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313750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loblaw%20Companies | Loblaw Companies | During the early 1930s, Loblaw Groceterias began converting many of its outlets to "Market Stores" that featured full-service meat and produce departments for the first time. Previously excluded because of the chain's 'self serve' format and the need to cut meats and weigh produce, the new departments proved popular wi... | 2.328125 | 0 |
313750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loblaw%20Companies | Loblaw Companies | In 1953, Loblaw Groceterias acquired majority control of Loblaw Inc., the former American branch of the company with stores in the State of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, through a purchase of stock from George Weston Limited. That same year, Loblaw also bought the Power Supermarkets chain of
Toronto. More notewort... | 2.125 | 0 |
313750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loblaw%20Companies | Loblaw Companies | By the early 1970s, Loblaw was struggling under the weight of too much debt with millions of dollars of financial obligations coming due over the next few years. At the same time, its stores were badly in need of refurbishing and sales were in virtual free fall. Within a year, the company's share of the crucial Ontari... | 2.15625 | 0 |
313750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loblaw%20Companies | Loblaw Companies | In November 2008, Greenpeace alleged that Loblaw was selling 14 out of 15 fish species on that organization's "redlist" of those considered to be the most destructively farmed, and staged protests at some Toronto-area locations. The company denied the allegations, while the accuracy of the redlist itself has been chall... | 2.125 | 0 |
313751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20de%20R%C3%A9mi%20%28died%201296%29 | Philippe de Rémi (died 1296) | Philippe de Rémi or Philippe de Beaumanoir (c. 1247–1296), contemporarily Phelippes de Beaumanoir, was a French jurist and royal official. He was a junior son of Philippe de Rémi (d. 1265), poet and bailli of the Gâtinais, who was renowned for his 20,000 verses of poetry, including La Manekine, Jehan et Blonde, and a s... | 2.203125 | 0 |
313753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chachoengsao%20province | Chachoengsao province | Chachoengsao (, ) is one of Thailand's seventy-six provinces (changwat), located in eastern Thailand.
History
Chachoengsao or Paet Rio ('eight stripes') is a province in eastern Thailand. It has a history dating back to the reign of King Borommatrailokkanat in the mid-Ayutthaya period. People originally settled by th... | 2.859375 | 0 |
313753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chachoengsao%20province | Chachoengsao province | Economy
The province has gained a reputation as a centre for recycling potentially hazardous electronic waste (e-waste), despite a June 2018 ban on imports of foreign e-waste to Thailand. China banned the import of foreign e-waste in 2018 also. Since the e-waste ban, 28 new recycling factories, most dealing with e-wast... | 2.21875 | 0 |
313753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chachoengsao%20province | Chachoengsao province | The boundaries of the SEZ and investment privileges for businesses will be determined by Thailand's Policy Committee. This initiative adds to the existing special economic zones within the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), which encompass various sectors such as high-speed rail, digital industry, innovation, medical inn... | 2.109375 | 0 |
313757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation%20fighter | Fourth-generation fighter | The fourth-generation fighter is a class of jet fighters in service from around 1980 to the present, and represents design concepts of the 1970s. Fourth-generation designs are heavily influenced by lessons learned from the previous generation of combat aircraft. Third-generation fighters were often designed primarily ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
313757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation%20fighter | Fourth-generation fighter | Whereas the premier third-generation jet fighters (e.g., the F-4 and MiG-23) were designed as interceptors with only a secondary emphasis on maneuverability, 4th generation aircraft try to reach an equilibrium, with most designs, such as the F-14 and the F-15, being able to execute BVR interceptions while remaining hig... | 2.34375 | 0 |
313757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation%20fighter | Fourth-generation fighter | The General Dynamics YF-16, eventually developed into the F-16 Fighting Falcon, was the world's first aircraft intentionally designed to be slightly aerodynamically unstable. This technique, called relaxed static stability (RSS), was incorporated to further enhance the aircraft's performance. Most aircraft are designed... | 2.390625 | 0 |
313757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation%20fighter | Fourth-generation fighter | Thrust vectoring was originally introduced in the Hawker Siddeley Harrier for vertical takeoff and landing, and pilots soon developed the technique of "viffing", or vectoring in forward flight, to enhance manoeuvrability. The first fixed-wing type to display enhanced manoeuvrability in this way was the Sukhoi Su-27, th... | 2.15625 | 0 |
313757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation%20fighter | Fourth-generation fighter | In response to the increasing American emphasis on radar-evading stealth designs, Russia turned to alternate sensors, with emphasis on Infrared Search and Track (IRST) sensors, first introduced on the American F-101 Voodoo and F-102 Delta Dagger fighters in the 1960s, for detection and tracking of airborne targets. The... | 2.3125 | 0 |
313765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20sand | Black sand | Black sand is sand that is black in color. One type of black sand is a heavy, glossy, partly magnetic mixture of usually fine sands containing minerals such as magnetite, found as part of a placer deposit. Another type of black sand, found on beaches near a volcano, consists of tiny fragments of basalt.
While some bea... | 3.03125 | 0 |
313766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Burnett%20Tylor | Edward Burnett Tylor | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (2 October 18322 January 1917) was an English anthropologist, and professor of anthropology.
Tylor's ideas typify 19th-century cultural evolutionism. In his works Primitive Culture (1871) and Anthropology (1881), he defined the context of the scientific study of anthropology, based on the evo... | 2.9375 | 0 |
313766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Burnett%20Tylor | Edward Burnett Tylor | Classification and criticisms
The word evolution is forever associated in the popular mind with Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution, which professes, among other things, that man as a species developed diachronically from some ancestor among the Primates who was also ancestor to the Great Apes, as they are popularly ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
313766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Burnett%20Tylor | Edward Burnett Tylor | Two other classifications were proposed in 1993 by Upadhyay and Pandey, Classical Evolutionary School and Neo Evolutionary School, the Classical to be divided into British, American, and German. The Classical British Evolutionary School, primarily at Oxford University, divided society into two evolutionary stages, sava... | 2.171875 | 0 |
313766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Burnett%20Tylor | Edward Burnett Tylor | Culture
Tylor's notion is best described in his most famous work, the two-volume Primitive Culture. The first volume, The Origins of Culture, deals with ethnography including social evolution, linguistics, and myth. The second volume, Religion in Primitive Culture, deals mainly with his interpretation of animism.
On t... | 2.484375 | 0 |
313766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Burnett%20Tylor | Edward Burnett Tylor | The view was a restatement of ideas first innovated in the early 1860s. The theorist perhaps most influential on Tylor was John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, innovator of the terminology, "Paleolithic" and "Neolithic." A prominent banker and British liberal Parliamentarian, he was imbued with a passion for archaeology. T... | 2.640625 | 0 |
313767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20horizon | Time horizon | A time horizon, also known as a planning horizon, is a fixed point of time in the future at which point certain processes will be evaluated or assumed to end. It is necessary in an accounting, finance or risk management regime to assign such a fixed horizon time so that alternatives can be evaluated for performance ov... | 2.515625 | 0 |
313768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard%20II%20de%20Coligny | Gaspard II de Coligny | Gaspard de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon (; 16 February 1519 – 24 August 1572), was a French nobleman, Admiral of France, and Huguenot leader during the French Wars of Religion. He served under kings Francis I and Henry II during the Italian Wars, attaining great prominence both due to his military skill and his relat... | 2.25 | 0 |
313768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard%20II%20de%20Coligny | Gaspard II de Coligny | Advancement
At this time he was close friends with two of the other leading men at court Francis, Duke of Guise and Piero Strozzi. Office continued to flow to him due to his uncles close relationship with the king. In 1549 he was made sous-lieutenant of the Boulonnais, and then Boulogne-sur-Mer a year later. In 1551, h... | 2.59375 | 0 |
313768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard%20II%20de%20Coligny | Gaspard II de Coligny | Resumption of hostilities
With war resumed in late 1556, Coligny made an abortive surprise attack on Douai on 6 January, timed to coincide with the feast of Epiphany. With this a failure, he changed course, sacking Lens, Pas-de-Calais, ravaging the frontier and returning with plunder. Henri, frustrated at the timing of... | 2.78125 | 0 |
313768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard%20II%20de%20Coligny | Gaspard II de Coligny | Momentum
With the outbreak of civil war, many cities across France rose up and declared themselves for Condé's cause. These included Rouen, Tours, Blois, Lyon. During the initial months of conflict, the crown was caught on the back foot, and much negotiations followed in the coming months. Coligny defended his support ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
313768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard%20II%20de%20Coligny | Gaspard II de Coligny | As the siege of Orléans reached its climax in early 1563, with reports that Guise's victory was imminent, the Protestant assassin Poltrot de Méré infiltrated the dukes camp, and fatally wounded him. As Guise died, so too did the momentum of the siege. Poltrot would be caught, and under torture implicated Coligny, his s... | 2.15625 | 0 |
313768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard%20II%20de%20Coligny | Gaspard II de Coligny | Tensions between the leading Huguenots and the crown escalated in 1567 as a result of several key factors. Firstly the modifications to the edict of Amboise, which in 1567 included an expansion of the prohibition on Protestantism from Paris to the Île-de-France region. The main impetus would however be Spain. Rumours h... | 2.59375 | 0 |
313768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard%20II%20de%20Coligny | Gaspard II de Coligny | From December 1571 to May 1572 Coligny was again absent from court. Suspicious of the prospect of the Navarre-Valois marriage, one of the key components of the 1570 peace, Catherine pushed him into acceptance on the issue, both by presenting him the possibility of a war with Spain, and by implying it was necessary for ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
313768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard%20II%20de%20Coligny | Gaspard II de Coligny | Coligny returned to Paris after a stay at his estates for the Navarre Valois marriage. His attendance at this event was critical, as it represented a key component of the reconciliation between Catholic and Huguenot factions. After the wedding was concluded, Coligny stayed in the capital for several days, hoping to res... | 1.960938 | 0 |
313768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard%20II%20de%20Coligny | Gaspard II de Coligny | The King sent his own physician to treat Coligny and even visited him. Coligny meanwhile, furiously petitioned the king to investigate who had shot him. The king promised to look into the matter and bring all perpetrators to justice. Senior Protestant nobles such as Téligny and Rochefoucauld began making dark threats t... | 2.421875 | 0 |
313768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard%20II%20de%20Coligny | Gaspard II de Coligny | In the early hours of the 24th, Guise's men mustered at the Hôtel d'Aumale. In total he had 60 men, including his uncle Aumale, and Anjou. Just before dawn they struck at Coligny's residence, Anjou's guards having withdrawn from the house to afford them access. Coligny ordered his household to escape across the roof. F... | 2.015625 | 0 |
313778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Capes | Virginia Capes | The Virginia Capes are the two capes, Cape Charles to the north and Cape Henry to the south, that define the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay on the eastern coast of North America.
The importance of the Chesapeake Bay in American history has long made the Virginia Capes strategically significant, most notably in the nav... | 2.6875 | 0 |
313779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20chaos | Quantum chaos | Quantum chaos is a branch of physics focused on how chaotic classical dynamical systems can be described in terms of quantum theory. The primary question that quantum chaos seeks to answer is: "What is the relationship between quantum mechanics and classical chaos?" The correspondence principle states that classical me... | 1.992188 | 0 |
313779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20chaos | Quantum chaos | Another approach is numerical matrix diagonalization. If the Hamiltonian matrix is computed in any complete basis, eigenvalues and eigenvectors are obtained by diagonalizing the matrix. However, all complete basis sets are infinite, and we need to truncate the basis and still obtain accurate results. These technique... | 2.109375 | 0 |
313790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20woodcock | American woodcock | The American woodcock (Scolopax minor), sometimes colloquially referred to as the timberdoodle, mudbat, bogsucker, night partridge, or Labrador twister is a small shorebird species found primarily in the eastern half of North America. Woodcocks spend most of their time on the ground in brushy, young-forest habitats, wh... | 2.8125 | 0 |
313790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20woodcock | American woodcock | The plumage is a cryptic mix of different shades of browns, grays, and black. The chest and sides vary from yellowish-white to rich tans. The nape of the head is black, with three or four crossbars of deep buff or rufous. The feet and toes, which are small and weak, are brownish gray to reddish brown. Woodcocks have la... | 3.203125 | 0 |
313790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20woodcock | American woodcock | After migrating south in autumn, most woodcocks spend the winter in the Gulf Coast and southeastern Atlantic Coast states. Some may remain as far north as southern Maryland, eastern Virginia, and southern New Jersey. The core of the wintering range centers on Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Based on the C... | 2.8125 | 0 |
313790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20woodcock | American woodcock | In the north, woodcocks begin to shift southward before ice and snow seal off their ground-based food supply. Cold fronts may prompt heavy southerly flights in autumn. Most woodcocks start to migrate in October, with the major push from mid-October to early November. Most individuals arrive on the wintering range by mi... | 3 | 0 |
313790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20woodcock | American woodcock | Males may continue with their courtship flights for as many as four months running, sometimes continuing even after females have already hatched their broods and left the nest. Females, known as hens, are attracted to the males' displays. A hen will fly in and land on the ground near a singing male. The male courts the... | 2.9375 | 0 |
313790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20woodcock | American woodcock | American woodcocks occasionally perform a rocking behavior where they will walk slowly while rhythmically rocking their bodies back and forth. This behavior occurs during foraging, leading ornithologists such as Arthur Cleveland Bent and B. H. Christy to theorize that this is a method of coaxing invertebrates such as e... | 3.296875 | 0 |
313790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20woodcock | American woodcock | Population trends have been measured through springtime breeding bird surveys, and in the northern breeding range, springtime singing-ground surveys. Data suggest that the woodcock population has fallen rangewide by an average of 1.1% yearly over the last four decades.
Conservation
The American woodcock is not conside... | 3.140625 | 0 |
313791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Hatteras | Cape Hatteras | Cape Hatteras is a cape located at a pronounced bend in Hatteras Island, one of the barrier islands of North Carolina.
As a temperate barrier island, the landscape has been shaped by wind, waves, and storms. There are long stretches of beach, sand dunes, marshes, and maritime forests in the area. A large area of the ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
313791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Hatteras | Cape Hatteras | Cape Hatteras has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa), with long, hot summers, and short, mild winters. Most of the area falls into USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 9. Cape Hatteras is surrounded by water, with Pamlico Sound to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. The proximity to water moderates conditions thro... | 3.140625 | 0 |
313791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Hatteras | Cape Hatteras | Due to its exposed position, Cape Hatteras is virtually the highest-risk area for hurricanes and tropical storms along the entire U.S. eastern seaboard. Cape Hatteras can experience significant wind and/or water damage from tropical systems moving (usually northward or northeastward) near or over North Carolina's Outer... | 2.390625 | 0 |
313791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Hatteras | Cape Hatteras | Because mariners use ocean currents to speed their journey, many ships venture close to Cape Hatteras when traveling along the eastern seaboard, risking the perils of sailing close to the shoals amid turbulent water and the frequent storms occurring in the area. So many ships have been lost off Cape Hatteras that the a... | 2.609375 | 0 |
313793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium%20of%20exchange | Medium of exchange | Want of a measure of value
A barter market theoretically requires a value being known of every commodity, which is both impractical to arrange and impractical to maintain. If all exchanges go 'through' an intermediate medium, such as money, then goods can be priced in terms of that one medium. The medium of exchange al... | 2.5 | 0 |
313793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium%20of%20exchange | Medium of exchange | Some critics of the prevailing system of fiat money argue that fiat money is the root cause of the continuum of economic crises, since it leads to the dominance of fraud, corruption, and manipulation, precisely as it does not satisfy the criteria for a medium of exchange cited above. Specifically, prevailing fiat money... | 2.296875 | 0 |
313793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium%20of%20exchange | Medium of exchange | In the age of electronic money it was, and remains, common to use very long strings of difficult-to-reproduce numbers, generated by encryption methods, to authenticate transactions and commitments as having come from trusted parties. Thus the medium of exchange function has become wholly a part of the marketplace and i... | 1.9375 | 0 |
313800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Atterbury | Francis Atterbury | Francis Atterbury (6 March 1663 – 22 February 1732) was an English man of letters, politician and bishop. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was mistrusted by the Hanoverian Whig ministries, and banished for communicating with the Old Pretender in the Atterbury Plot. He was a not... | 2.34375 | 0 |
313800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Atterbury | Francis Atterbury | Clerical career
After the "Glorious Revolution", Atterbury readily swore fealty to the new government. He had taken holy orders in 1687, preached occasionally in London with an eloquence which raised his reputation, and was soon appointed one of the royal chaplains. He ordinarily lived at Oxford, where he was the chief... | 1.921875 | 0 |
313800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Atterbury | Francis Atterbury | Leadership of High Church Party
In 1710, the prosecution of Henry Sacheverell produced a formidable explosion of High Church fanaticism. At such a moment Atterbury could not fail to be conspicuous. His inordinate zeal for the body to which he belonged and his rare talents for agitation and for controversy were again di... | 2.078125 | 0 |
313807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Bolivar%20Buckner | Simon Bolivar Buckner | Simon Bolivar Buckner ( ; April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914) was an American soldier, Confederate military officer, and politician. He fought in the United States Army in the Mexican–American War. He later fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he served as the 30th governor... | 2.9375 | 0 |
313807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Bolivar%20Buckner | Simon Bolivar Buckner | In the years following the war, Buckner became active in politics. He was elected governor of Kentucky in 1887, in his second campaign for that office. His term was plagued by violent feuds in the eastern part of the state, including the Hatfield–McCoy feud and the Rowan County War. His administration was rocked by sca... | 2.390625 | 0 |
313807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Bolivar%20Buckner | Simon Bolivar Buckner | Early life
Simon B. Buckner (Sr.), was born at Glen Lily, his family's estate near Munfordville, Kentucky. He was the third child and second son of Aylett Hartswell and Elizabeth Ann (Morehead) Buckner. Named after the "Venezuelan soldier and statesman, Simón Bolívar who led the battles and independence from the Spanis... | 2.375 | 0 |
313807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Bolivar%20Buckner | Simon Bolivar Buckner | Service in the Mexican–American War
In May 1846, Buckner resigned his teaching position to fight in the Mexican–American War, enlisting with the 6th U.S. Infantry Regiment. His early duties included recruiting soldiers and bringing them to the Texas border. In November 1846, he was ordered to join his company in the fi... | 2.90625 | 0 |
313807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Bolivar%20Buckner | Simon Bolivar Buckner | Buckner's division defended the right flank of the Confederate line of entrenchments that surrounded the fort and the small town of Dover, Tennessee. On February 14, the Confederate generals decided they could not hold the fort and planned a breakout, hoping to join with Johnston's army, now in Nashville. At dawn the f... | 2 | 0 |
313807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Bolivar%20Buckner | Simon Bolivar Buckner | Based on intelligence acquired by a spy in Buell's army, Buckner advised Bragg that Buell was still ten miles from Louisville in the town of Mackville. He urged Bragg to engage Buell there before he reached Louisville, but Bragg declined. Buckner then asked Leonidas Polk to request that Bragg concentrate his forces and... | 2.328125 | 0 |
313807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Bolivar%20Buckner | Simon Bolivar Buckner | In late August, Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside approached Buckner's position at Knoxville. Buckner called for reinforcements from Bragg at Chattanooga, but Bragg was being threatened by forces under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans and could not spare any of his men. Bragg ordered Buckner to fall back to the Hiwassee Rive... | 2.25 | 0 |
313807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Bolivar%20Buckner | Simon Bolivar Buckner | Buckner proposed a number of progressive ideas, most of which were rejected by the legislature. Among his successful proposals were the creation of a state board of tax equalization, creation of a parole system for convicts, and codification of school laws. His failed proposals included creation of a department of just... | 2.484375 | 0 |
313807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Bolivar%20Buckner | Simon Bolivar Buckner | During the 1888 session, the General Assembly passed 1,571 bills, exceeding the total passed by any other session in the state's history. Only about 150 of these bills were of a general nature; the rest were special interest bills passed for the private gain of legislators and those in their constituencies. Buckner vet... | 2.171875 | 0 |
313807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Bolivar%20Buckner | Simon Bolivar Buckner | At the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan for president and adopted a platform calling for the free coinage of silver. Gold standard Democrats opposed Bryan and the free silver platform. They formed a new party—the National Democratic Party, or Gold Democrats—... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%20brothers | Horten brothers | During World War II
By 1939, with Adolf Hitler in power and the Treaty of Versailles no longer in effect, Walter and Reimar had entered the Luftwaffe as pilots. (A third brother, Wolfram, was killed flying a bomber over Dunkirk.) They were also called upon as design consultants, though Germany's aeronautical community ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
313811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20sandpiper | Western sandpiper | The western sandpiper (Calidris mauri) is a small shorebird. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific mauri commemorates Italian botanist Ernesto Mauri (1791–1836).
This is one of the most abundant shorebird species in Nor... | 3.375 | 0 |
313820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obadiah%20Walker | Obadiah Walker | Obadiah Walker (161621 January 1699) was an English academic and Master of University College, Oxford, from 1676 to 1688.
Life
Walker was born at Darfield, Yorkshire, and was educated at University College, Oxford, becoming a fellow and tutor of this College and a prominent figure in University circles. In July 1648,... | 2.6875 | 0 |
313820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obadiah%20Walker | Obadiah Walker | In spite of growing unpopularity, he remained loyal to James, and when the king fled from England, Walker left Oxford, doubtless intending to join his master abroad. But in December 1688, he was arrested at Sittingbourne and was imprisoned; then, having lost his mastership, he was charged at the bar of the House of Com... | 2.671875 | 0 |
313822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haddock | Haddock | The haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) is a saltwater ray-finned fish from the family Gadidae, the true cods. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Melanogrammus. It is found in the North Atlantic Ocean and associated seas, where it is an important species for fisheries, especially in northern Europe, where it ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
313822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haddock | Haddock | The upper side of the haddock's body varies in colour from dark grey brown to nearly black while the lower part of the body is dull silvery white. It has a distinctive black lateral line contrasting with the whitish background colour and which curves slightly over the pectoral fins. It also has a distinctive oval black... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haddock | Haddock | In their larval stages, haddock mainly feed on the immature stages of copepods, ostracods and limacina with their diet changing as they grow, moving on to larger pelagic prey such as amphipods, euphausiids, eggs of invertebrates, zoea larvae of decapods and increasing numbers of copepods. Once they have reached the set... | 2.84375 | 0 |
313822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haddock | Haddock | Parasites
Cod and related species are plagued by parasites. For example, the cod worm, Lernaeocera branchialis, starts life as a copepod, a small, free-swimming crustacean larva. The first host used by cod worm is a flatfish or lumpsucker, which they capture with grasping hooks at the front of their bodies. They penetr... | 2.90625 | 0 |
313828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Sacheverell | Henry Sacheverell | Henry Sacheverell (; 8 February 1674 – 5 June 1724) was an English high church Anglican clergyman who achieved nationwide fame in 1709 after preaching an incendiary 5 November sermon. He was subsequently impeached by the House of Commons and though he was found guilty, his light punishment was seen as a vindication and... | 2.234375 | 0 |
313828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Sacheverell | Henry Sacheverell | The Bishop of Oxford, John Hough, ordained him deacon on 18 May 1695. However, when, in 1697, he presented himself to the Bishop of Lichfield, William Lloyd, with a reference from the dean of Lichfield, Lloyd complained of his grammatically incorrect Latin. Sacheverell, who had published several Latin poems, quoted Lat... | 1.984375 | 0 |
313828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Sacheverell | Henry Sacheverell | Sacheverell first achieved notability as a High Church preacher in May 1702 when he gave a sermon entitled The Political Union, on the necessity of the union between church and state, and denigrating Dissenters, occasional conformists and their Whig supporters. His peroration included an appeal to Anglicans not to "str... | 2.09375 | 0 |
313828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Sacheverell | Henry Sacheverell | On 13 December the Commons ordered Sacheverell to attend the Bar of the House. On 14 December Sacheverell appeared before the Commons with a hundred other clergymen also in attendance to show moral support. The House resolved that Sacheverell be impeached and he was put into the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms. He was ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
313828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Sacheverell | Henry Sacheverell | The tide of public opinion had turned in Sacheverell's favour and the people viewed his light punishment as a deliverance for the whole Church of England. He became "the saviour of the Church and the nation's martyr-hero". From 21–23 March almost all major streets in Westminster and west London celebrated by bonfires, ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
313828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Sacheverell | Henry Sacheverell | The Bishop of London, John Robinson, ordered him back to Holborn and warned him against politicking. During the general election held in January–March 1715, the slogan "High Church and Sacheverell" was used by Tories. In the aftermath of the heavy Tory defeat, Sacheverell may have flirted with Jacobitism but he did not... | 1.921875 | 0 |
313830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer | Bulldozer | A bulldozer or dozer (also called a crawler) is a large, motorized machine equipped with a metal blade to the front for pushing material: soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock during construction work. It travels most commonly on continuous tracks, though specialized models riding on large off-road tires are also produced... | 2.625 | 0 |
313830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer | Bulldozer | Widespread acceptance of the bull-grader does not seem to appear before the mid-1930s. The addition of power down-force provided by hydraulic cylinders instead of just the weight of the blade made them the preferred excavation machine for large and small contractors alike by the 1940s, by which time the term "bulldozer... | 2.28125 | 0 |
313832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt%20performer | Stunt performer | A stunt performer, often called a stuntman or stuntwoman and occasionally stuntperson or stunt-person, is a trained professional who performs daring acts, often as a career. Stunt performers usually appear in films or on television, as opposed to a daredevil, who performs for a live audience. When they take the place o... | 2.78125 | 0 |
313832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt%20performer | Stunt performer | Notable among these revivalist instructors were George Dubois, a fight director and martial artist from Paris who created performance fencing styles based on gladiatorial combat as well as Renaissance rapier and dagger fencing. Egerton Castle and Captain Alfred Hutton were part of a wider Victorian era group based in L... | 2.75 | 0 |
313832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt%20performer | Stunt performer | The recruitment venture was aided in 1911 by the collapse of the Miller-Arlington rodeo show, which left many rodeo performers stranded in Venice, California. One of them was the young Rose August Wenger, who married and was later billed as Helen Gibson, recognised as the first American professional stunt woman. Thomas... | 2.28125 | 0 |
313832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt%20performer | Stunt performer | Eventually, the out of work cowboys and out of season rodeo riders, and the directors/producers, figured out a system for the supply of extras. A speakeasy called The Watering Hole was located close to a Los Angeles located corral called the Sunset Corral. Every morning, the cowboys would congregate at The Watering Hol... | 2.390625 | 0 |
313832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt%20performer | Stunt performer | Swashbuckler films were a unique genre of action movies, utilising the earlier developed art of cinematic fencing, a combination of stage combat and fencing. The most famous of these were the films of Douglas Fairbanks, which defined the genre. The stories came from romantic costume novels, particularly those of Alexan... | 2.640625 | 0 |
313833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss%20Army%20knife | Swiss Army knife | The Swiss Army knife (SAK; ) is a pocketknife, generally multi-tooled, now manufactured by Victorinox. The term "Swiss Army knife" was coined by American soldiers after World War II because they had trouble pronouncing the German word "", meaning "officer’s knife".
The Swiss Army knife generally has a drop-point main ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
313833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss%20Army%20knife | Swiss Army knife | During the late 1880s, the Swiss Army decided to purchase a new folding pocket knife for their soldiers. This knife was to be suitable for use by the army in opening canned food and for maintenance of the Swiss service rifle, the Schmidt–Rubin, which required a screwdriver for assembly and disassembly.
In January 1891... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20concept%20analysis | Formal concept analysis | In information science, formal concept analysis (FCA) is a principled way of deriving a concept hierarchy or formal ontology from a collection of objects and their properties. Each concept in the hierarchy represents the objects sharing some set of properties; and each sub-concept in the hierarchy represents a subset o... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20concept%20analysis | Formal concept analysis | The formal concepts of any formal context can—as explained below—be ordered in a hierarchy called more formally the context's "concept lattice". The concept lattice can be graphically visualized as a "line diagram", which then may be helpful for understanding the data. Often however these lattices get too large for vis... | 2.0625 | 0 |
313845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20concept%20analysis | Formal concept analysis | For computing purposes, a formal context may be naturally represented as a (0,1)-matrix K in which the rows correspond to the objects, the columns correspond to the attributes, and each entry ki,j equals to 1 if "object i has attribute j." In this matrix representation, each formal concept corresponds to a maximal subm... | 2.09375 | 0 |
313845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20concept%20analysis | Formal concept analysis | Temporal concept analysis
Temporal concept analysis (TCA) is an extension of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) aiming at a conceptual description of temporal phenomena. It provides animations in concept lattices obtained from data about changing objects. It offers a general way of understanding change of concrete or abstr... | 2.15625 | 0 |
313845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20concept%20analysis | Formal concept analysis | Biclustering and multidimensional clustering
Given an object-attribute numerical data-table, the goal of biclustering is to group together some objects having similar values of some attributes. For example, in gene expression data, it is known that genes (objects) may share a common behavior for a subset of biological... | 2.421875 | 0 |
313853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlefield | Castlefield | Castlefield is an inner-city conservation area in Manchester, North West England. The conservation area which bears its name is bounded by the River Irwell, Quay Street, Deansgate and Chester Road. It was the site of the Roman era fort of Mamucium or Mancunium which gave its name to Manchester. It was the terminus of t... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlefield | Castlefield | Medieval and early modern periods
The village of Manchester later became established a kilometre to the north and the area around the vicus became known as "Aldport" or "The Old Town". A house and park here became the home of the Mosley family in 1601 but, in 1642, after being used by Lord Strange as a royalist headqua... | 2.734375 | 0 |
313853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlefield | Castlefield | Eight locks were constructed between 1724 and 1734, along the Rivers Irwell and Mersey; this was known as the Mersey and Irwell Navigation. Short cuts were dug to eliminate the difficult bends. Wharfs were built at Manchester Wharf, Water Street in 1740, and if the wind was not in the east small boats could travel from... | 2.5 | 0 |
313853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlefield | Castlefield | Possibly the last of Castlefield's great warehouses was the Great Northern Warehouse of 1896 to 1898. This was a trans-shipment warehouse that had railway access on two of its floors, road access and canal arms from the Manchester and Salford Junction canal in the basement. This was one of Britain's first large steel-f... | 2.078125 | 0 |
313853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlefield | Castlefield | The southern viaduct in the group of three is the 1849 red brick viaduct of the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway with its cast iron arch bridge over the Rochdale Canal. It carried the double tracks between Manchester Piccadilly via Oxford Road station and Knott Mill railway station, then turns south-we... | 2.359375 | 0 |
313853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlefield | Castlefield | To the north is the 1894 Great Northern viaduct that served the Great Northern Railway's warehouse in Deansgate. The high-level tubular steel viaduct is decorated with turrets. It was built for the Great Northern Railway Company and carried GNR trains to the company's Deansgate warehouse until 1963. Richard Johnson who... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlefield | Castlefield | The Corporation determined that Castlefield should be revitalised by strengthening the tourism base, consolidating and supporting business activity and establishing a vibrant residential community. The imaginative and sensitive conservation and enhancement of the listed buildings, canals, viaducts and spaces, was to be... | 2.078125 | 0 |
313859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Henry%20of%20Battenberg | Prince Henry of Battenberg | Prince Henry of Battenberg (Henry Maurice; 5 October 1858 – 20 January 1896), formerly Count Henry of Battenberg, was a morganatic descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse. He became a member of the British royal family by marriage to Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, the youngest child of Queen Victoria. Th... | 2.640625 | 0 |
313859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Henry%20of%20Battenberg | Prince Henry of Battenberg | Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg had four children. By royal warrant of 13 December 1886, the Queen granted their children the style Highness. This style took immediate effect in the United Kingdom and elsewhere except within the German Empire, where, as Princes and Princesses of Battenberg, they were only entit... | 2.515625 | 0 |
313864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots%20of%20the%20Gods%3F | Chariots of the Gods? | Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past (; in English, Memories of the Future: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past) is a book written in 1968 by Erich von Däniken and translated from the original German by Michael Heron. It involves the hypothesis that the technologies and religions of many ancient civilization... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots%20of%20the%20Gods%3F | Chariots of the Gods? | Academic dismissals
Von Däniken's book, and much of his subsequent publications such as Gods from Outer Space and The Gold of the Gods, have drawn largely negative receptions from the academic mainstream despite being popular best-sellers. Many scientists and historians have rejected his ideas, claiming that the book'... | 2.078125 | 0 |
313865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana%20%28steamboat%29 | Sultana (steamboat) | Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,164 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history.
Constructed of wood in 1863 by the John Litherbury Boatyard in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sultana was intended for the lowe... | 2.484375 | 0 |
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