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312285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade%20Emperor | Jade Emperor | In the myths and folk religion of Chinese culture, the Jade Emperor or Yudi is one of the representations of the primordial god.
In Taoist theology, he is the assistant of Yuanshi Tianzun, who is one of the Three Pure Ones, the three primordial emanations of the Tao. However, some Taoists in history were skeptical of ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
312285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade%20Emperor | Jade Emperor | Vanquishing evil
One of the myths describes how the Jade Emperor became the monarch of all the deities in heaven. It is one of the few myths in which the Jade Emperor really shows his power.
In the beginning of time, the earth was a very difficult place to live, much harsher than it is now. People had to deal with a v... | 2.265625 | 0 |
312285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade%20Emperor | Jade Emperor | Because of his noble and benevolent deeds, the gods, immortals, and humans proclaimed the Jade Emperor the supreme sovereign of all.
Creation
The world started with wuji (, nothingness) according to the Chinese creation myth. The Jade Emperor was the head of the pantheon, but not responsible for creation.
In another ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
312293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville%27s%20theorem%20%28complex%20analysis%29 | Liouville's theorem (complex analysis) | In complex analysis, Liouville's theorem, named after Joseph Liouville (although the theorem was first proven by Cauchy in 1844), states that every bounded entire function must be constant. That is, every holomorphic function for which there exists a positive number such that for all is constant. Equivalently, non-... | 2.453125 | 0 |
312299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche%20photodiode | Avalanche photodiode | An avalanche photodiode (APD) is a highly sensitive type of photodiode, which in general are semiconductor diodes that convert light into electricity via interband excitation coupled with impact ionization. APDs use materials and a structure optimised for operating with high reverse bias, approaching the reverse breakd... | 2.796875 | 0 |
312299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche%20photodiode | Avalanche photodiode | Materials
In principle, any semiconductor material can be used as a multiplication region:
Silicon will detect in the visible and near infrared, with low multiplication noise (excess noise).
Germanium (Ge) will detect infrared out to a wavelength of 1.7 μm, but has high multiplication noise.
InGaAs will detect out t... | 2.25 | 0 |
312301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville%27s%20theorem%20%28Hamiltonian%29 | Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian) | In physics, Liouville's theorem, named after the French mathematician Joseph Liouville, is a key theorem in classical statistical and Hamiltonian mechanics. It asserts that the phase-space distribution function is constant along the trajectories of the system—that is that the density of system points in the vicinity of... | 2.125 | 0 |
312301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville%27s%20theorem%20%28Hamiltonian%29 | Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian) | The Liouville equation describes the time evolution of the phase space distribution function. Although the equation is usually referred to as the "Liouville equation", Josiah Willard Gibbs was the first to recognize the importance of this equation as the fundamental equation of statistical mechanics. It is referred to ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
312302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Helton | Arthur Helton | Arthur Helton (January 24, 1949 – August 19, 2003) was a lawyer, refugee advocate, teacher and author. He died in the 2003 Canal Hotel bombing while he was in Baghdad to assess humanitarian conditions in Iraq.
Helton graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University in New York City in 1971 and from New York Univer... | 2.234375 | 0 |
312304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectomorphism | Symplectomorphism | In mathematics, a symplectomorphism or symplectic map is an isomorphism in the category of symplectic manifolds. In classical mechanics, a symplectomorphism represents a transformation of phase space that is volume-preserving and preserves the symplectic structure of phase space, and is called a canonical transformatio... | 2.828125 | 0 |
312308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac%20sea | Dirac sea | The Dirac sea is a theoretical model of the electron vacuum as an infinite sea of electrons with negative energy, now called positrons. It was first postulated by the British physicist Paul Dirac in 1930 to explain the anomalous negative-energy quantum states predicted by the relativistically-correct Dirac equation for... | 2.671875 | 0 |
312308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac%20sea | Dirac sea | The origins of the Dirac sea lie in the energy spectrum of the Dirac equation, an extension of the Schrödinger equation consistent with special relativity, an equation that Dirac had formulated in 1928. Although this equation was extremely successful in describing electron dynamics, it possesses a rather peculiar feat... | 2.4375 | 0 |
312308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac%20sea | Dirac sea | Dirac further pointed out that a situation might exist in which all the negative-energy states are occupied except one. This "hole" in the sea of negative-energy electrons would respond to electric fields as though it were a positively charged particle. Initially, Dirac identified this hole as a proton. However, Robe... | 2.4375 | 0 |
312308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac%20sea | Dirac sea | The development of quantum field theory (QFT) in the 1930s made it possible to reformulate the Dirac equation in a way that treats the positron as a "real" particle rather than the absence of a particle, and makes the vacuum the state in which no particles exist instead of an infinite sea of particles. This picture rec... | 1.921875 | 0 |
312308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac%20sea | Dirac sea | Dirac's idea is more directly applicable to solid state physics, where the valence band in a solid can be regarded as a "sea" of electrons. Holes in this sea indeed occur, and are extremely important for understanding the effects of semiconductors, though they are never referred to as "positrons". Unlike in particle ph... | 2.25 | 0 |
312314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara%20Croft | Lara Croft | Lara Croft is a character and the main protagonist of the video game franchise Tomb Raider. She is presented as a highly intelligent and athletic British archaeologist who ventures into ancient tombs and hazardous ruins around the world. Created by a team at British developer Core Design that included Toby Gard, the ch... | 2.28125 | 0 |
312314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara%20Croft | Lara Croft | Characteristics
Lara Croft is depicted as an athletic female with brown eyes and dark auburn hair, frequently kept in a plait or ponytail. The character's classic costume is a turquoise leotard, light brown shorts, calf-high boots, and tall white socks. Accessories include fingerless gloves, a backpack, a utility belt... | 2.109375 | 0 |
312314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara%20Croft | Lara Croft | Core Design, a subsidiary of Eidos, created Lara Croft as the lead protagonist of its video game Tomb Raider, which began development in 1993. Lead graphic artist Toby Gard went through about five designs before arriving at the character's final appearance. He initially envisioned a male lead character with a whip and ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
312314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara%20Croft | Lara Croft | Core Design improved and modified the character with each installment. Developers for Tomb Raider II increased the number of polygons in the character's model and added more realistic curves to its design. Other changes included new outfits and manoeuvres. Core Design reportedly planned to implement crawling as a new g... | 1.960938 | 0 |
312314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara%20Croft | Lara Croft | The next title, Tomb Raider Chronicles, depicted the late Lara Croft via her friends' flashbacks. The game introduced stealth attacks, which would carry over to the next game, Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. While the original development team worked on Chronicles, Core Design assigned a new team to develop The Ang... | 2.03125 | 0 |
312314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara%20Croft | Lara Croft | Tomb Raider: Underworld continued the plot line established in Legend. Crystal Dynamics used new technology to improve the character for seventh-generation consoles, focusing on improving realism. The dirt accumulation and water cleansing mechanic from Legend was altered to be a real-time mechanic that can involve the ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
312314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara%20Croft | Lara Croft | In video games
Lara Croft primarily appears in the Tomb Raider video game series published by Square Enix Europe (previously Eidos Interactive). The action-adventure games feature the protagonist travelling the world in search of rare objects and mystical artefacts. Croft first appeared in the 1996 video game Tomb Rai... | 2.515625 | 0 |
312320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum | Garum | Garum was produced in various grades and consumed by all social classes. After the liquid was ladled off the top of the mixture, the remains of the fish, called , were used by the poorest classes to flavor their staple porridge or farinata. The finished product—the of Martial's epigram—was apparently mild and subtle i... | 2.828125 | 0 |
312320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum | Garum | Pliny the Elder spoke of a type of garum that Roman Jews may have used, as normal garum may not have contained exclusively kosher seafood. In the ruins of Pompeii, jars were found containing kosher garum, suggesting an equal popularity among Jews there.
Each port had its own traditional recipe, but by the time of Aug... | 2.375 | 0 |
312320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum | Garum | When mixed with oenogarum (a popular wine-based Byzantine sauce), vinegar, black pepper, or oil, garum enhanced the flavor of a wide variety of dishes, including boiled veal and steamed mussels, even pear-and-honey soufflé. Diluted with water (hydrogarum) it was distributed to Roman legions. Pliny (d. 79) remarked in h... | 2.546875 | 0 |
312326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic%20command%20to%20line%20of%20sight | Semi-automatic command to line of sight | Semi-automatic command to line of sight (SACLOS) is a method of missile command guidance. In SACLOS, the operator must continually point a sighting device at the target while the missile is in flight. Electronics in the sighting device and/or the missile then guide it to the target.
Many SACLOS weapons are based on an... | 2.5625 | 0 |
312335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula%20Nebula | Tarantula Nebula | The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is a large H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), forming its south-east corner (from Earth's perspective).
Discovery
The Tarantula Nebula was observed by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille during an expedition to the Cape of Good Hope between 1751 and 1753. He catalog... | 2.609375 | 0 |
312335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula%20Nebula | Tarantula Nebula | 30 Doradus has at its centre the star cluster NGC 2070 which includes the compact concentration of stars known as R136 that produces most of the energy that makes the nebula visible. The estimated mass of the cluster is 450,000 solar masses, suggesting it will likely become a globular cluster in the future. In additio... | 2.171875 | 0 |
312339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%20Kaeo%20province | Sa Kaeo province | Geography
The north of the province is covered with the forested mountains of the Sankamphaeng Range and the Dangrek Mountains. The total forest area in 2021 is or 22 percent of provincial area. To the south are the foothills of the Cardamom Mountains, which are mostly deforested.
National parks
There are two nationa... | 2.703125 | 0 |
312353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Flesch | Carl Flesch | Carl Flesch (born Károly Flesch, 9 October 1873 – 14 November 1944) was a Hungarian classical violinist and teacher. Flesch’s compendium Scale System is a staple of violin pedagogy.
Life and career
Flesch was born in Moson (now part of Mosonmagyaróvár) in Hungary in 1873. He began playing the violin at seven years of ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
312354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homologous%20chromosome | Homologous chromosome | A pair of homologous chromosomes, or homologs, is a set of one maternal and one paternal chromosome that pair up with each other inside a cell during fertilization. Homologs have the same genes in the same loci, where they provide points along each chromosome that enable a pair of chromosomes to align correctly with ea... | 3.546875 | 0 |
312354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homologous%20chromosome | Homologous chromosome | Since homologous chromosomes are not identical and do not originate from the same organism, they are different from sister chromatids. Sister chromatids result after DNA replication has occurred, and thus are identical, side-by-side duplicates of each other.
In humans
Humans have a total of 46 chromosomes, but there ... | 3.421875 | 0 |
312354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homologous%20chromosome | Homologous chromosome | In the process of crossing-over, genes are exchanged by the breaking and union of homologous portions of the chromosomes' lengths. Structures called chiasmata are the site of the exchange. Chiasmata physically link the homologous chromosomes once crossing over occurs and throughout the process of chromosomal segregatio... | 3.03125 | 0 |
312354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homologous%20chromosome | Homologous chromosome | While the main function of homologous chromosomes is their use in nuclear division, they are also used in repairing double-strand breaks of DNA. These double-stranded breaks may occur in replicating DNA and are most often the result of interaction of DNA with naturally occurring damaging molecules such as reactive oxyg... | 3.203125 | 0 |
312355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gametogenesis | Gametogenesis | Gametogenesis is a biological process by which diploid or haploid precursor cells undergo cell division and differentiation to form mature haploid gametes. Depending on the biological life cycle of the organism, gametogenesis occurs by meiotic division of diploid gametocytes into various gametes, or by mitosis. For exa... | 3.390625 | 0 |
312358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffron%20Walden | Saffron Walden | The oldest inhabited building in the town is believed to be the former maltings at 1 Myddleton Place. The 15th-century building with a courtyard garden was used by the Youth Hostel Association from 1947 to 2010. It is now used for functions. Pevsner described it as: "without doubt, the best medieval house of Saffron Wa... | 2.40625 | 0 |
312358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffron%20Walden | Saffron Walden | Demography
According to the Office for National Statistics, at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Saffron Walden had a population of 14,313. The 2001 population density was , with a 100 to 94.5 female-to-male ratio. Of those over 16 years old, 45.0 per cent were married, 27.4 per cent were single (never marrie... | 2.515625 | 0 |
312359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg%20Declaration%20of%20Independence | Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence | Initial publication
The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was published on April 30, 1819, in an article written by Joseph McKnitt Alexander in the Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette, of Raleigh, North Carolina. "It is not probably known to many of our readers," wrote the editor of the Raleigh Register i... | 2.703125 | 0 |
312359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg%20Declaration%20of%20Independence | Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence | Alexander concluded by writing that although the original documents relating to the Mecklenburg Declaration were destroyed in a fire in 1800, the article was written from a true copy of the papers left to him by his father, who was now deceased.
Thomas Jefferson's skepticism
The 1819 article about the Mecklenburg Dec... | 2.28125 | 0 |
312359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg%20Declaration%20of%20Independence | Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence | Jefferson replied that, like Adams, he had never heard of the Mecklenburg Declaration before. Jefferson found it curious that historians of the American Revolution, even those from North Carolina and nearby Virginia, had never previously mentioned it. He also found it suspicious that the original was lost in a fire and... | 1.96875 | 0 |
312359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg%20Declaration%20of%20Independence | Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence | Here, at last, was contemporaneous confirmation that radical resolves had been adopted in Mecklenburg County in 1775. Unfortunately, the issue of the Cape Fear Mercury that Martin referred to could not be found. Throughout the 19th century, supporters of the Mecklenburg Declaration hoped that the missing paper would be... | 2.1875 | 0 |
312359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg%20Declaration%20of%20Independence | Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence | The controversy over the Mecklenburg Declaration entered a new phase with the discovery of the Mecklenburg Resolves. The focus shifted from Thomas Jefferson to the question of how to account for two very different sets of resolutions supposedly adopted in Charlotte only eleven days apart. How was it possible that citiz... | 2.15625 | 0 |
312359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg%20Declaration%20of%20Independence | Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence | Current status of the debate
The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence no longer attracts much attention from professional historians, who generally regard the document as spurious. If the declaration is mentioned in scholarly works, it is usually to discount it. Professor William S. Powell, in his standard history N... | 1.96875 | 0 |
312359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg%20Declaration%20of%20Independence | Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence | Despite much scholarly opinion against the authenticity of the Mecklenburg Declaration, belief in the document remains important to some North Carolinians, says historian Dan L. Morrill, who notes that the possibility that it is genuine cannot be entirely discounted. Morrill writes, "Let's make one thing clear. One can... | 2.34375 | 0 |
312367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILAN | MILAN | Missile d'Infanterie Léger Antichar (French for "Lightweight Infantry Anti-tank Missile") or MILAN is a Franco-West German anti-tank guided missile system. Design of the MILAN began in 1962; it was ready for trials in 1971, and accepted for service in 1972. It is a wire-guided semi-automatic command to line of sight (S... | 2.21875 | 0 |
312368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Pettus | Edmund Pettus | Edmund Winston Pettus (July 6, 1821 – July 27, 1907) was an American lawyer, politician and military officer who represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1897 to 1907. He served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, commanding infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. After th... | 2.234375 | 0 |
312368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Pettus | Edmund Pettus | In 1861, Pettus, an enthusiastic champion of the Confederate cause and of slavery, was a Democratic Party delegate to the secession convention in Mississippi, where his brother John was serving as governor. Pettus helped organize the 20th Alabama Infantry, and was elected as one of its first officers. On September 9, h... | 2.828125 | 0 |
312368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Pettus | Edmund Pettus | Pettus and his command took part in the 1864 Atlanta Campaign, fighting in the battles of Kennesaw Mountain on June 27, Atlanta on July 22, and Jonesborough from August 31 to September 1. Beginning on December 17, he temporarily led a division in the Army of Tennessee. During the 1865 Campaign of the Carolinas, Pettus ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
312368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Pettus | Edmund Pettus | Legacy
Military historian Ezra J. Warner wrote that Pettus was "a fearless and dogged fighter and distinguished himself on many fields in the western theater of war" and after his promotion to a general officer "he followed with conspicuous bravery every forlorn hope which the Confederacy offered..." Likewise historian... | 2.734375 | 0 |
312371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20Halfbrite%20mode | Amiga Halfbrite mode | Extra Half Brite (also referred to as Extra-Half-Brite, Extra-Halfbrite, or EHB), is a planar display mode of the Amiga computer.
This mode uses six bit planes (six bits per pixel). The first five bit planes index 32 colors selected from a 12-bit color space of 4096 possible colors. If the bit on the sixth bit plane i... | 2.234375 | 0 |
312392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Birdman | International Birdman | The International Birdman was a series of English competitions held in the West Sussex towns of Bognor Regis, Selsey and Worthing. The competition involved human 'birdmen' attempting to fly off the end of a pier into the sea for prize money. The event began in 1971 and was held on piers in West Sussex, on the south co... | 2.34375 | 0 |
312399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20system%20%28Internet%29 | Autonomous system (Internet) | An autonomous system (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators on behalf of a single administrative entity or domain, that presents a common and clearly defined routing policy to the Internet. Each AS is assigned an autonomous system num... | 2.328125 | 0 |
312399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20system%20%28Internet%29 | Autonomous system (Internet) | Until 2007, AS numbers were defined as 16-bit integers, which allowed for a maximum of 65,536 assignments. Since then, the IANA has begun to also assign 32-bit AS numbers to regional Internet registries (RIRs). These numbers are written preferably as simple integers, in a notation referred to as "asplain", ranging from... | 2.140625 | 0 |
312415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacomet | Metacomet | Metacomet (1638 – August 12, 1676), also known as Pometacom, Metacom, and by his adopted English name King Philip, was sachem (elected chief) to the Wampanoag people and the second son of the sachem Massasoit. His older brother Wamsutta (or King Alexander) briefly became sachem after their father's death in 1661. Howev... | 2.96875 | 0 |
312415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacomet | Metacomet | King Philip's War
King Philip used tribal alliances to coordinate efforts to push European colonists out of New England. Many of the native tribes in the region wanted to push out the colonists following conflicts over land use, diminished game as a consequence of expanding European settlement, and other tensions.
As... | 3.109375 | 0 |
312418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venison | Venison | Venison originally meant the meat of a game animal but now refers primarily to the meat of deer (or antelope in South Africa). Venison can be used to refer to any part of the animal, so long as it is edible, including the internal organs. Venison, much like beef or pork, is categorized into specific cuts, including roa... | 2.828125 | 0 |
312439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus%20niger | Aspergillus niger | Industrial uses
There are two ways in which Aspergillus niger can be grown for industrial purposes: solid state fermentation (SSF) and submerged fermentation (SmF). SSF uses a solid substrate with nutrients and minimal moisture to grow microorganisms. Nutrients such as nitrogen and carbon come from agricultural byprod... | 2.46875 | 0 |
312439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus%20niger | Aspergillus niger | A. niger produces many useful enzymes for the catabolism of biopolymers in order to obtain nutrients from its environment. The production of specific enzymes can be increased for industrial purposes. For example, A. niger glucoamylase () is used in the production of high-fructose corn syrup and pectinases (GH28) are us... | 2.5 | 0 |
312439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus%20niger | Aspergillus niger | Toxicity
A. niger produces a wide variety of secondary metabolites, some of which are mycotoxins called ochratoxins, such as ochratoxin A. Contamination by filamentous fungi, such as A. niger, occurs frequently in grapes and grape based products resulting in contamination by ochratoxin A (OTA). OTA, a clinically relev... | 2.421875 | 0 |
312439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus%20niger | Aspergillus niger | Human pathogen
A. niger is pathogenic. Aspergillosis is a fungal infection caused by spores of indoor and outdoor Aspergillus mold species. Due to the ubiquitous nature of A. niger, its spores are commonly inhaled by humans from their surrounding environment. Aspergillosis infection customarily occurs in people with c... | 2.875 | 0 |
312440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa%20Tugendhat | Villa Tugendhat | Greta Tugendhat returned to the villa in 1967 with Dirk Lohan a senior architect from Mies's Chicago studio (and his grandson) and explained the original design to him, and a group of Czech architects set out to repair it. It was inscribed on the National List of Cultural Heritage in 1969 and restored after 1980. On 26... | 2.0625 | 0 |
312443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%20Kreisler | Fritz Kreisler | Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian-born American violinist and composer. One of the most noted violin masters of his day, and regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his g... | 2.640625 | 0 |
312443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%20Kreisler | Fritz Kreisler | Legacy
Kreisler wrote a number of pieces for the violin, including solos for encores, such as "Liebesleid" and "Liebesfreud". Some of Kreisler's compositions were pastiches ostensibly in the style of other composers. They were originally ascribed to earlier composers, such as Gaetano Pugnani, Giuseppe Tartini and Ant... | 2.71875 | 0 |
312446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baccalaur%C3%A9at | Baccalauréat | The baccalauréat (; ), often known in France colloquially as the bac, is a French national academic qualification that students can obtain at the completion of their secondary education (at the end of the lycée) by meeting certain requirements. Though it has only existed in its present form as a school-leaving examinat... | 2.515625 | 0 |
312446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baccalaur%C3%A9at | Baccalauréat | When taken in mainland France, the baccalauréat material is the same for all students in a given stream. The secrecy surrounding the material is very tight, and the envelopes containing the exams are unsealed by a high-ranking school officer (usually a principal or vice-principal) in front of the examinees only a few m... | 2.4375 | 0 |
312449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Store%20of%20value | Store of value | A store of value is any commodity or asset that would normally retain purchasing power into the future and is the function of the asset that can be saved, retrieved and exchanged at a later time, and be predictably useful when retrieved.
The most common store of value in modern times has been money, currency, or a com... | 3.171875 | 0 |
312449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Store%20of%20value | Store of value | According to the Cambridge cash-balance theory, which is represented by the Cambridge equation, money's ability to store value is more important than its function as a medium of exchange. Cambridge claims that the demand for money is derived from its ability to store value. This is contrary to Fisher economists' beli... | 2.890625 | 0 |
312451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Shore | Howard Shore | Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, with... | 2.078125 | 0 |
312453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20of%20deferred%20payment | Standard of deferred payment | In economics, standard of deferred payment is a function of money. It is the function of being a widely accepted way to value a debt, thereby allowing goods and services to be acquired now and paid for in the future.
The 19th-century economist William Stanley Jevons, influential in the study of money, considered it to... | 2.90625 | 0 |
312461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20of%20account | Unit of account | In economics, unit of account is one of the functions of money. A unit of account is a standard numerical monetary unit of measurement of the market value of goods, services, and other transactions. Also known as a "measure" or "standard" of relative worth and deferred payment, a unit of account is a necessary prerequi... | 3.109375 | 0 |
312466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20de%20Sarasate | Pablo de Sarasate | Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (; 10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908), commonly known as Pablo de Sarasate, was a Spanish violinist, composer and conductor of the Romantic period. His best known works include Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs), the Spanish Dances, and the Carmen Fantasy.
Biography
Sarasate was ... | 2.25 | 0 |
312466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20de%20Sarasate | Pablo de Sarasate | Sarasate, who had been publicly performing since childhood, made his Paris debut as a concert violinist in 1860, and played in London the following year. Over the course of his career, he toured many parts of the world, performing in Europe, North America, and South America. His artistic pre-eminence was due principall... | 2.296875 | 0 |
312466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20de%20Sarasate | Pablo de Sarasate | Of Sarasate's idiomatic writing for his instrument, the playwright and music critic George Bernard Shaw once declared that though there were many composers of music for the violin, there were but few composers of violin music. Of Sarasate's talents as performer and composer, Shaw said that he "left criticism gasping mi... | 2.296875 | 0 |
312470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carisbrooke%20Castle | Carisbrooke Castle | Carisbrooke Castle is a historic motte-and-bailey castle located in the village of Carisbrooke (near Newport), Isle of Wight, England. Charles I was imprisoned at the castle in the months prior to his trial.
Early history
The site of Carisbrooke Castle may have been occupied in pre-Roman times. A ruined wall suggests ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
312470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carisbrooke%20Castle | Carisbrooke Castle | The keep was added to the castle in the reign of Henry I, and in the reign of Elizabeth I, when the Spanish Armada was expected, it was surrounded by additional fortifications by Sir George Carey, who had been appointed Governor of the Isle of Wight in 1583. Carey later commissioned the Italian engineer Federigo Giambe... | 2.640625 | 0 |
312475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Lesnie | Andrew Lesnie | Career
Lesnie's work began receiving major attention after the release of the anthropomorphic pig story Babe (1995) and its sequel, Babe: Pig in the City. He was director of photography on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, and received an Oscar for his work on The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
312477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellore | Nellore | Nellore is a city located on the banks of Penna River, in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, India. It serves as the headquarters of the district, as well as Nellore mandal and Nellore revenue division. It is the fourth most populous city in the state. It is at a distance of from Vijayawada, from Visakhapatnam, fro... | 2.296875 | 0 |
312479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%20nobility | Korean nobility | Korean monarchy existed in Korea until the end of the Japanese occupation and the defeat of Japan. After the independence and the installation of the Constitution that adopted republic system, the concept of nobility has been abolished, both formally and in practice.
Sources
As the Benedictines and other monastical or... | 2.734375 | 0 |
312479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%20nobility | Korean nobility | The title was revived for less than two decades during the Korean Empire that came after Joseon.
Royal titles
Wang () was a Chinese royal style used in many states rising from the dissolution of Gojoseon, Buyeo, Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla and Balhae, Goryeo. In late Goryeo (918-1392) and the Joseon Dynasty (until 1897) t... | 2.53125 | 0 |
312482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Robards | Jason Robards | Naval service
Following the completion of recruit training and radio school, Robards was assigned to the heavy cruiser in 1941 as a radioman 3rd class. On December 7, 1941, Northampton was at sea in the Pacific Ocean about off Hawaii. Contrary to some stories, he did not see the devastation of the Japanese attack on... | 2.34375 | 0 |
312484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20H.%20Gay%20Jr. | George H. Gay Jr. | Ensign (later Lieutenant Commander) George Henry Gay Jr. (March 8, 1917 – October 21, 1994) was a Douglas TBD Devastator pilot in United States Navy Torpedo Squadron 8 operating from the aircraft carrier in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. Of the 30 VT-8 aircrew from Hornet that participated in t... | 2.171875 | 0 |
312484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20H.%20Gay%20Jr. | George H. Gay Jr. | During the Battle of Midway, Gay was the first of his squadron to take off from Hornet on June 4, 1942. Gay's squadron found the Japanese fleet and launched an attack without any fighter plane support. Although he was wounded and his radioman/gunner, Robert K. Huntington, was dying, Gay completed his torpedo attack on ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
312486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20American%20Bund | German American Bund | The German American Bund, or the German American Federation (, Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, AV), was a German-American Nazi organization which was established in 1936 as a successor to the Friends of New Germany (FONG, FDND in German). The organization chose its new name in order to emphasize its American credentials af... | 2.078125 | 0 |
312486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20American%20Bund | German American Bund | The administrative structure of the Bund mimicked the regional administrative subdivisions of the Nazi Party. The German American Bund divided the United States into three Gaue: Gau Ost (East), Gau West and Gau Midwest. Together the three Gaue comprised 69 Ortsgruppen (local groups): 40 in Gau Ost (17 in New York), 10... | 2.0625 | 0 |
312486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20American%20Bund | German American Bund | Kuhn and a few other Bundmen traveled to Berlin to attend the 1936 Summer Olympics. During the trip, he visited the Reich Chancellery, where his picture was taken with Hitler. This act did not constitute an official Nazi approval for Kuhn's organization: German Ambassador to the United States Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff ex... | 2.28125 | 0 |
312486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20American%20Bund | German American Bund | Relationship with America
Meanwhile, in America, there was a growing fear that the Bund was working with Germany to spark a fascist revolution in the States. American newspapers rallied fear surrounding the organisation by creating no distinction between the Nazi party and the German-American Bund. In the aftermath of... | 2.046875 | 0 |
312489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangu | Pangu | Pangu or Pan Gu
(, ) is a primordial being and creation figure in Chinese mythology and in Taoism. According to legend, Pangu separated heaven and earth, and his body later became geographic features such as mountains and roaring water.
Legend
The first writer to record the myth of Pangu was thought to be Xu Zheng du... | 3.015625 | 0 |
312489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangu | Pangu | P'an-Gu is written in two ways: one means in literal translations, "basin ancient", the other "basin solid". Both are homophones, i.e., they are pronounced the same way; and the former may be preferred as the original and correct spelling. Obviously the name means "aboriginal abyss," or in the terser German, Urgrund, a... | 2.53125 | 0 |
312493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Masson | André Masson | Under the German occupation of France during World War II, his work was condemned by the Nazis as degenerate. With the assistance of Varian Fry in Marseille, Masson escaped the Nazi regime on a ship to the French island of Martinique from where he went on to the United States. Upon arrival in New York City customs offi... | 2.015625 | 0 |
312501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzabur%C5%8D%20%C5%8Ce | Kenzaburō Ōe | was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, and existe... | 2.65625 | 0 |
312501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzabur%C5%8D%20%C5%8Ce | Kenzaburō Ōe | Career
Ōe began publishing stories in 1957, while still a student, strongly influenced by contemporary writing in France and the United States. He was particularly influenced by the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre His first work to be published was "Lavish are the Dead", a short story set in Tokyo during the American occ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
312501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzabur%C5%8D%20%C5%8Ce | Kenzaburō Ōe | Ōe credited his son Hikari for influencing his literary career. Ōe tried to give his son a "voice" through his writing. Several of Ōe's books feature a character based on his son.
In Ōe's 1964 book, A Personal Matter, the writer describes the psychological trauma involved in accepting his brain-damaged son into his li... | 2.234375 | 0 |
312501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzabur%C5%8D%20%C5%8Ce | Kenzaburō Ōe | 2013
Bannen Yoshikishu, his final novel, is the sixth in a series with the main character of Kogito Choko, who can be considered Ōe's literary alter ego. The novel is also in a sense a culmination of the I-novels that Ōe continued to write since his son was born mentally disabled in 1963. In the novel, Choko loses inte... | 2 | 0 |
312506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muffin | Muffin | Quickbread muffins (sometimes described in Britain as "American muffins") are baked, individual-sized, cupcake-shaped foods with a "moist, coarse-grained" texture. Muffins are available in both savoury varieties, such as cornmeal and cheese muffins, or sweet varieties such as blueberry, chocolate chip, lemon or banana ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
312506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muffin | Muffin | The type of muffin can have a big impact on its fat and sugar content; one major fast food chain's low-fat berry muffin has 300 calories, whereas the same restaurant's chocolate chunk muffin has 620 calories. Harvard's Nutrition Source recommends smaller-sized, whole-grain muffins with reduced sugar content, liquid pla... | 2.4375 | 0 |
312510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Nautilus%20%28SSN-571%29 | USS Nautilus (SSN-571) | USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and on 3 August 1958 became the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole. Her initial commanding officer was Eugene "Dennis" Wilkinson, a widely respected naval officer who set the stage for many of the protocol... | 2.84375 | 0 |
312510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Nautilus%20%28SSN-571%29 | USS Nautilus (SSN-571) | Nautilus was powered by the Submarine Thermal Reactor (STR), later redesignated the S2W reactor, a pressurized water reactor produced for the US Navy by Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, operated by Westinghouse, developed the basic reactor plant design used in Nautilus after being give... | 2.890625 | 0 |
312510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Nautilus%20%28SSN-571%29 | USS Nautilus (SSN-571) | From 1955 to 1957, Nautilus continued to be used to investigate the effects of increased submerged speeds and endurance. These improvements rendered the progress made in anti-submarine warfare during World War II virtually obsolete. Radar and anti-submarine aircraft, which had proved crucial in defeating submarines dur... | 2.671875 | 0 |
312510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Nautilus%20%28SSN-571%29 | USS Nautilus (SSN-571) | Museum
Nautilus was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Secretary of the Interior on 20 May 1982.
She was named as the official state ship of Connecticut in 1983. Following an extensive conversion at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Nautilus was towed back to Groton, under the command of Captain Jo... | 2.625 | 0 |
312521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha%20Brothers | Piranha Brothers | "Piranha Brothers" is a Monty Python sketch from the first episode of the second series of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The 14th episode of the series overall, it premiered on BBC1 in the United Kingdom on 15 September 1970. The sketch constitutes a loose pastiche of the Richardson gang and the Kray twins, notorious g... | 1.976563 | 0 |
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