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4047176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Johnstone%20%28Royal%20Navy%20officer%29 | George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer) | He arrived at his capital, Pensacola, on 21 October 1764 and having established himself, went on to encourage immigration while keeping order among a relatively lawless pioneer population. He carried out skilful negotiations with the local Indians, and established the basics of civil government in the region. He oversa... | 2.40625 | 0 |
4047176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Johnstone%20%28Royal%20Navy%20officer%29 | George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer) | Johnstone supported the Rockingham faction, which was opposed to North's policies in American affairs. He was particularly skilled at denunciations and obstructing legislation, attacking the 1773 Tea Act as 'criminally absurd', and argued that the Boston Port Bill would unite Americans against Britain. He also opposed ... | 2 | 0 |
4047176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Johnstone%20%28Royal%20Navy%20officer%29 | George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer) | Return to the Navy
In 1779 Johnstone was offered, and accepted, a post as commodore of the Lisbon Station, despite his previous attacks on the ministry, and his support for conciliation over military intervention. He justified himself with the argument that since France had entered the war on the American side, he coul... | 2.328125 | 0 |
4047176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Johnstone%20%28Royal%20Navy%20officer%29 | George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer) | Johnstone at first made for the Cape Verde Islands, anchoring at Porto Praya to take on fresh water. Assuming there was no danger, despite records from the port office that a French frigate had arrived a month earlier and warned the inhabitants to prepare for the arrival of a larger French force, Johnstone anchored his... | 2.328125 | 0 |
4047176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Johnstone%20%28Royal%20Navy%20officer%29 | George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer) | Recovering from their initial shock the British soon began to fight back effectively. Captain Ward of HMS Hero took men from nearby ships and used them to bring his ship into range of the French, whereupon he boarded Artésien, killed her captain, Cardaillac, and took twenty-five of her men away as prisoners. After two ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
4047176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Johnstone%20%28Royal%20Navy%20officer%29 | George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer) | Johnstone's forces arrived at the Cape, where he sent HMS Active ahead to reconnoitre. Active found a Dutch merchant, the Held Woltemande, which had recently departed the Cape, and after fooling her into thinking Active was a French frigate, captured her. From her Johnstone learnt that Suffren's forces had already rein... | 2.140625 | 0 |
4047176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Johnstone%20%28Royal%20Navy%20officer%29 | George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer) | Death and legacy
George Johnstone died at Hotwells, Bristol, possibly from Hodgkin's disease, on 24 May 1787. He was survived by his wife Charlotte, by whom he had one son, John Lowther Johnstone. He also had four illegitimate children, including George Johnstone (1764–1813), who became an MP.
John later succeeded hi... | 2.234375 | 0 |
4047185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards%20Department | Standards Department | The Standards Department was a department of the English Board of Trade having the custody of the imperial standards of weights and measures.
History
As far back as can be traced, the standard weights and measures, the primary instruments for determining the justness of all other weights and measures used in the Unite... | 2.3125 | 0 |
4047197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar%20Allahabadi | Akbar Allahabadi | Syed Akbar Hussain, popularly known as Akbar Allahabadi (16 November 1846 – 9 September 1921) was an Indian poet, regarded as one of the greatest satirist in Urdu literature. The most popular of Akbar's verse poked fun at the cultural dilemma posed by the onslaught of Western culture. His ire was mostly directed toward... | 2.484375 | 0 |
4047216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra%20do%20Bu%C3%A7aco | Serra do Buçaco | Serra do Bussaco ( ) is a mountain range in Portugal, formerly included in the province of Beira Litoral. The highest point in the range is the Cruz Alta at 549 m (1801 feet), which has views over the Serra da Estrela, the Mondego River valley and the Atlantic Ocean.
The Serra includes the buildings of a secularized C... | 2.109375 | 0 |
4047242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexing%20Service | Indexing Service | Indexing Service (originally called Index Server) was a Windows service that maintained an index of most of the files on a computer to improve searching performance on PCs and corporate computer networks. It updated indexes without user intervention. In Windows Vista it was replaced by the newer Windows Search Indexer.... | 2.171875 | 0 |
4047256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Mobley | John Mobley | John Ulysses Mobley (born October 10, 1973) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for eight seasons with the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) from 1996 to 2003.
He is the cousin of former NBA player Cuttino Mobley.
Biography
One of nine children born to parents, K... | 1.921875 | 0 |
4047259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polite%20number | Polite number | In number theory, a polite number is a positive integer that can be written as the sum of two or more consecutive positive integers. A positive integer which is not polite is called impolite. The impolite numbers are exactly the powers of two, and the polite numbers are the natural numbers that are not powers of two.
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4047259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polite%20number | Polite number | Some of the terms in this sum may be zero or negative. However, if a term is zero it can be omitted and any negative terms may be used to cancel positive ones, leading to a polite representation for x. (The requirement that y > 1 corresponds to the requirement that a polite representation have more than one term; apply... | 2.1875 | 0 |
4047259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polite%20number | Polite number | Trapezoidal numbers
If a polite representation starts with 1, the number so represented is a triangular number
Otherwise, it is the difference of two nonconsecutive triangular numbers
This second case is called a trapezoidal number. One can also consider polite numbers that aren't trapezoidal. The only such numbe... | 2.5625 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl (Ketupa lactea), also commonly known as the milky eagle owl or giant eagle owl, is a member of the family Strigidae. This species is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. A member of the genus Ketupa, it is the largest African owl, measuring up to in total length. This eagle-owl is a resident primaril... | 3.0625 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Among species with available genomes to study for DNA characteristics, it has been revealed that the fish owls, in particular the brown fish owl (Ketupa zeylonensis), is the third most closely related species to the Verreaux's. Notably, Konig & Weick did not test the DNA of other African eagle-owls that may bear relati... | 2.578125 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Despite the alternative common name of giant eagle-owl, Verreaux's eagle-owl is not the largest owl or eagle-owl in the world. It is, however, a very large and powerful owl species. This species is both the largest owl found in Africa and the world's largest owl to occur in the tropics. Among all the world's owls, it i... | 2.53125 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl ranges from in total length. This species has been reported as having an average wingspan of , but Mikkola referenced this as the wingspan of a smaller male. The largest known wingspan from a wild female measured nearly . While female owls are almost always larger than males, Verreaux's eagle-owl ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Overall, Verreaux's eagle-owl is a fairly uniform and somewhat pale gray, with light and fine brownish vermiculations on the underside. The back is more solidly light brown with white spots on the shoulder. The oval facial disc is paler, sometimes ranging into a whitish color, than the rest of the front side of the bir... | 2.921875 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | The next largest owl in sub-Saharan Africa is the Cape eagle-owl (Bubo capensis). The individual home ranges, if not habitats, of the Verreaux's and cape eagle-owls may abut in nearly every part of the latter's distribution. Even in its largest race (Mackinder's eagle-owl, B. c. mackinderi) the cape eagle-owl is around... | 2.515625 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Voice
The call of the Verreaux's eagle-owl is the deepest of any extant owl species and one of the deepest bird calls in the world, averaging slightly deeper than the calls of the Blakiston's and brown fish owls (Ketupu zeylonensis). The calls of Eurasian eagle-owls are less deep but are possibly louder and farther car... | 2.8125 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | This species inhabits mainly savanna with scattered trees and thorny vegetation. Verreaux's eagle-owls mainly inhabit rather dry regions, some bordering semi-arid areas. In central Mali, for example, near the extreme northwestern limit of the species range, the habitat that hosts these owls averages less than of rainf... | 2.84375 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owls are nocturnal birds and roost by day in trees, with large, shaded horizontal branches of tall, old trees being preferred. In Kenya, the most often-used perch trees were Croton megalocarpus and invasive Eucalyptus. Elsewhere, Acacia trees may be used habitually. Despite normally choosing dense foli... | 2.953125 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl is considered an avian apex predator, meaning it is at or near the top of the food chain and healthy adults normally have no natural predators. In many known aspects of its hunting behaviour, it is typical of the members of the genus Bubo. This species hunts predominantly in early evening; however,... | 2.875 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Even among the Bubo owls, most species of which are known to be highly opportunistic predators with indiscriminating diets, the Verreaux's eagle-owl is a particularly opportunistic predator. While earlier studies characterized great horned owl, one of the most well-studied members of the genus Bubo, as hunting whatever... | 2.609375 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Mammals
The prey type most often associated with Verreaux's eagle-owl are hedgehogs. It appears that this species is the only routine predator of hedgehogs in Africa, most other predators of small-to-medium-sized mammals choosing to pursue other abundant mammals without the hedgehog's prickly defenses. In both the sout... | 3.0625 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | In general, the diet of Verreaux's eagle-owl is seemingly random and highly variable. Eagle-owl species from temperate zones may have no choice but to predate rodents which are rather small and this may require a nesting pair to capture up to a dozen rodents nightly. In comparison, the diversity and abundance of rodent... | 2.5 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Many other mammals taken as prey by Verreaux's eagle-owl are seemingly any encountered except the much larger species, especially those that show a propensity for nocturnal or crepuscular activity. This species has hunted bats in several cases from the Lander's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus landeri), the smallest known v... | 2.484375 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | So far as is known, Verreaux's eagle-owl is the only living owl that preys upon multiple species of primate, although isolated incidents of predation (normally on young primates) has been reported in two to three other large, tropical owls. Multiple cases of predation against galagos have been reported, unsurprisingly ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | There are a few verified cases of Verreaux's eagle-owls feeding on ungulates; however, some authors such as Avery, et al. (1985) feel that these generally represent cases of scavenging on carrion. The remains of an adult grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis), weighing an estimated , was opined with certainty to have been take... | 2.25 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Among mammalian carnivores the bulk of predatory incidents have reportedly involved mongooses. Common, social species from savanna-edge such as the yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata) and the meerkats (Suricata suricatta) have been attacked, as well as larger, shy forest dwellers such as the Jackson's mongoose (B... | 2.90625 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl takes a diverse range of birds as prey. More than 50 avian prey species have been identified and they may locally exceed mammals in importance in the diet, somewhat unusually for eagle-owls. No one type of bird can be said to be predictably favored as prey and any avian species unfortunate enough t... | 3 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Various upland birds recorded as prey include the Namaqua sandgrouse (Pterocles namaqua), the rock pigeon (Columba livia), the laughing dove (Streptopelia senegalensis), the Senegal coucal (Centropus senegalensis), the scaly-throated honeyguide (Indicator variegatus) and several species of hornbill, ranging in siz... | 2.921875 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Other prey
Reptiles and amphibians are occasional prey for Verreaux's eagle-owls. Various snakes have been included in their diet ranging from the small, innocuous brown house snake (Boaedon fuliginosus) at to large and venomous Egyptian cobras (Naja haje) weighing over . Frogs were amongst the prominent prey recorde... | 2.71875 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Sub-Saharan Africa has many species of owl, although there is less species diversity than in some areas of similar latitude in the neotropics and south Asia. It also hosts the most species of eagle-owl with approximately eight "typical" Bubo species and all three fishing owl species as well. Due to the diversity here, ... | 2.890625 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Outside of the genus Bubo, other owls in Africa are much smaller than Verreaux's eagle-owls and are more likely to be viewed as prey than competition. Among the small-to-mid-sized owls that have fallen prey to this species are the barn owl (Tyto alba) and the African grass owl (Tyto capensis), both of which average aro... | 2.96875 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | There are reports of Verreaux's eagle-owls attacking even larger raptorial birds. A case of the Verreaux's eagle-owl killing an adult Pel's fishing owl in Botswana was verified. At roughly in body mass, the fishing owl is of nearly the same size as the eagle-owl. Cases where they've attacked the nests of particularly ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Breeding
In the heart of their distribution, i.e. east Africa, breeding activity in this species can peak any time from February to September, but can occur nearly any month at the species level. The timing of breeding is said to be correspondent roughly to the regional dry season, so averages earlier in the northern ... | 3.015625 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Like great horned owls, but unlike Eurasian eagle-owls, the Verreaux's eagle-owls normally uses old nests built by other birds as their own nests. Usage of a nest site other than those constructed by other birds is considered rarer even than in the horned owl and is viewed as almost exceptional in some parts of this sp... | 2.671875 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Other nest builders which are popular as hosts are vultures, eagles (at least eight species have built nests used by these eagle-owls), secretarybirds, crows and even much smaller birds such as weavers, which build huge communal nest structures which the eagle-owls then similarly nest on top of. Most nests are already ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | On average, the female lays two white eggs, which typically measure , with a range in height of and a range in width of . The eggs weigh from , the upper weight being the mean mass of the first egg and the lower weight being the mean mass of the second egg. The eggs are reportedly laid at up to 7 day intervals and may... | 2.984375 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | The mother Verreaux's eagle-owl remains on the nest for nearly the entire incubation period while the male hunts for food for both of them. During the brooding stage, which lasts about 20 days after hatching, the female is still fed by the male, but resumes hunting thereafter. During the incubation and brooding stage, ... | 3.078125 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | On average, the young Verreaux's eagle-owl leaves the nest at around 62–63 days but cannot fly at this point. It may take roughly anywhere from another two weeks to a month after this before the fledgling is a competent flier. After leaving the nest, the fledgling is "remarkably inactive", making a minimum of effort to... | 2.5625 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | It is not until they are about 5 months old do most young Verreaux's eagle-owl show the ability to capture prey for themselves. However, the stage at which the young of this species becomes independent appears remarkably variable. One ringed 9-month-old moved away from its nest area and was thus seemingly fully indepe... | 2.875 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | On average, sexual maturity in Verreaux's eagle-owls appears to be attained at three to four years of age. In most cases, a pair of Verreaux's eagle-owl is able to nest annually; however, in some cases they may nest only every two to three years, in probable situations of extreme food shortages. Annual mortality appear... | 2.734375 | 0 |
4047265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s%20eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl | Verreaux's eagle-owl is a seldom-encountered species, occurring at low densities and needing large territories for hunting and breeding purposes. The threats faced by this species are sadly typical of many large birds of prey from around the world. Not infrequently, they are locally rare due to persecution. The normal ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
4047274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold-containing%20drugs | Gold-containing drugs | Chrysiasis
A noticeable side-effect of gold-based therapy is skin discoloration, in shades of mauve to a purplish dark grey when exposed to sunlight. Skin discoloration occurs when gold salts are taken on a regular basis over a long period of time. Excessive intake of gold salts while undergoing chrysotherapy results –... | 2.484375 | 0 |
4047291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys%20Bronwyn%20Stern | Gladys Bronwyn Stern | Gladys Bronwyn Stern (17 June 1890 – 20 September 1973) or G. B. Stern, born Gladys Bertha Stern in London, England, wrote many novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary criticism.
Career
GB Stern was born on 17 June 1890 in North Kensington, London, the second, by some years, of two sisters. He... | 2.234375 | 0 |
4047312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheshatshiu | Sheshatshiu | Sheshatshiu () is an Innu federal reserve and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The reserve is approximately north of Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Some references may spell the community's name as Sheshatshit, the t spelling is more traditional in the Innu-aimun language, but the u is ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
4047312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheshatshiu | Sheshatshiu | In 1997, Queen Elizabeth II visited Sheshatshiu and was presented with a letter by community leaders lamenting colonialization.
In November 2000, the community, along with Davis Inlet, took the unprecedented step of asking the Canadian federal government to step in and assist with a local addiction crisis. Due to a va... | 2.546875 | 0 |
4047316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Walsh%20%28field%20hockey%29 | Terry Walsh (field hockey) | Terence ("Terry") Arthur Walsh (born 20 November 1953) is a field hockey coach and a former player who played as a striker for Australia. He represented Australia in two Olympic Games, winning a silver medal at the 1976 Games in Montreal. Following his playing career, he became a coach and had successful spells with Au... | 2.0625 | 0 |
4047366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%20Haslam | Annie Haslam | Annie Haslam (born 8 June 1947) is an English vocalist, songwriter and painter. She is best known as the lead singer of progressive rock band Renaissance since 1971, and for her long and diverse solo singing career. She has a three-octave vocal range. From 2002, Haslam has developed a parallel career as a visual artist... | 2 | 0 |
4047392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%20Little%20Girls | 4 Little Girls | 4 Little Girls is a 1997 American historical documentary film about the murder of four African-American girls (Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Rosamond Robertson) in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The film was directed by Spike Lee and... | 2.09375 | 0 |
4047392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%20Little%20Girls | 4 Little Girls | The film covered the events in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 related to civil rights demonstrations and the movement to end racial discrimination in local stores and facilities. In 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.arrived in the town to help with their strategy and to speak at the funeral of the four young girls. Pe... | 2.640625 | 0 |
4047392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%20Little%20Girls | 4 Little Girls | Production
Lee first became interested in making a film about the Birmingham bombing in 1983, when he was a student at New York University. After reading a New York Times Magazine article about the incident, he was moved to write to Chris McNair, the father of Denise, one of the victims, to ask for permission to tell h... | 1.976563 | 0 |
4047416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Commens | Adam Commens | Adam David Commens (born 6 May 1976) is an Australian field hockey coach and former player. He was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.
Commens was nicknamed Billy by his teammates, and earned 143 caps (20 goals) for Australia. He was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydn... | 1.921875 | 0 |
4047451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20Park%2C%20Queensland | Middle Park, Queensland | Middle Park is a residential south-western suburb in the Centenary Suburbs in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Middle Park had a population of 3,845 people.
Geography
Middle Park is located by road south-west of the Brisbane CBD.
Middle Park is bounded to the north by the McLeod Country Golf Cl... | 2 | 0 |
4047478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WADL%20%28TV%29 | WADL (TV) | Analog-to-digital conversion
WADL shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 38, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transi... | 2.125 | 0 |
4047486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker%20of%20the%20Dewan%20Rakyat | Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat | The Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat (, Jawi: ) is the highest-ranking presiding officer of the Dewan Rakyat, the lower house of the Parliament of Malaysia. They are responsible for convening sessions of the Dewan Rakyat, organising debates, and examining the admissibility of petitions, bills, and amendments. In the absence... | 2.359375 | 0 |
4047493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaciens%20Sans%20Fronti%C3%A8res | Pharmaciens Sans Frontières | Pharmaciens Sans Frontières Comité International (PSFCI) is the largest humanitarian association in the world specialized in the pharmaceutical sector. Founded in 1985 to retrieve unused drugs from chemists for use in developing countries, PSFCI extended its objectives to help developing countries set up a locally adap... | 2.0625 | 0 |
4047535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconry%20training%20and%20technique | Falconry training and technique | Strips of strong leather (nowadays often kangaroo) called jesses on both legs.
Very often, a telemetry transmitter, so that it may be recovered if lost during free flight.
Falcons (the long-wing family of raptors) are tethered perched on a block; large owls (during training only) and short-winged and broad-winged hawk... | 2.765625 | 0 |
4047535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconry%20training%20and%20technique | Falconry training and technique | A weighing scale is used to weigh the bird and its food. The scale must be reliable. This is especially important when dealing with small birds, as they may be endangered by even small weight differences when at flying weight. The successful hunting weight of the bird may vary, usually increasing as the bird is flown ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
4047535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconry%20training%20and%20technique | Falconry training and technique | Housing
A falconry bird is usually housed in a mew. Mews in the US have to be inspected for compliance with federal and state laws. These laws ensure that the facilities meet what is required to safely and humanely house a bird of prey. The mews (along with other perching equipment) are carefully designed to prevent bo... | 3.015625 | 0 |
4047535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconry%20training%20and%20technique | Falconry training and technique | Today experienced falconers know how to rear an imprint so that it has few or none of these undesirable behaviors, but it is time-consuming and requires unswerving dedication for a period of about three months. During that time, the eyass is not allowed to ever become truly hungry, and in nearly constant company and vi... | 2.5 | 0 |
4047535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconry%20training%20and%20technique | Falconry training and technique | Weight is key, especially in small species. Some falconers do not recommend that beginners start with a kestrel, a tiny species of falcon. They are ready sparrow hunters, and as they are so small one must pay close attention to their weight and training to avoid hurting them. Similarly, some falconers agree that the ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
4047593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%20district%20of%20Fairfield | Electoral district of Fairfield | Fairfield is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney's West. Fairfield has historically been one of the safest seats in New South Wales and is considered a part of Labor's heartland in Western Sydney. It is currently represented by David Saliba of the Labo... | 1.929688 | 0 |
4047596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnonectes | Limnonectes | Limnonectes is a genus of fork-tongued frogs of 91 known species, but new ones are still being described occasionally. They are collectively known as fanged frogs because they tend to have unusually large teeth, which are small or absent in other frogs.
Habitat
These frogs are found throughout East and Southeast Asia,... | 3.078125 | 0 |
4047619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20R.%20Gopinath | G. R. Gopinath | Captain Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar Gopinath (born 13 November 1951) is an Indian entrepreneur, the founder of Air Deccan, a retired Captain of the Indian Army, an author and a politician.
Early life
Gopinath was born in Gorur, Hassan, in a Kannada family and was brought up in a small village in Gorur in the Hassan distr... | 2.21875 | 0 |
4047621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meristogenys | Meristogenys | Meristogenys is a genus of true frogs from Borneo. Its tadpoles are adapted to fast-flowing mountain streams and easily recognizable by their divided upper lip with ribs on the outside.
Taxonomy and systematics
Its closest living relative is apparently the hole-in-the-head frog (Huia cavitympanum), type species of the... | 2.9375 | 0 |
4047629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Education%20Board | General Education Board | The General Education Board was a private organization which was used primarily to support higher education and medical schools in the United States, and to help rural white and black schools in the South, as well as modernize farming practices in the South. It helped eradicate hookworm and created the county agent sys... | 2.734375 | 0 |
4047629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Education%20Board | General Education Board | The General Education Board was incorporated by an Act of Congress that took place on January 12, 1903. Their main object being "the promotion of education within the United States of America, without distinction of race, sex, or creed"
The original members of the General Education Board were: William H. Baldwin Jr.,... | 2.609375 | 0 |
4047629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Education%20Board | General Education Board | 1. The promotion of practical farming in the southern states. Through the Department of Agriculture the board had made accumulative annual appropriations amounting in by 1912-1913 to $673,750 for the purpose of promoting agriculture by the establishment of demonstration farms under the direction of Dr. Seaman A. Knapp... | 2.609375 | 0 |
4047629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Education%20Board | General Education Board | 3. The promotion of institutions of higher learning. By 1914 the board had made conditional appropriations to the amount of $8,817,500, gifts towards an approximate total of $41,020,500. This money was expended throughout the United States. The General Education Board also provided funds to fund existing medical scho... | 2.59375 | 0 |
4047629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Education%20Board | General Education Board | Implications
The General Education Board emphasized the need for real world applicational skills. Two areas which the General Education Board highlighted was Demonstrative Farming as well as Industrial Education. Wallace Buttrick an influential member in the development of the General Education Board highlighted that,... | 2.71875 | 0 |
4047648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrixalus | Micrixalus | Micrixalus (commonly known as dancing frogs, tropical frogs, and torrent frogs) is a genus of frogs from that are endemic to the Western Ghats in India. They are monotypic within the family Micrixalidae. Before being raised to the family level they were classified as the subfamily Micrixalinae within Ranidae. Micrixalu... | 2.921875 | 0 |
4047658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Norman | Frank Norman | Frank Norman (9 June 1930 – 23 December 1980) was a British novelist and playwright.
His reputation rests on his first memoir, Bang to Rights (1958), and his musical play Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be (1960), but much of the remainder of his work remains fresh and readable. Norman's early success was based in part on... | 2.078125 | 0 |
4047658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Norman | Frank Norman | Writing career
Released from prison in 1957, he started writing what was to become his best known book. Norman's several accounts of how he came to write are at variance with one another, but within a year of his release, he had published in Encounter magazine a 10,000-word extract from his prison memoir, Bang to Right... | 2.515625 | 0 |
4047693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wihtburh | Wihtburh | Wihtburh (also Withburga or Withburge; died 743) was an East Anglian saint, princess and abbess. According to tradition, she was the youngest daughter of Anna, king of the East Angles, but Virginia Blanton has suggested that the royal connection was probably a fabrication. One story says that the Virgin Mary sent a pai... | 1.929688 | 0 |
4047693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wihtburh | Wihtburh | Saints' cults were a feature of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, and their remains attracted benefactions. Smaller monasteries may not have been able to resist the requests of places like Ely to acquire their relics, which accounts for the theft of the remains of Wihtburh in 974. The story of the theft, which appea... | 2.5 | 0 |
4047693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wihtburh | Wihtburh | The description of her life and miraculous incorruptibility closely follows that of Æthelthryth, who was also a virgin who founded an East Anglian monastery. According to Blanton, "the prominence of the tombs [of Wihtburh and other members of her family at Ely] demonstrated that kinship was an important ideological con... | 2.625 | 0 |
4047698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanorana | Nanorana | Nanorana is a genus of dicroglossid frogs. They are found in Asia, from the Himalayan region of northern Pakistan and northern India, Nepal, and western China east to montane southern China and southeast to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and northern Vietnam. Common names of these frogs reflect the complex taxonomic history ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
4047717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%20district%20of%20Ryde | Electoral district of Ryde | Ryde is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales.
It is currently represented by Jordan Lane of the Liberal Party.
History
Ryde was created originally in 1894 with the abolition of multi-member districts, from part of Central Cumberland and named after and including... | 1.953125 | 0 |
4047742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%20district%20of%20Newcastle | Electoral district of Newcastle | Newcastle is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales named after and including Newcastle. It is represented since the 2014 Newcastle by-election by Tim Crakanthorp of the Australian Labor Party.
Geography
The district takes in the eastern part of the City of Newcast... | 1.984375 | 0 |
4047804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Ireland%20flags%20issue | Northern Ireland flags issue | The Northern Ireland flags issue is one that divides the population along sectarian lines. Depending on political allegiance, people identify with differing flags and symbols, some of which have, or have had, official status in Northern Ireland.
Common flags
The flag of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack or Union Fla... | 2.734375 | 0 |
4047804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Ireland%20flags%20issue | Northern Ireland flags issue | Controversies
The Flags and Emblems (Display) Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 prohibited the display of any flag which was "likely to cause a breach of public order", and gave the police powers to deal with it. However, it specifically excluded the Union Jack from its provisions. In 1956, the Stormont Minister of Affairs, ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
4047822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R10000 | R10000 | The R10000 is a four-way superscalar design that implements register renaming and executes instructions out-of-order. Its design is a departure from previous MTI microprocessors such as the R4000, which is a much simpler scalar in-order design that relies largely on high clock rates for performance.
The R10000 fetches... | 2.28125 | 0 |
4047822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R10000 | R10000 | Integer unit
The integer unit consists of the integer register file and three pipelines, two integer, one load store. The integer register file is 64 bits wide and contains 64 entries, of which 32 are architectural registers and 32 are rename registers which implement register renaming. The register file has seven read... | 2.859375 | 0 |
4047822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R10000 | R10000 | The floating-point register file contains sixty-four 64-bit registers, of which thirty-two are architectural and the remaining are rename registers.
The adder has its own dedicated read and write ports, whereas the multiplier shares its with the divider and square root unit.
The divide and square root units use the SR... | 2.140625 | 0 |
4047822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R10000 | R10000 | Addressing
MIPS IV is a 64-bit architecture, but to reduce cost the R10000 does not implement the entire physical or virtual address. Instead, it has a 40-bit physical address and a 44-bit virtual address, thus it is capable of addressing 1 TB of physical memory and 16 TB of virtual memory.
Avalanche system bus
The R1... | 2.203125 | 0 |
4047822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R10000 | R10000 | The R18000 improved the floating-point instruction queues and revised the floating-point unit to feature two multiply–add units, quadrupling the peak FLOPS count. Division and square-root would be performed in separate non-pipelined units in parallel to the multiply–add units. The system interface and memory hierarchy ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
4047826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R3000 | R3000 | The R3000 is a 32-bit RISC microprocessor chipset developed by MIPS Computer Systems that implemented the MIPS I instruction set architecture (ISA). Introduced in June 1988, it was the second MIPS implementation, succeeding the R2000 as the flagship MIPS microprocessor. It operated at 20, 25 and 33.33 MHz.
The MIPS 1 ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
4047829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R4000 | R4000 | The R4000 is a microprocessor developed by MIPS Computer Systems that implements the MIPS III instruction set architecture (ISA). Officially announced on 1 October 1991, it was one of the first 64-bit microprocessors and the first MIPS III implementation. In the early 1990s, when RISC microprocessors were expected to r... | 2.546875 | 0 |
4047829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R4000 | R4000 | Floating-point execution
The R4000 has an on-die IEEE 754-1985-compliant floating-point unit (FPU), referred to as the R4010. The FPU is a coprocessor designated CP1 (the MIPS ISA defined four coprocessors, designated CP0 to CP3). The FPU can operate in two modes, 32- or 64-bit which are selected by setting a bit, the... | 2.46875 | 0 |
4047831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R5000 | R5000 | The R5000 is a two-way superscalar design that executes instructions in-order. The R5000 could simultaneously issue an integer and a floating-point instruction. It had one simple pipeline for integer instructions and another for floating-point to save transistors and die area to reduce cost. The R5000 did not perform d... | 2.484375 | 0 |
4047831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R5000 | R5000 | The floating-point unit (FPU) was a fast single-precision (32-bit) design, for reduced cost and to benefit SGI, whose mid-range 3D graphics workstations relied mostly on single-precision math for 3D graphics applications. It was fully pipelined, which made it significantly better than that of the R4700. The R5000 imple... | 2.25 | 0 |
4047836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R8000 | R8000 | The R8000 is a microprocessor chipset developed by MIPS Technologies, Inc. (MTI), Toshiba, and Weitek. It was the first implementation of the MIPS IV instruction set architecture. The R8000 is also known as the TFP, for Tremendous Floating-Point, its name during development.
History
Development of the R8000 started in... | 2.6875 | 0 |
4047836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R8000 | R8000 | The integer register file has nine read ports and four write ports. Four read ports supply operands to the two integer execution units (the branch unit was considered part of an integer unit). Another four read ports supply operands to the two address generators. Four ports are needed, rather than two, because of the... | 2.453125 | 0 |
4047838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahreza | Shahreza | Shahreza () is a city in the Central District of Shahreza County, Isfahan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Shahreza was selected as the "National City of Pottery" in 1997. The reason for this choice was the high skill of the artists and the unique soil of this city.
History
It ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
4047838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahreza | Shahreza | Souvenirs and handicrafts
Shahreza is known for its unique souvenirs and handicrafts. Among the most popular items are pomegranates, raisins, dairy products such as yogurt and shallot, kashk (fermented whey), and qara (a local dried yogurt). Shahreza's pottery is especially famous throughout Iran, and the city is also ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
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