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6904851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ductal%20carcinoma%20in%20situ | Ductal carcinoma in situ | Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), also known as intraductal carcinoma, is a pre-cancerous or non-invasive cancerous lesion of the breast. DCIS is classified as Stage 0. It rarely produces symptoms or a breast lump that can be felt, typically being detected through screening mammography. It has been diagnosed in a signif... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6904851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ductal%20carcinoma%20in%20situ | Ductal carcinoma in situ | Terminology
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) literally means groups of "cancerous" epithelial cells which remain in their normal location (in situ) within the ducts and lobules of the mammary gland. Clinically, DCIS is considered to be a premalignant (i.e. potentially malignant) condition, because the biologically abnor... | 2.765625 | 0 |
6904851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ductal%20carcinoma%20in%20situ | Ductal carcinoma in situ | Some women are however more prone than others to developing DCIS. Women considered at higher risks are those who have a family history of breast cancer, those who have had their periods at an early age or who have had a late menopause. Also, women who have never had children or had them late in life are also more likel... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6904851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ductal%20carcinoma%20in%20situ | Ductal carcinoma in situ | Radiation therapy
Use of radiation therapy after lumpectomy provides equivalent survival rates to mastectomy, although there is a slightly higher risk of recurrent disease in the same breast in the form of further DCIS or invasive breast cancer. Systematic reviews (including a Cochrane review) indicate that the additio... | 1.953125 | 0 |
6904851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ductal%20carcinoma%20in%20situ | Ductal carcinoma in situ | Sentinel node biopsy
Some institutions that have encountered high rates of recurrent invasive cancers after mastectomy for DCIS have endorsed routine sentinel node biopsy (SNB). However, research indicates that sentinel node biopsy has risks that outweigh the benefits for most women with DCIS. SNB should be considered ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
6904863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20Trail%20Memorial%20half%20dollar | Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar | The Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar was a fifty-cent piece struck intermittently by the United States Bureau of the Mint between 1926 and 1939. The coin was designed by Laura Gardin Fraser and James Earle Fraser, and commemorates those who traveled the Oregon Trail and settled the Pacific Coast of the United States ... | 2.828125 | 0 |
6904863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20Trail%20Memorial%20half%20dollar | Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar | Ohio-born farmer Ezra Meeker (1830–1928) traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852; he and his young wife and infant child went by ox-drawn wagon from Iowa to Oregon Territory. In his old age, he came to believe that the Oregon Trail, and the sacrifice of those who had died along it, were being forgotten. Amid considerable p... | 2.71875 | 0 |
6904863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20Trail%20Memorial%20half%20dollar | Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar | The idea for the coin was brought up again when civic activists in Pocatello, Idaho, led by Dr. Minnie Howard, sought ideas for funding a monument on the site of Fort Hall. Insurance salesman F.C. McGowan displayed a Stone Mountain piece, "Yes. Coinage. Like this!" Howard and her colleagues pursued the idea. Meeker ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6904863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20Trail%20Memorial%20half%20dollar | Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar | The bill authorizing the Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar was first introduced in the House of Representatives on January 25, 1926, by Washington Congressman John Franklin Miller, who had previously been mayor of Seattle. Meeker was living in Seattle while Miller was mayor, having moved from his previous home in Puy... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6904863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20Trail%20Memorial%20half%20dollar | Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar | The OTMA tried to reach agreement with Gutzon Borglum, designer of the Stone Mountain piece, but he wanted too much money and time. Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar, who had played a minor role in the Columbian half dollar of 1892–93, was willing, but lacked the national reputation the Association felt the coin's sculpto... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6904863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20Trail%20Memorial%20half%20dollar | Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar | After Meeker's death, the OTMA selected Howard R. Driggs, a professor of English education at New York University as his successor, and elected a new board of directors, which worked to clear the debt Meeker had accrued. Coins on hand continued to be sold. It was able to persuade President Hoover to proclaim the Covere... | 2.34375 | 0 |
6904863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20Trail%20Memorial%20half%20dollar | Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar | The Oregon Trail Memorial Association became part of the newly formed American Pioneer Trails Association (APTA) in 1940, a group meant to be broader in scope than the OTMA. A 1942 joint financial statement of both organizations reveals that it still held 7,212 half dollars. It was selling 1936 and 1937-D half dollar... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6904890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Center%20for%20Religion%20%26%20Diplomacy | International Center for Religion & Diplomacy | The International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (ICRD) is a Washington, D.C.–based non-profit organization dedicated to resolving identity-based conflicts that exceed the reach of traditional diplomacy by incorporating religion as part of the solution. Acting as a bridge between religion and politics, ICRD's missio... | 2.015625 | 0 |
6904902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission%20inventory | Emission inventory | Similarly, national emission inventories provide total emissions in a specific year, based on national statistics. In some model applications higher temporal resolutions are needed, for instance when modelling air quality problems related to road transport. In such cases data on time dependent traffic intensities (rush... | 1.960938 | 0 |
6904987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20heritage | Virtual heritage | Virtual heritage or cultural heritage and technology is the body of works dealing with information and communication technologies and their application to cultural heritage, such as virtual archaeology. It aims to restore ancient cultures as real (virtual) environments where users can immerse.
Virtual heritage and cul... | 3.078125 | 0 |
6904987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20heritage | Virtual heritage | Many virtual heritage projects focus on the tangible aspects of cultural heritage, for example 3D modelling, graphics and animation. In doing so, they often overlook the intangible aspects of cultural heritage associated with objects and sites, such as stories, performances and dances. The tangible aspects of cultural ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
6905037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demidov%20Prize | Demidov Prize | The Demidov Prize () is a national scientific prize in Russia awarded annually to the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Originally awarded from 1832 to 1866 in the Russian Empire, it was revived by the government of Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast in 1993. In its original incarnation it was one of the first annual... | 2.75 | 0 |
6905067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo%20Technology%20Academy | Toledo Technology Academy | Background
Toledo Technology Academy of Engineering is a public high school located in Toledo, Ohio. It is part of the Toledo Public Schools. It is located in the former DeVilbiss High School. Many students from surrounding suburban school districts, as well as private schools attend TTAE Toledo Technology Academy st... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6905096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Professor%20%28Gilligan%27s%20Island%29 | The Professor (Gilligan's Island) | Character summary
The Professor's backstory identifies him as Roy Hinkley (though his actual name is rarely mentioned during the series), a high-school science teacher who was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His principal expertise was as a botanist, whose purpose in joining the ill-fated voyage that stranded the castaways w... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6905119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday%27s%20Son | Yesterday's Son | Yesterday's Son is a science fiction novel by American writer A. C. Crispin set in the fictional Star Trek Universe. It describes the events surrounding Spock's discovery that he has a son. Yesterday's Son and its sequel, Time for Yesterday, make up A. C. Crispin's "Yesterday Saga".
The book was the first Star Trek n... | 2.046875 | 0 |
6905146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores%20%28Notre-Dame%20des%20Sept%20Douleurs%29 | Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs) | "Dolores", subtitled "Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs", is a poem by A. C. Swinburne first published in his 1866 Poems and Ballads. The poem, in 440 lines, regards the figure of the titular "Dolores, Our Lady of Pain", thus named at the close of many of its stanzas.
Themes
The speaker of the poem is the voice of a besot... | 1.976563 | 0 |
6905146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores%20%28Notre-Dame%20des%20Sept%20Douleurs%29 | Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs) | Controversial aspects
The poem demonstrates most of the controversial themes for which Swinburne became notorious. It conflates the cruel yet libidinous pagan goddess figure of Dolores, the Lady of Pain with Mary, Mother of Jesus and associates the poem itself, through its parenthetical titular text (Notre-Dame des Se... | 1.945313 | 0 |
6905173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters%20of%20Charity%20of%20the%20Incarnate%20Word | Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word | Previous to 1874, the sisters had been solely occupied in caring for the sick, the aged, and orphans, but following the counsel of Anthony Dominic Pellicer, first bishop of San Antonio, they began to engage in educational work. In 1881, the Sisters founded the Incarnate Word Academy, which became Incarnate Word High Sc... | 2.359375 | 0 |
6905173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters%20of%20Charity%20of%20the%20Incarnate%20Word | Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word | The sisters led the children in singing (in English) the old French hymn, Queen of the Waves. Eventually, the boys' dormitory failed and collapsed into the sea. When the waters started to fill the first floor of the girl's dormitory, the sisters moved the children to the second floor, and again led in singing Queen of ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6905179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pini%20Gershon | Pini Gershon | Pinhas "Pini" Gershon (, born 13 November 1951), is an Israeli former professional basketball player and coach. He won three top-level European-wide club championships as the head coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv. He won the FIBA SuproLeague championship in 2001, and the EuroLeague championship in 2004 and 2005. He is widely ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
6905235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS%20Teutonic | RMS Teutonic | Whereas all of White Star's previous liners had only carried two classes of passengers, Cabin and Steerage, Teutonic and Majestic introduced changes to that paradigm. Both ships were built with the three-class accommodation system, consisting of First, Second and Third Classes. First Class, originally known as Cabin Cl... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6905235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS%20Teutonic | RMS Teutonic | During the first 18 years of service, both Teutonic and Majestic, along with their older cousins Britannic and Germanic sailed on the route from their home port of Liverpool to New York City. Each ship made on average one sailing per month, and averaged 11–14 sailings each season. The White Star Line had it planned so ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6905235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS%20Teutonic | RMS Teutonic | In 1907 Teutonic, along with Majestic, Oceanic and the new Adriatic was transferred to White Star's new 'Express Service' between Southampton and New York via Cherbourg and Queenstown. In 1911, the ship was replaced in the White Star lineup by the new Olympic and transferred to sister company Dominion Line for Canadian... | 2.3125 | 0 |
6905245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Bridges%20Road | Seven Bridges Road | Seven Bridges Road is a song written by American musician Steve Young, recorded in 1969 for his Rock Salt & Nails album. It has since been covered by many artists, the best-known versions being a five-part harmony arrangement by English musician Iain Matthews in 1973 and the version recorded by the American rock band T... | 1.945313 | 0 |
6905245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Bridges%20Road | Seven Bridges Road | Living on-and-off in Montgomery in the early 1960s, Young stated that he made "a few close friends there who were very different than the mainstream [locals. These friends told] me about this...Seven Bridges Road...As you went out into the countryside the road became this dirt road, and you crossed seven bridges, and t... | 1.921875 | 0 |
6905248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea%20Uplands%20RFC | Swansea Uplands RFC | Swansea Uplands RFC is a rugby union club based in Upper Killay, Swansea, Wales, who play in the WRU Swalec Leagues. They are currently in Division 2 West A.
Swansea Uplands RFC was founded at the Uplands Hotel, Swansea in 1919 by players of the pre World War I Swansea Grammar School team on their return to Swansea. ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6905248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea%20Uplands%20RFC | Swansea Uplands RFC | A captains board was unveiled in 1977 when a team of ex 1st XV captains played a team of ex 2nd and 3rd XV captains. The club needed more space and in 1982, a further extension was built increasing the bar and changing facilities and this was marked by a match on Sunday 26 September against a Llanelli XV led by Derek Q... | 1.960938 | 0 |
6905258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative%20districts%20of%20San%20Juan | Legislative districts of San Juan | The legislative districts of San Juan are the representations of the highly urbanized city of San Juan in the Congress of the Philippines. The city is represented in the lower house of the Congress through its lone congressional district.
History
San Juan, formerly known as San Juan del Monte, was initially represen... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6905266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight%20director%20%28aeronautics%29 | Flight director (aeronautics) | In aviation, a flight director (FD) is a flight instrument that is overlaid on the attitude indicator that shows the pilot of an aircraft the attitude required to execute the desired flight path. Flight directors are mostly commonly used during approach and landing. They can be used with or without autopilot systems.
... | 2.953125 | 0 |
6905299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Pong | Doctor Pong | Doctor Pong, also known as Puppy Pong, is an adaption of the original arcade Pong for use in a non-coin-operated environment. It was conceptualized by Nolan Bushnell, Steve Bristow, and a marketing firm to move their arcade video games into a non-arcade environment—in this case, to help occupy children in pediatricians... | 1.984375 | 0 |
6905327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20Smith%20%28businessman%29 | Chuck Smith (businessman) | Charles H. "Chuck" Smith is an African-American businessman who is the retired President and CEO of the Fortune 500 company, AT&T West. Smith has a lifelong interest in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
His childhood interest in radio led to a career in telecommunications. Smith graduated from California State Univer... | 1.953125 | 0 |
6905345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse%20gas%20inventory | Greenhouse gas inventory | Greenhouse gas inventories are emission inventories of greenhouse gas emissions that are developed for a variety of reasons. Scientists use inventories of natural and anthropogenic (human-caused) emissions as tools when developing atmospheric models. Policy makers use inventories to develop strategies and policies fo... | 2.71875 | 0 |
6905345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse%20gas%20inventory | Greenhouse gas inventory | Greenhouse gas emissions accounting is measuring the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted during a given period of time by a polity, usually a country but sometimes a region or city. Such measures are used to conduct climate science and climate policy.
There are two main, conflicting ways of measuring GHG emission... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6905345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse%20gas%20inventory | Greenhouse gas inventory | Almost all countries in the world are parties to the Paris Agreement, which requires them to provide regular production-based GHG emissions inventories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in order to track both countries achievement of their nationally determined contributions and cl... | 2.3125 | 0 |
6905345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse%20gas%20inventory | Greenhouse gas inventory | Today, much international effort is put into slowing the anthropogenic release of GHG and resulting climate change. In order to set benchmarks and emissions targets for - as well as monitor and evaluate the progress of - international and regional policies, the accurate measurement of each country's NEI becomes imperat... | 2.3125 | 0 |
6905345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse%20gas%20inventory | Greenhouse gas inventory | Figure 1 and Table 3 show extent of emissions embodied in international trade and thus their importance when attempting emissions reductions. Figure 1 shows the international trade flows of the top 10 countries with largest trade fluxes in 2004 and illustrates the dominance of trade from developing countries (principal... | 2.03125 | 0 |
6905345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse%20gas%20inventory | Greenhouse gas inventory | Extending mitigation options
Under the production-based system a country is punished for having a pollution intensive resource base. If this country has pollution intensive exports, such as Norway where 69% of its CO2 emissions are the result of production for export, a simple way to meet its emissions reductions set ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6905345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse%20gas%20inventory | Greenhouse gas inventory | Increasing participation
In addition to reducing emissions directly this system may also alleviate competitiveness concerns in twofold ways: firstly, domestic and foreign producers are exposed to the same carbon tax; and secondly, if multiple countries are competing for the same export market they can promote environm... | 2 | 0 |
6905345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse%20gas%20inventory | Greenhouse gas inventory | Encompassing policies such as the CDM
The CDM is a flexible mechanism set up under the Kyoto Protocol with the aim of creating ‘Carbon Credits’ for trade in trading schemes such as the EU ETS. Despite coming under heavy criticism (see Evans, p134-135; and Burniaux et al., p58-65), the theory is that as the marginal co... | 1.984375 | 0 |
6905345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse%20gas%20inventory | Greenhouse gas inventory | Greater uncertainty and complexity
Uncertainty derives from three main reasons: production-based accounting is much closer to statistical sources and GDP which are more assured; the methodology behind consumption-based accounting requires an extra step over production-based accounting, this step inherently incurring f... | 2.21875 | 0 |
6905345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse%20gas%20inventory | Greenhouse gas inventory | Trends
Measures of regions' GHG emissions are critical to climate policy. It is clear that production-based emissions accounting, the currently favoured method for policy-making, significantly underestimates the level of GHG emitted by excluding emissions embodied in international trade. Implementing consumption-based... | 2.015625 | 0 |
6905417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian%20Airlines%20System%20Flight%20933 | Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 933 | Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 933 was a scheduled international flight from Denmark to the United States that on January 13, 1969, crashed into Santa Monica Bay at 19:21, approximately west of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in California, United States. The crash into the sea was caused by pilot error d... | 2.21875 | 0 |
6905417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian%20Airlines%20System%20Flight%20933 | Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 933 | The flight engineer carried out a systems check, first from memory and then after consulting the flight manual. At this time, 19:20:42, the captain informed air traffic control that he was experiencing nose-gear problems that, if not resolved by the time the aircraft reached minimum altitude, would force him to cancel ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
6905417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian%20Airlines%20System%20Flight%20933 | Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 933 | The aircraft hit the water with the tail first. The impact caused the fuselage to break into three main parts. The largest was the forward section of the aircraft from the nose to the trailing edge of the wings. It remained afloat after the accident for about twenty hours. The midsection was long from the trailing ed... | 2 | 0 |
6905417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian%20Airlines%20System%20Flight%20933 | Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 933 | Investigation
Because the crash took place in international waters, the investigation was carried out in accordance with the Convention on International Civil Aviation. The Government of Norway requested that the investigation be carried out by the United States' National Transportation Safety Board. The maintenance re... | 2.25 | 0 |
6905417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian%20Airlines%20System%20Flight%20933 | Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 933 | The nose-gear light indicators were designed to be fail safe by having two separate light bulbs. This proved to be inadequate, as it was impossible to look through the cover to check whether one of the bulbs had been compromised, meaning that a failure of one bulb would not be detected until both bulbs malfunctioned. T... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6905430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Buttars | Chris Buttars | D. Chris Buttars (April 1, 1942 – September 10, 2018) was an American politician who served in the Utah State Senate representing the 10th Utah Senate District. He began his service as a state senator in 2001 and resigned in 2011 citing health problems.
Early life and career
Buttars was born in Logan, Utah on April 1,... | 1.90625 | 0 |
6905518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20beam-induced%20current | Electron beam-induced current | Electron-beam-induced current (EBIC) is a semiconductor analysis technique performed in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) or scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). It is most commonly used to identify buried junctions or defects in semiconductors, or to examine minority carrier properties. EBIC is similar... | 2.5 | 0 |
6905528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti%20wars | Anglo-Ashanti wars | The Anglo-Ashanti wars were a series of five conflicts that took place between 1824 and 1900 between the Ashanti Empire—in the Akan interior of the Gold Coast—and the British Empire and its African allies. Although the Ashanti emerged victorious in some of these conflicts, the British ultimately prevailed in the fourth... | 3.15625 | 0 |
6905528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti%20wars | Anglo-Ashanti wars | In 1817, a British mission visited the Ashanti capital of Kumasi and concluded with the Asantehene Osei Bonsu a treaty of "perpetual peace and harmony" which declared no "palavers" (an archaic word for disagreements) stood between the signatory powers. However, despite the treaty a major "palaver" still remained, namel... | 2.28125 | 0 |
6905528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti%20wars | Anglo-Ashanti wars | A major change occurred when a report written Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo of the Royal Navy became public. Yeo as the commander of the West Africa squadron visited the forts of the African Company of Merchants and reported to London that the forts were poorly maintained. Yeo also reported more damagingly that the des... | 2.875 | 0 |
6905528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti%20wars | Anglo-Ashanti wars | The immediate cause of the war happened when a group of Ashanti kidnapped and murdered an African serviceman of the Royal African Corps on 1 February 1823. Freeman writes that there is no evidence the King of Ashanti was responsible for the attack as it was caused by a dispute between the Sergeant and the Ashanti perpe... | 2.421875 | 0 |
6905528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti%20wars | Anglo-Ashanti wars | MacCarthy led an invading force from the Cape Coast in two columns. Moving out to confront the British were an Ashanti force of 10,000 men armed with their "Long Dane" muskets. The Ashanti force were well disciplined as the American anthropologist Robert B. Edgerton noted that the Ashanti: "marched in perfect order, th... | 2.796875 | 0 |
6905528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti%20wars | Anglo-Ashanti wars | MacCarthy's skull was rimmed with gold and was purportedly used as a drinking-cup by Ashanti rulers. An eye-witness stated that he "saw ensign Wetherell, who appeared also to have been wounded, lying close to MacCarthy. Some of the Ashantis were attempting to cut off his head, and had already inflicted one gash on the ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
6905528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti%20wars | Anglo-Ashanti wars | Second clash with the British Empire
The second battle took place between 1863 and 1864. Peace existed for more than 30 years, with both forces sticking to their side of the border. The factor that frequently sparked Ashanti conflicts was not adhering to understood or established territory borders. In the decade prior,... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6905528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti%20wars | Anglo-Ashanti wars | Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War (1895–1896)
The Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War, also known as the "Second Ashanti Expedition", was brief, lasting only from 26 December 1895 to 4 February 1896. The Ashanti turned down an unofficial offer to become a British protectorate in 1891, extending to 1894. The British also wanted to establi... | 2.6875 | 0 |
6905546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothwell%20Lodge%20State%20Historic%20Site | Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site | Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site is a state-owned property located north of Sedalia, Missouri, United States, preserving the 31-room, 12,000-square-foot summer home, Bothwell Lodge, built for Sedalia attorney John Homer Bothwell. The site offers tours and trails for hiking and mountain biking. It is administered by ... | 1.960938 | 0 |
6905576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Tarry | Ellen Tarry | Ellen Tarry (September 26, 1906 – September 23, 2008) was an African-American journalist and author who served as a minor figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Her Janie Belle (1940) was the first African-American picture book, and her other works include further literature for children and young adults as well as an autob... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6905576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Tarry | Ellen Tarry | Tarry's The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman (from 1955) tells of her life in the South (including her time at the SBS school in Virginia), her migration to New York City, her friendship with McKay, and her deep commitment to Catholicism. In 1942, Tarry was one of the first two co-directors alon... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6905583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatic%20plexus | Hepatic plexus | The hepatic plexus is a sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve plexus that provides innervation to the parenchyma of the liver as well as contributing innervation to some other abdominal structures.
Its sympathetic component is derived from the coeliac and superior mesenteric plexuses; its parasympathetic component is ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6905625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromore%20Central%20Primary%20School | Dromore Central Primary School | Dromore Central Primary School (colloquially referred to as "the Central") is a primary school located in Dromore, County Down, Northern Ireland. The original school building was built in 1938 and had approximately 700 pupils aged from 4–11 years in 28 classes. This building was replaced with a new multi-million pound ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6905638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Council%20%28Qing%20dynasty%29 | Grand Council (Qing dynasty) | The Grand Council or Junji Chu (; Manchu: coohai nashūn i ba; literally, "Office of Military Secrets"), officially the Banli Junji Shiwu Chu (; "Office for the Handling of Confidential Military Affairs"), was an important policy-making body of China during the Qing dynasty. It was established in 1733 by the Yongzheng ... | 2.890625 | 0 |
6905638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Council%20%28Qing%20dynasty%29 | Grand Council (Qing dynasty) | Establishment of the Grand Council
In 1729, the Yongzheng Emperor launched a military offensive against the Dzungar Khanate. Concerns were raised that the meeting location of the Grand Secretariat (outside the Gate of Supreme Harmony) did not ensure security for military secrets. The Junjichu was then established in th... | 2.640625 | 0 |
6905638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Council%20%28Qing%20dynasty%29 | Grand Council (Qing dynasty) | After the Guangxu Emperor formally took over the reins of power from his regent, Empress Dowager Cixi, both the Grand Council and the Emperor often sought the advice of the Empress Dowager, who was kept informed of state affairs. In fact, in 1894, with the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894, copies of memo... | 2.625 | 0 |
6905643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prickett%27s%20Fort%20State%20Park | Prickett's Fort State Park | The last written mention of Prickett's Fort occurred in 1780. In 1916, the Sons of the American Revolution dedicated a monument in honor of settlers who built the fort. When, in 1973, the traditional site of the fort was threatened by a Department of Natural Resources parking lot, the Marion County Historical Society c... | 2.375 | 0 |
6905757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative%20systems | Generative systems | Generative systems are technologies with the overall capacity to produce unprompted change driven by large, varied, and uncoordinated audiences. When generative systems provide a common platform, changes may occur at varying layers (physical, network, application, content) and provide a means through which different fi... | 2.890625 | 0 |
6905786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Denny%20Lindsley | Lawrence Denny Lindsley | In 1903, he went to work as a photo processor and photographer for the W. P. Romans Photographic Company in Seattle. Lindsley owned part interest in the studio when it was bought by Asahel Curtis in 1910. This association led him to work for Edward S. Curtis, where Lindsley developed some of the color negatives (oroton... | 2.609375 | 0 |
6905909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Thurtell | John Thurtell | Thurtell became a notorious gambler. He owed William Weare, a solicitor of Lyon's Inn, a gambling debt of £300, which he believed Weare had gained by cheating at Blind Hookey. When Weare demanded the money, Thurtell decided to murder him rather than pay up. Thurtell invited Weare to join him and his friends – Joseph Hu... | 2.03125 | 0 |
6906030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm%20%281998%20video%20game%29 | Swarm (1998 video game) | Swarm is a 1998 shoot 'em up developed and published for Microsoft Windows by Reflexive Entertainment. The action is viewed from a top-down perspective in outer space and uses pre-rendered 3D graphics. The player controls an assault craft that battles against alien creatures in order to obtain special minerals called E... | 2.21875 | 0 |
6906103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament%20%28Qualification%20of%20Women%29%20Act%201918 | Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 | The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It gave women over 21 the right to stand for election as a Member of Parliament.
At 41 words, it is the shortest UK statute.
Background
The Representation of the People Act 1918, passed on 6 February 1918, extended th... | 2.78125 | 0 |
6906164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Troienne | La Troienne | Owing to the success of her descendants, La Troienne was listed as a Cluster Mare, which is a Thoroughbred brood mare that has produced two or more winners of five or more of the eight most important and valuable races, within six generations. When writing about American Classic Pedigrees in 2003, Avalyn Hunter identif... | 1.984375 | 0 |
6906164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Troienne | La Troienne | La Troienne's pedigree thus shows multiple crosses (6X4X5X6) to Bend Or, and even more crosses farther back (6X5X6X5X7) to Galopin. The first nine generations of her pedigree show fourteen crosses to Stockwell. Pedigree consultant Les Brinsfield felt that the secret to her success as a broodmare traces to the first win... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6906293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabs%20in%20Turkey | Arabs in Turkey | Arabs in Turkey (; ) are about 1.5 million or 5 million (including the Syrian refugees) citizens or residents of Turkey who are ethnically of Arab descent. They are the third-largest minority in the country after the Kurds and the Circassians and are concentrated in a few provinces in Southeastern Anatolia. In addition... | 2.78125 | 0 |
6906424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic%20library | Academic library | An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution, which supports the curriculum and the research of the university faculty and students. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are an estimated 3,700 academic libraries in the United States. Class reading mater... | 2.859375 | 0 |
6906424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic%20library | Academic library | Academic libraries today vary regarding the extent to which they accommodate those not affiliated with their parent universities. Some offer reading and borrowing privileges to members of the public on payment of an annual fee; such fees can vary greatly. The benefits usually do not extend to such services as computer ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
6906424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic%20library | Academic library | In the 1960s, academic libraries in Canada began to grow as a direct result of larger student enrollments, increased graduate programs, higher budget allowance, and general advocacy of the importance of these libraries. As a result of this growth and the Ontario New Universities Library Project that occurred during the... | 2.4375 | 0 |
6906424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic%20library | Academic library | Academic libraries within Canada might not have flourished or continued to be strengthened without the help of outside organizations. The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) was established in 1967 to promote unity among Canadian academic libraries. The Ontario College and University Library Association (OCU... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6906469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrophleum%20chlorostachys | Erythrophleum chlorostachys | Erythrophleum chlorostachys, commonly known as Cooktown ironwood, is a species of leguminous tree endemic to northern Australia.
Description
The Cooktown ironwood is semi-deciduous, dropping much of its foliage in response to the prolonged winter dry periods which are the norm within its native range. The foliage of t... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6906486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20for%20Yesterday | Time for Yesterday | Time For Yesterday is a science fiction novel by American writer A. C. Crispin set in the fictional Star Trek Universe. It is a sequel to Crispin's earlier novel, Yesterday's Son, and describes a second encounter between the crew of the USS Enterprise and Spock's son, Zar.
The two books followed the original series e... | 1.96875 | 0 |
6906505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Puget%20Sound%20Community%20College | South Puget Sound Community College | Transfer Degrees
Many SPSCC students transfer to a 4-year university or college as a college junior after earning an Associate’s Degree with 90 credits at SPSCC. Under the direct transfer agreement (DTA), many Washington State colleges, out-of-state colleges accept DTA degree. In the year 2017-2018, 77% of DTA graduat... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6906525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toula%2C%20Zgharta | Toula, Zgharta | Toula () is a small village in North Lebanon in Zgharta District (or Quadaa). It is above sea level and is primarily a recreational village. Descendants of the original full-time residents of Toula do not reside in Toula during the winter months. Heavy snow fall typically makes Toula's mountainous roads inaccessible... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6906551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Celtiberian%20War | First Celtiberian War | The First Celtiberian War (181–179 BC) was the first of three major rebellions by the Celtiberians against the Roman presence in Hispania. The other two were the Second Celtiberian War (154–151 BC) and the Numantine War (143–133 BC). Hispania was the name the Romans gave to the Iberian Peninsula. The peninsula was inha... | 3.03125 | 0 |
6906551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Celtiberian%20War | First Celtiberian War | The siege of Aebura (Carpetania) (181 BC)
The praetors Publius Manlius and Quintus Fulvius Flaccus were given military command for Hispania Ulterior and Citerior respectively in 182 BC and this was extended to 181 BC. They received reinforcements of 3,000 Roman and 6,000 allied infantry and 200 Roman and 300 allied cav... | 2.953125 | 0 |
6906551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Celtiberian%20War | First Celtiberian War | Quintus Fulvius Flaccus then marched across Carpetania and went to Contrebia. The townsfolk sent for Celtiberian assistance, but it did not come and they surrendered. The Celtiberians had been delayed by incessant winter rain which caused floods and made the roads impassable and the rivers difficult to cross. Heavy sto... | 2.78125 | 0 |
6906551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Celtiberian%20War | First Celtiberian War | Since his successor was late, Flaccus started a third campaign against the Celtiberians who had not surrendered, ravaging the more distant parts of Celtiberia. The Celtiberians responded by secretly gathering an army to strike at the Manlian Pass, through which the Romans would have needed to pass. However, Gracchus to... | 2.6875 | 0 |
6906551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Celtiberian%20War | First Celtiberian War | In 179 BC, Gracchus and Lucius Postumius Albinus, who was in charge of the other Roman province (Hispania Ulterior), had their commands extended. They were reinforced with 3,000 Roman and 5,000 Latin infantry and 300 Roman and 400 Latin cavalry. They planned a joint operation. Albinus, whose province had been quiet, wa... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6906551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Celtiberian%20War | First Celtiberian War | After Certima, Tiberius Gracchus went to Alce, where the Celtiberian camp the envoys had come from was. For a few days he just harassed the enemy by sending larger and larger contingents of skirmishers against their outposts, hoping to draw the enemy out. When the enemy responded he ordered the native auxiliaries to of... | 2.75 | 0 |
6906551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Celtiberian%20War | First Celtiberian War | Ergavica, another powerful Celtiberian city, was alarmed about the defeats of its neighbours and opened its gates to the Romans. Livy noted that some of his sources held that these surrenders were in bad faith because whenever Gracchus left hostilities resumed and there was also a major battle near Mons Chaunus (probab... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6906551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Celtiberian%20War | First Celtiberian War | Appian wrote about two more episodes about the campaign of Tiberius Gracchus. He wrote that the city of Caravis (Magallon, in north-western Aragon), an ally of Rome, was besieged by 20,000 Celtiberians. Gracchus was informed that it would fall soon. He hurried there, but he could not alert them that he was nearby. The ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
6906551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Celtiberian%20War | First Celtiberian War | Aftermath
Appian wrote that Gracchus' ‘treaties were longed for in subsequent wars’. Unlike previous praetors he spent time negotiating and cultivating personal relations with tribal leaders. This was reminiscent of the friendly relations established by Scipio Africanus during the Second Punic War. Gracchus imposed the... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6906571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodorovskaya%20Church | Fyodorovskaya Church | The Fyodorovskaya Church (Фёдоровская церковь) is a penticupolar parish Russian Orthodox church built by ordinary parishioners on the right bank of the Kotorosl River in Yaroslavl between 1682 and 1687. It is dedicated to Theotokos Feodorovskaya, a miraculous icon from nearby Kostroma.
The building is notable as the ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
6906579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Knights%20of%20the%20Fish | The Knights of the Fish | The princess then showed him all over the country. He saw a castle of black marble, and was warned that whoever went to it never returned. He set out the next day. When he blew his horn and struck the gate, a woman finally opened the door. Echoes warned him off. He lifted his helmet, and the woman, who was an evil witc... | 2.28125 | 0 |
6906579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Knights%20of%20the%20Fish | The Knights of the Fish | In an Irish tale published by poet W. B. Yeats from an "old man" in Galway, Jack and Bill, the king's wife and a female cook eat a fish and give birth to identical individuals. They become very close friends, but depart to have their own adventures. Jack kills dragons and rescues a princess. He is later killed by a wit... | 2.375 | 0 |
6906579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Knights%20of%20the%20Fish | The Knights of the Fish | In a Russian-language Siberian variant titled "Федор Водович и Иван Водович" ("Fyodor Vodovich and Ivan Vodovich", or "Fyodor, Son of the Water, and Ivan, Son of the Water"), a queen gives birth to a daughter, much to her husband's chagrin. The king decides to lock her up in a dungeon with a companion, to protect her f... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6906579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Knights%20of%20the%20Fish | The Knights of the Fish | In an unsourced tale published by Andrew Lang in his The Grey Fairy Book, The Twin Brothers, an old woman reveals that the infertility of a fisherman's wife can be cured by ingesting the flesh of a gold-fish, and after some should be given to her she-dogs and mares. Male twins are born, two foals and two puppies - each... | 2.5 | 0 |
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