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311643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20shanty | Sea shanty | Formative writing
Folklorists of the first decade of the 20th century, especially those from Britain, included shanties among their interests in collecting folk songs connected with the idea of national heritage. Cecil Sharp and his colleagues among the English Folk-Song Society were among the first to take down the ly... | 2.796875 | 0 |
311643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20shanty | Sea shanty | The English poet John Masefield, following in the footsteps of peers like Rudyard Kipling, seized upon shanties as a nostalgic literary device, and included them along with much older, non-shanty sea songs in his 1906 collection A Sailor's Garland. Although Masefield had sea experience (1891–95), he was not an expert o... | 2.203125 | 0 |
311643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20shanty | Sea shanty | The 1914 collection by Frank Thomas Bullen, Songs of Sea Labour, differed from the work of writers such as Masefield in having a more practical, rather than romantic, tone. Bullen, an Englishman, was an experienced shantyman, who sailed during the heyday of shanties to ports in the Southern U.S. and the Caribbean. He t... | 2.25 | 0 |
311643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20shanty | Sea shanty | One of the most celebrated volumes on shanties produced in the 20th century is Stan Hugill's Shanties from the Seven Seas (1961). It is the largest of its kind, owing to Hugill's methodology and chronological position. With respect to methodology, Hugill aimed to be as inclusive as possible—to account for and to presen... | 2.5 | 0 |
311643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20shanty | Sea shanty | With respect to chronological position, while Hugill is affectionately known as "The Last Shantyman", he was also one of the last original shanty collectors. A few original collections followed, notably Roger Abrahams' and Horace Beck's works on contemporary shantying in the Caribbean, yet most publications in the "son... | 2.296875 | 0 |
311643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20shanty | Sea shanty | A few of the editors of early shanty collections provided arrangements for pianoforte accompaniment with their shanties. While this may have simply been a customary way of presenting songs or attempting to frame their tonality, it may also suggest they hoped their examples could be performed, as well. One of the earlie... | 2.390625 | 0 |
311643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20shanty | Sea shanty | The next revival in shanties occurred as part of the Anglophone folk music revival of the mid-20th century. The American folk revival group The Almanac Singers were recruited by Alan Lomax to record several shanties for the 1941 album Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads. In Britain, the incorporation of shanties into... | 2.703125 | 0 |
311643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20shanty | Sea shanty | Sources
Shanties reflect a variety of source material. As discussed above, there is a notable correspondence between shanties and African-American songs of both work and leisure. Popular music of the time was readily adapted, especially the minstrel music genre, songs of whose couplets were often of a suitable metrical... | 2.65625 | 0 |
311643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20shanty | Sea shanty | Performance styles
Shanty performances today reflect a range of musical approaches and tastes. The purpose and parameters of shanty singing in the present era have had an influence on which shanties are sung and how.
Performers who favor a "traditional" style do not necessarily believe they are replicating the exact s... | 2.796875 | 0 |
311643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20shanty | Sea shanty | Less commonly—though it was the case with their earliest commercial recordings—shanties are performed in a "classical" choir style. Choirs like the Robert Shaw Chorale, the Norman Luboff Choir, and The Seafarers Chorus have released entire albums of shanties and sea songs.
In popular media
Appearances of shanties, or ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
311643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20shanty | Sea shanty | Popular musical interpretations of traditional repertoire
Music performers with no strong links to maritime music have interpreted traditional shanty and sea song compositions, of which widely scattered instances abound. For example, the bawdy sea song "Frigging in the Rigging" was recorded by the punk band Sex Pistols... | 2.421875 | 0 |
311643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20shanty | Sea shanty | New compositions in "shanty" style
The musical style of shanties has also inspired new musical compositions, ranging from those designed to imitate 19th century song-style to those merely intended to evoke seafaring culture through evocative phrases and token musical features. For example, the Stan Rogers song, "Barret... | 2.421875 | 0 |
311647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyallup%20Tribe%20of%20Indians | Puyallup Tribe of Indians | The Puyallup Tribe of Indians ( ; ; commonly known as the Puyallup Tribe) is a federally-recognized tribe of Puyallup people from western Washington state, United States. The tribe is primarily located on the Puyallup Indian Reservation, although they also control off-reservation trust lands.
The Puyallup Tribe was es... | 2.828125 | 0 |
311647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyallup%20Tribe%20of%20Indians | Puyallup Tribe of Indians | Casino history
Since the late 20th century, numerous states have used gambling, based on lotteries and other methods, as a source of revenue to support programs wanted by taxpayers. Changes in federal law and negotiations with such states have enabled federally recognized tribes on many reservations to establish bingo ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
311647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyallup%20Tribe%20of%20Indians | Puyallup Tribe of Indians | Other ventures
The Puyallup Tribe has used its economic development branch, Marine View Ventures, to expand into operating several gas stations on the reservation. In the early 21st century, it was using gambling revenues to invest in a partnership for a large container facility at the Port of Tacoma. When completed, i... | 2.078125 | 0 |
311647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyallup%20Tribe%20of%20Indians | Puyallup Tribe of Indians | The language has declined in recent years, with the last fluent speaker, Vi Hilbert, dying in 2008. However, many tribes, including the Puyallup Tribe, are working to revitalize the language in daily use. The Puyallup Tribe has a strong language department, the Puyallup Language Program, which was created to revitalize... | 2.671875 | 0 |
311649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenage | Stevenage | Stevenage ( ) is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, about north of London. Stevenage is east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1(M), between Letchworth Garden City to the north and Welwyn Garden City to the south. In 1946, Stevenage was designated the United Kingdom's first New Town under the New Towns Act.
Ety... | 2.1875 | 0 |
311649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenage | Stevenage | Middle Ages
According to the Domesday Book, in 1086 the Lord of the Manor was the Abbot of Westminster Abbey. The settlement had moved down to the Great North Road. In 1281 it was granted a Royal Charter to hold a weekly market and annual fair, still held in the High Street.
The earliest part of St Nicholas's Church d... | 2.796875 | 0 |
311649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenage | Stevenage | In 1558 Thomas Alleyne, then the Rector of Stevenage, founded a free grammar school for boys, Alleyne's Grammar School, which, despite becoming a boys' comprehensive school in 1967, had an unbroken existence (unlike the grammar school in neighbouring Hitchin) until 1989, when it was merged with Stevenage Girls' School ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
311649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenage | Stevenage | In 1850 the Great Northern Railway was constructed and the era of the stagecoach ended. Stevenage grew only slowly throughout the 19th century and a second church (Holy Trinity) was constructed at the south end of the High Street. In 1861 Dickens commented, "The village street was like most other village streets: wide ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
311649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenage | Stevenage | The inaugural chairman of the Stevenage Development Corporation was the architect Clough Williams-Ellis, appointed by Lewis Silkin in 1946, with the radical town planner Dr Monica Felton as his deputy. In 1949 she became chairman but she was sacked within two years. There were a number of reasons for her dismissal by t... | 1.929688 | 0 |
311649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenage | Stevenage | Airbus Defence and Space (previously British Aerospace) is located in a smaller industrial park. This is the same area that both Matra Marconi Space and Astrium, a prime contractor and equipment supplier of spacecraft, previously occupied. The site is used to assemble a number of spacecraft and rovers including Rosalin... | 2.140625 | 0 |
311649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenage | Stevenage | Regeneration
The town and the Stevenage First partnership has now launched a new, £1bn, 20-year regeneration programme designed to transform central spaces and introduce new residential, commercial and retail facilities, amongst others. The programme is formed of a number of individual schemes including the £350m ‘SG1... | 2.015625 | 0 |
311649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenage | Stevenage | Stevenage was an ancient parish in the hundred of Broadwater. From 1835 Stevenage was included in the Hitchin Poor Law Union. As such it became part of the Hitchin Rural Sanitary District in 1872, with local government functions passing to the Hitchin Board of Guardians. The following year the town voted to become a Lo... | 1.9375 | 0 |
311649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenage | Stevenage | Transport
A distinctive feature of Stevenage is its urban landscape. There are many roundabouts, few traffic lights, a network of completely segregated cycleways, and some of the tallest street lights in Britain. Eric Claxton was chief engineer of Stevenage from 1962 to 1972, and the comprehensive separate cycle networ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
311650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus%20Ramus | Petrus Ramus | Petrus Ramus (; Anglicized as Peter Ramus ; 1515 – 26 August 1572) was a French humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A Protestant convert, he was a victim of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Early life
He was born at the village of Cuts, Picardy; his father was a farmer. He gained admission at age twelve (... | 2.390625 | 0 |
311650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus%20Ramus | Petrus Ramus | A central issue is that Ramus's anti-Aristotelianism arose out of a concern for pedagogy. Aristotelian philosophy, in its Early Modern form as scholasticism showing its age, was in a confused and disordered state. Ramus sought to infuse order and simplicity into philosophical and scholastic education by reinvigorating ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
311650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus%20Ramus | Petrus Ramus | He amends the syllogism. He admits only the first three figures, as in the original Aristotelian scheme, and in his later works he also attacks the validity of the third figure, following in this the precedent of Laurentius Valla. Ramus also set the modern fashion of deducing the figures from the position of the middle... | 2.453125 | 0 |
311650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus%20Ramus | Petrus Ramus | Invention involves fourteen topics, including definition, cause, effect, subject, adjunct, difference, contrary, comparison, similarity, and testimony. Style encompasses four tropes: metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy, and irony. It also includes rules for poetic meter and rhythmical prose, figures corresponding to attitud... | 2.53125 | 0 |
311658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco%20Burgersdijk | Franco Burgersdijk | Franco Petri Burgersdijk, or Franciscus Burgersdicius (born Franck Pieterszoon Burgersdijk; 3 May 1590 – 19 February 1635), was a Dutch logician who worked as a professor of logic and moral philosophy and rector at Leiden University. Franco Burgersdijk's teaching helped raise the profile of logic and philosophy in Dutc... | 2.28125 | 0 |
311658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco%20Burgersdijk | Franco Burgersdijk | Their debate was deeply entangled in Dutch politics for years. In 1608, conflicts escalated when the Staats General (general assembly) of the Federal Dutch state requested a synod; this was opposed by the Province of Holland, which supported the Arminians. In response, the Province of Holland used its military power to... | 2.359375 | 0 |
311659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensationalism | Sensationalism | In journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic. Events and topics in news stories are selected and worded to excite the greatest number of readers and viewers. This style of news reporting encourages biased or emotionally loaded impressions of events rather than neutrality, and may cause a m... | 2.875 | 0 |
311659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensationalism | Sensationalism | The more modern forms of sensationalism developed in the course of the nineteenth century in parallel with the expansion of print culture in industrialized nations. A genre of British literature, "sensation novels," became in the 1860s an example of how the publishing industry could capitalize on surprising narrative t... | 2.65625 | 0 |
311659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensationalism | Sensationalism | Sensationalism has also been blamed for the infotainment style of many news programs on radio and television. According to sociologist John Thompson, the debate of sensationalism used in the mass medium of broadcasting is based on a misunderstanding of its audience, especially the television audience. Thompson explains... | 2.359375 | 0 |
311659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensationalism | Sensationalism | Joe Sommerlad criticized algorithms used by Google News for not promoting more trustworthy sources.
Distortion of events
Overrepresentation of crime
One of the most prominent and most covered news topics is crime being represented disproportionately to other social problems. Most often what is covered is the "accou... | 2.203125 | 0 |
311664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakm%C3%A9 | Lakmé | Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille.
The score, written from 1881 to 1882, was first performed on 14 April 1883 by the Opéra-Comique at the (second) Salle Favart in Paris, with stage decorations designed by Auguste Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
311664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakm%C3%A9 | Lakmé | Act 1
The Hindus go to perform their rites in a sacred Brahmin temple under the high priest, Nilakantha. Nilakantha's daughter Lakmé, and her servant Mallika, are left behind and go down to the river to gather flowers where they sing together the "Flower Duet". As they approach the water at the river bank, Lakmé remove... | 2.125 | 0 |
311666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20Lime%20Street%20railway%20station | Liverpool Lime Street railway station | Liverpool Lime Street is a terminus railway station and the main station serving the city centre of Liverpool. Opened in August 1836, it is the oldest still-operating grand terminus mainline station in the world. A branch of the West Coast Main Line from London Euston terminates at the station, as does the original Liv... | 2.546875 | 0 |
311666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20Lime%20Street%20railway%20station | Liverpool Lime Street railway station | Since the 1970s, the main terminal building has also provided direct access to the underground Lime Street Wirral Line station on the Merseyrail network. Beginning in the 1960s, the Concourse House office tower block and several retailers stood outside the southern train shed, but they were demolished in 2010. Lime Str... | 2.53125 | 0 |
311666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20Lime%20Street%20railway%20station | Liverpool Lime Street railway station | During August 1836, Lime Street Station was officially opened to the public, although the construction process was not completed until the following year. This building was designed with four large gateways, two of which were intentionally nonfunctional. For its early operations, as a consequence of the steep incline u... | 2.515625 | 0 |
311666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20Lime%20Street%20railway%20station | Liverpool Lime Street railway station | Early expansion
Lime Street Station was a near-instant success with the railway-going public. Within six years of its opening, the rapid growth of the railways had necessitated the expansion of the original station. An early plan for the enlarged station would have involved the erection of an iron roof, similar to that... | 2.5625 | 0 |
311666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20Lime%20Street%20railway%20station | Liverpool Lime Street railway station | By 1857, a pair of granite columns had been erected outside the station entrance; over time, these had become known as the "Candlesticks". During 1867, further expansion of Lime Street Station was required to cope with operational demands; changes included the present northern arched train shed. Designed by William Bak... | 2.40625 | 0 |
311666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20Lime%20Street%20railway%20station | Liverpool Lime Street railway station | During 2017, work commenced upon a £340 million remodelling programme intended to improve Lime Street Station by modernising its signalling systems, install new platforms, and other to better conform with current demands. A major impetus for the work was the age of the station's signalling, the core of which dated from... | 2.3125 | 0 |
311667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanthaburi%20province | Chanthaburi province | Chanthaburi (, ; Chong: chankabui, ) is one of seven provinces (changwat) in eastern Thailand, on the border with Battambang and Pailin of Cambodia, on the shore of the Gulf of Thailand. Neighbouring provinces are Trat in the east and Rayong, Chonburi, Chachoengsao, and Sa Kaeo to the west and north.
History
The in... | 2.5625 | 0 |
311671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Blondel | David Blondel | David Blondel (1591 – 6 April 1655) was a French Protestant clergyman, historian and classical scholar.
Life
He was born at Châlons-en-Champagne. Ordained in 1614, he had positions as parish priest at Houdan and Roucy. After 1644, he was relieved of duties, and supported free to study full-time.
In 1650 he succeeded... | 2.359375 | 0 |
311672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makah | Makah | The Makah (; Makah: ) are an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast living in Washington, in the northwestern part of the continental United States. They are enrolled in the federally recognized Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation, commonly known as the Makah Tribe.
Linguistically and ethnogra... | 2.859375 | 0 |
311672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makah | Makah | Japanese castaways
In 1834, a dismasted, rudderless ship from Japan ran aground near Cape Flattery. The Makah took the three survivors of the broken ship and held them as slaves for several months before taking them to Fort Vancouver. From there, the United States transported them by ship to London and eventually China... | 3.15625 | 0 |
311672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makah | Makah | Many Makah tribal members derive most of their income from fishing. Makah fish for salmon, halibut, Pacific whiting, and other marine fish. This makes them particularly vulnerable to effects of global warming: ocean acidification disrupts the development of the shells of molluscs (the fishes' main food source) and warm... | 3.09375 | 0 |
311672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makah | Makah | Literary and cultural references
Several books have explored Makah history, usually from the arrival of white settlers onward. The historical-adventure novel When Wolf Comes (2009) by John Pappas gives a glimpse into the lives of the Makah people of 1801. Young adult book Ghost Canoe (1998) by Will Hobbs takes place on... | 2.734375 | 0 |
311674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellesmere%20Port | Ellesmere Port | Settlements had existed in the area since the writing of the Domesday Book in the 11th century, which mentions Great Sutton, Little Sutton, Pool (now Overpool) and Hooton. The settlement of Whitby was a township in the ancient parishes of Eastham and Stoak, within the Wirral Hundred. The township, which included the ha... | 2.71875 | 0 |
311674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellesmere%20Port | Ellesmere Port | By the mid-20th century, thanks to the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal in 1894 and the Stanlow Oil Refinery in the 1920s, Ellesmere Port had expanded so that it now incorporated the villages of Great and Little Sutton, Hooton, Whitby, Overpool and Rivacre as suburbs. The town centre itself had moved from the Stati... | 2.265625 | 0 |
311678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus%20Vossius | Gerardus Vossius | Gerrit Janszoon Vos (March or April 1577, Heidelberg – 19 March 1649, Amsterdam), often known by his Latin name Gerardus Vossius, was a Dutch classical scholar, theologian, and polymath.
Life
He was the son of Johannes (Jan) Vos, a Protestant from the Netherlands, who fled from persecution into the Electorate of the P... | 2.296875 | 0 |
311678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus%20Vossius | Gerardus Vossius | In 1622, he was appointed professor of rhetoric and chronology, and subsequently of Greek, in the university. He had many contacts in England; he declined invitations from Cambridge, but accepted from Archbishop Laud a prebend in Canterbury Cathedral without residence, and went to England to be installed in 1629, when ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
311679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisqually%20people | Nisqually people | The Nisqually are a Lushootseed-speaking Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United States. They are a Southern Coast Salish people. They are federally recognized as the Nisqually Indian Tribe, formerly known as the Nisqually Indian Tribe of the Nisqually Reservation and the Confederated Tribes of... | 2.875 | 0 |
311679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisqually%20people | Nisqually people | Interactions Between European Settlers and the Nisqually People
In the 1840s European settlers began to migrate into Nisqually territory. The numbers of settlers gradually grew and the
Nisqually people were originally peaceful with the settlers until the actions of territorial governor Isaac Stevens in 1853. Stevens t... | 3.25 | 0 |
311680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Jakob%20Herzog | Johann Jakob Herzog | Johann Jakob Herzog (12 September 1805 – 30 September 1882) was a Swiss-German Protestant theologian.
Herzog was born in Basel. Herzog studied theology at the University of Basel and Berlin, earning his doctorate at the University of Basel in 1830. In 1835-1846 he was a professor of historical theology at the Academy ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
311682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinist | Machinist | Related occupational titles
Some titles reflect further development of machinist skills such as tool and die maker, patternmaker, mold maker, programmer, and operator. A machinist is one who is called on to fix a problem with a part or to create a new one using metals, plastics, or rarely, wood. Depending on the compan... | 2.609375 | 0 |
311682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinist | Machinist | Materials commonly encountered by machinists
The most common materials that machinists make parts from are steel, aluminium, brass, copper, and various alloys of these materials. Other less common materials such as vanadium, zinc, lead, or manganese are often used as alloying elements for the most common materials. Ma... | 2.484375 | 0 |
311686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washoe%20%28chimpanzee%29 | Washoe (chimpanzee) | Washoe (c. September 1965 – October 30, 2007) was a female common chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using signs adapted from American Sign Language (ASL) as part of an animal research experiment on animal language acquisition.
Washoe learned approximately 350 signs of ASL, also teaching he... | 3.015625 | 0 |
311686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washoe%20%28chimpanzee%29 | Washoe (chimpanzee) | When Washoe was five, the Gardners moved on to other chimp projects, and returned her to the University of Oklahoma's Institute of Primate Studies in Norman, Oklahoma, under the care of Roger Fouts and Deborah Fouts.
ASL instruction and usage
Teaching method
Washoe was raised in an environment as close as possible to... | 3.28125 | 0 |
311686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washoe%20%28chimpanzee%29 | Washoe (chimpanzee) | These signs were then further tested using a double-blind vocabulary test. This test demonstrated 1) "that the chimpanzee subjects could communicate information under conditions in which the only source of information available to a human observer was the signing of the chimpanzee;" 2) "that independent observers agree... | 2.6875 | 0 |
311686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washoe%20%28chimpanzee%29 | Washoe (chimpanzee) | Work with Washoe and other signing primates motivated the foundation of the Great Ape Project, which hopes to "include the non-human great apes: chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas within the community of equals by granting them the basic moral and legal protections that only humans currently enjoy", in order to place... | 2.53125 | 0 |
311691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChessBase | ChessBase | ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess. Founded in 1986, it maintains and sells large-scale databases containing the moves of recorded chess games. The databases contain data from prior games and provide e... | 2.15625 | 0 |
311707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaeger%20Corps%20%28Denmark%29 | Jaeger Corps (Denmark) | The Jaeger Corps also known as the Huntsmen Corps () is an elite special operations force of the Danish Armed Forces part of Special Operations Command, formerly of the Royal Danish Army, based at Aalborg Air Base.
History
The Jaeger Corps traces its origins to 1785 when the corps was first formed as the "Jaeger Corps... | 2.5 | 0 |
311707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaeger%20Corps%20%28Denmark%29 | Jaeger Corps (Denmark) | Insignia and status
The Jaeger Corps wear a frogberet also and the maroon beret with a brass emblem depicting a hunter's bugle on a black felt liner. After one year of satisfactory service and training in corps the wearer is issued the shoulder patch "JÆGER" and may call himself by this name. The unit's insignia featur... | 2.171875 | 0 |
311717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Heinsius | Daniel Heinsius | Daniel Heinsius (or Heins) (9 June 158025 February 1655) was one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance.
His youth and student years
Heinsius was born in Ghent. The troubles of the Spanish war drove his parents to settle first at Veere in Zeeland, then to England, next at Rijwijk and lastly at Vlissinge... | 2.25 | 0 |
311717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Heinsius | Daniel Heinsius | Dutch poetry
In 1601, he published, under the pseudonym of Theocritus à Ganda ("Theocritus from Ghent"), Quaeris quid sit Amor...? ("Do you ask what love is?"), the first emblem book in Dutch. It was re-edited in 1606/07 with the title Emblemata amatoria ("Love emblems"). A second emblem book, Spiegel vande doorluchtig... | 2.34375 | 0 |
311724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips%20of%20Marnix%2C%20Lord%20of%20Saint-Aldegonde | Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde | In 1578 he was at the Diet of Worms, where he made an eloquent, but fruitless, appeal for aid to the German princes. Equally vain were his efforts in the same year to persuade the magistrates of Ghent to cease persecuting the Catholics in the city. He took a conspicuous part in arranging the Union of Utrecht. In 1583 w... | 2.515625 | 0 |
311730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Opitz | Martin Opitz | Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (23 December 1597 – 20 August 1639) was a German poet, regarded as the greatest of that nation during his lifetime.
Biography
Opitz was born in Bunzlau (Bolesławiec) in Lower Silesia, in the Principality of Schweidnitz-Jauer, the son of a prosperous citizen. He received his early education ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
311730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Opitz | Martin Opitz | In 1624 Opitz was appointed councilor to Duke George Rudolf of Liegnitz (Legnica) and Brieg (Brzeg) in Silesia, and in 1625, as reward for a requiem poem composed on the death of Archduke Charles of Austria, was crowned poet laureate by Emperor Ferdinand II, who a few years later ennobled him under the title "von Bober... | 2.3125 | 0 |
311735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Blue%20Star | Operation Blue Star | Operation Blue Star was a military operation conducted by the Indian Armed Forces from 1 and 10 June 1984 to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and other Sikh militants from the Golden Temple, Amritsar.
A long-standing movement advocating for greater political rights for the Sikh community had previously existed in the... | 2.171875 | 0 |
311735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Blue%20Star | Operation Blue Star | The military underestimated the firepower possessed by the Sikh militants, whose armaments included Chinese-made rocket-propelled grenade launchers and ammunition with armour-piercing capabilities. Hoping to avoid damage to the holy site, Indian forces unsuccessfully assaulted the temple using light weaponry and quickl... | 2.34375 | 0 |
311735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Blue%20Star | Operation Blue Star | Background
In the years leading up to the operation, there was a significant build-up in agitation for greater autonomy for the Sikh community. Economic and social pressures driven by the Green Revolution led many young Sikh men to support varying degrees of self-determination for Sikhs and Punjab, with many even advoc... | 2.671875 | 0 |
311735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Blue%20Star | Operation Blue Star | Initial Indian intelligence situation
The reluctance of the central government to deescalate the situation or offer major concessions has often been attributed to foreign influence. In the early 1980s, one of the main aims of Soviet KGB active measures with regards to India was to manufacture evidence that the CIA and ... | 2.125 | 0 |
311735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Blue%20Star | Operation Blue Star | The government never provided evidence of the supposedly planned massacre of Hindus that triggered Operation Blue Star, although the pace of attacks was increasing. Congress member of parliament Amarjit Kaur, who referred to the Akali Dal as "the enemy within" and who had opposed the creation of the Punjabi Suba, alleg... | 1.929688 | 0 |
311735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Blue%20Star | Operation Blue Star | Mutinies by Sikh soldiers
In the aftermath of Operation Blue Star, mutinies by Sikh soldiers, mostly raw recruits, were reported from different places. On 7 June, six hundred soldiers of the 9th Battalion of the Sikh Regiment, almost the entire other ranks' strength, mutinied in Sri Ganganagar. While some managed to e... | 2.109375 | 0 |
311737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnley | Burnley | Origins
Stone Age flint tools and weapons have been found on the moors around the town, as have numerous tumuli, stone circles, and some hill forts (see: Castercliff, which dates from around 600 BC). Modern-day Back Lane, Stump Hall Lane and Noggarth Road broadly follow the route of a classic ridgeway running east–west... | 2.765625 | 0 |
311737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnley | Burnley | The arrival of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1796 made possible transportation of goods in bulk, bringing a huge boost to the area's economy and the town of Burnley was born. Dozens of new mills were constructed, along with many foundries and ironworks that supplied the cotton mills and coal mines with machinery and... | 2.578125 | 0 |
311737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnley | Burnley | The Cotton Famine of 1861–1865, caused by the American Civil War, was again disastrous for the town. However, the resumption of trade led to a quick recovery and, by 1866, the town was the largest producer of cotton cloth in the world. By the 1880s, the town was manufacturing more looms than anywhere in the country.
I... | 2.75 | 0 |
311737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnley | Burnley | World Wars
Over 4000 men from Burnley were killed in the First World War, about 15 per cent of the male working-age population.
250 volunteers, known as the Burnley Pals, made up Z Company of 11th Battalion, the East Lancashire Regiment, a battalion that as a whole became known by the far more famous name of the Accri... | 2.484375 | 0 |
311737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnley | Burnley | To the north west of the town, and home of the Pendle Witches, is the imposing Pendle Hill, which rises to , beyond which lie Clitheroe and the Ribble Valley. To the south west, Hameldon Hill rises to , on top of which are the Met Office north west England weather radar, a BBC radio transmitter, and a number of microwa... | 2.1875 | 0 |
311737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnley | Burnley | Burnley has a temperate maritime climate, with relatively cool summers and mild winters. There is regular but generally light precipitation throughout the year, contributing to a relatively high humidity level. While snowfall occasionally occurs during the winter months, the temperature is rarely low enough for it to b... | 2.84375 | 0 |
311737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnley | Burnley | A series of high-profile regeneration schemes, including: a direct rail link to Manchester, an aerospace supply village and multimillion-pound investment in the former Victorian industrial heartland through a project called 'On The Banks' are radically transforming the economy of the Lancashire town. Although traditio... | 1.914063 | 0 |
311737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnley | Burnley | Towneley Hall was the home of the Towneley family for more than 500 years. Various family members were influential in the scientific, technological and religious developments which took place in the 17th and 18th centuries. The male line of the family died out in 1878 and in 1901 one of the daughters, Lady O'Hagan, sol... | 2 | 0 |
311737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnley | Burnley | The town's sporting scene is dominated by Burnley Football Club, nicknamed "The Clarets" and founded in 1882. They were one of the first to become professional (in 1883), and subsequently put pressure on the Football Association to permit payments to players. In 1888, Burnley were one of the 12 founder members of the F... | 2.109375 | 0 |
311737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnley | Burnley | Museums and galleries
On the outskirts of the town there are galleries in two stately homes, the Burnley council-owned Towneley Hall and Gawthorpe Hall in Padiham, which is owned by Lancashire County Council and managed by the National Trust. There are also two local museums: the Weavers' Triangle Trust operates the Vi... | 2.421875 | 0 |
311738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Norris | Dick Norris | Kenneth Richard Norris (28 March 1914 – 14 July 2003) was an Australian entomologist.
Early life and education
He was born in Geraldton, Western Australia. The family moved to Fremantle in 1922, which was to provide the opportunity for Dick and his younger brother Donald to pursue studies in agricultural science at th... | 2.046875 | 0 |
311746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%27s%20Labour%27s%20Won | Love's Labour's Won | Love's Labour's Won is a lost play attributed by contemporaries to William Shakespeare, written before 1598 and published by 1603, though no copies are known to have survived. Scholars dispute whether it is a true lost work, possibly a sequel to Love's Labour's Lost, or an alternative title to a known Shakespeare play.... | 2.1875 | 0 |
311746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%27s%20Labour%27s%20Won | Love's Labour's Won | A longtime theory held that Love's Labour's Won was an alternative name for The Taming of the Shrew, which had been written several years earlier and is noticeably missing from Meres' list. But in 1953, Solomon Pottesman, a London-based antiquarian book dealer and collector, discovered the August 1603 book list of the ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
311746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%27s%20Labour%27s%20Won | Love's Labour's Won | David Grote argues that it was another name for As You Like It. He suggests that titles for comedies were often generic – several plays could be called "As You Like It" or "All's Well that Ends Well", for example, and that names were not fixed until repeated publication. He suggests that As You Like It began as a seque... | 2.34375 | 0 |
311747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Beck | Adam Beck | Sir Adam Beck (June 20, 1857 – August 15, 1925) was a Canadian politician and hydroelectricity advocate who founded the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Biography
Beck was born in Baden, Canada West to German immigrants, Jacob Beck and Charlotte Hespeler (sister of William Hespeler). He was the great-great... | 2.0625 | 0 |
311747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Beck | Adam Beck | Also in 1898, Beck ran for provincial legislature for the first time, but lost. In 1900, Beck founded the London Health Association, which would later develop into the University and Victoria Hospitals. In 1902, he was elected mayor of London and a few months later was elected to the Ontario legislature as the Conserva... | 2.390625 | 0 |
311747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Beck | Adam Beck | Beck continued to push his radial railways proposal after World War I, which pitted him against Premier Ernest Drury, with whom he had an antagonistic relationship. In 1920, Drury created a Royal Commission, chaired by Robert Franklin Sutherland, which concluded that the popularity of automobiles had rendered Beck's pr... | 2.015625 | 0 |
311748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokejumper | Smokejumper | Smokejumpers are specially trained wildland firefighters who provide an initial attack response on remote wildfires. They are inserted at the site of the fire by parachute. This allows firefighters to access remote fires in their early stages without needing to hike long distances carrying equipment and supplies. Tradi... | 2.90625 | 0 |
311748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokejumper | Smokejumper | Prior to the full establishment of smokejumping, experiments with parachute insertion of firefighters were conducted in 1934 in Utah and in the Soviet Union. Earlier, aerial firefighting experiments had been conducted with air delivery of equipment and water bombs. Although this first experiment was not pursued, anothe... | 2.296875 | 0 |
311748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokejumper | Smokejumper | Jump injuries are infrequent. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) states injuries occur once for every 909 jumps - a rate of 0.11%. Smokejumper personnel take deliberate precautions before deciding whether to jump a particular fire. Multiple factors are analyzed, and then a decision is made as to whether jumpin... | 2.65625 | 0 |
311752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin%20Bet | Shin Bet | The Israel Security Agency (ISA; (GSS); ), better known by the acronyms Shabak (; ; ) or Shin Bet (from the abbreviation of , "Security Service"), is Israel's internal security service. Its motto is "Magen v'lo Yera'eh" (). The Shin Bet's headquarters are located in northwest Tel Aviv, north of Yarkon Park.
It is one... | 1.976563 | 0 |
311752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin%20Bet | Shin Bet | History
With the Israeli declaration of independence in 1948, the Shabak was founded as a branch of the Israel Defense Forces and was initially headed by Isser Harel (the father of Israeli Intelligence, who later headed the Mossad). Responsibility for Shabak activity was later moved from the IDF to the office of the pr... | 2.859375 | 0 |
311752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin%20Bet | Shin Bet | In 1967, an Egyptian-Israeli double agent, Refaat Al-Gammal, gave Egypt false information about Israel's battle plans, claiming it would begin with ground operations. The Egyptians thus left their aircraft on open runways, which enabled the Israel Air Force to knock out Egypt's air force within three hours of the outbr... | 2.25 | 0 |
311752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin%20Bet | Shin Bet | Accountability
Former Shin Bet director special assistant Barak Ben-Zur said that since 1948 (or more particularly 1957) the group has been brought under the control of the Knesset in order to monitor its budget. In May 2002, Shin Bet was brought under the purview of the Knesset Foreign and Security Committee, which co... | 2.0625 | 0 |
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