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311753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%20%28surname%29 | Huang (surname) | Origins
Huang is an ancient surname. According to tradition, there are several different origins of the surname, for example as descendants of Bo Yi, Lu Zhong (陸終) or Tai Tai (臺駘). There were also at least three Huang Kingdoms during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. Most of the people with the surname Huang could tr... | 2.796875 | 0 |
311753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%20%28surname%29 | Huang (surname) | During the Jin dynasty (266–420), when northern China was invaded by the barbarian tribes, many northerners (especially the aristocratic clans) moved to south China with the Jin court. It was during this period that the Huang clansmen migrated to Fujian.
According to Min Shu 閩書 (Book of Min) (Quoted from Chung Yoon-Ng... | 2.875 | 0 |
311753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%20%28surname%29 | Huang (surname) | Across Guangdong, three million people surnamed Huang claim descent from the same paternal ancestor, Huang Qiaoshan who lived in the Tang dynasty and migrated to Fujian at the end of the dynasty, via three of his sons (out of 21) who founded different branches, found among the Hakka, Chaoshan and Cantonese. Among them ... | 2.625 | 0 |
311756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echizen%20Province | Echizen Province | Echizen was a strategically important province due to its proximity to Kyoto and Nara and due to its location on the Sea of Japan with contacts to the Asian continent. The province was traditionally famous for its production of washi paper. A text dated AD 774 mentions the washi made in this area. Echizen is also well... | 2.765625 | 0 |
311756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echizen%20Province | Echizen Province | When Oda Nobunaga invaded Echizen, he defeated the Asakura clan, burned Ichijōdani Castle to the ground and re-established the provincial capital at Echizen-Fūchu, divided among his generals Fuwa Mitsuharu, Sassa Narimasa, and Maeda Toshiie. The province remained in their hands only for a short time, after which the th... | 2.5 | 0 |
311764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20University | Lawrence University | Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a coeducational institution.
History
Lawrence's first president, William... | 2.421875 | 0 |
311764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20University | Lawrence University | All students are required to take First-Year Studies during their first trimester, which introduces students to broad areas of study and provides a common academic experience for the college. Known as Freshman Studies until 2021, the program was established in 1945, and aside from a brief interruption in the mid-1970s ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
311764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20University | Lawrence University | Lawrence is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, an academic consortium of 14 liberal arts colleges in the Midwest and Colorado that coordinates several off-campus study programs in a large number of countries as its primary activity. Lawrence University is also part of the Oberlin Group, a consortium of... | 2.109375 | 0 |
311764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20University | Lawrence University | Lawrence University's intercollegiate athletic teams, known as the Vikings since 1926, compete in the Midwest Conference in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, fencing, football, golf, ice hockey, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, and ... | 2.25 | 0 |
311767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Neot%20%28monk%29 | Saint Neot (monk) | Neot was born into a minor branch of the West Saxon royal house, in the first half of the ninth century, somewhere in Wessex. Neot's father was named Ethelwulph. In early life he was under pressure to become a soldier, but when he was old enough, he devoted himself instead to a religious life. As a young man therefore,... | 2.796875 | 0 |
311767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Neot%20%28monk%29 | Saint Neot (monk) | Becoming a hermit
Neot's wish to do his additional devotional prayer privately shows that he wanted to avoid deriving pleasure from the approval of others. As Gorham puts it, "Under a strong feeling of the danger of popular applause, he determined to retire from this public station, and to lead the life of an anchoret ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
311767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Neot%20%28monk%29 | Saint Neot (monk) | King Alfred's visits
King Alfred is said to have been a frequent visitor to Hamstoke (or Neotstoke) where Neot had withdrawn from his celebrity status at Glastonbury. In the year 867, Alfred was on a hunting expedition in the area; he turned aside to the Church at Ham-Stoke, where St Guerir was in residence. Alfred rem... | 2.59375 | 0 |
311767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Neot%20%28monk%29 | Saint Neot (monk) | The chapel at the Priory was soon consecrated in the presence of Ethelwolde, Bishop of Winchester, Æscwin, Bishop of Lincoln, Brithnod, Abbot of Ely, Earl Ægelwin, Ædric Pope, Ædelm Polga and many others. Earl Alric and Lady Ethelfleda entreated Abbot Brithnod and Bishop Æscwin that the foundation would have their prot... | 2.546875 | 0 |
311767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Neot%20%28monk%29 | Saint Neot (monk) | Adoption of the Priory by a French Abbey
The Norman Conquest took place in 1066, and England became subject to the rule of William the Conqueror. This huge change of governance was accompanied by changes in religious authority, and the Priory of St Neots was seized by Gilbert Earl of Owe. The local monks were ejected a... | 2.84375 | 0 |
311767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Neot%20%28monk%29 | Saint Neot (monk) | Whitaker asserts that in reality, Neot fetched an iron stool, enabling him to reach the lock, and left it there for later use. This is how the lock "lowered" for Neot to reach.
Gorham thinks that, afterwards, the door lock was permanently lowered by the more worldly agency of a carpenter:
"The lock was lowered in con... | 2.171875 | 0 |
311767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Neot%20%28monk%29 | Saint Neot (monk) | The crows respect the Sabbath services
Once a great multitude of crows began to eat the crops and everything they could from the fields, damaging them greatly. People watched over their fields from Monday to Saturday and scared the crows away. However on Sunday the people went to church and the crows took advantage of ... | 2.90625 | 0 |
311767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Neot%20%28monk%29 | Saint Neot (monk) | Eastern Orthodox Church
Neot is venerated in the Orthodox church. His saint's day in that church is 31 July in the Julian calendar, which is 13 August according to the Gregorian calendar.
Relics
There are no physical remains known of St Neot. He is remembered by the name of the large town of St Neots in Cambridgeshire... | 2.375 | 0 |
311771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Fagan%20Ginger | Ann Fagan Ginger | Ann Fagan Ginger (born July 11, 1925) is an American lawyer, teacher, writer, and political activist. She is the founder and Executive Director Emerita of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute in Berkeley, California.
Personal and Professional Career
Ginger is an expert in human rights and peace law under the statu... | 2.578125 | 0 |
311771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Fagan%20Ginger | Ann Fagan Ginger | In 1955, Ginger began compiling and publishing the Civil Liberties Docket, a summary and archive of contemporary civil rights and civil liberties litigation materials and decisions, much of which was "not otherwise available." In 1962, she was the only woman lawyer to attend the first joint meeting of black and white a... | 2.234375 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | Coyoacán ( , , Otomi: ) is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City. The former village is now the borough's "historic center". The name comes from Nahuatl and most likely means "place of coyotes", when the Aztecs named a pre-Hispanic village on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco dominated by the Tepanec peo... | 2.96875 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The center of Coyoacán is relatively peaceful during the week, but it becomes crowded and festive on weekends and holidays. After the Zocalo, the most-visited place in Mexico City is this historic center, especially the twin plazas in its center. According to the borough, the area receives about 70,000 people each week... | 1.960938 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The tourism has been a mixed blessing for the historic center as commercial establishments open, helping the economy, but also push residents out. In the historic center, there are over 860 retail businesses, mostly restaurants, about 200 of which were established in the last five years. Residents attribute the growth ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The historic area is centered on two large plazas filled with Indian laurel trees called the Jardin del Centenario and the Jardín Hidalgo. These plazas cover an area of 24,000 m2, which were renovated, along with the areas around them in 2008. The green areas were rehabilitated, and areas were paved with red and black ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The Casa Municipal, also referred to La Casa de Cortés, is a building located on the north side of the Plaza Hidalgo. It has served as an administrative/governmental building since it was constructed in the 18th century. The erroneous name of Casa de Cortés (House of Cortés, referring to Hernán Cortés), comes from Coyo... | 2.859375 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The structure is much the same as it was when it was constructed in the 18th century. The facade is simple and is fronted by a series of columns in sandstone and wood over which is a roof. The door and window jambs are typical of civil constructions of the 18th century with wrought iron work. The facade is topped by a ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | One of the most important historic buildings in the borough is the Parish of San Juan Bautista. Built between 1520 and 1552, it is one of three oldest parish churches in Mexico City, along with the ones in Tlalpan and the small community of Amaqueman. Originally, this church and the cloister next to it were constructed... | 2.671875 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | In 2005, the San Juan Bautista church underwent renovations to its tower, atrium, facade, portal for pilgrims, the north and south sides and the cupola and more under the supervision of INAH and academics from UNAM. Prior to this, there had been no restoration work to the building for about a century. The cupola was pa... | 2.703125 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The rest of the historic center and nearby neighborhoods are filled with homes built from the colonia era to the middle of the 20th century, many of which have been catalogued for their historic value. Many of these homes can be found one two of the historic center's oldest streets, the Calle de Higuera, which leads so... | 2.40625 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The borough
The borough of Coyoacán was created in 1928, when the Federal District of Mexico City was divided into 16 administrative parts. The borough is named after the old village of Coyoacán, where the borough government is seated. This borough is much larger than the village, extending for 54.4km2 in the geograph... | 2.734375 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | Most of the borough located at 2240 meters above sea level with little variation. Minor elevations are located in Ciudad Universitaria, San Francisco Culuacán and Santa Úrusula Coapa. The most important elevation is in the far south called the Cerro Zacatépetl which rises to 2420masl. Parks and other green spaces cover... | 2.546875 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The borough is divided into 140 communities, classified as colonias, pueblos, unidades habitacionales and barrios. The oldest of these divisions are former villages which are distinguished by their colonial era churches and who still celebrate their feast of their patron saint much as they did when they were independen... | 2.609375 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | For long before it became a borough, the area was home to a number of small community and villages. Vestiges of a number of these communities can still be distinguished by street layouts and by customs and traditions which have survived. Many of the old villages, now called colonias, pueblos and barrios (roughly “neigh... | 2.25 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | One neighborhood which is as old as the historic center is the La Concepción or La Conchita neighborhood (Barrio de la Concepción), an area where the Spanish conquistadors settled in the 1520s. The neighborhood centers on a small plaza with a church just southeast of Villa Coyoacán or the historic center. This main cha... | 2.734375 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | Most of the area's oldest buildings are located on this plaza, Calle Fernando Sosa, which leads to Villa Coyoacán and Calle Fernandez Leal. The Casa Colorada or Casa de la Malinche is located on a corner of the Plaza La Conchita, but it is not open to the public. It is said that Cortés built it for La Malinche, and his... | 2.46875 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The Santa Catarina neighborhood is home to a large number of Coyoacán's landmarks. It is located just west of the Plaza del Centenario along Calle Francisco Sosa. It is a small square with a bright yellow chapel named the Capilla de Santa Catarina. This chapel was built for use by the indigenous population in the very ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The Casa de Cultura Jesús Reyes Heroles is located on Francisco Sosa, named after a historian and political scientist from Veracruz. The house is on a property, which was called Izotitlán, meaning “izotes” a type of wild palm to make hats. In the colonial period, the house belonged to Juan de Luis Celis who had a small... | 2.5 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | Colonia del Carmen was not a village in the past. It was built in 1890 and named in honour of Carmen Romero, the wife of then president Porfirio Díaz, and it is best known for having several of the borough's museums and other landmarks. The Del Carmen colonia has had an intellectual and vanguard reputation since the 19... | 2.4375 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The Leon Trotsky Museum is located near the Frida Kahlo Museum. Trotsky was forced into exile in 1929 by Josef Stalin and in 1937, due to efforts by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, he was granted asylum in Mexico. At first, Trotsky and his wife lived in the La Casa Azul with Frida, but after a falling out with Diego Rive... | 2.484375 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The Escuela Superior de Música (Higher School of Music) on Fernández Leal Street in Colonia Del Carmen is an imitation of the house occupied by Shakespeare's Othello. It stands out due to its many stained glass windows with Arab phrases inscribed against a stucco facade. This school used to be a pulqueria called La Ro... | 2.1875 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The Churubusco neighborhood has the historic Dieguinos monastery located near the ancient road to Iztapalapa. In the pre-Hispanic period, this area was a small island, which was called Teopanzolco, at the juncture of Lake Texcoco and Lake Xochimilco. In the 17th century, the Spanish built the monastery of Churubusco ov... | 2.53125 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | While lacking in landmarks, La Candelaria and Los Reyes are considered to be the two most traditional communities in the borough, with mostly religious traditions that extend back into the colonial period. Much of Los Reyes’ traditions revolve around a crucifix imaged called the Señor de las Misericordias. According to... | 2.609375 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | On 6 January in the Pueblo de los Reyes, the main square of the community is decorated with flower portals and "carpets" made by carefully arranging colored sawdust on the ground. There are also processions and a ceremony called the vítor used to announce coming of the festival. Reeds are cut and decorated with multico... | 2.578125 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The feast day of Saint Ursula, patroness of Santa Ursula Coapa last for about a week. The first three days are dedicated to 40 hours of prayer. Other religious events include processions on Calzada de Tlalpan and the blessing of taxi drivers. Cultural and recreational activities include a marathon, fireworks, including... | 2.671875 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | In the pre-Hispanic period, Coyoacán was originally an independent dominion or altepetl. It was a major center of trade on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco. Its people were Tecpanecas, who were farmers and stoneworkers specializing in the volcanic stone from the old lava flow of Xitle. It had been a Tepaneca dominion... | 2.765625 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The historic center and other villages were linked to each other and Mexico City proper by rail lines and trolleys. The rail line linked Mexico City and the historic center from the 1860s to the early 1900s. Many of the old villages were linked by a trolley on Santa Catarina Road, now Francisco Sosa. This trolley was ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The Ciudad Universitaria (University City) is UNAM's main campus. Designed by architects Mario Pani and Enrique del Moral, it was built in the 1950s to move the university from the scattered colonial buildings in the historic center of Mexico City.
It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2007.
The Bibliotec... | 2.53125 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The Espacio Escultórico or Sculpture Space is a monumental sculpture made of 64 stone triangular blocks arranged in a circle such that from above, it looks like a crown. Inside this space is exposed naturally occurring volcanic stone. The outside of the sculpture retains its natural vegetation. The idea is to combine... | 2.28125 | 0 |
311774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyoac%C3%A1n | Coyoacán | The Viveros de Coyoacán is located on the west side of the borough just north of the Ciudad Universitaria. This land once belonged to Miguel Angel de Quevedo, but they were nationalized under President Venustiano Carranza and today it serves as a park and a plant nursery for trees used in reforestation projects. It is ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
311778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al%E2%80%93Mirabel%20International%20Airport | Montréal–Mirabel International Airport | Montréal–Mirabel International Airport , originally called Montréal International Airport, widely known as Mirabel and branded as YMX International Aerocity of Mirabel, is a cargo and former international passenger airport in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, northwest of Montreal. It opened on October 4, 1975, and the last co... | 2.28125 | 0 |
311778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al%E2%80%93Mirabel%20International%20Airport | Montréal–Mirabel International Airport | The airport was intended to replace the existing Dorval Airport as the eastern air gateway to Canada. Accordingly, from 1975 to 1997, all international flights to and from Montreal (except for flights to and from the United States) were required to use Mirabel. Mirabel's distant location, its inadequate transport links... | 1.953125 | 0 |
311778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al%E2%80%93Mirabel%20International%20Airport | Montréal–Mirabel International Airport | Background
In the 1960s, Montreal experienced a tremendous economic boom. Massive construction projects, including the Montreal Metro and those linked with the hosting of Expo 67, brought the city international status. More and more visitors were arriving to the city, especially by airplane but not always by choice. Th... | 2.390625 | 0 |
311778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al%E2%80%93Mirabel%20International%20Airport | Montréal–Mirabel International Airport | More importantly, the simultaneous operation of Mirabel solely for international flights and Dorval only for continental flights made Montreal less attractive to airlines and travelers alike, in contrast to other cities with multi-airport systems (New York City, Tokyo) where each airport operates independently in allow... | 2.109375 | 0 |
311778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al%E2%80%93Mirabel%20International%20Airport | Montréal–Mirabel International Airport | Renewal of airport activity
Between 2008 and 2018, Mirabel airport's air traffic more than tripled. The trend rose sharply as of 2016 with the increase of use of the terminal by private passenger flights, helicopter flights and a rise in nearby flight schools. Nolinor offers daily flights abroad for employees of vario... | 2.015625 | 0 |
311778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al%E2%80%93Mirabel%20International%20Airport | Montréal–Mirabel International Airport | Architecture and layout
Mirabel was designed to be eventually expanded to six runways and six terminal buildings, with a separate STOLport also planned. The expansion was supposed to occur in a number of phases and be completed by 2000, with the expectation of serving at least 60 million passengers by the year 2025. ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
311778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al%E2%80%93Mirabel%20International%20Airport | Montréal–Mirabel International Airport | Passengers walked as little as going from the curb to the gate. Once there, passengers would be transported to their aircraft by Passenger Transfer Vehicles (PTVs), rather than walking through jetways. The PTVs, similar to those at Washington Dulles International Airport, ran from the terminal to the aircraft parking ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
311781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Krassner | Paul Krassner | Paul Krassner (April 9, 1932 – July 21, 2019) was an American writer and satirist. He was the founder, editor, and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958. Krassner became a key figure in the counterculture of the 1960s as a member of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and a fo... | 1.96875 | 0 |
311782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20City%20Transit%20Authority | New York City Transit Authority | The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, or simply Transit, and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City. Part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest and largest tr... | 2.296875 | 0 |
311782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20City%20Transit%20Authority | New York City Transit Authority | The Transit Authority has its own management structure which is responsible for its day-to-day operations, with executive personnel reporting to the agency president. The position of president was vacant , following the resignation of Andy Byford. Sarah Feinberg and Craig Cipriano served as interim presidents until May... | 2.234375 | 0 |
311782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20City%20Transit%20Authority | New York City Transit Authority | The surface operation of the BOT was a costly operation, resulting from the various equipment that was required, including trolley cars, trolley coaches, gasoline and diesel buses, of which many were obsolete and in need of replacement.
During World War II, the New York City Transit System showed an operating surplus ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
311782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20City%20Transit%20Authority | New York City Transit Authority | Formation of the TA
In March 1953, the Board of Transportation was abolished, and was replaced by the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA). The NYCTA formally succeeded the BOT on June 15, 1953, being composed of five unsalaried members. Hugh Casey was elected as the agency's chairman at the authority's first meetin... | 2.6875 | 0 |
311782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20City%20Transit%20Authority | New York City Transit Authority | One provision in the 1953 law that created NYCTA demanded that by July 1955, the agency create a plan to sell its bus and trolley routes to private operators. In the beginning of 1955, it was reported that the NYCTA's surface operations cost seven million dollars more to operate annually than it collected in revenue fr... | 2.4375 | 0 |
311782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20City%20Transit%20Authority | New York City Transit Authority | In June 2008, NYCT announced it had reached 10,000 daily visitors to TripPlanner. Since the announcement, the number of visits to the service eclipsed the number of telephone calls to the agency's travel information hotline. The following month, Trip Planner launched as a widget application, allowing users to add it to... | 2.1875 | 0 |
311794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark%20Light%20Rail | Newark Light Rail | The Broad Street Extension was intended to ease connections between Newark's two rail stations. The two separate stations are a legacy of their roots in two separate railroads. Broad Street Station was once owned by the Lackawanna Railroad and its successor, the Erie Lackawanna Railway, while Penn Station was built and... | 1.9375 | 0 |
311795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo | Nanaimo | Nanaimo ( ) is a city of about 100,000 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. "The Harbour City" was previously known as the "Hub City", which was attributed to its original layout design with streets radiating from the shoreline like the spokes of a wagon wheel, and to its relatively centr... | 2.4375 | 0 |
311795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo | Nanaimo | By 1852, the first shipment of Nanaimo coal was loaded on the Cadboro.
Construction of the Nanaimo Bastion began in 1853 and was finished in 1855.
On 27 November 1854, 24 coal miners and their families from England arrived at the settlement aboard the Beaver and Recovery. They had travelled seven months on the ship P... | 2.75 | 0 |
311795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo | Nanaimo | Located on the east coast of Vancouver Island, Nanaimo is about north-west of Victoria, and west of Vancouver, separated by the Strait of Georgia, and linked to Vancouver via the Horseshoe Bay BC Ferries terminal in West Vancouver and the Duke Point terminal to the Tsawwassen ferry terminal in Tsawwassen. As the site... | 2.390625 | 0 |
311795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo | Nanaimo | Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Nanaimo had a population of 99,863 living in 43,164 of its 45,138 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 90,504. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
At the census metropolitan area (CMA) ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
311795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo | Nanaimo | Open government
The city's planning department has steadily produced enough municipal data to warrant a Time magazine article on open-government. Nanaimo has been dubbed "the capital of Google Earth". Working directly with Google, the city fed it a wealth of information about its buildings, property lines, utilities an... | 2.765625 | 0 |
311796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20From%20Religion%20Foundation | Freedom From Religion Foundation | The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for atheists, agnostics, and nontheists. Formed in 1976, FFRF promotes the separation of church and state, and challenges the legitimacy of many federal and state programs that are faith-based. It supports groups such as no... | 1.976563 | 0 |
311799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee%20State%20University | Tennessee State University | Tennessee State University (Tennessee State, Tenn State, or TSU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1912, it is the only state-funded historically black university in Tennessee. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Tennessee St... | 2.5 | 0 |
311819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR%20%28file%20format%29 | RAR (file format) | RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error correction and file spanning. It was developed in 1993 by Russian software engineer Eugene Roshal and the software is licensed by win.rar GmbH. The name RAR stands for Roshal Archive.
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The filename extensions used by RAR are .ra... | 2.421875 | 0 |
311821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20Revival%20architecture | Gothic Revival architecture | Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England. Increasingly serious and learned admirers sought to reviv... | 2.859375 | 0 |
311821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20Revival%20architecture | Gothic Revival architecture | Gothic Revival also took on political connotations; with the "rational" and "radical" Neoclassical style being seen as associated with republicanism and liberalism (as evidenced by its use in the United States and to a lesser extent in Republican France), the more spiritual and traditional Gothic Revival became associa... | 2.671875 | 0 |
311821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20Revival%20architecture | Gothic Revival architecture | Romantic challenges
During the mid-18th century rise of Romanticism, an increased interest and awareness of the Middle Ages among influential connoisseurs created a more appreciative approach to selected medieval arts, beginning with church architecture, the tomb monuments of royal and noble personages, stained glass,... | 2.546875 | 0 |
311821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20Revival%20architecture | Gothic Revival architecture | Some of the earliest architectural examples of the revived are found in Scotland. Inveraray Castle, constructed from 1746 for the Duke of Argyll, with design input from William Adam, displays the incorporation of turrets. The architectural historian John Gifford writes that the castellations were the "symbolic assertio... | 2.4375 | 0 |
311821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20Revival%20architecture | Gothic Revival architecture | The revived Gothic style was not limited to architecture. Classical Gothic buildings of the 12th to 16th Centuries were a source of inspiration to 19th-century designers in numerous fields of work. Architectural elements such as pointed arches, steep-sloping roofs and fancy carvings like lace and lattice work were appl... | 2.828125 | 0 |
311821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20Revival%20architecture | Gothic Revival architecture | In Belgium, a 15th-century church in Ostend burned down in 1896. King Leopold II funded its replacement, the Saint Peter's and Saint Paul's Church, a cathedral-scale design which drew inspiration from the neo-Gothic Votive Church in Vienna and Cologne Cathedral. In Mechelen, the largely unfinished building drawn in 152... | 2.46875 | 0 |
311821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20Revival%20architecture | Gothic Revival architecture | In Scotland, while a similar Gothic style to that used further south in England was adopted by figures including Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832–1898) in secular architecture it was marked by the re-adoption of the Scots baronial style. Important for the adoption of the style in the early 19th century was Abbotsford,... | 2.828125 | 0 |
311821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20Revival%20architecture | Gothic Revival architecture | In Contrasts: or, a Parallel between the Noble Edifices of the Middle Ages, and similar Buildings of the Present Day (1836), Pugin expressed his admiration not only for medieval art but for the whole medieval ethos, suggesting that Gothic architecture was the product of a purer society. In The True Principles of Pointe... | 2.71875 | 0 |
311821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20Revival%20architecture | Gothic Revival architecture | By declaring the Doge's Palace to be "the central building of the world", Ruskin argued the case for Gothic government buildings as Pugin had done for churches, though mostly only in theory. When his ideas were put into practice, Ruskin often disliked the result, although he supported many architects, such as Thomas Ne... | 2.65625 | 0 |
311821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20Revival%20architecture | Gothic Revival architecture | St Luke's Church, Chelsea, was a new-built Commissioner's Church of 1820–1824, partly built using a grant of £8,333 towards its construction with money voted by Parliament as a result of the Church Building Act 1818. It is often said to be the first Gothic Revival church in London, and, as Charles Locke Eastlake put it... | 2.40625 | 0 |
311821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20Revival%20architecture | Gothic Revival architecture | Some architects persisted in using Neo-Gothic tracery as applied ornamentation to an iron skeleton underneath, for example in Cass Gilbert's 1913 Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York and Raymond Hood's 1922 Tribune Tower in Chicago. The Tower Life Building in San Antonio, completed in 1929, is noted for the arrays... | 2.484375 | 0 |
311821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20Revival%20architecture | Gothic Revival architecture | By 1872, the Gothic Revival was mature enough in the United Kingdom that Charles Locke Eastlake, an influential professor of design, could produce A History of the Gothic Revival. Kenneth Clark's, The Gothic Revival. An Essay, followed in 1928, in which he described the Revival as "the most widespread and influential a... | 2.4375 | 0 |
311822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance%20Abuse%20and%20Mental%20Health%20Services%20Administration | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA; pronounced ) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. SAMHSA is charged with improving the quality and availability of treatment and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and the cost to socie... | 2.71875 | 0 |
311822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance%20Abuse%20and%20Mental%20Health%20Services%20Administration | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | Charles Curie was SAMHSA's Director until his resignation in May 2006. In December 2006 Terry Cline was appointed as SAMHSA's Director. Dr. Cline served through August 2008. Rear Admiral Eric Broderick served as the Acting Director upon Dr. Cline's departure, until the arrival of the succeeding Administrator, Pamela S.... | 2.203125 | 0 |
311822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance%20Abuse%20and%20Mental%20Health%20Services%20Administration | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | Center for Mental Health Services
The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is a unit of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This U.S. government agency describes its role as:
The Center for Mental Health Services leads fed... | 2.8125 | 0 |
311822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance%20Abuse%20and%20Mental%20Health%20Services%20Administration | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | For example the SPF Rx grant program provides resources to help prevent and address prescription drug misuse within a State or locality. Recipients can include relatively small organizations such as PreventionFIRST! an organization coordinating the activities of a number of bodies working within the Cincinnati area, w... | 2.40625 | 0 |
311822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance%20Abuse%20and%20Mental%20Health%20Services%20Administration | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality
The Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ) conducts data collection and research on "behavioral health statistics" relating to mental health, addiction, substance use, and related epidemiology. CBHSQ is headed by a Director. Subunits of CBHSQ incl... | 1.90625 | 0 |
311834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Catch%20%28baseball%29 | The Catch (baseball) | The Catch was a baseball play made by New York Giants center fielder Willie Mays on September 29, 1954, during Game 1 of the 1954 World Series at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan, New York City. In the eighth inning, with the score tied 2–2, Cleveland Indians batter Vic Wertz hit a deep fly ball to center field that... | 2.390625 | 0 |
311834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Catch%20%28baseball%29 | The Catch (baseball) | The play prevented the Indians from taking the lead and, in the bottom of the 10th, the Giants won the game on their way to sweeping the Series. The Catch is often considered to be one of the best and most memorable plays in the history of baseball because of the difficulty of the play, its importance in the game, and ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
311840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20D.%20Laing | R. D. Laing | Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illnessin particular, psychosis and schizophrenia.
Laing's views on the causes and treatment of psychopathological phenomena were influenced by his study of existential philos... | 2.203125 | 0 |
311840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20D.%20Laing | R. D. Laing | He was educated initially at Sir John Neilson Cuthbertson Public School and after four years transferred to Hutchesons' Grammar School. Described variously as clever, competitive or precocious, he studied classics, particularly philosophy, including through reading books from the local library. Small and slightly built... | 2.3125 | 0 |
311840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20D.%20Laing | R. D. Laing | Laing and anti-psychiatry
Laing was seen as an important figure in the anti-psychiatry movement, along with David Cooper, although he never denied the value of treating mental distress.
He also challenged psychiatric diagnosis itself, arguing that diagnosis of a mental disorder contradicted accepted medical procedure:... | 2.265625 | 0 |
311840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20D.%20Laing | R. D. Laing | Laing expanded the view of the "double bind" hypothesis put forth by Bateson and his team, and came up with a new concept to describe the highly complex situation that unfolds in the process of "going mad" an "incompatible knot".
Laing never denied the existence of mental illness, but viewed it in a radically differe... | 2.0625 | 0 |
311843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Cooper%20%28psychiatrist%29 | David Cooper (psychiatrist) | David Graham Cooper (1931 in Cape Town, South Africa – 29 July 1986 in Paris, France) was a South African-born psychiatrist and theorist who was prominent in the anti-psychiatry movement.
Cooper graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1955. R.D. Laing claimed that Cooper underwent Soviet training to prepare him ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
311845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gija%20people | Gija people | Gija, also spelt Gidja and Kija, alternatively known as the Lungga, refers to Aboriginal Australians from the East Kimberley area of Western Australia, about south of Kununurra. In the late 19th century pastoralists were fiercely resisted by Gija people, many of whom now live around localities such as Halls Creek and ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
311846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eparchy | Eparchy | Eparchy ( eparchía "overlordship") is an ecclesiastical unit in Eastern Christianity that is equivalent to a diocese in Western Christianity. An eparchy is governed by an eparch, who is a bishop. Depending on the administrative structure of a specific Eastern Church, an eparchy can belong to an ecclesiastical province ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
311846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eparchy | Eparchy | Since it was commonly used as the main Greek designation for an administrative province of the Roman Empire, the term eparchy consequently gained an additional use among Greek-speaking Christians, denoting ecclesiastical structures on the provincial level of Church administration, within Eastern Christianity. Such term... | 2.375 | 0 |
311846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eparchy | Eparchy | During the later medieval period, terminology started to shift, particularly within the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The process of title-inflation that was affecting Byzantine bureaucracy and aristocracy also gained momentum in ecclesiastical circles. In order to promote centralization, patriarchal authorities star... | 2.453125 | 0 |
311852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punisher | Punisher | First appearances
The Punisher was conceived by Gerry Conway, then-writer of The Amazing Spider-Man. Conway was inspired by The Executioner, a popular book series created by author Don Pendleton, in which a Vietnam veteran, Mack Bolan, becomes a serial killer of criminals after the Mafia-related deaths of his family. C... | 2.171875 | 0 |
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