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312030	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital%20bone	Occipital bone	The occipital plane [Fig. 3] of the squamous part of the occipital bone is developed in membrane, and may remain separate throughout life when it constitutes the interparietal bone; the rest of the bone is developed in cartilage. The number of nuclei for the occipital plane is usually given as four, two appearing near...	2.734375
312038	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%E1%B9%A3itigarbha	Kṣitigarbha	Kṣitigarbha (, , Wylie: sa yi snying po) is a bodhisattva primarily revered in East Asian Buddhism and usually depicted as a Buddhist monk. His name may be translated as "Earth Treasury", "Earth Store", "Earth Matrix", or "Earth Womb". Kṣitigarbha is known for his vow to take responsibility for the instruction of all...	2.4375
312038	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%E1%B9%A3itigarbha	Kṣitigarbha	The Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva Pūrvapraṇidhāna Sūtra was first translated from Sanskrit into Chinese between 695 and 700 CE, during the Tang dynasty, by the Tripiṭaka master Śikṣānanda, a Buddhist monk from Khotan who also provided a new translation of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra and the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra. However, some scholars...	2.765625
312038	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%E1%B9%A3itigarbha	Kṣitigarbha	Taking pity on the monk, Chu-Ke decided to build a temple as an offering to him. The whole group descended the mountain immediately to discuss plans to build the temple. Mount Jiuhua was also property of a wealthy person called Elder Wen-Ke, who obliged to build a temple on his mountain. Therefore, Wen-Ke and the group...	2.59375
312038	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%E1%B9%A3itigarbha	Kṣitigarbha	Another category of iconographic depiction is Kṣitigarbha as the Lord of the Six Ways, an allegorical representation of the Six Paths of Rebirth of the Desire realm (rebirth into hell, or as pretas, animals, asuras, men, and devas). The Six Paths are often depicted as six rays or beams radiating from the bodhisattva an...	2.46875
312038	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%E1%B9%A3itigarbha	Kṣitigarbha	In some areas, the admixture of traditional religions has led to Kṣitigarbha being also regarded as a deity in Taoism and Chinese folk religion. Kṣitigarbha Temples () are Taoist temples that usually enshrine Kṣitigarbha as the main deity, along with other gods typically related to the Chinese netherworld Diyu, such as...	2.546875
312046	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab%209000	Saab 9000	The Saab 9000 is an automobile produced by the Swedish company Saab from 1984 to 1998. Representing the company's foray into the executive car scene, it was developed as a result of the successes of the turbocharged 99 and 900 models. The 9000 remained in production until May 1998 and was replaced by the 9-5 in late 19...	2.015625
312054	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine%20bone	Palatine bone	In anatomy, the palatine bones (; derived from the Latin palatum) are two irregular bones of the facial skeleton in many animal species, located above the uvula in the throat. Together with the maxilla, they comprise the hard palate. Structure The palatine bones are situated at the back of the nasal cavity between the...	3.125
312054	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine%20bone	Palatine bone	There are two important foramina in the palatine bones that transmit nerves and blood vessels to this region: the greater and lesser palatine. The larger greater palatine foramen is located in the posterolateral region of each of the palatine bones, usually at the apex of the maxillary third molar. The greater palatine...	3.15625
312055	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gippsland	Gippsland	Gippsland () is a rural region in the southeastern part of Victoria, Australia, mostly comprising the coastal plains south of the Victorian Alps (the southernmost section of the Great Dividing Range). It covers an elongated area of east of the Shire of Cardinia (Melbourne's outermost southeastern suburbs) between Dand...	2.015625
312055	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gippsland	Gippsland	Gippsland is traditionally subdivided into four or five main subregions or districts: West Gippsland (roughly equivalent to the Baw Baw Shire) South Gippsland (Bass Coast and South Gippsland Shires) the Latrobe Valley (Latrobe City and areas of Baw Baw to the north) East Gippsland (Shires of Wellington and East Gippsla...	3.015625
312060	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip%20Island	Phillip Island	Phillip Island (Boonwurrung: Corriong, Worne or Millowl) is an Australian island about south-southeast of Melbourne, Victoria. The island is named after Governor Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales, by explorer and seaman George Bass, who sailed in a whaleboat, arriving from Sydney on 5 January 1798....	2.640625
312060	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip%20Island	Phillip Island	Following reports of the 1798 exploration by George Bass and Matthew Flinders, the area was frequented by sealers from Van Diemen's Land, whose interaction with the Bunurong people was not without conflict. In 1801, navigator James Grant visited the adjoining Churchill Island (which he named) and planted a crop of corn...	2.546875
312060	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip%20Island	Phillip Island	The southern and western coasts of the island lie within the Phillip Island Important Bird Area, so identified by BirdLife International because of its importance in supporting significant populations of little penguins, short-tailed shearwaters and Pacific gulls. the island's population of little penguins is estimate...	2.890625
312060	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip%20Island	Phillip Island	In recent years, other than local population of critically endangered endemic Burrunan dolphins or migratory killer whales, southern right whales and humpback whales are starting to show recoveries in the area long after commercial and illegal hunts by the Soviet Union with the help of Japan in 1970s, and the numbers u...	2.640625
312065	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal%20bone	Frontal bone	In the human skull, the frontal bone or sincipital bone is a unpaired bone which consists of two portions. These are the vertically oriented squamous part, and the horizontally oriented orbital part, making up the bony part of the forehead, part of the bony orbital cavity holding the eye, and part of the bony part of t...	2.84375
312072	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20South%20Korea	Flag of South Korea	The national flag of the Republic of Korea, also known as the Taegeukgi (), has three parts: a white rectangular background, a red and blue taegeuk in its center, accompanied by four black trigrams, one in each corner. The predecessors to the current Taegeukgi were used as the national flag of Korea by the Joseon dynas...	2.890625
312072	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20South%20Korea	Flag of South Korea	The issue remained unpursued for a period but reemerged with the negotiation of the United States–Korea Treaty of 1882, also known as the Shufeldt Treaty. The U.S. emissary Robert Wilson Shufeldt suggested that Korea adopt a national flag to represent its sovereignty. The king of Joseon, Kojong, ordered government offi...	2.71875
312072	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20South%20Korea	Flag of South Korea	In 1919, a flag similar to the current South Korean flag was used by the Korean government-in-exile based in China. The term taegukgi began to use in 1942. The taeguk and taegukgi grew as a powerful symbols of independence in the 1,500 demonstrations during colonial rule. Following the restoration of Korean independen...	2.953125
312072	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20South%20Korea	Flag of South Korea	Together, the trigrams represent movement and harmony as fundamental principles. Each trigram represents one of the four classical elements, as described below: Cultural role in contemporary South Korean society The name of the South Korean flag is used in the title of a 2004 film about the Korean War, Taegukgi. A Ta...	2.734375
312072	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20South%20Korea	Flag of South Korea	Article 105 imposes up to 5 years in prison, disfranchisement of up to 10 years, or a fine up to 7 million South Korean won for damaging, removing, or staining a South Korean flag or emblem with intent to insult the South Korean state. Article 5 makes this crime punishable, even if done by aliens outside South Korea. A...	2.03125
312073	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warragul	Warragul	Warragul is a town in Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne. Warragul lies between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the Mount Baw Baw Plateau of the Great Dividing Range to the north. As of the , the town had a population of 19,856 people. Warragul forms part of a larger urban area that includes nearby Dr...	2.421875
312073	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warragul	Warragul	History The town of Warragul began as a construction camp on McLeod's Track, now Brandy Creek Road, at the point where the surveyed railway line linked to the coach road. John Lardner surveyed the townships along the line in 1877 and noted that the early arrivals in the area were squatters, who had erected their shops ...	2.421875
312073	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warragul	Warragul	Warragul's Petersville Milk Products Factory in Queen Street supplied the famous Peters Ice Cream brand's factory in Mulgrave with all the dairy raw material (fresh cream and concentrated skim milk) for 35 years. The plant also manufactured skim milk powder under the famous Dutch Jug brand and butter under the Iceberg ...	2.484375
312073	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warragul	Warragul	Events Warragul is the major township closest to Lardner, the home of the Gippsland Field Days. Three major events are held at Lardner Park each year—the Farm World agricultural show, Trucks in Action, and Harvest of Gippsland. The Farm World agricultural show is a major drawcard for the Warragul area. Every year in la...	2.453125
312074	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20OpenDX	IBM OpenDX	OpenDX stands for Open Data Explorer and is IBM's scientific data visualization software. It can handle complex domains (such as a mechanical gear or a human brain) along with measured or computed data. The data may be scalar (such as the concentration of a chemical agent in the brain), vector or tensor fields (like t...	2.703125
312075	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Research%20Council	Family Research Council	The Council opposes legalized abortion, stem-cell research which involves the destruction of human embryos and funding thereof. (It advocates for research solely using adult stem cells.) It opposes legal recognition of same-sex domestic partnerships in the form of marriage or civil unions. It has opposed all forms of g...	1.914063
312075	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Research%20Council	Family Research Council	In 2012, Rob Schwartzwalder, then a senior vice president at FRC, wrote: "To love people who identify as gays or lesbians means to extend grace to them: to welcome them as friends, to care for them when ill, and to respect them as persons whose creation was ordained by the God of the universe and for whom the Son of Go...	1.992188
312076	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike%20strip	Spike strip	A spike strip (also referred to as a spike belt, road spikes, traffic spikes, tire shredders, stingers, stop sticks, by the trademark Stinger or formally known as a Tire Deflation Device or TDD) is a device or incident weapon used to impede or stop the movement of wheeled vehicles by puncturing their tires. Generall...	2.015625
312080	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal%20bone	Parietal bone	The parietal bones ( ) are two bones in the skull which, when joined at a fibrous joint known as a cranial suture, form the sides and roof of the neurocranium. In humans, each bone is roughly quadrilateral in form, and has two surfaces, four borders, and four angles. It is named from the Latin paries (-ietis), wall. S...	3.046875
312080	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal%20bone	Parietal bone	Borders The sagittal border, the longest and thickest, is dentated (has toothlike projections) and articulates with its fellow of the opposite side, forming the sagittal suture. The frontal border is deeply serrated, and bevelled at the expense of the outer surface above and of the inner below; it articulates with t...	2.796875
312080	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal%20bone	Parietal bone	Angles The frontal angle is practically a right angle, and corresponds with the point of meeting of the sagittal and coronal sutures; this point is named the bregma; in the fetal skull and for about a year and a half after birth this region is membranous, and is called the anterior fontanelle. The sphenoidal angle, ...	2.546875
312080	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal%20bone	Parietal bone	In non-human vertebrates, the parietal bones typically form the rear or central part of the skull roof, lying behind the frontal bones. In many non-mammalian tetrapods, they are bordered to the rear by a pair of postparietal bones that may be solely in the roof of the skull, or slope downwards to contribute to the back...	3.28125
312084	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrika%20Eleonora%20of%20Denmark	Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark	Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark (11 September 1656 – 26 July 1693) was Queen of Sweden as the wife of King Charles XI. She is often admired for her generosity and charity. The name Ulrike is a Danish version of the name; in Swedish she is called Ulrika Eleonora den äldre (English: Ulrica Eleanor the Elder), to distinguish ...	2.453125
312084	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrika%20Eleonora%20of%20Denmark	Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark	During the peace negotiations between Sweden and Denmark-Norway in 1679, the marriage between her and Charles XI was again on the agenda, and was ratified on 26 September 1679. The marriage contract was signed 6 February 1680, and when the Swedish representative Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna returned to Sweden, he esco...	2.1875
312084	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrika%20Eleonora%20of%20Denmark	Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark	At the royal court, Ulrika Eleonora was placed in the shadow of her mother-in-law. While distrust between Denmark-Norway and Sweden caused by the Scanian War lingered, Hedvig Eleonora and the government of Sweden were not receptive to the son's idea to marry a Danish princess. Though his marriage was described as happy...	2.125
312084	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrika%20Eleonora%20of%20Denmark	Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark	Her frail health and her many pregnancies often prevented her from participating in representation. In 1688, she had plans to visit her family in Denmark, but her weak health forced her to abandon the idea. At the summer residence Karlberg Palace, she enjoyed a happy family life away from the court and developed an i...	2.59375
312084	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrika%20Eleonora%20of%20Denmark	Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark	Ulrika Eleonora is most known for her great activity within charity. She founded a large number of charitable institutions, which were administered by Sophia Amalia Marschalk. Ulrika Eleonora is known to occasionally have pawned her own possessions to finance her charitable projects. Her best known projects were the T...	2.578125
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	In philosophy, economics, and political science, the common good (also commonwealth, common weal, general welfare, or public benefit) is either what is shared and beneficial for all or most members of a given community, or alternatively, what is achieved by citizenship, collective action, and active participation in th...	2.953125
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	Though these thinkers differed significantly in their views of what the common good consists in, as well as over what the state should do to promote it, they nonetheless agreed that the common good is the end of government, that it is a good of all the citizens, and that no government should become the "perverted serva...	2.75
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	Plato's student Aristotle, considered by many to be the father of the idea of a common good, uses the concept of "the common interest" ( in Greek) as the basis for his distinction between his three "right" constitutions, which are in the common interest, and "wrong" constitutions, which are in the interest of rulers. T...	2.796875
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	Renaissance Florence During the 15th and 16th centuries, the common good was one of several important themes of political thought in Renaissance Florence. The thought goes back to Thomas Aquinas theory of common good being widespread in whole premodern Europe. In a later work, Niccolò Machiavelli speaks of the () or ...	2.59375
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	Jean-Jacques Rousseau In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract, composed in the mid-18th century, Rousseau argues that society can function only to the extent that individuals have interests in common, and that the end goal of any state is the realization of the common good. He further posits that the common good...	2.515625
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	John Rawls's Theory of Justice John Rawls defines the common good as "certain general conditions that are ... equally to everyone's advantage". In his Theory of Justice, Rawls argues for a principled reconciliation of liberty and equality, applied to the basic structure of a well-ordered society, which will specify exa...	2.609375
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	In non-Western moral and political thought The idea of a common good plays a role in Confucian political philosophy, which on most interpretations stresses the importance of the subordination of individual interests to group or collective interests, or at the very least, the mutual dependence between the flourishing o...	2.75
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	Neoclassical economic theory provides two conflicting lenses for thinking about the genesis of the common good, two distinct sets of microfoundations. On one view, the common good arises due to social gains from cooperation. Such a view might appeal to the Prisoner's dilemma to illustrate how cooperation can result in ...	2.703125
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	Social choice theory Social choice theory studies collective decision rules. Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, an important result in social choice theory, states that no aggregative mechanism of collective choice (restricted to ordinal inputs) can consistently transform individual preferences into a collective preference...	2.0625
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	Public choice theory Public choice theory (sometimes called "positive political theory") applies microeconomic methodology to the study of political science in order to explain how private interests inform political activities. Whereas welfare economics, in line with classical political economy, typically assumes a pub...	2.5
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	In deliberative democracy, the common good is taken to be a regulative ideal. In other words, participants in democratic deliberation aim at the realization of the common good. This feature distinguishes deliberative democracy from aggregative conceptions of democracy, which focus solely on the aggregation of preferenc...	2.609375
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	Against that background, the common good became a central concept in the modern tradition of Catholic social teaching, beginning with the foundational document, Rerum novarum, a papal encyclical by Pope Leo XIII, issued in 1891. This addressed the crisis of the conditions of industrial workers in Europe and argued for ...	2.484375
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	Other relevant documents are Veritatis Splendor, a papal encyclical by Pope John Paul II, issued in 1993 to combat the relaxation of moral norms and the political corruption (see paragraph 98) that affects millions of persons, and Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical, Laudato si'. In Veritatis Splendor, Pope John Paul describ...	2.078125
312085	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20good	Common good	Given the central concern for sustainable development in an increasingly interdependent world, education and knowledge should thus be considered global common goods. This means that the creation of knowledge, its control, acquisition, validation, and use, are common to all people as a collective social endeavour. Com...	2.703125
312097	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Aemilius%20Scaurus%20%28consul%20115%20BC%29	Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (consul 115 BC)	Marcus Aemilius Scaurus ( – ) was a Roman statesman who served as consul in 115 BC. He was also a long-standing princeps senatus, occupying the post from 115 until his death in late 89 or early 88 BC, and as such was widely considered one of the most prestigious and influential politicians of the late Republic. After ...	2.453125
312097	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Aemilius%20Scaurus%20%28consul%20115%20BC%29	Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (consul 115 BC)	In 104 BC, Scaurus became responsible for Rome's grain supply, the cura annonae; his appointment was at the expense of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, at the time a quaestor. Cicero judges that the loss of the cura annonae was the spark that drove Saturninus towards the populares, but it may also have been an attack, poss...	2.15625
312099	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy%20Watt	Kathy Watt	Kathryn ("Kathy") Ann Watt (born 11 September 1964) is an Australian racing cyclist who won two medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain (gold in the road race, and silver in the pursuit). She has won 24 national championships in road racing, track racing, and mountain bike, four Commonwealth Games gold m...	2.125
312101	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Ealing%20railway%20station	West Ealing railway station	West Ealing railway station is on the Great Western Main Line in Ealing, situated in west London. It is down the line from London Paddington and is situated between to the east and to the west. Its three-letter station code is WEA. Most trains serving the station are operated by the Elizabeth line running between A...	2.0625
312102	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazilio%20Olara-Okello	Bazilio Olara-Okello	Bazilio Olara-Okello (1929 – 9 January 1990) was a Ugandan military officer and one of the commanders of the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) that together with the Tanzanian army organized the coup d'état that overthrew Idi Amin in 1979. In 1985, he was briefly the chairman of the ruling Military Council and de ...	1.960938
312103	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocaust	Hypocaust	After the Romans With the decline of the Roman Empire, the hypocaust fell into disuse in the western provinces, but not in the Eastern Roman empire. It is thought that in Britain, from until , central heating did not exist, and hot baths were rare. However, an evolution of the hypocaust was used in some monasteries in...	2.609375
312108	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasim	Spasim	Spasim is a multiplayer space flight simulation game, in which up to 32 players fly spaceships around 4 planetary systems. Players are grouped into teams of up to 8 players, with 1 team per system; players add their names to the rosters of the four teams, named Aggstroms, Diffractions, Fouriers, and Lasers, each with a...	2.359375
312108	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasim	Spasim	The game was developed by Jim Bowery in early 1974 for the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's PLATO computer network, which by the 1970s supported several thousand graphical terminals distributed worldwide, running processes on nearly a dozen different networked mainframe computers. Bowery started working on ...	2.46875
312108	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasim	Spasim	The first version of Spasim, subtitled "An Investigation of Holographic Space", was launched in March 1974. A few months later, Bowery set out to rewrite the game, with the assistance of metallurgy student Frank Canzolino. At first, the pair optimized the 3D graphics of the game, but Bowery, inspired by the concept of ...	2.453125
312110	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20Behavior%20Design%20Lab	Stanford Behavior Design Lab	The Stanford Behavior Design Lab (formerly known as the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab and Stanford Captology Lab) is a research organization advancing behavior change methods and models based at Stanford University. Founded in 1998 and directed by B. J. Fogg, the Behavior Design Lab is a team of Stanford students,...	1.953125
312110	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20Behavior%20Design%20Lab	Stanford Behavior Design Lab	History The Lab was originally founded as the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab in 1998 by B. J. Fogg to research computers as Persuasive Technology as part of H-STAR (Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute) at Stanford University, which focuses on advancing the human sciences, often in the conte...	2.5625
312116	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoline	Quinoline	Quinoline is a heterocyclic aromatic organic compound with the chemical formula C9H7N. It is a colorless hygroscopic liquid with a strong odor. Aged samples, especially if exposed to light, become yellow and later brown. Quinoline is only slightly soluble in cold water but dissolves readily in hot water and most orga...	2.890625
312116	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoline	Quinoline	Applications Quinolines are used in the manufacture of dyes and the preparation of hydroxyquinoline sulfate and niacin. It is also used as a solvent for resins and terpenes. Quinoline is mainly used as in the production of other specialty chemicals. Approximately 4 tonnes were produced annually according to a report...	2.265625
312120	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BatMUD	BatMUD	BatMUD provides a range of interplayer communication methods, allowing the players to talk and chat. Though the majority (about 2/3) of the players reside in Finland, the game itself is wholly in English, enabling it to host a large player base from several countries, including many European countries, the United Stat...	1.945313
312122	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rank%20Organisation	The Rank Organisation	The Rank Organisation (founded as the J. Arthur Rank Organisation) is a British entertainment conglomerate founded in 1937 by industrialist J. Arthur Rank. It quickly became the largest and most vertically integrated film company in the United Kingdom, owning production, distribution, and exhibition facilities as well ...	1.914063
312123	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlin%27s	Butlin's	In 1945, with the war over, Filey was re-opened as a holiday camp. The camps at Skegness and Clacton opened in 1946, Ayr and Pwllheli in 1947 and Mosney on the east coast of Ireland in 1948. Butlin's became popular in post-war Britain, with family entertainment and activities available for the equivalent of a week's pa...	2.046875
312133	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beanie%20Babies	Beanie Babies	Beanie Babies are a line of stuffed toys created by American businessman Ty Warner, who founded Ty Inc. in 1986. The toys are stuffed with plastic pellets ("beans") rather than conventional soft stuffing. They come in many different forms, mostly animals. Created in 1993, Beanie Babies emerged as a major fad and colle...	2.15625
312133	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beanie%20Babies	Beanie Babies	Internet Ty, Inc. was the first business to produce a business to consumer website designed to engage their market. This was a major contributing factor to the early, rapidly growing popularity of Beanie Babies. By the time the first iteration of the Ty website was published in late 1995 (by Lina Trivedi), only 1.4% ...	1.984375
312134	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A6ren%20Line	Jæren Line	At Ogna there is a distinct change to the landscape, as it changes from a flat to a hilly. Particularly between Bryne and Ogna, the line have a large curve radius, but between Ogna and Egersund this changes to much tighter curvature. After Ogna the line crosses Ognaelv and runs through the long Sirevåg Tunnel before r...	2.515625
312134	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A6ren%20Line	Jæren Line	The meeting concluded that a railway should be built, and the responsibility for the preparatory work was given to County Governor Vilhelm Ludvig Herman von Munthe af Morgenstierne. He started by conducting traffic counting throughout the district. This resulted in an estimate for a revenue of NOK 215,000 and a cost of...	2.15625
312134	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A6ren%20Line	Jæren Line	Construction started in October 1874 on the section between Forus and Gausel. Tracks were shipped to Norestraen, which was the southernmost docks which were sufficiently deep to allow the ships. When the railway was passed, the country was experiencing good times, but through the 1870s, the country fell into harder tim...	2.46875
312134	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A6ren%20Line	Jæren Line	In 1894, the Railway Committee recommended parliament to prioritize three new lines, the Bergen Line, the Rauma Line and the Gjøvik Line. However, this met protests from representatives from Agder, and it became clear that there would not be a majority to build the Bergen Line unless part of the Sørlandet Line was buil...	2.109375
312134	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A6ren%20Line	Jæren Line	The Sørlandet Line was being built in standard gauge, and when the line was to connect to the Flekkefjord Line at Moi Station, the Jæren Line would have to be rebuilt to standard gauge to avoid a break-of-gauge. Preliminary work to ease the conversion was done during the 1920s. The conversion itself took only two days,...	2.21875
312134	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A6ren%20Line	Jæren Line	The commuter service was a success, with NSB experiencing a 112 percent increase in ridership the first year. In 1993, NSB won Statens Byggeskikkpris, among other things for the new sheds on the Jæren Line. By 1995, ridership was up 150 percent from before the commuter rail started. In 1997, NSB announced that they wou...	2.21875
312134	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A6ren%20Line	Jæren Line	Construction of the long section was split into four contracts: Stavanger–Hinna, Jåttåvågen, Jåttåvågen–Lurahammaren and Lurahammaren–Sandnes. The section past Jåttåvågen was the first to commence, in October 2006. The original plans called for this section to be built last, but Stavanger Municipality wanted to priori...	2.15625
312147	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Wallace	Terry Wallace	Terry Wallace (born 13 December 1958) is a former professional Australian rules football player and coach. As a player, his career spanned three VFL/AFL clubs; most notably Hawthorn where he played in three premierships. After one season with Richmond, he then played with Footscray Football Club where he earned two Be...	1.9375
312151	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Neot%2C%20Cornwall	St Neot, Cornwall	St Neot ( ) () is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish population at the 2011 census was 947. It is between the towns of Bodmin and Liskeard. The parish is named after the Saxon monk, Saint Neot (who also gives his name to St Neots in Cambridgeshire, to where his alleged bones we...	2.28125
312153	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20Canadian%20federal%20election	2004 Canadian federal election	Although on the eve of the election the party was polling slightly ahead of the Liberals everywhere west of Quebec, it had dropped in support, polling behind or on par with Liberals everywhere except the West (Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba), where it held onto its traditional support. All toget...	2.046875
312153	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20Canadian%20federal%20election	2004 Canadian federal election	Issues Important issues in the election: Sponsorship scandal: badly hurt the Liberals in the polls and the theme of widespread corruption was used by all opposition parties, especially the Bloc. Health care: all parties support Canada's government-administered health care system but acknowledge that improvements must ...	1.9375
312158	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands%20Across%20America	Hands Across America	Hands Across America was a public fundraising event held on Sunday, May 25, 1986, Memorial Day weekend, which attempted to create a continuous human chain of people holding hands across the contiguous United States. While approximately 5.5 million people participated, the chain was broken in many places, particularly i...	2.34375
312158	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands%20Across%20America	Hands Across America	Hands Across America was unrelated to a previous, unsuccessful project of the same name which attempted to organize a human chain across the country to mark the Bicentennial on July 4, 1976. The 1976 plan was unable to raise enough funds and succeeded only in setting up approximately 8 to 10 miles of chains in and arou...	2.015625
312158	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands%20Across%20America	Hands Across America	Individual participants in Hands Across America were asked to donate $10 for the opportunity to join the chain, although many people who had not paid joined the line anyway. Celebrities and companies could sponsor portions of the line at a cost of $13,200 per mile, since it was estimated that 1,320 people would be need...	2.375
312158	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands%20Across%20America	Hands Across America	The line was initially intended to pass through the playing field of Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, which would have interrupted a baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cincinnati Reds (whose player-manager, Pete Rose, was a co-chairman of Hands Across America). After the Pirates backed out of that ...	2.25
312158	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands%20Across%20America	Hands Across America	Lance Guest and Michael Ironside stood in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Governor Toney Anaya returned to his hometown of Moriarty to participate, along with former governor Bruce King and his family, who lived nearby in Stanley, Robert Prosky, Michael Madsen, Billy Zane, and Tom O'Brien. At Albuquerque's train station, where...	1.929688
312158	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands%20Across%20America	Hands Across America	The day before the official event, a chain stretching the length of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California was staged, featuring mayoral candidate John Molinari and future mayor Willie Brown. Another unofficial but widely reported event took place at Rahway State Prison in New Jersey, where approximately 5...	2.109375
312158	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands%20Across%20America	Hands Across America	Hands Across America has occasionally been featured in popular culture, often as a symbol of nostalgia for the 1980s. In a 1992 episode of The Simpsons, "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?", Homer Simpson remembers sitting on the couch while his wife and children, along with the Flanders and Lovejoy families, participat...	2.09375
312160	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum%20Music	Pendulum Music	Pendulum Music (For Microphones, Amplifiers Speakers and Performers) is the name of a work by Steve Reich, involving suspended microphones and speakers, creating phasing feedback tones. The piece was composed in August 1968 and revised in May 1973, and is an example of process music. Overview Reich came up with the c...	2.65625
312168	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stainer	John Stainer	Sir John Stainer (6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901) was an English composer and organist whose music, though seldom performed today (with the exception of The Crucifixion, still heard at Passiontide in some Anglican churches), was very popular during his lifetime. His work as choir trainer and organist set standards for Ang...	2.8125
312168	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stainer	John Stainer	In 1849, after a year's probation, young Stainer became a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral. He was already an accomplished player on keyboard instruments and possessed perfect pitch and a fine treble voice and soon became the choir's principal soloist. In 1854, he was invited to sing in the first English performance o...	2.5625
312168	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stainer	John Stainer	At the age of sixteen, Stainer was appointed by Sir Frederick Ouseley to the post of organist at the newly founded St Michael's College, Tenbury. Ouseley was Heather Professor of Music at Oxford University and had recently become vicar of St Michael's College on the outskirts of Tenbury Wells, a choir school with a chu...	2.796875
312168	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stainer	John Stainer	Unfailingly conscientious as a choirmaster, Stainer introduced new anthems and service music, bringing the choir to a higher level of attainment than it had previously seen. It had been the custom for the adult choir members, the lay clerks, not to attend practice at all; but Stainer had a magnetic personality and pers...	2.703125
312168	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stainer	John Stainer	Stainer was interested in the history of music and traditional folk songs. He encouraged contralto, composer, and festival organizer Mary Augusta Wakefield, who shared this interest. There was a revived interest in carols at the time, and he rediscovered old carols, provided new settings for others and introduced conte...	2.828125
312168	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stainer	John Stainer	In 1871, Goss resigned as organist of St Paul's Cathedral and Stainer was appointed to the position early in 1872 at a salary of £400 per annum. By this time he had been married for seven years and had five children with another due shortly. The organ was in the process of being rebuilt, by the organ builder Henry Will...	2.78125
312168	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stainer	John Stainer	In 1882, Stainer was offered the post of Inspector of Music in Schools and Colleges, a position he took with great seriousness and which he occupied for six years. His assistant was William Gray McNaught. Together they worked towards raising standards in music teaching and toured the country, visiting schools and colle...	2.578125
312168	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stainer	John Stainer	Following a childhood accident, Stainer had lost the use of one eye. There is some confusion about this and he may merely have had a lazy eye, but for a brief period in 1875 he feared he was losing the sight of the other eye. This proved not to be the case, but he suffered from eye strain and impairment to his vision f...	1.929688
312168	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stainer	John Stainer	Lady Stainer was devastated by his death and went into mourning for a year, but as she confided to a friend, the pianist Francesco Berger, "I am thankful he has been spared long illness and the weariness of old age, which he always dreaded". She gave a memorial stained glass window to St Cross Church and arranged for a...	2.578125
312170	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata%20disease	Minamata disease	is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning. Signs and symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, loss of peripheral vision, and damage to hearing and speech. In extreme cases, insanity, paralysis, coma, and death follow within weeks of the onset of symptoms. A co...	2.8125
312170	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata%20disease	Minamata disease	In 1908, the Chisso Corporation first opened a chemical factory in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, located on the west coast of the southern island of Kyūshū. Initially producing fertilisers, the factory followed the nationwide expansion of Japan's chemical industry, branching out into production of acetylene, acetaldeh...	2.625

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