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4051174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Miah | Andy Miah | Andy Miah (; born in Norwich, Norfolk) is an English bioethicist, academic and journalist. His work often focuses on technology and posthumanism.
Early life
Andy Miah was born in Norwich to a Bangladeshi father and an English mother.
Education
Miah earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Leisure Studies from De Montfort ... | 2.125 | 0 |
4051174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Miah | Andy Miah | Miah has published over 130 research papers, including articles in Nature, The Lancet, the Journal of Medical Ethics, CTheory, and Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology. He has also written for leading newspapers, including The Observer, The Times, The Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and The Guardian. He has int... | 1.9375 | 0 |
4051183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle%20Rising | Castle Rising | Castle Rising is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.
Castle Rising is located along the course of the River Babingley, separating the village from the lost village of Babingley. The village is located north-east of King's Lynn and north-west of Norwich.
History
Castle Rising's name is of N... | 2.453125 | 0 |
4051193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Lincoln%20%28captain%29 | Abraham Lincoln (captain) | Captain Abraham Flowers Lincoln (May 13, 1744 – May 1786) was the paternal grandfather and namesake of the 16th U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was a military captain during the American Revolution, and a pioneer settler of Kentucky. Some historical sources attest his last name as Linkhorn, although neither A... | 2.546875 | 0 |
4051193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Lincoln%20%28captain%29 | Abraham Lincoln (captain) | Life
Lincoln learned the tanner's trade and later took his brother John as his apprentice. A prominent tanner of Berks County in those days was James Boone (1709 – 1785), uncle to Daniel Boone. James Boone was a near neighbor to the Lincolns of Hiester's Creek, and his daughter Anne was married to John Lincoln's half-b... | 2.828125 | 0 |
4051193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Lincoln%20%28captain%29 | Abraham Lincoln (captain) | In 1780, Lincoln sold his land on Mill Creek, and in 1781 he moved his family to Kentucky, then a district of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The family settled in Jefferson County, about east of the site of Louisville. The territory was still contested by Native Americans living across the Ohio River. For protection th... | 2.5 | 0 |
4051223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seqlock | Seqlock | A seqlock (short for sequence lock) is a special locking mechanism used in Linux for supporting fast writes of shared variables between two parallel operating system routines. The semantics stabilized as of version 2.5.59, and they are present in the 2.6.x stable kernel series. The seqlocks were developed by Stephen He... | 2.734375 | 0 |
4051223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seqlock | Seqlock | The reader never blocks, but it may have to retry if a write is in progress; this speeds up the readers in the case where the data was not modified, since they do not have to acquire the lock as they would with a traditional read–write lock. Also, writers do not wait for readers, whereas with traditional read–write lo... | 2.203125 | 0 |
4051225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.E.A.R. | H.E.A.R. | Kathy Peck is a musician and was the bass player and singer for the San Francisco punk rock band The Contractions. Peck herself has hearing damage caused by years of playing loud music. She is an advocate and educator for the prevention of hearing loss, and in 1988 together with Dr. Flash Gordon founded the Hearing Edu... | 2.53125 | 0 |
4051232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20counterpulsation | External counterpulsation | External counterpulsation therapy (ECP) is a procedure that may be performed on individuals with angina, heart failure, or cardiomyopathy.
Medical uses
The FDA approved the CardiAssist ECP system for the treatment of angina, acute myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock under a 510(k) submission in 1980 Since the... | 2.078125 | 0 |
4051232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20counterpulsation | External counterpulsation | Of note, therapies are tailored on an individual basis but beginning regimens tend to include daily one-hour treatments that occur 5 days of the week and last 6–8 weeks with an average overall of 35 hours.
Physiological considerations
One theory is that ECP exposes the coronary circulation to increased shear stress, a... | 2.265625 | 0 |
4051234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tempest%20%28Tchaikovsky%29 | The Tempest (Tchaikovsky) | The Tempest (Russian: Буря Burya), Symphonic Fantasia after Shakespeare, Op. 18, is a symphonic poem in F minor by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed in 1873. It was premiered in December 1873, conducted by Nikolai Rubinstein.
It is based on the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Similar in structure to Tchaikov... | 2.59375 | 0 |
4051259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky%20Bourbon%20Festival | Kentucky Bourbon Festival | The Kentucky Bourbon Festival is a weeklong activity consisting of more than thirty events in Bardstown, Kentucky, United States, dedicated to celebrating the history and art of distilling bourbon whiskey. The organizers of the festival promote the strong association between bourbon and the city of Bardstown, and have ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
4051264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%20Irvine | Wilson Irvine | But it was not until he was 45 (in 1914) that Irvine packed up and moved his family to Old Lyme, Connecticut, becoming part of the Florence Griswold circle, now recognized as the "American Barbizon," hub of American Impressionism. It is as an Old Lyme painter that Irvine is best remembered today. (After relocating Eas... | 2.453125 | 0 |
4051266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf%20Morris | Alf Morris | Alfred Morris, Baron Morris of Manchester, (23 March 1928 – 12 August 2012) was a British Labour Co-operative politician and disability rights campaigner.
Political career
Morris served as Member of Parliament for Manchester Wythenshawe from 1964 until 1997, having previously unsuccessfully fought the, then, safe Co... | 2.25 | 0 |
4051282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karapet%20Chobanyan | Karapet Chobanyan | Karapet Chobanyan (; born 25 February 1927 in Karzakh, Akhalkalaki, Georgia and died on 15 October 1978) was an Armenian scientist and engineer who discovered the phenomenon of Low-Stress in mechanics and developed a new method of welding.
Biography
Karapet Chobanyan was born in February 1927, as the first child of Ar... | 2.125 | 0 |
4051284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid%20prayers | Eid prayers | There is no set date for the Eid holidays, as it changes from year to year. This is due to the nature of the lunar calendar that calculates months based on the phases of the moon, unlike the solar Gregorian calendar that is used most widely today. The lunar calendar is about 11 days shorter than that of the Gregorian, ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
4051284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid%20prayers | Eid prayers | Degree of importance
The degree of importance of the Eid prayer vary between different Madhhab, or schools of Islamic thought. According to Hanafi scholars, Salat al-Eid is Wajib (obligatory). To Hanbali jurisprudence, it is Fard (necessary; often synonymous with Wajib) and according to Maliki and Shafiʽi schools, it ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
4051322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore%20Cantonment | Bangalore Cantonment | The Bangalore Cantonment (1806–1881) was a military cantonment of the British Raj based in the Indian city of Bangalore. The cantonment covered an area of , extending from the Residency on the west to Binnamangala on the east and from the Tanneries on Tannery Road in the north to AGRAM (Army Group Royal Artillery Maida... | 2.515625 | 0 |
4051322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore%20Cantonment | Bangalore Cantonment | Tipu Sultan followed Cornwallis' army, placing him in the awkward position of having an undefeated enemy army at his back while besieging the strong fortification. Tipu kept away hoping to take assault when underway in flank. Over the next twelve days, two companies of the Madras Pioneers provided sappers for eight bat... | 2.703125 | 0 |
4051322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore%20Cantonment | Bangalore Cantonment | The installation of the Bangalore Cantonment attracted a large number of people from Tamil Nadu and other neighboring states of the Kingdom of Mysore. Bangalore rapidly became the largest city in the Kingdom of Mysore. In 1831, the capital of the Kingdom of Mysore was moved from Mysore city to Bangalore. The Bangalore ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
4051322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore%20Cantonment | Bangalore Cantonment | The names of many of the cantonment's streets were derived from military nomenclature such as Artillery Road, Brigade Road, Infantry Road and Cavalry Road. The city of Bangalore still retains many of the colonial names of its streets. A resident to the King of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV lived within the cantonment... | 2.71875 | 0 |
4051392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deglobalization | Deglobalization | Deglobalization or deglobalisation is the process of diminishing interdependence and integration between certain units around the world, typically nation-states. It is widely used to describe the periods of history when economic trade and investment between countries decline. It stands in contrast to globalization, in ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
4051392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deglobalization | Deglobalization | Periods of deglobalization have mainly been seen as interesting comparators to other periods, such as 1850–1914 and 1950–2007, in which globalization had been the norm, given that globalization is the norm for most people and because the interpretation of the global economy has mainly been framed as inevitably increasi... | 2.359375 | 0 |
4051392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deglobalization | Deglobalization | Risks of deglobalization
Typically a reduction of the level of international integration of economies and the world economy at large are expected to exert second round effects related to four feedback mechanisms:
A reduction of (the rate of growth) of international trade will feed negatively into long-run growth.
A l... | 1.929688 | 0 |
4051434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Partridge%20%28cricketer%29 | Norman Partridge (cricketer) | Norman Ernest Partridge (10 August 1900–10 March 1982) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Warwickshire.
Partridge was born at Great Barr, Birmingham. He was selected by Wisden in 1919, while a schoolboy at Malvern College, as one its five Cricketers of the Year, there being no first-class... | 1.953125 | 0 |
4051468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238 | Plutonium-238 | With World War II underway, the research teams were pressed for time. Micrograms of plutonium were made by cyclotrons in 1942 and 1943. In the fall of 1943 Robert Oppenheimer is quoted as saying "there's only a twentieth of a milligram in existence."
By his request, the Rad Lab at Berkeley made available 1.2 mg of plu... | 2.75 | 0 |
4051468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238 | Plutonium-238 | Plutonium handling mishaps occurred in 1944, causing alarm in the Manhattan Project leadership as contamination inside and outside the laboratories was becoming an issue. In August 1944, chemist Donald Mastick was sprayed in the face with a solution of plutonium chloride, causing him to accidentally swallow some. Nose ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
4051468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238 | Plutonium-238 | Albert Stevens, after a (mistaken) terminal cancer diagnosis which seemed to include many organs, was injected in 1945 with plutonium without his informed consent. He was referred to as patient CAL-1 and the plutonium consisted of 3.5 μCi 238Pu, and 0.046 μCi 239Pu, giving him an initial body burden of 3.546 μCi (131 ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
4051468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238 | Plutonium-238 | Another nuclear powered pacemaker was the Medtronics “Laurens-Alcatel Model 9000”. Approximately 1600 nuclear-powered cardiac pacemakers and/or battery assemblies have been located across the United States, and are eligible for recovery by the Off-Site Source Recovery Project (OSRP) Team at Los Alamos National Laborato... | 2.421875 | 0 |
4051468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238 | Plutonium-238 | In March 2017, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and its venture arm, Canadian Nuclear Partners, announced plans to produce 238Pu as a second source for NASA. Rods containing neptunium-237 will be fabricated by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington State and shipped to OPG's Darlington Nuclear Generat... | 2.71875 | 0 |
4051468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238 | Plutonium-238 | In 1966, a study reported by SAE International described the potential for the use of plutonium-238 in radioisotope power subsystems for applications in space. This study focused on employing power conversions through the Rankine cycle, Brayton cycle, thermoelectric conversion and thermionic conversion with plutonium-2... | 2.453125 | 0 |
4051501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios%20Samaras | Georgios Samaras | Style of play
Samaras has been described as having all the skills necessary for forward play. His height, , made him difficult to handle in the air – and he was also a good header of the ball. This meant he could be used as an effective target man and his team could hit long balls up to him. He could also score from co... | 2.203125 | 0 |
4051515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20T.%20Burn | Harry T. Burn | Harry Thomas Burn Sr. (November 12, 1895 – February 19, 1977) was a Republican member of the Tennessee General Assembly for McMinn County, Tennessee. Burn became the youngest member of the state legislature when he was elected at the age of twenty-two. He is best remembered for action taken to ratify the Nineteenth Ame... | 2.234375 | 0 |
4051515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20T.%20Burn | Harry T. Burn | Burn had originally intended to vote for the amendment. After being pressured by party leaders and receiving misleading telegrams from his constituents telling him his district was overwhelmingly opposed to woman suffrage, he began to side with the Antisuffragists. However, a letter from his mother asking him to vote i... | 1.992188 | 0 |
4051518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLS%20Cup%201997 | MLS Cup 1997 | MLS Cup 1997 was the second edition of the MLS Cup, the post-season championship match of Major League Soccer (MLS) in the United States. It was played on October 26, 1997, between D.C. United and the Colorado Rapids to determine the champion of the 1997 season. The soccer match was played in front of 57,431 spectators... | 2.265625 | 0 |
4051518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLS%20Cup%201997 | MLS Cup 1997 | MLS Cup 1997 was contested by defending champions and hosts D.C. United, who finished first in the regular season standings, and the Colorado Rapids, who finished fourth in the Western Conference. The two finalists swept through the playoffs by winning the conference semifinals and conference finals in two legs. During... | 1.929688 | 0 |
4051526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnas%20Sears | Barnas Sears | Barnas Sears (November 19, 1802 – July 6, 1880) was an American educational theorist and Baptist theologian.
Biography
Sears graduated from Brown University in 1825 and from Newton Theological Institution in 1827. For a short time, he served as pastor of First Baptist Church in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1833, Sears, t... | 2.203125 | 0 |
4051546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Howell | Richard Howell | Richard Howell (October 25, 1754April 28, 1802) was the third governor of New Jersey from 1793 to 1801.
Early life and military career
Howell was born in Newark, in the Colony of Delaware, and was a descendant of a Virginian old colonist family. He was a lawyer and soldier of the early United States Army. He served as... | 2.09375 | 0 |
4051591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernward%20of%20Hildesheim | Bernward of Hildesheim | Bernward (c. 960 – 20 November 1022) was the thirteenth Bishop of Hildesheim from 993 until his death in 1022.
Life
Bernward came from a Saxon noble family. His grandfather was Athelbero, Count Palatine of Saxony. Having lost his parents at an early age, he came under the care of his uncle Volkmar, Bishop of Utrecht, ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
4051591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernward%20of%20Hildesheim | Bernward of Hildesheim | Bernward became bishop of Hildesheim in 993. His time in office fell during the era of the Saxon emperors, who had their roots in the area around Hildesheim and were personally related to Bernward. During this time, Hildesheim was a center of power in the Holy Roman Empire and Bernward was determined to give his city a... | 2.453125 | 0 |
4051591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernward%20of%20Hildesheim | Bernward of Hildesheim | World Heritage Sites
One of the most famous examples of Bernward's work is a monumental set of cast bronze doors known as the Bernward doors, now installed at St. Mary's Cathedral, which are sculpted with scenes of the Fall of Man (Adam and Eve) and the Salvation of Man (Life of Christ), and which are related in some w... | 2.75 | 0 |
4051607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Bowl%20XLVII | Super Bowl XLVII | Background
The game marked the first Super Bowl in which both of the teams had appeared, but had not yet lost a previous Super Bowl; the 49ers came into the game having won all five of their previous Super Bowl appearances, while the Ravens had won in their lone previous Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl XXXV against... | 1.960938 | 0 |
4051622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brough%20Castle | Brough Castle | Brough Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Brough, Cumbria, England. The castle was built by William Rufus around 1092 within the old Roman fort of Verterae to protect a key route through the Pennine Mountains. The initial motte and bailey castle was attacked and destroyed by the Scots in 1174 during the Great ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
4051622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brough%20Castle | Brough Castle | Following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, William the Conqueror subdued the north of the country in a sequence of harsh campaigns, and the north-west region became a contested border territory between the Normans and the Scottish kings. William's son, William Rufus, invaded the north-west in 1091 and built Brou... | 2.96875 | 0 |
4051628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireen%20W%C3%BCst | Ireen Wüst | Irene Karlijn "Ireen" Wüst (; born 1 April 1986) is a Dutch former long track speed skater. Wüst became the most successful speed skating Olympian ever by achieving at least one gold medal in each of five consecutive Winter Olympic appearances. Wüst is the second athlete (after Britain's Steve Redgrave) to win a gold m... | 2.0625 | 0 |
4051643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLS%20Cup%202005 | MLS Cup 2005 | The MLS Cup is the post-season championship of Major League Soccer (MLS), a professional club soccer league in the United States. The 2005 season was the tenth in league history, and was contested by twelve teams divided into two conferences. Each club played 32 matches during the regular season from April 2 to October... | 2.078125 | 0 |
4051661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive%20anti-personnel%20round | Beehive anti-personnel round | Beehive was a Vietnam War era anti-personnel round packed with metal flechettes fired from an artillery gun most popularly deployed during that conflict. It is also known as flechette rounds or their official designation, antipersonnel-tracer (APERS-T). Typically, artillery gunners fire using indirect fire, firing at t... | 2.640625 | 0 |
4051670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular%20resonance | Secular resonance | A secular resonance is a type of orbital resonance between two bodies with synchronized precessional frequencies. In celestial mechanics, secular refers to the long-term motion of a system, and resonance is periods or frequencies being a simple numerical ratio of small integers. Typically, the synchronized precessions ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
4051674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRD%20Trilogy | BRD Trilogy | Lola
Lola (1981) is loosely based on Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel and its source novel Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann. It tells the story of an upright building commissioner, Von Bohm, who comes to a small town. He falls in love with Lola, ignorant of the fact that she is a famed prostitute and the mistress o... | 2.09375 | 0 |
4051674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRD%20Trilogy | BRD Trilogy | Unifying elements
Aside from Fassbinder's intention to make films about West Germany after World War II and during the "economic miracle", there are other threads that tie the three films together. One is the issue of "forgetting the past for the sake of moving to a brighter future". All the films' main characters are ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
4051677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lal%20Behari%20Day | Lal Behari Day | Reverend Lal Behari Day (also Dey, 18 December 1824 – 28 October 1894) was an Indian writer and journalist, who converted to Christianity, and became a Christian missionary himself.
Biography
Lal Behari Dey was born on 18 December 1824 to a Bengali Suvarna Banik caste family at Sonapalasi near Bardhaman. His father Ra... | 2.65625 | 0 |
4051687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper%20%28friar%29 | Juniper (friar) | Juniper, also known as Brother Juniper () (died 1258), called "the renowned jester of the Lord", was one of the original followers of Francis of Assisi. Not much is known about Juniper before he joined the friars. In 1210, he was received into the Order of Friars Minor by Francis himself. "Would to God, my brothers, th... | 2.296875 | 0 |
4051687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper%20%28friar%29 | Juniper (friar) | When the man reacted with anger, Juniper thought that he had misunderstood him, so he simply repeated the story with great zeal, embraced him, and begged the man to give him the rest of the pig for the sake of charity. At this display the owner's heart was changed, and he gave up the rest of the pig to be slaughtered a... | 2.5 | 0 |
4051687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper%20%28friar%29 | Juniper (friar) | Brother Juniper, disregarding the devotion shown to him, continued swinging with enthusiasm. Some in the crowd grew tired and began to criticize him, while others, more devoted, stayed until they eventually left, leaving him alone.
Satisfied with having provoked mockery and contempt, Brother Juniper continued his way ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
4051687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper%20%28friar%29 | Juniper (friar) | Fundation of a convent
Brother Hernán de Bratislava recounts an anecdote about Brother Juniper, who, along with other friars, was sent to establish a convent. During the journey, Brother Juniper was designated to procure what the group needed. Upon arriving in a village at mealtime, Brother Juniper began to shout in t... | 2.78125 | 0 |
4051688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Heights%20Public%20Schools | Berkeley Heights Public Schools | The Berkeley Heights Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district serving students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Berkeley Heights in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprising six schools, had an enrollment of 2,499 stu... | 2.359375 | 0 |
4051688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Heights%20Public%20Schools | Berkeley Heights Public Schools | Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
Early childhood
Mary Kay McMillin Early Childhood Center with 304 students in PreK-2 grade
Anne Corley-Hand, principal
William Woodruff Elementary School with 180 students in grades K-2
Brenda Marley, principal... | 2.03125 | 0 |
4051704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baird%27s%20Manual%20of%20American%20College%20Fraternities | Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities | Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities was a compendium of fraternities and sororities in the United States and Canada, published between 1879 and 1991. One modern writer notes, "Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities, was, in essence, the Bible of the Greek letter system."
History
While seeking a Gr... | 2.28125 | 0 |
4051704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baird%27s%20Manual%20of%20American%20College%20Fraternities | Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities | In the 1920s, the National Interfraternity Conference sold the serial to George Banta, publisher and editor-in-chief of Banta's Greek Exchange. Banta was a former president and secondary–founder of Phi Delta Theta. His George Banta Publishing Company (later George Banta Company, Inc.) of Menasha, Wisconsin released eig... | 2.28125 | 0 |
4051704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baird%27s%20Manual%20of%20American%20College%20Fraternities | Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities | The first ten editions included high school fraternities, literary fraternities, and local societies that had developed permanence by owning property or merging into another fraternity. With the 7th edition, Baird stopped including secondary school organizations.
In 1940, a slimmer version was published, omitting loca... | 2.53125 | 0 |
4051843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glanrhyd%20Bridge%20collapse | Glanrhyd Bridge collapse | On 19 October 1987, a train on the Heart of Wales line derailed and fell into the River Towy due to the partial collapse of the Glanrhyd Bridge near Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire. Four people died as a result of the tragedy; the driver and three of the passengers drowned.
Description
The event took place early on Monday ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
4051863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza%20A%20virus%20subtype%20H6N2 | Influenza A virus subtype H6N2 | H6N2 is an avian influenza virus with two forms: one has a low and the other a high pathogenicity. It can cause a serious problem for poultry, and also infects ducks as well. H6N2 subtype is considered to be a non-pathogenic chicken virus, the host still unknown, but could strain from feral animals, and/or aquatic bird... | 2.90625 | 0 |
7054910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Hardman | Donald Hardman | Born on 21 February 1899 in Oldham, Lancashire, James Donald Innes Hardman was the son of a master cotton-spinner, also named James, and his wife Wilhelmina Innes. The younger James, known as Donald, attended Malvern College. At Malvern, Hardman shared a House with C.S. Lewis. Hardman began his military career in 1916... | 2.5 | 0 |
7054910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Hardman | Donald Hardman | At the onset of World War II, Hardman was sent to France with the RAF element of the British Expeditionary Force. After the Fall of France in 1940, he served on the headquarters staff of No. 22 Group and was liaison officer with the British Army's Eastern Command, before taking charge of the Directorate of Military Co-... | 2.171875 | 0 |
7054910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Hardman | Donald Hardman | Hardman made two major changes to the structure of the Air Force to streamline command and control: integrating RAAF Headquarters, Melbourne, with the Department of Air, and supplanting the geographical area commands with three functional organisations, namely Home (operational), Training, and Maintenance Commands. The... | 2.140625 | 0 |
7054921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare%20for%20All%20Act | Medicare for All Act | Pramila Jayapal's bill
Pramila Jayapal's Medicare for All Act of 2019, introduced in the House is broadly similar but more detailed than the original Conyers proposal, but the "parallel" proposal by Sanders has significant differences, including a "global budget" system for hospitals. Both proposals contain expansive ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
7054922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Lyell%20%28Canada%29 | Mount Lyell (Canada) | Mount Lyell is a mountain on the Alberta–British Columbia border in western Canada. Comprising five distinct summits, Mount Lyell reaches a height of . The mountain was named by James Hector in 1858 in recognition of Scottish geologist Sir Charles Lyell.
Geography
Mount Lyell is located on the Great Divide, which for... | 2.859375 | 0 |
7054949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigenes | Antigenes | Antigenes () was the name of a number of people of ancient Greece:
People
Antigenes (general), a 4th-century BCE general of Alexander the Great
Antigenes (historian), a Greek historian who spoke of the Amazon's visit to Alexander.
Antigenes, a Greek grammarian.
At least three Greek physicians shared this name:
Antigen... | 2.671875 | 0 |
7054963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaPort%20Manatee | SeaPort Manatee | SeaPort Manatee is a county-owned deepwater seaport located in the eastern Gulf of Mexico at the entrance to Tampa Bay in northern Manatee County, Florida. It is one of Florida's largest deepwater seaports and also regarded as the closest U.S. deepwater seaport to the Panama Canal. The port handles a variety of bulk, b... | 2.140625 | 0 |
7055018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Aurelius%20Smith | Charles Aurelius Smith | Charles Aurelius Smith (January 22, 1861April 1, 1916) was the 91st governor of South Carolina from January 14 to January 19, 1915. His term of five days stands as the shortest for any governor in South Carolina.
Biography
Born on January 22, 1861, in Hertford County, North Carolina, Smith attended Wake Forest Univers... | 2.375 | 0 |
7055037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus%20%281980%20film%29 | Virus (1980 film) | Virus, known in Japan as , is a 1980 Japanese post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Based on Sakyo Komatsu's 1964 novel of the same name, the film stars an international ensemble cast featuring Masao Kusakari, Sonny Chiba, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia Hussey, Edward J... | 1.976563 | 0 |
7055063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igeum-dong | Igeum-dong | Igeum-dong is a complex archaeological site located in Igeum-dong, Samcheonpo in Sacheon-si, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. This prehistoric archaeological site is important in Korean prehistory because it represents solid evidence that simple chiefdoms formed in as early as the Middle Mumun, some 950 years be... | 2.46875 | 0 |
7055063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igeum-dong | Igeum-dong | Raised-floor buildings: meeting places or dwellings of chiefs?
The cemetery lies beside two long raised-floor buildings, Nos. 60 and 61. These buildings were placed on a series of large wooden footings, the largest of which approached 2 m in diameter. Building 60 was 29 m in length and 174 m2 in area, and No. 61 was 2... | 2.40625 | 0 |
7055078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appanoose%20County%20Courthouse | Appanoose County Courthouse | The Appanoose County Courthouse is located in the county seat of Centerville, Iowa, United States. The courthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. In 1997 it was included as a contributing property in the Courthouse Square Historic District.
History
The first structure used for court pur... | 2.34375 | 0 |
7055146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martindale%3A%20The%20Complete%20Drug%20Reference | Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference | Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference is a reference book published by Pharmaceutical Press listing some 6,000 drugs and medicines used throughout the world, including details of over 125,000 proprietary preparations. It also includes almost 700 disease treatment reviews.
It was first published in 1883 under the ti... | 2.25 | 0 |
7055279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monqui | Monqui | The Monqui were indigenous peoples of Mexico (American Indians), who lived in the vicinity of Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico, at the time of Spanish contact. Monqui territory included about of coast along the Gulf of California and extended a few kilometers inland to where the Cochimi people lived.
Probably f... | 3.234375 | 0 |
7055279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monqui | Monqui | Culture
Kino, with years of experience on the frontier, said that the Indians of Baja California had the most difficult existence of any he had seen. The Jesuit missionaries early perceived that the nomadic Monqui could be attracted to the missions and Christianity by the promise of food, often exchanged for work. The ... | 3.125 | 0 |
7055279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monqui | Monqui | Language
Of the Monqui language only 14 place names survive and the characteristics and relationships of Monqui to other languages cannot be determined with any precision. William C. Massey (1949) believed that the Monqui spoke a Cochimí language or dialect. Cochimi is remotely related to the Yuman languages spoken in... | 2.921875 | 0 |
7055324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive%20synchrony | Reproductive synchrony | Reproductive synchrony is a term used in evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology. Reproductive synchrony—sometimes termed "ovulatory synchrony"—may manifest itself as "breeding seasonality". Where females undergo regular menstruation, "menstrual synchrony" is another possible term.
Reproduction is said to be synch... | 2.78125 | 0 |
7055324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive%20synchrony | Reproductive synchrony | Reproductive synchrony can never be perfect. On the other hand, theoretical models predict that group-living species will tend to synchronise wherever females can benefit by maximising the number of males offered chances of paternity, minimising reproductive skew. For example, the cichlid fish V. moorii spawns in the d... | 2.5 | 0 |
7055404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Child%20Garden | The Child Garden | The Child Garden is a 1989 science fiction novel by Canadian writer Geoff Ryman.
The novel is structured as two books with a brief introduction. The first book was originally published in two parts as "Love Sickness" in the Summer and Autumn 1987 editions of the British science fiction magazine Interzone.
Synopsis
I... | 1.90625 | 0 |
7055492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia%20Bembo | Antonia Bembo | In the first collection, there are five setting in sacred Latin texts, one to French words (no. 40), and the other thirty-four are in Italian. Since she was a soprano, her vocal compositions are in higher register mostly which are suitable for her range. Thirty-two of them are supplied with simple figured-bass accompan... | 1.96875 | 0 |
7055543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inga | Inga | Inga is a genus of small tropical, tough-leaved, nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs, subfamily Mimosoideae. Ingas leaves are pinnate, and flowers are generally white. Many of the hundreds of species are used ornamentally.
Several related plants have been placed into this genus at one time, for example Yopo (Cohoba, Mopo... | 2.609375 | 0 |
7055554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahid%20ibn%20Jabr | Mujahid ibn Jabr | Abū l-Ḥajjāj Mujāhid ibn Jabr al-Qāriʾ () (642–722 CE) was a Tabi' and one of the major early Islamic scholars. His tafsīr of the Qur'an (exegesis/commentary) is believed to be the earliest existing written exegetical source, although only fragments of it have reached us from the Umayyad era.
Biography
His full nickna... | 2.453125 | 0 |
7055558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement%20on%20Internal%20Trade | Agreement on Internal Trade | The Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) entered into force on July 1, 1995, and includes government departments, agencies, commissions and Crown corporations of the 10 Canadian provinces, the three territories and the federal government.
The Agreement on Internal Trade is an intergovernmental agreement between the feder... | 2.125 | 0 |
7055567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%20of%20Aquitaine | Felix of Aquitaine | Felix (floruit 660s) was a patrician in the Frankish kingdom under the Merovingians. He had his seat at Toulouse. According to the tenth-century Miracula sancti Martialis lemovicensis, Felix was "a noble and renowned patrician from the town of Toulouse, who had obtained authority over all the cities up to the Pyrenees ... | 2.125 | 0 |
7055588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Carolina%20Highway%2027 | North Carolina Highway 27 | North Carolina Highway 27 (NC 27) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The route traverses through southern and central North Carolina, about of it as a concurrency with NC 24.
Route description
NC 27 begins in Cleveland County near the unincorporated community of Toluca at a T-intersecti... | 2.265625 | 0 |
7055723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabash%20Bridge%20%28St.%20Charles%2C%20Missouri%29 | Wabash Bridge (St. Charles, Missouri) | The Wabash Bridge carries a single track railroad from St. Louis County to the city of St. Charles. It is positioned next to the Discovery Bridge. It is used by the freight trains of Norfolk Southern Railway.
History
The original St. Charles Bridge, built in 1871 to carry the North Missouri Railroad, was the first ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
7055751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking%20Glass%20Falls | Looking Glass Falls | Looking Glass Falls is a waterfall in Western North Carolina, located near Brevard.
Natural history
The name comes from nearby Looking Glass Rock, which resembles a wintertime mirror (or "looking glass") of sunlight, as water freezes on its sides and reflects the sun, and from the name of the stream from which the fal... | 2.421875 | 0 |
7055764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine%20Fran%C3%A7ois%20Brenier%20de%20Montmorand | Antoine François Brenier de Montmorand | Antoine-François Brenier de Montmorand (; 12 November 1767 at Saint-Marcellin, Isère – 8 October 1832) served as a French general of division during the period of the First French Empire and became an officer of the Legion of Honour.
Early career
Brenier enlisted in 1786 and gained rapid promotion during the period o... | 2.234375 | 0 |
7055764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine%20Fran%C3%A7ois%20Brenier%20de%20Montmorand | Antoine François Brenier de Montmorand | During the night of 10 May 1811 Brenier threaded his 1,400-man garrison through the lines of the 13,000-strong British investment force in the second Siege of Almeida. His engineers set explosives which demolished the fortifications after his men got away. During the pursuit he lost 360 men, but the pursuing British ra... | 2.421875 | 0 |
7055765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake%20Beach%20Rail%20Trail | Chesapeake Beach Rail Trail | The Chesapeake Beach Rail Trail (sometimes referred to as the Chesapeake Beach Railway Trail) is a set of short trails along the original Chesapeake Beach Railway route from Washington, D.C. to Chesapeake Beach, Maryland. The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) acquired portions of the cor... | 2.46875 | 0 |
7055780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20Blaster%20Episode%20II%3A%20Secret%20of%20the%20Lost%20City | Math Blaster Episode II: Secret of the Lost City | Math Blaster Episode II: Secret of the Lost City is an educational game in the Blaster Learning System by Davidson & Associates and is the sequel to Math Blaster Episode I: In Search of Spot. In the plot of this math game, the evil Dr. Minus shoots down Blasternaut, Spot, and Galactic Commander as they search for the L... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7055788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnegat%20Township%20School%20District | Barnegat Township School District | The Barnegat Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Barnegat Township, in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprising six schools, had an enrollment of 3,... | 2.515625 | 0 |
7055800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goler%20clan | Goler clan | The Golers are a clan of poor, rural families in Canada, on Nova Scotia's South Mountain, near Wolfville, known for inter-generational poverty and the conviction in the 1980s of many family members for sexual abuse and incest.
Background
The Goler family lived together in two shacks in a remote wooded area on South M... | 2.296875 | 0 |
7055800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goler%20clan | Goler clan | From about 1980, several of the children had attempted to tell outsiders and authorities about the abuse they suffered, but they were disbelieved and returned to their family, who punished them. In 1984, one of the children, a 14-year-old girl, revealed the details of a long history of torture and abuse (physical, sexu... | 1.921875 | 0 |
7055800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goler%20clan | Goler clan | The event brought to greater attention the inadequate living conditions of many poorer Kings County residents, not only on North Mountain and South Mountain where some 4,000 poor people lived, but in the rich farmlands around Kentville where tar paper shacks blighted the landscape. These communities had been shunned by... | 2.140625 | 0 |
7055814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Corps%20Denmark | Free Corps Denmark | At the outset of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Germany asked Denmark to form a military corps to fight with the Germans against the Soviets. On 29 June 1941, seven days after the invasion had begun, the Danish Nazi Party newspaper Fædrelandet ("The Fatherland") proclaimed the creation of the Free Cor... | 2.609375 | 0 |
7055815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawfordsville%20monster | Crawfordsville monster | The Indianapolis Journal repeated the September 5th sightings, as did other newspapers across the country, including the Brooklyn Eagle, whose article later attracted the attention of early paranormal investigator Charles Fort. The Crawfordsville Postmaster was deluged with mail, and reports of the sightings generated ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
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