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15833445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia%E2%80%93Volhynia%20Wars | Galicia–Volhynia Wars | The Galicia–Volhynia Wars were several wars fought in the years 1340–1392 over the succession in the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, also known as Ruthenia. After Yuri II Boleslav was poisoned by local Ruthenian nobles in 1340, both the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland advanced claims over the kingdom. A... | 2.53125 | 0 |
15833497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmbridge%2C%20Worcestershire | Elmbridge, Worcestershire | Elmbridge is a small community, mainly clustered in a village and forms a civil parish in Worcestershire, England.
Geography
It occupies the top of the gentle, mainly green, vale of the Elmbridge Brook which feeds south a few miles into Droitwich Spa, there flowing into the short River Salwarpe, in navigability super... | 1.953125 | 0 |
13159915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Hudson%20%28American%20football%29 | Bill Hudson (American football) | William Alex Hudson (July 9, 1935 – December 13, 2017) was an American professional football defensive tackle and unheralded member of the original Fearsome Foursome of defensive linemen in pro football. He attended Clemson University, where he was a member of the track and football teams. He played in the Canadian Foo... | 1.984375 | 0 |
13160061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogitarus | Brogitarus | Brogitarus ( , ) was king of Galatia in Asia Minor between and 50 BC, reigning concurrently with his father-in-law Deiotarus Philoromaeus, who was also tetrarch of the Tolistobogii. By Deiotarus' daughter Adobogiona, Brogitarus was the father of Amyntas, tetrarch of the Trocmi and king of Galatia.
Cicero claims that ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
13160155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Performance%20of%20Buildings%20Directive%202024 | Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2024 | The BUILD UP web portal aims to increase awareness and foster the market transformation towards Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings, catalysing and releasing Europe's collective intelligence for an effective implementation of energy saving measures in buildings, by connecting building professionals, including competent author... | 2.25 | 0 |
13160155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Performance%20of%20Buildings%20Directive%202024 | Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2024 | Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) Programme
The EU's Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) Programme was launched in 2003; the first IEE Programme (IEE I) closed in 2006, and was followed by the second IEE Programme (IEE II) from 2007 to 2013. Most parts of the IEE programme were run by the Executive Agency for SMEs, EASME -f... | 2.28125 | 0 |
13160226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breather%20surface | Breather surface | In differential geometry, a breather surface is a one-parameter family of mathematical surfaces which correspond to breather solutions of the sine-Gordon equation, a differential equation appearing in theoretical physics. The surfaces have the remarkable property that they have constant curvature , where the curvature ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
13160284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20in%20the%20Tuileries | Music in the Tuileries | Music in the Tuileries is an 1862 oil-on-canvas painting by Édouard Manet. It is owned by the National Gallery, London and the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin as part of the shared Lane Bequest.
The work is an early example of Manet's painterly style, inspired by Frans Hals and Diego Velázquez, and it is a harbinger of his ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
13160284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20in%20the%20Tuileries | Music in the Tuileries | The work measures . It was first exhibited in 1863, and Manet sold the painting to opera singer and collector Jean-Baptiste Faure in January of 1883, shortly before Manet's death. It was sold on to dealer Paul Durand-Ruel in 1898, and then to collector Sir Hugh Lane in 1903. After Lane's death, when RMS Lusitania was s... | 2.40625 | 0 |
13160311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne%20Real-time%20Cueing%20Hyperspectral%20Enhanced%20Reconnaissance | Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance | Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance, also known by the acronym ARCHER, is an aerial imaging system that produces ground images far more detailed than plain sight or ordinary aerial photography can.
It is the most sophisticated unclassified hyperspectral imaging system available, according to... | 2.4375 | 0 |
13160311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne%20Real-time%20Cueing%20Hyperspectral%20Enhanced%20Reconnaissance | Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance | Since 2003, almost US$5 million authorized under the 2002 Defense Appropriations Act has been spent on development and deployment. , CAP reported completing the initial deployment of 16 aircraft throughout the U.S. and training over 100 operators, but had only used the system on a few search and rescue missions, and ha... | 2.53125 | 0 |
13160311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne%20Real-time%20Cueing%20Hyperspectral%20Enhanced%20Reconnaissance | Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance | Hyperspectral imager
The passive hyperspectral imaging spectroscopy remote sensor observes a target in multi-spectral bands. The HSI camera separates the image spectra into 52 "bins" from 500 nanometers (nm) wavelength at the blue end of the visible spectrum to 1100 nm in the infrared, giving the camera a spectral res... | 2.40625 | 0 |
13160311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne%20Real-time%20Cueing%20Hyperspectral%20Enhanced%20Reconnaissance | Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance | Processing
A monitor in the cockpit displays detailed images in real time, and the system also logs the image and Global Positioning System data at a rate of 30 gigabytes (GB) per hour for later analysis. The on-board data processing system performs numerous real-time processing functions including data acquisition an... | 2.15625 | 0 |
13160400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duagh | Duagh | Duagh () is a village in County Kerry, Ireland, located approximately 7 km southeast of Listowel and 7 km northwest of Abbeyfeale on the R555 road. It is also a civil parish and townland.
Duagh is a dormitory village for Listowel and Abbeyfeale and a local service centre for the rural hinterland. There is one shop, t... | 2.125 | 0 |
13160404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20of%20Whithorn | John of Whithorn | John of Whithorn (died 1209) was the medieval Bishop of Galloway. His first appearance as bishop-elect is at the coronation of Richard, Cœur de Lion as King of the English at Westminster Abbey on 3 September 1189. He was consecrated at Pipewell Abbey, Northamptonshire, on Sunday 17 September 1189.
The consecration was... | 1.945313 | 0 |
13160422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled%20permeability%20formwork | Controlled permeability formwork | How cpf liners work
CPF liners are secured in place on vertical or inclined surfaces with staples or other fixing devices, having first been tensioned onto the formwork shuttering. Once attached, concreting is performed in the normal way. Release agents are not required as CPF liners easily debond from the concrete dur... | 2.28125 | 0 |
13160442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Fioretti | Bob Fioretti | Education and jobs
Since taking office, Fioretti has prioritized education and job creation in his legislative agenda. Fioretti has attempted to improve the Chicago Public School system, working closely with administrators to solve issues both in and out of the classroom. In 2008, Fioretti helped to create "Operation S... | 1.953125 | 0 |
13160488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclura%20cychlura%20cychlura | Cyclura cychlura cychlura | The Andros Island iguana or Andros iguana (Cyclura cychlura cychlura) is an endangered subspecies of Northern Bahamian rock iguana of the genus Cyclura that is found on Andros Island on the western edge of Grand Bahama. Its status is Endangered, with a wild population of 3,500 animals, and it can be found on the IUCN R... | 2.703125 | 0 |
13160488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclura%20cychlura%20cychlura | Cyclura cychlura cychlura | The newly hatched iguanas disperse away from the nest site for the first two or three weeks. During the first week, the hatchlings are vulnerable to predation by snakes; less than one-third of hatchlings survive their first month.
Conservation
Endangered Status
It is estimated that the current global population is l... | 3.015625 | 0 |
13160591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making%20Fiends%20%28TV%20series%29 | Making Fiends (TV series) | Making Fiends is an American animated television miniseries based on the web series of the same name. The series ran from October 4 to November 1, 2008, on Nicktoons Network. The series is Nickelodeon Animation Studio’s first animated series to be based on a web series, and follows the evil Vendetta and the new happy b... | 1.945313 | 0 |
13160622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs%20%28Mulroney%20book%29 | Memoirs (Mulroney book) | Memoirs: 1939–1993 is a memoir written by the former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney. The book was released on September 10, 2007 and outlines Mulroney's version of events during his early life, political career and time as prime minister.
CTV and TVA interviews
CTV broadcast a documentary on Brian Mulroney o... | 2.171875 | 0 |
13160652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Vicente%20del%20Valle | San Vicente del Valle | San Vicente del Valle is a municipality and hamlet located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. The municipality is in the comarca of Sierra de la Demanda. In addition to the hamlet of San Vicente del Valle, since 1857 the municipality has included the hamlet of Espinosa del Monte.
Geography
San Vicente... | 2.625 | 0 |
13160699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Courtright | William Courtright | William Courtright (February 10, 1848 – March 6, 1933) was an American film actor.
Early years
He was born Theodore Courtright in New Milford, Illinois, and was educated in the public schools of Ione, California. When he was 16, he ran away from home to join a stock theater company.
Career
Courtright's acting caree... | 1.96875 | 0 |
13160722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Olalla%20de%20Bureba | Santa Olalla de Bureba | The Latin name of Eulalia is Olalla, and it was called Bureba to distinguish them from other populations that had the same name. The first written mention that makes reference to Santa Olalla de Bureba dates back to the year 1011, when Don Sancho I cites it in the founding document of the Monastery of San Salvador de O... | 2.34375 | 0 |
13160724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Melville | Sam Melville | Samuel Joseph Melville (born Samuel Joseph Grossman, 1934 – September 13, 1971), was the principal conspirator and bomb setter in the 1969 bombings of eight government and commercial office buildings in New York City. Melville cited his opposition to the Vietnam War and U.S. imperialism as the motivation for the bombin... | 2.5 | 0 |
13160724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Melville | Sam Melville | Afterwards, Melville survived by working odd jobs, including for the National Guardian, a weekly left-wing newspaper published in New York City. He became involved with the opposition to the war in Vietnam, acquainting himself with left-wing political organizations, meeting radical activists, and steeping himself in ra... | 2.296875 | 0 |
13160724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Melville | Sam Melville | Arrest and charges
In New York City, Melville had been working with a radical activist group known as "The Crazies". One of their members, George Demmerle, was an FBI informant who assisted in the gathering of evidence and apprehension of the group. On November 12, 1969, hours after the Criminal Courts Building bombin... | 2.28125 | 0 |
13160724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Melville | Sam Melville | Melville was among the committee of inmates who helped organize inmates' demands and keep order during the Attica Prison Riot in September 1971. Melville, 28 other inmates, and 10 hostages were shot and killed by state police on September 13, when the uprising was put down by order of Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Accor... | 2.5 | 0 |
13160865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheingau%20%28wine%20region%29 | Rheingau (wine region) | Rheingau is one of 13 designated German wine regions (Weinbaugebiete) producing quality wines (QbA and Prädikatswein). It was named after the traditional region of Rheingau (meaning "Rhine district"), the wine region is situated in the state of Hesse, where it constitutes part of the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis administrativ... | 2.125 | 0 |
13161296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarzosa%20de%20R%C3%ADo%20Pisuerga | Zarzosa de Río Pisuerga | Zarzosa council had “since time immemorial” enjoyed the privilege of jurisdictional immunity: the king’s officials could not enter with authority to command or make orders of jurisdiction in Zarzosa council or within its boundaries. Several nearby councils also enjoyed the same privilege of immunity: Castrillo de Rio... | 2.21875 | 0 |
13161338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uiwang%20Station | Uiwang Station | Uiwang Station (Station P152) is a ground-level metro station on line 1 of the Seoul Subway in Uiwang, South Korea. The station's four exits offer access to the Korea National University of Transportation, the Korean Railroad Museum and the Bugok Dong area of Uiwang. Travel time from Uiwang Station to Seoul Station on... | 2.03125 | 0 |
13161359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa%20Bighi | Villa Bighi | Royal Naval Hospital Bighi (RNH Bighi) also known as Bighi Hospital, was a major naval hospital located in the small town of Kalkara on the island of Malta. It was built on the site of the gardens of Palazzo Bichi, that was periodically known as Palazzo Salvatore. RNH Bighi served the eastern Mediterranean in the 19th ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
13161359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa%20Bighi | Villa Bighi | Bighi Hospital contributed to the nursing and medical care of casualties whenever hostilities occurred in the Mediterranean, making Malta "the nurse of the Mediterranean".
The hospital's first director (1827–1844) was John Liddell. He was later appointed director-general of the Royal Navy's Medical Department, and dur... | 2.390625 | 0 |
13161364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiocyanogen | Thiocyanogen | Preparation
Modern syntheses typically differ little from Söderbäck's process. Thiocyanogen synthesis begins when aqueous solutions of lead(II) nitrate and sodium thiocyanate, combined, precipitate plumbous thiocyanate. Treating an anhydrous Pb(SCN)2 suspension in glacial acetic acid with bromine then affords a 0.1M ... | 2.125 | 0 |
13161404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess%20of%20Richmond%27s%20ball | Duchess of Richmond's ball | Cultural influences
The ball inspired a number of writers and artists in the nineteenth century. Sir Walter Scott mentioned it in passing in Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk. It was described by William Makepeace Thackeray in Vanity Fair and by Lord Byron in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Byron emphasises the contrast bet... | 2.546875 | 0 |
13161404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess%20of%20Richmond%27s%20ball | Duchess of Richmond's ball | In the novel Sharpe's Waterloo (1990), Bernard Cornwell uses the ball in a similar way to Bondarchuk, placing his character Richard Sharpe in the role of the aide who brings the catastrophic news to Wellington, but includes a sub-plot where Sharpe brawls with Lord John Rossendale, the lover of Sharpe's wife and a man w... | 2.046875 | 0 |
13161449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Amadeus%20Mozart%20and%20Prague | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Prague | Daniel E. Freeman has provided the most comprehensive appraisal of the conditions that made Prague so attractive as a musical destination for Mozart in the 1780s. One of the most important reasons include a recovery in the population of the city that created a musical public much larger than had been present in the cit... | 2.828125 | 0 |
13161449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Amadeus%20Mozart%20and%20Prague | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Prague | The grief exhibited for Mozart in Prague after his death on 5 December 1791 far exceeded that witnessed in any other European city. Daniel E. Freeman has pointed out that whereas Mozart (one of history's greatest musicians) was laid to rest in Vienna without any special performance of music and a pathetic showing of m... | 2.25 | 0 |
13161449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Amadeus%20Mozart%20and%20Prague | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Prague | Daniel E. Freeman has produced the most detailed appraisal of the reasons for the success of Mozart's music in late eighteenth-century Prague The most important consideration is simply that the citizenry of Prague was likely the most musically literate of any in Europe due to a unique system of music education that gre... | 2.890625 | 0 |
13161449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Amadeus%20Mozart%20and%20Prague | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Prague | Mozart also had an unusual ability to compose imaginatively for wind instruments. Bohemian wind players were famed all over Europe for their skills, thus his mastery of wind composition was much appreciated in Prague. The Prague press specifically attributed the success of the operas Die Entführung aus dem Serail and... | 2.578125 | 0 |
13161463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson%20Super%20400 | Gibson Super 400 | The Gibson Super 400 is an archtop guitar. It is a highly influential guitar model that inspired many other master guitar builders (including Elmer Stromberg and John D'Angelico). It was first sold in 1934 and named for its $400 price (), like many Gibson guitars of that era.
The Super 400 features solid carved-wood c... | 2.46875 | 0 |
13161598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tom%20and%20Jerry%20Cartoon%20Kit | The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit | The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit is a Tom and Jerry animated short film, produced and released on August 10, 1962. It was the ninth cartoon in a series of thirteen to be directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Czechoslovakia. It updates its copyright to the current year 1962 as opposed to the 1961 cop... | 2.046875 | 0 |
13161633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS%20Highland | NHS Highland | NHS Highland is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland. Geographically, it is the largest Health Board, covering an area of from Kintyre in the south-west to Caithness in the north-east, serving a population of 320,000 people. In 2016–17 it had an operating budget of £780 million. It provides prehospital care, pr... | 2.375 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | The students formed a cadet company in December 1860 to aid the Southern cause, but an order by Governor Pickens prevented them from leaving Columbia. Undeterred, the students disbanded their company on April 12 and formed a new company while en route to Charleston so that the governor's previous holding orders would b... | 2.453125 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | Radical University
The Union army took possession of the college on May 24, 1865, and although the future for the college under military control, General John Porter Hatch sent a letter on June 19 to the remaining professors at the college that it should reopen as soon as possible. The appointment of Benjamin Franklin ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | The reopening of the university was pushed back to January 10 due to the dilapidated condition of the buildings on the campus and to celebrate the anniversary of the original opening of South Carolina College. Fewer than fifty students attended in the first term, which alarmed Governor Orr. He recommended to the Genera... | 2.5625 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | The admission of black students to the university was inevitable, and three factors contributed to this. First, the university never achieved a level of enrollment that was commensurate with its financial backing by the legislature. Enrollment never exceeded one hundred students, whereas the enrollment at Wofford Colle... | 2.640625 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | On October 8, enrollment stood at eight students, seven of whom were the sons of professors. The number increased to twenty-two students after many politicians registered with the university to show that it was open for both races, yet few of the politicians attended classes. Troubled by the low enrollment, State Treas... | 2.703125 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | Redeemer University
It was far from certain that the university would be reopened and debate ensued in the General Assembly over the necessity of the university. Many legislators, led by Martin Witherspoon Gary, felt that the state had other obligations and it was not practical for the state to spend money on the unive... | 2.375 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | By 1881, the state's financial situation was markedly improved and Governor Johnson Hagood called for greater expenditures on higher education. With a much higher appropriation, the trustees abolished the farming and mechanical foreman positions, in 1882 restoring the institution to its antebellum status as the South C... | 2.578125 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | Reemergence as a university
The victory by Duncan Clinch Heyward in the gubernatorial election of 1902 marked the end of Tillmanism and the return of support by the governor's office for the institution. Heyward pushed the legislature to convert the college into a university in 1905 to mark the centennial by providing ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | By November 1944 it was clear that World War II would soon be coming to a close and the servicemen would return to enroll in the university in massive numbers due in large part because of the passage of the G.I. Bill. Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives and trustee of the university Solomon Blatt unv... | 2.453125 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | However, Blatt's proposal caused an intense uproar in the state because alumni and students felt that it would needlessly sever the university from its antebellum tradition. Other complaints arose that the process itself did not allow for public input and it was detested as a product of the Barnwell Ring. Even with the... | 2.296875 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | Growth and prosperity
The ascendancy of Russell was crucial for the university at a critical moment in its history because he brought youth and dynamic leadership to the Presidency. His vision for the university was for it to be the capstone of the state's higher education system and for it to be the senior partner to ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | Sumwalt retired in 1962 and he was replaced by Thomas F. Jones as president. Immediately, Jones was confronted by the integration problem that the university faced. Clemson admitted Harvey Gantt in January 1963 and it was just a matter of time before the university would be forced to admit blacks. USC exhausted its leg... | 2.03125 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | The growth of the university in the 1960s and 70s also brought with it the social activism and disorder of the time. Due to the massive influx of so many students in a short time period, the administration lost control of student life. Drug and alcohol use became so rampant at the university that it became known as a p... | 2.453125 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | A persistent problem for the university was the Columbia campus's relationship with the semi-autonomous regional campuses. Once a campus reached a Full-time equivalent of 1,000 students, it was entitled to become a four-year college and the campuses in Aiken, Spartanburg, and Conway took advantage of this rule. The law... | 2.15625 | 0 |
13161653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20South%20Carolina | History of the University of South Carolina | The international spotlight on the university came at a price and an inquisitive journalism student led to Holderman's downfall. Paul Perkins, a journalism student upset with tuition increases, requested that the university release the salary of visiting professor Jehan Sadat. Holderman balked and refused to release th... | 1.984375 | 0 |
13161688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungshar | Lungshar | Background
Lungshar came from an aristocratic family with a history of service to the 5th Dalai Lama; his father was a Major (Rupön) in the Tibetan Army and he was an Accountant of the 6th rank in the Accountant-General's Office at Lhasa during the 13th Dalai Lama leadership. In 1912 the reform-minded Dalai Lama, who ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
13161688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungshar | Lungshar | Lungshar was one of several parties vying for control of the government following the Dalai Lama's death. He defeated rival Kumbela by launching a campaign of suspicion that Kumbela had brought about the Dalai Lama's death. Kumbela was exiled, but Lungshar failed to gain ascendency. Lungshar was eventually outmaneuv... | 2.265625 | 0 |
13161704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Pier%2C%20Colwyn%20Bay | Victoria Pier, Colwyn Bay | Designed by Mangnall & Littlewoods of Manchester, Colwyn Bay's Victoria Pier was one of the later British piers to be built. Construction by the Salford firm of William Brown & Sons began in June 1899. Many of the pier's components were pre-fabricated, and manufactured by the Widnes Iron Foundry. Its official opening w... | 2.15625 | 0 |
13161704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Pier%2C%20Colwyn%20Bay | Victoria Pier, Colwyn Bay | Third pavilion
Colwyn Bay Urban District Council set about rebuilding, and the third pavilion was opened on Tuesday 8 May 1934 at a cost of £16,000, but the Bijou Theatre was never rebuilt. The pavilion was designed by architect Stanley Davenport Adshead, and the rebuilding also involved constructing a cast iron cover... | 2.234375 | 0 |
13161704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Pier%2C%20Colwyn%20Bay | Victoria Pier, Colwyn Bay | Regeneration attempts
In 2012, Conwy County Borough Council bought the Pier from the Receivers, Royce Peeling Green and intended to grant a lease to a local community group if they were successful. In late March 2012, Conwy Borough Council announced they would put in a request for lottery funding to be used to save t... | 1.914063 | 0 |
13161723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picumnus%20%28bird%29 | Picumnus (bird) | Picumnus is a large genus of piculets. With a total length of 8–10 cm (3–4 in), they are among the smallest birds in the woodpecker family. All species are found in the Neotropics except the speckled piculet (Picumnus innominatus) that has a wide distribution in China, India and Southeast Asia.
Species limits in this ... | 2.984375 | 0 |
13161723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picumnus%20%28bird%29 | Picumnus (bird) | Taxonomy
The genus Picumnus was introduced in 1825 by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. He listed three species in the genus but did not specify the type. In 1840 George Gray designated the type as Picumnus minutissimus Temminck, 1825. This is now preoccupied in Picumnus by Picus minutissimus Pallas, 1782. T... | 2.921875 | 0 |
13161732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Porcius%20Latro | Marcus Porcius Latro | Marcus Porcius Latro (died 4 BC) was a celebrated Roman rhetorician who is considered one of the founders of scholastic rhetoric.
He was born in Roman Spain, and is mentioned often in the works of his friend and contemporary Seneca the Elder, with whom he studied under Marillius.
In 17 BC, Latro declaimed before Augu... | 2.625 | 0 |
13161814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyticeros | Rhyticeros | Rhyticeros is a genus of medium to large hornbills (family Bucerotidae) found in forests from Southeast Asia to the Solomons. They are sometimes included in the genus Aceros. On the other hand, most species generally placed in Aceros are sometimes moved to Rhyticeros, leaving Aceros as a monotypic genus only containing... | 2.75 | 0 |
13161819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dy%C5%8D%20Mitsunobu | Tōyō Mitsunobu | was a captain of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Mitunobu worked in the Japanese naval command in China.
Biography
He attended secondary school in Osaka and then the Japanese Imperial Navy Academy graduating in 1919. He later entered active service in the Japanese navy. In 1929 he was transferred to the command of the imp... | 2.5 | 0 |
13161965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan%20Laaman | Jaan Laaman | Jaan Karl Laaman (born March 21, 1948) is an Estonia-born American political activist, most known for his conviction and imprisonment related to various charges including a 1982 attempted murder of a police officer. He was a member of the United Freedom Front.
Laaman grew up in Roxbury, Massachusetts and Buffalo, New... | 1.953125 | 0 |
13161970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Barco%20de%20%C3%81vila | El Barco de Ávila | El Barco de Ávila is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain. It forms part of the region of El Barco de Ávila - Piedrahíta, and is located in the valley of Tormes River, and is the headboard of the natural region of Alto Tormes. In 2017 it had a population of 2436.
Place names and sy... | 2.171875 | 0 |
13162059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Michael%20Lennon | J. Michael Lennon | J. Michael Lennon is an American academic and writer who is the Emeritus Professor of English at Wilkes University and the late Norman Mailer’s archivist and authorized biographer. He published Mailer's official biography Norman Mailer: A Double Life in 2013. He edited Mailer's selected letters in 2014 and the Library ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
13162059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Michael%20Lennon | J. Michael Lennon | Norman Mailer: A Double Life was published on October 15, 2013, seven years after Lennon took the mantle from Lucid.
Lennon based his 320,000-word biography primarily on Mailer's prodigious epistolary output and a series of over-200 interviews with family, friends, and collaborators of Mailer's.
Early on, Mailer grant... | 1.921875 | 0 |
13162074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Townsend%20%28soldier%29 | Richard Townsend (soldier) | Richard Townesend (as he spelt his name) was a soldier and politician in England. He was born in 1618 or 1619. Much research has been undertaken by various members of the Townsend family to trace Richard's origins but nothing is known about him before 1643 when he was appointed to command a company, as a captain, in Co... | 2.03125 | 0 |
13162100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish%20poor%20laws | Scottish poor laws | After the Act of Union, Scotland retained its distinct legal system and the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 was not applied to Scotland. As in England, it was necessary to reform the poor laws. A commission of inquiry was established in 1843 to determine system reform. This resulted in the Poor Law (Scotland) Act 1845 bein... | 2.8125 | 0 |
13162108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavenbaby | Shavenbaby | The shavenbaby (svb) or ovo gene encodes a transcription factor in Drosophila responsible for inducing cells to become hair-like projections called trichomes or microtrichia. Many of the major developmental signaling pathways converge at the shavenbaby locus, which then regulates over 150 downstream target genes. The "... | 2.609375 | 0 |
13162206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor%20Jenks | Tudor Jenks | Tudor Storrs Jenks (May 7, 1857 – February 11, 1922) was an American writer, poet, artist and editor, as well as a journalist and lawyer. He is chiefly remembered for the popular works of fiction and nonfiction he wrote for children and general readers.
Life and family
Jenks was born on May 7, 1857, in Brooklyn, New Y... | 2.296875 | 0 |
13162307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20Cavalry%20HAC | Light Cavalry HAC | The Light Cavalry HAC is a Ceremonial sub-unit of the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC). Established in 1861 as an active military unit, the Light Cavalry was reestablished in 1979 as a uniformed civilian ceremonial unit for special events. The Light Cavalry are primarily based at Armoury House in London with horse... | 2.375 | 0 |
13162307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20Cavalry%20HAC | Light Cavalry HAC | A Royal Warrant granted by Elizabeth II in 2004 tasks the Light Cavalry with providing a ceremonial bodyguard for the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of the City of London. The Light Cavalry escorts the Lady Mayoress’s Coach during the annual Lord Mayor's Show. Other duties include providing mounted and dismounted guards... | 2.265625 | 0 |
13162310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaparte%27s%20parakeet | Bonaparte's parakeet | Bonaparte's parakeet (Pyrrhura lucianii), also known as Deville's parakeet, or in aviculture as Deville's conure, is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is restricted to the Brazilian state of Amazonas south of the Solimões river.
Description
Total length c. . As other members of the Pyrrhura picta compl... | 2.578125 | 0 |
13162310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaparte%27s%20parakeet | Bonaparte's parakeet | Taxonomy
It has typically been considered a subspecies of Pyrrhura picta. As with most other taxa in the P. picta complex, Joseph (2002) recommended that lucianii should be recognized as a monotypic species, P. lucianii. Ribas et al. (2006) did not include lucianii in their study, but did find that P. picta (sensu stri... | 2.203125 | 0 |
13162644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear%20Creek%20High%20School%20%28Colorado%29 | Bear Creek High School (Colorado) | Bear Creek High School is located in the southwest corner of Lakewood, Colorado, a suburb of the greater Denver metro area. It is one of 18 high schools in Jefferson County.
The school colors are forest green, gold, and white. The mascot is a bear. The principal is Shannon Vigil. There are 1,634 students as of October... | 2.4375 | 0 |
13162679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6bbelin%2C%20Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Wöbbelin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Wöbbelin is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The municipality has a seat in the office of Ludwigslust from where it is administered. Wöbbelin consists of three areas: Dreenkrögen, the "Funkamtsiedlung", a housing development and buildings supporting a former radio ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
13162679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6bbelin%2C%20Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Wöbbelin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | In 1952, Wöbbelin became the location for a broadcasting installation used for transmitting medium wave band broadcasts. Two steel, half-timbered masts, 120 metres high, were used in the antenna system. These were developed from a transmitting mast, which had been located at Königs Wusterhausen and dismantled. During ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
13162692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20College%20of%20Osteopathic%20Internists | American College of Osteopathic Internists | The American College of Osteopathic Internists (ACOI) is a medical association in the United States representing osteopathic physicians who specialize in internal medicine. The ACOI is one of two professional organizations representing internal medicine physicians in the United States, the other organization is the Ame... | 2.078125 | 0 |
13162757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20Moncassin | Frédéric Moncassin | Frédéric Moncassin (born 26 September 1968) is a French former road racing cyclist. He turned professional in 1990 and retired in 1999. He competed in the men's individual road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Moncassin was a strong roadman-sprinter known for his tussles with other riders in the last metres of a race... | 1.914063 | 0 |
13163054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Block | West Block | Construction on all three blocks commenced by the end of 1859. By the time the West Block was completed in 1865, the building was three years behind schedule. The first tenants were the offices of the postmaster general, the Ministry of Public Works, and the Crown lands departments. As the number of parliamentary and a... | 2.3125 | 0 |
13163091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinel%C3%A2ndia | Cinelândia | Cinelândia is the popular name of a major public square in the centre of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its official name is Praça Floriano Peixoto, in honour of the second president of Brazil, Floriano Peixoto.
History
In colonial times, the main structure in the Cinelândia area was the Ajuda Convent, built for women around... | 2.84375 | 0 |
13163135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grab%C5%A1tejn | Grabštejn | Grabštejn () is a castle in Chotyně in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. Originally a Gothic castle, it was rebuilt in the Renaissance style and later modified in the late Baroque and late Neoclassical styles. It belongs among the most important monuments of the Liberec Region.
History
The original Gothic cas... | 2.046875 | 0 |
13163184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan%20Leturgez | Bryan Leturgez | Bryan Robert Leturgez (born August 3, 1962) is an American football player, track and field athlete and bobsledder who competed from 1988 to 1998.
Biography
A native of Indiana, he was born in Terre Haute. His mother and father were in the education field and moved a number of times as opportunities opened up. He grad... | 1.96875 | 0 |
13163187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20J.%20Goulding | Alfred J. Goulding | Alfred John "Alf" Goulding (January 26, 1885 – April 25, 1972) was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became an American film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 180 films between 1917 and 1959 and is credited with having Harold Lloyd wear his trademark glasses.
Biography
He was born on January 26, 188... | 2.390625 | 0 |
13163275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapchi%20Prison | Drapchi Prison | Drapchi Prison, or Lhasa Prison No. 1 (, lit. "four corners"; ), is the largest prison in Tibet, China, located in Lhasa. Drapchi is named after its location and was originally a military garrison until it was converted into a prison after the 1959 Tibetan Uprising. It is roughly one mile from the city centre and is t... | 2.5 | 0 |
13163358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole%20number%20rule | Whole number rule | In chemistry, the whole number rule states that the masses of the isotopes are whole number multiples of the mass of the hydrogen atom. The rule is a modified version of Prout's hypothesis proposed in 1815, to the effect that atomic weights are multiples of the weight of the hydrogen atom. It is also known as the Aston... | 3.015625 | 0 |
13163442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%20Girls%20Say%20No | Why Girls Say No | Why Girls Say No is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Leo McCarey, starring Marjorie Daw and Max Davidson, and featuring Oliver Hardy in a supporting role.
Plot
Every boy on the street is in love with Becky. But her father, Papa Whisselberg, insists that any suitors be Jewish. While getting her hair cut, ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
13163467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony | Anthony | Anthony, also spelled Antony, is a masculine given name derived from the Antonii, a gens (Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius) belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, a son of Heracles. Anthony is an English name that is in use in many countri... | 2.578125 | 0 |
13163517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Warren%20Brown%20School%20of%20Social%20Work | George Warren Brown School of Social Work | As Bruno planned his retirement, he drafted an ordinance to graduate the social work program from an academic department to a degree-granting school. Then University Chancellor, George Throop, resisted this proposal for several years. When Throop resigned in 1944, the Department appealed to the Board of Directors, esta... | 2.28125 | 0 |
13163517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Warren%20Brown%20School%20of%20Social%20Work | George Warren Brown School of Social Work | Shanti Khinduka, the Assistant Dean of Social Work at Saint Louis University accepted the deanship in 1974. During his tenure, Khinduka convened faculty and students to instate a competency-based curriculum, building off of Nancy Carroll's critique of the School's decades of individualized, elective-heavy design. Afte... | 2.078125 | 0 |
13163517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Warren%20Brown%20School%20of%20Social%20Work | George Warren Brown School of Social Work | Facilities
The Brown School is located on Washington University's Danforth Campus, a 169-acre area shared with the School of Law, School of Arts & Sciences, Olin Business School, McKelvey School of Engineering, and Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Research also occurs at the Washington University School of Medic... | 2.109375 | 0 |
13163733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotherm | Stenotherm | A stenotherm (from Greek στενός stenos "narrow" and θέρμη therme "heat") is a species or living organism capable of surviving only within a narrow temperature range. This specialization is often found in organisms that inhabit environments with relatively stable environments, such as deep sea environments or polar reg... | 3.328125 | 0 |
13163921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlos%20Kirby | Karlos Kirby | Karlos Kirby (born October 2, 1967) is an American bobsledder who competed during the 1990s.
A native of West Des Moines, Iowa, and a graduate of Valley High School. In 1992 Kirby became the first person from the state of Iowa to compete in a Winter Olympic Games. A bobsledder, Kirby earned a bronze medal in the four-... | 2.71875 | 0 |
13163964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelargonium%20drummondii | Pelargonium drummondii | Pelargonium drummondii is a species of Pelargonium found around the southern coasts of Western Australia.
Description
A perennial herb found as an erect or semiprostrate shrub, Pelargonium drummondii may be 100 to 400 mm in height. The flowers are light pink, but a darker colour at the center, splotchy and veined in a... | 2.34375 | 0 |
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