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7057936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australiana | Australiana | Australiana is anything pertaining to Australian culture, society, geography and ecology, especially if it is endemic to Australia or has reached iconic status. It includes people, places, flora, fauna and events of Australian origins. Australiana objects can be highly collectable and comprise anything made in Australi... | 2.78125 | 0 |
7057945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20deviance | Positive deviance | Positive deviance (PD) is an approach to behavioral and social change. It is based on the idea that, within a community, some individuals engage in unusual behaviors allowing them to solve problems better than others who face similar challenges, despite not having additional resources or knowledge. These individuals ar... | 3.015625 | 0 |
7057945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20deviance | Positive deviance | Original application
The PD approach was first operationalized and applied in programming in the field by Jerry and Monique Sternin through their work with Save the Children in Vietnam in the 1990s (Tuhus-Dubrow, Sternin, Sternin and Pascale).
At the start of the pilot, 64% of children weighed in the pilot villages we... | 2.796875 | 0 |
7057945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20deviance | Positive deviance | This approach to programming was different in important ways.
It is always appropriate, as it operates within the assets of a community, and it, therefore, caters to its specific cultural context, e.g., village, business, schools, ministry, department, or hospital. Additionally, by seeing that certain members of their ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
7057945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20deviance | Positive deviance | Discovering uncommon practices or behaviors
The Positive Deviance Inquiry aims to discover uncommon practices or behaviors. The community, having identified positive deviants, sets out to find the behaviors, attitudes, or beliefs that allow the PD to be successful. The focus is on the successful strategies of the PD, n... | 2.78125 | 0 |
7057948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMahons%20Point%20ferry%20wharf | McMahons Point ferry wharf | McMahons Point ferry wharf is located on the northern side of Sydney Harbour serving the Sydney suburb of McMahons Point. It is served by Sydney Ferries Parramatta River and Pyrmont Bay services operated by First Fleet and RiverCat class ferries.
History
There has been a wharf at McMahons Point since at least 1839, w... | 2.03125 | 0 |
7057997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyozna | Lyozna | Lyozna (; ; ; ; ) is an urban-type settlement in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Lyozna District. It is located east-southeast of Vitebsk, close to the border with Russia by the Vitebsk–Smolensk railroad branch and highway, on the Moshna River. As of 2024, it has a population of 6,60... | 2.078125 | 0 |
7058000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi%2C%20Girl%20of%20the%20Alps | Heidi, Girl of the Alps | is an animated television series produced by Zuiyo Eizo and the series itself based on the novel Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri (1880). It was directed by Isao Takahata and features contributions by numerous other anime filmmakers, including Yoichi Kotabe (character design, animation director)... | 1.984375 | 0 |
7058011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets%20and%20highways%20of%20Arlington%20County%2C%20Virginia | Streets and highways of Arlington County, Virginia | The configuration of Interstate 66 through Arlington (first proposed in 1956) has long been controversial. The Arlington Coalition on Transportation (ACT) filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in 1971 opposing the portion of the project through Arlington. The group objected to that urban segment due to concerns ove... | 1.984375 | 0 |
7058011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets%20and%20highways%20of%20Arlington%20County%2C%20Virginia | Streets and highways of Arlington County, Virginia | Until it closed in 1968, the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad's freight trains regularly backed up rush hour traffic and collided with automobiles and trucks as they crossed the highway at grade on tracks guarded by flashing signal lights and ringing bells, but no crossing gates. At the time, this was the only at-... | 2.25 | 0 |
7058021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Return%20of%20Tarzan | The Return of Tarzan | The Return of Tarzan is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the second in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The story was first published in the pulp magazine New Story Magazine in the issues for June through December 1913; the first book edition was published in 1915 by A. ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
7058047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Lorentz%20transformations | History of Lorentz transformations | The history of Lorentz transformations comprises the development of linear transformations forming the Lorentz group or Poincaré group preserving the Lorentz interval and the Minkowski inner product .
In mathematics, transformations equivalent to what was later known as Lorentz transformations in various dimensions w... | 2.84375 | 0 |
7058047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Lorentz%20transformations | History of Lorentz transformations | It forms an indefinite orthogonal group called the Lorentz group O(1,n), while the case det g=+1 forms the restricted Lorentz group SO(1,n). The quadratic form becomes the Lorentz interval in terms of an indefinite quadratic form of Minkowski space (being a special case of pseudo-Euclidean space), and the associated bi... | 2.625 | 0 |
7058047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Lorentz%20transformations | History of Lorentz transformations | where x* is the Galilean transformation x-vt. Except the additional γ in the time transformation, this is the complete Lorentz transformation. While t is the "true" time for observers resting in the aether, t′ is an auxiliary variable only for calculating processes for moving systems. It is also important that Lorentz ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
7058047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Lorentz%20transformations | History of Lorentz transformations | Larmor noted that if it is assumed that the constitution of molecules is electrical then the FitzGerald–Lorentz contraction is a consequence of this transformation, explaining the Michelson–Morley experiment. It's notable that Larmor was the first who recognized that some sort of time dilation is a consequence of this ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
7058047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Lorentz%20transformations | History of Lorentz transformations | Neither Lorentz or Larmor gave a clear physical interpretation of the origin of local time. However, Henri Poincaré in 1900 commented on the origin of Lorentz's "wonderful invention" of local time. He remarked that it arose when clocks in a moving reference frame are synchronised by exchanging signals which are assumed... | 2.6875 | 0 |
7058047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Lorentz%20transformations | History of Lorentz transformations | Apparently Poincaré was unaware of Larmor's contributions, because he only mentioned Lorentz and therefore used for the first time the name "Lorentz transformation". Poincaré set the speed of light to unity, pointed out the group characteristics of the transformation by setting l=1, and modified/corrected Lorentz's der... | 2.4375 | 0 |
7058047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Lorentz%20transformations | History of Lorentz transformations | On June 30, 1905 (published September 1905) Einstein published what is now called special relativity and gave a new derivation of the transformation, which was based only on the principle of relativity and the principle of the constancy of the speed of light. While Lorentz considered "local time" to be a mathematical s... | 2.90625 | 0 |
7058060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camber%20of%20Culdi%20%28novel%29 | Camber of Culdi (novel) | Camber of Culdi is fantasy novel by American-born author Katherine Kurtz. It was first published by Ballantine Books on June 12, 1976. It was the fourth novel in Kurtz' Deryni novels to be published, and the first book in her second Deryni trilogy, The Legends of Camber of Culdi. The Legends trilogy serves as preque... | 2.140625 | 0 |
7058125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Aircraft%20Corporation | United Aircraft Corporation | The PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) () is a Russian aerospace and defense corporation. With a majority stake belonging to the Russian government, it consolidates Russian private and state-owned aircraft manufacturing companies and assets engaged in the manufacture, design, and sale of military, civilian, transpo... | 2.015625 | 0 |
7058125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Aircraft%20Corporation | United Aircraft Corporation | In May 2008, the UAC presented its third aircraft and the first airliner designed and exported under the UAC brand, the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ 100). The SSJ 100 is the fourth civilian aircraft and the first airliner to be made by Sukhoi. Previously, Sukhoi and Boeing made a cooperation agreement and which Boeing cons... | 2.15625 | 0 |
7058125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Aircraft%20Corporation | United Aircraft Corporation | On 29 January 2010, Sukhoi and the UAC revealed Russia's first fifth generation jet fighter, the Sukhoi PAK FA (T-50). The PAK FA is a stealth, single-seat, twin-engine, multirole jet fighter designed for air supremacy and attack roles. The PAK FA would also be Russia's first aircraft to use stealth technology. The PAK... | 2 | 0 |
7058125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Aircraft%20Corporation | United Aircraft Corporation | The United Aircraft Corporation started out producing the Tupolev Tu-154, the Tupolev Tu-204, the Ilyushin Il-86, the Ilyushin Il-96, and the Ilyushin Il-114; all created before the corporation's creation. The Tupolev Tu-154 is a medium-range, narrow-body, three-engine jet airliner developed and introduced in Soviet ti... | 2.421875 | 0 |
7058125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Aircraft%20Corporation | United Aircraft Corporation | The Sukhoi Superjet 100 is the first airliner and regional jet airliner that is developed and exported under the UAC brand, by which it was developed by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, a branch of the UAC. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 was designed to compete with the Antonov An-148, Embraer E-Jet, and the Bombardier CSeries, and to ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
7058125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Aircraft%20Corporation | United Aircraft Corporation | Cargo
The United Aircraft Corporation started out producing the Ilyushin Il-96-400T and the Tupolev Tu-204C, both cargo variants of their airliner counterparts, and the Sukhoi Su-80, a twin-turboprop, twin-boom STOL aircraft. The Il-96-400T is a freight version of the Il-96-400, which features Russian avionics and engi... | 2.28125 | 0 |
7058125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Aircraft%20Corporation | United Aircraft Corporation | The Ilyushin Il-112 is a high-wing, light, military transport aircraft based on the Ilyushin Il-114 currently being developed by Ilyushin Aviation Complex for air landing and airdrop. Development of the aircraft started before 2011, the year of which the maiden flight of the Ilyushin Il-112 is supposed to occur. The pr... | 2.109375 | 0 |
7058125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Aircraft%20Corporation | United Aircraft Corporation | The Mikoyan MiG-35 is the first aircraft and the first military aircraft designed and exported under the UAC brand, as Mikoyan, the company that designed it, is a branch of the corporation. The MiG-35 was a contender for its fourth-generation counterparts in the Indian MRCA competition but was taken out of the competit... | 1.96875 | 0 |
7058144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Medicine%20and%20Pharmacy%20of%20Craiova | University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova | The University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova (, or UMF Craiova) is a tertiary educational institution in the city of Craiova, in south-western Romania.
History
On 10 February 1970, the Craiova Faculty of Medicine was founded as part of the University of Craiova. In 1990, the Dentistry specialization was founded... | 1.960938 | 0 |
7058144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Medicine%20and%20Pharmacy%20of%20Craiova | University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova | The modern academic framework that the Faculty of Medicine is based on, is following the consistently demanding, mission-based medical training as well as the support for a scientific research.
Faculty of Pharmacy
The specialization of Pharmacy, was founded in 1996 as a part of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universi... | 2.171875 | 0 |
7058161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmain%20East%20ferry%20wharf | Balmain East ferry wharf | Balmain East ferry wharf (also known as Darling Street ferry wharf) is located on Sydney Harbour serving the Sydney suburb of Balmain East.
History
The Balmain East ferry wharf has been operating since the 1840s as Balmain's main wharf. Originally, watermen offered the first services on demand in small rowing skiffs o... | 2.40625 | 0 |
7058165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Haish | Jacob Haish | Jacob Haish (March 9, 1826 – February 19, 1926) was one of the first inventors of barbed wire. His type of barbed wire was in direct competition with the other barbed wire manufacturers in DeKalb, Illinois. He was a known carpenter and architect in DeKalb County and designed several prominent DeKalb homes.
Early life
... | 2.578125 | 0 |
7058221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel%20Schoeman | Karel Schoeman | Schoeman is known not only as a novelist, but is equally renowned as an historian and biographer. He has also published translations (especially of drama), several travel books and an autobiography. He won the most prestigious Afrikaans literary award, the Hertzog Prize, three times: in 1971 (for By Fakkellig, ’n Lug v... | 2 | 0 |
7058257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompter%20%28opera%29 | Prompter (opera) | The prompter (French/German: souffleur; Italian: rammentatore, suggeritore) in an opera house gives the singers the opening words of each phrase a few seconds early. Prompts are mouthed silently or hurled lyrically in a half-voice, audible (hopefully) only on stage. (This is in contrast to the prompter in a theatre who... | 2.875 | 0 |
7058262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23rd%20G8%20summit | 23rd G8 summit | Issues
The summit was intended as a venue for resolving differences among its members. As a practical matter, the summit was also conceived as an opportunity for its members to give each other mutual encouragement in the face of difficult economic decisions.
Accomplishments
A tangible legacy of this summit is the Denv... | 2.0625 | 0 |
7058286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchanters%20Three | Enchanters Three | The Enchanters Three are fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Enchanters Three first appear in Thor #143-144 (Aug.-Sept. 1967), and were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Publication history
The group first appeared in Thor #143-145 (Aug.-Oct.1967), and did not appea... | 2.125 | 0 |
7058342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitzia%20hiscockiana | Schmitzia hiscockiana | Schmitzia hiscockiana is a small, rare, red seaweed or marine alga of the phylum Rhodophyta or red algae. It was discovered and named in 1985.
Distribution
This small red marine alga is known from most coasts of Ireland, Wales, England, and Scandinavia.
Habitat
This species is known only from the sublittoral zone to ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
7058351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Longbourne%20Callendar | Hugh Longbourne Callendar | Callendar began studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1882, obtaining first class honors degree in Classics in 1884 and graduated as the 16th wrangler with first class honors in mathematics in 1885. In 1885 he began studying experimental physics at the Cavendish Laboratory under physicist J.J Thomson, with no prac... | 2.375 | 0 |
7058351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Longbourne%20Callendar | Hugh Longbourne Callendar | At Cavendish Laboratory, Thomson advised Callendar to study metallic resistance thermometry. Werner von Siemens was the first to propose the use of a platinum resistance temperature detector in 1860, although his instrument readings were unstable. Callendar developed an equation for the resistance of metal as a functio... | 2.5 | 0 |
7058351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Longbourne%20Callendar | Hugh Longbourne Callendar | Thermodynamics
Callendar left Cambridge and spent two years working as a professor of physics at Royal Holloway College from 1891-1893. In 1893 he commenced at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and was assigned to the second Macdonald Chair in Physics. Leslie, Cecil and Guy were born during this time at McGill. Wh... | 2.390625 | 0 |
7058351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Longbourne%20Callendar | Hugh Longbourne Callendar | Work on calorimetry
In 1902, Callendar and Barnes developed the continuous-flow calorimeter, used for measurement of the heat capacity properties of liquids. They used their apparatus to research the comparison of electrical and thermal units, calculating a value for one calorie that compares very closely to the curr... | 2.453125 | 0 |
7058356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth-century%20theatre | Twentieth-century theatre | Twentieth-century theatre describes a period of great change within the theatrical culture of the 20th century, mainly in Europe and North America. There was a widespread challenge to long-established rules surrounding theatrical representation; resulting in the development of many new forms of theatre, including moder... | 3.09375 | 0 |
7058356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth-century%20theatre | Twentieth-century theatre | On 29 December 1898, the theatre opened Anton Chekhov's The Seagull with Stanislavski himself playing the role of Trigorin and Vsevolod Meyerhold as Treplev in "one of the greatest events in the history of Russian theatre and one of the greatest developments in the history of world drama." Nemirovich described the appl... | 2.765625 | 0 |
7058356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth-century%20theatre | Twentieth-century theatre | Through the early century, no American dramatist had as much influence on the development of drama as Eugene O'Neill. Born into the theatre from a young age, he spent much of his youth on trains and backstage at theatres, before developing his talent with the Provincetown Players in New York City. Between 1916 and 1920... | 2.78125 | 0 |
7058380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%20Steinmeyer | Ferdinand Steinmeyer | Ferdinand Steinmeyer (13 October 1720 – 17 August 1786), also known as Ferdinand Farmer, was a German Jesuit missionary who worked in North America.
Biography
He was born in Swabia, southern Germany and studied medicine for three years before entering the Society of Jesus at Landsberg in September 1743. He desired to ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
7058418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Insurance | Royal Insurance | On the death of Percy Dove in 1868, he was succeeded by John McLaren. He had joined Royal in 1856 as Assistant Secretary and was appointed general manager at the age of 41. He remained in office until his death in 1893. During his time fire premiums rose from £460,000 to over £2 million and life insurance premiums from... | 2.046875 | 0 |
7058424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sten%20Chronicles | The Sten Chronicles | The Sten Chronicles, also called The Sten Adventures, are a series of eight military science fiction and space opera novels by Chris Bunch and Allan Cole published from 1982 to 1993 (with several more novels published by Cole in 2010s). The series was originally published by Del Rey and then re-released by Orbit.
Plot... | 1.929688 | 0 |
7058437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood%2C%20Wise%20County%2C%20Texas | Greenwood, Wise County, Texas | Greenwood is an unincorporated community in Wise County, Texas, United States.
History
Pioneer settlers came to this area as early as the 1850s. Local tradition states that the Greenwood and Hart families were among the first settlers in the area, and that the community was named for the Greenwood family and the Cre... | 2.09375 | 0 |
7058441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz%20T80 | Mercedes-Benz T80 | The Mercedes-Benz T80 was a six-wheeled vehicle built by Mercedes-Benz, developed and designed by Ferdinand Porsche in the late 1930s. It was intended to break the world land speed record, but never made the attempt, due to the project having been overtaken by the outbreak of World War II.
Background
World-renowned G... | 2.3125 | 0 |
7058463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluff%20Dale%2C%20Texas | Bluff Dale, Texas | Bluff Dale is an unincorporated community and census designated place (CDP) in Erath County, Texas, United States.
The Bluff Dale Independent School District serves area students.
Bluff Dale, Texas is on U.S. Highway 377 and the North Paluxy River in northeastern Erath County. It was originally called Bluff Springs ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
7058481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckabay%2C%20Texas | Huckabay, Texas | Huckabay is a census designated place (CDP) in Erath County, Texas, United States, at the intersection of Texas State Highway 108 and Farm to Market Road 219, northwest of Stephenville. It had a population of approximately 150 in 2000.
History
The small town of Huckabay was founded in the late eighteen hundreds. Ge... | 2.0625 | 0 |
7058481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckabay%2C%20Texas | Huckabay, Texas | The first store was opened by G.W. Glenn in 1878. The main economic base for Huckabay has changed many times. Over time, the community grew to the point, it had general merchants, drug stores, grocery stores, blacksmith shops, and a well-equipped gin. These businesses were located along the main street of Huckabay. ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
7058487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingleville%2C%20Texas | Lingleville, Texas | Lingleville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Erath County, Texas, United States. Lingleville is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 8 and Farm to Market Road 219, west of Stephenville.
History
In 1884 R. P. Campbell opened a grocery store in his house in the hollow below what is now the townsite. ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
7058511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookesmith%2C%20Texas | Brookesmith, Texas | Brookesmith is an unincorporated community in Brown County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 61 in 2000. It is located within the Brownwood, Texas micropolitan area.
History
Brookesmith was named in honor of local banker Brooke Smith in 1902. A post office was... | 1.929688 | 0 |
7058539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triazol-5-ylidene | Triazol-5-ylidene | The triazol-5-ylidenes are a group of persistent carbenes which includes the 1,2,4-triazol-5-ylidene system and the 1,2,3-triazol-5-ylidene system. As opposed to the now ubiquitous NHC (N-heterocyclic carbene) systems based on imidazole rings, these carbenes are structured from triazole rings. 1,2,4-triazol-5-ylidene c... | 2.140625 | 0 |
7058572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF%2077 | MF 77 | The MF 77 (; ) is a steel-wheeled variant of the rolling stock used on the Paris Métro. First used in 1978, it now runs on Lines 7, 8, and 13.
Unlike previous models, the MF 77 was designed for travel into the immediate suburbs of Paris, and as a result has a maximum speed of which has yet to be fully utilized. In ad... | 2.046875 | 0 |
7058592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2u%20%C4%90%E1%BB%91c | Châu Đốc | Châu Đốc is a city in An Giang Province, bordering Cambodia, in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2019, the city had a population of 101,765, and cover an area of .
The city is located by the Hậu River (a branch of the Mekong River flowing through Vietnamese territory) and Vĩnh Tế Canal. Châu Đốc is situated ... | 2.375 | 0 |
7058640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eka%20Kurniawan | Eka Kurniawan | Eka Kurniawan (born November 28, 1975) is an Indonesian writer and screenwriter.
In 2016, Kurniawan became the first Indonesian writer to be nominated for the Man Booker International Prize.
Early life
Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya, West Java, and grew up in a small coastal town, Pangandaran. He studied philosop... | 2.078125 | 0 |
7058665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protap%20Chunder%20Mozoomdar | Protap Chunder Mozoomdar | Protap Chunder Mozoomdar ( Protap Chôndro Mojumdar, also transliterated as Pratap Chander Mozoomdar) (2 Oct 1840–21 May 1905) was a leader of the Hindu reform movement, the Brahmo Samaj, in Bengal, India, and a close follower of Keshub Chandra Sen. He was a leading exemplar of the interaction between the philosophies a... | 2.828125 | 0 |
7058670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefton%20Brancker | Sefton Brancker | Air Vice Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker, (22 March 1877 – 5 October 1930) was a British pioneer in civil and military aviation and senior officer of the Royal Flying Corps and later Royal Air Force. He was killed in an airship crash in 1930, exactly 20 years after his first flight.
Early life
Sefton Brancker wa... | 2.203125 | 0 |
7058694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boroondara%20General%20Cemetery | Boroondara General Cemetery | Boroondara General Cemetery, often referred to as Kew cemetery, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Victoria, Australia, created in the tradition of the Victorian garden cemetery. The cemetery, located in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, is listed as a heritage place on the Victorian Heritage Register.
History
The cemetery... | 2.21875 | 0 |
7058694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boroondara%20General%20Cemetery | Boroondara General Cemetery | In 2001 the Peace Haven Mausoleum was built by the Cemetery Trust to cater for growing demand for above-ground burials and interments, and in 2011 garden crypts were opened in a bushland setting near the High Street pedestrian gate. The cemetery is still an operating cemetery, offering a range of burial and interment ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
7058699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixcatec%20language | Ixcatec language | Ixcatec (in Ixcatec: xwja or xjuani) is a language spoken by the people of the Mexican village of Santa María Ixcatlan, in the northern part of the state of Oaxaca. The Ixcatec language belongs to the Popolocan branch of the Oto-Manguean language family. It is believed to have been the second language to branch off fro... | 2.953125 | 0 |
7058699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixcatec%20language | Ixcatec language | Characteristics
Like other Oto-Manguean languages, Ixcatec is a tonal language and it distinguishes between long and short vowels. Due to the low number of speakers, Ixcatec is considered a language with a high risk of disappearing.
Phonology
Consonants
The following table presents the consonants of Ixcatec. Plosiv... | 3.390625 | 0 |
7058699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixcatec%20language | Ixcatec language | There are four inflected forms for the first person, second person, third person, and collective subjects. Personal pronouns are optionally used to emphasize the person of the subject, or to avoid confusion between subjects. The pronouns that correspond to the four grammatical persons are i2na1na3 (first person), i2la3... | 3.375 | 0 |
7058699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixcatec%20language | Ixcatec language | Nouns that have an acute accent in Spanish comprise Subclass IVb. They have a high tone in the final syllable of the stem while the tone is sub-differentiated in the preceding syllable. The endings of this subclass coincide with Subclass Ia except for the ending of the first person.
Nouns that have an acute accent in ... | 2.9375 | 0 |
7058699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixcatec%20language | Ixcatec language | Quantitative adjectives precede the noun that they are modifying. This class pertains to all adjectives that express a quantitative concept, including numerals.
Qualifying adjectives follow the nouns they modify. An adverb, a demonstrative, or the particle la2 can be inserted between a noun and a qualifying noun:
A n... | 2.625 | 0 |
7058732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuhiko%20Shibusawa | Tatsuhiko Shibusawa | was the pen name of Shibusawa Tatsuo, a Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French literature active during the Shōwa period. Shibusawa wrote many short stories and novels based on French literature and Japanese classics. His essays about black magic, demonology, and eroticism are also popular in Japan.
E... | 2.15625 | 0 |
7058760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karesuando | Karesuando | Karesuando (; or ; Northern Sámi: ; Meänkieli: Karesuanto) is the northernmost locality in Sweden. It is situated in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden, with 303 inhabitants in 2010 and 350 in 2011.
It is a church village, located alongside the Muonio River on the border with Finland.
The Finnish village... | 2.03125 | 0 |
7058760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karesuando | Karesuando | Climate
Karesuando has a continental type of a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) with short and cool summers and long, cold and sometimes very cold winters. Snowfall varies from year to year, but is often quite moderate due to dry polar air. Still, accumulation in spring is usually quite high since the snow cover does not... | 2.703125 | 0 |
7058829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Joo-sung | Kim Joo-sung | Kim Joo-sung (born 17 January 1964) is a former South Korean football player. Kim is regarded as one of the greatest Asian footballers of the 20th century. He was nominated for the IFFHS Asia's Player of the Century, finishing second place.
Club career
Kim joined Daewoo Royals in 1987. In his first professional seaso... | 1.96875 | 0 |
7058872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskered%20screech%20owl | Whiskered screech owl | The whiskered screech owl (Megascops trichopsis) is a small screech owl found in North and Central America.
Description
Adults occur in 2 color morphs, in either brown or dark grey plumage. They have a round head with ear tufts, yellow eyes and a yellowish bill. The bird looks very similar to a western screech owl, bu... | 2.46875 | 0 |
7058875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlapanec%20language | Tlapanec language | Tlapanec , or Mephaa, is an indigenous Mexican language spoken by more than 98,000 Tlapanec people in the state of Guerrero. Like other Oto-Manguean languages, it is tonal and has complex inflectional morphology. The ethnic group themselves refer to their ethnic identity and language as Me̱pha̱a̱ .
Before much informa... | 3.078125 | 0 |
7058880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajahn%20Sundara | Ajahn Sundara | Ajahn Sundara (born 1946) is a French-born Buddhist sīladhārā in the tradition established by Ajahn Sumedho.
Life
She studied contemporary dance and worked as a dancer and dance teacher until her early thirties when she had the opportunity to meet Ajahn Sumedho in England and to attend one of his Dhamma talks and then... | 2.078125 | 0 |
7058926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapuni | Arapuni | Arapuni is a rural town centre on the Waikato river in the South Waikato District of New Zealand.
The town sits next to the Arapuni Dam, a hydroelectric dam at Lake Arapuni commissioned in 1929. The Arapuni Power Station consists of eight turbines which give a total output of 196 MW, the largest of the power stations... | 2.3125 | 0 |
7058928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckabay%20Independent%20School%20District | Huckabay Independent School District | The Huckabay Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Huckabay, Texas (United States). The district has one school, Huckabay School, that serves students in grades kindergarten through twelve.
The district is in northern Erath County.
In 2009, the school district was rated "ac... | 2.53125 | 0 |
7058928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckabay%20Independent%20School%20District | Huckabay Independent School District | In 1926 the frame building burned, and the community replaced it with a $26,000 brick building. There was a building for the primary grades, a workshop, and a new home economics building. The new brick school expanded its library in 1934 when Thurber High School dissolved. According to Geraldine Griswold, in 1937, 2... | 2.40625 | 0 |
7058935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingleville%20Independent%20School%20District | Lingleville Independent School District | Lingleville Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Lingleville, Texas (USA). Located in Erath County, small portions of the district extend into Eastland and Comanche counties.
Lingleville ISD has one school Lingleville School that serves students in grades pre-kindergarten ... | 2.5 | 0 |
7058999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity | Historicity | Historicity is the historical actuality of persons and events, meaning the quality of being part of history instead of being a historical myth, legend, or fiction. The historicity of a claim about the past is its factual status. Historicity denotes historical actuality, authenticity, factuality and focuses on the true ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
7058999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity | Historicity | Questions regarding historicity concern not just the issue of "what really happened", but also how modern observers can come to know "what really happened". This second issue is closely tied to historical research practices and methodologies for analyzing the reliability of primary sources and other evidence. Because v... | 2.546875 | 0 |
7059027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn%20Prechtel | Martín Prechtel | Martín Prechtel is an American author and educator.
From New Mexico, he traveled to Guatemala in 1970. There he moved into a Tz'utujil community near Lake Atitlán. He learned their Mayan language and studied with a shaman.
He settled into village life, married a Tz'utujil woman and had a family with her. During the ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
7059027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn%20Prechtel | Martín Prechtel | Long Life, Honey in the Heart (1999) is an account of his village life in Santiago Atitlán; Stealing Benefacio's Roses: A Mayan Epic (formerly titled The Toe Bone and The Tooth), an autobiographical account of how he relived an ancient Mayan myth; and The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, a Mayan myth that inclu... | 1.945313 | 0 |
7059038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%202991 | IBM 2991 | The IBM 2991 Blood Cell Processor was a blood cell washer developed by IBM Systems Development Division in Endicott, New York. It was first marketed by IBM Systems Supplies Division (SSD) in 1972. The processor washed fresh blood or frozen, thawed blood. In the case of frozen, thawed blood, the blood was washed to remo... | 2.578125 | 0 |
7059054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%20women%27s%20national%20cricket%20team | Pakistan women's national cricket team | In 2003, Pakistan travelled to the Netherlands to take part in the 2003 IWCC Trophy, the inaugural edition of what is now called simply the World Cup Qualifier. They finished fourth in the tournament, winning against Japan and Scotland. However, they missed out on qualification for the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup. T... | 2.421875 | 0 |
7059054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%20women%27s%20national%20cricket%20team | Pakistan women's national cricket team | They were winless in both the 2013 World Cup and the 2017 World Cup, finishing bottom of the group stage tables in both tournaments.
It wasn't until the 2022 edition that Pakistan was able to earn another victory at the ODI World Cup. This came against the West Indies at Seddon Park, Hamilton, where they beat them by ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
7059069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20William%20Gebaur%20Jr. | Arthur William Gebaur Jr. | Arthur William Gebaur Jr. (February 22, 1919–Missing in Action and presumed dead in Korean War on August 29, 1952) was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for action in the war. The Air Force renamed Grandview Air Force Base Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base partly in his honor.
Biography
Gebaur was bor... | 1.96875 | 0 |
7059070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix%20Esquirou%20de%20Parieu | Félix Esquirou de Parieu | Marie-Louis-Pierre Félix Esquirou de Parieu (13 April 1815– 8 April 1893) was a French statesman.
Life
Born in Aurillac, Cantal, Esquirou de Parieu was notably Minister of Education and Public Worship from 1849 to 1851, and headed the French Council of State in 1870.
Monetary Union and early European visionary
Parie... | 2.6875 | 0 |
7059084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico%20Independent%20School%20District | Chico Independent School District | Chico Independent School District is a public school district based in Chico, Texas (USA). The mascot of this school district is The Mighty Dragons.
In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.
History
The district changed to a four day school week in fall 2022.
Sch... | 2.703125 | 0 |
7059120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntly%20Power%20Station | Huntly Power Station | The Huntly Power Station is the largest thermal power station in New Zealand and is located in the town of Huntly in the Waikato. It is operated by Genesis Energy Limited, a publicly listed company (currently 51% owned by the NZ Government). The station has five operational generating units – three 250 MW coal-and-gas-... | 2.3125 | 0 |
7059120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntly%20Power%20Station | Huntly Power Station | In February 2021, a third 250 MW unit was brought back online to assist with drought and gas shortages and made available until September 2021. Most of the coal it is burning is imported from Indonesia, with much of it coming to Huntly by truck from Ports of Auckland, while some comes by rail from the Port of Tauranga.... | 2.375 | 0 |
7059120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntly%20Power%20Station | Huntly Power Station | Huntly is connected to the rest of the national grid via a large substation switchyard and six 220 kV transmission circuits carried on three high capacity transmission lines. These transmission lines are:
a double circuit line (HLY-TMN-A) to Stratford in Taranaki, via Te Kowhai and Taumarunui
a double circuit line... | 1.984375 | 0 |
7059134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20John%20Forbes | Charles John Forbes | Charles John Forbes (10 February 1786 – 22 September 1862) was an official in the Commissariat Department of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. He later was posted to Lower Canada, where he was responsible for supplying the British Army units there, as well as obtaining the supplies necessary for the constru... | 1.9375 | 0 |
7059134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20John%20Forbes | Charles John Forbes | For the next seven years, Forbes and his family lived at Corfu, in Italy, and in France. In 1824, Forbes returned to active service with the Commissariat and was posted to Nova Scotia. The next year, he was transferred to Montreal in Lower Canada, where he was responsible for providing all supplies needed by the Brit... | 2.84375 | 0 |
7059134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20John%20Forbes | Charles John Forbes | Following the rebellion in Lower Canada, and the similar rebellion in 1837 in Upper Canada (now Ontario), the British government decided to merge the two provinces into a single province, as recommended by Lord Durham in the Durham Report. The Union Act, 1840, passed by the British Parliament, abolished the two provin... | 2.921875 | 0 |
7059140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%202997 | IBM 2997 | The earliest roots of IBM's development of the IBM 2997 Blood cell Separator lay in the personal tragedy of one of IBM's development engineers, George Judson. In 1962, Judson's son, Tom, was diagnosed with leukemia. His physician was able to have Tom admitted to the Clinical Center of the National Cancer Institute (NCI... | 2.640625 | 0 |
7059168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20W.%20Miller | Thomas W. Miller | Thomas Woodnutt Miller (June 26, 1886 – May 5, 1973) was an American politician serving as a Republican U.S. Representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the American Legion, who served as a National Legislative Committee chairman.
Early life and educat... | 2.34375 | 0 |
7059168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20W.%20Miller | Thomas W. Miller | World War I
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917 (see American entry into World War I), Miller enlisted as a private in the infantry of the United States Army, and served in France with the Seventy-Ninth Division. He was cited by General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forc... | 2.6875 | 0 |
7059209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity%20%28philosophy%29 | Historicity (philosophy) | Historicity in philosophy is the idea or fact that something has a historical origin and developed through history: concepts, practices, values. This is opposed to the belief that the same thing, in particular normative institutions or correlated ideologies, is natural or essential and thus exists universally.
Histori... | 2.515625 | 0 |
7059265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliepkovce | Sliepkovce | Sliepkovce (, ) is a village and municipality in Michalovce District in the Kosice Region of eastern Slovakia.
History
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1345.
The original village lay several kilometres to the south of its current location, closer to the neighbouring village of Budkovce. Due to... | 2.171875 | 0 |
7059290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlovce%20nad%20Uhom | Pavlovce nad Uhom | Pavlovce nad Uhom (Romani: Pavlovcis, ) is a village and municipality in the district of Michalovce in the Košice Region of Eastern Slovakia. Pavlovce sits on the south bank of the Uzh River () and is located about west of the border with Ukraine. The main village has existed since at least the Late Middle Ages, menti... | 2.171875 | 0 |
7059290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlovce%20nad%20Uhom | Pavlovce nad Uhom | Geology and geomorphology
Geomorphologically, Pavlovce nad Uhom belongs to the East Slovak Plain and its subgroups of Kapušany Flatlands and Senné Wet Ground. The countryside of plains and flood plains consists of Holocene clay, loamy sand sediments, and the remains of old river beds.
Its geological structure consists... | 2.796875 | 0 |
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