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6906659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20State%20Route%209 | Virginia State Route 9 | History
The road was commissioned in 1928 as State Route 713. After the 1933 renumbering, the route became State Route 238. It became SR 9 at the 1940 renumbering which focused on coordinating route numbers with neighboring states. The number was transferred from what is now SR 120 and SR 123.
The Commonwealth Transpo... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6906718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsun | Subsun | A subsun (also spelled sub-sun) is an optical phenomenon that appears as a glowing spot visible within clouds or mist when observed from above. The subsun appears directly below the actual Sun, and is caused by sunlight reflecting off numerous tiny ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. As such, the effect belongs t... | 3 | 0 |
6906723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitanian%20Wars | Lusitanian Wars | The Lusitanian Wars, called Pyrinos Polemos ("the Fiery War") in Greek, were wars of resistance fought by the Lusitanian tribes of Hispania Ulterior against the advancing legions of the Roman Republic from 155 to 139 BC. The Lusitanians revolted in 155 BC, and again in 146 BC and were pacified. In 154 BC, a long war in... | 3.015625 | 0 |
6906723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitanian%20Wars | Lusitanian Wars | From Punicus to the Peace Treaty of Atilius (155 BC – 152 BC)
The Lusitanian War began in 155 when Punicus attacked neighboring lands belonging to Roman subjects. In this raid, the Lusitanians killed 6,000 Romans, including a quaestor named Terentius Varro. After this first victory, the Lusitanians formed an alliance ... | 3.203125 | 0 |
6906723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitanian%20Wars | Lusitanian Wars | In 148 BC, the Lusitanians assembled a force of 10,000 and attacked Turdetania. Gaius Vetilius was sent to deal with the raid. After he amassed a force equal to those of the Lusitanians in numbers, Vetilius defeated the Lusitanians, who ask for peace terms. As peace terms were being arranged, Viriathus reminded his fel... | 2.609375 | 0 |
6906723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitanian%20Wars | Lusitanian Wars | In 145 BC, the general Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus was sent by Rome to fight the Lusitanians. With the end of the wars against Carthago and Greece, Maximus managed to assemble a great force: 15,000 men on foot and 2,000 on horse. The forces assembled in Urso and skirmished frequently with the Lusitanians, but wit... | 2.90625 | 0 |
6906723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitanian%20Wars | Lusitanian Wars | While moving against Viriathus, Maximus was attacked by an army of 10,000 led by Curius and Apuleius. Curius was killed in battle and Maximus succeeded in capturing the Lusitanian cities of Escadia, Gemella, and Obolcola. Maximus captured around 10,000 men. He beheaded 500 and sold the rest as slaves. While following V... | 2.5 | 0 |
6906816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20S.%20Bhabra | H. S. Bhabra | Hargurchet Singh Bhabra (7 June 1955 – 1 June 2000) was a British Asian writer and broadcaster who settled in Canada.
Bhabra was born in Mumbai, India, and moved to England with his family in 1957. The family eventually settled in Beare Green, Surrey. From 1966 to 1973, Bhabra attended Reigate Grammar School. He was t... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6906816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20S.%20Bhabra | H. S. Bhabra | The United States
In 1989, Bhabra was awarded the first Fulbright Chandler Fellowship in Spy and Detective Fiction Writing. This prize included a post as writer-in-residence at the University of California, Los Angeles, for one year. Bhabra stayed on in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1993, hoping to earn money as a scriptwri... | 2 | 0 |
6906836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Frey%20Jr. | Louis Frey Jr. | Frey was first elected in 1968 to succeed Edward Gurney, who in turn became Florida's first Republican U.S. Senator since Reconstruction. Frey himself is the fourth Florida Republican to have been elected to the U.S. House in the 20th century. While in Congress, Frey served on the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Commit... | 1.9375 | 0 |
6906881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Aurelia%20Reinhardt%20Redwood%20Regional%20Park | Dr. Aurelia Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park | Dr. Aurelia Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park (formerly known as Redwood Regional Park) is a part of the East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is located in the hills east of Oakland, California. The park contains the largest remaining natural stand of coast redwood (Sequoia sempervir... | 2.359375 | 0 |
6906881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Aurelia%20Reinhardt%20Redwood%20Regional%20Park | Dr. Aurelia Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park | Up to the middle of the 19th century, the bulk of the redwood forest lay in the Redwood Creek valley, with extensions to the surrounding ridges. In 1826 British navy captain Frederick William Beechey used the "Navigation Trees", two particularly tall redwood trees along the ridges, to help them navigate in San Francisc... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6906881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Aurelia%20Reinhardt%20Redwood%20Regional%20Park | Dr. Aurelia Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park | In 1989 Chabot Observatory & Science Center was formed as a Joint Powers Agency with the City of Oakland, the Oakland Unified School District, and the East Bay Regional Park District, in collaboration with the Eastbay Astronomical Society, and in 1992 was recognized as a nonprofit organization. The project was led by C... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6906913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsend%20discharge | Townsend discharge | In electromagnetism, the Townsend discharge or Townsend avalanche is an ionisation process for gases where free electrons are accelerated by an electric field, collide with gas molecules, and consequently free additional electrons. Those electrons are in turn accelerated and free additional electrons. The result is a... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6906913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsend%20discharge | Townsend discharge | The avalanche mechanism is shown in the accompanying diagram. The electric field is applied across a gaseous medium; initial ions are created with ionising radiation (for example, cosmic rays). An original ionisation event produces an ion pair; the positive ion accelerates towards the cathode while the free electron a... | 2.8125 | 0 |
6906913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsend%20discharge | Townsend discharge | Townsend observed currents varying exponentially over ten or more orders of magnitude with a constant applied voltage when the distance between the plates was varied. He also discovered that gas pressure influenced conduction: he was able to generate ions in gases at low pressure with a much lower voltage than that req... | 2.34375 | 0 |
6906913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsend%20discharge | Townsend discharge | The first Townsend coefficient ( α ), also known as first Townsend avalanche coefficient, is a term used where secondary ionisation occurs because the primary ionisation electrons gain sufficient energy from the accelerating electric field, or from the original ionising particle. The coefficient gives the number of sec... | 2.28125 | 0 |
6906913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsend%20discharge | Townsend discharge | Gas phototubes
Avalanche multiplication during Townsend discharge is naturally used in gas phototubes, to amplify the photoelectric charge generated by incident radiation (visible light or not) on the cathode: achievable current is typically 10~20 times greater respect to that generated by vacuum phototubes.
Ionising ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
6906920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Torff | Brian Torff | Brian Q. Torff (born March 16, 1954) is an American jazz double-bassist, songwriter and composer.
Career
Teacher
Brian Q. Torff is a Professor of Music and the director of the music program at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He has taught at New York University and makes frequent appearances at the R... | 2.046875 | 0 |
6906969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Hyer | Tom Hyer | Tom Hyer (January 1, 1819 – June 26, 1864) was an American bare-knuckle boxer. He became a heavyweight boxing champion after defeating Country McCloskey in a long brutal fight in New York on September 9, 1841, though there was no sanctioning body to recognize his championship. Until he retired in 1851, he was widely c... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6906969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Hyer | Tom Hyer | In his boxing prime, as seen at left, Tom Hyer had a huge chest, and long, muscular rangy arms with extremely wide shoulders, that gave him both strength and reach. His long legs and springy hips helped give speed, leverage, power, and placement to his punches.
His favorite blow was a crushing left to the collarbone.... | 2.75 | 0 |
6906969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Hyer | Tom Hyer | Heavyweight Champion of America, 1841
Hyer was recognized as the bare-knuckle boxing Heavyweight Champion of America after a 101-round victory over George McCheester, known as Country McCloskey, at Caldwell's Landing in New York City, on September 9, 1841. McClosky was one of several lieutenants to Isaiah Rynders who s... | 2.109375 | 0 |
6906969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Hyer | Tom Hyer | Hyer first met "Yankee Sullivan", an Irishman with the real name James Ambrose, at an Oyster Bar at the corner of New York's Broadway and Park Place early in 1849. Sullivan had planned to meet him there for a brawl, possibly for publicity, but according to most newspapers of the day, with the clear intent of doing him ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
6906982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20II%20of%20Spoleto | Guy II of Spoleto | Guy II (sometimes III) (died late 882 or early 883) was the eldest son and successor of Lambert I as Duke of Spoleto and Margrave of Camerino. He was elected to succeed to these titles on his father's death in 880. He had an ambitious plan of expansion to the south and to the west that conflicted with the Papacy.
He r... | 2.046875 | 0 |
6906985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul%20Nomad%20%26%20the%20World%20Eaters | Soul Nomad & the World Eaters | The player is given the ability to create and command squads, which after enough time, will become an army capable of destroying the world he or she is trying to save. Up to 25 different character types can be created, each filling a unique position in the squad with its own strengths and weaknesses. Characters' indivi... | 2.3125 | 0 |
6907014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Promenades%20Gatineau | Les Promenades Gatineau | The Société de transport de l'Outaouais offers several routes that travel to various areas across the city from the shopping mall, which is considered to be, outside the downtown core, the most important transit hub in the city. On average per day, 8,000 shoppers use public transit for shopping.
The STO has a major pa... | 1.976563 | 0 |
6907022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandana%2C%20Kentucky | Bandana, Kentucky | Bandana is a census-designated place (CDP) in Ballard County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 177.
History
A post office has been in operation at Bandana since 1880. Some say the community was so named for a traveling salesman who carried his goods in a bandana sack, while others ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
6907115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolium%20temulentum | Lolium temulentum | Lolium temulentum, typically known as darnel, poison darnel, darnel ryegrass or cockle, is an annual plant of the genus Lolium within the family Poaceae. The plant stem can grow up to one meter tall, with inflorescence in the ears and purple grain. It has a cosmopolitan distribution.
Growth
Darnel usually grows in th... | 2.8125 | 0 |
6907128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Chirac%27s%20second%20term%20as%20President%20of%20France | Jacques Chirac's second term as President of France | At age 69, Jacques Chirac faced his fourth campaign for the French Presidency in 2002. He was the first choice of fewer than one voter in five in the first round of voting of the presidential elections of April 2002. It had been expected that he would face incumbent prime minister Lionel Jospin on the second round of e... | 2.015625 | 0 |
6907128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Chirac%27s%20second%20term%20as%20President%20of%20France | Jacques Chirac's second term as President of France | In an address to the nation, Chirac has declared that the new cabinet's top priority would be to curb the unemployment level, which consistently hovers above 10%, calling for a "national mobilization" to that effect. One of the main promises of Jean-Pierre Raffarin when he became Prime Minister had been to spur growth ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
6907193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Reptile%20Park | Australian Reptile Park | Common wombat
Dingo
Eastern grey kangaroo
Fat-tailed dunnart
Feathertail glider
Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
Greater bilby
Grey-headed flying fox
Kangaroo Island grey kangaroo
Koala
Parma wallaby
Platypus
Quokka
Red-tailed phascogale
Short-beaked echidna
Tasmanian devil
Yellow-footed rock wallaby
Past attractions
Eric ... | 2.625 | 0 |
6907193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Reptile%20Park | Australian Reptile Park | Snake venom-milking program
Since the 1960s, the Australian Reptile Park has been the sole supplier of terrestrial snake venom for the purpose of making antivenom. It is estimated that 300 lives are saved by antivenom in Australia each year and since the program's inception, approximately 20,000 Australian lives have ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6907193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Reptile%20Park | Australian Reptile Park | The horses are given increasing doses of venom over a period of six-months (until they have built up sufficient antibodies to the venom). Blood is then drawn from the horse with the antibodies extracted from the blood, purified and reduced to a usable form – this becomes antivenom.
The antivenom taken from the horses ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6907282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi%20Gwal | Yi Gwal | Korea's political stance at the time caused the downfall of Yi Gwal. Since the establishment of a Confucian dynasty by King Taejo, there had been political disputes between the parties in the government. Some disputes even ended up in bloodshed, like the one which occurred in the time of King Yeonsangun. Also, during t... | 2.53125 | 0 |
6907290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard%20Schiemer | Leonhard Schiemer | Leonhard Schiemer (c. 1500 – 14 January 1528) was an early pacifist Anabaptist writer and martyr whose work survives in the Ausbund.
Background
Schiemer was born around 1500 in Vöcklabruck, where he grew up in a religious environment and trained to be a tailor. He originally wanted to become a Roman Catholic priest bu... | 1.9375 | 0 |
6907290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard%20Schiemer | Leonhard Schiemer | Arrest
A few weeks later, Schiemer was arrested at the instigation of the Roman Catholic authorities. An Anabaptist bishop present at the interrogation reported on his activities: within six months of his baptism he preached in 28 cities, winning more than 200 converts to Anabaptism.
Schiemer used the short stay in pr... | 2.640625 | 0 |
6907330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformational%20entropy | Conformational entropy | In chemical thermodynamics, conformational entropy is the entropy associated with the number of conformations of a molecule. The concept is most commonly applied to biological macromolecules such as proteins and RNA, but also be used for polysaccharides and other molecules. To calculate the conformational entropy, the ... | 2.125 | 0 |
6907456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20People%27s%20Theatre | Young People's Theatre | Young People's Theatre (YPT) is a professional theatre for young audiences located in Toronto, Ontario. The company produces and presents a full season of theatre and arts education programming, performing to approximately 150,000 patrons annually. Founded in 1966 by Susan Douglas Rubeš, YPT originally operated out of ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
6907480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/689th%20Radar%20Squadron | 689th Radar Squadron | The 689th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 25th Air Division, stationed at Mount Hebo Air Force Station, Oregon. It was inactivated on 30 June 1979.
History
The 689th Radar Squadron's long range radars (LRR) were part of the Air Force Semi-Automatic Ground Enviro... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6907492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20St%C3%B6lzel | Heinrich Stölzel | Heinrich David Stölzel (7 September 1777 – 16 February 1844) was a German horn player who developed some of the first valves for brass instruments. He developed the first valve for a brass musical instrument, the Stölzel valve, in 1818, and went on to develop various other designs, some jointly with other inventor mus... | 2.796875 | 0 |
6907510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Frederick%20Lyttelton | Charles Frederick Lyttelton | Rev. Hon. Charles Frederick Lyttelton (26 January 1887 – 3 October 1931) was an English priest and first-class cricketer from the Lyttelton family. He played 31 games for Cambridge University, Worcestershire and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in the early twentieth century.
Early life and family
Lyttelton was born i... | 2.015625 | 0 |
6907510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Frederick%20Lyttelton | Charles Frederick Lyttelton | His maiden first-class wicket, that of Jack Sharp, had to wait until his next game, for Cambridge against Lancashire in May 1907. Lyttelton had a very good match, taking 2-26 and 5-33 (his best innings performance) as well as scoring 25 not out from number eleven. Cambridge recorded a crushing win by an innings and 204... | 1.984375 | 0 |
6907551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck%20Storm | Dirck Storm | Dirck Gorisszen Storm (16301716) was an early colonial American who recorded the first official history of the Dutch community at Sleepy Hollow. His book Het Notite Boeck der Christelyckes Kercke op de Manner of Philips Burgh is a rare document of life in colonial times. Sometimes referred to as Het Notite Boeck, the f... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6907565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othman%20Wok | Othman Wok | Othman bin Wok (8 October 1924 – 17 April 2017), often known as Othman Wok, was a Singaporean statesman who served as Minister of Social Affairs between 1963 and 1977. After retiring from politics, he was Singapore's Ambassador to Indonesia and served on the boards of the Singapore Tourism Board and Sentosa Developmen... | 2.4375 | 0 |
6907565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othman%20Wok | Othman Wok | Othman's grandfather, a religious teacher, objected to Wok Ahmad's decision to send Othman to Radin Mas and later Raffles Institution (RI), both of which are English-medium schools. He was afraid that Othman would waver in his religious beliefs in the course of his English-language education, converting him to Christia... | 2.4375 | 0 |
6907565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othman%20Wok | Othman Wok | Political career
Days after the formation of the PAP in 1954, Othman joined the political party as his ideology of a national policy of multi-racialism was aligned with what the PAP sought to achieve. He took on the role of producing the party’s Petir publication, and was a member of the bulletin’s editorial board. In... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6907565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othman%20Wok | Othman Wok | He would go on to contest once more in the 1963 Singaporean general election, when he would then succeed and become the elected representative of the Pasir Panjang constituency. Following his successful election, Othman would go on to leave his job at the Utusan Melayu to focus on developing his political career full-t... | 1.953125 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) is a disinfection technique employing ultraviolet (UV) light, particularly UV-C (180–280 nm), to kill or inactivate microorganisms. UVGI primarily inactivates microbes by damaging their genetic material, thereby inhibiting their capacity to carry out vital functions.
The use o... | 2.859375 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | Origins of UV germicidal action
The development of UVGI traces back to 1878 when Arthur Downes and Thomas Blunt found that sunlight, particularly its shorter wavelengths, hindered microbial growth. Expanding upon this work, Émile Duclaux, in 1885, identified variations in sunlight sensitivity among different bacterial... | 2.78125 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | UVGI for air disinfection
The utilization of UVGI for air disinfection began in earnest in the mid-1930s. William F. Wells demonstrated in 1935 that airborne infectious organisms, specifically aerosolized B. coli exposed to 254 nm UV, could be rapidly inactivated. This built upon earlier theories of infectious droplet... | 2.578125 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | Method of operation
UV light is electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than visible light but longer than X-rays. UV is categorised into several wavelength ranges, with short-wavelength UV (UV-C) considered "germicidal UV". Wavelengths between about 200 nm and 300 nm are strongly absorbed by nucleic acids.... | 3.09375 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | Likewise, the irradiance depends on the brightness (radiant intensity, W/sr) of the UV source, the distance between the UV source and the microbe, the attenuation of filters (e.g. fouled glass) in the light path, the attenuation of the medium (e.g. microbes in turbid water), the presence of particles or objects that ca... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | UV source intensity is sometimes specified as irradiance at a distance of 1 meter, which can be easily converted to radiant intensity. UV intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance so it decreases at longer distances. Alternatively, it rapidly increases at distances shorter than 1m. In the above ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | Microbes are more susceptible to certain wavelengths of UV light, a function called the germicidal effectiveness curve. The curve for E. coli is given in the figure, with the most effective UV light having a wavelength of 265 nm. This applies to most bacteria and does not change significantly for other microbes. Dosage... | 2.640625 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | However, the safety and effects of UV vary extensively by wavelength, implying that not all UVGI systems pose the same level of hazards. Humans typically encounter UV light in the form of solar UV, which comprises significant portions of UV-A and UV-B, but excludes UV-C. The UV-B band, able to penetrate deep into livin... | 2.6875 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | Since the early 2010s there has been growing interest in the far-UVC wavelengths of 200-235 nm for whole-room exposure. These wavelengths are generally considered safer due to their limited penetration depth caused by increased protein absorption. This feature confines far-UVC exposure to the superficial layers of tiss... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | UV and violet light are able to neutralize the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2. Viral titers usually found in the sputum of COVID-19 patients are completely inactivated by levels of UV-A and UV-B irradiation that are similar to those levels experienced from natural sun exposure. This finding suggests that the reduced inciden... | 2.75 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | Ultraviolet disinfection of water is a purely physical, chemical-free process. Even parasites such as Cryptosporidium or Giardia, which are extremely resistant to chemical disinfectants, are efficiently reduced. UV can also be used to remove chlorine and chloramine species from water; this process is called photolysis,... | 2.8125 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | UV water treatment devices can be used for well water and surface water disinfection. UV treatment compares favourably with other water disinfection systems in terms of cost, labour and the need for technically trained personnel for operation. Water chlorination treats larger organisms and offers residual disinfection,... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | A 2006 project at University of California, Berkeley produced a design for inexpensive water disinfection in resource deprived settings. The project was designed to produce an open source design that could be adapted to meet local conditions. In a somewhat similar proposal in 2014, Australian students designed a system... | 2.390625 | 0 |
6907585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20germicidal%20irradiation | Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation | When the modeling phase is complete, selected systems are validated using a professional third party to provide oversight and to determine how closely the model is able to predict the reality of system performance. System validation uses non-pathogenic surrogates such as MS 2 phage or Bacillus subtilis to determine the... | 1.976563 | 0 |
6907588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%20Wiltsie | Irving Wiltsie | Irving Day Wiltsie (14 November 1898 – 24 November 1943) was a United States Navy captain who was killed in action in 1943 while commanding an escort carrier in the Gilbert Islands location, in the Central Pacific during World War II. He was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously, the second highest combat decoration for ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
6907588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%20Wiltsie | Irving Wiltsie | During the Japanese torpedo attacks on 4 June, when "Kates" from the carrier Hiryū located Yorktown and carried put a successful attack against her, Wiltsie, on instructions from the captain, conned the ship from his battle station in the conning tower and was later deemed directly responsible for the ship's evading a ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6907588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%20Wiltsie | Irving Wiltsie | In the predawn darkness of 24 November, Japanese submarine I-175 torpedoed Liscome Bay—the flagship of Rear Admiral Henry M. Mullinnix—which caused a mass detonation of aircraft bombs and ammunition and started fires fed by aviation gasoline. The flames spread rapidly, and the carrier rocked with explosions. Wiltsie im... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6907647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino%20Poccetti | Bernardino Poccetti | Bernardino Poccetti (26 August 1548 – 10 October 1612), also known as Barbatelli, was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker of etchings.
Biography
Born in Florence, he was initially trained as a decorator of facades and ceilings, enrolling in 1570 in the Florentine painters guild for such work, the Accademia del... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6907676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltrane%27s%20Sound | Coltrane's Sound | Coltrane's Sound is an album credited to the jazz musician John Coltrane, recorded in 1960 and released in 1964 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1419. It was recorded at Atlantic Studios during the sessions for My Favorite Things, assembled after Coltrane had stopped recording for the label and was under contract to ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
6907692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midtown%20Plaza%20%28Rochester%2C%20New%20York%29 | Midtown Plaza (Rochester, New York) | Midtown Plaza is a city district in downtown Rochester, New York. The site was originally occupied by an indoor shopping mall designed by Victor Gruen and opened in 1962. Although it was primarily promoted as a retail space, Gruen's vision was for the plaza to function as an all-purpose community space to revitalize th... | 2.046875 | 0 |
6907692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midtown%20Plaza%20%28Rochester%2C%20New%20York%29 | Midtown Plaza (Rochester, New York) | City officials and planners from around the globe came to see Gruen's solution to the mid-century urban crisis, including Walt Disney, who was then designing EPCOT. Midtown won several design awards. Gruen described the aerial view of Rochester as a giant parking lot with a few buildings to inconvenience traffic flow. ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
6907724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948%20Newfoundland%20referendums | 1948 Newfoundland referendums | The Newfoundland referendums of 1948 were a series of two referendums to decide the political future of the Dominion of Newfoundland. Before the referendums, Newfoundland was in debt and went through several delegations to determine whether the country would join Canada ("confederation"), remain under British rule or r... | 2.890625 | 0 |
6907724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948%20Newfoundland%20referendums | 1948 Newfoundland referendums | By the 1920s and the 1930s, Newfoundland was almost $40 million in debt, and on the verge of economic collapse. A commission recommended Newfoundland to be "given a rest from party politics" and to be administered by a special Commission of Government. Chaired by the governor, it would consist of three people from New... | 2.859375 | 0 |
6907724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948%20Newfoundland%20referendums | 1948 Newfoundland referendums | Seeking a union with the United States was not a referendum option, despite the idea having some currency amongst locals. With the Cold War looming, U.S. interests in Newfoundland were centred primarily on its strategic importance to the defence of North America. The Americans' ability to maintain bases on the island s... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6907724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948%20Newfoundland%20referendums | 1948 Newfoundland referendums | Referenda
Newfoundland recommended that the British Government hold a referendum on Newfoundland's future. London agreed that a referendum was a good idea, and left it up to the Convention to decide what was to be on the ballot. Originally, the Convention decided that only two choices were to be on the ballot: restora... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6907733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler%20Canada%20Greenway | Chrysler Canada Greenway | The Chrysler Canada Greenway is a rail trail in Essex County, Ontario, Canada, between Oldcastle (near Windsor) and Leamington.
History
The trail follows the route of a former railway branch line from Windsor, Ontario, south and east through Kingsville to Leamington, Ontario. The rail line was built by Hiram Walker ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
6907733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler%20Canada%20Greenway | Chrysler Canada Greenway | By 2001, CN Rail took note of the popularity of the trail and donated an additional 26-km spur line from Amherstburg, Ontario to Essex, Ontario, a portion of the rail line operated by the Canada Southern Railway, which was abolished in 1977. (The rails for this spur, were removed in 1995 and the spur leading from Combe... | 2.046875 | 0 |
6907803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins%20Reef%20Light | Robbins Reef Light | The Robbins Reef Light Station is a sparkplug lighthouse located off Constable Hook in Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, along the west side of Main Channel, Upper New York Bay. The tower and integral keepers quarters were built in 1883. It replaced an octagonal granite tower built in 1839. The U.S. Co... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6907817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azeb%20Mesfin | Azeb Mesfin | Azeb Mesfin Haile (Amharic and ; born 21 December 1966) is an Ethiopian politician who was the second First Lady of Ethiopia from 2001 to 2012. Azeb is the widow of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. She is the founder and patron of National Initiative for Mental Health of Ethiopia. In early 2009, she was appointed... | 1.960938 | 0 |
6907878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorseddau%20Junction%20and%20Portmadoc%20Railway | Gorseddau Junction and Portmadoc Railway | The Gorseddau Junction and Portmadoc Railway (GJ&PR) was a Welsh tramway.
The GJ&PR was a narrow-gauge railway connecting the slate quarries of Cwm Pennant with the wharves at Porthmadog harbour. It was built in 1872, partly as a conversion of the earlier gauge Gorseddau Tramway, which in itself had incorporated the... | 2.09375 | 0 |
6907994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Castiglia | Jim Castiglia | James Vincent Castiglia (September 30, 1918 – December 26, 2007) was an American professional football fullback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles as well as the Baltimore Colts of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). He also briefly played Major League Base... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6908058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Markov | Alexander Markov | Alexander Markov is a Russian American violinist who has received awards from the Paganini International Violin Competition (gold medal) and the Avery Fisher Career Grant. He is known for his recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, particularly for his interpretation of the left-hand pizzicato section of t... | 1.90625 | 0 |
6908123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorelei%20%28Mutate%29 | Lorelei (Mutate) | Lorelei (Lani Ubana) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Publication history
The character's first appearance was in The X-Men #63 (Dec. 1969), and was created by Roy Thomas and Neal Adams.
The character subsequently appears in The Avengers #105 (Nov. 1972), The Defe... | 2 | 0 |
6908226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn%20Wells | Carolyn Wells | Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862 — March 26, 1942) was an American mystery author and poet.
Life and career
Born in Rahway, New Jersey, she was the daughter of William Edmund and Anna Potter Wells (nee Woodruff).
After finishing school, she worked as a librarian for the Rahway Library Association. Her first book, At the... | 1.9375 | 0 |
6908244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20L.%20Green | Roger L. Green | Member of New York State Assembly
After a historic election that required him to win an unprecedented three primary runoffs, Roger Green was elected to the New York State Assembly in November 1980. He was a member of the State Assembly (57th D.) from 1981 to 2006 (with an interruption in 2004), sitting in the 184th, 18... | 2.25 | 0 |
6908244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20L.%20Green | Roger L. Green | From 1986 to 1988, Green served his first tenure as chair of the New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus. During his term, the caucus was viewed as the preeminent voice in support of laws designed to reduce and prosecute racial violence. Following the racial killing of Michael Griffith in the Bensonhur... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6908244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20L.%20Green | Roger L. Green | South Africa and Rwanda
From 1982 to 1992, Green was actively involved in the global struggle to dismantle apartheid and to establish a free democratic South Africa. Green served as co-sponsor of the State Divestiture Bill, which was authored by Albert Vann. Green also served as political coordinator for the June 14 ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
6908253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20family%20features | Microsoft family features | Microsoft family features (includes family safety features formerly known as Microsoft Family Safety, formerly Parental Controls in Windows 7 and Vista) is a free set of features available on Windows 10 PC and Mobile that is bundled with the Windows 10, Home edition operating system. On July 17, 2020, Microsoft releas... | 2 | 0 |
6908253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20family%20features | Microsoft family features | Windows 10 features
Partial Web Filtering – Web filtering is restricted to Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers (excluding Windows 10 Mobile). Turning on web filtering for a child blocks access to adult websites and enables safe search, which filters out adult content in search results from Bing, ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6908407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brody%20Castle | Brody Castle | Brody Castle (, Brodivskyi zamok) is a former fortress in the city of Brody, part of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
History and overview
The earliest information about the construction of the castle in Brody town refers to the 1580s. Crown Hetman () Stanisław Koniecpolski acquired Brody town in 1629 and built the castle basti... | 2.015625 | 0 |
6908540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Ward%20%28Virginia%29 | Fort Ward (Virginia) | Fort Ward is a former Union Army installation now located in the city of Alexandria in the U.S. state of Virginia. It was the fifth largest fort built to defend Washington, D.C. in the American Civil War. It is currently well-preserved with 90-95% of its earthen walls intact.
Occupation of Arlington
Before the outb... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6908540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Ward%20%28Virginia%29 | Fort Ward (Virginia) | The imposing scene was at the Long Bridge, where the main body of the troops crossed. Eight thousand infantry, two regular cavalry companies and two sections of Sherman's artillery battalion, consisting of two batteries, were in line this side of the Long Bridge at two o'clock.
The occupation of Northern Virginia was ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
6908540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Ward%20%28Virginia%29 | Fort Ward (Virginia) | On July 26, 1861, five days after the battle, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan was named commander of the military district of Washington and the subsequently renamed Army of the Potomac. Upon arriving in Washington, McClellan was appalled by the condition of the city's defenses.
In no quarter were the dispositions for d... | 3.015625 | 0 |
6908552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lautaro%20%28volcano%29 | Lautaro (volcano) | Lautaro is an active subglacial stratovolcano located in Chilean Patagonia, in the northern part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Its summit rises roughly above the average surface of the ice cap plateau.
Geography and geomorphology
Lautaro is located within the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, and is the highes... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6908552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lautaro%20%28volcano%29 | Lautaro (volcano) | Off the southwestern tip of South America, the Antarctic Plate subducts beneath the South American Plate at a rate of . The subduction process is responsible for the volcanism of the AVZ. To the north the subduction zone is limited by the Chile Triple Junction, to the south it gradually leads into the Magallanes-Fagnan... | 2.5625 | 0 |
6908552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lautaro%20%28volcano%29 | Lautaro (volcano) | Lautaro is the most historically active volcano of the AVZ, with several eruptions. Activity is recorded from 1876, 1878–1879, 1883, 1933, 1945, 1959–1960, 1972 and 1978–1979. The 1959 eruption was observed from aircraft, clarifying the position of the volcano, and is the only well-documented historic eruption in the A... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6908561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amethystine%20python | Amethystine python | Taxonomy
Formerly, five subspecies of Morelia amethistina, including the nominate race, M. a. amethystina, were generally recognized. The Moluccan Islands (including Halmahera, Ternate and Tidore) are home to the former M. a. tracyae. The Tanimbar Islands are home to a smaller subspecies, the former M. a. nauta. On th... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6908585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Lane%20%28physicist%29 | Kenneth Lane (physicist) | Kenneth Douglas Lane is an American theoretical particle physicist and professor of physics at Boston University. Lane is best known for his role in the development of extended technicolor models of physics beyond the Standard Model.
Career
Lane received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at the Georgia Institute of Tec... | 1.921875 | 0 |
6908596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20Peter%20Koch | Johan Peter Koch | Johan Peter Koch (15 January 1870 – 13 January 1928) was a Danish captain and explorer of the Arctic dependencies of Denmark, born at Vestenskov. He was the uncle of the geologist Lauge Koch
Career
J.P. Koch participated in Amdrup's expedition to east Greenland in 1900 and was one of the general staff of the surveying... | 2.734375 | 0 |
6908619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20Comparative%20Zoology | Museum of Comparative Zoology | The Museum of Comparative Zoology (formally the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology and often abbreviated to MCZ) is a zoology museum located on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of three natural-history research museums at Harvard, whose public face is the Harvard Museum of Nat... | 2.921875 | 0 |
6908619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20Comparative%20Zoology | Museum of Comparative Zoology | Departments
The museum has nine departments with research collections: Entomology, Herpetology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Invertebrate Zoology, Mammalogy, Malacology, Ornithology, and Vertebrate Paleontology. The Ernst Mayr Library and its archives form the tenth department of the museum. The library is a... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6908796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%20and%20Eliana%20Mart%C3%ADnez | Rosa and Eliana Martínez | Eliana Martínez (September 15, 1981 – November 27, 1989) was an American adoptee who contracted HIV from a blood transfusion as an infant. Her adoptive mother, Rosa Martínez (February 20, 1952 – August 18, 2022), fought for Eliana to be allowed to attend a public school without being isolated from other students by tra... | 1.96875 | 0 |
6908800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sot%C4%81panna | Sotāpanna | In Buddhism, a (Pali) or (Sanskrit)—translated variously as "stream-enterer", "stream-entrant" or "stream-winner"—is one who has reached the first of the four stages of enlightenment. Stream entry is purportedly followed by three subsequent stages of awakening: Sakadāgāmi (once-returner), Anāgāmi (non-returner), and ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
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