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313865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana%20%28steamboat%29 | Sultana (steamboat) | Background
Under the command of Captain James Cass Mason of St. Louis, Sultana left St. Louis on April 13, 1865, bound for New Orleans. On the morning of April 15, she was tied up at Cairo, Illinois, when word reached the city that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln had been shot in Washington, D.C. Immediately, Captain Ma... | 2.140625 | 0 |
313865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana%20%28steamboat%29 | Sultana (steamboat) | Faulty boiler repair
While the paroled prisoners, primarily from the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, were brought from the parole camp to Sultana, a mechanic was brought down to work on the leaky boiler. Although the mechanic wanted to cut out and replace a ruptured seam, Mason... | 2.328125 | 0 |
313865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana%20%28steamboat%29 | Sultana (steamboat) | Sultana spent two days traveling upriver, fighting against one of the worst spring floods in the river's history. At some places, the river overflowed the banks and spread out three miles wide. Trees along the river bank were almost completely covered until only the very tops of the trees were visible above the swirlin... | 2.234375 | 0 |
313865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana%20%28steamboat%29 | Sultana (steamboat) | The massive steam explosion came from the top rear of the boilers. It went upward at a 45-degree angle, tearing through the crowded decks above and completely destroying the pilothouse. Without a pilot to steer the boat, Sultana became a drifting, burning hulk. The violent explosion flung some deck passengers into the ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
313865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana%20%28steamboat%29 | Sultana (steamboat) | Rescue attempts
While the Sultana burned, and the men on the steamboat were either already dead or fighting for their lives, the southbound steamer Bostona (No. 2), built in 1860 but coming downriver on her maiden voyage after being refurbished, arrived at about 2:30 AM, a half hour after the explosion, and rescued sco... | 1.90625 | 0 |
313865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana%20%28steamboat%29 | Sultana (steamboat) | Causes
The official cause of the Sultana disaster was determined to be the mismanagement of water levels in the boilers, exacerbated by the fact that the vessel was severely overcrowded and top-heavy. As the steamboat made her way north following the twists and turns of the river, she listed severely from side to side.... | 2.921875 | 0 |
313865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana%20%28steamboat%29 | Sultana (steamboat) | The design of the boilers. Sultana had tubular boilers filled with 24 horizontal five-inch flues. Being so closely packed within the diameter boilers tended to cause the muddy sediment to form hot pockets and were extremely difficult to clean. Tubular boilers were discontinued from use on steamboats plying the Lower M... | 2.671875 | 0 |
313865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana%20%28steamboat%29 | Sultana (steamboat) | An episode of the PBS series History Detectives that aired on July 2, 2014, reviewed the known evidence, thoroughly disputed a theory of sabotage, and then focused on the question of why Sultana was allowed to be crowded to several times its normal capacity before departure. The report blamed quartermaster Capt. Reuben... | 2.140625 | 0 |
313865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana%20%28steamboat%29 | Sultana (steamboat) | Lack of accountability
Despite the magnitude of the disaster, no one was ever formally held accountable. Captain Frederic Speed, a Union officer who sent the 1,950 paroled prisoners into Vicksburg from the parole camp, was charged with grossly overcrowding Sultana and found guilty. However, the Judge Advocate General o... | 2.5 | 0 |
313868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zany%20Golf | Zany Golf | Zany Golf, also known as Will Harvey's Zany Golf, is a fantasy take on miniature golf developed by Sandcastle Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1988. The game was originally written for the Apple IIGS and subsequently ported to the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS compatible operating systems. In 1990, a port ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
313870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ararat | Mount Ararat | Mount Ararat (, ; ) or Mount Ağrı (; ) is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in Eastern Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey; Little Ararat's elevation is . The Ararat massif is about wide at ground base. The first reco... | 2.421875 | 0 |
313870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ararat | Mount Ararat | From the 16th century until 1828 the range was part of the Ottoman-Persian border; Great Ararat's summit and the northern slopes, along with the eastern slopes of Little Ararat were controlled by Persia. Following the 1826–28 Russo-Persian War and the Treaty of Turkmenchay, the Persian controlled territory was ceded to... | 2.84375 | 0 |
313870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ararat | Mount Ararat | Ağrı and Agirî
The Turkish name Mount Ağrı (Ağrı Dağı, ; , ), has been known since the late Middle Ages. Although the word "ağrı" literally translates to "pain" the current name is considered a derivative of the mountain's initial Turkish name "Ağır Dağ" which translates as "heavy mountain". The 17th century explorer E... | 2.375 | 0 |
313870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ararat | Mount Ararat | Blumenthal estimated that the snow line had been as low as in elevation during the Late Pleistocene. Such a snow line would have created an ice cap of in extent. However, he observed a lack of any clear evidence of prehistoric moraines other than those which were close to the 1958 glacier tongues. Blumenthal explaine... | 2.734375 | 0 |
313870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ararat | Mount Ararat | Mount Ararat consists of two distinct volcanic cones, Greater Ararat and Lesser Ararat (Little Ararat). The western volcanic cone, Greater Ararat, is a steep-sided volcanic cone that is larger and higher than the eastern volcanic cone. Greater Ararat is about wide at the base and rises about above the adjacent floors... | 2.703125 | 0 |
313870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ararat | Mount Ararat | These volcanic rocks were erupted from approximately north northwest–south southeast-trending extensional faults and fissures prior to the development of Mount Ararat. Second, a cone-building phase began when the volcanic activity became localized at a point along a fissure. During this phase, the eruption of successiv... | 2.59375 | 0 |
313870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ararat | Mount Ararat | Recent volcanic and seismic activity
The chronology of Holocene volcanic activity associated with Mount Ararat is documented by either archaeological excavations, oral history, historical records, or a combination of these data, which provide evidence that volcanic eruptions of Mount Ararat occurred in 2500–2400 BC, 55... | 2.484375 | 0 |
313870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ararat | Mount Ararat | Religious objections
The Armenian Apostolic Church was historically opposed to ascents of Ararat on religious grounds. Thomas Stackhouse, an 18th-century English theologian, noted that "All the Armenians are firmly persuaded that Noah's ark exists to the present day on the summit of Mount Ararat, and that in order to p... | 2.265625 | 0 |
313870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ararat | Mount Ararat | Most Christians, including most of Western Christianity, identify Mount Ararat with the biblical mountains of Ararat "largely because it would have been the first peak to emerge from the receding flood waters". H. G. O. Dwight wrote in 1856 that it is "the general opinion of the learned in Europe" that the Ark landed o... | 2.1875 | 0 |
313870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ararat | Mount Ararat | Searches
Ararat has traditionally been the main focus of the searches for Noah's Ark. Augustin Calmet wrote in his 1722 biblical dictionary: "It is affirmed, but without proof, that there are still remains of Noah's ark on the top of this mountain; but M. de Tournefort, who visited this spot, has assured us there was n... | 2.65625 | 0 |
313870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ararat | Mount Ararat | There is historical and modern mountain worship around it among Armenians. Ararat is known as the "holy mountain" of the Armenian people. It was principal to the pre-Christian Armenian mythology, where it was the home of the gods. With the rise of Christianity, the mythology associated with pagan worship of the mountai... | 2.671875 | 0 |
313870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ararat | Mount Ararat | Turkish political scientist Bayram Balci argues that regular references to the Armenian Genocide and Mount Ararat "clearly indicate" that the border with Turkey is contested in Armenia. Since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the Armenian government has not made official claims to any Turkish territory, howev... | 2.15625 | 0 |
313873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zool%202 | Zool 2 | Zool 2 is a side-scrolling platform video game originally developed by The Warp Factory and published by Gremlin Graphics for the Amiga in November 1993. It is the sequel to the original Zool, which was released earlier in 1992 on various platforms.
When the forces of Krool are wreaking havoc upon the Nth Dimension wi... | 2.03125 | 0 |
313873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zool%202 | Zool 2 | Zool 2 is a side-scrolling platform game that plays similarly to its predecessor, Zool. Both Zool and his female counterpart, Zooz, almost share the same move set between each other but there are some subtle differences with the two characters in terms of their abilities and means of defense. Whereas Zool attacks with ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
313874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4nnedorf | Männedorf | Männedorf (High Alemannic: Mänidoorf) is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
History
Like in all other villages along the lake of Zürich, archeological findings indicate settlements in the stone ages. The original settlement dates from the 7th or 8th century; the name Mann... | 2.375 | 0 |
313879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan%20Death%20March | Bataan Death March | The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of around 72,000 to 78,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando.
The transfer began on 9 April 1942 after the three-month Batt... | 2.484375 | 0 |
313879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan%20Death%20March | Bataan Death March | Under WPO-3, the mission of the Philippine garrison was to hold the entrance to Manila Bay and deny its use to Japanese naval forces. If the enemy prevailed, the Americans were to hold back the Japanese advance while withdrawing to the Bataan Peninsula, which was recognized as the key to the control of Manila Bay. It w... | 2.328125 | 0 |
313879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan%20Death%20March | Bataan Death March | Prisoners started out from Mariveles on 10 April and from Bagac on 11 April, converging in Pilar and heading north to the San Fernando railhead. The prisoners were put in groups of 100 men each, with four Japanese guards per group. At the beginning, there were rare instances of kindness by Japanese officers and those J... | 2.65625 | 0 |
313879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan%20Death%20March | Bataan Death March | In September 1945, Homma was arrested by Allied troops and indicted for war crimes. He was charged with 43 separate counts, but the verdict did not distinguish among them, leaving some doubt over whether he was found guilty of them all. Homma was found guilty of permitting members of his command to commit "brutal atroc... | 2.09375 | 0 |
313884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangneung | Gangneung | Gangneung (; ) is a municipal city in Gangwon province, on the east coast of South Korea. It has a population of 213,658 (as of 2017). Gangneung is the economic centre of the Yeongdong region of Gangwon State. It has many tourist attractions, such as Jeongdongjin, a very popular area for watching the sunrise, and Gyeon... | 2.28125 | 0 |
313884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangneung | Gangneung | Symbols of Gangneung
The flag of the city shows a red sun in the centre and blue wave in front, on a white background. The sun represents the sunrise, the wave the sea. The flower of the city is the crepe myrtle, the tree of the city is the pine tree, its bird the swan. The animal of Gangneung is the tiger.
Geography... | 2.8125 | 0 |
313884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangneung | Gangneung | Museum
There are a number of historical remains and museums in Gangneung. The most prominent being the Ojukheon Museum, which is named after a special black bamboo growing in this area. It was the birthplace of the famous artist, calligrapher and poet Shin Saimdang (1504–1551) (whose image is on the 50,000 won note), ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
313887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20O%27Donoghue | Martin O'Donoghue | Martin O'Donoghue (19 May 1933 – 20 July 2018) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Education from March 1982 to October 1982, Minister for Economic Planning and Development from 1977 to 1979 and Minister without portfolio in July 1977. He served as a Senator for the Labour Panel from 1983 to ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
313890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva%20%28river%29 | Moskva (river) | The Moskva (, Moskva-reka) is a river that flows through western Russia. It rises about west of Moscow and flows roughly east through the Smolensk and Moscow Oblasts, passing through central Moscow. About southeast of Moscow, at the city of Kolomna, it flows into the Oka, itself a tributary of the Volga, which ultima... | 2.53125 | 0 |
313890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva%20%28river%29 | Moskva (river) | The river is long (or ), and the area of its drainage basin is . It has a vertical drop of (long-term average). The maximum depth is above Moscow city limits, and up to below it. Normally, it freezes in November–December and begins to thaw around late March. During an unusually warm winter in 2006–2007, ice began m... | 2.875 | 0 |
313892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel%20the%20Elder | Hillel the Elder | Hillel ( Hīllēl; variously called Hillel the Elder or Hillel the Babylonian; died c. 10 CE) was a Jewish religious leader, sage and scholar associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud and the founder of the House of Hillel school of tannaim. He was active during the end of the first century BCE and th... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel%20the%20Elder | Hillel the Elder | According to the Mishnah, Hillel went to Jerusalem with the intention of studying biblical exposition and tradition at the age of 40 in 70 BCE. The difficulties Hillel had to overcome to gain admittance to the school of Sh'maya and Abtalion, and the hardships he suffered while pursuing his aim, are told in the Talmud. ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
313892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel%20the%20Elder | Hillel the Elder | The saying of Hillel that introduces the collection of his maxims in the Mishnaic treatise Pirkei Avot mentions Aaron HaKohen (the high priest) as the great model to be imitated in his love of peace, in his love for his fellow man, and in his leading mankind to a knowledge of the Law (Pirkei Avoth 1:12). In mentioning ... | 2.875 | 0 |
313892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel%20the%20Elder | Hillel the Elder | This narrative has the same points as the epigrammatic group of Hillel's sayings (Avot 2:7) commencing: "The more flesh, the more worms," and closing with the words: "Whoever has acquired the words of the Law has acquired the life of the world to come." In an Aramaic saying Hillel sounds a warning against neglect of st... | 2.375 | 0 |
313892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel%20the%20Elder | Hillel the Elder | During the Passover Seder (the annual commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt), one re-enacts ancient customs in the Haggadah. In the section of Korech, or 'sandwich', participants are instructed to place bitter herbs between two pieces of matzo and eat them after saying in Hebrew: This is a remembrance of Hillel in Tem... | 2.625 | 0 |
313895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic%20Palace | Apostolic Palace | The Apostolic Palace is the official residence of the Pope, the head of the Catholic Church, located in Vatican City. It is also known as the Papal Palace, the Palace of the Vatican and the Vatican Palace. The Vatican itself refers to the building as the Palace of Sixtus V, in honor of Pope Sixtus V, who built most of ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
313895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic%20Palace | Apostolic Palace | In the 15th century, the palace was placed under the authority of a prefect. This position of apostolic prefecture lasted from the 15th century until the 1800s, when the Papal States fell into economic difficulties. In 1884, when this post was reviewed in light of saving money, Pope Leo XIII created a committee to admi... | 2.640625 | 0 |
313895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic%20Palace | Apostolic Palace | One of the primary functions of the chapel is as a venue for the election of each successive Pope in a conclave of the College of Cardinals. In this closed-door election, the cardinals choose a successor to the traditional first Pope, Peter, who according to tradition is buried in the crypts of nearby St. Peter's Churc... | 2.109375 | 0 |
313899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSTS/E | RSTS/E | Development
1970s
The kernel of RSTS was programmed in the assembly language MACRO-11, compiled and installed to a disk using the CILUS program, running on a DOS-11 operating system. RSTS booted into an extended version of the BASIC programming language which DEC called "BASIC-PLUS". All of the system software CUSPS f... | 2.203125 | 0 |
313899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSTS/E | RSTS/E | The numbers shown after each file represent its size in disk blocks, a block being 512 bytes or 1/2 kilobyte (K). "C" indicates the file is contiguous (is stored as one file without being separated into pieces, similar to files on a Microsoft Windows system after a drive has been defragmented), while "P" indicates it i... | 2.015625 | 0 |
313899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSTS/E | RSTS/E | Run-time environments
One of the features of RSTS is the means for the execution of programs and the environment used to run them. The various environments allowed for programming in BASIC-PLUS, the enhanced and hard compiled BASIC-Plus-2, and in more traditional programming languages such as COBOL (eventually upgraded... | 2.234375 | 0 |
313907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization%20III | Civilization III | Sid Meier's Civilization III is the third installment of the Sid Meier's Civilization turn-based strategy video game series. It was released in 2001, and followed by Civilization IV. Unlike the original game, Civilization III was not designed by Sid Meier, but by Jeff Briggs, a game designer, and Soren Johnson, a game ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
313907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization%20III | Civilization III | Each city's citizens have a certain mood (happy, content, unhappy, or resisting). If most citizens are unhappy, the city falls into civil disorder and all production ceases; if a city remains in civil disorder for too long, it can lead to rioting, which results in improvements being destroyed. If most citizens are happ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
313907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization%20III | Civilization III | Culture is a feature that was not present in previous installments of the franchise. Each city has a cultural rating, which is the city's influence over local terrain. Essentially, the culture's outer edge, or "border", acts as the boundary of each civilization's empire. As the city's culture rating increases, so does ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
313910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma%20Brandeis | Irma Brandeis | Irma Brandeis (1905–1990) was an American scholar of Dante Alighieri. Her work The Ladder of Vision was acclaimed as a breakthrough in Dantean studies upon its publication in the 1960s.
Brandeis graduated from Barnard College in 1926. In her visits to Italy between 1933 and 1939 Brandeis became acquainted with the poe... | 1.992188 | 0 |
313914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20money | Paper money | Carthage was purported to have issued government notes on parchment or leather before 146 BC. Hence Carthage may be the oldest user of lightweight promissory notes. In China during the Han dynasty, promissory notes appeared in 118 BC and were made of leather. Rome may have used a durable lightweight substance as promis... | 2.609375 | 0 |
313914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20money | Paper money | The perception of paper money as currency has evolved over time. Originally, money was based on precious metals, or commodity money. Paper money was seen by some as an I.O.U. or promissory note: a promise to pay someone in precious metal on presentation (see representative money). But they were readily accepted—for con... | 3.046875 | 0 |
313914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20money | Paper money | The central government soon observed the economic advantages of printing paper money, issuing a monopoly for the issue of these certificates of deposit to several deposit shops. By the early 12th century, the amount of notes issued in a single year amounted to an annual rate of 26 million strings of cash coins. By the ... | 2.921875 | 0 |
313914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20money | Paper money | Between 1265 and 1274, the late southern Song government introduced a gold- or silver-backed national paper currency standard, which changed the geographic restriction. The range of varying values for these notes was perhaps from one string of cash to one hundred at the most. Ever after 1107, the government printed mon... | 2.984375 | 0 |
313914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20money | Paper money | The first short-lived attempt at issuing banknotes by a central bank was in 1661 by Stockholms Banco, a predecessor of Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank. These replaced the copper-plates being used instead as a means of payment. The peculiar circumstances of the Swedish coin supply were what led to this banknote... | 2.9375 | 0 |
313914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20money | Paper money | The first bank to initiate the permanent issue of banknotes was the Bank of England. Established in 1694 to raise money for the funding of the war against France, the bank began issuing notes in 1695 with the promise to pay the bearer the value of the note on demand. They were initially handwritten to a precise amount ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
313914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20money | Paper money | Until the mid-nineteenth century, commercial banks were able to issue their own banknotes, and notes issued by provincial banking companies were the common form of currency throughout England, outside London. The Bank Charter Act of 1844, which established the modern central bank, restricted authorisation to issue new ... | 3.015625 | 0 |
313914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20money | Paper money | Discounting to face value: Before national currencies and efficient clearing houses, banknotes were only redeemable at face value at the issuing bank. Even a branch bank could discount notes of other branches of the same bank. The discounts usually increased with distance from the issuing bank. The discount also depend... | 2.59375 | 0 |
313914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20money | Paper money | The different advantages and disadvantages of commodity money and paper money imply that there may be an ongoing role for both forms of bearer money, each being used where its advantages outweigh its disadvantages.
Paper money collecting as a hobby
Paper money collecting, also referred to as banknote collecting or no... | 2.546875 | 0 |
313916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minter%20City%2C%20Mississippi | Minter City, Mississippi | Minter City is an unincorporated community in Leflore County and Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area, and is within the Mississippi Delta.
Mississippi Highway 8 intersects U.S. Route 49E southwest of Minter City, and the Tallahatchie River flows ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
313920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20County%20Transportation%20Authority | Orange County Transportation Authority | The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) is the transportation planning commission for Orange County, California, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. OCTA is responsible for funding and implementing transit and capital projects for the transportation system in the county, including freeway expansions, expres... | 2.125 | 0 |
313920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20County%20Transportation%20Authority | Orange County Transportation Authority | Park-and-ride facilities, public transportation and other transportation related administrative offices merged into one organization. OCTA administers funds from Measure M (also known as OC Go), a half-cent transportation sales tax. Measure M was originally passed in 1990 and renewed in 2006. It has paid for the expans... | 2.046875 | 0 |
313920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20County%20Transportation%20Authority | Orange County Transportation Authority | Highway and road operations
OCTA is responsible for the Countywide Master Highway Plan, which designates major arterial streets in the county, however, most road maintenance responsibilities fall with the city where the street operates in, or with the county, in the case of unincorporated areas. OCTA street funding is ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
313920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20County%20Transportation%20Authority | Orange County Transportation Authority | I-5 Gateway Project: Construction began in spring 2006 on the I-5 Gateway project. The four-year project widened the remaining two miles of the I-5 in Orange County from the SR-91 to the Los Angeles County line. The I-5 Gateway project is the final link in the original Measure M's freeway expansion program. The project... | 2.015625 | 0 |
313921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio%20Negro%20%28Amazon%29 | Rio Negro (Amazon) | The Rio Negro ( "Black River"), or Guainía as it is known in its upper part, is the largest left tributary of the Amazon River (accounting for about 14% of the water in the Amazon basin), the largest blackwater river in the world, and one of the world's ten largest rivers by average discharge. Despite its high flow, t... | 2.59375 | 0 |
313921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio%20Negro%20%28Amazon%29 | Rio Negro (Amazon) | Middle course
The river now continues in a southeastern direction passing the Venezuelan town of San Carlos de Río Negro, its largest settlement on the river, and Colombia's San Felipe.
In this stretch the river is constantly fed with tributaries from both sides, and it quickly grows in size creating large river islan... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyostega | Ichthyostega | Ichthyostega (from , 'fish' and , 'roof') is an extinct genus of limbed tetrapodomorphs from the Late Devonian of what is now Greenland. It was among the earliest four-limbed vertebrates ever in the fossil record and was one of the first with weight-bearing adaptations for terrestrial locomotion. Ichthyostega possess... | 2.6875 | 0 |
313925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyostega | Ichthyostega | Description
Ichthyostega was a fairly large animal for its time, as it was broadly built and about 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long. The skull was low, with dorsally placed eyes and large labyrinthodont teeth. The posterior margin of the skull formed an operculum covering the gills. The spiracle was situated in an otic notch behind... | 2.890625 | 0 |
313925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyostega | Ichthyostega | Ichthyostega is related to Acanthostega gunnari, which is also from what is now East Greenland. Ichthyostega'''s skull seems more fish-like than that of Acanthostega, but had apelvic girdle morphology that seems stronger and better adapted to life on land. Ichthyostega also had more supportive ribs and stronger vertebr... | 2.65625 | 0 |
313934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Jarvik | Erik Jarvik | Anders Erik Vilhelm Jarvik (30 November 1907 – 11 January 1998) was a Swedish paleontologist who worked extensively on the sarcopterygian (or lobe-finned) fish Eusthenopteron. In a career that spanned some 60 years, Jarvik produced some of the most detailed anatomical work on this fish, making it arguably the best kno... | 2.328125 | 0 |
313934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Jarvik | Erik Jarvik | In particular, he conducted detailed anatomical studies of the cranium of Eusthenopteron foordi using a serial-section technique introduced by William Johnson Sollas and applied to fossil fishes by Erik Stensiö. A fossil of limited external quality was sectioned by grinding off a thin section, photographing the grind-o... | 2.5 | 0 |
313934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Jarvik | Erik Jarvik | On the basis of his findings, he argued that Amphibia should be split, with salamanders (and possibly caecilians) in one class (the Urodelomorpha), and the frogs as a separate class, the Batrachomorpha. The Lepospondyli were considered to be possible urodelomorphans, while the "labyrinthodonts" were thought to be batra... | 2.078125 | 0 |
313936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi%20F-2 | Mitsubishi F-2 | The Mitsubishi F-2 is a multirole fighter derived from the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, and manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Lockheed Martin for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, with a 60/40 split in manufacturing between Japan and the United States. The basis of the F-2's design is the F-16 A... | 2.375 | 0 |
313936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi%20F-2 | Mitsubishi F-2 | Bush announced a revised agreement in April 1989, shortly before the resignation of his Japanese counterpart Noboru Takeshita, under which Japanese access to flight control and weapons control software was limited, while the U.S. was to have access to any new technology that Japan developed for the project. American co... | 2.265625 | 0 |
313936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi%20F-2 | Mitsubishi F-2 | The F-2 program was controversial, because the unit cost, which includes development costs, is roughly four times that of a Block 50/52 F-16, which does not include development costs. Inclusion of development costs distorts the incremental unit cost (this happens with most modern military aircraft), though even at the ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
313936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi%20F-2 | Mitsubishi F-2 | Some of the avionics were supplied by Lockheed Martin, and the digital fly-by-wire system was jointly developed by Japan Aviation Electric and Honeywell (formerly Allied Signal). Contractors for communication systems and IFF interrogators included: Raytheon, NEC, Hazeltine, and Kokusai Electric. The fire control radar,... | 2.15625 | 0 |
313937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood%20LeFlore | Greenwood LeFlore | Background
LeFlore was the first son of Rebecca Cravatt, a high-ranking Choctaw niece of the chief Pushmataha, and Louis LeFleur, a French fur trader and explorer from French Canada who worked for Panton, Leslie & Company, based in Spanish Florida.
Because the Choctaw had a matrilineal system for property and heredit... | 2.984375 | 0 |
313937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood%20LeFlore | Greenwood LeFlore | Advocate of civilization
While LeFlore was not said to be popular among the full-blood tribal men, he became powerful and influential within the tribe at an early age, largely because of his mother's clan and maternal uncle's position and his own skills. With other leaders, he struggled to resist European-American encr... | 3.09375 | 0 |
313937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood%20LeFlore | Greenwood LeFlore | LeFlore's accomplishments in unifying and strengthening the Choctaw people are still honored as the historian James Taylor Carson writes, "He was a Choctaw nationalist who sought to carve out a new and powerful nation for his people within the Cotton Kingdom of the Old South." His pragmatic approach to their removal fr... | 2.71875 | 0 |
313939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccolo%20heckelphone | Piccolo heckelphone | The piccolo heckelphone is a very rare woodwind instrument invented in 1905 by the firm of Wilhelm Heckel in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Germany. A variant of the heckelphone, the piccolo heckelphone was intended to add power to the very highest woodwind register of the late Romantic orchestra, providing a full and rich oboe-l... | 2.78125 | 0 |
313939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccolo%20heckelphone | Piccolo heckelphone | Altogether, 13 piccolo heckelphones were completed. A further five have remained 'blanks': assigned serial numbers, but not fitted with keys. Two are preserved at the Heckel museum in Biebrich, one is in a museum in Russia, and there is also a piccolo heckelphone at the University of Leipzig's Musical Instrument Museum... | 2.140625 | 0 |
313942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20search%20%28optimization%29 | Local search (optimization) | In computer science, local search is a heuristic method for solving computationally hard optimization problems. Local search can be used on problems that can be formulated as finding a solution that maximizes a criterion among a number of candidate solutions. Local search algorithms move from solution to solution in th... | 2.5 | 0 |
313944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20reasoning | Circular reasoning | Circular reasoning (, "circle in proving"; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with. Circular reasoning is not a formal logical fallacy, but a pragmatic defect in an argument whereby the premises are just as much in need of proof or evidence a... | 2.8125 | 0 |
313948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver%20Lake%20%28Arkansas%29 | Beaver Lake (Arkansas) | Recreation
The Army Corps of Engineers has also constructed a variety of recreational facilities around the lake. Paved access roads wind through twelve developed parks. These parks have modern campsites offering electricity and fire rings with drinking water, showers, and restrooms nearby. Other facilities, such as p... | 2.265625 | 0 |
313951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercis%20canadensis | Cercis canadensis | Cercis canadensis, the eastern redbud, is a large deciduous shrub or small tree, native to eastern North America from southern Michigan south to central Mexico, west to New Mexico. Species thrive as far west as California and as far north as southern Ontario. It is the state tree of Oklahoma. The prevalence of the so-c... | 2.453125 | 0 |
313951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercis%20canadensis | Cercis canadensis | Subspecies
Three subspecies are accepted:
Cercis canadensis subsp. canadensis (synonyms C. dilatata, C. ellipsoidea, and C. georgiana) – eastern and Central United States to northeastern and central Mexico
Cercis canadensis subsp. mexicana (synonym C. mexicana) – northeastern Mexico, southwestern Texas (Trans-Pecos), ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
313953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticel | Lenticel | A lenticel is a porous tissue consisting of cells with large intercellular spaces in the periderm of the secondarily thickened organs and the bark of woody stems and roots of gymnosperms and dicotyledonous flowering plants. It functions as a pore, providing a pathway for the direct exchange of gases between the interna... | 2.875 | 0 |
313953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticel | Lenticel | The extinct arboreal plants of the genera Lepidodendron and Sigillaria were the first to have distinct aeration structures that rendered these modifications. "Parichnoi" (singular: parichnos) are canal-like structures that, in association with foliar traces of the stem, connected the stem's outer and middle cortex to t... | 2.828125 | 0 |
313953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticel | Lenticel | Lenticels are found as raised circular, oval, or elongated areas on stems and roots. In woody plants, lenticels commonly appear as rough, cork-like structures on young branches. Underneath them, porous tissue creates a number of large intercellular spaces between cells. This tissue fills the lenticel and arises from ce... | 3.171875 | 0 |
313971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset%20Strip | Sunset Strip | By the early 1960s, Sunset Strip had lost favor with the majority of movie people, but its restaurants, bars and clubs continued to serve as an attraction for locals and tourists. In the mid-1960s it became a major gathering place for the counterculture and was the scene of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in November 196... | 1.929688 | 0 |
313998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouro%20Preto | Ouro Preto | Ouro Preto (, ), formerly Vila Rica (, ), is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. The city, a former colonial mining town located in the Serra do Espinhaço mountains, was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO due to its Baroque colonial architecture. Ouro Preto used to be the capital of M... | 2.703125 | 0 |
313998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouro%20Preto | Ouro Preto | Bordering municipalities are:
North: Itabirito and Santa Bárbara
South: Ouro Branco, Catas Altas da Noruega, Piranga and Itaverava
East: Mariana
West: Belo Vale and Congonhas
Climate
Located at above sea level, Ouro Preto has a subtropical highland climate (Cwb, according to the Köppen climate classification), wi... | 2.671875 | 0 |
313998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouro%20Preto | Ouro Preto | The repúblicas system of Ouro Preto is unique in Brazil. No other university city in the country has exactly the same characteristics of the student lodgings found there. It shares traits with the repúblicas of the Portuguese University of Coimbra, where the tradition originated. Before universities were founded in Bra... | 2.484375 | 0 |
314006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoknapatawpha%20County | Yoknapatawpha County | Yoknapatawpha County () is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, largely based on and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford (which Faulkner renamed "Jefferson"). Faulkner often referred to Yoknapatawpha County as "my apocryphal county".
Overv... | 2.546875 | 0 |
314008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Grenier | Louis Grenier | Louis Grenier is a fictional character in William Faulkner's novels and stories.
Grenier (died 1837), a French Huguenot architect and dilettante came, around 1800, with Dr. Samuel Habersham and Alexander Holston to the settlement which would later become Jefferson. Grenier was a student at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf.... | 2.3125 | 0 |
314009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorian | Andorian | Andorians are a fictional race of humanoid extraterrestrials in the American science fiction franchise Star Trek. They were created by writer D. C. Fontana. Within the Star Trek narrative, they are native to the blue icy Class M moon, Andoria (sometimes referred to as Andor). Distinctive traits of Andorians include the... | 2.640625 | 0 |
314009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorian | Andorian | Andorians have blue blood, blue skin, white hair, and antennae on the crown of the skull. By the time of the 2001 – 2005 TV series Star Trek: Enterprise, the antennae were depicted as protruding from the forehead, and capable of movement, used for gesturing and balancing. The design of Andorians has changed with every... | 2.328125 | 0 |
314014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat%20Geyser | Steamboat Geyser | Steamboat Geyser, in Yellowstone National Park's Norris Geyser Basin, is the world's tallest active geyser. Steamboat Geyser has two vents, northern and southern, approximately apart. The north vent is responsible for the tallest water columns; the south vent's water columns are shorter.
Prior to 1904, Waimangu Geyse... | 2.953125 | 0 |
314017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20horse | Dark horse | A dark horse is a previously lesser-known person, team or thing that emerges to prominence in a situation, especially in a competition involving multiple rivals, that is unlikely to succeed but has a fighting chance, unlike the underdog who is expected to lose.
The term comes from horse racing and horse betting jargon... | 2.4375 | 0 |
314026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace%20Slick | Grace Slick | Slick does not always use the same style or medium in her production of visual art and has no interest in doing so. She uses acrylic paints (saying oil paint takes too long to dry), canvas, pen, ink, scratchboard, pastels, and pencil. Many of her works are mixed media. Her styles include the children's bookish Alice in... | 2.015625 | 0 |
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