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4053969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon%20Baker | Vernon Baker | Vernon Joseph Baker (December 17, 1919 – July 13, 2010) was a United States Army first lieutenant who was an infantry company platoon leader during World War II and a paratrooper during the Korean War. In 1997, he was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration for valor, for his actions on Apr... | 2.4375 | 0 |
4053995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DonPachi | DonPachi | Synopsis
The premise of DonPachi differs from most of its brethren: the players assume the role of a pilot whose mission is to survive an eight-year-long training mission, where he proves his worth as a fighter and gain entry to the future elite "DonPachi Squadron". The twist lies in the fact that the enemies are, in... | 2.40625 | 0 |
4053997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Shaw%20Higgs | Russell Shaw Higgs | Russell Shaw Higgs (born 12 May 1960) is a British artist and political activist.
Biography
Childhood
Higgs was born in Oswestry 1960.
As a small child at Rokesly Infant School in North London, he wrote and narrated the early years school play. He later performed on stage for the first time in his infant school nat... | 2.03125 | 0 |
4054022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascua%20Yaqui%20Tribe | Pascua Yaqui Tribe | The Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona is a federally recognized tribe of Yaqui Native Americans in the state of Arizona.
Descended from the Yaqui people whose original homelands include the Yaqui River valley in western Sonora, Mexico and southern Arizona, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe sought refuge from the Mexican government e... | 2.96875 | 0 |
4054022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascua%20Yaqui%20Tribe | Pascua Yaqui Tribe | The Pascua Yaquis and other Yaquis in Arizona descend from refugees who fled Mexico between 1887 and 1910. During these years the Mexican government attempted to destroy the Yaqui Nation, via warfare, occupation, and forced deportation of Yaquis to virtual slavery in the Yucatan. Yaqui refugees established Yaqui barrio... | 3.03125 | 0 |
4054022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascua%20Yaqui%20Tribe | Pascua Yaqui Tribe | After fleeing to Arizona, most Yaquis lived in dire poverty, squatting on open lands most often near railroad lines. In 1923, a retired teacher and humanitarian, Thamar Richey, successfully lobbied Tucson to establish a public school for Yaqui children. A realtor donated land for a new subdivision named Barrio Pascua n... | 2.90625 | 0 |
4054022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascua%20Yaqui%20Tribe | Pascua Yaqui Tribe | After World War II, a Yaqui veteran, Anselmo Valencia, returned to Pascua vowing to improve life for his people. He came home determined to fight for his people's rights as American citizens and indigenous Americans. He became head of the religious caballeros society. In 1955, Valencia established the San Ignacio Club ... | 2.5 | 0 |
4054022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascua%20Yaqui%20Tribe | Pascua Yaqui Tribe | Blood quantum for membership in the Pascua Yaqui Tribe is at least one quarter Yaqui blood. The Pascua Yaqui legal system gives no allowance in quantum for other tribal blood.
Court system
The Pascua Yaqui Tribe operates a Judicial Department with both trial courts and an appellate court. Criminal cases are prosecut... | 2.40625 | 0 |
4054043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspapers%20in%20Israel | Newspapers in Israel | Newspapers in Israel are mostly in Hebrew, but there are also newspapers catering to Arabic speakers, and newspapers catering to immigrants speaking a variety of languages, such as Russian, English and French. In 2022, a TGI survey indicated that Israel Hayom, distributed for free, is Israel's most read newspaper, with... | 2.390625 | 0 |
4054047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Clarke%20Wolstenholme-Elmy | Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme-Elmy | Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme-Elmy (née Wolstenholme; 1833 – 12 March 1918) was a British teacher, campaigner and organiser, significant in the history of women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She wrote essays and some poetry, using the pseudonyms E and Ignota.
Early life
Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme spent most of... | 2.734375 | 0 |
4054047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Clarke%20Wolstenholme-Elmy | Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme-Elmy | In 1867, Wolstenholme represented Manchester on the newly formed North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women. Davies and Wolstenholme quarrelled over how women should be examined at a Higher Level. Wolstenholme, was keen for a curriculum aimed at developing skills for employment, whereas Davies... | 2.828125 | 0 |
4054047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Clarke%20Wolstenholme-Elmy | Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme-Elmy | Women's Emancipation Union 1891–1899
Wolstenholme founded the Women's Emancipation Union in September 1891 following an infamous court case. Regina v Jackson, known colloquially as the Clitheroe Decision, occurred when Edmund Jackson abducted his wife in a bid to enforce his conjugal rights, long before the concept of ... | 3.03125 | 0 |
4054047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Clarke%20Wolstenholme-Elmy | Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme-Elmy | Wolstenholme wrote prolifically, including papers for the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and articles for feminist publications such as Shafts and national newspapers such as the Westminster Review. Pamphlets concerning her campaigns were also published by organisations like the Women's Emanci... | 2.671875 | 0 |
4054066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition%20to%20the%20Second%20Boer%20War | Opposition to the Second Boer War | At the start of the war in 1899, Liberal Party groups mobilized committees to protest the war, including the South African Conciliation Committee and W. T. Stead's Stop the War Committee. A common theme among these groups was the argument that it was a capitalistic desire to gain access to the gold and diamond deposits... | 2.796875 | 0 |
4054066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition%20to%20the%20Second%20Boer%20War | Opposition to the Second Boer War | Lloyd George made his name in opposition, as he alleged that Joseph Chamberlain, his brother, and his son had large personal financial investments in a number of munitions firms that were making heavy profits in the war. The allegations of corruption and greed did not carry public opinion, so the anti-war elements swi... | 2.515625 | 0 |
4054066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition%20to%20the%20Second%20Boer%20War | Opposition to the Second Boer War | The execution by British forces of two Australian lieutenants (Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock) of the Bushveldt Carbineers for war crimes in 1902 and the imprisonment of a third, George Witton, was initially uncontroversial, but after the war prompted a movement to release Witton, which fuelled anti-war radicalism. ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
4054131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitou%20Dawn | Manitou Dawn | Manitou Dawn is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She would first debut in JLA #75 (January, 2003). The character is a recurring Native American superhero within the DC Universe and the wife of Manitou Raven. Similar to Raven, she hails from the tribe that serves as the anc... | 2.125 | 0 |
4054142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine%20agonist | Dopamine agonist | A dopamine agonist is a compound that activates dopamine receptors. There are two families of dopamine receptors, D1-like and D2-like. They are all G protein-coupled receptors. D1- and D5-receptors belong to the D1-like family and the D2-like family includes D2, D3 and D4 receptors. Dopamine agonists are primarily used... | 2.71875 | 0 |
4054142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine%20agonist | Dopamine agonist | Depressive symptoms and disorders are common in patients with Parkinson's disease and can affect their quality of life. Increased anxiety can accentuate the symptoms of Parkinson's and is therefore essential to treat. Instead of conventional antidepressant medication in treating depression, treatment with dopamine agon... | 2.09375 | 0 |
4054142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine%20agonist | Dopamine agonist | When dealing with agonists it can be extremely complex to confirm relationships between structure and biological activity. Agonists generate responses from living tissues. Therefore, their activity depends both on their efficacy to activate receptors and their affinity to bind to receptors.
Crossing the blood brain ba... | 2.5625 | 0 |
4054350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%2013 | Mercury 13 | NASA knew that numerous people would apply for this opportunity and testing would be expensive. President Dwight Eisenhower believed that military test pilots would make the best astronauts and had already passed rigorous testing and training within the government. This greatly altered the testing requirements and shif... | 2.78125 | 0 |
4054350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%2013 | Mercury 13 | House Committee Hearing on Gender Discrimination
When the Pensacola testing was cancelled, Jerrie Cobb immediately flew to Washington, D.C. to try to have the testing program resumed. She and Janey Hart wrote to President John F. Kennedy and visited Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Finally, on 17 and 18 July 1962, Rep... | 2.28125 | 0 |
4054350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%2013 | Mercury 13 | NASA representatives George Low and Astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter testified that under NASA's selection criteria women could not qualify as astronaut candidates. Glenn also believed that "The fact that women are not in this field is a fact of our social order." They correctly stated that NASA required all a... | 2.1875 | 0 |
4054350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%2013 | Mercury 13 | The qualifications for prospective astronauts had been a point of contention after the creation of NASA in 1958. The proposition for astronauts to have a background as a pilot was a logical choice, specifically test pilots with a disposition to train and learn to fly new craft designs. Pilot certification in the United... | 2.765625 | 0 |
4054350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%2013 | Mercury 13 | First American female astronaut
Although both Cobb and Cochran made separate appeals for years afterwards to restart a women's astronaut testing project, the U.S. civil space agency did not select any female astronaut candidates until Astronaut Group 8 in 1978, which selected astronauts for the operational Space Shu... | 2.84375 | 0 |
4054368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffon%20Aerospace | Griffon Aerospace | Griffon's first aircraft was the single-engined six seat Lionheart. The design and development began at Larry's home in Harvest, Alabama where he worked designing and developing a composite aircraft formed around the Pratt & Whitney R-985 450 horsepower radial engine. The stagger wing design pays compliment to the clas... | 2.171875 | 0 |
4054372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald%20Murray | Archibald Murray | General Sir Archibald James Murray, (23 April 1860 – 21 January 1945) was a British Army officer who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War. He was chief of staff to the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in August 1914 but appears to have suffered a physical breakdown in the retreat from Mons, and was r... | 2.359375 | 0 |
4054372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald%20Murray | Archibald Murray | Murray became Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) on 26 September 1915. He was promoted to permanent lieutenant general on 28 October 1915. After the war he wrote to General Sir Ian Hamilton, criticising Kitchener in harsh terms, writing that "He seldom told the absolute the truth and the whole truth" and that i... | 2.0625 | 0 |
4054372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald%20Murray | Archibald Murray | In March 1917 at the First Battle of Gaza a British force under Murray's command comprising 52nd (Lowland) Division reinforced by an infantry brigade from Eastern Force attacked Gaza. While the Imperial Mounted Division held off the Turkish reinforcements, the Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division (Anzac Mounted ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
4054385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantam%20%28military%29 | Bantam (military) | The men became local heroes, with the local newspaper, The Birkenhead News, honouring the men of the 1st and 2nd Birkenhead Battalions of the Cheshires with enamel badges - "BBB" - "Bigland's Birkenhead Bantams". Soon renamed the 15th and 16th (Service) Battalions, Cheshire Regiment, they undertook gruelling training a... | 2.4375 | 0 |
4054389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castelloza | Castelloza | Na Castelloza (fl. early 13th century) was a noblewoman and trobairitz from Auvergne.
Life
According to her later vida, Castelloza was the wife of Turc de Mairona, probably the lord of Meyronne. Turc's ancestors had participated in a Crusade around 1210 or 1220, which was the origin of his name (meaning "Turk"). She ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
4054442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20End%2C%20Boston | West End, Boston | West End House
The West End House was originally founded in 1906 as a community center for young immigrant boys. The community center's founding was funded by Boston-area philanthropist and investment banker James J. Storrow. The West End House served as a center for social and community life in Boston's West End neig... | 3.140625 | 0 |
4054442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20End%2C%20Boston | West End, Boston | Immigration
From the second half of the 19th century to the mid-20th century, Boston's West End became a home to many different immigrant groups. The wealthy and middle class business men were almost entirely gone, but many African Americans remained in the neighborhood, making it one of Boston's most diverse. Among ... | 2.984375 | 0 |
4054442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20End%2C%20Boston | West End, Boston | Political background
The large-scale renewal of the West End was first proposed in the 1930s by Nathan Strauss Jr., among others, shortly after the National Housing Act of 1934 was passed. The neighborhood was considered a slum by wealthy Bostonians who did not live there. The working class residents of the West End ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
4054442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20End%2C%20Boston | West End, Boston | Many building owners were not adequately compensated for their property. Due to city law, as soon as tenement buildings were condemned by the BRA, the city became the legal owner. This meant that building owners had no income as rent was paid directly to the city. Soon owners became desperate to sell their property at ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
4054532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella%20Freedman%20Jewish%20Retreat%20Center | Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center | Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center sits on 400 acres of forest and meadows in the foothills of the southern Berkshires in Litchfield County, Connecticut. Isabella Freedman hosts organizational retreats, Jewish spiritual and environmental events, and private Jewish celebrations including weddings and B'nai Mitzvah.... | 2.421875 | 0 |
4054626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah%20Hacker | Jeremiah Hacker | Jeremiah Hacker (1801 – August 27, 1895) was a missionary, reformer, vegetarian, and journalist who wrote and published The Pleasure Boat and The Chariot of Wisdom and Love in Portland, Maine, from 1845 to 1866.
Biography
Born in Brunswick, Maine, to a large Quaker family, Hacker moved to Portland as a young adult. He... | 1.945313 | 0 |
4054664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLM | NTLM | In a Windows network, NT (New Technology) LAN Manager (NTLM) is a suite of Microsoft security protocols intended to provide authentication, integrity, and confidentiality to users. NTLM is the successor to the authentication protocol in Microsoft LAN Manager (LANMAN), an older Microsoft product. The NTLM protocol suite... | 2.5 | 0 |
4054746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%20leader | Student leader | A student leader is any student who influences their peers in a positive manner. A student leader acts beyond their standard academic responsibilities in ways that influence their school or community. Leadership can be developed in students of any age. At the elementary age, leadership skills can help young students na... | 3.453125 | 0 |
4054805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad%20de%20Oriente | Universidad de Oriente | In planning the University of East is defined as a higher education system serving the region with common goals to other universities in Venezuela and the world. However, it is unique, experimental and independent, innovative in creating professional unit of Basic Courses, departmentalization, the semi-annual periods, ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
4054805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad%20de%20Oriente | Universidad de Oriente | The Oceanographic Institute of Venezuela (IOV), founded in 1963, has received international recognition that guarantees its level, for being a world reference in the study of marine sciences. The oceanographic vessel Guaiquerí II was the IOV research platform. Equipped with all the necessary adaptations of a maritime l... | 2.21875 | 0 |
4054805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad%20de%20Oriente | Universidad de Oriente | Crisis at the Universidad de Oriente
Universidad de Oriente (UDO), an educational institution in Venezuela, has experienced challenges over the past decade, akin to other public institutions in the country. These challenges have raised questions about the institution's autonomy and sustainability. In the recent decade... | 2.359375 | 0 |
4054810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macdonaldtown | Macdonaldtown | Macdonaldtown was previously a suburb in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The suburb was incorporated Erskineville and Newtown. All that remains of Macdonaldtown's legacy is Macdonaldtown railway station. Macdonaldtown was 4 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, adjacent to t... | 2.0625 | 0 |
4054848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbatel%20de%20magia%20veterum | Arbatel de magia veterum | The Arbatel De Magia Veterum () is a Latin grimoire of Renaissance ceremonial magic published in 1575 in Switzerland.
Title
A. E. Waite assumes that the title is from the (or Arbotal) as the name of an angel the author would have claimed to have learned magic from.
Adolf Jacoby believed the name to be a reference t... | 2.25 | 0 |
4054848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbatel%20de%20magia%20veterum | Arbatel de magia veterum | Reception and influence
The Arbatel was one of the most influential works of its kind from its period, inspiring figures such as Johann Arndt, Gerhard Dorn, Adam Haslmayr, Robert Fludd, Heinrich Khunrath and Valentin Weigel, in addition to its editor and publisher, Zwinger and Perna. It was possibly the first work to u... | 2.15625 | 0 |
4054884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Manning | Timothy Manning | Timothy Manning (Irish: Tadhg Ó Mongáin) (November 15, 1909 – June 23, 1989) was an Irish American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1970 to 1985, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973.
Early life and ministry
Timothy Manning was born in Ballingeary, Ireland, to Co... | 2.15625 | 0 |
4054884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Manning | Timothy Manning | Archbishop of Los Angeles
After less than two years in Fresno, Manning was named Coadjutor Archbishop of Los Angeles and Titular Archbishop of Capreae on May 26, 1969. He succeeded James Francis McIntyre as the third Archbishop of Los Angeles on January 21, 1970. While a strong proponent of ecclesiastical authority, Ma... | 2.0625 | 0 |
4054884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Manning | Timothy Manning | Pope Paul VI created him Cardinal-Priest of S. Lucia a Piazza d'Armi in the consistory of March 5, 1973. During the Vietnam War, Manning counseled young men on their right to become conscientious objectors. Staunchly anti-abortion, the Archbishop declared that any Catholic who cooperated in an abortion would suffer exc... | 2.21875 | 0 |
4054889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipser%20Germans | Zipser Germans | The Zipser Germans, Zipser Saxons, or, simply, just Zipsers (, , , ) are a German-speaking (more specifically Zipser German-speaking as native dialect) sub-ethnic group in Central-Eastern Europe and national minority in both Slovakia and Romania (there are also Zipser German settlements in the Zakarpattia Oblast, in th... | 2.578125 | 0 |
4054889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipser%20Germans | Zipser Germans | Occasionally, Zipser Germans are also referred to as Zipser Saxons (, ), a name stemming from their geographic origin of initial settlement during medieval times corresponding to the present-day Spiš () region situated in north-eastern Slovakia. The county () where they settled in the beginning is known in Hungarian as... | 2.46875 | 0 |
4054889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipser%20Germans | Zipser Germans | As in the cases of other historical regions from Central and Eastern Europe, this migration of German settlers at the invitation of local kings (known as Ostsiedlung in German historiography) from several Central-Eastern European countries had the main goal to enrich the local medieval communities with more trade and u... | 2.8125 | 0 |
4054889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipser%20Germans | Zipser Germans | Modern period history
During the modern period, as it was the case of other ethnic German groups from non-native German Central and Eastern European countries, the population of Zipser Germans gradually declined on the territory of contemporary Slovakia. Zipser German populations were still significant in several part... | 2.5 | 0 |
4054889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipser%20Germans | Zipser Germans | Nonetheless, most of the remaining Zipser Germans in Romania live in Maramureș, northern Transylvania. Therefore, the main localities still populated by Zipser Germans in Maramureș County according to the 2011 Romanian census are the following ones, both urban settlements (a town and a municipality):
Vișeu de Sus ()
... | 2.203125 | 0 |
4054906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catterlen | Catterlen | Catterlen is a small village and civil parish north west of Penrith, Cumbria. At the 2001 census the civil parish had a population of 471, increasing to 605 at the 2011 Census.
The village is a linear one with the B5305 road dividing it into two. Junction 41 of the M6 motorway is at Catterlen.
The parish of Catterl... | 2.0625 | 0 |
4055003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20B.%20Stern | Leonard B. Stern | Leonard Bernard Stern (December 23, 1922 – June 7, 2011) was an American screenwriter, film and television producer, director, and one of the creators, with Roger Price, of the word game Mad Libs.
Life and career
Stern was born in New York City and majored in journalism at New York University. He was a Women’s Army Co... | 1.90625 | 0 |
4055011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20falanouc | Eastern falanouc | The eastern falanouc (Eupleres goudotii) is a rare mongoose-like mammal in the carnivoran family Eupleridae endemic to Madagascar .
It is classified alongside the Western falanouc (Eupleres major), recognized only in 2010, in the genus Eupleres. Falanoucs have several peculiarities. They have no anal or perineal gland... | 2.984375 | 0 |
4055085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther%20Hewel | Walther Hewel | Walther Hewel (25 March 1904 – 2 May 1945) was an early and active member of the Nazi Party who became a German diplomat, an SS-Brigadeführer and one of German dictator Adolf Hitler's personal friends. He served as the liaison officer between Reichsminister for Foreign Affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hitler's headqu... | 2.15625 | 0 |
4055085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther%20Hewel | Walther Hewel | In Nazi Germany
In 1936, Hewel returned to Germany, where he was appointed the chief of the East Asia Desk in the Foreign Section of the Party. He entered Germany's diplomatic service and was sent to Spain. Journalist James P. O'Donnell remarked that, during this time, Hewel "was almost certainly an agent of Admiral W... | 2.328125 | 0 |
4055085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther%20Hewel | Walther Hewel | Survivors of Hitler's inner circle claimed that Hewel owed his position to his long involvement with the Nazi Party, and because he was one of Hitler's friends. In her memoirs, Traudl Junge, Hitler's private secretary, described Hewel as something like Hitler's majordomo. According to Junge, Hewel was placed in charge ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
4055085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther%20Hewel | Walther Hewel | Following Hitler's suicide, Hewel escaped the Führerbunker in a group led by SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke. Mohnke planned to break out towards the German Army, which was positioned in Prinzenallee. However, Hewel was suffering from psychological stress at the time. In her memoirs, Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's secre... | 1.929688 | 0 |
4055099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden-Abyan%20Islamic%20Army | Aden-Abyan Islamic Army | The Aden-Abyan Islamic Army (AAIA, ) was a Sunni Islamist militant group based in southern Yemen founded by Abu Hasan Zayn al-Abadin al-Mihdhar. The groups goals were to overthrow the Yemeni government and establish an Islamic state, as well as support the jihad of al-Qaeda. AAIA was designated a terrorist organization... | 2.21875 | 0 |
4055126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del%C4%8Devo | Delčevo | Delčevo ( ) is a small town in the eastern mountainous part of North Macedonia. It is the municipal seat of Delčevo Municipality. The town is named after the revolutionary leader Goce Delčev.
History
Delčevo, according to a legend in Byzantine times, was called Vasilevo, as a Greek variant of the Slavonic Tsarevo. Fo... | 2.09375 | 0 |
4055126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del%C4%8Devo | Delčevo | In 1856, the construction of a church was completed. The area around the church was at this time mainly inhabited by Bulgarians fleeing Turkish oppression from the surrounding villages. There was a larger emigration of Bulgarians from the area in 1878 after the Russo-Turkish war. After the end of the war the Christian ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
4055126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del%C4%8Devo | Delčevo | In the sixties the town expanded on the right side of the river Bregalnica, and in the seventies on the hill Milkovo Brdo (Milkov's hill). With the increase of the employees in the working organizations in Delčevo, the number of the population in it also grew. Today Delčevo is a modern urban settlement with wide asphal... | 2.375 | 0 |
4055133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seycove%20Secondary%20School | Seycove Secondary School | Seycove Secondary School, also known as Seycove at sə́yəmətən, is a Canadian high school in the Deep Cove neighbourhood of the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia. Located just east of Dollarton Highway, the school has a student population of approximately 500 students in grades 8 through 12. Seycove is part ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
4055135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27%20Unity%20League | Workers' Unity League | The Workers' Unity League (WUL) was established in January 1930 as a militant industrial union labour central closely related to the Communist Party of Canada on the instructions of the Communist International.
This was reflective of the shift in the Communist International's political line that ushered in its "Third ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
4055135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27%20Unity%20League | Workers' Unity League | Initial Struggles
The first action of the Workers' Unity League was a walkout in the National Steel Car Company factory in Hamilton, Ontario. Led by YCL member Harvey Murphey, 1200 workers walked off the job, most of them Finnish immigrants. Although members of Hamilton's Trades and Labour Council (HTLC) were initially... | 2.46875 | 0 |
4055135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27%20Unity%20League | Workers' Unity League | Popular Front Merger
In 1935, international developments changed the strategy of the Communist International. The rise of fascism in Europe urged Stalin to call for a Popular Front of Communists and non-Communists against the extreme right wing. Following the Popular Front strategy, the Worker's Unity League merged in... | 2.6875 | 0 |
4055142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tihamah | Tihamah | Tihamah or Tihama ( ) is the Red Sea coastal plain of the Arabian Peninsula from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb.
Etymology
Tihāmat is the Proto-Semitic language's term for 'sea'. Tiamat (or Tehom, in masculine form) was the ancient Mesopotamian god of the sea and of chaos. The word appears in the Hebrew Bible ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
4055176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF%20Logistics%20Command | RAF Logistics Command | The Royal Air Force's Logistics Command was a command formed to provide logistics support for the RAF.
History
The Command was formed on 1 April 1994 and its role was to provide logistics support to the RAF. The formation of Logistics Command resulted from the Government's PROSPECT study which was aimed to achieve a 2... | 2.3125 | 0 |
4055187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choum | Choum | Choum () is a town in northern Mauritania, lying in the Adrar Region close to the border with Western Sahara.
In the year 2000, Choum had a population of 2,735.
History
The town grew from its position on trans-Saharan trading routes. It declined with the trade, and, in 1977, was attacked by French troops as a sus... | 2.671875 | 0 |
4055196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horlick%20Field | Horlick Field | Horlick Field, located on the north side of Racine, Wisconsin, in the United States, is a 5,000-seat football stadium and a baseball park enclosed within stone walls and chain fences. The land for the field was donated by William Horlick, the inventor of malted milk. It was designed in 1907 by Walter Dick, who also des... | 2.4375 | 0 |
4055222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Symphony%20Chorus | London Symphony Chorus | The London Symphony Chorus (abbreviated to LSC) is a large symphonic concert choir based in London, UK, consisting of over 150 amateur singers, and is one of the major symphony choruses of the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1966 as the LSO Chorus to complement the work of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO). The L... | 2.265625 | 0 |
4055229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhruva%20reactor | Dhruva reactor | The Dhruva reactor is India's largest nuclear research reactor. It was the first nuclear reactor in Asia proper. Located in the Mumbai suburb of Trombay at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), it is India's primary generator of weapons-grade plutonium-bearing spent fuel for its nuclear weapons program. Originally ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
4055262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Roberts | Billy Roberts | William Moses Roberts Jr. (August 16, 1936 – October 7, 2017) was an American songwriter and musician credited with composing the 1960s rock music standard "Hey Joe."
Biography
Roberts attended the Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina but left school for the life of an itinerant musician. He learned to play... | 2.328125 | 0 |
4055288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness%20Foreign%20Extra%20Stout | Guinness Foreign Extra Stout | Guinness Foreign Extra Stout (FES) is a stout produced by the Guinness Brewery, an Irish brewing company owned by Diageo, a drinks multinational. First brewed by Guinness in 1801, FES was designed for export, and is more heavily hopped than Guinness Draught and Extra Stout, which gives it a more bitter taste, and typic... | 2.203125 | 0 |
4055288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness%20Foreign%20Extra%20Stout | Guinness Foreign Extra Stout | In 1951, exports totalled 90,000 barrels, but by 1964 had grown to 300,000 barrels. By 1959, sales in Ghana had grown large enough for Guinness to establish a joint venture in the country with the United Africa Company. By 1962, Nigeria had become the largest export market for Guinness, with around 100,000 barrels expo... | 2.21875 | 0 |
4055289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo%20Buccarello | Angelo Buccarello | He opened centres for children of detainees in Amboditsiry, Andranobevava, Analamahitsy, Fenomanana, Anjiro, as well as for the most undernourished detainees of Androndra.
After 32 years in Madagascar, of which 20 in Antananarivo, he was elected and named general Counsellor of the Trinitarian Order, in July 2001, in R... | 1.953125 | 0 |
4055316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace%20of%20the%20Governors | Palace of the Governors | The Palace of the Governors () is an adobe structure built in the Territorial Style of Pueblo architecture on Palace Avenue in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Located within the Santa Fe Historic District along the Santa Fe Plaza between Lincoln and Washington avenues, it served as the seat of government for New Mexico for centu... | 2.671875 | 0 |
4055316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace%20of%20the%20Governors | Palace of the Governors | In 1909 anthropologist Dr. Edgar Lee Hewett invited the young archeologist Jesse L. Nusbaum to oversee the restoration of the Palace of the Governors that had fallen into disrepair. For this assignment, which was completed in the Fall of 1913, Jesse L. Nusbaum was hired as the first employee of the Dr. Edgar Lee Hewett... | 2.859375 | 0 |
4055374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20H.%20Carter | Thomas H. Carter | Thomas Henry Carter (October 30, 1854September 17, 1911) was an American politician, who served as territorial delegate, a United States representative, and a U.S. Senator from Montana. Carter was born in Junior Furnace, Ohio, on October 30, 1854. Born to an Irish immigrant family, he spent most of his childhood in on ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
4055374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20H.%20Carter | Thomas H. Carter | Following the end of the Civil War in 1865, the Carters used their savings and moved to Pana, Illinois, where young Tommy Carter attended the common schools and worked on his parents' farm. Edward Carter instilled in his children a love for reading and with it a love of learning. Early in his adult life, following his... | 2.046875 | 0 |
4055380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mameria | Mameria | Mameria is an area of high-elevation jungle to the northeast of the Paucartambo range in southeast Peru, drained by the Mameria River, an affluent of the Nistrón River. Until the 1960s this remote and sparsely populated area would have been considered a part of the Callanga jungle area. Machiguenga peoples, fleeing t... | 2.65625 | 0 |
4055437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picocell | Picocell | A picocell is a small cellular base station typically covering a small area, such as in-building (offices, shopping malls, train stations, stock exchanges, etc.), or more recently in-aircraft. In cellular networks, picocells are typically used to extend coverage to indoor areas where outdoor signals do not reach well, ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
4055462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaneque | Chaneque | Chaneque, Chanekeh, or Ohuican Chaneque, as they were called by the Aztecs, are legendary creatures in Mexican folklore, meaning "those who inhabit dangerous places" or "owners of the house" in Náhuatl. These small, sprite-like beings hold a connection to elemental forces and are regarded as guardians of nature. Compar... | 2.984375 | 0 |
4055462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaneque | Chaneque | Background
Chaneques have a long history in Mexico, although they are represented differently based on the state. They have been found in Mesoamerican legends, as well as in documents written by the Spanish Inquisition. Scholars debate the idea that chaneques and duendes are the same mythological beings. These creatur... | 3.328125 | 0 |
4055462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaneque | Chaneque | Pedro Cholotio Temo described them as "a boy doll or a little man who hops and jumps" and is seen wearing a "wide-brimmed sombrero as the Mexicans do; his color is black." Temo believes that duendes are real and connected to the devil, similar to centuries old Spanish beliefs, and that people who practice Satanic ritua... | 2.890625 | 0 |
4055463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20N.%20Morones | Luis N. Morones | Luis Morones Negrete (1890 – 1964), also known as Luis Napoleón Morones, was a participant in the Mexican revolution, a Mexican major union leader, and government official. He was a controversial politician who experienced a rapid rise to prominence from modest roots and made strategic alliances. He served as Secretary... | 2.171875 | 0 |
4055546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settimia%20Caccini | Settimia Caccini | Settimia Caccini (6 October 1591 – , Italy) was a well-known Italian soprano and composer during the 1600s, being one of the first women to have a successful career in music. Caccini was highly regarded for her artistic and technical work with music. She came from a family of well-known composers and singers, with her ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
4055546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settimia%20Caccini | Settimia Caccini | Her father Giulio was employed by the Medici family, who ruled over much of Florence. Giulio passed down much of his career in to his family; he involved them in his music and even formed a singing family band. While working there Giulio was introduced to the concerto delle donne, a group of professional female singers... | 2.625 | 0 |
4055580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whortle%27s%20Hope | Whortle's Hope | Whortle's Hope is a dark fantasy novel for children by British author Robin Jarvis. It is the second book in The Deptford Mouselets series, prequels to Jarvis's Deptford Mice trilogy aimed at a slightly younger audience. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 2007. The story focuses on Whortle Nep, a fieldmous... | 2.265625 | 0 |
4055584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary%20vane%20pump | Rotary vane pump | Uses
Vane pumps are commonly used as high-pressure hydraulic pumps and in automobiles, including supercharging, power-steering, air conditioning, and automatic-transmission pumps. Pumps for mid-range pressures include applications such as carbonators for fountain soft-drink dispensers and espresso coffee machines. Furt... | 2.15625 | 0 |
4055584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary%20vane%20pump | Rotary vane pump | History
Like many simple mechanisms, it is unclear when the rotary vane pump was invented. Agostino Ramelli's 1588 book Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli ("The Various and Ingenious Machines of Captain Agostino Ramelli") contains a description and an engraving of a rotary vane pump along ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
4055613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tootsie%20Pop | Tootsie Pop | A Tootsie Pop (known as Tutsi Chupa Pop in Latin America) is a hard candy lollipop filled with a chocolate-flavored chewy Tootsie Roll candy. They were invented in 1931 by an employee of The Sweets Company of America. Tootsie Rolls had themselves been invented in 1896 by Leo Hirschfield. The company changed its name to... | 2.109375 | 0 |
4055613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tootsie%20Pop | Tootsie Pop | Some stores redeemed lollipop wrappers with the "shooting star" (bearing an image of a child dressed as a Native American aiming a bow and arrow at a star) for a free lolipop. This was clearly up to the store owner and not driven by the lollipop manufacturer. One convenience store in Iowa City, Iowa, for example, gave ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
4055626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorption%20pump | Sorption pump | The sorption pump is a vacuum pump that creates a vacuum by adsorbing molecules on a very porous material like molecular sieve which is cooled by a cryogen, typically liquid nitrogen. The ultimate pressure is about 10−2 mbar. With special techniques this can be lowered till 10−7 mbar. The main advantages are the absenc... | 2.390625 | 0 |
4055635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siblicide | Siblicide | Siblicide (attributed by behavioural ecologist Doug Mock to Barbara M. Braun) is the killing of an infant individual by its close relatives (full or half siblings). It may occur directly between siblings or be mediated by the parents, and is driven by the direct fitness benefits to the perpetrator and sometimes its par... | 2.65625 | 0 |
4055635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siblicide | Siblicide | The theory of kin selection may be seen as a genetically mediated altruistic response within closely related individuals whereby the fitness conferred by the altruist to the recipient outweighs the cost to itself or the sibling/parent group. The fact that such a sacrifice occurs indicates an evolutionary tendency in so... | 2.859375 | 0 |
4055635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siblicide | Siblicide | Blue-footed boobies are less likely to commit siblicide and if they do, they commit it later after hatching than masked boobies. In a study, the chicks of blue-footed and masked boobies were switched to see if the rates of siblicide would be affected by the foster parents. It turns out that the masked boobies that were... | 2.734375 | 0 |
4055635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siblicide | Siblicide | In humans
Siblicide can also be seen in humans in the form of twins in the mother's womb. One twin may grow to be an average weight, while the other is underweight. This is a result of one twin taking more nutrients from the mother than the other twin. In cases of identical twins, they may even have twin-to-twin transf... | 2.703125 | 0 |
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