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313380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sterndale%20Bennett | William Sterndale Bennett | Bennett's attitudes to the music of his continental contemporaries, aside from that of Mendelssohn, were cautious. Arthur Sullivan claimed that Bennett was "bitterly prejudiced against the new school, as he called it. He would not have a note of Schumann; and as for Wagner, he was outside the pale of criticism." In Ben... | 2.40625 | 0 |
313380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sterndale%20Bennett | William Sterndale Bennett | Firman writes that Bennett's finest works are those for the piano: "Rejecting the superficial virtuosity of many of his contemporaries, he developed a style ... peculiarly his own, essentially classical in nature, but with reference to a multiplicity of influences from his own performance repertory." The early piano wo... | 2.265625 | 0 |
313380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sterndale%20Bennett | William Sterndale Bennett | Young suggests that the cantatas The May Queen and The Woman of Samaria enjoyed in their hey-day "a popularity that was in inverse relation to their intrinsic merit". Caldwell notes that The Woman of Samaria shows that "Bennett was a good craftsman whose only fault was a dread of the operatic ... One would probably tol... | 2.78125 | 0 |
313380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sterndale%20Bennett | William Sterndale Bennett | Reception
As a composer Bennett was acknowledged in his time in both Britain and (particularly in the first half of the century) in Germany, although many British music lovers and several leading critics remained reluctant to acknowledge the possibility that an English composer could be of the same stature as a German... | 2.3125 | 0 |
313380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sterndale%20Bennett | William Sterndale Bennett | Legacy
Sir John Betjeman, in a 1975 lecture, rated Bennett as "Queen Victoria's Senior Musical Knight". Temperley assesses Bennett as the most distinguished British composer of the early Victorian era, "the only plausible rivals being Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810–76) and Michael William Balfe (1808–70)".
The novelist... | 2.71875 | 0 |
313384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20division | Long division | In arithmetic, long division is a standard division algorithm suitable for dividing multi-digit Hindu-Arabic numerals (positional notation) that is simple enough to perform by hand. It breaks down a division problem into a series of easier steps.
As in all division problems, one number, called the dividend, is divided... | 3.125 | 0 |
313388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas%20Post | Arkansas Post | The Arkansas Post was founded in the summer of 1686 by Henri de Tonti, Jacques Cardinal, Jean Couture, Peter Bisaillon, and three other Frenchmen as a trading post near the site of a Quapaw village named Osotouy. It was about 35 miles upriver from the strategically significant confluence of the Arkansas River with the ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
313388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas%20Post | Arkansas Post | As a result of the Chickasaw raid and continued threats of attack, commander Ensign Louis Xavier Martin de Lino moved the post upriver. This was further from the Chickasaw territory east of the Mississippi, and closer to the Quapaw villages, the post's main trading partners and potential allies. This new location, abou... | 2.546875 | 0 |
313388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas%20Post | Arkansas Post | The Memorial commemorates the complex history of several cultures and time periods: the Quapaw, French settlers who were the first colonists to inhabit the small entrepôt, the short period of Spanish rule, an American Revolutionary War skirmish in 1783, the settlement's role as the first territorial capital of Arkansas... | 2.8125 | 0 |
313397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea%20Ridge%20National%20Military%20Park | Pea Ridge National Military Park | Pea Ridge National Military Park is a United States National Military Park located in northwest Arkansas near the Missouri border. The park protects the site of the Battle of Pea Ridge, fought March 7 and 8, 1862. The battle was a victory for the Union and helped it gain control of the crucial border state of Missouri.... | 2.59375 | 0 |
313398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingtip%20device | Wingtip device | The term "winglet" was previously used to describe an additional lifting surface on an aircraft, like a short section between wheels on fixed undercarriage. Richard Whitcomb's research in the 1970s at NASA first used winglet with its modern meaning referring to near-vertical extension of the wing tips. The upward angle... | 2.796875 | 0 |
313398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingtip%20device | Wingtip device | Tamarack Aerospace Group, a company founded in 2010 by aerospace structural engineer Nicholas Guida, has patented an Active Technology Load Alleviation System (ATLAS), a modified version of a wingtip device. The system uses Tamarack Active Camber Surfaces (TACS) to aerodynamically "switch off" the effects of the wingti... | 2.140625 | 0 |
313401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional%20music%20of%20Korea | Traditional music of Korea | Goryeo dynasty
Taejo of Goryeo, the founder of Goryeo followed several customs of Silla which can be found in a series of Buddhist celebrations such as Palgwanhoe and Yeondeunghoe. However, the influence of Silla dramatically diminished in the middle of its period owing to the influx of music from Song, establishing a ... | 2.875 | 0 |
313401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional%20music%20of%20Korea | Traditional music of Korea | The process of compiling traditional Korean music continued until the reign of Seongjong with the publication of the first independent musical text Akhakgwebeom.
Because of two damaging wars, the culture of Joseon went through a series of hardships which resulted in the loss of instrumental music and songs in court an... | 3.171875 | 0 |
313401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional%20music%20of%20Korea | Traditional music of Korea | Pansori
Pansori () is a long vocal and percussive music played by one singer and 1 drummer. In this traditional art form, sometimes rather misleadingly called 'Korean Opera', a narrator may play the parts of all the characters in a story, accompanied by a drummer. The lyrics tell one of five different stories but are i... | 2.6875 | 0 |
313401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional%20music%20of%20Korea | Traditional music of Korea | Jeongak
Jeongak () or Chongak means literally "right (or proper) music", and its tradition includes both instrumental and vocal music, which were cultivated mainly by the upper-class literati of the Joseon society. The instrumental branch has several versions of a lengthy chamber, chiefly Yongsan hoesang, while the voc... | 2.625 | 0 |
313401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional%20music%20of%20Korea | Traditional music of Korea | Salpuri
Salpuri dance () is a shamanistic ritual dance, conducted as exorcism of bad ghosts. The style of this ritual dance is characterized simple and serene. The long scarf with fluid lines express long lines of the arms and fingers of the dancer from corner to corner of the space, utilizing the vastness of space all... | 2.984375 | 0 |
313405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20South%20Korea | Music of South Korea | Trot, pronounced as "teuroteu" in Korean (sometimes called ppongjjak (), due to its distinctive background rhythm), is the oldest form of Korean pop music. It was developed in the years before and during World War II around the early 1900s. Well-known interpreters of this genre are Lee Mi-ja, Bae Ho, Nam Jin, Na Hoon-a... | 2.296875 | 0 |
313406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20North%20Korea | Music of North Korea | Many North Korean pop songs are usually performed by young female singers with an electric ensemble, percussionist, and accompanying singers and dancers. However, there are also male singers or a chorus in community or company pop bands. Some North Korean pop songs such as "Whistle"—set to the lyrics of North Korean po... | 2.125 | 0 |
313406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20North%20Korea | Music of North Korea | BBC radio disc jockey Andy Kershaw noted, on a visit to North Korea with Koryo Tours in 2003, that the only recordings available were by the pop singers Jon Hye-yong, Kim Kwang-suk, Jo Kum-hwa and Ri Pun-hui, and the groups Wangjaesan Light Music Band, the Mansudae Art Troupe and the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble, who p... | 2.421875 | 0 |
313406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20North%20Korea | Music of North Korea | Like Korean music in general, North Korean music includes kinds of both folk and classical, courtly music, including genres like sanjo, pansori, and nongak. Pansori is long vocal and percussive music played by one singer and one drummer. The lyrics tell one of five different stories, but is individualized by each perfo... | 2.890625 | 0 |
313416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum%20analyzer | Spectrum analyzer | Persistence
Realtime spectrum analyzers are able to produce much more information for users to examine the frequency spectrum in more detail. A normal swept spectrum analyzer would produce max peak, min peak displays for example but a realtime spectrum analyzer is able to plot all calculated FFT's over a given period ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
313416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum%20analyzer | Spectrum analyzer | Detector
With the advent of digitally based displays, some modern spectrum analyzers use analog-to-digital converters to sample spectrum amplitude after the VBW filter. Since displays have a discrete number of points, the frequency span measured is also digitised. Detectors are used in an attempt to adequately map the... | 2.578125 | 0 |
313416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum%20analyzer | Spectrum analyzer | Spectrum analyzers are widely used to measure the frequency response, noise and distortion characteristics of all kinds of radio-frequency (RF) circuitry, by comparing the input and output spectra. For example, in RF mixers, spectrum analyzer is used to find the levels of third order inter-modulation products and conve... | 2.5625 | 0 |
313416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum%20analyzer | Spectrum analyzer | Different techniques exist for separating out the wavelengths. One method is to use a monochromator, for example a Czerny–Turner design, with an optical detector placed at the output slit. As the grating in the monochromator moves, bands of different frequencies (colors) are 'seen' by the detector, and the resulting si... | 2.25 | 0 |
313418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous%20intensity | Luminous intensity | In photometry, luminous intensity is a measure of the wavelength-weighted power emitted by a light source in a particular direction per unit solid angle, based on the luminosity function, a standardized model of the sensitivity of the human eye. The SI unit of luminous intensity is the candela (cd), an SI base unit.
M... | 2.671875 | 0 |
313419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20analysis | Spectral analysis | Spectral analysis or spectrum analysis is analysis in terms of a spectrum of frequencies or related quantities such as energies, eigenvalues, etc. In specific areas it may refer to:
Spectroscopy in chemistry and physics, a method of analyzing the properties of matter from their electromagnetic interactions
Spectra... | 2.53125 | 0 |
313434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Cameron%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) | General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, (20 May 18088 June 1888) was a British Army officer who fought in the Crimean War and part of the New Zealand Wars. He was later a governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Born into a family with a military tradition, Cameron joined the British Army in 1825. Commissione... | 2.71875 | 0 |
313434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Cameron%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) | In 1868, Cameron was made a lieutenant-general and was appointed as governor of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He remained in this post until 1875, at which time he retired from military service with the rank of general and as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. He died in 1888 at the age of 80.
E... | 2.5 | 0 |
313434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Cameron%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) | After the war in Crimea, Cameron became involved in education of British Army personnel. He was appointed to the Council for Army Education in 1857 as its vice president and carried out reforms of both the Royal Military College and the Staff College at Sandhurst. In 1859, he served on the Royal Commission on the Defen... | 2.359375 | 0 |
313434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Cameron%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) | North Island Māori were now becoming increasingly reluctant to sell land and the rise of the King Movement in the Waikato was considered to be a challenge to British sovereignty and the Colonial Government. Kingites, followers of the King Movement, had even supported the Taranaki Māori during the war. Browne, supported... | 2.5 | 0 |
313434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Cameron%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) | This fresh outbreak of fighting in Taranaki, known as the Second Taranaki War, gave Grey leverage with the Colonial Office as he used it as justification for a request for an increase in the number of British soldiers in the country. In the meantime, he proceeded with the return of Waitara to the Māori, calming tension... | 2.5625 | 0 |
313434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Cameron%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) | However, on the same day as the assault carried out at Koheroa, a Māori party attacked a British convoy moving along the Great South Road, killing several men and capturing a number of carts carrying supplies. Further raids and ambushes were carried out by Kingites behind the British lines for the next several weeks an... | 2 | 0 |
313434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Cameron%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) | The Kingites had established a pā at Rangiriri, overlooking the Waikato River and upstream from Meremere. The defensive position included not only the pā forming the central redoubt, but also trenches and ramparts extending to the river and to nearby Lake Waikare. About 500 Māori were present at Rangiriri although th... | 2.359375 | 0 |
313434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Cameron%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) | Beyond the town, away, was the settlement of Rangiaowhia. Cameron opted to advance against this settlement as well. It was lightly defended, with many women and children present, and 24 Māori were killed or wounded and another 33 taken prisoner. However, the commander of the Colonial Defence Forces, Colonel Marmaduke ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
313434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Cameron%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) | The pā, with its garrison of around 300 Māori, including around 250 warriors, had yet to be completed when British forces attacked on 31 March, having detected its presence the previous day. The initial assaults mounted by Carey's strike force were repelled but were able to surround the pā. This prevented Māori reinfor... | 2.359375 | 0 |
313434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Cameron%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) | Cameron now returned to Maungatautari, where the Māori had established a defence line of several pā. He moved his forces up to face the Te Tiki o te Ihingarangi pā. It was strongly built and defended; Cameron understood this and chose to simply wait out the defenders rather than engage in a frontal attack. Having exhau... | 2.359375 | 0 |
313434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Cameron%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) | On 27 April, Cameron mounted a reconnaissance of Gate Pā and determined that it was formed of two redoubts, garrisoned by about 235 warriors. He moved up his attacking force of about 1,700 men, plus a large artillery train which started bombarding the walls of the Māori position, and the pā was surrounded by the aftern... | 1.960938 | 0 |
313434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Cameron%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) | With reservations, Cameron agreed to mount a campaign in the Wanganui. However, he saw this conflict as unnecessary, and nothing more than a desire by the Colonial Government for more Māori land and believed that British soldiers should not be used to achieve this. Furthermore, he considered that he would need at least... | 2.28125 | 0 |
313434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Cameron%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) | After his return to England, Cameron continued to hold his honorary position as regimental colonel of his old unit, the 42nd Regiment of Foot, to which he had been appointed in 1863, only relinquishing it in 1881 when the regiment merged with the 73rd Regiment of Foot to form the Black Watch. He then became regimental ... | 2.125 | 0 |
313436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan%20Nasrallah | Hassan Nasrallah | Early life and education
Hassan Nasrallah was born the ninth of ten children into a Shia family in Bourj Hammoud, Matn District (an eastern suburb of Beirut), on 31 August 1960. His father, Abdul Karim Nasrallah, was born in Al-Bazouriyah, a village in Jabal Amel (Southern Lebanon) located near Tyre, and worked as a f... | 2.21875 | 0 |
313436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan%20Nasrallah | Hassan Nasrallah | Back in Lebanon, Nasrallah studied and taught at the school of Amal's leader Abbas al-Musawi, later being selected as Amal's political delegate in Beqaa, and making him a member of the central political office. Around the same time, in 1980, Al-Sadr was executed by Hussein.
Early activities
Nasrallah joined Hezbollah... | 2.21875 | 0 |
313436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan%20Nasrallah | Hassan Nasrallah | After a short pause, hostilities resumed. In 1996 Israel launched Operation Grapes of Wrath, blocking important Lebanese harbour cities and bombing a Syrian military base. After 16 days of Israeli attacks in Lebanon, the Israeli–Lebanese Ceasefire Understanding was agreed upon. Again, Hezbollah agreed to stop rocket at... | 2.25 | 0 |
313439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daito%20Bunka%20University | Daito Bunka University | is a private university with two campuses: one at Itabashi in Tokyo and the other at Higashi Matsuyama in Saitama, Japan. The university is known for its sports program, which is renowned in rugby and distance running, with the Ekiden team coming fourth in the prestigious January 2009 New Year Hakone Ekiden. Daito Bu... | 2.09375 | 0 |
313439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daito%20Bunka%20University | Daito Bunka University | Each has its own distinctions. The Faculty of International Relations (founded in 1986) is perhaps closest to the original liberal foundation principles of 1923, as all students are required to learn one of nine Asian languages (Chinese, Korean, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Persian, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese) for at least t... | 2.5625 | 0 |
313439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daito%20Bunka%20University | Daito Bunka University | In 2007, Daito Bunka University opened its first overseas office in Beijing, China, reflecting the increased importance of China for Japan in economic terms and the increased importance of overseas students for Japanese universities for demographic reasons.
Graduate schools
Several departments and faculties have gradu... | 2.234375 | 0 |
313448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Simon | Joe Simon | Beginnings
Upon graduation in 1932, Simon was hired by Rochester Journal-American art director Adolph Edler as an assistant, replacing Simon's future comics colleague Al Liederman, who had quit. Between production duties, he did occasional sports and editorial cartoons for the paper. Two years later, Simon took an art ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
313448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Simon | Joe Simon | During this time, Simon met Fox Feature Syndicate comics artist Jack Kirby, with whom he would soon have a storied collaboration lasting a decade-and-a-half. Speaking at a 1998 San Diego Comic-Con panel, Simon recounted the meeting:
and remained a team across the next two decades. In the early 2000s, original art for ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
313448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Simon | Joe Simon | Kirby and Simon spent their first weeks at National trying to devise new characters while the company sought how best to utilize the pair. After a few failed editor-assigned ghosting assignments, National's Jack Liebowitz told them to "just do what you want". The pair then revamped the Sandman feature in Adventure Comi... | 2.296875 | 0 |
313448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Simon | Joe Simon | At the urging of a Crestwood salesman, Kirby and Simon launched their own comics company, Mainline Publications, in late 1953 or early 1954, subletting space from their friend Al Harvey's Harvey Publications at 1860 Broadway. Mainline published four titles: the Western Bullseye: Western Scout; the war comic Foxhole, si... | 2.15625 | 0 |
313449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attis | Attis | Attis (; , also , , ) was the consort of Cybele, in Phrygian and Greek mythology.
His priests were eunuchs, the Galli, as explained by origin myths pertaining to Attis castrating himself. Attis was also a Phrygian vegetation deity. His self-mutilation, death, and resurrection represents the fruits of the earth, which ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
313449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attis | Attis | Philosophy
Emperor Julian's "Hymn to the Mother of Gods" contains a detailed Neoplatonic analysis of Attis. In that work Julian says: "Of him [Attis] the myth relates that, after being exposed at birth near the eddying stream of the river Gallus, he grew up like a flower, and when he had grown to be fair and tall, he ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
313450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Manners%20Street | Battle of Manners Street | The Battle of Manners Street refers to a riot involving American servicemen and New Zealand servicemen and civilians outside the Allied Services Club in Manners Street, Te Aro, Wellington in 1943. The club was a social centre, open to all military personnel.
Background
During 1942–1944, between 15,000 and 45,000 Amer... | 2.609375 | 0 |
313450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Manners%20Street | Battle of Manners Street | The Allied Services Club was set up in the former Waldorf Restaurant in Manners Street in July 1942, as a place where soldiers could socialise and get a meal. The club was staffed by volunteers and featured a buffet counter, a dance floor, a lounge and an inquiries office. The club was intended primarily for soldiers f... | 2.1875 | 0 |
313450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Manners%20Street | Battle of Manners Street | News of the riot was censored at the time, leading to a kind of mythology around the event. Recent research has not shown any evidence that over a thousand people were involved or that the brawl was racially motivated, and it's possible that this incident was conflated with other similar disturbances. For example, on 2... | 1.984375 | 0 |
313451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidhana%20Soudha | Vidhana Soudha | Vidhana Soudha () is a building in Bangalore, India which serves as the seat of the state legislature of Karnataka. It is constructed in Neo-Dravidian style and was completed in 1956.
History
The two houses of legislature of the princely state of Mysore, the legislative assembly and the legislative council, were esta... | 2.4375 | 0 |
313454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wah-wah%20pedal | Wah-wah pedal | The creation of the modern wah pedal was an accident which stemmed from the redesign of the Vox Super Beatle guitar amplifier in 1966. Warwick Electronics Inc. also owned Thomas Organ Company and had earlier entered into an agreement with Jennings Musical Instruments (JMI) of England for Thomas to distribute the Vox n... | 2.375 | 0 |
313454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wah-wah%20pedal | Wah-wah pedal | Plunkett had lifted and bread-boarded a transistorized tone-circuit from the Thomas Organ (an electric solid state transistorized organ) to duplicate the Jennings 3-position circuit. After adjusting and testing the amplifier with an electronic oscillator and oscilloscope, Plunkett connected the output to the speaker an... | 2.375 | 0 |
313454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wah-wah%20pedal | Wah-wah pedal | Some of the most famous electric guitarists of the day were keen to adopt the wah-wah pedal soon after its release. Among the first recordings featuring wah-wah pedal were "Tales of Brave Ulysses" by Cream with Eric Clapton on guitar and "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, both released in 19... | 2.140625 | 0 |
313464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokohama%20National%20University | Yokohama National University | , abbreviated to , or YNU, is a national university located in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Founded in 1876, it became a national university in 1949, and currently comprises five graduate schools and four undergraduate faculties.
The university has been evaluated highly from the business world and was ranked... | 2.078125 | 0 |
313464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokohama%20National%20University | Yokohama National University | College of Engineering Science
College of Urban Sciences: Urban Sciences is an academic field that focuses on an important theme—how cities should be in the future—from a scientific point of view. The College of Urban Sciences was newly established in April 2017, and comprises the following four departments: (1) the De... | 2.3125 | 0 |
313469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Veles | Book of Veles | The Book of Veles (also called the Veles Book, Vles book, Vlesbook or Isenbeck's Planks; ) is a literary forgery purporting to be a text of ancient Slavic religion and history supposedly written on wooden planks.
It contains what purport to be historical accounts interspersed with religious passages - some of a didact... | 2 | 0 |
313469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Veles | Book of Veles | Many neopagans consider the Book a sacred text on the history and religion of the ancient Slavs. Slavic neopaganism (rodnovery) borrowed the pantheon, the presentation of history, and pan-Slavic ideas from the Book of Veles. It is widely used as a historical source and a source of religious teaching in Slavic neopagani... | 1.90625 | 0 |
313469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Veles | Book of Veles | Valery Skurlatov and Valery Yemelyanov were the most prominent popularizers of the Book of Veles and were leaders of nationalist movements, with Yemelyanov being one of the founders of Russian neopaganism. Gennady Grinevich, an amateur epigraphist, wrote that this was a "genuine book of the 9th century." The Book of Ve... | 1.96875 | 0 |
313469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Veles | Book of Veles | The ethnographer and candidate of historical sciences Svetlana Zharnikova, who developed a pseudoscientific arctic hypothesis of the origin of the Indo-Europeans ("Aryans"), was a supporter of the authenticity of the Book of Veles. Under the influence of Zharnikova, the neopagan writer Sergei Alekseyev released the nov... | 2.0625 | 0 |
313472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Petrucciani | Michel Petrucciani | Music career in Paris
Petrucciani gave his first professional concert at the age of 13. At this age he was quite fragile and had to be carried to and from the piano. His hands were average in length, but his size meant that he required aids to reach the piano's pedals.
Petrucciani felt he needed to move to Paris to be... | 2.046875 | 0 |
313489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20D.%20Herger | Alfred D. Herger | Alfred Domingo Herger (born November 4, 1942) is a Puerto Rican television show host and a psychologist. He has been labeled the Ed Sullivan of Puerto Rico in local media, due to his strong influence on Puerto Rican popular culture and his success as a television presenter.
Early life
Herger, of Spanish and German anc... | 2.171875 | 0 |
313492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius%20Cornelius%20Scipio%20Barbatus | Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus | Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus (c. 337 BC270 BC) was one of the two elected Roman consuls in 298 BC. He led the Roman army to victory against the Etruscans near Volterra. A member of the noble Roman family of Scipiones, he was the father of Lucius Cornelius Scipio and Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina and great-grandfath... | 2.65625 | 0 |
313492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius%20Cornelius%20Scipio%20Barbatus | Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus | In 298 BC Appius Claudius followed by Publius Sulpicius became interreges for reasons unknown. Sulpicius held an election, which brought Barbatus and Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumatus into consular office. The Lucanians spoke before the Senate saying that the Samnites were devastating their country and asking for the p... | 2.71875 | 0 |
313492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius%20Cornelius%20Scipio%20Barbatus | Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus | Meanwhile, the reduced forces of Maximus and Mus failed to restrain the Samnites, who raised another army with which they invaded and plundered Campania. Arriving there by forced marches Flamma learned that the Samnite army was encamped at the river Volturnus on its way back to Samnium. In the Battle of the Volturnus o... | 2.375 | 0 |
313515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Auguste%20de%20Thou | Jacques Auguste de Thou | The second part, dealing with the first wars of religion (1560–1572) including the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, was put on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (9 November 1609). The third part (up to 1574), and the fourth (up to 1584), which appeared in 1607 and 1608, caused a similar outcry, in spite of de Thou's effor... | 2.09375 | 0 |
313515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Auguste%20de%20Thou | Jacques Auguste de Thou | As the reasons which had led de Thou to forbid the translation of his monumental history disappeared with his death, there was soon a move to make it more accessible. It was translated first into German. A Protestant pastor, G Boule, who was afterwards converted to Catholicism, translated it into French, but could not ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat and H... | 2.765625 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | Metzinger was at the center of Cubism both because of his participation and identification of the movement when it first emerged, because of his role as intermediary among the Bateau-Lavoir group and the Section d'Or Cubists, and above all because of his artistic personality. During the First World War, Metzinger furth... | 2.75 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | For Metzinger, the classical vision had been an incomplete representation of real things, based on an incomplete set of laws, postulates and theorems. He believed the world was dynamic and changing in time, appearing different depending on the observer's point of view. Each of these viewpoints were equally valid accord... | 2.796875 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | Metzinger sent three paintings to the Salon des Indépendants in 1903, and subsequently moved to Paris with the proceeds from their sale. From the age of 20, Metzinger supported himself as a professional painter. He exhibited regularly in Paris from 1903, participating in the first Salon d'Automne the same year and taki... | 2.1875 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | Metzinger, followed closely by Delaunay—the two often painting together, 1906–07—developed a new sub-style that had great significance shortly thereafter within the context of their Cubist works. Piet Mondrian, in the Netherlands, developed a similar mosaic-like Divisionist technique circa 1909. The Futurists later (19... | 2.5625 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | By 1907 several avant-garde artists in Paris were reevaluating their own work in relation to that of Paul Cézanne. A retrospective of Cézanne's paintings had been held at the Salon d'Automne of 1904. Current works were displayed at the 1905 and 1906 Salon d'Automne, followed by two commemorative retrospectives after hi... | 2.265625 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | In 1910 a group began to form which included Metzinger, Gleizes, Fernand Léger and Robert Delaunay, a longstanding friend and associate of Metzinger. They met regularly at Henri le Fauconnier's studio on rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, near the boulevard du Montparnasse. Together with other young painters, the group wanted ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | While Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque are generally acknowledged as the founders of the twentieth-century movement that became known as Cubism, it was Jean Metzinger, together with Albert Gleizes, that created the first major treatise on the new art-form, Du "Cubisme", in preparation for the Salon de la Section d'Or h... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | In 1913, Apollinaire wrote in Les Peintres Cubistes: In drawing, in composition, in the judiciousness of contrasted forms, Metzinger's works have a style which sets them apart from, and perhaps even above most of the works of his contemporaries... It was then that Metzinger, joining Picasso and Braque, founded the Cubi... | 2.09375 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | Two works directly preceding Apollinaire's portrait, Nu and Landscape, circa 1908 and 1909 respectively, indicate that Metzinger had already departed from Divisionism by 1908. Turning his attention fully towards the geometric abstraction of form, Metzinger allowed the viewer to reconstruct the original volume mentally ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | The strict constructive ordering that had become so pronounced in Metzinger's pre-1920 Cubist works continued throughout the subsequent decades, in the careful positioning of form, color, and in the way in which Metzinger delicately assimilates the union of figure and background, of light and shadow. This can be seen i... | 2.515625 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | One of the essential arguments of Du "Cubisme", was that knowledge of the world is to be gained through 'sensations' alone. Classical figurative painting offered only one point of view, a restrained 'sensation' of the world, limited to the sensation of a motionless human being who sees only that which is in front of hi... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | In Du "Cubisme" Metzinger and Gleizes write that we can only know our sensations, not because they reject them as a means of inspiration. On the contrary, because understanding our sensations more deeply gave them the primary inspiration for their own work. Their attack on classical painting was leveled precisely becau... | 2.40625 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | There was, after all, little to prevent the Cubists from developing their own pictorial variants on the topological space in parallel to (or independently of) relativistic considerations. Though the concept of observing a subject from different points in space and time simultaneously (multiple or mobile perspective) de... | 2.09375 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | Metzinger had already written in 1910 of 'mobile perspective', as an interpretation of what would soon be dubbed "Cubism" with respect to Picasso, Braque, Delaunay and Le Fauconnier (Metzinger, "Note sur la peinture", Pan, Paris, Oct–Nov 1910). And Apollinaire would echo the same tune a year later regarding the observe... | 2.125 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | Metzinger's early interests in mathematics are documented. He was likely familiar with the works of Gauss, Riemann and Poincaré (and perhaps Galilean relativity) prior to the development of Cubism: something that reflects in his pre-1907 works. It was perhaps the French mathematician Maurice Princet who introduced the ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | For Metzinger, along with to some extent both Gleizes and Malevich, the classical vision had been an incomplete representation of real things, based on an incomplete set of laws, postulates and theorems. It represented, quite simply, the belief that space is the only thing that separates two points. It was the belief i... | 2.578125 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | On 19 June 1916 Metzinger signed a three-year contract (later renewed for 15 years) with the dealer, art collector and gallery owner Léonce Rosenberg. The agreement gave full rights for exhibitions and sales of Metzinger's production to Rosenberg. The contract fixed the prices of Metzinger's works bought by Rosenberg, ... | 2.25 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | Jean Metzinger had been appointed to teach at the Académie de La Palette, in Paris, 1912, where Le Fauconnier served as director. Among his many students were Serge Charchoune, Jessica Dismorr, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Varvara Stepanova, Aristarkh Lentulov, Vera Efimovna Pestel and Lyubov Popova. In 1913 Metzinger taught at... | 2.328125 | 0 |
313516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Metzinger | Jean Metzinger | During the spring of 1916 Metzinger participated in one of the largest exhibitions of modern art in New York City organized by Walter Pach and a group of European and American artists in New York; The Annual Exhibition of Modern Art, held at Bourgeois Gallery. Initially, some American exhibitors were offended by the 'c... | 2.25 | 0 |
313522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture%20%28Marvel%20Comics%29 | Vulture (Marvel Comics) | The Vulture is the alias of several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most of whom are depicted as recurring enemies of the superhero Spider-Man and part of his adversaries composing his rogues gallery, typically using special suits which allow them to fly at vast speeds.
The ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
313527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadassah%20medical%20convoy%20massacre | Hadassah medical convoy massacre | The Hadassah convoy massacre took place on April 13, 1948, when a convoy, escorted by Haganah militia, bringing medical and military supplies and personnel to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, was ambushed by Arab forces. Seventy-eight Jewish doctors, nurses, students, patients, faculty members and Haganah... | 2.390625 | 0 |
313527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadassah%20medical%20convoy%20massacre | Hadassah medical convoy massacre | At 2:05 pm March 2, the operator at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem received a phone call from an Arab caller who warned that the hospital would be blown up within 90 minutes, but there was no bomb.
At a press conference on March 17, the leader of the Arab forces in Jerusalem, Abdul Kader Husseini, threatened that Hada... | 2.09375 | 0 |
313527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadassah%20medical%20convoy%20massacre | Hadassah medical convoy massacre | Most of the bodies were burned beyond recognition. The 31 victims that could be identified were buried individually. The remaining 47 Jews were purportedly buried in a mass grave in the Sanhedria Cemetery. However, in the mid-1970s, Yehoshua Levanon, the son of one of the victims, discovered that a commission of inquir... | 2.015625 | 0 |
313527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadassah%20medical%20convoy%20massacre | Hadassah medical convoy massacre | Inquiry
On that same day, April 12, the Jewish Agency requested that the Red Cross intervene over what they called a grave Arab violation of the conventions. An inquiry conducted among the Arabs, Jews and the British suggested the circumstances were more complex. The firefight had lasted several hours, indicating that ... | 2.125 | 0 |
313530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm%20whale | Sperm whale | The sperm whale or cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. It is the only living member of the genus Physeter and one of three extant species in the sperm whale family, along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia.
The sperm ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
313530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm%20whale | Sperm whale | Taxonomy and naming
Etymology
The name "sperm whale" is a clipping of "spermaceti whale". Spermaceti, originally mistakenly identified as the whales' semen, is the semi-liquid, waxy substance found within the whale's head.
(See "Spermaceti organ and melon" below.)
The sperm whale is also known as the "cachalot", whi... | 2.90625 | 0 |
313530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm%20whale | Sperm whale | Taxonomy
The sperm whale belongs to the order Cetartiodactyla, the order containing all cetaceans and even-toed ungulates. It is a member of the unranked clade Cetacea, with all the whales, dolphins, and porpoises, and further classified into Odontoceti, containing all the toothed whales and dolphins. It is the sole e... | 2.640625 | 0 |
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