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312755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba | Beersheba | Beersheba ( ), officially Be'er-Sheva, is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most populous Israeli city with a population of , and the second-largest city in area (... | 2.4375 | 0 |
312755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba | Beersheba | Beersheba is further mentioned in the following Bible passages: Isaac built an altar in Beersheba (Genesis 26:23–33). Jacob had his dream about a stairway to heaven after leaving Beersheba. (Genesis 28:10–15 and 46:1–7). Beersheba was the territory of the tribe of Simeon and Judah (Joshua 15:28 and 19:2). The sons of t... | 2.46875 | 0 |
312755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba | Beersheba | Hellenistic period
During the Hasmonean rule, the city was not attributed great importance as it was not mentioned when conquered from Edom or described in the Hasmonean wars.
Roman and Byzantine periods
Around 64-63 BC, the Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus made Beersheba, known as Birosaba, the southern part of t... | 3.0625 | 0 |
312755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba | Beersheba | A plan for the town in the form of a grid was developed by a Swiss and a German architect and two others. The grid pattern can be seen today in Beersheba's Old City. Most of the residents at the time were Arabs from Hebron and the Gaza area, although Jews also began settling in the city. Many Bedouin abandoned their no... | 2.875 | 0 |
312755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba | Beersheba | After the Arab states invaded Palestine and declared war on the newly-founded Jewish state of Israel, Yigal Allon proposed the conquest of Beersheba, which was approved by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. According to Israeli historian Benny Morris, Allon ordered the "conquest of Beersheba, occupation of outposts aroun... | 2.484375 | 0 |
312755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba | Beersheba | As part of its Blueprint Negev project, the Jewish National Fund funded major redevelopment projects in Beersheba. One such project is the Beersheba River Walk, a riverfront park stretching along 8 kilometers of the riverside and containing a manmade boating lake, a 12,000-seat amphitheater, green spaces, playgrounds... | 2.3125 | 0 |
312755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba | Beersheba | Security incidents in the city
On October 19, 1998, sixty-four people were wounded in a grenade attack.
On August 31, 2004, sixteen people were killed in two suicide bombings on commuter buses in Beersheba for which Hamas claimed responsibility. On August 28, 2005, another suicide bomber attacked the central bus statio... | 2.265625 | 0 |
312755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba | Beersheba | Demographics
Beersheba is one of the fastest-growing cities in Israel. Though it has a population of about 200,000, the city is larger in area than Tel Aviv, and its urban plan calls for an eventual population of 450,000–500,000. It is planned to have a population of 340,000 by 2030. The population of Beersheba is pred... | 2.40625 | 0 |
312755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba | Beersheba | According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2022, Beersheba has a ca.8,975 preschoolers in ca.300 preschools & kindergartens. A total of 99 schools teaching a student population of ca.45,291: 60 elementary schools with an enrollment of 19,617 (ca.3,200 of whom are entering the 1st grade), and 39 high schoo... | 2.515625 | 0 |
312755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba | Beersheba | In 1953, Cinema Keren, the Negev's first movie theater, opened in Beersheba. It was built by the Histadrut and had seating for 1,200 people.
Beersheba is the home base of the Israel Sinfonietta, founded in 1973. Over the years, the Sinfonietta has developed a broad repertoire of symphonic works, concerti for solo instr... | 2.296875 | 0 |
312755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba | Beersheba | In 1906, during the Ottoman era, the Great Mosque of Beersheba was built with donations collected from the Bedouin residents in the Negev. It was used actively as a mosque until the city fell to Israeli forces in 1948. The mosque was used until 1953 as the city's courthouse. From then until the 1990s, when it was close... | 2.515625 | 0 |
312756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicans | Dominicans | Dominicans () also known as Quisqueyans () are an ethno-national people, a people of shared ancestry and culture, who have ancestral roots in the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican ethnic group was born out of a fusion of European (mainly Spanish), native Taino, and African elements, this is a fusion that goes as far b... | 3.046875 | 0 |
312756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicans | Dominicans | Name
Historically the Dominican Republic was known as Santo Domingo, the name of its present capital and its patron saint, Saint Dominic. Hence the residents were called "Dominicanos" (Dominicans). The revolutionaries named their newly independent country "La República Dominicana". It was often referred to as the "Repu... | 2.984375 | 0 |
312756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicans | Dominicans | European colonization
Christopher Columbus arrived on the island in December 5, 1492, during the first of his four voyages to the Americas. He claimed the land for Spain and named it La Española due to its diverse climate and terrain which reminded him of the Spanish landscape. In 1496, Bartholomew Columbus, Christoph... | 3.1875 | 0 |
312756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicans | Dominicans | A previous survey published in 2021, shows similar results with 74% of Dominicans self-identified as mixed (Indio 45%, mulatto/moreno 25%, mestizo/jabao 2%), 18% as white, 8% black, and 0.5% as "other".
Previously, in the 1996 electoral roll, 82.5% of the adult population were Indio, 7.55% white, 4.13% black, and 2.3% ... | 2.953125 | 0 |
312756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicans | Dominicans | The first recorded person of Dominican descent to migrate to what is now known as the United States was sailor-turned-merchant Juan Rodriguez. He arrived on Manhattan in 1613 from his home in Santo Domingo, which makes him the first non-Native American person to spend substantial time in the island. He also became the ... | 3.03125 | 0 |
312756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicans | Dominicans | Besides the United States, significant numbers of Dominicans have also settled in Spain and in the nearby U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.
Dominican Emigration
Dominican Immigration
Culture
The culture of the Dominican Republic, like its Caribbean neighbors, is a blend of the cultures of the European settlers, Africa... | 2.84375 | 0 |
312756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicans | Dominicans | In the center of the cross is the Dominican coat of arms, in the same colors as the national flag. The coat of arms pictures a red, white, and blue flag-draped shield with a Bible, a gold cross, and arrows; the shield is surrounded by an olive branch (on the left) and a palm branch (on the right). The Bible traditional... | 2.5 | 0 |
312756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicans | Dominicans | The Dominican Republic is 80% Christian, including 57% Roman Catholic and 23% Protestant. Recent but small scale immigration, as well as proselytizing, has brought other religions, with the following shares of the population: Spiritist: 1.2%, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 1.1%, Buddhist: 0.10%, Baháʼ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
312756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicans | Dominicans | Bachata, a form of music and dance that originated in the countryside and rural marginal neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic, has become quite popular in recent years. Its subjects are often romantic; especially prevalent are tales of heartbreak and sadness. In fact, the original name for the genre was amargue ("bi... | 2.921875 | 0 |
312756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicans | Dominicans | Between 1950 and 1970 Dominican art expressed the social and political conditions of the time. A need for a renewal of the image language emerged and, as a result, paintings were created in non-figurative, abstract, geometric and cubistic styles. The most notable artists included Paul Giudicelli (1921–1965), Clara Lede... | 2.703125 | 0 |
312757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron | Tron | Tron (stylized as TRON) is a 1982 American science fiction action adventure film written and directed by Steven Lisberger from a story by Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird. The film stars Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer and video game developer who is transported inside the software world of a mainframe c... | 2.375 | 0 |
312757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron | Tron | Production
Origins
The inspiration for Tron occurred in 1976 when Steven Lisberger, then an animator of drawings with his own studio, looked at a sample reel from a computer firm called MAGI and saw Pong for the first time. He was immediately fascinated by video games and wanted to do a film incorporating them. Accor... | 2.25 | 0 |
312757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron | Tron | He was frustrated by the clique-like nature of computers and video games and wanted to create a film that would open this world up to everyone. Lisberger and his business partner Donald Kushner moved to the West Coast in 1977 and set up an animation studio to develop Tron. They borrowed against the anticipated profits ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
312757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron | Tron | Production
Because of the many special effects, Disney decided in 1981 to film Tron completely in 65-mm Super Panavision (except for the computer-generated layers, which were shot in VistaVision; and both anamorphic 35mm and Super 35, which were used for some scenes in the "real" world, and subsequently "blown up" to ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
312757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron | Tron | Tron was one of the first films to make extensive use of any form of computer animation, and it is celebrated as a milestone in the industry, although only fifteen to twenty minutes of such animation were used (mostly scenes that show digital "terrain" or patterns, or include vehicles such as light-cycles, tanks and sh... | 2.53125 | 0 |
312757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron | Tron | Most of the scenes, backgrounds, and visual effects in the film were created using more traditional techniques and a unique process known as "backlit animation". In this process, live-action scenes inside the computer world were filmed in black-and-white on an entirely black set, placed in an enlarger for blow-ups and ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
312757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron | Tron | The original script called for "good" programs to be colored yellow and "evil" programs (those loyal to Sark and the MCP) to be colored blue. Partway into production, this coloring scheme was changed to blue for good and red for evil, but some scenes were produced using the original coloring scheme: Clu, who drives a t... | 1.976563 | 0 |
312761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramat%20Gan | Ramat Gan | Ramat Gan ( or , ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of Tel Aviv, and is part of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. It is home to a Diamond Exchange District (one of the world's major diamond exchanges), Sheba Medical Center (the largest hospital in Israel) and many high-tech i... | 2.40625 | 0 |
312761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramat%20Gan | Ramat Gan | Geography and climate
Ramat Gan is located in the Gush Dan metropolitan area east of Tel Aviv. It is bounded in the north by the Yarkon River and in the east by Bnei Brak. Giv'atayim lies to the southwest.
Ramat Gan experiences an average of of rainfall per year and is located, on average above sea level. It is buil... | 2.734375 | 0 |
312767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Claverhouse%20Jebb | Richard Claverhouse Jebb | Jebb died at his home, Springfield House in Cambridge, on 9 December 1905 and was buried at the St Giles Cemetery (now known as the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground) in the town. Caroline Jebb died and was cremated in America, her ashes being returned to Cambridge for interment in her husband's grave.
Works
Jebb... | 2.390625 | 0 |
312769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Givatayim | Givatayim | Givatayim (, lit. "two hills") is a city in Israel east of Tel Aviv. It is part of the metropolitan area known as Gush Dan. Givatayim was established in 1922 by pioneers of the Second Aliyah. In it had a population of .
The name of the city comes from the "two hills" on which it was established: Borochov Hill and Koz... | 2.0625 | 0 |
312769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Givatayim | Givatayim | Over time, more neighborhoods developed: Sheinkin (1936; named after Menahem Sheinkin), Givat Rambam (1933; named after Maimonides), Kiryat Yosef (1934; named after the biblical figure), and Arlozorov (1936; named after Haim Arlosoroff).
All these neighborhoods were merged to form a local council in August 1942. The c... | 2.34375 | 0 |
312772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Burckhardt | Jacob Burckhardt | Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (25 May 1818 – 8 August 1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields. His best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history. Sigfried Gie... | 2.28125 | 0 |
312772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Burckhardt | Jacob Burckhardt | Politics
There is a tension in Burckhardt's persona between the wise and worldly student of the Italian Renaissance and the cautious product of Swiss Calvinism, which he had studied extensively for the ministry. The Swiss polity in which he spent nearly all of his life was a good deal more democratic and stable than wa... | 2.1875 | 0 |
312772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Burckhardt | Jacob Burckhardt | Friedrich Nietzsche, appointed professor of classical philology at Basel in 1869 at the age of 24, admired Burckhardt and attended some of his lectures. Both men were admirers of the late Arthur Schopenhauer. Nietzsche believed Burckhardt agreed with the thesis of his The Birth of Tragedy, that Greek culture was define... | 1.96875 | 0 |
312778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio%20Pollini | Maurizio Pollini | Maurizio Pollini (5 January 1942 – 23 March 2024) was an Italian pianist and conductor. He was known for performances of Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, and the Second Viennese School, among others. He championed works by contemporary composers, including Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Benjamin, Roberto Carne... | 2.296875 | 0 |
312778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio%20Pollini | Maurizio Pollini | Beginning in the mid-1960s, Pollini gave recitals and appeared with orchestras in Europe, the United States, and the Far East. His American debut was in 1968 at Carnegie Hall in New York. He first toured Japan in 1974. Once wary of becoming pigeonholed as a specialist, especially of Chopin, he had "clearly avoided that... | 2.15625 | 0 |
312779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benno%20Moiseiwitsch | Benno Moiseiwitsch | Playing style
Moiseiwitsch was particularly known for his interpretations of the late Romantic repertoire, especially the works of Sergei Rachmaninoff (who was an admirer of his playing and referred to Moiseiwitsch as his "spiritual heir") and Robert Schumann, whose piano music gave Moiseiwitsch "more emotional and spi... | 2.421875 | 0 |
312780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20William%20Faber | Frederick William Faber | Frederick William Faber (28 June 1814 – 26 September 1863) was a noted English hymnwriter and theologian, who converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1845. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood subsequently in 1847. His best-known work is the hymn "Faith of Our Fathers".
Early life
Faber was born on ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
312780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20William%20Faber | Frederick William Faber | Faber died on 26 September 1863. His funeral was on 30 September and he was buried in the cemetery of St Mary's Sydenham (then in Kent), which was the Brompton Oratory's retreat house. In 1952 Faber's remains were re-interred in the Brompton Oratory London, when St Mary's was requisitioned by the London County Council.... | 2.390625 | 0 |
312781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinu%20Lipatti | Dinu Lipatti | Constantin "Dinu" Lipatti (; 2 December 1950) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from effects related to Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy. He composed few works, all of which demonstrated a strong influence from Hungarian... | 2.0625 | 0 |
312781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinu%20Lipatti | Dinu Lipatti | Career
He entered the 1933 Vienna International Piano Competition and finished second to Polish pianist Bolesław Kon, some say controversially. Alfred Cortot, who thought Lipatti should have won, resigned from the jury in protest. Lipatti subsequently studied in Paris under Cortot, Nadia Boulanger (with whom he recorde... | 2.515625 | 0 |
312781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinu%20Lipatti | Dinu Lipatti | A recording of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, originally released under Lipatti's name, and said to have been a recording of a live performance in Switzerland in May 1948, proved not to be his contribution at all. In 1981, it emerged that the soloist on this recording was in fact a Polish pianist (and a fell... | 2.234375 | 0 |
312782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lill | John Lill | John Richard Lill (born 17 March 1944 in London) is a British classical pianist.
Biography
Lill studied at the Royal College of Music with Angus Morrison, and with Wilhelm Kempff. His talent emerged at an early age, he gave his first piano recital at the age of nine and by the age of 14 had all of the Piano Sonatas o... | 2.34375 | 0 |
312785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Kempff | Wilhelm Kempff | Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (25 November 1895 – 23 May 1991) was a German pianist, teacher and composer. Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, recording th... | 2.359375 | 0 |
312785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Kempff | Wilhelm Kempff | He recorded the complete sonatas of Franz Schubert long before these works became popular, albeit restricting himself to the finished movements, not fragments, in sonatas that Schubert left incomplete. He also recorded two sets of the complete Beethoven sonatas, one in mono (1951–1956) and the other in stereo (1964–196... | 2.484375 | 0 |
312785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Kempff | Wilhelm Kempff | When pianist Artur Schnabel undertook his pioneering complete recording of the Beethoven sonatas in the 1930s, he told EMI that if he didn't complete the cycle, they should have Kempff complete the remainder. Later, when Kempff was in Finland, the composer Jean Sibelius asked him to play the slow movement of Beethoven'... | 2.59375 | 0 |
312788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra%20Hess | Myra Hess | Dame Julia Myra Hess, (25 February 1890 – 25 November 1965) was an English pianist best known for her performances of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms. She never married but devoted her life to music.
Career
Early life
Julia Myra Hess was born on 25 February 1890 to a Jewish family in Sou... | 2.53125 | 0 |
312788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra%20Hess | Myra Hess | Post-war career
In 1946, Arturo Toscanini invited Hess to perform with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in New York City. According to Toscanini's biographer Mortimer Frank, after Hess and the conductor had failed to agree on tempos for Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, they decided instead to perform Beethoven's Third. The... | 2.515625 | 0 |
312791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Gieseking | Walter Gieseking | During World War II, Gieseking continued to reside in Germany, while continuing to concertize in Europe, and was accused of having collaborated with the Nazi Party. He was criticized for this by Vladimir Horowitz, who, in David Dubal's book Evenings with Horowitz, called Gieseking a "supporter of the Nazis", and by Art... | 2.28125 | 0 |
312791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Gieseking | Walter Gieseking | Gieseking had a very wide repertoire, ranging from various pieces by Bach and the core works by Beethoven to the concertos of Rachmaninoff and more modern works by composers such as Busoni, Hindemith, Schoenberg and the lesser-known Italian Petrassi. He gave the premiere of Hans Pfitzner's Piano Concerto in 1923. Today... | 2.203125 | 0 |
312793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%20Bolet | Jorge Bolet | Jorge Bolet (November 15, 1914October 16, 1990) was a Cuban-born American concert pianist, conductor and teacher. Among his teachers were Leopold Godowsky, and Moriz Rosenthal – the latter a renowned pupil of Franz Liszt.
Life
Bolet was born in Havana and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where... | 2.609375 | 0 |
312793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%20Bolet | Jorge Bolet | In 1984, the A&E Network broadcast a series of three programs, entitled Bolet Meets Rachmaninoff, in which the pianist was shown giving masterclasses on the subject of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3. These masterclasses were followed on the series by a complete performance of Bolet playing the concerto.
Th... | 2.109375 | 0 |
312795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20Curzon | Clifford Curzon | Sir Clifford Michael Curzon CBE (né Siegenberg; 18 May 19071 September 1982) was an English classical pianist.
Curzon studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and subsequently with Artur Schnabel in Berlin and Wanda Landowska and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In his early career he was known for his performances o... | 2.59375 | 0 |
312795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20Curzon | Clifford Curzon | In 1919 Curzon entered the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, and two years later was admitted to the senior school of the academy at the unusually early age of fourteen. He studied with Charles Reddie, whose own teacher, Bernhard Stavenhagen, had been a pupil of Franz Liszt. Curzon won many prizes, including the ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
312795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20Curzon | Clifford Curzon | Soloist
Curzon built a successful career as a soloist, enabling him to resign from the RAM in 1932. In addition to frequent concerts in Britain, he toured Europe in 1936 and 1938 under the auspices of the British Council, and made his US debut in 1939, returning regularly for many years after the Second World War. In h... | 2.359375 | 0 |
312798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishon%20LeZion | Rishon LeZion | After the Biluim arrived, the town slowly began to develop. On 23 February 1883, the settlers found water in the wells. To mark this occasion, the village emblem was inscribed with a verse from the Torah: "We have found water." (Genesis 26:32) Fani Belkind, Israel Belkind, Shimshon Belkind, Yoel Drubin, Haim Hissin, an... | 2.75 | 0 |
312798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishon%20LeZion | Rishon LeZion | Naphtali Herz Imber, the later famed Hebrew language poet, lived in Rishon LeZion for a few years in the late 1880s. He recited his poem, Tikvahtenu, to eager ears. In 1887, Shmuel Cohen, a young resident of Rishon with a musical background, observed the emotional response of the local Jewish farmers to Imber's poem. U... | 2.703125 | 0 |
312798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishon%20LeZion | Rishon LeZion | Rishon LeZion is known for its achievements in handball and chess.
In handball, Hapoel Rishon LeZion and Maccabi Rishon LeZion dominate the handball league. Hapoel has won more than seven domestic championships and cups in a row, with stars like goalkeeper Vladimir Zaikman and field-players Idan Maimon and Dudi Balsar.... | 2.0625 | 0 |
312799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Backhaus | Wilhelm Backhaus | Wilhelm Backhaus ('Bachaus' on some record labels) (26 March 1884 – 5 July 1969) was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He was also much admired as a chamber musician.
Musical biography
Born in Leipzig, Backhaus was... | 2.859375 | 0 |
312799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Backhaus | Wilhelm Backhaus | Role in Nazi Germany
Although Backhaus and his wife had become Swiss citizens in 1931, he maintained an active career in Germany. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, Backhaus met Adolf Hitler no later than May 1933, while flying with him to Munich. That same year, he became an executive advisor to the Nazi organiz... | 2.890625 | 0 |
312799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Backhaus | Wilhelm Backhaus | Backhaus had a long career on the concert stage and in the recording studio. He recorded the complete piano sonatas and concertos of Beethoven and many works of Mozart and Brahms, and in 1928 he became the first pianist to record the complete Etudes of Frédéric Chopin. Backhaus' readings are still widely regarded as am... | 2.484375 | 0 |
312800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen%20God | Kitchen God | Other stories
Another origin story of the Stove God is believed to have appeared soon after the invention of the brick stove. The Kitchen God was originally believed to have resided in the stove and only later took on human form. During the Han dynasty, it is believed that a poor farmer named Yin Zifang, was surprised ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
312800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen%20God | Kitchen God | Many customs are associated with the Kitchen God, especially defining the date of the "Kitchen God festival", also known as "Little New Year". It is noted that the date differed depending on the location. It is believed that people in northern China celebrate it on the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunisolar month, w... | 2.234375 | 0 |
312802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Cortot | Alfred Cortot | Alfred Denis Cortot ( , ; 26 September 187715 June 1962) was a French pianist, conductor, and teacher who was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century. A pianist of massive repertory, he was especially valued for his poetic insight into Romantic piano works, particularly those of Chopin, Franck,... | 2.71875 | 0 |
312802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Cortot | Alfred Cortot | As a leading musical figure, Cortot traveled for many international music events. The French government sponsored two promotional tours to the United States and one to the Soviet Union in 1920. He conducted several orchestras and was often called upon to provide piano accompaniment for touring artists when in Paris. He... | 2.8125 | 0 |
312805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasons%20and%20Persons | Reasons and Persons | Reasons and Persons is a 1984 book by the philosopher Derek Parfit, in which the author discusses ethics, rationality and personal identity.
It is divided into four parts, dedicated to self-defeating theories, rationality and time, personal identity and responsibility toward future generations.
Summary
Self-defeati... | 2.28125 | 0 |
312805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasons%20and%20Persons | Reasons and Persons | Parfit's main purpose in Part 2 is to make an argument against self-interest theory. Self-interest theorists consider the differences between different persons to be extremely important, but do not consider the differences between the same person at different times to be important at all. Parfit argues that this makes ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
312805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasons%20and%20Persons | Reasons and Persons | Parfit's argument for this position relies on our intuitions regarding thought experiments such as teleportation, the fission and fusion of persons, gradual replacement of the matter in one's brain, gradual alteration of one's psychology, and so on. For example, Parfit asks the reader to imagine entering a "teletransp... | 2 | 0 |
312806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%83m%C4%83lig%C4%83 | Mămăligă | A Hungarian scholar documented the arrival of corn in Timișoara, Banat region, 1692. In Transylvania, maize is also called 'cucuruz', which could imply a connection between Transylvanian and Serbian merchants, kukuruz being a Slavic word. Some assume it was either Șerban Cantacuzino or Constantin Mavrocordat who introd... | 3.0625 | 0 |
312806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%83m%C4%83lig%C4%83 | Mămăligă | Mămăligă is a versatile food: various recipes of mămăligă-based dishes may include milk, butter, various types of cheese, eggs, sausages (usually fried, grilled or oven-roasted), bacon, mushrooms, ham, fish etc. Mămăligă is a fat-free, cholesterol-free, high-fiber food. It can be used as a healthy alternative to more r... | 2.140625 | 0 |
312809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20in%20religion | Ethics in religion | Christian virtues are often divided into four cardinal virtues and three theological virtues. Christian ethics includes questions regarding how the rich should act toward the poor, how women are to be treated, and the morality of war. Christian ethicists, like other ethicists, approach ethics from different frameworks ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
312809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20in%20religion | Ethics in religion | Ethics is called Nitisastra () in ancient texts of Hinduism. Ethics and virtue are a much debated and an evolving concept in ancient scriptures of Hinduism. Virtue, right conduct, ethics and morality are part of the complex concept Hindus call Dharma – everything that is essential for people, the world and nature to ex... | 2.71875 | 0 |
312809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20in%20religion | Ethics in religion | Ethics that constitute a dharmic life – that is a moral, ethical, virtuous life – evolve in vedas and upanishads. Ethical subjects and questions are debated by various schools of Hinduism, quite extensively, in numerous texts on what is right conduct, when, how and why. Over time, new virtues were conceptualized and ad... | 2.59375 | 0 |
312809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20in%20religion | Ethics in religion | The Persian historian Al Biruni who visited and lived in India for 16 years in the early 11th century, describes the concept of ethics and virtuous behavior among Hindus of his times. Of ethical mandates among Hindus, a literal translation of his Persian language manuscript includes (1) A man shall not kill; (2) nor li... | 2.890625 | 0 |
312809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20in%20religion | Ethics in religion | The division of Arabs into varying tribes (based upon blood and kinship). This categorization was confronted by the ideal of a unified community based upon Islamic piety, an "ummah";
The acceptance of the worship of a multitude of deities besides Allah – a view challenged by strict Islamic monotheism, which dictates t... | 2.5625 | 0 |
312809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20in%20religion | Ethics in religion | A Muslim should not be vain or attached to the ephemeral pleasures of this world. While most people allow the material world to fill their hearts, Muslims should keep God in their hearts and the material world in their hand. Instead of being attached to the car and the job and the diploma and the bank account, all thes... | 2.53125 | 0 |
312809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20in%20religion | Ethics in religion | Jainism teaches five ethical duties, which it calls five vows. These are called anuvratas (small vows) for Jain laypersons, and mahavratas (great vows) for Jain mendicants. For both, its moral precepts preface that the Jain has access to a guru (teacher, counsellor), deva (Jina, god), doctrine, and that the individual ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
312809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20in%20religion | Ethics in religion | Jainism also prescribes seven supplementary vows, including three guņa vratas (merit vows) and four śikşā vratas. The Sallekhana (or Santhara) vow is a "religious death" ritual vow observed at the end of life, historically by Jain monks and nuns, but rare in the modern age. In this vow, there is voluntary and gradual r... | 2.515625 | 0 |
312809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20in%20religion | Ethics in religion | More developed ethical works emanated from Hasidean circles in the Maccabean time, such as are contained in Tobit, especially in Chapter IV. Here the first ethical will or testament is found, giving a summary of moral teachings, with the Golden Rule, "Do that to no man which thou hatest!" as the leading maxim. There ar... | 2.4375 | 0 |
312810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20morphology | Mathematical morphology | Mathematical morphology (MM) is a theory and technique for the analysis and processing of geometrical structures, based on set theory, lattice theory, topology, and random functions. MM is most commonly applied to digital images, but it can be employed as well on graphs, surface meshes, solids, and many other spatial s... | 2.28125 | 0 |
312813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%20Mariani | Vin Mariani | Vin Mariani (French: Mariani wine) was a coca wine and patent medicine created in the 1860s by Angelo Mariani, a French chemist from the island of Corsica. Mariani became intrigued with coca and its medical and economic potential after reading Paolo Mantegazza's paper on the effects of coca. Between 1863 and 1868 Maria... | 2.3125 | 0 |
312833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots%20per%20inch | Dots per inch | The DPI measurement of a printer often needs to be considerably higher than the pixels per inch (PPI) measurement of a video display in order to produce similar-quality output. This is due to the limited range of colours for each dot typically available on a printer. At each dot position, the simplest type of color pri... | 2.5 | 0 |
312833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots%20per%20inch | Dots per inch | For vector images, since the file is resolution independent, there is no need to resample the image before resizing it as it prints equally well at all sizes. However, there is still a target printing size. Some image formats, such as Photoshop format, can contain both bitmap and vector data in the same file. Adjusting... | 2.359375 | 0 |
312833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots%20per%20inch | Dots per inch | Computer monitor DPI standards
Since the 1980s, Macs have set the default display "DPI" to 72 PPI, while the Microsoft Windows operating system has used a default of 96 PPI. These default specifications arose out of the problems rendering standard fonts in the early display systems of the 1980s, including the IBM-base... | 2.328125 | 0 |
312833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots%20per%20inch | Dots per inch | Displays with high pixel densities were not common up to the Windows XP era. High DPI displays became mainstream around the time Windows 8 was released. Display scaling by entering a custom DPI irrespective of the display resolution has been a feature of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95. Windows XP introduced the GDI... | 2.171875 | 0 |
312836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cups%20and%20balls | Cups and balls | The cups and balls is a performance of magic with innumerable adaptations. Street gambling variations performed by conmen were known as Bunco Booths. A typical cups and balls routine includes many of the most fundamental effects of magic: the balls can vanish, appear, transpose, reappear and transform. Basic skills, su... | 2.515625 | 0 |
312847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90i%E1%BB%87n%20Bi%C3%AAn%20Ph%E1%BB%A7 | Điện Biên Phủ | Điện Biên Phủ (, ) is a city in the northwestern region of Vietnam. It is the capital of Điện Biên Province. The city is best known for the decisive Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, which occurred during the First Indochina War of independence against France. The region is a center of ethnic Tai culture. In prior history, the ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
312847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90i%E1%BB%87n%20Bi%C3%AAn%20Ph%E1%BB%A7 | Điện Biên Phủ | In 1887, Điện Biên Phủ became a French protectorate. To ensure that the French would control the local opium trade, they appointed a sole administrator to supervise the trade and control the town. Other than a Hmong rebellion in 1918, the town was under French control until the Japanese occupied it during World War II.... | 2.75 | 0 |
312853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totally%20real%20number%20field | Totally real number field | In number theory, a number field F is called totally real if for each embedding of F into the complex numbers the image lies inside the real numbers. Equivalent conditions are that F is generated over Q by one root of an integer polynomial P, all of the roots of P being real; or that the tensor product algebra of F wit... | 2.265625 | 0 |
312855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut%20and%20restore%20rope%20trick | Cut and restore rope trick | The cut and restore rope trick is a magic effect in which the performer cuts a piece of rope (usually tied into a knot) which then appears to be magically restored. Sometimes the trick is done with a piece of string, a handkerchief, or a turban instead of an actual rope.
Method
There are many variations on the cut an... | 2.5 | 0 |
312856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Pannekoek | Anton Pannekoek | Antonie "Anton" Pannekoek (; 2 January 1873 – 28 April 1960) was a Dutch astronomer, historian,
philosopher, Marxist theorist, and socialist revolutionary. He was one of the main theorists of council communism ().
Early life
Anton was born 2 January 1873 in Vaassen. His father managed a small metal foundry and his mo... | 1.929688 | 0 |
312856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Pannekoek | Anton Pannekoek | After reading Edward Bellamy's Equality, Pannekoek became a convinced socialist and started studying the philosophies of Karl Marx and Joseph Dietzgen. Soon Pannekoek became a well-known Marxist writer, writing for both Dutch and German socialist magazines, like Die Neue Zeit. His astronomical and socialist careers fir... | 2.21875 | 0 |
312856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Pannekoek | Anton Pannekoek | Pannekoek's research on the appearance of the Milky Way was closely connected to his research on the structure of the galaxy. In this research, he adapted the statistical methods of Jacobus Kapteyn to investigate individual clusters in the galaxy. His most important results were the measurement of the distance to the s... | 2.5 | 0 |
312856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Pannekoek | Anton Pannekoek | Pannekoek was a sharp critic of anarchism, social democracy, and Vladimir Lenin and Leninism. During the early years of the Russian revolution, Pannekoek gave critical support to the Bolsheviks, a position shared by fellow council communist Herman Gorter. He expressed misgivings about the authoritarian tendencies of Le... | 2.03125 | 0 |
312857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basse-Terre | Basse-Terre | Native American origins
Before Basse-Terre became a French town it was a village of American Indian horticulturists and potters. The village was on the site of the present Basse-Terre Cathedral where archaeological excavations found human remains and other evidence of occupation during the restoration of the cathedral.... | 2.75 | 0 |
312857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basse-Terre | Basse-Terre | Urban morphology
Over the centuries the commune spread along a street formerly named Grand Rue. The River of Herbs separates two early nuclei of houses which now correspond to the districts of Carmel and Saint Francis. The town developed on a narrow coastal strip between the Caribbean Sea and the first hills of the lo... | 2.890625 | 0 |
312859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravesend | Gravesend | Gravesend has one of the oldest surviving markets in the country. Its earliest charter dates from 1268, with town status being granted to the two parishes of Gravesend and Milton by King Henry III in its Charter of Incorporation of that year. The first mayor of Gravesend was elected in 1268 but the first town hall was ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
312859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravesend | Gravesend | A permanent military presence was established in the town when Milton Barracks opened in 1862.
Although much of the town's economy continued to be connected with maritime trade, since the 19th century other major employers have been the cement and paper industries.
From 1932 to 1956, an airport was located to the eas... | 2.203125 | 0 |
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