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4045928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur%20Springs%20Municipal%20Airport | Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport | Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northwest of the central business district of Sulphur Springs, a city in Hopkins County, Texas, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as... | 2.109375 | 0 |
4045974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langreo | Langreo | Langreo () or Llangréu () (Asturian) is a municipality and town in northern Spain, in Asturias. It is the 4th largest town of Asturias with 43,000 inhabitants. Langreo is located in the centre of Asturias, approximately south-east of Oviedo. It was an important mining and metallurgical center.
In the neighbourhood fr... | 2.265625 | 0 |
4045978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicrocoelium%20dendriticum | Dicrocoelium dendriticum | Dicrocoelium dendriticum, the lancet liver fluke, is a parasite fluke that tends to live in cattle or other grazing mammals.
History of discovery
Much of what is presently known about Dicrocoelium dendriticum is the result of the work of the naturalist Wendell Krull. While D. dendriticum was discovered by Rudolphi i... | 2.78125 | 0 |
4045978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicrocoelium%20dendriticum | Dicrocoelium dendriticum | Transmission
Due to the highly specific nature of this parasite's life cycle, human infections are generally rare. Ruminants such as cows and sheep are usually the definitive host, but other herbivorous mammals and humans can also serve as definitive hosts through the ingestion of infected ants. One definitive case ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
4045978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicrocoelium%20dendriticum | Dicrocoelium dendriticum | Treatment can be difficult due to the fluke's complex life-cycle. Various antihelminths, especially Netobimin, have been shown to be effective treatment when an entire herd is infected. Animal husbandry practices can decrease the incidence of infection. This includes the avoidance of animal grazing early in the day o... | 2.8125 | 0 |
4045978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicrocoelium%20dendriticum | Dicrocoelium dendriticum | Most of the cercariae encyst in the haemocoel of the ant and mature into metacercariae, but one moves to the sub-esophageal ganglion (a cluster of nerve cells underneath the esophagus). There, the fluke takes control of the ant's actions by manipulating these nerves. As evening approaches and the air cools, the infecte... | 2.609375 | 0 |
4045978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicrocoelium%20dendriticum | Dicrocoelium dendriticum | Management and therapy
Because human infections with Dicrocoelium dendriticum are so rare, there are multiple suggestions for treatment. The standard treatment is an anthelmintic such as Praziquantel, Triclabendazole, or Mirazid.
Epidemiology
Dicrocoeliasis is believed to be endemic or potentially endemic in 30 coun... | 2.328125 | 0 |
4045991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles%20Poindexter | Miles Poindexter | Miles Poindexter (April 22, 1868September 21, 1946) was an American lawyer and politician. As a Republican and briefly a Progressive, he served one term as a United States representative from 1909 to 1911, and two terms as a United States senator from 1911 to 1923, representing the state of Washington. Poindexter also... | 2.03125 | 0 |
4045991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles%20Poindexter | Miles Poindexter | During World War I, Poindexter moved away from supporting progressive causes and led several efforts that questioned the patriotism of German-Americans and attempted to keep them from wartime leadership positions in the military. In a highly publicized instance, Poindexter accused German-born Colonel Carl Reichmann (18... | 2.21875 | 0 |
4046061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Byers | William Byers | William Newton Byers (February 22, 1831, in Madison County, Ohio – March 25, 1903) was a founding figure of Omaha, Nebraska, serving as the first deputy surveyor of the Nebraska Territory, on the first Omaha City Council, and as a member of the first Nebraska Territorial Legislature.
He was also an early settler of De... | 2.0625 | 0 |
4046061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Byers | William Byers | In 1863 Byers purchased Hot Sulphur Springs in northern Colorado from a Minnesota Sioux woman in a shady deal, causing the real owners, the Ute tribe, to unsuccessfully sue. Byers' plans to turn it into "America's Switzerland" were foiled by the failure of the railroad to arrive until 1928.
Byers wrote numerous editor... | 2.46875 | 0 |
4046061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Byers | William Byers | Upon moving to Denver he built and lived in several mansions, including the one now known as the Byers-Evans House. The Byers-Evans House is now a museum, and is located next to the Denver Art Museum in downtown Denver. In 1891 Byers and his wife relocated to a mansion they built on a large tract of land at 171 S. Wash... | 2.484375 | 0 |
4046117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piast%20the%20Wheelwright | Piast the Wheelwright | Piast the Wheelwright ( 740/741? – 861 AD; Polish: Piast Kołodziej , Piast Oracz, i.e. Piast the Plower, or Piast; Piast Chościskowic, Latin: Past Ckosisconis, Pazt filius Chosisconisu) was a legendary figure in medieval Poland (9th century AD), the progenitor of the Piast dynasty that ruled the Kingdom of Poland.
Leg... | 2.671875 | 0 |
4046176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Schlueter | Charles Schlueter | Charles Schlueter, born in Du Quoin, Illinois, is the retired principal trumpeter of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Schlueter studied with William Vacchiano at the Juilliard School. Prior to his 25 years as principal of the BSO, he also held positions with the Kansas City Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Clevel... | 2.34375 | 0 |
4046178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illawarra%20escarpment | Illawarra escarpment | The Illawarra escarpment, or officially the Illawarra Range, is the fold-created cliffs and plateau-eroded outcrop mountain range west of the Illawarra coastal plain south of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The range encloses the Illawarra region which stretches from Stanwell Park in the north to Ki... | 2.421875 | 0 |
4046178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illawarra%20escarpment | Illawarra escarpment | Many native species thrive here such as wallabies, brushtail possums and gliding possums, frogs, goannas, brush turkeys, flying foxes, snakes, bower birds, glossy black cockatoos and other colourful parrots, owls and native birds of prey.
The area also has many introduced species including fallow deer, red deer, rabbi... | 2.640625 | 0 |
4046178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illawarra%20escarpment | Illawarra escarpment | It ranges in height from the tops of Bald Hill and Stony Batter around above sea level, to at Brokers Nose, generally above high south of Mount Ousley Road (between Keira and Brokers Nose) it reaches at Mount Keira, at Mount Warra, at Mount Brisbane, at Mount Burelli, at Kembla West, at Mount Kembla, at Wanya... | 2.03125 | 0 |
4046182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout%20Mountain%20Incline%20Railway | Lookout Mountain Incline Railway | The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway is a inclined plane funicular railway leading to the top of Lookout Mountain from the historic St. Elmo neighborhood of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Passengers are transported from St. Elmo's Station at the base, to Point Park at the mountain summit, which overlooks the city and the Ten... | 2.40625 | 0 |
4046265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20host | Smart host | A smart host or smarthost is an email server via which third parties can send emails and have them forwarded on to the email recipients' email servers.
Smarthosts were originally open mail relays, but most providers now require authentication from the sender, to verify that the sender is authorised – for example, an I... | 2.359375 | 0 |
4046272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Central%20High%20School%20%28Kentucky%29 | Warren Central High School (Kentucky) | Warren Central High School (often referred to as Central or WCHS) is a 4-year high school in Bowling Green (Warren County) in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is one of four high schools serving the Warren County Public Schools.
History
Warren Central High School was established in 1968 with the merger of Warren County ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
4046272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Central%20High%20School%20%28Kentucky%29 | Warren Central High School (Kentucky) | Many of the varsity sports are a part of a rivalry with the cross-town Bowling Green High School. The varsity football team competes in KHSAA Class 4A, Region 1, District 2. The team was state runner-up in 1989 and 1990 and has won their region seven times, most recently in 2005.
Boys basketball
The boys' varsity ba... | 2.046875 | 0 |
4046272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Central%20High%20School%20%28Kentucky%29 | Warren Central High School (Kentucky) | Boys varsity football
The boys varsity team competes in the class 6a district. After originally being in 4a district 2 in 1989 and 1990, Warren Central was a 4a class runner to Trinity High School. Both of these teams were led by 1990 Kentucky Mr. Football winner and also Paul Horning Award winner Damon Hood.
In the 2... | 1.96875 | 0 |
4046286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprinter%20%28rail%20service%29 | Sprinter (rail service) | Sprinter (stylized in all caps) is a hybrid rail (light rail with some features similar to commuter rail) service operating in the North County area of San Diego County between the cities of Escondido and Oceanside, California, United States. The service uses the Escondido Subdivision of the San Diego Northern Railroa... | 2.234375 | 0 |
4046286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprinter%20%28rail%20service%29 | Sprinter (rail service) | Sprinter, along with all other NCTD and MTS services, utilizes the Pronto contactless fare system introduced in September 2021; succeededing the first-generation Compass Card system." The Pronto fare system allows for a tap-on, tap-off approach, so riders on Sprinter tap-on when entering the station platform (using one... | 2.125 | 0 |
4046394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza%20A%20virus%20subtype%20H5N8 | Influenza A virus subtype H5N8 | H5N8 is a subtype of the influenza A virus (sometimes called bird flu) and is highly lethal to wild birds and poultry. H5N8 is typically not associated with humans. However, seven people in Russia were found to be infected in 2021, becoming the first documented human cases.
Virus and symptoms
The H5N8 virus manifests ... | 3.0625 | 0 |
4046394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza%20A%20virus%20subtype%20H5N8 | Influenza A virus subtype H5N8 | November 2016
In the Netherlands, H5N8 was found in wild birds and birds in a zoo and on 26 November 190,000 ducks were destroyed at six farms. Outbreaks have also been reported in India, Israel, South Korea, Taiwan and Russia.
December 2016
On 16 December 2016, it was confirmed that there was an outbreak of the H5N... | 2.609375 | 0 |
4046427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuggeranong%20Homestead | Tuggeranong Homestead | Tuggeranong Homestead is located in the Australian Capital Territory in the area now covered by the suburb of Richardson. It is a property of historical significance and is listed on the ACT Heritage Register. It was owned by a succession of prominent pastoralists over the last century before it was resumed by the Gove... | 2.109375 | 0 |
4046427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuggeranong%20Homestead | Tuggeranong Homestead | Besides tennis the team had a passion for cricket and they built a sturdy cricket pitch which still remains today.
After they left in 1925 the Homestead stood empty for two years and then in 1927 the property was leased by Timothy McCormack.
The McCormack family
Timothy Joseph McCormack owned Tuggeranong Homestead ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
4046453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee%20County%20Courthouse | Milwaukee County Courthouse | The Milwaukee County Courthouse is a high-rise municipal building located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Completed in 1931, it is the third county courthouse to be built in the city and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The first two courthouses were built at what is now Cathedral Square Park on... | 2.53125 | 0 |
4046453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee%20County%20Courthouse | Milwaukee County Courthouse | Along the east side of the County Courthouse is a terraced commons area called MacArthur Square. It was dedicated on September 17, 1945, to General Douglas MacArthur, who attended West Division High School - now Milwaukee High School of the Arts. A parking garage was built underneath in 1967, which cuts in to the side ... | 2.25 | 0 |
4046461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records%20manager | Records manager | The health care industry has a very specialized view of records management. Health information management involves not only maintaining patient files, but also coding the files to reflect the diagnoses of the conditions suffered by patients. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is the professi... | 2.171875 | 0 |
4046579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study%20heterogeneity | Study heterogeneity | In statistics, (between-) study heterogeneity is a phenomenon that commonly occurs when attempting to undertake a meta-analysis. In a simplistic scenario, studies whose results are to be combined in the meta-analysis would all be undertaken in the same way and to the same experimental protocols. Differences between out... | 2.515625 | 0 |
4046579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study%20heterogeneity | Study heterogeneity | Reasons for the additional variability are usually differences in the studies themselves, the investigated populations, treatment schedules, endpoint definitions, or other circumstances ("clinical diversity"), or the way data were analyzed, what models were employed, or whether estimates have been adjusted in some way ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
4046586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rideau%2C%20Cruchon%20et%20Compotier | Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier | (English: Curtain, Jug and Fruit Bowl) is an oil on canvas painting created to 1894 by French artist Paul Cézanne. It is a formal still life composition that displays Cézanne's exploration of form, balance and symmetry in objects. On 10 May 1999, the painting was sold at Sotheby's auction for $60.5 million, making it ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
4046624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison%20Airport | Addison Airport | Addison Airport is a public airport in Addison, in Dallas County, Texas, United States, north of downtown Dallas. It opened in 1954 and was purchased by the town of Addison in 1976.
The Addison Airport Toll Tunnel, completed in 1999, allows east–west automobile traffic to cross the airport under the runway.
History... | 2.265625 | 0 |
4046646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennyrile%20Parkway | Pennyrile Parkway | The parkway passed through the cities of Madisonville, Sebree, Mortons Gap, Slaughters, and Earlington. It intersected with the Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway near Madisonville.
History
As a toll road
The Pennyrile Parkway, as with all nine parkways, was originally a toll road. By Kentucky state law, toll c... | 2.3125 | 0 |
4046653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Longfield | Robert Longfield | Robert "Bob" Longfield is an American composer, arranger, conductor and educator, best known for his compositions for Concert Band and String Orchestra. He is currently the Music Director of the Greater Miami Symphonic Band.
Early life and education
Longfield was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He graduated... | 2.296875 | 0 |
4046703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olearia | Olearia | Olearia, most commonly known as daisy-bush, is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae, the largest of the flowering plant families in the world. Olearia are found in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand. The genus includes herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees. The latter are unusual among... | 2.890625 | 0 |
4046709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield%20Heritage%20Village | Westfield Heritage Village | The Westfield Heritage Village is a heritage centre located just west of Rockton, Ontario, Canada. The village contains over 30 historic buildings on a site. It is operated by the Hamilton Conservation Authority.
Brief history
In 1961, the Westfield Pioneer Village Association was established by two Brantford high s... | 2.234375 | 0 |
4046712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumont%20Municipal%20Airport | Beaumont Municipal Airport | Beaumont Municipal Airport is seven miles west of downtown Beaumont, in Jefferson County, Texas. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a general aviation facility.
Airlines at Beaumont operate from Jack Brooks Regional Airport (BPT) south of the city.
Facilities
The airport ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
4046729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mura%20people | Mura people | The Muras are an indigenous people who live in the central and eastern parts of Amazonas, Brazil, along the Amazon river from the Madeira to the Purus. They played an important part in Brazilian history during colonial times and were known for their quiet determination and subsequent resistance to the encroaching Portu... | 2.921875 | 0 |
4046729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mura%20people | Mura people | After the peace was made the Mura and Portuguese and later Brazilians lived in peace for a time though eventually hostilities resumed. As the Portuguese began to convert and assimilate the Mura farming villages made up of pacified Mura began to be established starting in 1784. The Mura joined the Cabanagem Revolution w... | 2.65625 | 0 |
4046729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mura%20people | Mura people | Economy
The Mura unlike other indigenous tribes are not isolated from the outside world but rather have extensive relations with other tribes and the Brazilian government. Their economic activity is mostly made up of natural resource extraction through activities like fishing, farming, logging, Livestock farming, and ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
4046734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%20%26%20Players | Gentlemen & Players | Gentlemen & Players is a novel by Joanne Harris first published in 2005. A dark psychological thriller, some of the themes may be partly based on Harris' experiences as a teacher at Leeds Grammar School. Set in the present day during Michaelmas term at St Oswald's, a grammar school for boys somewhere in the North of En... | 2.03125 | 0 |
4046734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%20%26%20Players | Gentlemen & Players | As the new school year starts in September, Roy Straitley is looking forward to his 100th term at St Oswald's, where he has been teaching for 33 years. Having never married, he lives alone and has devoted his life to his career. His sitting room walls are full of pictures of "his boys", and St Oswald's represents his o... | 2.109375 | 0 |
4046734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%20%26%20Players | Gentlemen & Players | The new term starts with a number of minor yet inexplicable occurrences. For the first time in his life, Straitley's register goes missing without ever turning up again. Also, his coffee mug is no longer at the place in the Common Room where it has sat for many years. Pupils report that various objects are missing from... | 2.0625 | 0 |
4046734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%20%26%20Players | Gentlemen & Players | Gentlemen and Players explores the teaching profession, and the paradox of having to view pupils as "paying customers" whose wishes have to be respected at all times and at the same time as individuals in their formative years who must not only be encouraged and praised but also punished for their misbehaviour.
Second... | 2.5625 | 0 |
4046756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika%20B%C3%B6hm-Vitense | Erika Böhm-Vitense | Erika Helga Ruth Böhm-Vitense (June 3, 1923 – January 21, 2017) was a German-born American astrophysicist known for her work on Cepheid variables and convection in stellar atmospheres.
Early life
Böhm-Vitense was born Erika Helga Ruth Vitense on 3 June 1923 in Kurau, Germany. She was the second of three girls. Her par... | 2.140625 | 0 |
4046770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudanya | Mudanya | Mudanya (also: Mudania, , ta Moudaniá [Pl.]) (the site of ancient Apamea Myrlea) is a municipality and district of Bursa Province, Turkey. Its area is 369 km2, and its population is 108,011 (2022). It is located on the Gulf of Gemlik, part of the southern coast of the Sea of Marmara. Between 1875 and 1948, it was conne... | 2.15625 | 0 |
4046821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang%20Rimba%20people | Orang Rimba people | The Orang Rimba ('people of the forest') are a much smaller population of people (~3000) who live in the upstream regions of Jambi and South Sumatran. They have a unique, diverse economy, which shifts in and out of two base subsistence strategies: swidden farming and a very nomadic life based on foraging wild yams. Th... | 2.796875 | 0 |
4046823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine%20Garmany | Catharine Garmany | Catharine "Katy" D. Garmany (born March 6, 1946) is an astronomer with the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. She holds a B.S. (astrophysics), 1966 from Indiana University Bloomington; and a M.A. (astrophysics), 1968, and Ph.D. (astronomy), 1971, from the University of Virginia. Catharine's main areas of research ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
4046823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine%20Garmany | Catharine Garmany | Research
Garmany's dissertation built upon three years of research on OB association III Cepheus at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. Dr. Garmany and her research team study O- and B-type stars (see OB star), the largest and hottest stars of the galaxy. These stars form in OB associations, which defy typic... | 2.578125 | 0 |
4046823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine%20Garmany | Catharine Garmany | Since 2004, she has worked as Sr. Science Education Specialist in the Office of Education and Public Outreach for the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
Personal History
Garmany was accepted to and attended the Bronx High School of Science. There Catharine met lifelong friends who would also pursue doctorates in ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
4046861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMFA-142 | VMFA-142 | In August 1997, due to the pending BRAC 93-mandated closure of NAS Cecil Field by the end of 1999, the squadron relocated to Naval Air Station Atlanta, approximately North of Atlanta in Marietta, Georgia. It was the second F/A-18 squadron to be transferred to NAS Atlanta, having been preceded by the Naval Air Reserve'... | 1.96875 | 0 |
4046871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt%20%28DC%20Comics%29 | Bolt (DC Comics) | Bolt is the name of several unrelated fictional characters appearing in American comic books published DC Comics. Although the characters vary in being both superheroes and supervillains, some versions of the characters are related to one another.
Publication history
Bolt first appeared in Blue Devil #6 (November 1984... | 2.359375 | 0 |
4046895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Barger | Amy Barger | Amy J. Barger (born January 18, 1971) is an American astronomer and Henrietta Leavitt Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is considered a pioneer in combining data from multiple telescopes to monitor multiple wavelengths and in discovering distant galaxies and supermassive black holes, wh... | 2.046875 | 0 |
4046895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Barger | Amy Barger | As a follow-up to the research presented in January, Barger lead a team in surveying black holes. The team used a Keck 10-meter telescope, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Very Large Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory to study the time intervals for black hole growth and found that the activity of a... | 2.25 | 0 |
4046895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Barger | Amy Barger | In 2005, the results of a study led by Barger concerning how black holes and galaxies grow was published in The Astronomical Journal. The team captured and observed long-exposure X-ray images of black holes normally obscured by gas and dust to determine that they are between one and 12 billion light-years away from Ear... | 3.140625 | 0 |
4046895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Barger | Amy Barger | In 2013, Barger, former advisee Ryan Keenan and astronomer Lennox Cowie published the results of a study on the density of galactic matter in The Astrophysical Journal. The team used redshift surveys and spectroscopy to observe and estimate the distribution of luminous and dark matter in a sample of galaxies and found ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
4046921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20District%2C%20Dallas | Government District, Dallas | The Government District is an area in south-central downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). It lies south of the Main Street District, southeast of the West End Historic District, north of the Convention Center District, west of the Farmers Market District, and east of the Reunion District.
Notable structures
The district is ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
4046924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock%20of%20Dodos | Flock of Dodos | Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus is a documentary film by American marine biologist and filmmaker Randy Olson. It highlights the debate between proponents of the concept of intelligent design and the scientific evidence and consensus that supports evolution, as well as the potential consequences ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
4046933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Bruce%20%28physicist%29 | Charles Bruce (physicist) | Electrical work
Bruce's first years at ERA were spent working on the analysis of oil-based circuit breakers. He published a sequence of papers on the subject including one that won the Institute of Electrical Engineers' Kelvin Premium award, and helped keep ERA on top of the then-rapid growth in circuit breaker technol... | 2.234375 | 0 |
4046974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny%20Zeitlin | Denny Zeitlin | Denny Zeitlin (born April 10, 1938) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. Since 1963, he has recorded more than 100 compositions and was a first-place winner in the DownBeat International Jazz Critics' Poll in 1965 and 1974. He composed t... | 2.390625 | 0 |
4046974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny%20Zeitlin | Denny Zeitlin | Later life and career
Signed by Columbia Records's John Hammond, Zeitlin began his recording career in 1963 while studying medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, debuting as the featured pianist on the Jeremy Steig album Flute Fever, which also featured Ben Riley and Ben Tucker. Zeitlin's recording de... | 2.25 | 0 |
4046974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny%20Zeitlin | Denny Zeitlin | Between 1968 and 1978, Zeitlin integrated electronic keyboards, synthesizers, and sound-altering devices with acoustic instruments, working in multiple musical genres. The results were first heard in 1969 when Zeitlin composed and performed music for the "Jazzy Spies" sequences on the first season of Sesame Street, fea... | 2.375 | 0 |
4047003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puckapunyal | Puckapunyal | Puckapunyal (more formally the Puckapunyal Military Area, but also known as the Puckapunyal Camp or Puckapunyal Army Base, and colloquially as "Pucka") is an Australian Army training facility and base 10 km west of Seymour, in central Victoria, south-eastern Australia.
Description
Puckapunyal is a small restricted-acc... | 2.28125 | 0 |
4047003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puckapunyal | Puckapunyal | Puckapunyal Restoration and Conservation Project
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Army undertook a land rehabilitation program, as decades of heavy use had caused major land degradation. At the time, it was "one of the largest single landscape revegetation operations yet attempted in Australia and perhaps anywhere." Wilkie ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
4047003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puckapunyal | Puckapunyal | By 1985, the extensive program of earthworks, soil and water erosion control, and revegetation had been completed on 20,000 hectares of land. Some 5,000 hectares of barren and denuded landscape was repaired, and 16,000 hectares of improved pasture had been established. At the completion of the project, land management ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
4047003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puckapunyal | Puckapunyal | Flora and fauna
The PMA contains box-ironbark forest that forms one of the largest discrete remnants of this threatened ecosystem in Victoria. Some 706 species of vascular, and 170 of non-vascular, plant have been recorded. Two species, clover glycine and trailing hop-bush, are nationally threatened. Records have be... | 2.25 | 0 |
4047005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20III%2C%20Duke%20of%20Swabia | Herman III, Duke of Swabia | Hermann III (c.994/995 - April 1, 1012) was a member of the Conradine dynasty. He was Duke of Swabia from 1003 until 1012.
Life
Hermann was the son of Herman II, Duke of Swabia and his wife Gerberga of Burgundy, daughter of Conrad I of Burgundy. He had many illustrious relatives. Through his father, Hermann was descen... | 1.96875 | 0 |
4047028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporting%20Shooters%20Association%20of%20Australia | Sporting Shooters Association of Australia | The Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia (SSAA) is a federated non-government organisation established in 1948 as a representative body to promote shooting sports and protect the legal rights and interests of firearm owners in Australia. the SSAA has a membership of around 218,000. In addition to the state bran... | 2.390625 | 0 |
4047028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporting%20Shooters%20Association%20of%20Australia | Sporting Shooters Association of Australia | Structure
The SSAA is organised at the bottom level as local sporting clubs, around locations and/or speciality shooting disciplines or conservation activities. Members may be unaffiliated with a club, or members of one or more clubs. Clubs are organised in branches, where each club sends two voting delegates to the ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
4047045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dsuke%20Yamashita | Yōsuke Yamashita | is a Japanese jazz pianist, composer and writer. His piano style is influenced by free jazz, modal jazz and soul jazz.
Since the late 1980s, Yamashita's main performing group has consisted of Cecil McBee (bass), Pheeroan akLaff (drums), and often Joe Lovano (saxophone).
Early life
Yamashita was born in Tokyo, Japan, ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
4047052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Spooners%20of%20Porthmadog | The Spooners of Porthmadog | Capacity problem
Spooner was faced with the seemingly intractable problem of a railway working to maximum capacity yet unable to cope with the volume of traffic on offer. He was also aware that others were seeking alternative routes for the transport of Blaenau Ffestiniog's growing slate traffic. Spooner investigated t... | 2.625 | 0 |
4047052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Spooners%20of%20Porthmadog | The Spooners of Porthmadog | Garden railway
Charles Easton Spooner was a Victorian 'family man' and he established his family at Bron y Garth where in 1869 he built a garden railway for the entertainment of family and friends. Such a feature was an undoubted novelty at that time. The brass trackwork and the engine and rolling stock were all made i... | 2.171875 | 0 |
4047065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chew%20Valley | Chew Valley | The Chew Valley is an affluent area in North Somerset, England, named after the River Chew, which rises at Chewton Mendip, and joins the River Avon at Keynsham. Technically, the area of the valley is bounded by the water catchment area of the Chew and its tributaries; however, the name Chew Valley is often used less fo... | 2.234375 | 0 |
4047065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chew%20Valley | Chew Valley | There is no clear origin for the name "Chew", found scarcely anywhere else; however, there have been differing explanations of the etymology, including "winding water", the 'ew' being a variant of the French eau, meaning water. The word chewer is a western dialect for a narrow passage, and chare is Old English for turn... | 2.734375 | 0 |
4047065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chew%20Valley | Chew Valley | The western end of the area (around Nempnett Thrubwell) consists of the Harptree Beds which incorporate silicified clay, shale and Lias Limestone. Clifton Down Limestone, which includes calcite and dolomitic mudstones of the Carboniferous period, is found in the adjoining central band and dolomitic conglomerate of the ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
4047065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chew%20Valley | Chew Valley | The oldest geological formation in the valley is the Supra-Pennant Measures of the Carboniferous period. It is a significant feature towards the north-eastern part of the area and is represented by the Pensford Syncline coal basin, which formed part of the Somerset coalfield. It is a complex formation containing coal s... | 2.46875 | 0 |
4047065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chew%20Valley | Chew Valley | Archaeological excavations carried out before the flooding of Chew Valley Lake found evidence of people belonging to the consecutive periods known as Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic (Old, Middle and New Stone Age), Bronze Age and Iron Age, comprising implements such as stone knives, flint blades and the he... | 2.609375 | 0 |
4047065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chew%20Valley | Chew Valley | Field patterns
The small fields in the western part of the area are particularly characteristic of the Chew Valley and date back to the most evident period of enclosure of earlier open fields which took place in the late medieval period. Fields of this category are generally small in size, regular in outline and often ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
4047065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chew%20Valley | Chew Valley | In the past part of the population worked in coal mining, although there are no working mines in the area now. There is still a fairly large agricultural workforce and in light industry or service industries, although many people commute to surrounding cities for work. According to the 2011 census the valley has a popu... | 2.65625 | 0 |
4047065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chew%20Valley | Chew Valley | Listed buildings
There are hundreds of listed buildings in the valley. Listing refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance. The authority for listing is granted by the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 and... | 2.171875 | 0 |
4047065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chew%20Valley | Chew Valley | Schools
Chew Valley School is the main secondary school (11–18 years) for the valley. It is situated between Chew Magna and Chew Stoke. The latest (2011) Ofsted Inspection Report describes this specialist Performing Arts College as a mixed comprehensive school with 1,201 pupils on roll. The school is popular and oversu... | 2.3125 | 0 |
4047068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20Carroll | John A. Carroll | John Albert Carroll (July 30, 1901 – August 31, 1983) was an American attorney and politician who served as a Democratic United States Representative and United States Senator from Colorado. He also served as a special assistant to President Harry Truman.
Early life and education
Born in Denver, he attended the public... | 2.046875 | 0 |
4047079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrehory%20Chodkiewicz | Hrehory Chodkiewicz | Cultural activities
Chodkiewicz devoted much attention to military matters. In 1562 and 1566, he wrote military regulations, which dealt with defense of fortresses and other matters. He also built and strengthened a number of border posts and conducted the military census of 1568 to determine how many troops each noble... | 2.640625 | 0 |
4047086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anicuns | Anicuns | Agricultural Data
Number of farms: 1,237
Total farming area: 52,201 ha.
Planted area: 13,100 ha.
Area of natural pasture: 33,078
Persons working in agriculture: 4,500
Number of cattle (head): 115.400
Area of corn: 4,200 ha.
Area of rice: 800 ha.
Area of sugarcane: 7,000 ha.
Area of soybeans: 400 ha.
Area of banana: 150... | 2.609375 | 0 |
4047087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah%20Boardman | Elijah Boardman | Elijah Boardman (March 7, 1760 – August 18, 1823) was an American politician who served as a senator from Connecticut. Born to a noted and politically connected Connecticut family, he served in the Connecticut militia before becoming a noted merchant and businessman. Becoming involved in property and land ownership in ... | 2 | 0 |
4047087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah%20Boardman | Elijah Boardman | Revolutionary War
Under Captain Isaac Bostwick, Boardman served in one of the first sixteen regiments raised by the Continental Congress under the command of Colonel Charles Webb. Boardman was directed to Boston, and diverted to New London and New York City, where he took part in Battle of Long Island, however after d... | 2.796875 | 0 |
4047087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah%20Boardman | Elijah Boardman | In 1781, Boardman took work as a clerk and as a merchant. He spent time employed in New Haven, training as a shopkeeper in the store of Elijah and Archibald Austin, before setting up his own company in his home town of New Milford later that same year. This business, a dry-goods store, was operated in conjunction with ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
4047087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah%20Boardman | Elijah Boardman | Politics
Boardman's initial ventures into politics are recorded in a letter to then-President Thomas Jefferson on June 18, 1801. He included a sermon of the Rev. Stanley Griswold, of the New Milford church, which discussed the new president as "an example of how evil could be overcome by good." Jefferson subsequently r... | 2.140625 | 0 |
4047130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th%20Street%20Baptist%20Church | 16th Street Baptist Church | The 16th Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. In 1963, the church was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members. The bombing killed four young girls in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The church is still in operation and is a central landmark in the Birmingham Civil Rights Distr... | 2.234375 | 0 |
4047130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th%20Street%20Baptist%20Church | 16th Street Baptist Church | During the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the 16th Street Baptist Church served as an organizational headquarters, site of mass meetings and rallying point for African Americans protesting widespread institutionalized racism in Birmingham, Alabama, and the South. The ministers Fred Shuttlesworth, who was the chief... | 2.6875 | 0 |
4047130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th%20Street%20Baptist%20Church | 16th Street Baptist Church | The church was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on June 16, 1976. On September 17, 1980, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 1993, a team of surveyors for the Historic American Buildings Survey executed archival quality measured drawings of the church for the Library of C... | 2.59375 | 0 |
4047143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing%20Commander%20IV%3A%20The%20Price%20of%20Freedom | Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom | Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom is the fourth main game in the Wing Commander science fiction space combat simulator video game series, produced by Origin Systems and released by Electronic Arts for the PC in 1996 and the Sony PlayStation in 1997 (the game was also released on the North American PlayStation Net... | 2.25 | 0 |
4047145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayagraj%20Airport | Prayagraj Airport | Prayagraj Airport , also known as Allahabad Airport, is the domestic airport serving the city of Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. Located in the Bamrauli suburb of the city, it is one of the oldest airports in India. This airport is currently under joint operation of the Indian Air Force and the Airports Authority of ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
4047175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona%20Leggate | Fiona Leggate | Fiona Leggate (born 28 May 1980) is a British auto racing driver and professional crash tester.
Early career
Leggate had been interested in motorsport since her childhood, influenced by her father Malcolm Leggate who had a 19-year career in saloon car racing.
After competing in showjumping and dressage events (once b... | 1.921875 | 0 |
4047176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Johnstone%20%28Royal%20Navy%20officer%29 | George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer) | Commodore George Johnstone (1730 – 24 May 1787) was a Royal Navy officer, politician and colonial administrator who served in the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence. In a multifaceted career he was also a member of parliament, a director of the East India Company, ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
4047176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Johnstone%20%28Royal%20Navy%20officer%29 | George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer) | Returning to active naval service with a lucrative posting as commodore, he cruised with success off Portugal, and was then entrusted with a secret mission to capture the Dutch Cape Colony. While en route to the Cape Colony, he was surprised by a French fleet sent to thwart his goal, and though he fought it off at the ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
4047176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Johnstone%20%28Royal%20Navy%20officer%29 | George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer) | By 1759 Johnstone, by now in poor health, found himself without a ship. After a period of delays, the first Lord of the Admiralty George Anson, 1st Baron Anson gave him his first command, the 14-gun sloop . She was initially assigned to carry out escort duties in the North Sea, during one of which Johnstone was faced w... | 2.609375 | 0 |
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