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313649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Holbrooke | Richard Holbrooke | U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1999–2001)
In August 1999, Holbrooke was sworn-in as the 22nd U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, replacing Bill Richardson. Holbrooke initially had issues passing the Senate because of perceived abuses of authority while as Clinton's Balkan envoy. During his tenure, Holbrooke... | 2.0625 | 0 |
313650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban | Durban | Durban ( ; , from meaning "bay, lagoon") is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Situated on the east coast of South Africa, on the Natal Bay of the Indian Ocean, Durban is the busiest port city in sub-Saharan Africa and ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
313650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban | Durban | Durban has a rich, diverse heritage, with large Zulu, Indian, White, and Coloured populations. Historically, it was a popular tourist destination domestically because of its beaches and warm climate, but in recent years, tourism has declined. Some notable places are the Golden Mile beachfront, Botanic Gardens, the Art ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
313650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban | Durban | The extent of urban sprawl the Greater Durban agglomeration has experienced, virtually adjoining surrounding smaller towns, has made boundaries in the metropolitan area quite complicated. Durban proper, which is the main city, is demarcated by its administrative city limits, which are only as large to include the city ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
313650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban | Durban | In the years following the end of apartheid, there was a population boom as black Africans were allowed to move into the city. The population grew by an annual average of 2.34% between 1996 and 2001. This led to shanty towns forming around the city, which were often demolished. Between 2001 and 2011, the population gro... | 2.65625 | 0 |
313650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban | Durban | Places of worship
Among the places of worship, there are predominantly Christian churches and temples. These include: Zion Christian Church, Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa, Assemblies of God, Baptist Union of Southern Africa (Baptist World Alliance), Methodist Church of Southern Africa (World Methodist Counci... | 2.5 | 0 |
313650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban | Durban | Metrorail operates a commuter rail service in Durban and the surrounding area. The Metrorail network runs from Durban Station outwards as far as KwaDukuza on the North Coast, Kelso on the South Coast, and Cato Ridge inland.
A high-speed rail link has been proposed; this link would Johannesburg and Durban.
Roads
The... | 2.234375 | 0 |
313650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban | Durban | Durban also has a system of freeway and dual arterial metropolitan routes, which connect the sprawling suburbs that lie to the north, west and south of the city. The M4 exists in two segments. The northern segment, named the Ruth First Highway and Leo Boyd Highway, starts as an alternative highway from the R102 in Ball... | 1.953125 | 0 |
313650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban | Durban | Durban was previously served by the Durban trolleybus system, which ran from 1935 until 1968.
Since 2017, the newer Durban People Mover Bus System that runs along certain routes has been testing out free Wi-Fi for passengers.
Taxis
Durban has two kinds of taxis: metered taxis and minibus taxis. Unlike in many cities... | 2.5 | 0 |
313654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-One%20Demands | Twenty-One Demands | The Twenty-One Demands (; ) was a set of demands made during the First World War by the Empire of Japan under Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu to the government of the Republic of China on 18 January 1915. The secret demands would greatly extend Japanese control of China. Japan would keep the former German areas it had c... | 2.59375 | 0 |
313654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-One%20Demands | Twenty-One Demands | Japan had gained a large sphere of influence in northern China and Manchuria through its victories in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, and had thus joined the ranks of the European imperialist powers in their scramble to establish political and economic domination over Imperial China under the Qi... | 2.65625 | 0 |
313654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-One%20Demands | Twenty-One Demands | Group 1 (four demands) confirmed Japan's recent seizure of German ports and operations in Shandong Province, and expanded Japan's sphere of influence over the railways, coasts and major cities of the province.
Group 2 (seven demands) pertained to Japan's South Manchuria Railway Zone, extending the leasehold over the t... | 2.234375 | 0 |
313656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%20Canal | Bridgewater Canal | The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England. It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester. It was opened in 1761 from Worsley to Manchester, and later extended from Manchester to Runcorn, and then from ... | 2.5 | 0 |
313656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%20Canal | Bridgewater Canal | Design and construction
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, owned some of the coal mines dug to supply North West England with fuel for the steam engines instrumental in powering England's Industrial Revolution. The duke transported his coal along the Mersey and Irwell Navigation and also by packhorse, but each... | 2.828125 | 0 |
313656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%20Canal | Bridgewater Canal | James Brindley was brought in for his technical expertise (having previously installed a pumping system at the nearby Wet Earth Colliery), and after a six-day visit suggested varying the route of the proposed canal away from Salford, instead taking it across the River Irwell to Stretford and thereon into Manchester. T... | 2.515625 | 0 |
313656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%20Canal | Bridgewater Canal | In December 1761 Brindley undertook a survey of the route at Runcorn. His initial plan was to make the terminus at Hempstones, east of Runcorn Gap, but following a study of the tides and depth of water there, he decided instead to build the terminus west of Runcorn Gap. This change was designed to accommodate Mersey f... | 2.796875 | 0 |
313656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%20Canal | Bridgewater Canal | The connection to Manchester was delayed by Sir Richard Brooke of Norton Priory. Concerned that boatmen might poach his game and wildfowl, Brooke did not want the canal to pass through his land. The act included several stipulations: the canal should not come within of his house; the towpath should be on the south sid... | 2.1875 | 0 |
313656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%20Canal | Bridgewater Canal | During the time the canal was administered by the Bridgewater Trustees, it made a profit every year. Until his retirement in 1834, the administration was carried out entirely by Bradshaw. It has been calculated that the average annual profit between 1806 and 1826 was of the order of 13 per cent, and in 1824, the best ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
313656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%20Canal | Bridgewater Canal | During the 1820s there was increased dissatisfaction with the canals. They did not cope well with increasing volumes of cargo, and they were perceived as monopolistic, and the preserve of the landed gentry class. There was increased interest in the possibility of railway construction. The possible construction of a r... | 2.546875 | 0 |
313656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%20Canal | Bridgewater Canal | Loch was extremely busy and did not have time to deal with the detailed administration of the Trust. He therefore looked for a deputy to take on these duties. His first choice was Richard Smith who was the mine agent to the Trustees of the 1st Earl of Dudley. However this was perceived as poaching and it led to such co... | 2.015625 | 0 |
313656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%20Canal | Bridgewater Canal | Between 1849 and 1851 the competition between the Trustees and the railway companies intensified. Agreements and alliances were made and broken. Their major opponents were the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway who reduced tariffs and took business away from the canals. For the... | 2.5625 | 0 |
313656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%20Canal | Bridgewater Canal | On 28 June 1855 James Loch, the Superintendent, died and was succeeded by Hon. Algernon Fulke Egerton, Lord Ellesmere's third son. He was then aged 29, and had been educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford; he had been destined for a political life and had no experience of managing coal mines or canals. Since Jam... | 2.25 | 0 |
313656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%20Canal | Bridgewater Canal | In 1923 Bridgewater Estates Ltd was formed to acquire the Ellesmere family estate in Worsley. In 1984 Bridgewater Estates Ltd was purchased by a subsidiary of Peel Holdings. In 1987 Highams acquired a majority shareholding of the Manchester Ship Canal Company (subsequently the shares held by Highams were transferred to... | 2.15625 | 0 |
313657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Carawan | Guy Carawan | Guy Hughes Carawan Jr. (July 28, 1927 – May 2, 2015) was an American folk musician and musicologist. He served as music director and song leader for the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee.
Carawan is famous for introducing the protest song "We Shall Overcome" to the American Civil Right... | 2.625 | 0 |
313657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Carawan | Guy Carawan | Career at Highlander Center
Carawan first visited the Highlander Folk School in 1953, with singers Ramblin' Jack Elliot and Frank Hamilton. At the recommendation of Pete Seeger, he returned in 1959 as a volunteer, taking charge of the music program pioneered by Zilphia Horton, who had died in an accident in 1956.
He... | 2.53125 | 0 |
313658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Lucky%20Gods | Seven Lucky Gods | In Japanese mythology, the Seven Lucky Gods or Seven Gods of Fortune (, in Japanese) are believed to grant good luck and are often represented in netsuke and in artworks. One of the seven (Jurōjin) is said to be based on a historical figure.
They all began as remote and impersonal gods, but gradually became much clos... | 2.71875 | 0 |
313658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Lucky%20Gods | Seven Lucky Gods | Shortly after, a famous artist of the time, Kano Yasunobu, was ordained to portray these gods for the first time.
Description of the Fukujin deities
Ebisu
From the period of the gods Izanami and Izanagi, Ebisu (恵比寿) is the only one whose origins are purely Japanese. He is the god of prosperity and wealth in busines... | 2.8125 | 0 |
313658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Lucky%20Gods | Seven Lucky Gods | Hotei (布袋) is the god of fortune, guardian of children, patron of diviners and barmen, and also the god of popularity. He is depicted as a fat, smiling, bald man with a curly moustache. He always appears half-naked, as his clothes are not wide enough to cover his enormous belly. He blessed the Chinese, and they nicknam... | 2.125 | 0 |
313660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tresco%2C%20Isles%20of%20Scilly | Tresco, Isles of Scilly | Tresco () is the second-biggest island of the Isles of Scilly. It is in area, measuring about by .
History
In early times one group of islands was in the possession of a confederacy of hermits. King Henry I gave it to Tavistock Abbey which established a priory on Tresco; it was abolished during the Dissolution of th... | 2.15625 | 0 |
313660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tresco%2C%20Isles%20of%20Scilly | Tresco, Isles of Scilly | From Tresco Heliport, a year-round helicopter service connects Tresco to Penzance Heliport on the mainland. From 1983 to cessation in 2012, the service was operated by British International Helicopters. In 2020, helicopter service was resumed from a new Penzance Heliport to Tresco and St Mary's, operated by Penzance He... | 2.421875 | 0 |
313660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tresco%2C%20Isles%20of%20Scilly | Tresco, Isles of Scilly | Vagrant birds
Among the many vagrant birds which have been found here, the following were firsts for Britain:
Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor), collected on 17 September 1927.
Black-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus erythrophthalmus), collected on 27 October 1932.
Northern Parula (Setophaga americana), seen 16–17 October 1966... | 2.484375 | 0 |
313661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton%20Walker | Walton Walker | When Marshall (now Chief of Staff) assigned George S. Patton to organize America's armored forces, Walker successfully lobbied Marshall for a post as one of Patton's subordinate commanders, gaining promotion to brigadier general in the process. Promoted to major general in 1942; he commanded the 3rd Armored Division fr... | 2.65625 | 0 |
313661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton%20Walker | Walton Walker | Shortly after 75,000 North Korean troops with tanks invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950, American air and sea forces were ordered by President Harry S. Truman to give South Korean troops support. The U.S. Eighth Army was ordered to intervene and drive the invaders back across the 38th parallel, the border between the t... | 2.375 | 0 |
313661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton%20Walker | Walton Walker | A critical advantage Walker had was signals intelligence produced by the U.S. Armed Forces Security Agency (now the National Security Agency). This data enabled Walker to gain an indication of North Korean Army movements prior to attacks. Walker kept his main units deployed on the front lines, while retaining other U.S... | 2.421875 | 0 |
313661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton%20Walker | Walton Walker | With MacArthur's amphibious flanking move, the North Koreans seemed trapped, but Walker's rapid advance northwest towards Inchon and Seoul emphasized speed over maneuver and made no attempt to encircle and destroy the North Koreans after punching through their lines. Although thousands of prisoners were taken, many Nor... | 2.796875 | 0 |
313661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton%20Walker | Walton Walker | Contrary to MacArthur's expectations, the Chinese intervened in force on November 25, first in a series of ambushes, then in sporadic night attacks, and finally in an all-out offensive in which three Chinese armies infiltrated the lines, taking advantage of the American failure to take basic security measures, and the ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
313661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton%20Walker | Walton Walker | Promoted posthumously to 4-star General, Walker's memory was much honored in the years immediately following the Korean War. The Army chose his name (and his other nickname), for its next light tank, the M41 Walker Bulldog. The M41 Tank was already nicknamed the Little Bulldog before Gen. Walker's death. The Army dropp... | 2.046875 | 0 |
313663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian%20angel | Guardian angel | In his earlier writings, Crowley states that the Holy Guardian Angel is the "silent self", the equivalent of the Genius of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Augoeides of Iamblichus, the Ātman of Hinduism, and the Daimon of the ancient Greeks. In his late sixties, when composing Magick Without Tears, he states ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
313664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe%20no%20Seimei | Abe no Seimei | was a Japanese onmyōji, a court official and specialist of Onmyōdō, during the middle of the Heian period. In addition to his prominence in history, he is a legendary figure in Japanese folklore. He has been portrayed in several stories and films.
Seimei worked as an onmyōji for emperors and the Heian government, advi... | 2.109375 | 0 |
313664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe%20no%20Seimei | Abe no Seimei | According to Anderson, Abe no Seimei was a descendant of the poet Abe no Nakamaro and a disciple of Kamo no Tadayuki (賀茂忠行) and Kamo no Yasunori, 10th-century diviners of the Heian court. He became Kamo no Yasunori's successor in astrology and divination, while Yasunori's son took on the lesser responsibility of devisi... | 2.359375 | 0 |
313664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe%20no%20Seimei | Abe no Seimei | The Heian period, mainly when Seimei lived, was a time of peace. Many of his legends revolve around a series of magical battles with a rival, Ashiya Dōman (蘆屋道満), who often tried to embarrass Seimei so that he could usurp his position. One noted story involved Dōman and the young Seimei in a divination duel to reveal t... | 2.609375 | 0 |
313664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe%20no%20Seimei | Abe no Seimei | Japanese figure skater and two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu portrayed Abe no Seimei in his Olympic free skate program Seimei, using the soundtrack of the movies Onmyōji and Onmyōji II. With the program, Hanyu became the first skater across all disciplines to score above 200 points in the free skate and set back-t... | 2.328125 | 0 |
313667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20%28data%20storage%29 | Block (data storage) | In computing (specifically data transmission and data storage), a block, sometimes called a physical record, is a sequence of bytes or bits, usually containing some whole number of records, having a maximum length; a block size. Data thus structured are said to be blocked. The process of putting data into blocks is cal... | 3.0625 | 0 |
313669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinaric%20Alps | Dinaric Alps | The Dinaric Karst region is built mostly of Mesozoic limestone and dolomite deposited on top of a huge Bahama-type carbonate platform, while a few kilometers thick carbonate successions have been deformed during the Alpine orogenesis. The main tectonic phase of the Alpine orogenesis in the Dinaric Karst region took pla... | 2.984375 | 0 |
313669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinaric%20Alps | Dinaric Alps | The most extensive example of limestone mountains in Europe are those of the Karst of the Dinaric Alps. Here, all the characteristic features are encountered again and again as one travels through this wild and thinly populated country. Limestone is a very porous rock, yet very hard and resistant to erosion. Water is t... | 2.75 | 0 |
313670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Shall%20Overcome | We Shall Overcome | The U.S. copyright of the People's Songs Bulletin issue which contained "We Will Overcome" expired in 1976, but The Richmond Organization (TRO) asserted a copyright on the "We Shall Overcome" lyrics, registered in 1960. In 2017, in response to a lawsuit against TRO over allegations of false copyright claims, a U.S. jud... | 2.421875 | 0 |
313670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Shall%20Overcome | We Shall Overcome | A letter printed on the front page of February 1909, United Mine Workers Journal states: "Last year at a strike, we opened every meeting with a prayer, and singing that good old song, 'We Will Overcome'." This statement implied that the song was well-known, and it was also the first acknowledgment of such a song having... | 2.390625 | 0 |
313670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Shall%20Overcome | We Shall Overcome | Role of the Highlander Folk School
In October 1945 in Charleston, South Carolina, members of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers union (FTA-CIO), who were mostly female and African American, began a five-month strike against the American Tobacco Company. To keep up their spirits during the cold, wet win... | 2.84375 | 0 |
313670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Shall%20Overcome | We Shall Overcome | Frank Hamilton, a folk singer from California who was a member of People's Songs and later The Weavers, picked up Seeger's version. Hamilton's friend and traveling companion, fellow-Californian Guy Carawan, learned the song from Hamilton. Carawan and Hamilton, accompanied by Ramblin Jack Elliot, visited Highlander in t... | 2.625 | 0 |
313670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Shall%20Overcome | We Shall Overcome | Use in the 1960s civil rights and other protest movements
In August 1963, 22-year old folksinger Joan Baez led a crowd of 3,000 in singing "We Shall Overcome" at the Lincoln Memorial during A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington. President Lyndon Johnson, himself a Southerner, used the phrase "we shall overcome" in a... | 2.78125 | 0 |
313671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akechi%20Mitsuhide | Akechi Mitsuhide | Early life
Akechi Mitsuhide was believed to be born on 10 March 1528 in Tara Castle, Mino Province (present-day Kani, Gifu Prefecture). In the Akechi Family Tree recorded in "Zoku Gunsho Ruiju" and the "Mino no Kuni Shokki", it is said that the Akechi clan which Mitsuhide hailed from were descended as branch of Toki cl... | 2.328125 | 0 |
313671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akechi%20Mitsuhide | Akechi Mitsuhide | In 1567, after Nobunaga conquered Mino and Ise Province, Mitsuhide, Nobunaga and also Yoshiaki marched through Omi province to Kyoto.
In 1568 November, Nobunaga, Yoshiaki and Mitsuhide arrived in Kyoto, the capital of Japan. Later, Nobunaga made Yoshiaki the next shogun and turned Honkoku-ji Temple into a temporary Sh... | 2.671875 | 0 |
313671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akechi%20Mitsuhide | Akechi Mitsuhide | In January 1576, Akai Naomasa suddenly attacked Mitsuhide, where they engaged in the battle of Kuroi Castle, forcing Mitsuhide to retreat his forces. In April, Naomasa and his relative, Akai Tadai, submitted once again to Nobunaga Nobunaga, as they feared the reprisal from the Oda clan, albeit it was argued that it was... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shugo | Shugo | , commonly translated as '[military] governor', 'protector', or 'constable', was a title given to certain officials in feudal Japan. They were each appointed by the shogun to oversee one or more of the provinces of Japan. The position gave way to the emergence of the daimyo (military feudal lords) in the late 15th cent... | 2.609375 | 0 |
313685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue%20of%20Freedom | Statue of Freedom | The Statue of Freedom, also known as Armed Freedom or simply Freedom, is a bronze statue designed by Thomas Crawford that, since 1863, has crowned the United States Capitol dome. Originally named Freedom Triumphant in War and Peace, a U.S. government publication now states that the statue "is officially known as the St... | 2.34375 | 0 |
313685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue%20of%20Freedom | Statue of Freedom | A monumental statue for the top of the national Capitol appeared in architect Thomas U. Walter's original drawing for the new cast-iron dome, which was authorized in 1855. Walter's drawing showed the outline of a statue representing the Goddess of Liberty; Crawford proposed instead an allegorical figure of Freedom Triu... | 2.703125 | 0 |
313685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue%20of%20Freedom | Statue of Freedom | Beginning in 1860, the statue was cast in five main sections by Clark Mills, whose bronze foundry was located on the outskirts of Washington. Work was halted in 1861 because of the Civil War, but by the end of 1862, the statue was finished and temporarily displayed on the Capitol grounds. The cost of the statue, exclus... | 2.578125 | 0 |
313689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander%20Research%20and%20Education%20Center | Highlander Research and Education Center | The Highlander Research and Education Center, formerly known as the Highlander Folk School, is a social justice leadership training school and cultural center in New Market, Tennessee. Founded in 1932 by activist Myles Horton, educator Don West, and Methodist minister James A. Dombrowski, it was originally located in t... | 2.53125 | 0 |
313689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander%20Research%20and%20Education%20Center | Highlander Research and Education Center | Early years
The Highlander Folk School was originally established in Grundy County, Tennessee, on land donated for this purpose by educator Lilian Wyckoff Johnson. When Highlander was founded in 1932, the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression. Workers in all parts of the country were met with major res... | 2.828125 | 0 |
313693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom%20test | Life in the United Kingdom test | The Life in the United Kingdom test is a computer-based test constituting one of the requirements for anyone seeking Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK or naturalisation as a British citizen. It is meant to prove that the applicant has a sufficient knowledge of British life. The test is a requirement under the Nation... | 2.5625 | 0 |
313693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom%20test | Life in the United Kingdom test | Upon completion of the test, candidates are not informed of their exact marks. Successful candidates are informed that they have passed and will be given a Pass Notification Letter that they will have to sign, while unsuccessful candidates learn the topics that they should study further. The test may be taken an unlimi... | 1.960938 | 0 |
313697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol%20Channel | Bristol Channel | The Bristol Channel (, literal translation: "Severn Sea") is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales (from Pembrokeshire to the Vale of Glamorgan) and South West England (from Devon, Somerset to North Somerset). It extends from the smaller Severn Estuary of the River Severn () to the North ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
313697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol%20Channel | Bristol Channel | The Bristol Channel is an important area for wildlife, in particular waders, and has protected areas, including national nature reserves such as Bridgwater Bay at the mouth of the River Parrett. At low tide large parts of the channel become mud flats due to the tidal range of , frequently stated to be second only to th... | 2.78125 | 0 |
313697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol%20Channel | Bristol Channel | The Bristol Channel has some extensive and popular beaches and spectacular scenery, particularly on the coasts of Exmoor and Bideford Bay in North Devon and the Vale of Glamorgan and Gower Peninsula on the Glamorgan coast. The western stretch of Exmoor boasts Hangman cliffs, the highest cliffs in mainland Britain, culm... | 1.914063 | 0 |
313697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol%20Channel | Bristol Channel | Navigation
There are no road or rail crossings of the Bristol Channel so direct crossings are necessarily made by sea or air, or less directly by the road and rail crossings of the Severn estuary. The Channel can be a hazardous area of water because of its strong tides and the rarity of havens on the north Devon and So... | 2.625 | 0 |
313701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Krugman | Paul Krugman | Paul Robin Krugman ( ; born February 28, 1953) is an American New Keynesian economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024. In 2008, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
313701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Krugman | Paul Krugman | In 2000, Krugman joined Princeton University as Professor of Economics and International Affairs. He is also currently Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and a member of the Group of Thirty international economic body. He has been a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research sinc... | 2.03125 | 0 |
313701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Krugman | Paul Krugman | When there are economies of scale in production, it is possible that countries may become 'locked into' disadvantageous patterns of trade. Krugman points out that although globalization has been positive on a whole, since the 1980s the process known as hyper-globalization has at least played a part in rising inequality... | 1.945313 | 0 |
313701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Krugman | Paul Krugman | Krugman was one of the most prominent advocates of the 2008–2009 Keynesian resurgence, so much so that economics commentator Noah Smith referred to it as the "Krugman insurgency".
His view that most peer-reviewed macroeconomic research since the mid-1960s is wrong, preferring simpler models developed in the 1930s, has ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
313701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Krugman | Paul Krugman | East Asian growth
In a 1994 Foreign Affairs article, Paul Krugman argued that it was a myth that the economic successes of the East Asian 'tigers' constituted an economic miracle. He argued that their rise was fueled by mobilizing resources and that their growth rates would inevitably slow. His article helped populari... | 2.125 | 0 |
313701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Krugman | Paul Krugman | U.S. economic policies
In the early 2000s, Krugman repeatedly criticized the Bush tax cuts, both before and after they were enacted. Krugman argued that the tax cuts enlarged the budget deficit without improving the economy, and that they enriched the wealthy – worsening income distribution in the US. Krugman advocate... | 2.078125 | 0 |
313707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Secundus | Johannes Secundus | Johannes Secundus (also Janus Secundus) (15 November 1510 – 25 September 1536) was a Neo-Latin poet of Dutch nationality.
Early life and education
Born Jan Everaerts in The Hague, his father Nicolaes Everaerts was a well known jurist and friend of Erasmus.
In 1528 his family moved to Mechlin, where Secundus wrote h... | 2.265625 | 0 |
313709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania%20Colony | Transylvania Colony | The Transylvania Colony, also referred to as the Transylvania Purchase or the Henderson Purchase, was a short-lived, extra-legal colony founded in early 1775 by North Carolina land speculator Richard Henderson, who formed and controlled the Transylvania Company. Henderson and his investors had reached an agreement to p... | 2.765625 | 0 |
313709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania%20Colony | Transylvania Colony | Background
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 that ended the French and Indian War declared lands west of the Appalachians as "Indian Territory" forbidden to colonial settlement.
Continued provocations by colonial explorers, traders and trappers necessitated some concessions by the Indians to concede lands for settlement i... | 2.90625 | 0 |
313709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania%20Colony | Transylvania Colony | On 27 August 1774, Richard Henderson, a judge from North Carolina, organized a land speculation company with a number of other prominent North Carolinians. Originally called Richard Henderson and Company, the company name was first changed to the Louisa Company, and finally to the Transylvania Company on January 6, 177... | 2.8125 | 0 |
313709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania%20Colony | Transylvania Colony | The Treaty was disavowed by some of the chiefs. A dissident Cherokee chief, Dragging Canoe, refused to sign, endorse, or obey the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, declaring that "it is bloody ground, and will be dark and difficult to settle". It would prove to be prophetic, and subsequently Kentucky came to be referred to by... | 2.71875 | 0 |
313709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania%20Colony | Transylvania Colony | When Henderson arrived at Boonesborough fewer than a hundred people resided there. This population and a few other settlements in the area constituted the sparse concentration of white settlers in the isolated western wilderness. The settlers recognized their precarious situation. They not only faced significant Indian... | 2.34375 | 0 |
313711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage%20Lake%20District%20Library | Portage Lake District Library | Portage Lake District Library is a public library in Houghton, Michigan, which serves the city of Houghton and Portage Townships. The Portage Lake District Library participates in the Michigan eLibrary (MeL) and is a member of the Superiorland Library Cooperative.
The Portage Lake District also includes a room dedicat... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Ferdinand%20of%20Bavaria | Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria | Joseph Ferdinand Leopold of Bavaria (28 October 1692 – 6 February 1699) was the son of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1679–1705, 1714–1726) and his first wife, Maria Antonia of Austria, daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, maternal granddaughter of King Philip IV of Spain.
Youth
Prince Joseph Ferdin... | 2.375 | 0 |
313714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Ferdinand%20of%20Bavaria | Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria | In September of that year Charles II had a severe relapse so the State Council resolved to force the King to sign the will in June. The King had a relapse on October 9, so that the State Council reconvened. At that meeting the Bavarian party got the will pushed through and Cardinal Portocarrero forced King Charles II t... | 2.3125 | 0 |
313714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Ferdinand%20of%20Bavaria | Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria | Max Emanuel of Bavaria sent for his son to come to Brussels with the intention that the States of Flanders would swear an oath on the death of Charles II. Joseph Ferdinand came to the Flemish capital on 23 May 1698. Meanwhile, Louis XIV agreed in The Hague with the maritime powers on the distribution of the Spanish Cro... | 2.5625 | 0 |
313723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapperswil-Jona | Rapperswil-Jona | Because of its strategic location along important infrastructure the town grew rich because of flourishing trade. This allowed a certain degree of freedom which was ended with the formation of Swiss cantons by Napoleon. Rapperswil was at first part of the Helvetic canton of Linth. After 1803's Act of Mediation, it join... | 2.65625 | 0 |
313723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapperswil-Jona | Rapperswil-Jona | There are further sites that are listed as in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as Class A object: The chapel of St. Dionys, Schloss Rapperswil with the Polish Museum and its archive and the Rathaus (Town Council house) of Rapperswil are the more recent structures. The Roman... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physeteroidea | Physeteroidea | Physeteroidea is a superfamily that includes three extant species of whales: the sperm whale, in the genus Physeter, and the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale, in the genus Kogia. In the past, these genera have sometimes been united in a single family, the Physeteridae, with the two Kogia species in the subfamily... | 2.84375 | 0 |
313732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physeteroidea | Physeteroidea | The close relationship between extant Physeteridae and Kogiidae is confirmed in recent molecular studies using mitochondrial cytochrome b,; on the basis of these analyses, their nearest relatives appear to be the Ziphiidae on one hand, and the Mysticeti and Platanistidae on the other. The last cited paper also favours ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
313733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Hotman | François Hotman | François Hotman (23 August 1524 – 12 February 1590) was a French lawyer and writer, associated with the legal humanists and with the monarchomaques, who struggled against absolute monarchy. His first name is often written 'Francis' in English. His surname is Latinized by himself as Hotomanus, by others as Hotomannus an... | 2.34375 | 0 |
313733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Hotman | François Hotman | Giving up a career on which he had entered with high repute, he went in 1547 to Lyon. In the summer of 1548, at Bourges, he married Claude Aubelin (daughter of Guillaume Aubelin, Sieur de La Rivière and Françoise de Brachet). She and her father, like himself, were refugees. In October 1548, he moved to Geneva to be Joh... | 2.125 | 0 |
313733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Hotman | François Hotman | Five months later his house and library were wrecked by a Catholic mob; he fled by Orléans to Paris, where Michel de l'Hôpital made him historiographer to king Charles IX. As agent for the Huguenots, he was sent to Blois to negotiate the peace of 1568. He returned to Bourges, but was driven away by the outbreak of host... | 2.09375 | 0 |
313735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot%20polynomial | Knot polynomial | In the mathematical field of knot theory, a knot polynomial is a knot invariant in the form of a polynomial whose coefficients encode some of the properties of a given knot.
History
The first knot polynomial, the Alexander polynomial, was introduced by James Waddell Alexander II in 1923. Other knot polynomials were no... | 1.945313 | 0 |
313737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam%20techniques | Anti-spam techniques | Various anti-spam techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email).
No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) as opposed to not rejecting all spam email (false negatives) – and the associated costs... | 2.578125 | 0 |
313737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam%20techniques | Anti-spam techniques | Avoid responding to spam
A common piece of advice is to not to reply to spam messages as spammers may simply regard responses as confirmation that an email address is valid. Similarly, many spam messages contain web links or addresses which the user is directed to follow to be removed from the spammer's mailing list – ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
313737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam%20techniques | Anti-spam techniques | Automated techniques for email administrators
There are now a large number of applications, appliances, services, and software systems that email administrators can use to reduce the load of spam on their systems and mailboxes. In general these attempt to reject (or "block"), the majority of spam email outright at the ... | 2.375 | 0 |
313737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam%20techniques | Anti-spam techniques | Both malicious software and human spam senders often use forged FROM addresses when sending spam messages. Control may be enforced on SMTP servers to ensure senders can only use their correct email address in the FROM field of outgoing messages. In an email users database each user has a record with an email address. T... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogiidae | Kogiidae | Kogiid skulls are characterized by a very short rostrum, the smallest among extant cetaceans, as well as high levels of asymmetry, which is expected among odontocetes. Kogiid skulls have the most blunt mandible among extant cetaceans as well. Extant kogiidae also show relatively high encephalization quotient, the ratio... | 2.8125 | 0 |
313741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20projection | 3D projection | With multiview projections, up to six pictures (called primary views) of an object are produced, with each projection plane parallel to one of the coordinate axes of the object. The views are positioned relative to each other according to either of two schemes: first-angle or third-angle projection. In each, the appear... | 3.171875 | 0 |
313741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20projection | 3D projection | Objects drawn with parallel projection do not appear larger or smaller as they extend closer to or away from the viewer. While advantageous for architectural drawings, where measurements must be taken directly from the image, the result is a perceived distortion, since unlike perspective projection, this is not how our... | 2.625 | 0 |
313741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20projection | 3D projection | It also means that lines which are parallel in nature (that is, meet at the point at infinity) appear to intersect in the projected image. For example, if railways are pictured with perspective projection, they appear to converge towards a single point, called the vanishing point. Photographic lenses and the human eye ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
313747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolphe-Madeleine%20Cleophas%20Dareste%20de%20La%20Chavanne | Rodolphe-Madeleine Cleophas Dareste de La Chavanne | Rodolphe-Madeleine Cléophas Dareste de La Chavanne (December 25, 1824March 24, 1911) was a French jurist.
Born in Paris, he studied at the École des Chartes and the Faculty of Law of Paris, and starting early on a legal career he rose to be counsellor to the Court of Cassation (1877 to 1900). His first publication was... | 2.28125 | 0 |
313750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loblaw%20Companies | Loblaw Companies | In 1919, Toronto grocers Theodore Pringle Loblaw and J. Milton Cork opened the first Loblaw Groceterias store modelled on a new and radically different retail concept, namely "self serve". The traditional grocery store provided a high level of personal service but was a labour-intensive operation. Customers typically h... | 2.234375 | 0 |
313750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loblaw%20Companies | Loblaw Companies | By October 1929, Loblaw Groceterias' rapid expansion had attracted the attention of competitor Dominion Stores Limited, another Toronto-based food store chain. In a letter to its shareholders, Dominion management put forward a plan to purchase a controlling interest in Loblaw, funded by a preferred share offering. Week... | 1.953125 | 0 |
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