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6901066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Don%27t%20Know%20How%20to%20Love%20Him | I Don't Know How to Love Him | Background and recording
In her autobiography The Woman I Am, Helen Reddy states that Mogull invited her to record a single after seeing her perform on a Tonight Show episode (the guest host Flip Wilson had invited Reddy to appear; Wilson knew Reddy from the club circuit). Mogull himself attributed his interest in Redd... | 1.929688 | 0 |
6901068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ice%20Break | The Ice Break | The Ice Break is an English-language opera in three acts, with music and libretto to an original scenario by Sir Michael Tippett. The opera received its premiere at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 7 July 1977, conducted by Colin Davis, the dedicatee of the opera.
One meaning of the opera's title is a referenc... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6901170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbi%20Humphrey | Bobbi Humphrey | Barbara Ann "Bobbi" Humphrey (born April 25, 1950) is an American jazz flautist and singer. She has recorded twelve albums over the course of her career, mostly playing jazz fusion, funk, and soul-jazz. In 1971, she was the first female instrumentalist signed by Blue Note and in 1994, she founded the jazz label Paradis... | 2.25 | 0 |
6901181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisker%20method | Brisker method | The Brisker method, or Brisker derech, is a reductionistic approach to Talmud study innovated by Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk (Brest, Belarus), as opposed to the traditional approach which was rather holistic. It has since become popular and spread to yeshivas worldwide. The Brisker method is also known as the "co... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6901181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisker%20method | Brisker method | Another benefit of this approach is that it helps clarify the puzzling Talmudic statement that "Elu vi'Elu Divrey Elokim Chaim" (lit. these [words] and these [words] are the words of the living Lord). In other words, the Talmud advances the idea that no valid interpretation of its corpus is strictly wrong. Rather, a mu... | 2.390625 | 0 |
6901181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisker%20method | Brisker method | Cheftza/gavra ("object/person") refers to distinctions made between the status of an object ("cheftza") and the status of actions done by a person with an object ("gavra"). An object may be (e.g.) inherently forbidden or it may forbidden for person to use an object. For example, the Brisker Rav states (Yevamoth 2a) tha... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6901181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisker%20method | Brisker method | "Is the principle stated here merely an application of a general rule, or is it a different and unique principle, specialized to our context?" This distinction is demonstrated in a story involving Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik and witnessed by Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky. A person died, followed shortly thereafter by ano... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6901181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisker%20method | Brisker method | History
The famed yeshiva of Volozhin, arguably the first modern yeshiva, favored a traditionalist approach towards Talmudics under the leadership of the Netziv, which often required absorbing a great amount of Talmudic material to acquire a "general Talmudic feel" before analyzing a topic. Later, however, Rabbi Chaim... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6901181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisker%20method | Brisker method | The Brisker method has a certain parallel in the Dor Revi'i (commentary on Hullin) of Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner. Many scholars had been perplexed by the Rambam's rulings, as they had been used to understanding the Talmud according to the Franco-German school of Rashi and Tosafot, as opposed to the Babylonian Geonic sc... | 2.109375 | 0 |
6901181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisker%20method | Brisker method | In Brisker yeshivas, the tractates studied deviate from the tractates popular in most yeshivas. Most yeshivas learn the Talmudic laws of money, property, marriage, and divorce. In Brisk, there is a greater tendency toward Kodashim tractates, as well as Nazir and Sotah (more ritually oriented) tractates in Nashim. Rabbi... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6901215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20sleeper%20shark | Little sleeper shark | The little sleeper shark (Somniosus rostratus) is a small sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae found in the northeast Atlantic, western Mediterranean, and western Pacific around New Zealand, at depths between 200 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 1.43 m.
Distribution
This species is rarely encountered. It has in th... | 2.5 | 0 |
6901225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drascombe | Drascombe | The word Drascombe is a trademark that was first registered by John Watkinson who applied it to a series of sailing boats which he designed and built in the period 1965–79 and sold in the United Kingdom (UK). They comprised the Coaster, Cruiser Longboat, Dabber, Drifter, Driver, Gig, Launch, Longboat, Lugger, Peterboat... | 1.953125 | 0 |
6901276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov%20Polonsky | Yakov Polonsky | Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (; ) was a leading Pushkinist poet who wrote poems faithful to the traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose.
Of noble birth, Polonsky attended the Moscow University, where he befriended Apollon Grigoryev and Afanasy Fet. Three young and promising poets wrote ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6901326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dull%20Gret | Dull Gret | Dulle Griet (anglicized as Dull Gret), also known as Mad Meg, is a figure of Flemish folklore who is the subject of a 1563 oil-on-panel by Flemish renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The painting depicts a virago, Dulle Griet, who leads an army of women to pillage Hell, and is currently held and exhibited at t... | 2.34375 | 0 |
6901343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchor%20Li%C3%B1%C3%A1n%20y%20Cisneros | Melchor Liñán y Cisneros | Melchor Liñán y Cisneros (sometimes Melchor de Liñán y Cisneros) (December 19, 1629, Madrid – June 28, 1708, Lima, Peru) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lima (1677–1708), Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas (1672–1675), Bishop of Popayán (1667–1672), and Bishop of Santa Marta (1664–1668). He also ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
6901350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancie%20Caraway | Nancie Caraway | Nancie Ellen Caraway (born February 2, 1942) is the former First Lady of the U.S. state of Hawaii from 2010 to 2014. She is the spouse of former First Congressional District U.S. Representative and former Governor of Hawaii Neil Abercrombie. Caraway is a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa political scientist, feminist scho... | 1.976563 | 0 |
6901377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Rawlings | Bill Rawlings | Southampton
Rawlings' career started in 1918 with an apprenticeship at Southampton, having impressed playing against their reserve team for his regiment two years previously. He turned professional in February 1919 and made his first-team debut against Swansea Town on 1 September. He quickly settled into the side, buil... | 1.992188 | 0 |
6901384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s%20statement | Artist's statement | An artist's statement (or artist statement) is an artist's written description of their work. The brief text is for, and in support of, their own work to give the viewer understanding. As such it aims to inform, connect with an art context, and present the basis for the work; it is, therefore, didactic, descriptive, or... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6901384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s%20statement | Artist's statement | History
The writing of artists' statements is a comparatively recent phenomenon beginning in the 1990s. In some respects, the practice resembles the art manifesto and may derive in part from it. However, the artist's statement generally speaks for an individual rather than a collective, and is not strongly associated... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6901384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s%20statement | Artist's statement | As subject matter
On at least two occasions, artist's statements have been the subject of gallery exhibitions. The first exhibition of artists' statements, The Art of the Artist's Statement, was curated by Georgia Kotretsos and Maria Pashalidou at the Hellenic Museum, Chicago, in the spring of 2005. It featured the wo... | 1.921875 | 0 |
6901398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20Heyer | Conrad Heyer | Conrad Heyer (April 10, 1749 or 1753 – February 19, 1856) was an American farmer, veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and centenarian. He is often credited as being the earliest-born person to have been photographed alive, although several other contenders are known, most notably a shoemaker named John Adams and... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6901481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20distribution%20system | Global distribution system | A global distribution system (GDS) is a computerised network system owned or operated by a company that enables transactions between travel industry service providers, mainly airlines, hotels, car rental companies, and travel agencies. The GDS mainly uses real-time inventory (e.g. number of hotel rooms available, numbe... | 2.015625 | 0 |
6901481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20distribution%20system | Global distribution system | Example of a booking facilitation done by an airline GDS
A mirror image of the passenger name record (PNR) in the airline reservations system is maintained in the GDS system. If a passenger books an itinerary containing air segments of multiple airlines through a travel agency, the passenger name record in the GDS syst... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6901590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Edward%20Snyder | J. Edward Snyder | Rear Adm. J. Edward Snyder, USN (Ret.) (October 23, 1924 – November 4, 2007) was notable as the captain of the battleship USS New Jersey during that ship's deployment to the Vietnam War in 1968. Considered by those serving on the New Jersey to be a "sailor's captain," Captain Snyder was able to motivate his men through... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6901630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony%20Kill%20Falls | Stony Kill Falls | Stony Kill Falls is 87 feet high and one of the highest in the Minnewaska Preserve. Leaving the base of the falls and returning to the main trail the path ascends the side of the valley slowly gaining elevation. As it nears the top there is a 30-foot cascade near the side of the trail. Linking up with the Stony Kill Ca... | 2.28125 | 0 |
6901696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20McKelvey | Joe McKelvey | Joseph McKelvey (17 June 1898 – 8 December 1922) was an Irish Republican Army officer who was executed during the Irish Civil War without trial or court martial. He participated in the Anti-Treaty IRA's repudiation of the authority of the Dáil Éireann, the civil government of the Irish Republic declared in 1919 in Marc... | 2.21875 | 0 |
6901696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20McKelvey | Joe McKelvey | War of Independence
McKelvey participated in the Irish War of Independence 1919–1921 against the British, in which he commanded the IRA's 1st Battalion, Belfast Brigade. In July 1920, during a wave of violence in the wake of the IRA assassination of a northern police inspector (Gerard Smyth) in Cork, McKelvey was expel... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6901696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20McKelvey | Joe McKelvey | In March 1921, the IRA was re-organised by GHQ into divisions, and McKelvey was appointed commander of the Third Northern Division, responsible for Belfast and the surrounding area. McKelveys three brigades covered Belfast, County Antrim and north County Down. He was criticized by some of the younger, more radical Volu... | 2.640625 | 0 |
6901696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20McKelvey | Joe McKelvey | Civil War
McKelvey was alone among the leadership of the Belfast IRA in going against the acceptance of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Most of his comrades supported Michael Collins' assurances that, although the Treaty accepted the partition of Northern Ireland from the rest of the country, this was only a temporary concessi... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6901697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Farjeon | Harry Farjeon | Harry Farjeon (6 May 1878 – 29 December 1948) was a British composer and an influential teacher of harmony and composition at the Royal Academy of Music for more than 45 years.
Early life and studies
Harry Farjeon was born in Hohokus Township, New Jersey, United States, the eldest son of author Benjamin Farjeon, who w... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6901697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Farjeon | Harry Farjeon | Harry Farjeon composed music throughout most of his life. His compositions are mostly for piano (many grouped into suites and collections, some also published separately) with the illustrative pieces mostly intended to appeal to amateur home pianists. But he also wrote a piano sonata, chamber music (including four stri... | 2.3125 | 0 |
6901703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20characterizations | Algorithm characterizations | Algorithm characterizations are attempts to formalize the word algorithm. Algorithm does not have a generally accepted formal definition. Researchers are actively working on this problem. This article will present some of the "characterizations" of the notion of "algorithm" in more detail.
The problem of definition
O... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6901759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%20of%20Eric | Stone of Eric | The Stone of Eric, listed as DR 1 in the Rundata catalog, is a memorial runestone that was found in Northern Germany. This area was part of Denmark during the Viking Age.
Description
The Stone of Eric is one of the Hedeby stones. It was found in 1796 at Danevirke and moved to a park in Schleswig. Like the Skarthi Rune... | 1.953125 | 0 |
6901786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Polytechnic%20State%20University%20Mustang%20Band | California Polytechnic State University Mustang Band | Marching band season
During football season, the Mustang Band typically fields around 200 members. In 2013, the band became the largest it has ever been with approximately 215 members. The marching season starts off each year with an annual band camp where each member learns the techniques of marching, such as the trad... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6901791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min%20Chueh%20Chang | Min Chueh Chang | Min Chueh Chang (, October 10, 1908 – June 5, 1991), often credited as M.C. Chang, was a Chinese American reproductive biologist. His specific area of study was the fertilisation process in mammalian reproduction. Though his career produced findings that are important and valuable to many areas in the field of fertilis... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6901791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min%20Chueh%20Chang | Min Chueh Chang | Chang met his wife, American-born Chinese Isabelle Chin Chang, in the library at Yale University, shortly after he moved to the United States. Chin assumed the role of the housewife in the pair's marriage, allowing Chang to delve into his work without domestic concerns. They have two daughters and a son together – Clau... | 2.28125 | 0 |
6901791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min%20Chueh%20Chang | Min Chueh Chang | One of Chang's notable achievements was his research and testing of the effectiveness of certain orally administered steroids in the control of mammalian fertility. This led to his co-invention of the first birth control pill with Gregory Pincus. Chang is arguably most remembered for this endeavor as the birth control ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6901791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min%20Chueh%20Chang | Min Chueh Chang | Chang's body of work in mammalian fertilisation is large and appears in nearly 350 publications. One of his major discoveries was the effect of lowering temperature on sperm. Chang found that at a temperature of 13 °C or lower, the membrane structure and function of sperm would disintegrate, thus destroying the fertili... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6901831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Sackler | Howard Sackler | Howard Oliver Sackler (December 19, 1929 – October 12, 1982) was an American screenwriter and playwright who is best known for having written The Great White Hope (play: 1967; film: 1970). The Great White Hope enjoyed both a successful run on Broadway and, as a film adaptation, in movie theaters. James Earl Jones and ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6901855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed%20Church%20of%20the%20Tarrytowns | Reformed Church of the Tarrytowns | The Reformed Church of the Tarrytowns in Tarrytown, New York, serves both Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, New York. It was constructed in 1837 as an extension of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow to serve the Tarrytown community.
The new community of Dutch Reformed would have had its own Elders and Deacons and shared... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6901877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%20Stormont%20%28K327%29 | HMCS Stormont (K327) | HMCS Stormont is a former River-class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic, but saw service in the Arctic Ocean. She was named for Stormont, Ontario. After the war she was turned into the luxury yacht Christina by Greek billionair... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6901921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodontics | Biodontics | Biodontics dentistry was founded by Dr. Edward Rossomando in 2001 as an area of oral health. Biodontics is funded by the United States National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). The purpose of Biodontics is to expand the dental profession in its research capacity, skill sets, and entrepreneurship... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6901921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodontics | Biodontics | Biodontics Educational Program
The Biodontics Educational Program (BEP) is held annually in July. The first class was made up of nine students from UConn; while the 2006 class was made up of 24 students from the Howard University, Marquette University, UConn, and New York University (NYU) dental schools. The program ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6901969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lerryn | Lerryn | Lerryn (, archaically Lerrin) is a village in Cornwall, England. It is situated on the River Lerryn (a tributary of the River Fowey) approximately three miles (5 km) southeast of Lostwithiel.
Lerryn straddles two parishes: north of the river it is in St Winnow parish and south of the river in St Veep parish. The river... | 2.125 | 0 |
6901987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla%20television | Guerrilla television | Guerrilla television is a term coined in 1971 by Michael Shamberg, one of the founders of the Raindance Foundation; the Raindance Foundation has been one of the counter-culture video collectives that in the 1960s and 1970s extended the role of the underground press to new communication technologies.
History of the ter... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6901997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout | Lookout | A lookout or look-out is a person in charge of the observation of hazards. The term originally comes from a naval background, where lookouts would watch for other ships, land, and various dangers. The term has now passed into wider parlance.
Naval application
Lookouts have been traditionally placed in high on masts, ... | 3.203125 | 0 |
6902012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20of%20the%20Right | Minister of the Right | was a government position in Japan during the Asuka to Meiji era. The position was consolidated in the Taihō Code of 701. The Asuka Kiyomihara Code of 689 marks the initial appearance of the Udaijin in the context of a central administrative body called the Daijō-kan (Council of State). This early Daijō-kan was compose... | 2.71875 | 0 |
6902014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullen%20Murphy | Cullen Murphy | John Cullen Murphy, Jr. (born September 1, 1952) is an American writer, journalist and editor who was managing editor of The Atlantic magazine from 1985 to 2006.
He was born in New Rochelle, New York, in 1952, a son of illustrator and cartoonist John Cullen Murphy. He grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. His family move... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6902042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar%20Oil | Madagascar Oil | Description
Madagascar Oil focuses on the development, exploration and production of petroleum. In 2008, Madagascar Oil held the largest licensed onshore acreage in Madagascar. Madagascar Oil holds the large heavy oil fields of Tsimiroro and Bemolanga, which are the island's major onshore oil fields.
The company opera... | 1.921875 | 0 |
6902100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionanthus%20virginicus | Chionanthus virginicus | Chionanthus virginicus (white fringetree) is a tree native to the savannas and lowlands of the northeastern and southeastern United States, from Massachusetts south to Florida, and west to Oklahoma and Texas.
Growth
It is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to as much as tall, though ordinarily less. The bark ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6902127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20Politics | Sexual Politics | Romantic love disguises the mismatch in power between men and women, but it leaves women vulnerable to emotional exploitation. Women have less economic power than men, and make less income. Millett says we don't often consider the ways that outright force is used to uphold patriarchy, yet this is the purpose of sexual ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6902178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus%20moving%20group | Arcturus moving group | In astronomy, the Arcturus moving group or Arcturus stream is a moving group or stellar stream, discovered by Olin J. Eggen (1971), comprising 53 stars moving at 275,000 miles per hour, which includes the nearby bright star Arcturus. It comprises many stars which share similar proper motion and so appear to be physical... | 3.03125 | 0 |
6902187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox%20Mystique | Matrox Mystique | The Mystique and Mystique 220 were 2D, 3D, and video accelerator cards for personal computers designed by Matrox, using the VGA connector. The original Mystique was introduced in 1996, with the slightly upgraded Mystique 220 having been released in 1997.
History
Matrox had been known for years as a significant player... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6902187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox%20Mystique | Matrox Mystique | Mystique was Matrox's most feature-rich 3D accelerator in 1997, but still lacked key features including bilinear filtering, fogging, and anti-aliasing support. Instead, the Mystique uses nearest-neighbor interpolation, causing heavy pixelization in textures, and stippled textures for transparency. Without mipmapping su... | 1.914063 | 0 |
6902223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Dominican%20Sisters | Adrian Dominican Sisters | The Adrian Dominican Sisters is a Catholic religious institute of Dominican sisters in the United States. Their motherhouse is in Adrian, Michigan.
Current Mission
The Congregation serves in ministries education, health care, pastoral and retreat ministry, the arts, social work, ecology, and peace and justice advocacy... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6902223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Dominican%20Sisters | Adrian Dominican Sisters | Under the leadership of Mother Gerald, the Congregation achieved pontifical status in 1944 and extended its ministries overseas — to the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Peru. In 1959, as the Congregation grew in numbers, it was divided into five provinces with headquarters in Detroit, Michigan (2), Chicago, Illino... | 2.125 | 0 |
6902223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Dominican%20Sisters | Adrian Dominican Sisters | Acting upon the directives sent from Rome after Vatican Council II, the Congregation developed new Constitutions that received approval on April 29, 1989. This Constitution and Statutes replaced earlier ones approved in 1937 and 1944. The Constitution incorporated a new governance organization based on Mission Chapters... | 1.945313 | 0 |
6902254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ%20Episcopal%20Church%20%28Tarrytown%2C%20New%20York%29 | Christ Episcopal Church (Tarrytown, New York) | History
The church was started by Nathaniel Holmes, a New York City bookseller and devout Episcopalian who retired to Tarrytown in 1835. He taught a Sunday school in the old schoolhouse on Franklin Street, and soon after taking up residence persuaded Dr. William Creighton, former rector of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bow... | 2.3125 | 0 |
6902254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ%20Episcopal%20Church%20%28Tarrytown%2C%20New%20York%29 | Christ Episcopal Church (Tarrytown, New York) | The new church soon purchased the current property and by November of that year the cornerstone had been laid. Local construction firm Hall & Boyce received $5,377 to complete the church. It was opened and the first services held in 1837. Creighton served with distinction as rector not only at Christ but at Zion Church... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6902254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ%20Episcopal%20Church%20%28Tarrytown%2C%20New%20York%29 | Christ Episcopal Church (Tarrytown, New York) | The last major alteration, in 1896, focused mainly on the interior decoration. The original pine benches were replaced with oak, and the pews arranged so that they had a single center aisle rather than just the two on the sides. All the new furnishing boasted carved wooden elements such as trefoil piercings that enhanc... | 2.21875 | 0 |
6902349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Storyteller%20Sequence | The Storyteller Sequence | Sparkleshark is a play about a teenage boy called Jake. As he is sitting alone, on top of the block of flats he lives in, writing stories, a troubled girl who is polly (she's a carer for her younger brother) who has started in his school, who recently moved into the block of flats comes up to quietly fix a satellite di... | 1.921875 | 0 |
6902349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Storyteller%20Sequence | The Storyteller Sequence | Brokenville (2000)
Brokenville has had the longest gestation period of all Ridley's plays. It was first performed as Cavesongs and was part of Ridley's performance art work while he was a student at St Martin's School of Art. It was then done as an afternoon rehearsed reading at the Hampstead Theatre in London (with Ju... | 1.9375 | 0 |
6902462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under%20Ben%20Bulben | Under Ben Bulben | "Under Ben Bulben" is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats.
Composition
It is believed to be one of the last poems he wrote, being drafted when he was 73, in August 1938 when his health was already poor (he died in January 1939).
Publication
"Under Ben Bulben" was first published in July 1939, six months after Ye... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6902488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Crete | La Crete | La Crete ( ), also spelled La Crête, is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada, within Mackenzie County. It is located on Highway 697, approximately southeast of High Level and north of Edmonton.
The hamlet is in Census Division No. 17 and in the federal riding of Peace River—Westlock.
The name "La Crête" means "the... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6902572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useppa%20Island | Useppa Island | Geology
Useppa Island is long north to south, and up to wide. A ridge, up to high, runs along much of the eastern edge of the island. A ridge up to high is in the middle of the island along the western side. A conical shell midden with ramps is located on the west side of the island towards the southern end. The s... | 3.34375 | 0 |
6902572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useppa%20Island | Useppa Island | After about 3000 BCE bodies were buried on Useppa Island in a flexed position. Steatite stone vessels and fiber-tempered pottery came into use on the island after 2000 BCE. Sand-tempered pottery appeared after 1200 BCE. Seasonal occupation of the island continued through the end of the Archaic period (c. 500 BCE) and ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
6902572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useppa%20Island | Useppa Island | The Second Seminole War began in late 1835. Henry Crews, the U.S. Customs officer on Josefa Island (Useppa), was killed in late March 1836, possibly by Seminoles or by Indians working at the rancho. Crews had been at odds with the Spaniards at the fishing rancho, believing that they were using fishing as a cover for la... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6902572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useppa%20Island | Useppa Island | Chicago businessman John Roach built a hotel on Useppa Island in 1896. Barron Collier bought the island in 1911, and developed the resort, enlarging the hotel and adding tennis courts and a 9-hole golf course. Collier made the island his official residence, from which he directed his real estate empire. Collier died in... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6902587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistou | Pistou | Pistou (Provençal: pisto (classical) or pistou (Mistralian), ), or pistou sauce, is a Provençal cold sauce made from cloves of garlic, fresh basil, and olive oil and sometimes almonds, bread crumbs or potatoes. It is somewhat similar to the Ligurian sauce pesto, although it lacks pine nuts and cheese; some versions inc... | 2.359375 | 0 |
6902653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston%20Calmette | Gaston Calmette | There, Madame Caillaux exchanged a few words with him, then pulled out a .32 Browning automatic pistol she had been concealing within the muff and fired six shots. Calmette was hit four times and was critically wounded, dying six hours later. Caillaux made no attempt to escape and newspaper workers in adjoining offices... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6902697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattillo%20Higgins | Pattillo Higgins | Pattillo Higgins (December 5, 1863 – June 5, 1955) was an American businessman and a self-taught geologist. He earned the nickname the "Prophet of Spindletop" for his endeavors in the Texas oil business, which accrued a fortune for many. He partnered to form the Gladys City Oil Gas and Manufacturing Company, and later ... | 2.375 | 0 |
6902697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattillo%20Higgins | Pattillo Higgins | Venture into business
Higgins ventured into real estate at first, and with the money that he saved as a logger, he started the Higgins Manufacturing Company to manufacture bricks. The business sparked his interest in oil and gas, as he used it for his kilns to burn the bricks evenly. He decided to travel to Pennsylvan... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6902697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattillo%20Higgins | Pattillo Higgins | Partnership with Anthony Lucas
Unwilling to give up hope of striking oil, Higgins placed numerous ads in industrial magazines and trade journals in an effort to spark others' interests in the prospect of hitting a successful well at the site. Only one man responded to the ads, a Croatian-American named Anthony Francis ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6902725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effie%20Waller%20Smith | Effie Waller Smith | Effie Waller Smith (January 6, 1879 – January 2, 1960) was an African-American poet of the early twentieth century. Her published output consisted of three volumes of poetry: Songs of the Month (1904), Rhymes From the Cumberland (1904), and Rosemary and Pansies (1909). Her poetry appeared in the publication Harper's ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
6902768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20East%20Coast%20153 | Florida East Coast 153 | Florida East Coast 153 is a Florida East Coast Railway 4-6-2 ALCO steam locomotive located in Miami, Florida, USA.
History
The locomotive served on the Florida East Coast Railway from 1922 to 1938 and pulled a train carrying President Calvin Coolidge to Miami in 1928. In 1935, when it was in use on the run between M... | 1.953125 | 0 |
6902833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego%20de%20Villalba%20y%20Toledo | Diego de Villalba y Toledo | Diego de Villalba y Toledo, marqués de Campo, señor de la Villa de Santacruz de Pinares was a Spanish general of artillery and colonial governor in America. From 1667 to 1671 he was governor of New Kingdom of Granada – Nuevo Reino de Granada – (greater Colombia), then part of the Viceroyalty of Peru.
Villalba y Toled... | 2.359375 | 0 |
6902857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiyo%20District | Keiyo District | Keiyo District (also known as Elgeyo district or Elgeiyo) is a defunct administrative district in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya. The district was formed in 1994, when the Elgeyo-Marakwet District was split into two — the other half was Marakwet District. According to the 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Cen... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6902880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Orange%20station | Port Orange station | Port Orange Florida East Coast Railway Freight Depot is a historic Florida East Coast Railway passenger depot in Port Orange, Florida, United States. It is located at 415C Herbert Street, off U.S. 1. The depot was originally constructed in 1894 as two buildings.
The depot was constructed by the narrow-gauge St. Johns ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
6902906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellesley%20Hospital | Wellesley Hospital | The Wellesley Hospital was a teaching hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, affiliated with the University of Toronto. It was founded by Dr. Herbert Bruce as a private hospital, but became publicly operated in 1942.
History
The Wellesley Hospital was opened as a 50-bed private hospital in 1911. The original hospital b... | 2.5625 | 0 |
6902934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambundu | Ambundu | The Ambundu or Mbundu (Mbundu: or , singular: (distinct from the Ovimbundu) are a Bantu people who live on a high plateau in present-day Angola just north of the Kwanza River. The Ambundu speak Kimbundu, and most also speak the official language of the country, Portuguese. They are the second biggest ethnic group in ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6902934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambundu | Ambundu | The Pende people tell an oral tradition of a single ancestor named Ngola Kilanji, who ruled over hunters and warriors at Tandji in Milumbu near the Zambezi River. Then Ngola moved his people west towards the sea, creating villages, or jingundu, along the way until they reached Luanda on the coast. He later unified his ... | 3.015625 | 0 |
6902934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambundu | Ambundu | The Portuguese defeated Matamba in 1836, and advanced to Kasanje by the middle of the century. Their actual influence, however, was quite limited due to the lack of people, money, and an efficient military. The Ambundu had opportunities to revolt or negotiate liberties. This changed at the end of the 19th century. Euro... | 2.96875 | 0 |
6902939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chub%20Sullivan | Chub Sullivan | John Frank "Chub" Sullivan (January12, 1856September12, 1881) was an American Major League Baseball first baseman who played for three seasons: two with the Cincinnati Reds (1877–1878) and one with the Worcester Worcesters (1880). He was nicknamed "Chub", but was 6 feet tall and weighed a mere 164 pounds. During his ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
6902962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlage | Schlage | Schlage ( ) is an American lock manufacturer founded in 1920 by Walter Schlage. Schlage was headquartered in San Francisco from its inception until it relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1997. Schlage also produces high-security key and cylinder lines Primus, Everest, and Everest Primus XP. Schlage is one of th... | 1.929688 | 0 |
6902962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlage | Schlage | Smart locks
In 2013, Schlage launched the Connect deadbolt, a smart lock available in Z-Wave and Zigbee-enabled versions with compatibility with Amazon Alexa and Google Home. In 2015, it introduced the Sense deadbolt, a Bluetooth-enabled smart lock and its first to support Apple HomeKit. The Connect and Sense deadbolt... | 1.9375 | 0 |
6902966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%20Johnson | Mat Johnson | Mat Johnson (born August 19, 1970, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American fiction writer who works in both prose and the comics format. In 2007, he was named the first USA James Baldwin Fellow by United States Artists.
Life and career
Johnson was born and raised in the Germantown and Mount Airy communities in ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
6902990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proinsias%20Mac%20Aonghusa | Proinsias Mac Aonghusa | Proinsias Mac Aonghusa (23 June 1933 – 28 September 2003) was an Irish journalist, writer, TV presenter and campaigner. Born into an Irish-speaking household, Mac Aonghusa became one of the most noted Irish language broadcasters and journalists of the 20th century, appearing as the presenter of Irish-language programmi... | 2.109375 | 0 |
6902990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proinsias%20Mac%20Aonghusa | Proinsias Mac Aonghusa | Mac Aonghusa's parents split when he was ten years of age; his mother took his siblings away to Dublin while Mac Aonghusa and his father remained in Rosmuc, a remote village and part of the Galway Gaeltacht. As a teenager he was educated at Coláiste Iognáid (also known as St. Ignatius College), a bilingual school in Ga... | 1.90625 | 0 |
6902996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iten | Iten | Iten is a town in Elgeyo-Marakwet County in the Republic of Kenya and serves as the capital and is the largest town in the county.
International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) awarded the town with a plaque recognising Iten as a World Athletics Heritage Landmark. Because of its Elevation of about 2400 metr... | 2.21875 | 0 |
6903004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor%20Supermind%20and%20Son | Professor Supermind and Son | "Professor Supermind and Son" was a comic book feature that appeared in issues #60–71 (February 1941 — January 1942) of Dell Comics' Popular Comics. The strip was drawn by Maurice Kashuba.
Professor Warren (Supermind) uses his energy machine to give his son, Dan, superhuman powers, including super strength, invulnerab... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6903006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20Irish%20Airman%20Foresees%20His%20Death | An Irish Airman Foresees His Death | "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), written in 1918 and first published in the Macmillan edition of The Wild Swans at Coole in 1919. The poem is a soliloquy given by an aviator in the First World War in which the narrator describes the circumstances surrounding... | 2.40625 | 0 |
6903024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.%20Liga | 3. Liga | The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga.
The modern 3. Liga was formed for the 2008–09 season, replacing the Regionalliga, which had previously served a... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6903024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.%20Liga | 3. Liga | U23 Regulation
The teams of the 3. Liga are obliged to list at least 4 players in the match report sheet (game day squad) for each game who are eligible to play for a DFB selection team and who are not older than 23 years for the entire season (1 July to 30 June), i.e. were born on or after 1 July 1998 (U23 players) fo... | 2.40625 | 0 |
6903024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.%20Liga | 3. Liga | Spectators
The number of spectators in the 3. Liga varies greatly. Big city traditional clubs like Dynamo Dresden, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1. FC Magdeburg, FC Hansa Rostock, MSV Duisburg, Arminia Bielefeld, Karlsruher SC, Alemannia Aachen, Eintracht Braunschweig, TSV 1860 Munich and Fortuna Düsseldorf, but also the ambit... | 2.09375 | 0 |
6903029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Longhorns%20football | Texas Longhorns football | Beginning in 1893, the Texas Longhorns football program is one of the most highly regarded and historic programs of all time. From 1936 to 1946 the team was led by Hall of Fame coach Dana X. Bible, and then from 1957 to 1976 the team was led by Hall of Fame coach Darrell K Royal, who won three national championships. T... | 2.078125 | 0 |
6903029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Longhorns%20football | Texas Longhorns football | Old Southwest Conference rivals, Texas and Arkansas first met in 1894, a 54–0 win by Texas. In the days of the Southwest Conference, the game between the two schools usually decided which team would win the conference championship. Overall, Texas won the game about 71% of the time, which led to an incredibly fierce and... | 1.96875 | 0 |
6903072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed%20Water | Jed Water | The Jed Water is a river and a tributary of the River Teviot in the Borders region of Scotland.
In total the Jed Water is over long and it falls . It flows into the Teviot near Jedfoot Bridge () two miles north of Jedburgh. Jed Water rises from a source on Carlin Tooth in the Cheviot Hills where it is first known as... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6903111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Tyler-Odam | Dorothy Tyler-Odam | Dorothy Jennifer Beatrice Tyler, MBE (née Odam; 14 March 1920 – 25 September 2014) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the high jump.
Biography
She was born in Stockwell, London. Odam competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany, where she won the silver medal behind Ibolya ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6903114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Shirley | Dorothy Shirley | Dorothy Ada Emerson (née Shirley) (born 15 May 1939) is a former British athlete, who mainly competed in the women's high jump event.
Athletics career
She competed for Great Britain in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, where she won the silver medal in the high jump jointly with Jarosława Jóźwiakowska. It ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
6903161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francophone%20Association%20of%20Municipalities%20of%20Ontario | Francophone Association of Municipalities of Ontario | The Francophone Association of Municipalities of Ontario (or AFMO, from its French name, Association française des municipalités d'Ontario) is a Canadian political organization of municipalities in the province of Ontario which have significant Franco-Ontarian communities. The organization oversees the maintenance and ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
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