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6900304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baussenque%20Wars | Baussenque Wars | In 1125, Raymond's heir, Alfonso Jordan, signed a treaty that recognized his family's traditional claim to the title of "Margrave of Provence" and defined the march of Provence as the region north of the lower Durance and on the right of the Rhône, including the castles of Beaucaire, Vallabrègues, and Argence. The regi... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6900304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baussenque%20Wars | Baussenque Wars | At the opening of the conflict, Raymond of Baux made an appeal to Conrad III, who was technically the King of Burgundy, though this title meant more in theory than in practice, Provence being legally a fief of the Burgundian kingdom. Raymond begged for his sovereign's recognition of the rights of Stephanie as heir to t... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6900308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20of%20Provence | County of Provence | The County of Provence was a largely autonomous medieval state that eventually became incorporated into the Kingdom of France in 1481. For four centuries Provence was ruled by a series of counts that were vassals of the Carolingian Empire, Burgundy and finally the Holy Roman Empire, but in practice they were largely in... | 2.71875 | 0 |
6900308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20of%20Provence | County of Provence | The claim of the other line, sometimes using the title of Margraves of Provence, passed by marriage to William III, Count of Toulouse. This led to a long-standing Toulouse claim to the county, finally resolved by partition in 1125. Provence north and west of the Durance went to the Count of Toulouse, while the lands be... | 2.4375 | 0 |
6900308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20of%20Provence | County of Provence | France, Toulouse and Catalonia battle for Provence
In the early 13th century the Albigensian crusade in neighboring Languedoc upset the existing order in Provence. Pope Innocent III sent missionaries and then soldiers to suppress the Cathar religious movement in Languedoc. The Pope accused Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse... | 2.875 | 0 |
6900308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20of%20Provence | County of Provence | The ambitions of Ramon Berenguer were energetically resisted by the new Count of Toulouse, Raymond VII, who had lost most of his own territory to France. Raymond VII became an ally of Marseille and Avignon in their fight against Ramon Berenguer. In 1232 his army devastated the territories of Ramon Berenguer around Tara... | 2.4375 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | Building insulation is material used in a building (specifically the building envelope) to reduce the flow of thermal energy. While the majority of insulation in buildings is for thermal purposes, the term also applies to acoustic insulation, fire insulation, and impact insulation (e.g. for vibrations caused by industr... | 3.25 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | The definition of thermal insulation
Thermal insulation usually refers to the use of appropriate insulation materials and design adaptations for buildings to slow the transfer of heat through the enclosure to reduce heat loss and gain. The transfer of heat is caused by the temperature difference between indoors and ou... | 3.234375 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | History of thermal insulation
The history of thermal insulation is not so long compared with other materials, but human beings have been aware of the importance of insulation for a long time. In the prehistoric time, human beings began their activity of making shelters against wild animals and heavy weather, human bei... | 2.71875 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | Significance of thermal insulation
Thermal insulation can play a significant role in buildings, great demands of thermal comfort result in a large amount of energy consumed for full-heating for all rooms. Around 40% of energy consumption can be attributed to the building, mainly consumed by heating or cooling. Suffici... | 2.796875 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | In cold conditions, the main aim is to reduce heat flow out of the building. The components of the building envelope—windows, doors, roofs, floors/foundations, walls, and air infiltration barriers—are all important sources of heat loss; in an otherwise well insulated home, windows will then become an important source ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | VIPs are noted for their ultra-high thermal resistance, their ability of thermal resistance is four to eight times more than conventional foam insulation materials which lead to a thinner thickness of thermal insulation to the building shell compared with traditional materials. The VIPs are usually composed of core pan... | 2.3125 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | Aerogels for glazing
The DOE estimates thermal losses nearing 30% through windows, and thermal gains from sunlight leading to unwanted heating. Due to the high R associated with aerogels, their use for glazing applications has become an area of interest explored by many research institutions. Their implementation, how... | 2.421875 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | Strategies in hot climate
In hot conditions, the greatest source of heat energy is solar radiation. This can enter buildings directly through windows or it can heat the building shell to a higher temperature than the ambient, increasing the heat transfer through the building envelope. The Solar Heat Gain Co-efficient ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | Technologies in hot climate
In hot dry climate regions like Egypt and Africa, thermal comfort in the summer is the main question, nearly half of energy consumption in urban area is depleted by air conditioning systems to satisfy peoples' demand for thermal comfort, many developing countries in hot dry climate region s... | 2.765625 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | Construction
See insulated glass and quadruple glazing for discussion of windows.
Building envelope
The thermal envelope defines the conditioned or living space in a house. The attic or basement may or may not be included in this area. Reducing airflow from inside to outside can help to reduce convective heat transf... | 2.984375 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | Thermal bridges can also be created by uncoordinated construction, for example by closing off parts of external walls before they are fully insulated.
The existence of inaccessible voids within the wall cavity which are devoid of insulation can be a source of thermal bridging.
Some forms of insulation transfer heat mo... | 2.828125 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | The classification of thermal insulation materials
According to three ways of heat exchange, most thermal insulation we use in our buildings can be divided into two categories: Conductive and convective insulators and radiant heat barriers. And there are more detailed classifications to distinguish between different m... | 2.75 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | Conductive and convective insulators
Bulk insulators block conductive heat transfer and convective flow either into or out of a building. Air is a very poor conductor of heat and therefore makes a good insulator. Insulation to resist conductive heat transfer uses air spaces between fibers, inside foam or plastic bubbl... | 2.8125 | 0 |
6900318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20insulation | Building insulation | Some radiant barriers are spectrally selective and will preferentially reduce the flow of infra-red radiation in comparison to other wavelengths. For instance, low-emissivity (low-e) windows will transmit light and short-wave infra-red energy into a building but reflect the long-wave infra-red radiation generated by in... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6900335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sikhs | List of Sikhs | Historical importance to Sikh religion
Bhai Mardana (1459–1534) was Guru Nanak Dev's companion on all of his Udasis (travels) and he played kirtan.
Bebe Nanaki (1464–1518) is known as the first Sikh. She was the elder sister of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder and first Guru (teacher) of Sikhism. Bebe Nanaki was the first t... | 2.859375 | 0 |
6900335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sikhs | List of Sikhs | Mata Gujri (1624–1705) joined the ninth Guru in his long meditation at Baba Bakala before he assumed the guruship. She gave birth to and raised the tenth guru, Guru Gobind Singh. Mata Gujri accompanied her youngest grandsons, Baba Fateh Singh and Baba Zorawar Singh to their martyrdom at Sirhind-Fategarh, and subsequent... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6900352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta%20R%C3%BCdiger | Jutta Rüdiger | Jutta Rüdiger (14 June 1910 – 13 March 2001) was a German psychologist and head of the Nazi Party's female youth organisation, the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel, BDM), from 1937 to 1945.
Early career
Rüdiger was born in Berlin but brought up in Düsseldorf where her father was an engineer. She trained as... | 2.03125 | 0 |
6900353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankston%20High%20School | Frankston High School | Frankston High School (abbreviated as FHS) or simply Frankston High, is a government-funded co-educational high school, located in , Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school offers education for students from Year 7 to Year 12.
School profile
Frankston High School is a large multi-campus co-educational facility situ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6900353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankston%20High%20School | Frankston High School | Music
There are seven bands operating and approximately 200 students involved in the instrumental music program. Students perform regularly at assemblies and special events and rehearse in a music centre. Concert band and stage band are the two main bands which are available for students at Frankston, as well as smalle... | 2.75 | 0 |
6900355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accommodative%20convergence | Accommodative convergence | Accommodative convergence is that portion of the range of inward rotation of both eyes (i.e., convergence) that occurs in response to an increase in optical power for focusing by the crystalline lens (i.e., accommodation). When the human eye engages the accommodation system to focus on a near object, signal is automat... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6900422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois%20Hodoul | Jean-François Hodoul | The British took their prizes to Madras, where they arrived on 17 August. From there the British transferred Hodoul to Fort William (Calcutta). Hodoul remained a prisoner until the Treaty of Amiens (1802), ended hostilities.
After his release Hodoul settled on Mahe Island of the Seychelles. Here he became a wealthy bu... | 2.75 | 0 |
6900447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra%20bullhead%20shark | Zebra bullhead shark | The zebra bullhead shark (Heterodontus zebra) is a bullhead shark of the family Heterodontidae found in the central Indo-Pacific between latitudes 40°N and 20°S, from Japan and Korea to Australia. It is typically found at relatively shallow depths down to , but off Western Australia, it occurs between . It can reach a ... | 3.015625 | 0 |
6900447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra%20bullhead%20shark | Zebra bullhead shark | Appearance
The zebra bullhead shark's body shape is slim, oval shaped, and ray-like. The snouts on these sharks is short and rounded without the presence of lateral teeth. The eyes are dorsolateral on the head with crests above the eyes. The appearance of the Heterodontus zebra from an external view involves the prese... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6900447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra%20bullhead%20shark | Zebra bullhead shark | Life history
The zebra bullhead shark's reproduction system is oviparous. Oviparous reproduction is the process of producing organisms by the hatching or laying eggs by a parent. A female shark lays two eggs at a time during the spring to the later summer near the coast of Japan. The typical seasonal spawning pattern ... | 3.21875 | 0 |
6900464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara%20%28Israel%29 | Tara (Israel) | Tara () is an agricultural cooperative (co-op) in Israel specializing in milk and dairy products. It is the second largest dairy processor after Tnuva.
History
Tara was created in 1942 by dairy farmers from the Tel Aviv neighbourhood of Nahalat Yitzhak and the surrounding area, in order to unite under one organization... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6900467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers%20Access%20Campaign | Rivers Access Campaign | The Rivers Access Campaign is an ongoing initiative by the British Canoe Union (BCU) to open up the inland waterways of England and Wales to the public. Under current English and Welsh law, public access to rivers is restricted, and only 2% of all rivers in England and Wales have public access rights.
Current access s... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6900467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers%20Access%20Campaign | Rivers Access Campaign | Most of these agreements permit access only on certain days of the year or for short sections of the river. The government has decided to pursue further agreements in 4 study areas, over a 2-year trial period. However, there is no guarantee that this trial will grant further access, with recent government studies showi... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6900474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20City%20Fire%20Department | Orange City Fire Department | In 1906, the volunteers repurposed an 1874 building that had been moved rearward off Glassell Street in 1905, during construction of the Edwards Block Building. That old building would serve as the volunteers first fire hall from 1906 to 1910 and was located in the northeast corner of Plaza Square. The little fire hall... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6900527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Jane | Bob Jane | Opened on 3 August 1987, the Thunderdome played host to the first ever NASCAR event held outside North America on 28 February 1988 with the Goodyear NASCAR 500. Several prominent drivers from the United States came to Australia for this race including Alabama Gang members Bobby Allison and Neil Bonnett, along with Kyle... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6900559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20E3 | HMS E3 | HMS E3 was the third E-class submarine to be constructed, built at Barrow by Vickers in 1911–1912. Built with compartmentalisation and endurance not previously achievable, these were the best submarines in the Royal Navy at the start of the First World War. She was sunk in the first ever successful attack on one submar... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6900585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20Mother%20Moore | Queen Mother Moore | Audley "Queen Mother" Moore (July 27, 1898 – May 2, 1997) was an American civil rights leader and a black nationalist who was friends with such civil rights leaders as Marcus Garvey, Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, Rosa Parks, and Jesse Jackson. She was a figure in the American Civil Rights Movement and a founder of th... | 2.40625 | 0 |
6900585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20Mother%20Moore | Queen Mother Moore | Their involvement with activism began in their teenage years with Moore and her sisters mobilizing their neighbors during World War I to provide aid to black recruits upon learning that the Red Cross was only providing sustenance for white soldiers. Her sister Eloise, would establish what could be called the first Unit... | 2.921875 | 0 |
6900585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20Mother%20Moore | Queen Mother Moore | Moore later became a leader and life member of the UNIA, founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey. She participated in Garvey's first international convention in New York City and was a stock owner in the Black Star Line. Along with becoming a leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement, Moore worked for a variety of causes fo... | 2.953125 | 0 |
6900585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20Mother%20Moore | Queen Mother Moore | In 1957, Moore presented a petition to the United Nations and a second in 1959, arguing for self-determination, against genocide, for land and reparations, making her an international advocate. Interviewed by E. Menelik Pinto, Moore explained the petition, in which she asked for 200 billion dollars to monetarily compen... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6900585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20Mother%20Moore | Queen Mother Moore | On May 2, 1997, Moore died in a Brooklyn nursing home from natural causes, at the age of 98.
Reparation and Petition to the United Nations
Queen Mother Moore is considered one of the leading activists in the fight for reparations. Her primary two goals were the realization of reparations, as well as the self-determin... | 2.859375 | 0 |
6900585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20Mother%20Moore | Queen Mother Moore | Moore officially integrated a stance on reparations into her activism work in the 1960’s, when forming the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women (UAEW). Moore founded the UAEW in Louisiana in response to working on cases of rape and other sexual violence against Black women. Through her work with the UAEW, Moore adv... | 3 | 0 |
6900598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessos%20Painter | Nessos Painter | The Nessos Painter, also known as Netos or Nettos Painter, was a pioneer of Attic black-figure vase painting. He is considered to be the first Athenian to adopt the Corinthian style who went on to develop his own style and introduced innovations. The Nessos Painter is often known to be one of the original painters of ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6900598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessos%20Painter | Nessos Painter | Many of the artist's known works feature characters from Greek myths and legends. On the neck of a Middle Protoattic vase from the 7th century BCE, located in National Archaeological Museum of Athens, the painter depicted Nessos fighting Heracles. In this depiction Heracles is moving from left to right, opposite the di... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6900598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessos%20Painter | Nessos Painter | The Nessos Painter also utilized the black-figure style along with artists such as Exekias, and Sophilos. This style may have contributed towards Athenian realism. Black-figure style originated in Corinth, but became very popular among Athenians. Athenian realism may also have begun with black-figure painting. The pai... | 3.03125 | 0 |
6900598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessos%20Painter | Nessos Painter | Myths of Heracles originated with the Etruscans who were fascinated by the demigod and stories of his travels to the underworld and ascent to Mount Olympus to live with the gods after his death. The myth portrayed on the vessel shows Heracles trying to rescue Deianira from the centaur Nessos whom he shoots with his arr... | 2.90625 | 0 |
6900616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaheim%20Fire%20%26%20Rescue | Anaheim Fire & Rescue | The Anaheim Fire & Rescue is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for Anaheim, California.
History
In 1857 the City of Anaheim was incorporated and the City's volunteer fire system was established. Initially the volunteer department consisted of twenty men. It wasn't until 1915 that... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6900619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia%20Hammond | Celia Hammond | Celia Hammond (born 25 July 1943) is an English former model and animal welfare activist who is well known as a campaigner against fur and for neutering of cats to control the feral population.
Early life
Hammond was born to English parents and grew up in Australia and Indonesia, where her father was a tea taster for ... | 2.125 | 0 |
6900637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch%20atop%20a%20Skyscraper | Lunch atop a Skyscraper | Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building, above the ground during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City. It was a staged photograph arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaig... | 2.09375 | 0 |
6900637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch%20atop%20a%20Skyscraper | Lunch atop a Skyscraper | In 1995, Corbis Images, a company that provides archived images to professional photographers, bought a collection of over eleven million images called the Bettmann Archive. The Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph was in the Acme Newspictures archive, a part of the Bettmann collection, although it was uncredited. Accord... | 2.109375 | 0 |
6900669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narjis | Narjis | Narjis () is believed by the Twelvers to have been the mother of their Hidden Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi. His birth is said to have been providentially concealed by his father, Hasan al-Askari, out of fear of Abbasid persecution as they sought to eliminate an expected child of the eleventh Imam, whom persistent rumors des... | 2.046875 | 0 |
6900669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narjis | Narjis | The origin of Narjis is recorded by some sources as the Byzantine empire or Nubia. The earliest account about her origin is given by Ibn Babawayh (), based on a chain of authority leading to Bishr ibn Sulayman al-Nakhkhas. According to this account, Narjis was a slave, bought providentially by an agent of al-Hadi, who ... | 2.90625 | 0 |
6900671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Goodnight | James Goodnight | James Howard Goodnight (born January 6, 1943) is an American billionaire businessman and software developer. He has been the CEO of SAS since 1976, which he co-founded that year with other faculty members of North Carolina State University. As of December 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$16.7 billion, according ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
6900703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerton%20Fire%20Department | Fullerton Fire Department | The Fullerton Fire Department is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for Fullerton, California. The department is responsible for an area of approximately that has a population of just over 141,874 as of 2020.
History
The Fullerton Fire Department was formally established as a vo... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6900703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerton%20Fire%20Department | Fullerton Fire Department | A sixth station was opened at 1500 North Gilbert on the west side of the city in 1968. In 2004 this station was replaced by a new $3.4 million station that was built for the city by private developers as part of an agreement that allowed the developers to build on property owned by Chevron Land and Development.
On May... | 2.09375 | 0 |
6900703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerton%20Fire%20Department | Fullerton Fire Department | Additionally, the Fullerton Fire Department is part of the county-wide automatic mutual aid system, which ensures that the nearest available fire and paramedic units are dispatched to a call regardless of the location. Fire departments throughout the county, including Fullerton, employ the incident command system routi... | 2.3125 | 0 |
6900719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-East%20Region%2C%20Singapore | North-East Region, Singapore | The North-East Region (, ) of Singapore is one of the five regions in the country. The region is the most densely populated and has the highest population among the five, with Sengkang being its most populous town as of 2020 and Seletar as the regional centre. Comprising 13,810 hectares, it includes seven planning area... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6900719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-East%20Region%2C%20Singapore | North-East Region, Singapore | History
Before the 1960s, the North-East Region was primarily made up of farmland and rainforest. At this time the majority of urbanisation in Singapore was concentrated in the southern part of the country, where the Central Region is now located. The first Master Plan was adopted in 1958. The Master Plan was a statut... | 2.84375 | 0 |
6900719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-East%20Region%2C%20Singapore | North-East Region, Singapore | Transportation
The public transport system in Singapore was designed to connect the North-East Region to the city centre, with Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) stations in each town centre. There is also a number of bus stops and Light Rail Transit (LRT) stations which connect towns within the region. As of 2015, 59.5% of the... | 2.640625 | 0 |
6900749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%20Eshed | Eli Eshed | Eli Eshed is an Israeli researcher of popular culture.
Literary criticism
Eli Eshed writes about Israeli pulp magazines and paperbacks of the 1950s and 1960s with a special focus on the pirated Tarzan books popular among Israeli youth at the time which were published anonymously and without authorization from the est... | 2.125 | 0 |
6900765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20American%20Old%20West | Timeline of the American Old West | This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. The term "American Old West" refers to a vast geographical area and lengthy time period of imprecise boundaries, and historians' definition... | 3.015625 | 0 |
6900801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boca%20Grande%20station | Boca Grande station | The Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway Depot is a historic Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway (CH&N) depot in Boca Grande, Florida. It is located at Park and 4th Streets. The station was built by the CH&N in 1910; the railroad's parent company, the American Agriculture and Chemical Company, had several phosphate ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
6900811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20Done%20Sign%20My%20Name | Blood Done Sign My Name | Blood Done Sign My Name (2004) is a historical memoir written by Timothy B. Tyson. He explores the 1970 murder of Henry D. Marrow, a black man in Tyson's then hometown of Oxford, North Carolina. The murder is described as the result of the complicated collision of the Black Power movement and the white backlash against... | 2.03125 | 0 |
6900824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Recording%20Preservation%20Board | National Recording Preservation Board | The United States National Recording Preservation Board selects recorded sounds for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. The National Recording Registry was initiated to maintain and preserve "sound recordings that are culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"; to be eligib... | 2.734375 | 0 |
6900829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thant%20Myint-U | Thant Myint-U | Thant Myint-U ( ; born 31 January 1966) is a Burmese-American historian, writer, grandson of former United Nations Secretary-General U Thant, former UN official, former Myanmar peace process mediator, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has authored five books, including The River of Lost Footsteps... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6900845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity%20informatics | Biodiversity informatics | Biodiversity informatics (different but linked to bioinformatics) is the application of information technology methods to the problems of organizing, accessing, visualizing and analyzing primary biodiversity data. Primary biodiversity data is composed of names, observations and records of specimens, and genetic and mor... | 2.78125 | 0 |
6900845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity%20informatics | Biodiversity informatics | One major goal for biodiversity informatics is the creation of a complete master list of currently recognised species of the world. This goal has been achieved to a large extent by the Catalogue of Life project which lists >2 million species in its 2022 Annual Checklist. A similar effort for fossil taxa, the Paleobiolo... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6900845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity%20informatics | Biodiversity informatics | Organisms can be classified in a multitude of ways (see main page Biological classification), which can create design problems for Biodiversity Informatics systems aimed at incorporating either a single or multiple classification to suit the needs of users, or to guide them towards a single "preferred" system. Whether ... | 3.140625 | 0 |
6900845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity%20informatics | Biodiversity informatics | In common with other data-related disciplines, Biodiversity Informatics benefits from the adoption of appropriate standards and protocols in order to support machine-machine transmission and interoperability of information within its particular domain. Examples of relevant standards include the Darwin Core XML schema f... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6900852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20City%20Union%20Depot | Plant City Union Depot | The Plant City Union Depot is a historic train depot in Plant City, Florida, Florida, United States. It was built in 1909 and was crucial in the development of Plant City. The city was named after Henry Plant, who introduced railway lines to improve the transport system in Central and Western Florida. The architectural... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6900852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20City%20Union%20Depot | Plant City Union Depot | History
When operational, the busy station was accommodating about 44 passenger trains daily. The line was held active by many important figures who travelled along it. The military also took this line to depart for their missions. It was characterized as one of the largest railroad distribution stop and was ranked as ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6900852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20City%20Union%20Depot | Plant City Union Depot | Restoration
Plant City union depot was restored numerous times with the support of multiple grants allotted, after being listed in the National Register of Historic Places. One major change was to move the two-story tower from the station across the tracks and was completed in April 1987. The idea of adding a restauran... | 2.359375 | 0 |
6900852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20City%20Union%20Depot | Plant City Union Depot | Robert W. Willaford Railroad Museum
Robert W. Willaford is a retired locomotive engineer, best known in the community as Plant City’s railroad expert and for his passion towards train. His unique passion led him to keep a train engine and caboose on display in his yard for many years. He was contacted by the City Commi... | 2.359375 | 0 |
6900871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Hilfiker | Hans Hilfiker | Hans Hilfiker (15 September 1901 – 2 March 1993) was a Swiss engineer and designer. In 1944, working for the Swiss Federal Railways, he designed the Swiss railway clock, which became an international icon. The SBB clock was not the only contribution by Hilfiker to modern living. He developed the concept of the fitted k... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6900877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockman%20Foundation | Lockman Foundation | The declared purpose of the foundation is “to foster and promote the Holy Bible as the inspired and inerrant word of God through Christian, charitable, and educational activities.” Its doctrinal statement, established early in the foundation's history, is closely aligned with fundamentalism.
In common with most Bible ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6900885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asagiri-class%20destroyer | Asagiri-class destroyer | Equipment
The earlier batch was equipped with the OYQ-6 combat direction system (CDS). This system employed one AN/UYK-20 computer as the same as the OYQ-5 tactical data processing system of the Hatsuyuki class, but with expanded memories, it can exchange tactical data via Link-11, which the OYQ-5 does not support. Lat... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6900887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20Harold%20Zook | R. Harold Zook | Zook built a home and studio in Hinsdale in 1924. In 1925, Zook partnered with William F. McCaughey, a fellow apprentice of Shaw, to start a new architectural firm, operating out of the Auditorium Building. Later, he opened a new office on the 17th floor of the Marquette Building. He designed thirty-four homes and buil... | 1.984375 | 0 |
6900894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochlea%20of%20superior%20oblique | Trochlea of superior oblique | To summarize, the actions of the superior oblique muscle are (1) depression of the eyeball, especially when the eye is adducted; and (2) intorsion of the eyeball, especially when the eye is abducted. The clinical consequences of weakness in the superior oblique (caused, for example, by fourth nerve palsies) are discus... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6900909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn%20Bijou | Citroën Bijou | The Citroën Bijou is a small coupé manufactured by Citroën at the premises they had occupied since 1925 in Slough, England. The Bijou was assembled from 1959 until 1964. It was based on the same platform chassis as the Citroën 2CV, sharing its advanced independent front to rear interconnected suspension. The car's appe... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6900978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Serrano%20%28flamenco%29 | Juan Serrano (flamenco) | Dr. Juan Serrano Rodríguez is Spanish guitarist of flamenco who has played concerts and made recordings throughout the world. He has devoted much of his life to giving concerts and teaching flamenco guitar around the world.
Serrano was born in Córdoba, Spain in 1934 At the age of 9, he studied guitar with his father, ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6900992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertsite | Robertsite | Robertsite, Ca3(Mn3+)4[(OH)3| (PO4)2]2·3(H2O) (alternatively formulated Ca2(Mn3(PO4)3O2)(H2O)3), is a secondary phosphate mineral named for Willard Lincoln Roberts (1923–1987), mineralogist and professor at South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City, South Dakota.
The type locality for Robertsite is the Tip Top mine,... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6901022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Medieval%20and%20Renaissance%20Studies | Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) in Oxford, England, is a programme for international students (mainly American) to study in Oxford, and also encourages research in the humanities and fields of Medieval and Renaissance studies. It was founded by Dr. John and Dr. Sandra J.K.M Feneley in 1975. In 20... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6901035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gathering%20of%20Israel | Gathering of Israel | The State of Israel
The idea of the ingathering of the exiles of Israel in the land of Israel (a Kibbutz Galuyot) was the basis for the establishment of the State of Israel, being mentioned in the Israeli Declaration of Independence. After the Holocaust, the United Nations General Assembly, in its decision-making proce... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6901053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gae%20Aulenti | Gae Aulenti | Gaetana "Gae" Emilia Aulenti (; 4 December 1927 – 31 October 2012) was an Italian architect and designer. Aulenti began her career in the early 1950s, establishing herself as one of the few prominent female architects in post-war Italy.
Although modernism was the predominant international architectural style througho... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6901053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gae%20Aulenti | Gae Aulenti | Although Aulenti initially studied visual arts, she saw an opportunity to contribute to the rebuilding of Italy and in 1948 she enrolled in the architectural program at the Polytechnic University of Milan. Other alumni from Aulenti's generation at the Polytechnic included Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Franca Stagi and Cini B... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6901053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gae%20Aulenti | Gae Aulenti | Aulenti said,I am convinced that architecture is tied to the polis, it is an art of the city, of the foundation, and as such it is necessarily related and conditioned by the context in which it is born. Place, time, and culture create that architecture, instead of another.From 1955 to 1965, Aulenti was a graphic design... | 2 | 0 |
6901053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gae%20Aulenti | Gae Aulenti | Career
Industrial design
Aulenti had a prolific career in industrial design.
Her Locus Solus furniture collection, introduced in 1964, was inspired by the country estate featured in Raymond Roussel's 1912 novel of the same name. The collection comprised chairs, a table, an adjustable lamp, a sofa, a sun lounger, an... | 2.09375 | 0 |
6901053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gae%20Aulenti | Gae Aulenti | In 1975, the French president, François Mitterrand, asked the French architectural firm, ACT to commence an adaptive reuse project to convert the Gare d'Orsay into a new museum, the Musée d'Orsay.
Initially, Aulenti was assigned solely to the interior design of the new museum. However, due to disagreements between ACT... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6901053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gae%20Aulenti | Gae Aulenti | The Centre Pompidou, the home of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, was built between 1972 and 1977 to a plan by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. The ten-level building, constructed in glass and metal, was designed with expansive indoor spaces to provide flexibility in its use.
Aulenti was engaged to redesign the port... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6901053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gae%20Aulenti | Gae Aulenti | Aulenti and Piero Castiglioni, an Italian lighting designer, created the Castello Lighting System for the Palazzo. The Castello system, designed for flexibility, was manufactured in aluminium with low voltage halogen bulbs. It won a Compasso d'Oro design award in 1995.
In the following years, Aulenti returned a number... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6901053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gae%20Aulenti | Gae Aulenti | Japan
Aulenti designed the chancellery of the Italian Embassy (2004) and the Italian Cultural Institute (2005) in Tokyo. At the Italian Cultural Institute, Aulenti used an RAL 3011 coloured cladding, a red-brown hue which was controversial due to the perceived intensity of the colour. On the ten year anniversary of Au... | 2.25 | 0 |
6901053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gae%20Aulenti | Gae Aulenti | In her stage design, Aulenti looked to Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's work, A Manifesto of Variety Theatre (1913). Marinetti rejected imitation of the historic and the obsessive reproduction of daily life. Rather, he chose freedom in design, the use of a cinematic background, and imaginative, satiric and futuristic concep... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6901053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gae%20Aulenti | Gae Aulenti | Nicholas Vitaliano, Ronconi's biographer, wrote that Aulenti and Ronconi wanted to designed a "stage machine", a moving surface traversing the entire stage, which was otherwise left in almost entire darkness.
Aulenti's stage design for Ronconi's production of Rossini's opera, Il viaggio a Reims (Journey to Reims) at... | 2.40625 | 0 |
6901053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gae%20Aulenti | Gae Aulenti | At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York City, Aulenti designed the exhibition space for The Italian Metamorphosis 1943–1968 (1994), an exhibition of post-war art and design curated by Germano Celant. Aulenti created a large sculpture of wire triangles which projected into the museum's atrium. The visitors' per... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6901053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gae%20Aulenti | Gae Aulenti | As an educator, Aulenti was an assistant professor of architectural composition (1960–1962) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, adjunct assistant professor of elements of architectural composition (1964) at Milan Polytechnic, and visiting lecturer at the College of Architecture, Barcelona and the Stockholm Cultural Ce... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6901054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat%20Generation%20%28play%29 | Beat Generation (play) | Beat Generation is a play written by Jack Kerouac upon returning home to Florida after his seminal work On the Road had been published in 1957. Gerald Nicosia, a Kerouac biographer and family friend has said that theatre producer Leo Gavin suggested that Kerouac should write a play; the outcome being Beat Generation.
... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6901058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Train%20%28Jimmy%20Forrest%20composition%29 | Night Train (Jimmy Forrest composition) | "Night Train" is a twelve-bar blues instrumental standard first recorded by Jimmy Forrest in 1951.
Origins and development
"Night Train" has a long and complicated history. The piece's opening riff was first recorded in 1940 by a small group led by Duke Ellington sideman Johnny Hodges, under the title "That's the Blue... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6901058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Train%20%28Jimmy%20Forrest%20composition%29 | Night Train (Jimmy Forrest composition) | Lyrics
Several different sets of lyrics have been set to the tune of "Night Train". The earliest, written in 1952, are credited to Lewis P. Simpkins, the co-owner of United Records, and guitarist Oscar Washington. They are a typical blues lament by man who regrets treating his woman badly now that she has left him. Dou... | 2.078125 | 0 |
6901059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa%20Union%20Station | Tampa Union Station | At its opening, Union Station's waiting room was segregated (during the Jim Crow era, a wall across the center of the waiting room divided "white" and "colored" passengers, with separate entrances for each). Segregation remained a common practice in railroad stations in the South until it was stricken down by the Inter... | 2.078125 | 0 |
6901059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa%20Union%20Station | Tampa Union Station | History
It was designed by Joseph F. Leitner and was opened on May 15, 1912, by the Tampa Union Station Company. Its original purpose was to combine passenger operations for the Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard Air Line and the Tampa Northern Railroad at a single site.
After its condition deteriorated substantially, ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
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