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312976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa | Nüwa | Nüwa created humanity due to her loneliness, which grew more intense over time. She molded yellow earth or, in other versions, yellow clay into the shape of people. These individuals later became the wealthy nobles of society, because they had been created by Nüwa's own hands. However, the majority of humanity was crea... | 2.65625 | 0 |
312976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa | Nüwa | Misty vapor then gathered after the prayer signifying the two could marry. When intimate, the two made a fan out of grass to screen their faces which is why during modern day marriages, the couple hold a fan together. By connecting, the two were representative of Yin and Yang; Fuxi being connected to Yang and masculini... | 2.21875 | 0 |
312976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa | Nüwa | The Huainanzi tells an ancient story about how the four pillars that support the sky crumbled inexplicably. Other sources have tried to explain the cause, i.e. the battle between Gong Gong and Zhuanxu or Zhurong. Unable to accept his defeat, Gong Gong deliberately banged his head onto Mount Buzhou (不周山) which was one o... | 2.640625 | 0 |
312977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Biondi | Matt Biondi | Matthew Nicholas Biondi (born October 8, 1965) is an American former competitive swimmer and water polo player. As a swimmer, he is an eleven-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder in five events. Biondi competed in the Summer Olympic Games in 1984, 1988 and 1992, winning a total of eleven medals (eight ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
312977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Biondi | Matt Biondi | 1984 Olympics
In the summer of 1984, Biondi surprised the swimming community by qualifying for a spot on the United States 4×100-meter freestyle relay at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics with his fourth-place finish in the 100-meter freestyle at the Olympic Trials held in Indianapolis. He also finished 18th in the prelim... | 2.1875 | 0 |
312977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Biondi | Matt Biondi | At the 1988 Olympic Trials, Biondi qualified to compete in seven events: the three relays, and individually in the 50-, 100-, and 200-meter freestyle and the 100-meter butterfly. He set the world record in the 100-meter freestyle for the fourth time (48.42), and broke his own American record in the 200-meter freestyle ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
312984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henschel%20Hs%20293 | Henschel Hs 293 | The Henschel Hs 293 was a World War II German radio-guided glide bomb. It is the first operational anti-shipping missile, first used unsuccessfully on 25 August 1943 and then with increasing success over the next year, damaging or sinking at least 25 ships. Allied efforts to jam the radio control link were increasingly... | 2.28125 | 0 |
312984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henschel%20Hs%20293 | Henschel Hs 293 | The weapon consisted of a modified standard 500 kilogram Sprengbombe-Cylindrisch-class SC 500 "general purpose" bomb with an added "Kopfring" on the nose for maritime use, to help ensure a relatively perpendicular axis of impact, with a thin metal shell and a high explosive charge inside, equipped with a rocket engine ... | 2 | 0 |
312987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Camel | Joe Camel | Joe Camel (also called Old Joe) was an advertising mascot used by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) for their cigarette brand Camel. The character was created in 1974 for a French advertising campaign, and was redesigned for the American market in 1988. He appeared in magazine advertisements, clothing, and billb... | 2.234375 | 0 |
312987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Camel | Joe Camel | Legacy
The Joe Camel campaign has been suspected of inspiring similar ad campaigns. In late 1991, Brown & Williamson ran marketing tests for a revival of their penguin mascot, Willie, for their Kool cigarette brand. The character had appeared in Kool advertisements from 1933 to 1960. The New York Times noted that the ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
312989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettino%20Craxi | Bettino Craxi | Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi ( , , ; 24 February 1934 – 19 January 2000) was an Italian politician and statesman, leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) from 1976 to 1993, and the 45th prime minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987. He was the first PSI member to become prime minister and the second from a socialist party... | 1.9375 | 0 |
312989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettino%20Craxi | Bettino Craxi | Even if the PSI never became a serious electoral challenger either to the PCI or the Christian Democrats, its pivotal position in the political arena allowed it to claim the post of Prime Minister for Craxi after the 1983 general election. The electoral support for the Christian Democrats was significantly weakened, le... | 2.078125 | 0 |
312989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettino%20Craxi | Bettino Craxi | The main dynamic of Italian post-war politics was to find a way to keep the Italian Communist Party out of power. This led to the constant formation of political alliances between parties keen on keeping the Communists at bay. Things were further complicated by the fact that many parties had internal currents that woul... | 2.546875 | 0 |
312989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettino%20Craxi | Bettino Craxi | This move was supposedly dictated both by security concerns about terrorists targeting Italy if the United States had had it their way and by the Italian tradition of diplomacy with the Arab world. Craxi's decisive character may have been relevant in this resolution. Though the Americans demanded that the Italian autho... | 1.945313 | 0 |
312989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettino%20Craxi | Bettino Craxi | Origins and features
Although the term is considered derogatory today, Craxism was based on a synthesis of socialism, social democracy, and social liberalism, or the Italian liberal-socialist tradition. Under Craxi, the PSI supported Third-Worldism, was pro-Arab and environmentalist, and supported the modern welfare s... | 1.921875 | 0 |
312990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7%20World%20Trade%20Center | 7 World Trade Center | The construction phase of the new 7 World Trade Center began on May 7, 2002, with the installation of a fence around the construction site. Restoring the Consolidated Edison substation was an urgent priority to meet power demands of Lower Manhattan; the utility stated that it needed to replace four of the ten destroyed... | 2.0625 | 0 |
312990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7%20World%20Trade%20Center | 7 World Trade Center | WSP Cantor Seinuk served as structural engineer on the project, while Jaros, Baum & Bolles was the MEP engineer. Nearly 30 percent of structural steel used in the building consists of recycled steel. Rainwater is collected and used for irrigation of the park and to cool the building. Along with other sustainable design... | 2.21875 | 0 |
312991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Kammhuber | Josef Kammhuber | Josef Kammhuber (August 19, 1896 – January 25, 1986) was a career officer who served in the Imperial German Army, the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany and the post-World War II German Air Force. During World War II, he was the first general of night fighters in the Luftwaffe.
Kammhuber created the night fighter defense syste... | 2.328125 | 0 |
312991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Kammhuber | Josef Kammhuber | Kammhuber returned to active duty in February 1939 and was assigned as chief-of-staff of Luftflotte 2. On January 11, 1940, he was reprimanded by Adolf Hitler personally because of the Mechelen Incident. He was then transferred to the Western Front where he became commander of KG 51. On 3 June 1940, he flew with the wi... | 2.65625 | 0 |
312991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Kammhuber | Josef Kammhuber | At the same time Kammhuber continued to press for a new dedicated nightfighter design, eventually selecting the Heinkel He 219 Uhu after seeing it demonstrated in 1942. However Milch had decided to cancel the Uhu, and conflict arose between the two. As a result, in 1943 Kammhuber was transferred to Luftflotte 5 in Norw... | 2.0625 | 0 |
312993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/400-series%20highways | 400-series highways | The 400-series highways are a network of controlled-access highways in the Canadian province of Ontario, forming a special subset of the provincial highway system. They are analogous to the Interstate Highway System in the United States or the Autoroute system of neighbouring Quebec, and are regulated by the Ministry o... | 2.671875 | 0 |
312993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/400-series%20highways | 400-series highways | History
When the 400-series designations were first applied to Ontario freeways in 1952,
several divided highways had already been opened in Southern Ontario.
Originally inspired by German Autobahns, Minister of Highways Thomas McQuesten planned a network of "Dual Highways" across the southern half of the province dur... | 2.65625 | 0 |
312993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/400-series%20highways | 400-series highways | In addition to this network backbone, plans for additional 400-series highways were initiated by the late 1950s, comprising the Chedoke Expressway (Highway 403) through Hamilton;
the Don Valley Parkway Extension (Highway 404) northward from the soon-to-be constructed Toronto expressway;
Highway 405 to connect with the ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
312993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/400-series%20highways | 400-series highways | Highways 407 and 416 opened in the late 1990s.
Until early 2015, Highways 407 and 416 were the most-recently designated (and constructed) freeways in Ontario. This has changed with the construction of Highways 412 and 418. In addition to these new additions to the 400-series network, several extensions of existing fr... | 2.484375 | 0 |
312993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/400-series%20highways | 400-series highways | Conforming with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Ontario utilizes green signs for guidance purposes, including distances to nearby interchanges and destinations.
Generally, blue signage is used to list services and attractions at upcoming exits, known as Tourism-Oriented Directional Signing.
However, seve... | 2.5625 | 0 |
312993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/400-series%20highways | 400-series highways | There are four examples of 400 series standard highways in Ontario that are not signed as such. The Gardiner Expressway between Highway 427 and Parklawn Road was originally built as a section of QEW (Hwy 451) and therefore is built to 400-series standards but lost its QEW designation after being downloaded to the City ... | 2.25 | 0 |
313002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Unicorn%20%28film%29 | The Last Unicorn (film) | The Last Unicorn is a 1982 American animated fantasy film directed and produced by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass, from a script by Peter S. Beagle adapted from his 1968 novel of the same title. The plot concerns a unicorn who, upon learning that she is the last of her species on Earth, goes on a quest to find out w... | 1.953125 | 0 |
313007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condottiero | Condottiero | Condottieri (; : condottiero or condottiere) were Italian military leaders during the Middle Ages and the early modern period. The definition originally applied only to commanders of mercenary companies, in medieval Italian meaning 'contractor' and being the contract by which the condottieri put themselves in the ser... | 2.421875 | 0 |
313007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condottiero | Condottiero | Once aware of their military power monopoly in Italy, the condottieri bands became notorious for their capriciousness and soon dictated terms to their ostensible employers. In turn, many condottieri, such as Braccio da Montone and Muzio Sforza, became powerful politicians. As most were educated men acquainted with Roma... | 2.53125 | 0 |
313007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condottiero | Condottiero | In 1487, at Calliano, the Venetians successfully met and acquitted themselves against the German landsknechte and the Swiss infantry, the best soldiers in Europe at the time.
Decline
In time, the financial and political interests of the condottieri proved serious drawbacks to decisive, bloody warfare: the mercenary c... | 2.703125 | 0 |
313009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug%20overdose | Drug overdose | A drug overdose (overdose or OD) is the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities much greater than are recommended. Typically the term is applied for cases when a risk to health is a potential result. An overdose may result in a toxic state or death.
Classification
The word "overdose" implie... | 2.859375 | 0 |
313009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug%20overdose | Drug overdose | Diagnosis
The substance that has been taken may often be determined by asking the person. However, if they will not, or cannot, due to an altered level of consciousness, provide this information, a search of the home or questioning of friends and family may be helpful.
Examination for toxidromes, drug testing, or labo... | 2.625 | 0 |
313009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug%20overdose | Drug overdose | Stabilization of the person's airway, breathing, and circulation (ABCs) is the initial treatment of an overdose. Ventilation is considered when there is a low respiratory rate or when blood gases show the person to be hypoxic. Monitoring of the patient should continue before and throughout the treatment process, with p... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug%20overdose | Drug overdose | In 2008 testimony before a Senate subcommittee, Leonard J. Paulozzi, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that in 2005 more than 22,000 American people died due to overdoses, and the number is growing rapidly. Paulozzi also testified that all available evidence suggests uninte... | 2.296875 | 0 |
313010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments%20in%20the%20Revival%20of%20Organisms | Experiments in the Revival of Organisms | It is then left for ten minutes and connected to the autojektor, which gradually returns the blood into the animal's circulation. After several minutes of restoring blood flow, the heart fibrillates, then resumes its normal rhythm. Respiration resumes shortly thereafter and the machine is disconnected. Over the ensuing... | 2.578125 | 0 |
313010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments%20in%20the%20Revival%20of%20Organisms | Experiments in the Revival of Organisms | George Bernard Shaw wrote of Brukhonenko's decapitation experiment: "I am even tempted to have my own head cut off so that I can continue to dictate plays and books without being bothered by illness, without having to dress and undress, without having to eat, without having anything else to do other than to produce mas... | 1.914063 | 0 |
313012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual%20command%20to%20line%20of%20sight | Manual command to line of sight | Manual command to line of sight (MCLOS or MACLOS) is a method for guiding guided missiles.
With an MCLOS missile, the operator must track the missile and the target simultaneously and guide the missile to the target. Typically the missile is steered with a joystick, and its path is observed through a periscope-type te... | 2.40625 | 0 |
313013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Philip%27s%20War | King Philip's War | The war was the greatest calamity in seventeenth-century New England and is considered by many to be the deadliest war in Colonial American history. In the space of little more than a year, 12 of the region's towns were destroyed and many more were damaged, the economy of the Plymouth and Rhode Island Colonies was ruin... | 3.09375 | 0 |
313013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Philip%27s%20War | King Philip's War | Subsequent colonists founded Salem, Boston, and many small towns around Massachusetts Bay between 1628 and 1640, during a time of increased English immigration. The colonists progressively expanded throughout the territories of the several Algonquian-speaking tribes in the region. Prior to King Philip's War, tensions f... | 3.0625 | 0 |
313013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Philip%27s%20War | King Philip's War | Meanwhile, with the death of Ousamequin, Native diplomacy with the settlers fell apart, as colonists tried negotiating with Wamsutta in the same role they did with Ousamequin, but slighted female Native rulers (saunkswkas) of the land and erroneously claimed Sakonnet and Pocasset land as freely given. This created furt... | 2.703125 | 0 |
313013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Philip%27s%20War | King Philip's War | Population
The population of New England colonists totaled about 65,000 people. They lived in 110 towns, of which 64 were in the Massachusetts Bay colony, which then included the southwestern portion of Maine and southern New Hampshire until 1679. The towns had about 16,000 men of military age who were almost all part ... | 2.984375 | 0 |
313013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Philip%27s%20War | King Philip's War | By 1676, the regional indigenous population had decreased to about 10,000 (exact numbers are unavailable) largely because of epidemics. These included about 4,000 Narragansetts of western Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut, 2,400 Nipmucs of central and western Massachusetts, and 2,400 combined in the Massachusett and... | 3.109375 | 0 |
313013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Philip%27s%20War | King Philip's War | Siege of Brookfield
Wheeler's Surprise and the ensuing Siege of Brookfield were fought in August 1675, between Nipmucs under Muttawmp and the colonists of Massachusetts Bay under the command of Thomas Wheeler and Captain Edward Hutchinson. The battle consisted of an initial ambush on August 2, 1675 by the Nipmucs agai... | 2.75 | 0 |
313013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Philip%27s%20War | King Philip's War | The Lancaster raid in February 1676 was a Native attack on the community of Lancaster, Massachusetts. Philip led a force of 1,500 Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Narragansett men in a dawn attack on the isolated village, which then included the neighboring communities of Bolton and Clinton. They attacked five fortified houses. ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
313013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Philip%27s%20War | King Philip's War | The settlements within the Colony of Rhode Island became a literal island colony for a time as the settlements at Providence and Warwick were sacked and burned, and the residents were driven to Newport and Portsmouth on Rhode Island. The Connecticut River towns had thousands of acres of cultivated crop land known as th... | 3.265625 | 0 |
313013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Philip%27s%20War | King Philip's War | The colonists defeated an attack at Hadley on June 12, 1676 with the help of their Mohegan allies, scattering most of the survivors into New Hampshire and farther north. Later that month, a force of 250 Natives was routed near Marlborough, Massachusetts. Combined forces of colonial volunteers and their indigenous allie... | 3.078125 | 0 |
313013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Philip%27s%20War | King Philip's War | Zachariah Smith was passing through Dedham on April 12, 1671 when he stopped at the home of Caleb Church in the "sawmill settlement" on the banks of the Neponset River. The next morning, a group of praying Indians found him shot dead, and suspicion fell on a group on Nipmucs who were heading south to Providence. This w... | 2.578125 | 0 |
313013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Philip%27s%20War | King Philip's War | But many Natives and their communities survived the war, especially on Cape Cod where the war had few direct effects. After 1695, Plymouth’s incorporation into Massachusetts encouraged expansion and creation of English settlements, putting new pressures on Native resources and driving the consolidation of their village... | 3.234375 | 0 |
313015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavaj%C3%AB | Kavajë | Kavajë ( , ) is a city and municipality centrally located in the Western Lowlands region of Albania, in Tirana County. It borders Durrës to the north , Tiranë to the east and Rrogozhinë to the south . To the west lies the Adriatic Sea. According on the 2023 census, the municipality had a population of 30,012, although... | 2.078125 | 0 |
313015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavaj%C3%AB | Kavajë | Population density in urban areas was 285 inhabitants per km2 and in rural areas much less. 57.6% of the people in the district lived in rural areas whereas 42.4% lived in the city. The gender structure of the population is almost equal. Only 48% of the workforce is employed. Since 1990, more than 25% of the total popu... | 2.328125 | 0 |
313015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavaj%C3%AB | Kavajë | Kavajë's General Regulatory Masterplan was drafted in 1994 and approved in that same year by the district council. In the masterplan the city extended over an area of and was spatially divided into several functional zoning schemes. The Functional Zoning Regulation and The Functional Zoning Map of 2007 divided the cit... | 2.140625 | 0 |
313015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavaj%C3%AB | Kavajë | Education
The first Albanian language school opened in Kavajë in the late summer of 1887.
The former District of Kavajë has established a public and a private school system which serves for the upbringing and education of the children and youth. Educational Institutions operating in Kavajë are listed as follows:
50 k... | 2.546875 | 0 |
313015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavaj%C3%AB | Kavajë | Historically the most commonly used men's costume was the kilt or the fustanella, which had been in use up until the Proclamation of Independence of 1912. In the later period, looser clothing started to become the trend. Men wore long sleeve shirts accompanied by artistically sewed vests. Trousers were loosely knitted ... | 2.96875 | 0 |
313015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavaj%C3%AB | Kavajë | The Ethnographic Museum of Kavajë, completed in 1971, was built on a restored building with a hajat (gallery), the type of which was widespread throughout the 18th century. Its architectonic origin however dates back to the late antiquity in the typology of a "villa rustica", commonly present in the region. After the f... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinbote | Rheinbote | Rheinbote (Rhine Messenger, or V4) was a German short range ballistic rocket developed by Rheinmetall-Borsig at Berlin-Marienfelde during World War II. It was intended to replace, or at least supplement, large-bore artillery by providing fire support at long ranges in an easily transportable form.
History
One of the ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
313016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinbote | Rheinbote | The concept of long-range artillery rockets on the battlefield would remain undeveloped after the war. Even Rheinbote was not used in its intended role, but instead as a smaller version of the V-2 missile in the strategic role, for which its warhead was essentially useless due to its poor accuracy, small size, and its ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
313019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserfall | Wasserfall | The ("Waterfall remote-controlled anti-aircraft rocket") was a German guided supersonic surface-to-air missile project of World War II. Development was not completed before the end of the war and it was not used operationally.
The system was based on many of the technologies developed for the V-2 rocket program, incl... | 2.515625 | 0 |
313026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Lucas | Jerry Lucas | Jerry Ray Lucas (born March 30, 1940) is an American former basketball player. He was a nationally awarded high school player, national college star at Ohio State University, and 1960 gold medal Olympian and international player before later starring as a professional player in the National Basketball Association (NBA)... | 2.609375 | 0 |
313026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Lucas | Jerry Lucas | In addition to strong local support for Middletown High basketball, the city was also home to a remarkable summer outdoor basketball scene that had developed at Sunset Park. Previous Middletown players who had gone on to play at the college level had successfully recruited other college players to play there in the sum... | 2.421875 | 0 |
313026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Lucas | Jerry Lucas | In addition to being an excellent rebounder, Lucas also made 60% of his shots from the floor and 75% of his free throws. Wearing number #13, he was often compared to Wilt Chamberlain during his high school years. The 1955–56 Middletown team went undefeated, winning the state championship, and the 1956–57 team did too. ... | 2 | 0 |
313026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Lucas | Jerry Lucas | With the team declining at this point, and with his own health concerns, Lucas focused more on off-court business. As a cutting-edge corporate athlete, he sought endorsements. He also studied investment opportunities and tax shelters. By 1968, Lucas was reportedly worth over a million dollars, most of it built on off-c... | 2.328125 | 0 |
313026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Lucas | Jerry Lucas | New York Knicks (1971–1974)
By 1971, Lucas had established himself as one of the most accurate shooters and top rebounders in the league. With the Warriors needing a small scoring forward, Lucas was acquired by the New York Knicks for Cazzie Russell on May 7, 1971. The Knicks needed a big man to back up their starting ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Lucas | Jerry Lucas | In 1972–73, Reed, the New York team captain and star, returned. Lucas was sent to the bench for the first time in his career. But, to keep Reed healthy for the playoffs, he still played often. In averaging ten points and seven rebounds, he also averaged 4.5 assists. The team made the NBA finals again, and this time New... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20nationalism | White nationalism | White nationalism is a type of racial nationalism or pan-nationalism which espouses the belief that white people are a race and seeks to develop and maintain a white racial and national identity. Many of its proponents identify with the concept of a white ethnostate.
White nationalists say they seek to ensure the surv... | 2.625 | 0 |
313027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20nationalism | White nationalism | History and usage
According to Merriam-Webster, the first documented use of the term "white nationalist" was 1951, to refer to a member of a militant group which espouses white supremacy and racial segregation. Merriam-Webster also notes usage of the two-word phrase as early as 1925. According to Dictionary.com, the te... | 2.734375 | 0 |
313027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20nationalism | White nationalism | Views
White nationalists claim that culture is a product of race, and advocate for the self-preservation of white people. White nationalists seek to ensure the survival of the white race, and the cultures of historically white nations. They hold that white people should maintain their majority in mainly-white countries... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20nationalism | White nationalism | Definitions of whiteness
Most white nationalists define white people in a restricted way. In the United States, it often—though not exclusively—implies European ancestry of non-Jewish descent. Some white nationalists draw on 19th-century racial taxonomy. White nationalist Jared Taylor has argued that Jews can be consi... | 2.5625 | 0 |
313027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20nationalism | White nationalism | The Barton government, which won the first elections following the Federation of Australia in 1901, was formed by the Protectionist Party with the support of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The support of the Labor Party was contingent upon restricting non-white immigration, reflecting the attitudes of the Australian... | 2.53125 | 0 |
313027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20nationalism | White nationalism | Canada
The Parliament of Canada passed the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 to bar all Chinese from coming to Canada with the exception of diplomats, students, and those granted special permission by the Minister of Immigration. Chinese immigration to Canada had already been heavily regulated by the Chinese Immigration ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
313027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20nationalism | White nationalism | At the same time, the Nazi Party subdivided white people into groups, viewing the Nordics as the "master race" (Herrenvolk) above groups like Alpine and Mediterranean peoples. Slavic peoples, such as Russians and Poles, were considered Untermenschen (subhumans) instead of Aryan. Adolf Hitler's conception of the Aryan H... | 2.515625 | 0 |
313027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20nationalism | White nationalism | The Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act, 1959 established homelands (sometimes pejoratively referred to as Bantustans) for ten different black African tribes. The ultimate goal of the National Party was to move all Black South Africans into one of these homelands (although they might continue to work in South Africa... | 2.78125 | 0 |
313027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20nationalism | White nationalism | Until 1955, Sophiatown had been one of the few urban areas where Blacks were allowed to own land, and was slowly developing into a multiracial slum. As industry in Johannesburg grew, Sophiatown became the home of a rapidly expanding black workforce, as it was convenient and close to town. It could also boast the only s... | 2.625 | 0 |
313027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20nationalism | White nationalism | Before South Africa became a republic, politics among white South Africans was typified by the division between the chiefly Afrikaans-speaking pro-republic conservative and the largely English-speaking anti-republican liberal sentiments, with the legacy of the Boer War still constituting a political factor for sections... | 2.5 | 0 |
313027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20nationalism | White nationalism | In a 4 January 1848 speech to the Senate regarding the issue of whether or not to annex the entirety of Mexico after the Mexican-American war, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina said, "I know further, sir, that we have never dreamt of incorporating into our Union any but the Caucasian race—the free white race. To incorp... | 2.546875 | 0 |
313027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20nationalism | White nationalism | The slogan "white power" was popularized by American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell, who used the term in a debate with Stokely Carmichael of the Black Panther Party after Carmichael issued a call for "black power". Rockwell advocated a return to white control of all American institutions, and violently oppo... | 1.953125 | 0 |
313027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20nationalism | White nationalism | Statistics
In 2016, the American National Election Studies survey conducted during Donald Trump's campaign for the presidency found that 38% of Americans expressed "strong feelings of white solidarity", 28% "strong feelings of white identity", 27% that whites suffer from discrimination in American society, while 6% ag... | 2.0625 | 0 |
313033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty%20of%20Hubertusburg | Treaty of Hubertusburg | The Treaty of Hubertusburg () was signed on 15 February 1763 at Hubertusburg Castle by Prussia, Austria and Saxony to end the Third Silesian War. Together with the Treaty of Paris, signed five days earlier, it marked the end of the Seven Years' War. The treaty ended the continental conflict with no significant changes ... | 3.09375 | 0 |
313043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20management | Team management | Team management is the ability of an individual or an organization to administer and coordinate a group of individuals to perform a task. Team management involves teamwork, communication, objective setting and performance appraisals. Moreover, team management is the capability to identify problems and resolve conflicts... | 2.96875 | 0 |
313043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20management | Team management | Effective communication
Effective communication is the centerstone of successful team management. Ensuring clear goals and expectations opens opportunities that enables a collaborative environment, allowing team members to share ideas and feedback seamlessly. A well communicated team is better prepared to overcome chal... | 2.546875 | 0 |
313043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20management | Team management | Common goal
In a group setting, common goals act as a binding force. Aligning skills and efforts towards a shared objective provides a cohesive setting. Ensuring everyone is working towards a unified purpose creates common goals that enhance group efficiency, foster teamwork, and contribute to a sense of camaraderie, ... | 3.109375 | 0 |
313043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20management | Team management | Individuals in a team can take on different roles that have their own unique responsibilities. A task-oriented role occurs when the individual offers new ideas, coordinates activities, or tries to find new information to share with the team. A social-oriented role occurs when an individual encourages the members of the... | 2.890625 | 0 |
313043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20management | Team management | Absence of trust
In Patrick Lencioni's book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, the absence of vulnerability-based trust – where team members are comfortable being vulnerable with each other, trust each other to help when asking for guidance, and are willing to admit their mistakes – within a team is detrimental to a team... | 2.953125 | 0 |
313043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20management | Team management | The fear of conflict in a team stems from an absence of trust, more specifically vulnerability-based trust. If team members are afraid to be vulnerable in front of one another, disputes can be manipulative and a means to overthrow and shame the other team member. However, if team members trust each other and are comfor... | 2.90625 | 0 |
313043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20management | Team management | Team leaders who are afraid of confrontation might avoid holding team members accountable when in fact they have made a mistake. Team leaders must develop the confidence to hold team members accountable so that they will feel the sense of responsibility and entitlement to the team, and learn from their mistakes. If not... | 2.890625 | 0 |
313043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20management | Team management | What makes teams effective
Team effectiveness occurs when the team has appropriate goals to complete and the confidence to accomplish those goals. Communication is also a large part of effectiveness in a team because in order to accomplish tasks, the members must negotiate ideas and information. Another aspect of effec... | 2.828125 | 0 |
313044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Neuch%C3%A2tel | Lake Neuchâtel | Lake Neuchâtel ( ; ; ) is a lake primarily in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. The lake lies mainly in the canton of Neuchâtel, but is also shared by the cantons of Vaud, Fribourg, and Bern. It comprises one of the lakes in the Three Lakes Region (French: Pays des Trois-Lacs, German: Drei-Seen-Land), a... | 2.71875 | 0 |
313044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Neuch%C3%A2tel | Lake Neuchâtel | Since the Jura water correction in the 19th and 20th centuries, it has served, together with Lake Morat, as a compensation basin for the waters of the Aare flowing into Lake Biel. Indeed, if the level of the latter rises too much, the flow may stop or even go in the opposite direction.
Lake Neuchâtel is long and has ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
313051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golestan%20Palace | Golestan Palace | The origin of the Tehran's royal citadel can be traced back to July 6, 1404; when Ruy González de Clavijo, the envoy of Enrique III, traveled to Samarkand to meet with Timur, and he chose to stay at the house of Baba Sheikh (one of the elders of Tehran). It is believed that his house was located in the area of the roya... | 2.390625 | 0 |
313055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere%20addition%20paradox | Mere addition paradox | The mere addition paradox (also known as the repugnant conclusion) is a problem in ethics identified by Derek Parfit and discussed in his book Reasons and Persons (1984). The paradox identifies the mutual incompatibility of four intuitively compelling assertions about the relative value of populations. Parfit’s origina... | 2.515625 | 0 |
313060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Danish%20Ballet | Royal Danish Ballet | The Royal Danish Ballet (Danish: Den Kongelige Ballet) is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Danish Theatre in Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen, Denmark. It is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world and originates from 1748, when the Royal Danish Theatre was founded. It was fina... | 2.625 | 0 |
313060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Danish%20Ballet | Royal Danish Ballet | Another major master of the troupe was the Danish dancer August Bournonville. During the half-century that Bournonville led the company (1828–1879), he choreographed some fifty ballets, of which about a dozen are still part of the company's repertoire. The works are highly influenced by the French school of dance, sinc... | 2.703125 | 0 |
313064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20P.%20Bush | Samuel P. Bush | Samuel Prescott Bush (October 4, 1863 – February 8, 1948) was an American steel industry executive and the patriarch of the Bush family. He was the father of U.S. Senator Prescott Bush, the paternal grandfather of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, the patrilineal great-grandfather of former President George W.... | 2 | 0 |
313073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthuridae | Acanthuridae | Acanthuridae are a family of ray-finned fish which includes surgeonfishes, tangs, and unicornfishes. The family includes about 86 extant species of marine fish living in tropical seas, usually around coral reefs. Many of the species are brightly colored and popular in aquaria.
Etymology and taxonomic history
The name ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
313073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthuridae | Acanthuridae | Surgeonfishes sometimes feed as solitary individuals, but they often travel and feed in schools. Feeding in schools may be a mechanism for overwhelming the highly aggressive defense responses of small territorial damselfishes that vigorously guard small patches of algae on coral reefs.
Most species are fairly small, wi... | 2.6875 | 0 |
313075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20politics | Identity politics | During the late 1970s, increasing numbers of women—namely Jewish women, women of color, and lesbians—criticized the assumption of a common "woman's experience" irrespective of unique differences in race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and culture. The term identity politics was (re-)coined by the Combahee River Collectiv... | 2.390625 | 0 |
313075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20politics | Identity politics | In 1977, the Combahee River Collective (CRC) argued that Black women struggled with facing their oppression due to the sexism present within the Civil Rights Movement and the racism present within second-wave feminism. The CRC coined the term "identity politics", and in their opinion, naming the unique struggle and opp... | 2.234375 | 0 |
313075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20politics | Identity politics | A contemporary example of Black identity politics is #BlackLivesMatter which began with a hashtag. In 2013, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi created the hashtag in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the man who killed Trayvon Martin in 2012. Michael Brown and Eric Garner were killed by police... | 2.234375 | 0 |
313075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20politics | Identity politics | A contemporary example of "White identity politics" is the right-wing group Proud Boys. Proud Boys was formed by Gavin McInnes in 2016. Members are males who identify as right-wing conservatives. They take part in political protests with the most infamous being January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, which became violent... | 2.296875 | 0 |
313075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20politics | Identity politics | Viet Thanh Nguyen says that "to have no identity at all is the privilege of whiteness, which is the identity that pretends not to have an identity, that denies how it is tied to capitalism, to race, and to war".
Hispanic/Latino identity politics
According to Leonie Huddy, Lilliana Mason, and S. Nechama Horwitz, the ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
313075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20politics | Identity politics | Gender
Gender identity politics is an approach that views politics, both in practice and as an academic discipline, as having a gendered nature and that gender is an identity that influences how people think. Politics has become increasingly gender political as formal structures and informal 'rules of the game' have b... | 2.578125 | 0 |
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