve Military Regions (Regiónes militares (RM)). Each RM is commanded by a senior officer in the rank of Divisional General of the General Staff (General de División Diplomado de Estado Mayor), a three-star general. Below the military regions are forty-eight M... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | The Mexican Air Force, which is an independent military service under the SEDENA, has its own territorial organization, separate from that of the Mexican Army. It has four air force regions: Northwest (Región Aérea del Noroeste, HQ in Hermosillo, Sonora), Northeast (Región Aérea del Noreste, HQ in Chihuahua, Chihuahua)... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | The Estado Mayor Presidencial (Presidential Guard) was a specific agency of the Mexican Army that is responsible for the safety and well being of the President in the practice of all of the activities of his office. On 24 March 1985 President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado reformed the regulation of the presidential guard... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2948082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Army | Mexican Army | The Mexican military counts on three of the following departments to fulfill the general tasks of the Army and Air Force:
Dirección General de Industria Militar (D.G.I.M.) – In charge of the designing, manufacturing and maintenance of vehicles and weapons, such as the assembly of the FX-05 assault rifle and the DN ser... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2948095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20foreign%20policy%20on%20Southeast%20Asia | Japanese foreign policy on Southeast Asia | By the mid-1960s, Japan's role had become highly visible in Asia as well as elsewhere in the world. In 1964 Japan became a full member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). As economic and trade expansion burgeoned, leaders began to question the propriety and wisdom of what they variousl... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2948095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20foreign%20policy%20on%20Southeast%20Asia | Japanese foreign policy on Southeast Asia | 1980s
In 1981, the ASEAN-Japan Centre was established to institutionalize the growing economic ties between Japan and the ASEAN countries. The establishment was partially driven by Japan’s wider foreign policy strategy towards Southeast Asia at the time, symbolized by the Fukuda Doctrine announced in 1977 in Manila.
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2948150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via%20Popilia | Via Popilia | The idea that the older course of the Via Popilia reached Atria finds possible support through the proposed reconstructions of the Via Annia which have it starting at Atria. This gives a picture of carefully planned and continuous route which follows the Italian regions on the upper Adriatic Sea. The two mentioned itin... | 2.25 | 0 |
2948150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via%20Popilia | Via Popilia | The Ariminum to Ravenna tract seemed to use the coastal cliff and sandy strip. However, it seems to have later run into problems and for a stretch a more inland route, which in part followed the current via del Confine, was preferred, even though the coastal route continued to be used. The road must then have gone alon... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2948151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen%20Cemetery%20%28Los%20Angeles%29 | Evergreen Cemetery (Los Angeles) | Evergreen Memorial Park & Crematory is a cemetery in the East Side neighborhood of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California.
Evergreen has several prominent individuals of historical Southern California on its grounds. Many pioneers are interred here, names such as Bixby, Coulter, Hollenbeck, Lankershim, Van Nuys, and W... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2948151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen%20Cemetery%20%28Los%20Angeles%29 | Evergreen Cemetery (Los Angeles) | The Chinese community was allowed to utilize a corner of the potter's field and soon after, in September 1888, erected a shrine. Evergreen left the shrine in place when it purchased the potter's field from the county in 1964 and let it fall into disrepair over the years. The shrine and the land under it were eventually... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2948178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20text%20mining | Biomedical text mining | Biomedical text mining (including biomedical natural language processing or BioNLP) refers to the methods and study of how text mining may be applied to texts and literature of the biomedical domain. As a field of research, biomedical text mining incorporates ideas from natural language processing, bioinformatics, medi... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2948178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20text%20mining | Biomedical text mining | Large annotated corpora used in the development and training of general purpose text mining methods (e.g., sets of movie dialogue, product reviews, or Wikipedia article text) are not specific for biomedical language. While they may provide evidence of general text properties such as parts of speech, they rarely contain... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2948178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20text%20mining | Biomedical text mining | Document classification and clustering
Biomedical documents may be classified or clustered based on their contents and topics. In classification, document categories are specified manually, while in clustering, documents form algorithm-dependent, distinct groups. These two tasks are representative of supervised and un... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2948178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20text%20mining | Biomedical text mining | Information extraction
Information extraction, or IE, is the process of automatically identifying structured information from unstructured or partially structured text. IE processes can involve several or all of the above activities, including named entity recognition, relationship discovery, and document classificati... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2948178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20text%20mining | Biomedical text mining | These methods are the foundation to facilitate systematic searches of overlooked scientific and biomedical literature which could carry significant association between research. The combination of information can stem new discoveries and hypotheses especially with the integration of datasets. It must be noted that the... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2948178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20text%20mining | Biomedical text mining | Medical record analysis systems
Electronic medical records (EMRs) and electronic health records (EHRs) are collected by clinical staff in the course of diagnosis and treatment. Though these records generally include structured components with predictable formats and data types, the remainder of the reports are often f... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2948184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloan%20Wilson | Sloan Wilson | Sloan Wilson (May 8, 1920 – May 25, 2003) was an American writer.
Reporter
Sloan was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, the grandson of U.S. Navy officer and Arctic explorer John Wilson Danenhower. Wilson graduated from Harvard University in 1942. He then served in World War II as an officer of the United States Coast Guar... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2948254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea%20Hassager | Dorothea Hassager | Dorothea Hansine Hassager (25 September 1814 – 17 October 1897) was a Danish philanthropist and founder of Hassagers Collegium (Hassager's Dormitory) the youngest of the "old dormitories" of the University of Copenhagen.
Coming from a family of clergymen, Dorothea Hansine Hørning was married at the age of 17 to the 16... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2948269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median%20sternotomy | Median sternotomy | Median sternotomy is a type of surgical procedure in which a vertical inline incision is made along the sternum, after which the sternum itself is divided using a sternal saw. This procedure provides access to the heart and lungs for surgical procedures such as heart transplant, lung transplant, corrective surgery for ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2948330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Orr | Dave Orr | 1886 season
In 1886, had career highs with 136 games, 593 plate appearances, 93 runs, 31 triples, and 301 total bases. His .338 batting average was the third best in the American Association, and he became the first player to reach 300 total bases in a season. He led the association in hits (193), total bases (301), e... | 2.125 | 0 |
2948330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Orr | Dave Orr | Columbus Solons
Orr appeared in 134 games for the Columbus Solons in 1889. His .327 batting average was the fourth best in the American Association, and he was also among the association's leaders in hits (183), total bases (250), doubles (31), triples (12), and RBIs (87). Although playing for Columbus, Orr helped Br... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2948330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Orr | Dave Orr | In March 1892, Orr traveled to Florida to umpire exhibition games. He announced that, although one leg was still "somewhat affected by paralysis", he was contemplating a comeback in 1893. He was not able to return to the game as a player.
Accolades
Though largely forgotten in the modern era, Orr was remembered by bo... | 2 | 0 |
2948354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Auckland%20Town%20F.C. | West Auckland Town F.C. | One plausible explanation for West Auckland's entry was that an employee of Sir Thomas Lipton's had contacts in the Northern League and put out an appeal for a team to take the English spot. An alternative explanation, popular in the town itself, is that Lipton had wanted to send Woolwich Arsenal to the Championship – ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
2948385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtua%20Fighter%203 | Virtua Fighter 3 | is a 1996 fighting video game developed and published by Sega, the sequel to 1994's Virtua Fighter 2 as part of the Virtua Fighter series. Released originally in arcades, Virtua Fighter 3 was the first arcade game to run on the Sega Model 3 system board. The use of this new hardware gave the game revolutionary graphics... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2948385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtua%20Fighter%203 | Virtua Fighter 3 | Development and release
Virtua Fighter 3 was the launch title for the arcade board Model 3 from Sega. Developed by Yu Suzuki's Sega AM2, it was a revolutionary game from a technical standpoint, with its detailed graphics earning widespread praise. Characters' eyes appeared to track the opponent's position, their muscle... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2948385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtua%20Fighter%203 | Virtua Fighter 3 | Yu Suzuki said the added characters, Aoi and Taka-Arashi, were inspired in part by a desire to introduce traditional Japanese martial arts to the Virtua Fighter series, which had previously been dominated by Chinese martial arts.
During the game's beta testing at the Sega Joyopolis Arcade in Tokyo, players waited in l... | 1.945313 | 0 |
2948436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticucho | Anticucho | Anticuchos (singular anticucho, Quechua 'Anti Kuchu', Anti: 'Eastern region of the Andes' or 'Eastern native ethnicities', Kuchu: 'Cut'; Quechua for 'Anti-style cuts', 'Eastern-style cuts') are popular and inexpensive meat dishes that originated in the Andes during the pre-Columbian era, specifically in the Antisuyu re... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2948441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Milenkovich | Stefan Milenkovich | Stefan Milenkovich (; born 25 January 1977) is a Serbian violinist.
Early life
Milenković was born to a Serbian father, Zoran Milenković, and a Serbian-born mother of Italian descent, Lidija Kajnaco (Lidia Caenazzo). He started playing violin in 1980, at age three, taught by his father and often accompanied by his mot... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2948442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20National%20Bioinformatics%20Institute | Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute | The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB-ISCIII; Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Bioinformática) is an academic service institution tasked with the coordination, integration and development of bioinformatics resources in Spain. Created in 2003, the INB is—since 2015—the main node through which the Carlos III H... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2948443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalocsa | Kalocsa | Kalocsa (; or Kalača; or Калоча; ) is a town in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. It lies south of Budapest. It is situated in a marshy but highly productive district, near the left bank of the Danube River. Historically it had greater political and economic importance than at present.
Description
Kalocsa is the Episco... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2948443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalocsa | Kalocsa | In the 18th century, the villeinage held the lands. The next class were the craftswomen and craftsmen. The first charter of incorporation was mentioned in 1737 in Kalocsa. In 1769 a total of 90 craftswomen and men lived in the town. Because of the clergy and the schools, the population had many educated people. Kalocs... | 2.71875 | 0 |
2948443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalocsa | Kalocsa | Another attraction of the town is the high building of the Archbishops Cathedral standing in the middle of the Holy Trinity Square. The present church is the fourth built here. The first was built during the reign of King Stephen in the first decade of the 11th century by Asztrik. He was the first person who called him... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2948443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalocsa | Kalocsa | To the rear of the Cathedral there is the Archbishop's Treasury. The archbishop's treasury of the rich Middle Ages was destroyed at the same time as the church. As it is true in general concerning the relics of the Hungarian art, it is valid in this case too: the catastrophes of history unsparingly annihilated our fine... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2948463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Sloan%20Wilson | David Sloan Wilson | David Sloan Wilson (born 1949) is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He is a son of author Sloan Wilson, a co-founder of Evolution Institute and a co-founder of Prosocial World. He has studied social evolution in Bi... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2948463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Sloan%20Wilson | David Sloan Wilson | Wilson is a prominent proponent of the concept of group selection (also known as multi-level selection) in evolution. He and Elliott Sober proposed a framework called multilevel selection theory, which challenges the more orthodox approach of gene-level selection and individual selection, in their book Unto Others. Thi... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2948463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Sloan%20Wilson | David Sloan Wilson | Wilson's book Darwin's Cathedral proposes that religions are primarily group-level adaptations that evolve by cultural group selection. His book Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives attempts to give an introduction to evolution for a broad audience, detailing the vario... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2948472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loro%20Parque | Loro Parque | Orcas
In February 2006, Loro Parque received four young orcas – two males, Keto (born in 1995) and Tekoa (2000), and two females, Kohana (2002) and Skyla (2004) – on loan from SeaWorld. Except for Keto, all of the orcas were fathered by Tilikum, who was involved in the death of three humans and was the subject of the 2... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2948472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loro%20Parque | Loro Parque | Foundation
In 1994 Loro Parque founded the Loro Parque Fundación, an international foundation member of IUCN set up to highlight the need for conservation of nature and the environment. The foundation has carried out 82 conservation projects in 28 countries throughout the world, of which 31 are active with approximatel... | 2.5 | 0 |
2948472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loro%20Parque | Loro Parque | Criticism
Loro Parque has been criticised by a number of organizations, mostly for its use of orcas. The Free Morgan Foundation campaigns for the release of Morgan, an orca held at Loro Parque, saying that she has been "bullied and attacked by the other orca on a regular basis" and that Tekoa, another orca held at the ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2948484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Copeland%20%28furniture%20designer%29 | Henry Copeland (furniture designer) | Henry Copeland, aka Henry Copland, (c. 1710 – 1754) was an 18th-century English cabinetmaker and furniture designer. In partnership with Mathias Locke during the mid-18th century in London, they produced many furniture designs in the Rococo Furniture Style. However both men worked for Thomas Chippendale the elder and... | 1.914063 | 0 |
2948506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geyve | Geyve | Geyve is a municipality and district of Sakarya Province, Turkey. Its area is 662 km2, and its population is 50,799 (2022). The closest international airport is Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, from Geyve. It is the largest district of Sakarya Province in terms of area. Geyve is located at the foot of Gey... | 1.945313 | 0 |
2948506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geyve | Geyve | Sakarya River is passing through Geyve, and is one of the important water sources for the land/agriculture. Geyve Karaçay Creek is also passing through the town center. On June 6, 2014, Geyve has experienced a significant flooding caused by Karaçay Creek after heavy rain, resulting in tremendous destruction and one fat... | 2.375 | 0 |
2948506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geyve | Geyve | History
There is not enough scientific evidence available regarding the first settlers of Geyve. The ruins around the region do not survive, but it is almost certain that Geyve is an historical settlement dating back thousands of years. There are different claims that its origin goes to 4000 BC, and even some sources t... | 3.046875 | 0 |
2948511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Mexicans | Irish Mexicans | Irish Mexicans ( or ; ) are inhabitants of Mexico that are immigrants from or descendants of immigrants from Ireland. The majority of Irish immigrants to Mexico were Catholic.
History
A few Mexican Irish communities existed in Mexican Texas prior to the Texas Revolution. They were fully integrated into Mexican societ... | 2.859375 | 0 |
2948519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutti%20Frutti%20%28song%29 | Tutti Frutti (song) | As possible evidence that the "sexual song" theory was created later, songwriter LaBostrie was quoted as saying, "Little Richard didn't write none of 'Tutti Frutti'. I'll tell you exactly how I came to write that. I used to live on Galvez Street and my girlfriend and I liked to go down to the drug store and buy ice cre... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2948519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutti%20Frutti%20%28song%29 | Tutti Frutti (song) | The Beatles versions
According to author Mark Lewisohn in The Complete Beatles Chronicles (p. 365) The Beatles performed "Tutti Frutti" live from at least 1960 through 1962 (in Hamburg, Liverpool and elsewhere). Reportedly the lead vocal was always by Paul McCartney, but it is unknown whether their version was actually... | 1.90625 | 0 |
2948529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisymmetry | Antisymmetry | Kayne argues that a theory that allows both directionalities would state that languages are symmetrical, whereas in fact languages are found to be asymmetrical in many respects. Examples of linguistic asymmetries which may be cited in support of the theory (although they do not concern head direction) are:
Hanging top... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2948536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket%20candy | Rocket candy | Two main issues need to be addressed with respect to the oxidizer if one is using potassium nitrate. The most important issue is the purity of the material. If a purchased material does not perform satisfactorily it may be necessary to recrystallize the KNO3. The second important issue with respect to the oxidizer port... | 2.125 | 0 |
2948536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket%20candy | Rocket candy | Another, more common, and safer method of preparing a sugar-based rocket propellant is dry heating. First, the potassium nitrate is ground or milled to a fine powder, and then thoroughly mixed with powdered sugar which is then heated. This method does not actually melt the potassium nitrate, as the melting temperature ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2948551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidasoa | Bidasoa | The Bidasoa (; , ) is a river in the Basque Country of northern Spain and southern France that runs largely south to north. Named as such downstream of the village of Oronoz-Mugairi (municipality of Baztan) in the province of Navarre, the river actually results from the merger of several streams near the village Erratz... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2948551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidasoa | Bidasoa | Pronunciation and etymology
The river comprises an area of linguistic contact, so it is pronounced differently depending on the language, namely in Basque, in Spanish, and in French. Linguistic and historic research point to the name stemming from Latin phrase "Via ad Oiassonem" (later corrupting into Basque "Bidaso... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2948551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidasoa | Bidasoa | The Navarrese tract of the river is a preferred destination for fishing enthusiasts, the river being home to several native fish species, namely eel (Anguilla anguilla), salmon (Salmo palar), trout (Salmo trutta), bullhead (Cottus gobio), Barbatula barbatula, Phoxinus phoxinus, gudgeon (Gobio lozanoi), sea lamprey (Pet... | 2.9375 | 0 |
2948559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Chapman%20%28priest%29 | John Chapman (priest) | John Chapman (25 April 1865 – 7 November 1933) was an English Roman Catholic priest, the 4th Abbot of Downside Abbey of the English Benedictine Congregation from 1929 until his death, and a New Testament and patristics scholar.
He is best known for having founded one of the private schools in Britain: Worth, in West ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2948591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer%2C%20Missouri | Ebenezer, Missouri | Ebenezer is an unincorporated community in Greene County, Missouri, United States. It lies two miles north of McDaniel Lake north of Springfield and 1.25 miles east of Route 13. The community is at the head of the King Branch of the North Dry Sac River.
Ebenezer was settled by the pioneering movement of the early 180... | 1.914063 | 0 |
2948592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Brierley | Benjamin Brierley | Benjamin Brierley (often known as Ben Brierley) (26 June 1825 – 18 January 1896) was an English weaver, who took up writing in Lancashire dialect. He became a prolific journalist.
Life
He was born in the Rocks area of Failsworth, Lancashire, the son of James Brierley (born 1795), hand-loom weaver, and his wife, Esther... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2948620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hollow%20Men | The Hollow Men | "The Hollow Men" (1925) is a poem by the modernist writer T. S. Eliot. Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles, hopelessness, religious conversion, redemption and, some critics argue, his failing marriage with Vivienne Haig... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2948620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hollow%20Men | The Hollow Men | The Hollow Men follows the otherworldly journey of the spiritually dead. These "hollow men" have the realisation, humility, and acknowledgement of their guilt and their status as broken, lost souls. Their shame is seen in lines like "[...] eyes I dare not meet in dreams [...]" calling themselves "[...] sightless [...]"... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2948620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hollow%20Men | The Hollow Men | As the poem enters section five, there is a complete breakdown of language. The Lord's Prayer and what appears to be a lyric change of "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" are written until this devolution of style ends with the final stanza, maybe the most quoted of Eliot's poetry:
When asked in 1958 if he would writ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2948653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neath%20railway%20station | Neath railway station | Neath railway station is a main line railway station serving the town of Neath, south Wales. Managed by Transport for Wales, the station is located at street level on Windsor Road, situated back from the street fronting a small car park. It is from London Paddington (via Stroud).
History
The surviving Neath railway ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
2948657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20computing | Physical computing | Physical computing involves interactive systems that can sense and respond to the world around them. While this definition is broad enough to encompass systems such as smart automotive traffic control systems or factory automation processes, it is not commonly used to describe them. In a broader sense, physical computi... | 3.078125 | 0 |
2948668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Sandman | Mark Sandman | Few details are publicly known about Sandman's personal life. Fans have often speculated that many of Sandman's songs were autobiographical, which to this day remains unconfirmed. Although Sandman served as an unofficial spokesman for Morphine, he avoided answering questions about his personal life or his professional ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
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