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2948700	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaire	Macaire	Macaire is a given name and surname associated with medieval France, although it appears to have several claims of origin. It was originally a male name, and later came to be considered a male or female name. Macaire is also the common name for a 12th-century French chanson de geste, named for one of its main character...	2.375
2948706	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20IV%20de%20Brosse	Jean IV de Brosse	Crisis of authority Due to the weakness of the central administration as the religious crisis deepened, the crown was compelled to ask Étampes to publicly offer his support to the regency, to demonstrate that leading magnates were still loyal. He in turn asked for letters from the court demonstrating their favour to hi...	2.203125
2948815	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloid-beta%20precursor%20protein%20secretase	Amyloid-beta precursor protein secretase	Secretases are enzymes that "snip" pieces off a longer protein that is embedded in the cell membrane. Among other roles in the cell, secretases act on the amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP) to cleave the protein into three fragments. Sequential cleavage by beta-secretase 1 (BACE) and gamma-secretase (γ-secretase) pr...	2.6875
2948866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi%20people	Madi people	After they ate some of the fruits, they took some with them. When the time came to refill their stomachs again, a woman who lost her harvest was heard enquiring about the lugba ri 'the desert dates'. This group came to be known as logbara but the Ma'di still call them lugban. The final group on reaching fertile grounds...	3.171875
2948866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi%20people	Madi people	From one Ma’di oral history narrative, after the Ma’di and Moru parted, some Ma’di groups settled near Mount Rajaf, near the Nile. Others settled in Nyarabanga, south of Rajaf. In those places, they intermingled with Bari people. In Rajaf, the Ma’di people lived for years. As their number grew, they also dispersed into...	2.59375
2948866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi%20people	Madi people	It is believed that from Rajaf, a group journeyed southeast and settled at Aru, few kilometers, southeast of Rajaf. That group founded the Olubo ethnic group. One of the founders was chief Luala. From Aru, an Olubo group moved southward, crossed River Yii (River Kit) and settled in Moli. Later on, the Ngaya, Okei, Pan...	2.640625
2948866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi%20people	Madi people	By the time different Ma’di groups settled in Moli and Opari, one group, which lived in Kuku area, left and moved eastward. It passed Mount Nyeri, crossed the Nile, and settled at the foot of Mount Bolizo. The group called its new settlement named the place Guru (later renamed Nimule). The word Guru, in Madi language m...	2.6875
2948866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi%20people	Madi people	The Ma'di resistance during the age of Tukutuku (Turkiyah) invasion The people of the southern Sudan had almost no contacts with the northern Sudan, until the beginning of Egyptian rule (also known as Turkish Sudan or Turkiyah) in the north in the early 1820s and the subsequent expansion of the slave trade into the sou...	2.96875
2948866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi%20people	Madi people	In April 1854, the relatively peaceful relationship between the Bari people and the foreigners came to an abrupt end, when a Turkish trader, without provocation, fired his guns into a crowd of Bari at Gondokoro. In anger the Bari mounted a counterattack, and the result was destructive to both sides. That incident made ...	2.90625
2948866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi%20people	Madi people	The Madi migration to Uganda Given the superior military power of the Tukutuku and the assistance they got from the natives (who joined them), it was only a matter of time, they defeated the Ma’di people. The Ma’di people were forced to disperse. Some went deeper into the forests; others went further south, to Uganda. ...	3.09375
2948866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi%20people	Madi people	Several Ma'di groups from Moli, Kerepi, Arapi, Pageri, Loa, and Nimule settled in the Metu mountains. Some of the early settlers in Metu included the Padika group. Kerepi people arrived after Padika. In Metu, Kutulungu became the first chief of Erepi and Pamujo, in southern Metu. Lukere became the first chief of northe...	2.9375
2948866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi%20people	Madi people	Most of Lukai people also went back to Mugali. However the conflicts between them and Acholi-Palabe continued. Ma’di oral history narrator Lucia Nya-Tiangwa believes it was the conflict between the Lukai and Acholi-Palabe, which forced Lukai people back from Uganda to Mugali. The British administrators in the region be...	2.921875
2948866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi%20people	Madi people	Now as fate had, Draru had to be in the frontline. To prepare for the future battles, Draru and his chief advisor, Jino Gama Agnasi consulted General Peter Cirilo (of the Sudanese Army, then the governor of Eastern Equatoria) about the situation in Madiland who then gave his blessing for the Madi people to defend thems...	2.3125
2948866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi%20people	Madi people	Nonetheless, today in the age where most Madi people have converted to the foreign religions, still some believers in the traditional Madi religion try to build a bridge between Rubanga and Ori. Today some Madi people still keep miniature altars called Kidori, were sacrifices are offered to the ancestral spirits in bot...	2.6875
2948866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi%20people	Madi people	Governance, The social and political set-up of the Madi is closely interwoven with spirituality and this forms their attitudes and traditions. The society is organized in chiefdoms headed by a hereditary chief known as the Opi. The Opi exercised both political and religious powers. The rain-makers, land chiefs – vudipi...	2.65625
2948866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi%20people	Madi people	The main economic activity that the Ma'di have traditionally engaged in is agriculture. The prevalence of tsetse fly depleted the livestock population at the end of the nineteenth century. Almost the whole population live off the land planting and growing mostly seasonal food crops like sesame, groundnuts, cassava, swe...	3.03125
2948875	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma%20Mater%20%28Dartmouth%20College%29	Alma Mater (Dartmouth College)	The "Alma Mater" is the official school song of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Composed by Harry Wellman, class of 1907, it was officially adopted by the College in 1926. The difficult-to-sing "Dartmouth Undying" replaced it in the fall of 1972, but the Alm...	2.421875
2948965	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Bowlegs	Billy Bowlegs	Holata Micco (a Muscogee name translated as Alligator Chief, also spelled Halpatter-Micco, Halbutta Micco, Halpuda Mikko; known in English as Chief Billy Bowlegs or Billy Bolek; – 1859) was a leader of the Seminoles in Florida during the Second Seminole War and was the remaining Seminole's most prominent chief during ...	2.28125
2948965	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Bowlegs	Billy Bowlegs	After the capture (under a flag of truce offered by Gen. Thomas Jesup) and subsequent deaths of Osceola and Micanopy, amidst the loss of other prominent Seminole chiefs, Bowlegs and his band of 200 warriors became some of the most prominent fighters surviving at the time hostilities ended on August 14, 1842. To impress...	3.046875
2948993	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed%20Nazeer%20Husain	Syed Nazeer Husain	Syed Nazeer Husain Dehlawi (1805 – 13 October 1902) was an Islamic scholar and leader of the reformist Ahl-i Hadith movement in India. Earning the appellation shaykh al-kull (teacher of all, or the shaykh of all knowledge) for his authority among early Ahl-i Hadith scholars, he is regarded, alongside Siddiq Hasan Khan ...	2.03125
2948993	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed%20Nazeer%20Husain	Syed Nazeer Husain	Attitude towards the British Nazeer Husain advocated political quietism and was among a large number of Muslim scholars from both the Sunni and Shia sects who supported British rule and rejected calls for armed jihad against it. He was also among a number of Muslim scholars, including the muftis of Mecca, who declared ...	2.390625
2948993	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed%20Nazeer%20Husain	Syed Nazeer Husain	Because he was seen by the British as the only scholar of the Ahl-i Hadith who could allay the conflict between the movement and followers of the prevailing Hanafi school of thought, which often resulted in civil disturbances that the Government sought to prevent, and because he also knew English which was very rare am...	2.359375
2948993	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed%20Nazeer%20Husain	Syed Nazeer Husain	The teachings of Nazeer Husain and Siddiq Hasan Khan were shaped amidst broader reformist developments in South Asia which saw the Muslims of India as having drifted away from 'authentic' Islamic beliefs and practices that compromised the Islamic concept of the indivisible oneness of God and bordered on idolatry. For g...	2.171875
2949045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20criminal%20justice	History of criminal justice	Ancient China Law enforcement in Ancient China was carried out by "prefects". The notion of a "prefect" in China has existed for thousands of years. The prefecture system developed in both the Chu and Jin kingdoms of the Spring and Autumn period. In Jin, dozens of prefects were spread across the state, each having a l...	2.890625
2949045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20criminal%20justice	History of criminal justice	Pre-modern Europe For the most part, crime was viewed as a private matter in Ancient Greece and Rome. Even with offenses as serious as murder, justice was the prerogative of the victim's family and private war or vendetta the means of protection against criminality. Publicly owned slaves were used by magistrates as po...	3.375
2949045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20criminal%20justice	History of criminal justice	During the Middle Ages, crime and punishment were dealt with through blood feuds (or trial by ordeal) between the parties. Payment to the victim (or their family), known as wergild, was another common punishment, including for violent crimes. For those who could not afford to buy their way out of punishment, harsh pena...	3.15625
2949045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20criminal%20justice	History of criminal justice	Many factors influenced the colonists’ selection process by which they constructed their approach to criminal justice. As previously mentioned, there were no professional legal experts and few law resources available. This left a lot of room for creativity and mistakes. The colonists were largely left to their own devi...	2.671875
2949045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20criminal%20justice	History of criminal justice	Besides being one of the most important criminal justice officials of the colonial period in America, the county sheriff had other responsibilities. These included collecting taxes, running and supervising elections, and handling any other legal business in the community. With such a workload, sheriffs were usually the...	3.21875
2949045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20criminal%20justice	History of criminal justice	Although the colonial courts did closely mimic the proceedings of the courts of England, they were much simpler and more informal. They were also made available to everyone and used to relieve tensions and conflicts in the community. In addition to hearing the disputes of the local colonists, the courts also held the r...	3.171875
2949045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20criminal%20justice	History of criminal justice	The colonists soon realized that a sheriff was not enough to keep their colonies safe and crime-free. Many villages and cities began adding other criminal justice agents to help maintain order. The rising populations were proving to be too much to handle for just one law enforcement agent in the county. The mayor was o...	2.890625
2949045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20criminal%20justice	History of criminal justice	Punishments Depending on the crimes that the colonists committed, there were plenty of punishments to choose from. Most of the punishments were public, where heavy use of shame and shaming was included. Through the method of shaming, the criminal justice system meant more to teach a lesson than simply punish the offend...	2.875
2949045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20criminal%20justice	History of criminal justice	In the early colonial period, prisons were not yet a major staple in the criminal justice system. They were used mainly for holding people who were awaiting trial rather than punishment. The early jails resembled ordinary houses in many aspects and had no distinctive architectural features. Prisoners were placed in roo...	3.109375
2949045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20criminal%20justice	History of criminal justice	Development of modern police was contemporary to the formation of the state, later defined by sociologist Max Weber as detaining "the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force", primarily exercised by the police and the military. Modern police After the troubles of the French Revolution the Paris police force ...	2.875
2949045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20criminal%20justice	History of criminal justice	On June 30, 1800, the authorities of Glasgow, Scotland successfully petitioned the Government to pass the Glasgow Police Act establishing the City of Glasgow Police. This was the first professional police service in the world that differed from previous law enforcement in that it was a preventive police force. This was...	2.9375
2949045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20criminal%20justice	History of criminal justice	In 1905, the Pennsylvania State Police became the first state police agency established in the United States, as recommended by Theodore Roosevelt's Anthracite Strike Commission and Governor Samuel Pennypacker. The advent of the police car, two-way radio, and telephone in the early 20th century transformed policing in...	2.953125
2949045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20criminal%20justice	History of criminal justice	3. Establishment of the Department of Justice (1870): The Department of Justice was established in 1870, primarily to handle the legal affairs of the federal government. It was created to provide legal counsel and representation to the government, and its role gradually expanded to include law enforcement duties. The f...	2.875
2949056	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyoxylic%20acid	Glyoxylic acid	The conjugate base of glyoxylic acid is known as glyoxylate and is the form that the compound exists in solution at neutral pH. Glyoxylate is the byproduct of the amidation process in biosynthesis of several amidated peptides. For the historical record, glyoxylic acid was prepared from oxalic acid electrosynthetically...	2.59375
2949056	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyoxylic%20acid	Glyoxylic acid	In plants In addition to being an intermediate in the glyoxylate cycle, glyoxylate is also an important intermediate in the photorespiration pathway. Photorespiration is a result of the side reaction of RuBisCO with O2 instead of CO2. While at first considered a waste of energy and resources, photorespiration has been...	2.484375
2949057	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overo	Overo	The frame overo pattern is the most common of the three types of overo patterns recognized in the American Paint Horse breed. A frame overo horse appears to be any solid base color (bay, black, chestnut, etc.) with white irregular patches added, usually with a horizontal orientation. Markings are often of jagged shap...	2.765625
2949057	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overo	Overo	Foals which are homozygous for frame and thus have lethal white syndrome (LWS) are not albinos. Albinism does not exist in horses. LWS foals are born almost or completely white with pink skin, but have blue eyes, not red ones. The lethal trait is that the nerves of the foal's digestive system are undeveloped and the ...	2.59375
2949077	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%208	John 8	John 8 is the eighth chapter in the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It continues the account of Jesus' debate with the Pharisees after the Feast of Tabernacles, which began in the previous chapter. Verses 1-11, along with John 7:53, form a pericope which is missing from some ancient Greek m...	2.484375
2949077	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%208	John 8	Jesus' statement is discontinuous both with the narrative of John 7:53–8:11, everyone but the woman having left the Temple convicted by their own consciences, and with the preceding verse, John 7:52, where Nicodemus the Pharisee had been urged by the other members of the Sanhedrin to re-examine the scriptures on the is...	2.265625
2949077	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%208	John 8	American theologian J. Louis Martyn suggested that John's Gospel could be read on two levels, portraying events and contesting controversies in the early church through a narrative portraying the life and teaching of Jesus. Such a reading suggests a controversy regarding Jewish partial-believers in Jesus as the Messiah...	2
2949095	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantour%20National%20Park	Mercantour National Park	Mercantour National Park () a French national park located in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Alpes-Maritimes departments. Since it was created in 1979, the park has proven popular, with 800,000 visitors annually enjoying the 600 km (372 mi) of marked footpaths and visiting its villages. Extent The protected area co...	2.59375
2949095	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantour%20National%20Park	Mercantour National Park	Flora In addition to the holm oak, the Mediterranean olive tree, rhododendrons, firs, spruces, Swiss pines and above all larches, the Mercantour is also endowed with more than 2,000 species of flowering plants, 200 of which are very rare: edelweiss and martagon lily are the best known, but there is also saxifrage with...	2.546875
2949102	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge%20covariant%20derivative	Gauge covariant derivative	In physics, the gauge covariant derivative is a means of expressing how fields vary from place to place, in a way that respects how the coordinate systems used to describe a physical phenomenon can themselves change from place to place. The gauge covariant derivative is used in many areas of physics, including quantum ...	2.140625
2949107	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpstown%20High%20School	Sharpstown High School	A 1988 Houston Chronicle article written one day after the brawl stated that Sharpstown had a history of racial tension. Deborah Tedford and Burke Watson of the Houston Chronicle wrote that "The Sharpstown campus has been plagued with outbursts of violence during school year — with parents taking to the halls as volunt...	1.96875
2949107	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpstown%20High%20School	Sharpstown High School	Performance and dropout rates A 2003 state audit of HISD's performance caused controversy. One of the district's most publicized accomplishments during the Rod Paige era was a dramatic reduction in dropout rates. When 16 secondary schools, including Sharpstown High School, were audited, it was found that most of the st...	2.046875
2949112	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20John%20Roby	Henry John Roby	The 1869 Act established an Endowed Schools Commission of which Roby was the first secretary, serving in that office until 1872, when he became a commissioner. The commission was dissolved at the end of 1874. From 1866 to 1868, he was professor of jurisprudence at University College London, lecturing on Roman Law. In 1...	2.09375
2949115	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OC%26E%20Woods%20Line%20State%20Trail	OC&E Woods Line State Trail	The OC&E Woods Line State Trail is a rail trail in Klamath and Lake counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is Oregon's longest state park. The trail follows the old OC&E (Oregon, California and Eastern) and Weyerhaeuser railroads from Klamath Falls to Thompson Reservoir. Along its length it passes through the commu...	2.296875
2949115	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OC%26E%20Woods%20Line%20State%20Trail	OC&E Woods Line State Trail	Uses The OC&E Woods Line State Trail is a conversion of the OC&E Railroad disused railway easement into a non-motorized path used for walking, cycling, jogging and horse riding. The now paved flat trails stretch through agricultural and forest areas appealing for recreational development. The OC&E linear park is used ...	2.609375
2949160	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20image%20of%20Hugo%20Ch%C3%A1vez	Public image of Hugo Chávez	In 2001, Chávez turned Aló Presidente from a radio show to a full-fledged live, unscripted, television show on public-owned media that ran during all hours of the day promoting the Bolivarian Revolution. The show aired every Sunday, depicting Chávez (wearing red, the color of the revolution) as the charismatic leader, ...	2.015625
2949170	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal%20defect%20classification	Orthogonal defect classification	The defect trigger, similarly provides a measurement of the Testing process. The concept of the trigger is a key contribution that came through ODC and is now fairly widely used in technical and research publications. The software trigger is defined as the force that surfaced the Fault to create the failure. The full s...	2.234375
2949197	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Tippett	Phil Tippett	Phil Tippett (born September 27, 1951) is an American film director and visual effects supervisor and producer, who specializes in creature design, stop-motion and computerized character animation. Over his career, he has assisted ILM and DreamWorks, and in 1984 formed his own company, Tippett Studio. His work has ap...	2.59375
2949197	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Tippett	Phil Tippett	In 1984, Tippett Studio was born when Tippett left ILM and set up a studio in his garage to create a 10-minute experimental film, Prehistoric Beast. The realism of the dinosaurs it depicted and the film's reflection of contemporary scientific theory led to the 1985 CBS animated documentary Dinosaur!. The next year, in ...	2.328125
2949197	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Tippett	Phil Tippett	In 1995, Tippett Studio was hired to create the giant, hostile alien arachnids in Paul Verhoeven's adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's classic science fiction novel Starship Troopers. Tippett marshaled a team of 100 animators, model makers, computer artists and technicians and expanded his all-CGI facility. Because of t...	1.96875
2949199	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Williams%20%28music%20hall%20performer%29	Billy Williams (music hall performer)	William Holt Williams (born Richard Isaac Banks; 3 March 1878 – 13 March 1915) was an Australian-born British vaudeville and music hall singer and entertainer. His best known song was "When Father Papered the Parlour". Biography Born in Melbourne, the son of Richard Banks, an Irish-born draper, Williams worked in a ra...	1.921875
2949237	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut%20Kapp	Helmut Kapp	Helmut Kapp (born as Konstanty Kapuścik; died 31 May 1943) was a member of the Gestapo during World War II. He was killed in 1943 by a partisan death squad in Jędrzejów, Poland. Kapp was born in Ratiborhammer, Upper Silesia. After the outbreak of World War II he joined the Gestapo. Initially a translator, he was promo...	2.21875
2949241	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer%20Banks	Outer Banks	The Outer Banks (frequently abbreviated OBX) are a string of barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States. They line most of the North Carolina coastline, separating Currituck Sound, Albemarle Sound, and Pamlico Sound from the Atlantic Ocea...	2.46875
2949241	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer%20Banks	Outer Banks	Terminology The term "Outer Banks" refers to the islands, shoals, and spits from Ocracoke northward, also includes Core Banks, and is frequently abbreviated OBX on regional tourism marketing. In recent decades, the beaches to the south of Cape Lookout have been marketing themselves as the "Southern Outer Banks", includ...	2.734375
2949241	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer%20Banks	Outer Banks	The Outer Banks stretch southward from Sandbridge in Virginia Beach down the North Carolina coastline. Sources differ regarding the southern terminus of the Outer Banks. The most extensive definition includes the state's three prominent capes: Cape Hatteras, Cape Lookout, and Cape Fear. Other sources limit the definiti...	2.484375
2949241	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer%20Banks	Outer Banks	The Outer Banks are not anchored to offshore coral reefs like some other barrier islands, and as a consequence, they often suffer significant beach erosion during major storms. In fact, their location jutting out into the Atlantic makes them the most hurricane-prone area north of Florida, for both landfalling storms an...	2.5
2949241	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer%20Banks	Outer Banks	From Cape Hatteras National Seashore southward, the vegetation does include Dwarf Palmetto (Sabal minor), Yucca aloifolia and Yucca gloriosa; however, the area also has Cabbage Palmetto (Sabal palmetto), which can be found in the north, although they are native in the southern part of the Outer Banks, specifically prev...	2.65625
2949241	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer%20Banks	Outer Banks	European explorers to the Outer Banks as far back as the 1500s noted encountering the friendly Hatteras Island and Outer Banks Natives, noting their hospitality to foreign explorers as well as their happiness and overall quality of life. European-borne diseases and migration to the mainland were likely the main causes ...	3.09375
2949255	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusions%20perdues	Illusions perdues	Illusions perdues — in English, Lost Illusions — is a serial novel written by the French writer Honoré de Balzac between 1837 and 1843. It consists of three parts, starting in provincial France, thereafter moving to Paris, and finally returning to the provinces. The book resembles another of Balzac's greatest novels, L...	2.109375
2949255	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusions%20perdues	Illusions perdues	Provincial life The lifestyle of the provinces is juxtaposed with that of the metropolis, as Balzac contrasts the varying tempos of life at Angoulême and in Paris, the different standards of living in those cities and their different perceptions. Artistic life in Paris Balzac explores the artistic life of Paris in 182...	2.25
2949265	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant%20Taylors%27%20Hall%2C%20York	Merchant Taylors' Hall, York	The Merchant Taylors' Hall in York, England, is a medieval guildhall near the city wall in the Aldwark area of the city. History The hall was built by the Fraternity of St John the Baptist (an organisation connected to the Taylors' Guild) in c.1415. It received a new cladding in the seventeenth century. The main ha...	2.21875
2949311	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking%20tube	Speaking tube	A speaking tube or voicepipe is a device based on two cones connected by an air pipe through which speech can be transmitted over an extended distance. Use of pipes was suggested by Francis Bacon in the New Atlantis (1672). The usage for telecommunications was experimented with and proposed for administrative communic...	3.0625
2949323	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20rescue	Open rescue	In animal rights and welfare, open rescue is a direct action of rescue practiced by activists. Open rescue involves rescuing animals in pain and suffering, giving the rescued animals veterinary treatment and long-term care, documenting the living conditions, and ultimately publicly releasing the rescue and documentatio...	2.84375
2949323	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20rescue	Open rescue	Some who are not involved in animal rights activism but sympathise with the goal of animal rights may have other reasons to defend open rescues, though this is extremely uncommon among animal rights activists, and those involved in open rescues do not support them. Some people consider direct actions to be counter-prod...	2.296875
2949336	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opperlandse%20taal-%20%26%20letterkunde	Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde	Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde (written in 1981) is a book dedicated to peculiarities of the Dutch language. It was written by "Battus", one of many pseudonyms used by Hugo Brandt Corstius. The title means "Upperlandic Language and Linguistics", where "Upperlandic" is word play on "Netherlandic". Intended confusion T...	2.34375
2949345	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton%27s%20law	Sutton's law	Sutton's law states that when diagnosing, one should first consider the obvious. It suggests that one should first conduct those tests which could confirm (or rule out) the most likely diagnosis. It is taught in medical schools to suggest to medical students that they might best order tests in that sequence which is mo...	2.6875
2949354	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puntofijo%20Pact	Puntofijo Pact	The Puntofijo Pact (or Punto Fijo Pact) was a formal arrangement arrived at between representatives of Venezuela's three main political parties in 1958, Acción Democrática (AD), COPEI (Social Christian Party), and Unión Republicana Democrática (URD), for the acceptance of the 1958 presidential elections and the preserv...	2.765625
2949354	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puntofijo%20Pact	Puntofijo Pact	Signing and results The pact was signed in, and named after, the residence of COPEI leader Rafael Caldera in Caracas, by representatives of the URD, COPEI, and AD. Its adherents claimed the pact was aimed at preserving Venezuelan democracy by respecting elections, by having the winners of the elections consider includ...	2.171875
2949355	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%20Beach%20Park	Euclid Beach Park	The Flying Turns The Flying Turns was the name of a roller coaster at Euclid Beach Park, but it was also the name for a type of roller coaster. John Norman Bartlett, a British aviator in World War I, came to North America after the war with an idea for a trackless wooden chute, full of twists like a bobsled course, wit...	2.5625
2949396	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodpecker%20finch	Woodpecker finch	The woodpecker finch (Camarhynchus pallidus) is a monomorphic species of bird in the Darwin's finch group of the tanager family Thraupidae, endemic to the Galapagos Islands. The diet of a woodpecker finch revolves mostly around invertebrates, but also encompasses a variety of seeds. Woodpecker finches, like many other ...	3.15625
2949396	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodpecker%20finch	Woodpecker finch	Diet Woodpecker finch diets mainly consist of arthropods found under dead logs and rocks. They only eat larvae, which are often located inside dead logs. Their habit of pecking at fallen logs is similar to a woodpecker's drumming on a tree trunk. Wood-boring beetle larvae are a staple of their diet. They also often fe...	3.09375
2949400	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20Long	Sydney Long	While influenced by the Heidelberg School, Long's first successful painting, By Tranquil Waters (1894), shows a markedly different engagement with the Australian scene: where Heidelberg artists such as Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin showed the Bush as a place of work and struggle (and occasional sentimentality)...	2
2949407	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Glas	George Glas	George Glas (1725 – 30 November 1765) was a Scottish seaman and merchant adventurer in West Africa. The son of John Glas, the divine, Glas was born at Dundee in 1725, and is said to have been brought up as a surgeon. He obtained command of a ship which traded between Brazil, the northwest coasts of Africa and the Can...	2.15625
2949407	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Glas	George Glas	The Spaniards further looked upon the settlement as a step towards the conquest of the islands. They therefore contrived how to make out a claim to the port and forged old manuscripts to prove their assertion (Calendar of Home Office Papers, 1760-1765). In March 1765 the ships company at Port Hillsborough was attacked ...	3
2949409	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral-insulated%20copper-clad%20cable	Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable	Due to oxidation, the copper cladding darkens with age. However, where MICC cables with a bare copper sheath are installed in damp locations, particularly where lime mortar has been used, the water and lime combine to create an electrolytic action with the bare copper. Similarly, electrolytic action may also be caused ...	2.3125
2949411	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Pony%20Boy	My Pony Boy	"My Pony Boy" is a popular song written in 1909 by Bobby Heath (lyrics) and Charley O'Donnell. It was incorporated into the Broadway musical Miss Innocence (1909) where it was introduced by Lillian Lorraine. Description Along with songs like "Cheyenne", it became a cliché, as its tune was frequently used in Western mo...	1.984375
2949418	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime%20Centre	Maritime Centre	1980s expansion Under the agreement with MT&T, Trizec possessed an option to add another seven or eight floors within 8.5 years. A building permit for the addition was issued in June 1982, and construction began later that year. The first phase of the tower had included extra, empty elevator shafts that were put into s...	2.0625
2949435	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Dooin	Red Dooin	Charles Sebastian "Red" Dooin (June 12, 1879 – May 12, 1952) was an American professional baseball player and manager. A catcher in Major League Baseball during the first two decades of the 20th century, he played 1,219 of his 1,290 games as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies and managed the Phils from 1910 through ...	2.140625
2949452	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uster	Uster	Uster has an area of . Of this area, 44.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 27.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 26.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (2.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 18.4% of the total area, while transportation i...	1.953125
2949465	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%20of%20Cantalice	Felix of Cantalice	Felix of Cantalice, OFMCap (; 18 May 1515 – 18 May 1587) was an Italian Capuchin friar of the 16th century. Canonized by Pope Clement XI in 1712, he was the first Capuchin friar to be named a saint. He worked as a shepherd and farmhand until he was twenty-eight. His task as a Capuchin was to beg alms for the friars. So...	1.96875
2949465	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%20of%20Cantalice	Felix of Cantalice	In Rome, Brother Felix became a familiar sight, wandering barefoot through the streets, with a sack slung over his shoulders, knocking on doors to seek donations. He received permission from his superiors to help the needy, especially widows with many children. It is said that his begging sack was as bottomless as his ...	2.703125
2949471	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-snouted%20caiman	Broad-snouted caiman	The broad-snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) is a crocodilian in the family Alligatoridae found in eastern and central South America, including the Pantanal habitat of Bolivia, Southeast Brazil, and Paraguay, as well as northern Argentina and Uruguay. Behind the black caiman (Melanosuchus niger), it is the second-larg...	2.953125
2949471	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-snouted%20caiman	Broad-snouted caiman	The broad-snouted caiman is ectothermic, depending on its external environment to regulate its body temperature. Its heart rate increases as the temperature increases and decreases when the temperature is lowered. The heat of the sun is absorbed through the skin into the blood, keeping its body temperature up. An incre...	3.4375
2949495	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20F.%20Jacobson	Michael F. Jacobson	Michael F. Jacobson (born July 29, 1943) is an American scientist and nutrition advocate. He holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jacobson co-founded the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in 1971, along with two fellow scientists (James B. Sullivan, Albert J. Fritsch...	2.25
2949495	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20F.%20Jacobson	Michael F. Jacobson	In 2022, after he resigned from CSPI's board of directors and his position as senior scientist, Jacobson founded the National Food Museum. That nascent institution "explores food in all its dimensions". The museum's exhibits and other activities will focus on the history of the human and American diets, food marketing...	2.3125
2949502	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Thomas	Georg Thomas	Georg Thomas (20 February 1890 – 29 December 1946) was a German general who served during World War II. He was a leading participant in planning and carrying out economic exploitation of the Soviet Union, most notably the Hunger Plan. Thomas's role in plotting against Hitler has led some historians to describe him as a...	2.21875
2949502	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Thomas	Georg Thomas	Thomas was promoted in 1940 to General of Infantry, recognized early on that Germany's ability to wage a lengthy war was limited by the state of its economy. With the threat of war with the western powers over Hitler's bold political moves to secure the Austrian Anschluß, the acquisition of the Sudetenland, and then wi...	1.945313
2949513	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primorsk%2C%20Kaliningrad%20Oblast	Primorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast	Primorsk (; ; ; ) is a town in Baltiysky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Vistula Lagoon. Its population is compared to . Geography The town is located in the southwest of the Sambia Peninsula. It is situated by a bay on the northern shore of the Vistula Lagoon, about west of the administrativ...	2
2949513	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primorsk%2C%20Kaliningrad%20Oblast	Primorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast	In 1454, King Casimir IV Jagiellon incorporated the region to the Kingdom of Poland upon the request of the anti-Teutonic Prussian Confederation. After the subsequent Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466), it became a part of Poland as a fief held by the Teutonic Knights. When in 1525 Bishop George of Polentz waived his righ...	2.625
2949526	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Lucas	Sam Lucas	Sam Lucas (August 7, 1840 – January 10, 1916) was an American actor, comedian, singer and songwriter. His birth year has also been reported as 1839, 1841, 1848 and 1850. Lucas' career began in blackface minstrelsy, but he later became one of the first African Americans to branch out into more serious drama, with roles...	2.578125
2949526	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Lucas	Sam Lucas	As a writer and performer of jubilee songs, Lucas was unique in branding himself a "jubilee singer" and in forming a jubilee group in 1881 to highlight the popular songs of black composers, as well as his own character songs. His jubilee troupe never performed jubilee songs in the original sense of arranged traditional...	2.171875
2949526	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Lucas	Sam Lucas	Later career In 1890, Lucas served as an endman in Sam T. Jack's The Creole Show, often cited as the first African American production to show signs of breaking the links to minstrelsy. He married during its run, before he and his wife played a succession of variety houses, vaudeville stages and museums. In 1898, he pe...	2.53125
2949526	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Lucas	Sam Lucas	Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914) In 1914, Lucas revived his role of Uncle Tom in William Robert Daly's film adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. He is generally credited as the first black man to portray Uncle Tom, a character that had typically been played by white actors in black face. The film was releas...	2.46875
2949528	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudgala	Pudgala	In Jainism, Pudgala (or ) is one of the six Dravyas, or aspects of reality that fabricate the world we live in. The six dravyas include the jiva and the fivefold divisions of ajiva (non-living) category: dharma (motion), adharma (rest), akasha (space), pudgala (matter) and kala (time). Pudgala, like other dravyas excep...	2.65625

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