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313258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft%20C-12%20Huron | Beechcraft C-12 Huron | The Beechcraft C-12 Huron is the military designation for a series of twin-engine turboprop aircraft based on the Beechcraft Super King Air and Beechcraft 1900. C-12 variants are used by the United States Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps. These aircraft are used for various duties, including embassy support, medi... | 2.3125 | 0 |
313258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft%20C-12%20Huron | Beechcraft C-12 Huron | A U.S. Air Force variant of the plane for surveillance roles primarily over Afghanistan and Iraq was the MC-12W Liberty. For that variant, Beechcraft built the basic plane and then sent it to Greenville, Texas where sophisticated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) equipment was installed by L-3 Communi... | 2.171875 | 0 |
313260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Eaton%20%28politician%29 | John Eaton (politician) | John Henry Eaton (June 18, 1790November 17, 1856) was an American politician and ambassador from Tennessee who served as U.S. Senator and as U.S. Secretary of War in the administration of Andrew Jackson. He was 28 years, 4 months, and 29 days old when he entered the Senate, making him the youngest U.S. Senator in histo... | 2.578125 | 0 |
313260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Eaton%20%28politician%29 | John Eaton (politician) | Senate career
From 1815 to 1816, Eaton was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. In 1818, he was elected to serve as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee, and he served until 1829. His age of 28 at the time of his entry to the Senate was notable; it violated the U.S. Constitution's requirement that all senators ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
313260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Eaton%20%28politician%29 | John Eaton (politician) | Jackson biographers Richard B. Latner and Robert V. Remini believe that the hostility towards the Eatons was rooted less in questions of morality and proper behavior than in politics. Eaton had been in favor of the Tariff of Abominations, which Calhoun bitterly opposed and which led him to elucidate the doctrine of nul... | 1.96875 | 0 |
313260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Eaton%20%28politician%29 | John Eaton (politician) | Following his resignation as Secretary of War, Eaton returned to Tennessee. His wife suffered a period of ill health after arriving. Jackson planned to replace him in the War Department with Tennessee senator Hugh Lawson White. This would vacate White's senate seat, which Eaton would presumably fill. However, White ref... | 2.015625 | 0 |
313263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas%20Democrat-Gazette | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas, printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell. It is distributed for sale in all 75 of Arkansas' counties.
By virtue of one of its predecessors, the Arkansas Gazette (founded in 1819), it claims to be the olde... | 2.09375 | 0 |
313265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Biddle | James Biddle | In the early nineteenth century, the prevalence of yellow fever in the Caribbean "led to serious health problems" and alarmed the United States Navy as numerous deaths and sickness curtailed naval operations and destroyed morale. A tragic example occurred in May 1822 when the frigate USS Macedonian left Boston and beca... | 2.703125 | 0 |
313267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20diffraction | Neutron diffraction | Neutron diffraction or elastic neutron scattering is the application of neutron scattering to the determination of the atomic and/or magnetic structure of a material. A sample to be examined is placed in a beam of thermal or cold neutrons to obtain a diffraction pattern that provides information of the structure of the... | 2.6875 | 0 |
313267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20diffraction | Neutron diffraction | Summarizing, the main disadvantage to neutron diffraction is the requirement for a nuclear reactor. For single crystal work, the technique requires relatively large crystals, which are usually challenging to grow. The advantages to the technique are many - sensitivity to light atoms, ability to distinguish isotopes, ab... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20diffraction | Neutron diffraction | Neutrons and X-rays interact with matter differently. X-rays interact primarily with the electron cloud surrounding each atom. The contribution to the diffracted x-ray intensity is therefore larger for atoms with larger atomic number (Z). On the other hand, neutrons interact directly with the nucleus of the atom, and t... | 2.625 | 0 |
313267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20diffraction | Neutron diffraction | Magnetic scattering
Although neutrons are uncharged, they carry a magnetic moment, and therefore interact with magnetic moments, including those arising from the electron cloud around an atom. Neutron diffraction can therefore reveal the microscopic magnetic structure of a material.
Magnetic scattering does require an... | 2.3125 | 0 |
313267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20diffraction | Neutron diffraction | One major advantage of neutron diffraction over X-ray diffraction is that the latter is rather insensitive to the presence of hydrogen (H) in a structure, whereas the nuclei 1H and 2H (i.e. Deuterium, D) are strong scatterers for neutrons. The greater scattering power of protons and deuterons means that the position of... | 2.390625 | 0 |
313267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20diffraction | Neutron diffraction | History
Neutron was discovered around early 1930s, and diffraction was first observed in 1936 by two groups, von Halban and Preiswerk and by Mitchell and Powers. In 1944, Ernest O. Wollan, with a background in X-ray scattering from his PhD work under Arthur Compton, recognized the potential for applying thermal neutro... | 2.53125 | 0 |
313269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar%20River | Tar River | The Tar River is a river that is approximately long, in northeast North Carolina flowing generally southeast to an estuary of Pamlico Sound. The Tar River becomes the tidal Pamlico River once it passes under the U.S. Highway 17 Bridge in Washington, North Carolina.
North Carolina was originally a naval stores colony... | 3.046875 | 0 |
313273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamlico%20Sound | Pamlico Sound | Pamlico Sound ( ) is a large estuarine lagoon in North Carolina. The largest lagoon along the North American East Coast, it extends long and wide. It is part of a large, interconnected network of similar lagoons that includes Albemarle Sound, Currituck Sound, Croatan Sound, Roanoke Sound, Pamlico Sound, Bogue Sound,... | 2.6875 | 0 |
313273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamlico%20Sound | Pamlico Sound | The sound and its ocean inlets are noted for wide expanses of shallow water and occasional shoaling, making the area hazardous for larger vessels. While the deepest hole of the estuary () can be found in the Pamlico Sound, depths generally range from . In addition, the shallow waters are susceptible to wind and barome... | 3.03125 | 0 |
313274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiraga%20Gennai | Hiraga Gennai | was a Japanese polymath and rōnin of the Edo period. He was a pharmacologist, student of Rangaku, physician, author, painter and inventor well known for his Erekiteru (electrostatic generator), Kandankei (thermometer) and Kakanpu (asbestos cloth). Gennai composed several works of literature, including the fictional sat... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiraga%20Gennai | Hiraga Gennai | Life in Nagasaki
In 1752, Gennai was sent to Nagasaki to study western medicine, including European pharmaceutical and surgical techniques and other rangaku topics. Two years later, he turned his house over to his younger sister's husband. Nagasaki was at the time one of the only ports that foreign ships were allowed t... | 2.515625 | 0 |
313275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%20C-40%20Clipper | Boeing C-40 Clipper | The Boeing C-40 Clipper is a military version of the Boeing 737 Next Generation used to transport cargo and passengers. It is used by the United States Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. The Navy C-40A variant is named "Clipper", whereas the USAF C-40B/C variants are officially unnamed.
Design and development
The C-40... | 2.140625 | 0 |
313277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas%20Gazette | Arkansas Gazette | In 1908 the "Gazette" added colored comics. After the Elaine massacre of 1919, state officials concocted an elaborate cover-up, claiming that blacks were planning an insurrection. Newspapers, including the Arkansas Gazette, repeated the falsehood that blacks in Arkansas were staging an insurrection: the Gazette wrote t... | 2.234375 | 0 |
313283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa%20Yukichi | Fukuzawa Yukichi | was a Japanese educator, philosopher, writer, entrepreneur and samurai who founded Keio Gijuku, the newspaper , and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases.
Fukuzawa was an early advocate for reform in Japan. His ideas about the organization of government and the structure of social institutions made a lasting... | 2.765625 | 0 |
313283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa%20Yukichi | Fukuzawa Yukichi | Fukuzawa’s early life consisted of the dull and backbreaking work typical of a lower-level samurai in Japan during the Tokugawa period. Although Fukuzawa did travel to Nagasaki, his stay was brief as he quickly began to outshine his host in Nagasaki, Okudaira Iki. Okudaira planned to get rid of Fukuzawa by writing a le... | 2.890625 | 0 |
313283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa%20Yukichi | Fukuzawa Yukichi | Upon his return in 1860, Fukuzawa became an official translator for the Tokugawa shogunate. Shortly afterwards he brought out his first publication, an English-Japanese dictionary which he called "Kaei Tsūgo" (translated from a Chinese-English dictionary) which was a beginning for his series of later books. In 1862, he... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa%20Yukichi | Fukuzawa Yukichi | Fukuzawa was also a strong advocate for women’s rights. He often spoke up in favor of equality between husbands and wives, the education of girls as well as boys, and the equal love of daughters and sons. At the same time, he called attention to harmful practices such as women’s inability to own property in their own n... | 2.734375 | 0 |
313283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa%20Yukichi | Fukuzawa Yukichi | Colleagues in the Meirokusha intellectual society shared many of Fukuzawa's views, which he published in his contributions to Meiroku zasshi (Meiji Six Magazine), a scholarly journal he helped publish. In his books and journals, he often wrote about the word "civilization" and what it meant. He advocated a move toward ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
313283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa%20Yukichi | Fukuzawa Yukichi | Fukuzawa was one of the most influential people ever that helped Japan modernize into the country it is today. He never accepted any high position and remained a normal Japanese citizen for his whole life. By the time of his death, he was revered as one of the founders of modern Japan. All of his work was written and w... | 2.296875 | 0 |
313284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow%20Homer | Winslow Homer | Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.
Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
313284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow%20Homer | Winslow Homer | After Homer's high school graduation, his father saw a newspaper advertisement and arranged for an apprenticeship. Homer's apprenticeship at the age of 19 to J. H. Bufford, a Boston commercial lithographer, was a formative but "treadmill experience". He worked repetitively on sheet music covers and other commercial wor... | 2.71875 | 0 |
313284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow%20Homer | Winslow Homer | In 1859, he opened a studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York City, the artistic and publishing capital of the United States. Until 1863, he attended classes at the National Academy of Design, and studied briefly with Frédéric Rondel, who taught him the basics of painting. In only about a year of self-tra... | 2.90625 | 0 |
313284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow%20Homer | Winslow Homer | Homer was also interested in postwar subject matter that conveyed the silent tension between two communities seeking to understand their future. His oil painting A Visit from the Old Mistress (1876) shows an encounter between a group of four freed slaves and their former mistress. The formal equivalence between the sta... | 2.671875 | 0 |
313284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow%20Homer | Winslow Homer | Many disagreed with James. Breezing Up, Homer's iconic painting of a father and three boys out for a spirited sail, received wide praise. The New York Tribune wrote, "There is no picture in this exhibition, nor can we remember when there has been a picture in any exhibition, that can be named alongside this." Visits to... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow%20Homer | Winslow Homer | Homer started painting with watercolors on a regular basis in 1873 during a summer stay in Gloucester, Massachusetts. From the beginning, his technique was natural, fluid and confident, demonstrating his innate talent for a difficult medium. His impact would be revolutionary. Here, again, the critics were puzzled at fi... | 2.734375 | 0 |
313284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow%20Homer | Winslow Homer | Homer spent two years (1881–1882) in the coastal village of Cullercoats, Northumberland. Many of the paintings at Cullercoats took as their subjects working men and women and their daily heroism, imbued with a solidity and sobriety which was new to Homer's art, presaging the direction of his future work. He wrote, "The... | 2.703125 | 0 |
313284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow%20Homer | Winslow Homer | In these years, Homer received emotional sustenance primarily from his mother, brother Charles, and sister-in-law Martha ("Mattie"). After his mother's death, Homer became a "parent" for his aging but domineering father and Mattie became his closest female intimate. In the winters of 1884–5, Homer ventured to warmer lo... | 2.34375 | 0 |
313284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow%20Homer | Winslow Homer | Homer found inspiration in summer trips to the North Woods Club, near the hamlet of Minerva, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains. It was on these fishing vacations that he experimented with the watercolor medium, producing works of the utmost vigor and subtlety, hymns to solitude, nature, and to outdoor life. Homer d... | 2.578125 | 0 |
313292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonnect | Gonnect | Gonnect is a strategy board game for two players invented by João Pedro Neto in 2000. The game is played with standard Go equipment (usually on a 13×13 or 15×15 board) and basically uses the same rules as Go, however the goal of the game is to construct a group that connects any two opposite sides.
Seen from a superf... | 3.015625 | 0 |
313295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauterization | Cauterization | Cauterization (or cauterisation, or cautery) is a medical practice or technique of burning a part of a body to remove or close off a part of it. It destroys some tissue in an attempt to mitigate bleeding and damage, remove an undesired growth, or minimize other potential medical harm, such as infections when antibiotic... | 3.0625 | 0 |
313295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauterization | Cauterization | Cauterization has been used to stop heavy bleeding since antiquity. The process was described in the Edwin Smith Papyrus and Hippocratic Corpus. It was primarily used to control hemorrhages, especially those resulting from surgery, in ancient Greece. Archigenes recommended cauterization in the event of hemorrhaging wou... | 2.75 | 0 |
313295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauterization | Cauterization | Chemical cautery
Many chemical reactions can destroy tissue, and some are used routinely in medicine, most commonly to remove small skin lesions such as warts or necrotized tissue, or for hemostasis. Because chemicals can leach into areas not intended for cauterization, laser and electrical methods are preferable where... | 2.09375 | 0 |
313297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori%20education | Montessori education | The Montessori method of education is a type of educational method that involves children's natural interests and activities rather than formal teaching methods. A Montessori classroom places an emphasis on hands-on learning and developing real-world skills. It emphasizes independence and it views children as naturally... | 3.0625 | 0 |
313297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori%20education | Montessori education | Maria Montessori initially resisted a career in teaching, one of only a few professions open to women in that time period. She became one of the first women to become a medical doctor in Italy in the 19th century, and specialized in psychiatry and pediatrics. Maria Montessori began developing her educational philosophy... | 3.0625 | 0 |
313297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori%20education | Montessori education | Montessori education had spread to the United States by 1912 and became widely known in educational and popular publications. In 1913 Narcissa Cox Vanderlip and Frank A. Vanderlip founded the Scarborough School, the first Montessori school in the U.S. However, conflict arose between Montessori and the American educatio... | 2.875 | 0 |
313297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori%20education | Montessori education | Montessori classrooms for children from or 3 to 6 years old are often called Children's Houses, after Montessori's first school, the Casa dei Bambini in Rome in 1906. A typical classroom serves 20 to 30 children in mixed-age groups, staffed by a fully trained lead teacher and assistants. Classrooms are usually outfitt... | 3.25 | 0 |
313297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori%20education | Montessori education | One of the most important benefits of a Montessori school experience is that each child is understood as an individual learner who will naturally seek to excel when their strengths, weaknesses, and interests are understood and taken into account.
Elementary classrooms
Elementary school classrooms usually serve mixed... | 3.234375 | 0 |
313297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori%20education | Montessori education | Middle and high school
Montessori education for this level is less developed than programs for younger children. Montessori did not establish a teacher training program or a detailed plan of education for adolescents during her lifetime. However, a number of schools have extended their programs for younger children t... | 2.875 | 0 |
313297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori%20education | Montessori education | Devices are not commonly used when students are being taught. When students have a question about something, they try to solve it themselves instead of turning to a device to try to figure out an answer. When a device is used by a student, the teacher expects them to use it in a meaningful way. There has to be a specif... | 3.03125 | 0 |
313297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori%20education | Montessori education | Montessori described the young child's behavior of effortlessly assimilating the sensorial stimuli of his or her environment, including information from the senses, language, culture, and the development of concepts with the term "absorbent mind." She believed that this is a power unique to the first plane, and that it... | 3.28125 | 0 |
313297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori%20education | Montessori education | A 2006 study found that Montessori education, when implemented faithfully, fostered social and academic skills that were equal to or superior to those seen in other types of schools. A study in 2007 in Milwaukee Public Schools found that students who had attended Montessori from ages 3 to 11 outperformed their high sch... | 3.0625 | 0 |
313297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori%20education | Montessori education | In 2020, a study of 195 public Montessori schools across 10 U.S. states found that Montessori students scored lower than district peers in 3rd-grade math but had better ELA outcomes at 3rd and 8th grade. Economically disadvantaged and Black students at Montessori schools achieved higher proficiency rates than their pee... | 2.796875 | 0 |
313300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs%20Fr%C3%B3is | Luís Fróis | Luís Fróis (1532 – 8 July 1597) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and missionary who worked in Asia, most notably Japan, during the second half of the 16th century. As a Jesuit, he preached in Japan during the Sengoku period, meeting with Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He is famous for writing The First European D... | 2.5 | 0 |
313300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs%20Fr%C3%B3is | Luís Fróis | After that, he was active in Kyushu, but in 1580, he accompanied the visitor Alessandro Valignano as an interpreter on his visit to Japan, and had an audience with Nobunaga at Azuchi Castle. In 1583, he was ordered by the then Superior General to leave the front line of missionary work and devote himself to recording t... | 2.59375 | 0 |
313303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20polygon | Star polygon | Construction via vertex connection
Regular star polygons can be created by connecting one vertex of a regular p-sided simple polygon to another vertex, non-adjacent to the first one, and continuing the process until the original vertex is reached again. Alternatively, for integers p and q, it can be considered as being... | 2.6875 | 0 |
313303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20polygon | Star polygon | Interiors
The interior of a star polygon may be treated in different ways. Three such treatments are illustrated for a pentagram. Branko Grünbaum and Geoffrey Shephard consider two of them, as regular star n-gons and as isotoxal concave simple 2n-gons.
These three treatments are:
Where a line segment occurs, one side... | 2.640625 | 0 |
313319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrotheria | Afrotheria | Because Africa was isolated by water, Laurasian groups of mammals such as insectivores, rodents, lagomorphs, carnivorans and ungulates could not reach Africa for much of the early to mid-Cenozoic. Instead, the niches occupied by those groups on the northern continents were filled by various groups of afrotheres via the... | 2.96875 | 0 |
313319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrotheria | Afrotheria | Evolutionary relationships
The afrotherian clade was originally proposed in 1998 based on analyses of DNA sequence data. However, previous studies had hinted at the close interrelationships among subsets of endemic African mammals; some of these studies date to the 1920s and there were sporadic papers in the 1980s and ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
313319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrotheria | Afrotheria | However, Afrotheria itself does not have a fossil record restricted to Africa, and appears in fact to have evolved in the continent's isolation. More recent, genomic-scale phylogenies favor the hypothesis that Afrotheria and Xenarthra comprise sister taxa at the base of the placental mammal radiation, suggesting an anc... | 2.859375 | 0 |
313320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dj%C5%8D%20clan | Hōjō clan | Early events
The Imperial court at Kyoto resented the decline in its authority during the Kamakura shogunate, while the clan, in turn, came to despise the weak Emperor Go-Toba. In 1221, the Jōkyū War broke out between forces loyal to the recently retired Go-Toba and the second regent Hōjō Yoshitoki. The Hōjō forces eas... | 3.046875 | 0 |
313322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Unruh | Howard Unruh | Howard Barton Unruh (January 21, 1921 – October 19, 2009) was an American mass murderer who shot and killed thirteen people during a twelve-minute walk through his neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey, on September 6, 1949 in an incident that became known as the Walk of Death. Unruh was found criminally insane and died i... | 2.03125 | 0 |
313334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosokawa%20clan | Hosokawa clan | The is a Japanese samurai kin group or clan. The clan descends from the Seiwa Genji, a branch of the Minamoto clan, and ultimately from Emperor Seiwa, through the Ashikaga clan. It produced many prominent officials in the Ashikaga shogunate's administration. In the Edo period, the clan was one of the largest landholdi... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zviad%20Gamsakhurdia | Zviad Gamsakhurdia | He organized numerous pro-independence protests in Georgia, one of which in 1989 was suppressed by the Soviet Army, with Gamsakhurdia being arrested. Eventually, a number of underground political organizations united around Zviad Gamsakhurdia and formed the Round Table—Free Georgia coalition, which successfully challen... | 1.984375 | 0 |
313336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zviad%20Gamsakhurdia | Zviad Gamsakhurdia | Early life and education
Zviad Konstantinovich Gamsakhurdia was born in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on 31 March 1939; his father, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, was a prominent Georgian writer during the 20th century. Konstantine held nationalist views and was imprisoned in the 1920s, but evaded the Stalinist purges and b... | 2.296875 | 0 |
313336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zviad%20Gamsakhurdia | Zviad Gamsakhurdia | Human rights activism
In the 1970s, Gamsakhurdia and his dissident intellectual circle began making contact with Russian dissidents and with the Western press. In mid-1974, he co-founded a Human Rights Defense Group with Kostava and others; in 1977 they established the Georgian branch of the Helsinki Rights Watch Grou... | 2.3125 | 0 |
313336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zviad%20Gamsakhurdia | Zviad Gamsakhurdia | Despite being an insider in the Georgian Writers' Union, Gamsakhurdia was expelled from the Union on 1 April 1977 after they had received information from the prosecutor's office about his illegal dissident activities. Later that month, Gamsakhurdia was arrested along with Kostava; they were accused of anti-Soviet acti... | 2.015625 | 0 |
313336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zviad%20Gamsakhurdia | Zviad Gamsakhurdia | As the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev launched his glasnost reform which allowed for greater freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, the grass-roots political activism increased and eventually became commonplace in Georgia and other Soviet republics. In the spring of 1985, the Georgian Helsin... | 2.15625 | 0 |
313336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zviad%20Gamsakhurdia | Zviad Gamsakhurdia | The central Soviet government responded by the significant changes in the Georgia's leadership, replacing its heads Jumber Patiashvili and Zurab Chkheidze. The new leadership chose a more conciliatory approach towards the opposition. The opposition leaders arrested during the 9 April tragedy, including Zviad Gamsakhurd... | 2.34375 | 0 |
313336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zviad%20Gamsakhurdia | Zviad Gamsakhurdia | Rise to power
The progress of democratic reforms was accelerated and led to Soviet Georgia's first democratic multiparty elections, held on 28 October 1990. On 11–13 March 1990, during the meetings of pro-independence opposition parties of the Soviet Georgia in the Tbilisi Philharmonic Hotel in order to establish the ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
313336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zviad%20Gamsakhurdia | Zviad Gamsakhurdia | Gamsakhurdia and his supporters believed in a strong presidential system. They argued that to overcome the challenges, the country needed a strong president elected by universal suffrage. These views were shared by most Georgians. In one of his interviews, Gamsakhurdia cited Charles de Gaulle as his "political ideal".
... | 2.375 | 0 |
313336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zviad%20Gamsakhurdia | Zviad Gamsakhurdia | In August 1991, Georgia created a national bank and the legislature committed Georgia to issue its own currency in the future. In September 1991, the law on privatization was passed after long discussions on how to prevent "party-economic mafia" (a term used by Gamsakhurdia to refer to Communist Party leaders and admin... | 2.4375 | 0 |
313336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zviad%20Gamsakhurdia | Zviad Gamsakhurdia | In 2019, the plenary room of the Parliament of Georgia was named after Zviad Gamsakhurdia, with Irakli Kobakhidze, chairman of Parliament, describing Gamsakhurdia as "the symbol of our statehood".
The museum honoring the life of the Gamsakhurdia is located in the village of Dzveli Khibula, where Gamsakhurdia spent the... | 2.359375 | 0 |
313339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Halladay | Roy Halladay | Harry Leroy "Roy" Halladay III (May 14, 1977 – November 7, 2017) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies between 1998 and 2013. His nickname, "Doc", coined by Toronto Blue Jays announcer Tom Cheek, was a reference to Wil... | 2.140625 | 0 |
313339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Halladay | Roy Halladay | 2002–2006
In 2001, after being demoted to the minor leagues, Halladay immersed himself in the works of sports psychologist Harvey Dorfman. This exposure was at least partly responsible for resurrecting his career. In 2002, Halladay had a breakout season, finishing with a 19–7 record, while posting a 2.93 ERA with 168 s... | 2 | 0 |
313339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Halladay | Roy Halladay | On December 9, 2013, Halladay signed a ceremonial one-day contract with the Blue Jays and announced his retirement from baseball due to injury. At his press conference, Halladay listed a persistent back injury, as well as wanting to be more involved with his family, as his reasons for retiring.
Although retired as a p... | 1.992188 | 0 |
313345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save%20%28baseball%29 | Save (baseball) | In baseball, a save (abbreviated SV or S) is credited to a pitcher who finishes a game for the winning team under certain circumstances. A save can be earned by entering a game in which his team is leading by three or fewer runs and finishing the game by pitching at least one inning without losing the lead; entering th... | 2.78125 | 0 |
313345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save%20%28baseball%29 | Save (baseball) | A formula with more criteria for saves was invented in 1960 by baseball writer Jerome Holtzman. He felt that the existing statistics at the time, earned run average (ERA) and win–loss record (W-L), did not sufficiently measure a reliever's effectiveness. ERA does not account for inherited runners a reliever allows to s... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save%20%28baseball%29 | Save (baseball) | Related statistics
The ratio of saves to save opportunities is save percentage. A save opportunity (or "save situation") occurs when a reliever enters a game in a situation that permits him to earn a save. Note that a pitcher who enters a game in a save situation and does not finish the game, but departs with his team ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
313346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutout | Shutout | The all-time career leader in shutouts is Walter Johnson, who pitched for the Washington Senators from 1907 to 1927. He accumulated 110 shutouts, which is 20 more than second placed Grover Cleveland Alexander. The most shutouts recorded in one season was 16, which was a feat accomplished by both Grover Alexander (191... | 2.4375 | 0 |
313348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Berdyaev | Nikolai Berdyaev | Berdyaev's disaffection culminated, in 1919, with the foundation of his own private academy, the "Free Academy of Spiritual Culture". It was primarily a forum for him to lecture on the hot topics of the day and to present them from a Christian point of view. He also presented his opinions in public lectures, and every ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
313348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Berdyaev | Nikolai Berdyaev | Theology and relations with Russian Orthodox Church
Berdyaev was a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, and believed Orthodoxy was the religious tradition closest to early Christianity.
Nicholas Berdyaev was an Orthodox Christian, however, it must be said that he was an independent and somewhat a "liberal" kind. Ber... | 1.984375 | 0 |
313354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoroutes%20of%20Quebec | Autoroutes of Quebec | The Quebec Autoroute System or le système d'autoroute au Québec is a network of freeways within the province of Quebec, Canada, operating under the same principle of controlled access as the Interstate Highway System in the United States and the 400-series highways in neighbouring Ontario. The Autoroutes are the backbo... | 2.5625 | 0 |
313356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20the%20Falcon | Order of the Falcon | The Order of the Falcon () is the only order of chivalry in Iceland, founded by King Christian X of Denmark and Iceland on 3 July 1921. The award is awarded for merit for Iceland and humanity and has five degrees. Nowadays, appointments are made on the nomination of the President of Iceland and that of a "five-member c... | 1.992188 | 0 |
313358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenp%C5%8D | Kenpō | Kenpo has also been used as a name for multiple martial arts that developed in Hawaii due to cross-cultural exchange between practitioners of Okinawan martial arts, Chinese martial arts, Filipino martial arts, and Japanese martial arts among other influences. In the United States, kenpo is often referred to as Kenpo Ka... | 2.703125 | 0 |
313360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klangfarbenmelodie | Klangfarbenmelodie | Klangfarbenmelodie (German for "sound-color melody") is a musical concept that treats timbre as a melodic element. Arnold Schoenberg originated the idea. It has become synonymous with the technique of fragmenting a melodic line between different timbres.
Origins
Late in the 19th century, a sophisticated treatment of m... | 2.859375 | 0 |
313360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klangfarbenmelodie | Klangfarbenmelodie | Schoenberg also dispatched duplicate letters to Luigi Dallapiccola and Josef Rufer on January 19, 1951. He asked them to only reveal the missives if his invention of klangfarbenmelodie were ever doubted. The letter also expands on the concept by explaining the "klänge" in question could be entire passages of music that... | 2.65625 | 0 |
313360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klangfarbenmelodie | Klangfarbenmelodie | Anton Webern used this pointillistic technique extensively. A classic example is the opening melodic statement of his Fünf Stücke für Orchester Op. 10 (1913) which requires the efforts of the flute, trumpet, celeste, harp, glockenspiel, viola, and clarinet often playing just one note each. In Webern's hocketization of ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
313371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip%20current | Rip current | A rip current (or just rip) is a specific type of water current that can occur near beaches where waves break. A rip is a strong, localized, and narrow current of water that moves directly away from the shore by cutting through the lines of breaking waves, like a river flowing out to sea. The force of the current in a ... | 3.171875 | 0 |
313371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip%20current | Rip current | Water that has been pushed up near the beach flows along the shore towards the outgoing rip as "feeder currents". The excess water flows out at a right angle to the beach, in a tight current called the "neck" of the rip. The "neck" is where the flow is most rapid. When the water in the rip current reaches outside of th... | 3.25 | 0 |
313371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip%20current | Rip current | Although rip tide is a misnomer, in areas of significant tidal range, rip currents may only occur at certain stages of the tide, when the water is shallow enough to cause the waves to break over a sand bar, but deep enough for the broken wave to flow over the bar. In parts of the world with a big difference between hig... | 3.21875 | 0 |
313371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip%20current | Rip current | In the formation of a rip current, a wave propagates over a sandbar with a gap in it. When this happens, most of the wave breaks on the sandbar, leading to "setup". The part of the wave that propagates over the gap does not break, and the "setdown" continues in that part. Because of this phenomenon, the mean water surf... | 3.34375 | 0 |
313371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip%20current | Rip current | A noticeable break in the pattern of the waves — the water often looks flat at the rip, in contrast to the lines of breaking waves on either side of the rip.
A "river" of foam — the surface of the rip sometimes looks foamy, because the current is carrying foam from the surf out to open water.
Different color — the ri... | 3.375 | 0 |
313371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip%20current | Rip current | Rip currents typically flow at about . They can be as fast as , which is faster than any human can swim. Most rip currents are fairly narrow, and even the widest rip currents are not very wide. Swimmers can usually exit the rip easily by swimming at a right angle to the flow, parallel to the beach. Swimmers who are una... | 2.8125 | 0 |
313373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip%20tide | Rip tide | A rip tide, or riptide, is a strong offshore current that is caused by the tide pulling water through an inlet along a barrier beach, at a lagoon or inland marina where tide water flows steadily out to sea during ebb tide. It is a strong tidal flow of water within estuaries and other enclosed tidal areas. The riptides ... | 3.046875 | 0 |
313380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sterndale%20Bennett | William Sterndale Bennett | Bennett had a significant influence on English music, not solely as a composer but also as a teacher, as a promoter of standards of musical education and as an important figure in London concert life. In recent years, appreciation of Bennett's compositions has been rekindled and a number of his works, including a symph... | 2.703125 | 0 |
313380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sterndale%20Bennett | William Sterndale Bennett | In May 1848, on the opening of Queen's College, London, Bennett, as one of the Founding Directors, delivered an inaugural lecture and joined the staff, while continuing his work at the RAM and private teaching. He wrote the thirty Preludes and Lessons, Op. 33, for his piano students at the college; they were published ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
313380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sterndale%20Bennett | William Sterndale Bennett | Music professional (1849–66)
From this point in his life Bennett was ever increasingly involved in the burdens of musical organization. In the opinion of Percy Young, he became "the prototype of the modern administrative musician ... he eventually built for himself an impregnable position, but in doing so destroyed hi... | 2.625 | 0 |
313380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sterndale%20Bennett | William Sterndale Bennett | In June 1853 Bennett made his last public appearance as a soloist with orchestra in his own Fourth Piano Concerto. This performance was given with a new organization, the Orchestral Union, and followed a snub from Costa, who had refused to conduct the pianist Arabella Goddard (Davison's wife) in Bennett's Third Concert... | 2.078125 | 0 |
313380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sterndale%20Bennett | William Sterndale Bennett | Bennett's stewardship of the Philharmonic Society orchestra was not entirely happy, and the historian of the orchestra, Cyril Ehrlich, notes "a sense of drift and decline". Many leading members of the orchestra were also in the orchestra of the Italian Opera House in London (and therefore partisans of the displaced Cos... | 2.28125 | 0 |
313380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sterndale%20Bennett | William Sterndale Bennett | Works from his later years included the cello Sonata Duo for Piatti; a pastoral cantata, The May Queen, Op. 39, for the opening of the Leeds Town Hall in 1858; an Ode (Op. 40) with words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson for the opening of the 1862 International Exhibition in London; an Installation Ode for Cambridge University... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sterndale%20Bennett | William Sterndale Bennett | Bennett was to find that heading a leading music college was incompatible with a career as a composer. The post of Principal was traditionally not arduous. He was contractually required to attend for only six hours a week, teaching composition and arranging class-lists. But Bennett had not only to run the RAM but to sa... | 2.109375 | 0 |
313380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sterndale%20Bennett | William Sterndale Bennett | The RAM in 1866 was in poor shape in terms of influence and reputation as well as financially. The critic Henry Chorley published data in that year showing that only 17 per cent of orchestral players in Britain had studied there. No alumni of the RAM were members of the orchestra at Covent Garden opera house. Chorley a... | 2.609375 | 0 |
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