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7055826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern%20High%20School%20%28South%20Carolina%29 | Northwestern High School (South Carolina) | Northwestern High School is one of three high schools in Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States. It was opened in 1971 as the city's second high school, replacing Emmett Scott High School, which had been designated for African American students during the era of segregated schools. Along with rival Rock Hill High Sch... | 2.328125 | 0 |
7055844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological%20anthropology | Psychological anthropology | Psychological anthropology is an interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes. This subfield tends to focus on ways in which humans' development and enculturation within a particular cultural group—with its own history, language, practices, and conceptual cate... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7055844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological%20anthropology | Psychological anthropology | Though intimately connected in many ways, the fields of anthropology and psychology have remained two distinct disciplines, in part because of their differing methodologies and disciplinary objectives. Where anthropology was traditionally geared towards historical and evolutionary trends, what psychology concerned itse... | 2.34375 | 0 |
7055964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt%E2%80%93Marcy%20Trail | Roosevelt–Marcy Trail | The Roosevelt–Marcy Trail is named for the historic route Vice President Theodore Roosevelt traveled on a midnight stagecoach ride from Tahawus to the North Creek train station to take the Presidential oath.
On September 14, 1901, then-Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was at Lake Tear of the Clouds after returning fr... | 2.671875 | 0 |
7055997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third%20Higher%20School | Third Higher School | The Third Higher School (第三高等学校, Daisan Kōtō Gakkō) was a university preparatory boy's boarding school (higher school) in Kyoto, Japan. It is the direct predecessor of the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies of Kyoto University.
History
The Third Higher School traced its roots to the Chemistry School (舎密局, Seimi-kyok... | 2.078125 | 0 |
7056113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck%20Pond | Wreck Pond | Wreck Pond is a coastal freshwater tidal pond located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. It is surrounded by Wall Township and the boroughs of Spring Lake, Spring Lake Heights, and Sea Girt. The pond was originally connected to the sea by a small inlet and got its name bec... | 2.453125 | 0 |
7056113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck%20Pond | Wreck Pond | The source of coliform contamination is debated. A recent study conducted by Prof. John Tiedemann of Monmouth University tracked the source of bacterial contaminants in the Wreck Pond Watershed. Tiedemann's group set up and monitored 12 stations throughout the watershed for approximately two years. During this time, th... | 3.140625 | 0 |
7056211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatsworth%20station | Chatsworth station | Chatsworth station (also known as Chatsworth Transportation Center) is an intermodal passenger transport station in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Chatsworth, United States. It is served by Amtrak inter-city rail service, Metrolink Ventura County Line commuter rail service, and the Metro G Line of the Los Angeles Met... | 2.109375 | 0 |
7056250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20strike%20group | Carrier strike group | A carrier strike group (CSG) is a type of carrier battle group of the United States Navy. It is an operational formation composed of roughly 7,500 personnel, usually an aircraft carrier, at least one cruiser, a destroyer squadron of at least two destroyers or frigates, and a carrier air wing of 65 to 70 aircraft. A car... | 2.578125 | 0 |
7056250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20strike%20group | Carrier strike group | The development of the U.S. Navy carrier battle group can be traced to the 1920s and was initially based on previous experience grouping battleships and other major surface combatants. In World War II, administratively, aircraft carriers were assigned to carrier divisions (CARDIVs). Operationally they were assigned to ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
7056250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20strike%20group | Carrier strike group | Missions
Carrier strike groups are tasked to accomplish a variety of wartime missions, as well as a wide variety of functions in situations short of war. The peacetime mission is to conduct forward presence operations, to help shape the strategic environment, deter conflict, build interoperability with allies, and resp... | 2.203125 | 0 |
7056262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20inspection | Rail inspection | The first rail inspections were done visually and with the Oil and Whiting Method (an early form of Liquid Penetrant Inspection). Many sources cite that the need for better rail inspections came after a derailment at Manchester, New York, in 1911. That particular accident resulted in the death of 29 people and injuri... | 2.5 | 0 |
7056262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20inspection | Rail inspection | There are many manufacturers of road/rail inspection trucks, otherwise known as HiRail trucks. These HiRail inspection cars are almost all ultrasonic testing exclusively, but there are some with the capability to perform multiple tests. These trucks are loaded with high-speed computers using advanced programs which r... | 2.359375 | 0 |
7056262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20inspection | Rail inspection | The future of rail inspection
With increased rail traffic carrying heavier loads at higher speeds, a quicker more efficient way of inspecting railways is needed. Lasers inspect railway geometry, but one day they might be utilized as a form of non-contact evaluation of the rail. This most likely will be done with laser... | 2.3125 | 0 |
7056308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Watts | Trevor Watts | Trevor Charles Watts (born 26 February 1939) is an English jazz and free-improvising alto and soprano saxophonist.
Biography
Watts was born in York, England. He is largely self-taught, having taken up the cornet at age 12 then switched to saxophone at 18. While stationed in Germany with the RAF (1958–63), he encounter... | 2.046875 | 0 |
7056315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-dimensional%20gas | Two-dimensional gas | A two-dimensional gas is a collection of objects constrained to move in a planar or other two-dimensional space in a gaseous state. The objects can be: classical ideal gas elements such as rigid disks undergoing elastic collisions; elementary particles, or any ensemble of individual objects in physics which obeys laws ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
7056315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-dimensional%20gas | Two-dimensional gas | While the principle of the cyclotron to create a two-dimensional array of electrons has existed since 1934, the tool was originally not really used to analyze interactions among the electrons (e.g. two-dimensional gas dynamics). An early research investigation explored cyclotron resonance behavior and the de Haas–van A... | 2.203125 | 0 |
7056326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20M.%20Drake | Francis M. Drake | Francis Marion Drake (December 30, 1830 – November 20, 1903) was an American merchant, lawyer, banker and politician. He fought in the American Civil War and later became the 16th Governor of Iowa. He is the namesake of Drake University.
Early life
Drake was born on December 30, 1830, in Rushville, Illinois, the son o... | 2.828125 | 0 |
7056326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20M.%20Drake | Francis M. Drake | After Fort Sumter, Drake obtained a Captain's commission and operated with a mounted Iowa border regiment patrolling northern Missouri and clearing out small bands of rebels. His leadership was quickly recognized and for a while he was placed in charge of a Federal depot at Hannibal Missouri. After Lincoln's July 1862 ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
7056326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20M.%20Drake | Francis M. Drake | . On the morning of April 3, Drake took three companies of the 36th Iowa (A, D, G) three companies of the 43rd Indiana, 2 dismounted companies of the 1st Iowa Cavalry and a two-gun section of the 2nd Missouri Light Artillery—less than 500 troops in all—to established an advance picket post in very dense woods in the Li... | 2.0625 | 0 |
7056326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20M.%20Drake | Francis M. Drake | On April 15, the Union VII Corps advanced into Camden, Arkansas largely unopposed, in search of supplies, and Drake again showed his talent when he was assigned with just 5 companies of the 36th Iowa and two artillery pieces to hold open a critical crossroads ("Camden Crossroads") ten miles west of the city for 5 hours... | 1.953125 | 0 |
7056326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20M.%20Drake | Francis M. Drake | In December 1864, Drake, already nominated for promotion to brigadier, preferred charges against his commanding officer, Colonel Charles W. Kittredge resulting in Kittredge's Court Martial, conviction and dismissal from service for drunkenness and conduct unbecoming an officer. On the promotion list for brigadier from ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
7056390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal%20Cherry | Wal Cherry | Walter John Cherry ( 10 May 1932 – 7 March 1986) was an Australian academic, drama scholar and theatre director, producer and manager
Biography
Cherry was born in Ballarat, Victoria to Victorian parents Walter Joseph Cherry, a commercial artist and Vera White. He attended St. Patricks College, Geelong and Geelong Hig... | 2.5 | 0 |
7056398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simi%20Valley%20station | Simi Valley station | Simi Valley station is a passenger rail station in the city of Simi Valley, California. Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner from San Luis Obispo to San Diego and Metrolink's Ventura County Line from Los Angeles Union Station to East Ventura stop here.
In , passengers boarded or detrained at Simi Valley station.
History
The... | 2.046875 | 0 |
7056475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunet%20Island%20State%20Park | Brunet Island State Park | Brunet Island State Park is a state park of Wisconsin, USA, featuring a island in the Chippewa River. The remainder of the park's are on the east bank of the river. It is noted for its numerous white-tailed deer and large eastern hemlock trees. The park is located just north of Cornell in Chippewa County in the N... | 2.65625 | 0 |
7056475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunet%20Island%20State%20Park | Brunet Island State Park | Cultural history
The park is named after Jean Brunet (1791–1877), an upper-class French immigrant who was instrumental in the development of the upper Chippewa River. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1818 and found employment with a trading company. Two years later his employers stationed Brunet in Prairie du Chien... | 2.515625 | 0 |
7056522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Nuys%20station | Van Nuys station | Van Nuys station is an Amtrak and Metrolink train station in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, close to the nighborhood of Panorama City. Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner from San Luis Obispo to San Diego, Amtrak's Coast Starlight from Los Angeles to Seattle, Washington, and Metrolink's Ventura County Lin... | 1.9375 | 0 |
7056603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk%20Bond%20Observatory | Junk Bond Observatory | The Junk Bond Observatory (JBO; code: 701) is located in the Sonoran Desert at Sierra Vista, Arizona, United States.
It was established by amateur astronomer David Healy in his backyard in 1996, using a Celestron 14 SCT and a 16-inch Meade LX200 telescopes in a roll-off shelter. In 2000, a 20" Ritchey-Chretien was ins... | 2.203125 | 0 |
7056624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Stadtbahn | Vienna Stadtbahn | The Vienna Stadtbahn () was a rail-based public transportation system operated under this name from 1898 until 1989. Today, the Vienna U-Bahn lines U4 and U6 and the Vienna S-Bahn (commuter rail) run on its former lines.
In 1894, the architect Otto Wagner was hired as the artistic director for the Vienna Stadtbahn pro... | 2.640625 | 0 |
7056624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Stadtbahn | Vienna Stadtbahn | The next plans followed in connection with the first city expansion in 1850, including one in 1852 preferred by the Vienna Construction Company and the Vienna Bank Corporation project. The second proposal, which had already been worked out in detail, was presented by Count Henckel von Donnersmarck in 1867. In 1869, Bau... | 2.453125 | 0 |
7056624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Stadtbahn | Vienna Stadtbahn | While the rival railway companies at that time had no interest in a central urban solution - the present-day Vienna Hauptbahnhof finally went into operation in 2012 - the Austrian military, after the March Revolution of 1848, demanded measures to prevent a recurrence of such events. Although the commissioning of the f... | 2.546875 | 0 |
7056624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Stadtbahn | Vienna Stadtbahn | As a result of the economic collapse in Vienna in May 1873, interest in the so-called Stadtbahn question dropped again somewhat. Thus, none of the 23 drafts received a concession, although the municipality judged that of the consortium of Count Edmund Zichy, both in terms of the proposed local rail network and the prop... | 2.328125 | 0 |
7056624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Stadtbahn | Vienna Stadtbahn | In advance, the commission had to acquire numerous plots of land ranging in size from a minimum of eight square meters to a maximum of 35,700 square meters. Depending on the situation, the compensation varied between two and a half and 153 Austrian guilders per square meter. In 436 cases succeeded in an amicable agreem... | 2.390625 | 0 |
7056624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Stadtbahn | Vienna Stadtbahn | Another saving measure concerned the viaduct arches. In this case, the plaster façade originally planned by Otto Wagner was dropped. Instead, the - originally light yellow - clinker bricks and the cornices made of solid natural stone masonry are now visible, as was the case previously with the Verbindungsbahn and the B... | 2.359375 | 0 |
7056624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Stadtbahn | Vienna Stadtbahn | In addition, a brief section of elevated track was built connecting the Gürtel and Danube Canal lines between Nussdorfer Strasse and Friedensbrücke stations.
Of the lines that were not built, two lines should have crossed the inner city, and one would have extended the Gürtel line along the southern Gürtel road to Süd... | 2 | 0 |
7056624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Stadtbahn | Vienna Stadtbahn | The new type of rolling stock introduced after electrification was designed so that it could also run on the tramway network. It consisted of 2-axle motor cars (class N), heavy trailers (class n) and light trailers (class n1), which were combined to form trains of up to nine cars in length. These were in operation unti... | 2.375 | 0 |
7056624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Stadtbahn | Vienna Stadtbahn | The dissolution of the Commission for Traffic Facilities in Vienna in 1934 finally sealed the end of the original steam railway. As a result, the municipality of Vienna also took over the infrastructure of the electrified network, which was henceforth licensed only as a small train without freight traffic, while the su... | 2.203125 | 0 |
7056624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Stadtbahn | Vienna Stadtbahn | Moreover, the steam railway operation also resulted in the passengers and the train crew on the underground sections being largely unprotected from the smoke. In addition, the soot settled on the seats and soiled them, and thus also the garments of the passengers, even before the journey. In addition, the locomotives a... | 2.328125 | 0 |
7056628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Jaeger | Jeff Jaeger | Jeff Todd Jaeger (born November 26, 1964) is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) during the 1980s and 1990s. Jaeger played college football for the Washington Huskies, earning All-American honors. In the NFL, he played for the Clev... | 2.0625 | 0 |
7056640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulham%2C%20South%20Australia | Fulham, South Australia | Fulham is a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of West Torrens.
History
The area incorporating the current suburb of Fulham was purchased c. 1836 by John White (? –30 December 1860), who named it Fulham Farm after the suburb of Fulham in his native London. The White family home, Wee... | 1.992188 | 0 |
7056647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton%2C%20South%20Australia | Hilton, South Australia | Hilton is an inner western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of West Torrens, for which it is the council seat.
History
The Kaurna people occupied the land of the present suburb, before British colonisation of South Australia in 1836.
The land now covering the suburb of Hilton was receiv... | 2.203125 | 0 |
7056650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Airy%20Plantation | Mount Airy Plantation | Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States. It was constructed in 1764 for Colonel John Tayloe II, perhaps the richest Virginia planter of his generation, upon the burning of his family's older house. John Ariss is the ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
7056650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Airy%20Plantation | Mount Airy Plantation | Mount Airy is composed of a massive two-story central block above a high basement, long and deep, two curving one-story passageways, and two -square two-story end dependencies set forward. The five-part unit, long, encloses three sides of a semi-circular forecourt. This court is raised by a low terrace above the en... | 2.140625 | 0 |
7056650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Airy%20Plantation | Mount Airy Plantation | The south or rear elevation was undoubtedly taken directly from Plate LVIII of James Gibbs' Book of Architecture and the north elevation was less directly derived from a plate of Haddo House in Scotland, shown in William Adam's Vitruvius Scoticus. The two stone two-story dependencies have hipped roofs and central chimn... | 2.34375 | 0 |
7056653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marleston%2C%20South%20Australia | Marleston, South Australia | Marleston is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, in the City of West Torrens. Marleston was home to 1,950 people at the 2021 census.
The earliest European settler in this area was Donald McLean, who selected Section 50, Hundred of Adelaide, of in 1837, (the area was originally part of Hilton) and with his family p... | 2.125 | 0 |
7056654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAI%20%28organization%29 | BAI (organization) | BAI (the Bank Administration Institute) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that provides research, training, and thought leadership events for the financial services industry. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, BAI also operates Banking Strategies, a daily online financial services publication.
Organiza... | 2.046875 | 0 |
7056664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile%20End%2C%20South%20Australia | Mile End, South Australia | Mile End is an inner western suburb of Adelaide, located in the City of West Torrens, around 2 kilometres from the Adelaide city centre. It has a census area population of 4,413 people (2011). Much of the suburb is residential, but there are small commercial areas along Henley Beach Road and South Road.
History
Mile ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
7056697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Coronet%20Nighthawk | Operation Coronet Nighthawk | Operation Coronet Nighthawk (1990–2001) was one of many operations that took place in the early 1990s to stop the drugs coming into the United States from Central and South America. The idea of the operation was to have a rotational deployment operation to intercept possible drug trafficking aircraft and to control ter... | 2.25 | 0 |
7056697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Coronet%20Nighthawk | Operation Coronet Nighthawk | Background
In the early 1990s and 1980s, the United States experienced a significant increase in drug trafficking and smuggling. Drugs were being smuggled by boat, car, over the border and even by plane. The US government decide to respond to this with operation Coronet Nighthawk. The title Coronet has been used in th... | 2.5625 | 0 |
7056704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Farming%20Game | The Farming Game | The Farming Game is a board game simulating the economics of a small farm. Published in 1979, it was designed by George Rohrbacher, a rancher in Washington state. The Farming Game painfully reflects the real-life difficulties of running a farm. The names and places in the game are the names of families that have farmed... | 2.328125 | 0 |
7056704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Farming%20Game | The Farming Game | Objective
The premise of the game is that each player inherited twenty acres of farming land from their "Grandpa". This is not enough to live on, so players must continue with their current job in town, which brings in $5,000 that can be invested into the farm each game year. Players can also borrow up to $50,000 from ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
7056704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Farming%20Game | The Farming Game | Players take turns rolling a die, traveling around the board, harvesting their crops when they can. Crops are purchased through O.T.B. (Option to Buy) cards usually referencing "Neighbor Sells Out: 10 Acres Grain". The crops are grouped into hay, fruit, grain, and cattle. What balances this game, and provides the most ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
7056711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenelg%20North%2C%20South%20Australia | Glenelg North, South Australia | Glenelg North is a seaside suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in both the City of Holdfast Bay and the City of West Torrens.
Demographics
The 2011 Census by the Australian Bureau of Statistics counted 5,699 persons in Glenelg North on census night. Of these, 50.7% were male and 49.3% were female.
The... | 2.078125 | 0 |
7056758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavle%20Savi%C4%87 | Pavle Savić | Pavle Savić (; 10 January 1909 – 30 May 1994) was a Serbian physicist and chemist. In his early years, he worked in Serbia as well as France, and became one of the pioneers in the research of nuclear fission. He was also a sympathiser of Yugoslav communists in the interwar period, and then rose to prominence during Wor... | 2.359375 | 0 |
7056758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavle%20Savi%C4%87 | Pavle Savić | In 1935, he received a six-month scholarship from the French government to study in France, where he moved with his freshly married bride Branka (nee Božinović). With professor Jovanović's references, he was hired at the Radium Institute in Paris, and he would ultimately spend five years in France. He worked with Irène... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7056758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavle%20Savi%C4%87 | Pavle Savić | At the start of World War II and the occupation of Yugoslavia, Savić immediately became part of the underground resistance to the German occupation. Soon, in July 1941, after having assisted Partisan sabotages, he and his wife left Belgrade to avoid capture, eventually arriving in the liberated Republic of Užice. There... | 2.125 | 0 |
7056774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Como%2C%20Minneapolis | Como, Minneapolis | Commercial activity is focused on Como and East Hennepin Avenues. The neighborhood is served by a services business hub along Como Avenue with grocery stores, dentist, barber shop, coffee houses, restaurants, and an auto service station.
Demographics
As of 2020, the population of Como was 6,455, split 58.1% male and 4... | 2.046875 | 0 |
7056849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Cummings | Mary Cummings | In 1844, Mary and her family moved to Ipswich, Massachusetts, to reopen the Ipswich Female Academy upon the request of the town. She was educated at the Academy which was run by her parents until they closed it in 1876. Because her parents followed Lyon's philosophy of an academically rigorous education for girls, Mary... | 2.5 | 0 |
7056849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Cummings | Mary Cummings | Death and legacy
Mary Cummings died on December 23, 1927, leaving her farm in trust to the City of Boston for use as a recreational park for the public, now known as Mary Cummings Park. Along with the land, she left a substantial maintenance and care trust fund to be supported by income from an office building next t... | 2.265625 | 0 |
7056911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dives%20in%20misericordia | Dives in misericordia | Dives in misericordia (Latin: Rich in Mercy) is the name of the second encyclical written by Pope John Paul II. It is a modern examination of the role of mercy—both God's mercy, and also the need for human mercy—introducing the biblical parable of the Prodigal Son as a central theme. The original text was written in lo... | 2.546875 | 0 |
7056912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clootie%20well | Clootie well | A clootie well is a holy well (or sacred spring), almost always with a tree growing beside it, where small strips of cloth or ribbons are left as part of a healing ritual, usually by tying them to branches of the tree (called a clootie tree or rag tree). Clootie wells are places of pilgrimage usually found in Celtic ar... | 2.796875 | 0 |
7056938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20of%20Aphaia | Temple of Aphaia | The Temple of Aphaia () or Afea is an Ancient Greek temple located within a sanctuary complex dedicated to the goddess Aphaia on the island of Aegina, which lies in the Saronic Gulf. Formerly known as the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, the Doric temple is now recognized as having been dedicated to the mother-goddess A... | 2.546875 | 0 |
7056938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20of%20Aphaia | Temple of Aphaia | The periegetic writer Pausanias briefly mentions the site in his writings of the 2nd century AD, but does not describe the sanctuary in detail as he does for many others. The temple was made known in Western Europe by the publication of the Antiquities of Ionia (London, 1797). In 1811, the young English architect Char... | 2.609375 | 0 |
7056938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20of%20Aphaia | Temple of Aphaia | Construction of a new temple commenced soon after the destruction of the older temple. The remains of the destroyed temple were removed from the site of the new temple and used to fill a c. 40 by 80 m terrace within the overall sanctuary of c. 80 by 80 m. This new temple terrace was aligned on north, west, and south wi... | 2.9375 | 0 |
7056938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20of%20Aphaia | Temple of Aphaia | If still in use by the 4th century, the temple would have been closed during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire.
Pedimental sculptures
The marbles from the Late Archaic temple of Aphaia, comprising the sculptural groups of the east and west pediments of the temple, are on display in the Glyptothek of... | 2.828125 | 0 |
7056993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalistics | Anomalistics | Anomalistics is the use of scientific methods to evaluate anomalies (phenomena that fall outside current understanding), with the aim of finding a rational explanation. The term itself was coined in 1973 by Drew University anthropologist Roger W. Wescott, who defined it as being the "serious and systematic study of all... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7057050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueang%20Prachuap%20Khiri%20Khan%20district | Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan district | Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan (, ) is the capital district (amphoe mueang) of Prachuap Khiri Khan province, central Thailand.
History
During the Ayutthaya period (1351-1767), the district was the site of Na Rang town. In the early-Rattanakosin era, King Rama II established Mueang Bang Nang Rom at the mouth of the Nang R... | 2.09375 | 0 |
7057120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonite%20settlements%20of%20Altai | Mennonite settlements of Altai | Mennonite settlements of Altai arose after the 19 September 1906 act of the Duma and State Council of Imperial Russia, which provided for a resettlement bureau to distribute free land in Altai Krai. During 1907–1908 an area of over 6,660,000 ha (26,000 mi2) of the Kulunda Steppe was set aside for settlers.
Incentives
... | 2.578125 | 0 |
7057120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonite%20settlements%20of%20Altai | Mennonite settlements of Altai | Villages
The resettlement of Mennonites was intensive from 1907 to 1909 and continued until the outbreak of World War I. Mennonites founded 31 villages in 19 settlements:
The Orlovo district was formed on 1 January 1910 from these villages together with nine villages founded by German Roman Catholic settlers. In the f... | 2.90625 | 0 |
7057120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonite%20settlements%20of%20Altai | Mennonite settlements of Altai | Although the settlers were hardworking, it was extraordinarily difficult for them to build up a good and profitable farm. At that time, city dwellers formed no more than 10 percent of that region's total population. In Siberia in 1909 the average grain yield was 820 kg/ha (12 bushels/acre), totaling around 4.9 million ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
7057134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAI%20%28file%20format%29 | BAI (file format) | BAI, or the BAI file format, is a file format for performing electronic cash management balance reporting. The BAI format was developed and previously maintained by the Bank Administration Institute (BAI). One common application of the BAI format is for use by banks to transmit returned item data to customers (for exam... | 1.914063 | 0 |
7057153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suan%20Phueng%20district | Suan Phueng district | Suan Phueng (, ) is a district (amphoe) in the western part of Ratchaburi province, western Thailand.
History
Suan Phueng was the rural area of Chom Bueng district. It became a minor district (king amphoe) on 15 November 1974, consisting of the three tambons: Suan Phueng, Pa Waim, and Ban Bueng. It was upgraded to a f... | 2.359375 | 0 |
7057218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoloma%20sinuatum | Entoloma sinuatum | Entoloma sinuatum (commonly known as the livid entoloma, livid agaric, livid pinkgill, leaden entoloma, and lead poisoner) is a poisonous mushroom found across Europe and North America. Some guidebooks refer to it by its older scientific names of Entoloma lividum or Rhodophyllus sinuatus. The largest mushroom of the ge... | 2.625 | 0 |
7057218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoloma%20sinuatum | Entoloma sinuatum | For many years Quélet's name and description were treated as valid because Bulliard's name antedated Persoon's. However, in 1950, a change in the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (termed the Stockholm Code, after the city where the International Botanical Congress was being held) caused only names on fungi ... | 2 | 0 |
7057218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoloma%20sinuatum | Entoloma sinuatum | The specific epithet sinuatum is the Latin for "wavy", referring to the shape of the cap, while the generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek words entos/ἐντός "inner" and lóma/λῶμα "fringe" or "hem" from the inrolled margin. The specific epithet lividum was derived from the Latin word līvǐdus "lead-coloured". The... | 2.328125 | 0 |
7057218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoloma%20sinuatum | Entoloma sinuatum | The largest member of its genus, Entoloma sinuatum has an imposing epigeous (aboveground) fruiting body (basidiocarp), bearing a cap 6–20 cm (–6 in) wide, though diameters of have been recorded. It is convex to flat, often with a blunt umbo in its centre and wavy margins, ivory white to light grey-brown in color, and ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
7057218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoloma%20sinuatum | Entoloma sinuatum | Confusion with the highly regarded miller or sweetbread mushroom (Clitopilus prunulus) is a common cause of poisoning in France; the latter fungus has a greyish -white downy cap and whitish decurrent gills which turn pink with maturity. Young fruit bodies of Entoloma sinuatum can also be confused with St George's mushr... | 2.375 | 0 |
7057218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoloma%20sinuatum | Entoloma sinuatum | The fruit bodies of E. sinuatum grow solitarily or in groups, and have been found forming fairy rings. Fruit bodies appear mainly in autumn, and also in summer in North America, while in Europe the season is reported as late summer and autumn. They are found in deciduous woodlands under oak, beech, and less commonly bi... | 2.71875 | 0 |
7057258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical%20indicator | Technical indicator | In technical analysis in finance, a technical indicator is a mathematical calculation based on historic price, volume, or (in the case of futures contracts) open interest information that aims to forecast financial market direction. Technical indicators are a fundamental part of technical analysis and are typically pl... | 2.5 | 0 |
7057307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Louisville%2C%20Kentucky | Economy of Louisville, Kentucky | Since it earliest days, the economy of Louisville, Kentucky, has been underpinned by the shipping and cargo industries. Today, Louisville is home to dozens of companies and organizations across several industrial classifications.
Shipping and logistics
The city's location at the Falls of the Ohio, and its unique posit... | 2.203125 | 0 |
7057312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%20State%20Highway%2034 | Oklahoma State Highway 34 | SH-34 joins US-64 in far eastern Harper County for a four-mile (6 km) concurrency to the east, crossing the Cimarron River east of Buffalo. The highway then turns back to the north, where it is to its terminus at the Kansas state line.
History
State Highway 34 was first designated on June 15, 1931. At that time, the... | 2.1875 | 0 |
7057356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20Iglauer | Edith Iglauer | Edith Iglauer Daly (formerly Hamburger; March 10, 1917 – February 13, 2019) was an American writer who wrote several nonfiction books, including The New People: The Eskimo's Journey Into Our Time (1966); Denison's Ice Road (1974), a profile of the ice road engineer John Denison; and Seven Stones (1981), a profile of th... | 2.046875 | 0 |
7057402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%20There%20Be%20Light%20%28Heinlein%20short%20story%29 | Let There Be Light (Heinlein short story) | "Let There Be Light" is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally published in Super Science Stories magazine in May 1940 under the pseudonym Lyle Monroe. It is the second story in his Future History and was included in the first collection, The Man Who Sold the Moon, but was omitt... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7057443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological%20Institute%20of%20the%20Philippines | Technological Institute of the Philippines | Technological Institute of the Philippines (T.I.P.; ) is one of the country’s premier engineering institutions which also offers programs in computing, architecture, business, education, and the arts. T.I.P. also offers senior high school and graduate studies in selected engineering and computing disciplines.
It is lo... | 2.15625 | 0 |
7057443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological%20Institute%20of%20the%20Philippines | Technological Institute of the Philippines | Seoul Accord Accreditation
The Seoul Accord is a multilateral agreement among agencies allowing professional mobility between the Philippines and the pact’s signatory countries.
In 2015, T.I.P.'s Computer Science (BSCS), Information Systems (BSIS), and Information Technology (BSIT) programs were acknowledged under th... | 2.171875 | 0 |
7057503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirmira | Kirmira | Kirmira (, ) is a Rakshasa featured in the Mahabharata. He is the younger brother of the Bakāsura and a friend of Hiḍimbā. He lived in the Kāmyaka Forest and hunted men at night for his food. He opposed the Pandavas entering the forest and threatened to eat Bhima, by whom he was slain in combat.
Encounter with the Pan... | 2.125 | 0 |
7057509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firaq%20Gorakhpuri | Firaq Gorakhpuri | Raghupati Sahay (28 August 1896 – 3 March 1982), also known by his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri, was an Indian writer, critic, and, according to one commentator, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India. He established himself among peers including Muhammad Iqbal, Yagana Changezi, Jigar Moradabadi and Jos... | 2.328125 | 0 |
7057518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20L.%20Ellwood | Isaac L. Ellwood | Isaac Leonard Ellwood (August 3, 1833 – September 11, 1910) was an American rancher, businessman and barbed wire entrepreneur.
Early life
Ellwood was born in Salt Springville, New York. His first taste of business came as a young boy when he began selling sauerkraut. In 1851, Ellwood, like many others, headed west to ... | 1.960938 | 0 |
7057518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20L.%20Ellwood | Isaac L. Ellwood | Ellwood continued in the manufacture of barbed wire as Ellwood Manufacturing Company. In the beginning they produced two-strand, twisted barbed wire in the back of Ellwood's hardware store. The business was quickly successful. Ellwood's hiring of John Warne Gates as a salesman propelled sales of barbed wire in Texas.
... | 2.46875 | 0 |
7057521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowra%20Bridge | Nowra Bridge | The Nowra Bridge is a road bridge that carries the Princes Highway over the Shoalhaven River, at Nowra, New South Wales, Australia. The bridge joins the main area of Nowra to North Nowra and Bomaderry.
Description
Despite popular mythology, the bridge was not originally intended to carry a double railway track, as par... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7057536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Nogales | Eva Nogales | Eva Nogales (born in Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish-American biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as head of the Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology of the Department of Molecular and Ce... | 2.1875 | 0 |
7057598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen%20Table%20International | Kitchen Table International | According to Busch, the operation was founded by one "Scott Nolan Hollerith" (after Adventure programmer Scott Adams, Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, and computer pioneer Herman Hollerith). S.N. Hollerith, it was said, graduated from the University of California at Phoenix in 1970 with a degree in Slide Rule Design, ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
7057609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Slesinger | Stephen Slesinger | Slesinger purchased the rights to the Ozark Ike comic strip from creator Rufus A. ("Ray") Gotto. In 1936, it became his first comic strip in syndication. Other personalities and characters curated by Slesinger with innovative media and merchandise campaigns include Tom Mix, Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted, Alley ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
7057609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Slesinger | Stephen Slesinger | He also formed Telecomics Presents, which displayed scripted comic strip segments as static images instead of animation. There were approximately 130 episodes produced, each lasting about three minutes. Each episode began with the opening of a comic book, the first page showing a silhouette of the lead character (Space... | 2.0625 | 0 |
7057704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Rioli | Maurice Rioli | Maurice Joseph Rioli Sr. (1 September 195725 December 2010) was an Australian rules footballer who represented St Mary's Football Club in the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL), in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and in the Victorian Football League.
Acknowledged as one of the greatest players of h... | 2.34375 | 0 |
7057704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Rioli | Maurice Rioli | Although he played football for almost a decade in Perth and only six years in Melbourne, Rioli is still recognised as one of the best-known Northern Territorians. He was a trailblazer for indigenous Australian football players at the elite level of the game and was an acknowledged elder statesman among Aboriginal play... | 2.03125 | 0 |
7057811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcontact%20printing | Microcontact printing | The PDMS stamp, in most applications, is a 10:1 ratio of silicone elastomer and a silicone elastomer curing agent. This mixture consists of a short hydrosilane crosslinker that contains a catalyst made from a platinum complex. After pouring, the PDMS is cured at elevated temperatures to create a solid polymer with elas... | 2.25 | 0 |
7057811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcontact%20printing | Microcontact printing | Advantages
Microcontact Printing has several advantages including:
The simplicity and ease of creating patterns with micro-scale features
Can be done in a traditional laboratory without the constant use of a cleanroom (cleanroom is needed only to create the master).
Multiple stamps can be created from a single master
I... | 2.53125 | 0 |
7057811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcontact%20printing | Microcontact printing | Swelling of the stamp may also occur. Most organic solvents induce swelling of the PDMS stamp. Ethanol in particular has a very small swelling effect, but many other solvents cannot be used for wet inking because of high swelling. Because of this the process is limited to apolar inks that are soluble in ethanol.
Ink m... | 2.328125 | 0 |
7057811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcontact%20printing | Microcontact printing | Patterning proteins
The patterning of proteins has helped the advancement of biosensors., cell biology research, and tissue engineering. Various proteins have been proven to be suitable inks and are applied to various substrates using the microcontact printing technique. Polylysine, immunoglobulin antibody, and differe... | 2.46875 | 0 |
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