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9174535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture%20of%20tilapia | Aquaculture of tilapia | India
The FAO has not recorded any production of farmed tilapia by India. Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA), the R&D arm of Marine Products Export Development Authority, has established a facility in Vijayawada to produce mono-sex tilapia in two strains. This project involves the establishment of a satellite ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
9174567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoinette%20of%20Bourbon | Antoinette of Bourbon | Antoinette of Bourbon, Duchess of Guise (25 December 1494 – 22 January 1583), was a French noblewoman of the House of Bourbon. She was the wife of Claude of Lorraine, Duke of Guise.
Life
Antoinette of Bourbon was born on 25 December 1494 at the Chateau de Ham, in the Somme department, Picardy, France. She was the chi... | 2.3125 | 0 |
9174652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia%20as%20exotic%20species | Tilapia as exotic species | Ten years later, feral populations of tilapia were documented throughout Queensland and Western Australia as the geographical range of tilapia continued to increase. By 1991, waters surrounding the Queensland cities of Brisbane, Townsville, and the Gascoyne River in Western Australia were filled with Mozambique tilapia... | 2.96875 | 0 |
9174652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia%20as%20exotic%20species | Tilapia as exotic species | History of fish and fish introductions to the Salton Sea
Historically, the Colorado River has often flooded the Salton Sea basin. During the Pleistocene era, an ancient body of water named Lake Cahuilla was the last in a series of ancient lakes within the region. Today, ancient remnants of fish species that once lived ... | 3.234375 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | Elwood Haynes (October 14, 1857 – April 13, 1925) was an American inventor, metallurgist, automotive pioneer, entrepreneur and industrialist. He invented the metal alloy stellite and independently co-discovered martensitic stainless steel along with Englishman Harry Brearley in 1912 and designed one of the earliest aut... | 2.5625 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | In 1912, he formed Haynes Stellite Company to produce one of the new alloys, and received lucrative contracts during World War I, making Haynes a millionaire in 1916. He sold his patent for stainless steel to the American Stainless Steel Company in exchange for enough stock to gain a seat at the company's board of dire... | 2.234375 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | Haynes was born on October 14, 1857, in Portland, Indiana, the fifth of ten children of Jacob M. Haynes and Hilinda S. Haines Haynes. His family was of English descent; he was a ninth-generation descendant of Walter Haynes who immigrated from Wiltshire, England to Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1638. His father was Jay Coun... | 2.296875 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | Haynes attended public schools through eighth grade and received a basic education. He had not determined a career path for himself and his parents often criticized him for lacking ambition; they insisted that he seek employment. He began by working as a custodian at a local church and later for the railroad, hauling b... | 2.453125 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | Haynes' father attended the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876 where he learned of a school that would fit his son's interests. Using the money he had saved, Haynes decided to attend the college and enrolled in the Worcester Technical Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, in September 1878. The school was revo... | 2.328125 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | Natural gas was first found in Indiana in 1876 but it was not until 1886 that the magnitude of the discovery was known; the Trenton Gas Field was the largest deposit of natural gas discovered in the 19th century and the first giant oil reserve found in the United States. As a professor at a university in the Trenton Fi... | 2.515625 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | Haynes married Bertha Lanterman in October 1887 after a ten-year relationship. The ceremony was held at her parents' Portland home and the couple honeymooned in Cincinnati. Their first child, Marie, was born on January 28, 1889, but she soon succumbed to illness and died when six months old. Their second child, a son b... | 2.328125 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | Haynes was offered a higher ranking position within Indiana Gas at the Chicago headquarters, but by then he had become aware of the business's connection to the corrupt and disgraced monopolist Charles T. Yerkes. A deeply religious man who feared involvement in any corruption, Haynes entertained the offer only briefly;... | 2.421875 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | Enterprises
1894 First Haynes car
According to Haynes, he began laying out "plans for the construction of a mechanically propelled vehicle for use on highways" in 1891. His first idea was for a steam-powered vehicle, but after careful consideration he decided the use of a furnace on the device would be too dangerou... | 2.6875 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | Haynes decided he needed a different facility to continue the experiment after his wife told him she would not abide his destruction of the family kitchen. He contacted Elmer Apperson, the operator of the Riverside Machine Works, and arranged to use a space in his shop for the continued development. He agreed to work ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | He named his car the Pioneer and first test drove the vehicle on July 4, 1894. The Apperson brothers had notified the Kokomo townspeople of the test drive and a crowd gathered to witness the event. Haynes was concerned that his vehicle could injure someone in the crowd, so he had the vehicle towed by a horse and buggy ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | Haynes continued to perfect his auto design, and in late 1895 he began his work to create a new hard alloy for use as a crankcase and other auto parts. His intent was to make a metal that would be resistant to rusting. He experimented with the use of aluminum and found that when used, it significantly deadened the nois... | 2.375 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | By 1896, the company produced one new car every two to three weeks and built vehicles on order for $2,000. As the orders increased, the company formally incorporated as Haynes-Apperson on May 5, 1898, with $25,000 in capital from stock issued to Portland and Kokomo businessmen. At the end of that year the company reloc... | 2.28125 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | Another event to gain the company significant publicity was the sale of a car to Dr. Ashley A. Webber in New York City. Webber refused to buy any car unless the seller could prove the car's endurance by driving it to his home. Haynes and Edgar Apperson readily agreed to the demand and drove the car from Kokomo to Webbe... | 2.1875 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | In 1905, three years after the Apperson brothers split from Haynes, Haynes-Apperson was renamed the Haynes Automobile Company and Haynes launched a series of publicity campaigns. A parade of 2,000 cars was organized in New York City during 1908 and Haynes, whom many recognized as the inventor of the American automobile... | 2.59375 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | More than 1,000 autos were built by Haynes Automobile Company in 1910 and the company continued to experience growth, until a devastating fire swept the company factory in 1911 and killed one employee. Recovery from the blaze was slow, and it was not until 1913 that the company was able to resume its growth. To continu... | 2.375 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | He applied for another patent on an alloy he called stainless steel, now known as martensitic stainless steel. The Patent Office rejected his application saying that it was not a new alloy. Haynes conceded their point, but submitted a second application and supplied a sample showing the stainlessness of his alloy when ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | Seeing stellite as a far more valuable metal, he decided to keep its patent for himself and founded the Haynes Stellite Company in Kokomo to produce the metal in September 1912. Many of his initial requests for the metal were from medical tool manufacturers who saw the alloy as the best for surgical tools. Because his ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | After the war, Haynes Stellite moved to producing tableware, jewelry, and pocket knives. The employees of the company unionized and began to demand wage increases beyond what Haynes believed was fair. The threat of labor strikes and Haynes' desire to avoid the problem led him to sell the company to Union Carbide on Apr... | 2.0625 | 0 |
9174707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Haynes | Elwood Haynes | Although Haynes was a prohibitionist, he was a critic of the Indiana Branch of the Ku Klux Klan, which was in the height of its power during the 1910s and 1920s. In letters to friends and fellow prohibitionists, he ridiculed the organization for using violent and illegal tactics to achieve prohibition, and accused them... | 2.390625 | 0 |
9174711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington%20Weir | Wellington Weir | Wellington Weir was a weir proposed for the River Murray several kilometres south of the town of Wellington, South Australia, immediately upstream from where the river enters Lake Alexandrina.
The Wellington Weir project was announced in 2006 by the state government of South Australia, led by Premier Mike Rann, who se... | 2.390625 | 0 |
9174711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington%20Weir | Wellington Weir | Questions of over-allocation of water were significant in the debate regarding the cost of a weir. For instance, why not spend money on buying water licences from irrigators that use water from the Murray River system to grow cotton in Queensland, rather than build this weir?
Local action groups, including the River, ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9174736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker%20Memorial%20Hall | Walker Memorial Hall | Walker Memorial Hall is a historic community meeting hall on Highland Road in Bridgton, Maine. Built in 1892 to a design by Frederick A. Tompson, it is a well-preserved local example of eclectic Queen Anne architecture, and continues to be a significant community meeting center, hosting social events and meetings of l... | 2.078125 | 0 |
9174778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor%20development%20board | Microprocessor development board | A microprocessor development board is a printed circuit board containing a microprocessor and the minimal support logic needed for an electronic engineer or any person who wants to become acquainted with the microprocessor on the board and to learn to program it. It also served users of the microprocessor as a method t... | 2.5 | 0 |
9174778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor%20development%20board | Microprocessor development board | Although these development boards were not designed for hobbyists, they were often bought by them because they were the earliest cheap microcomputer devices available. They often added all kinds of expansions, such as more memory, a video interface etc. It was very popular to use (or write) an implementation of Tiny Ba... | 2.453125 | 0 |
9174881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotozakura%20Masakatsu%20I | Kotozakura Masakatsu I | After retirement
Kotozakura had been expecting to open up his own training stable, but when his stablemaster died suddenly just days after Kotozakura's retirement, he took over Sadogatake stable instead. He produced many top division wrestlers over the years, such as ōzeki Kotokaze, Kotoōshū, Kotomitsuki and Kotoshōg... | 2.125 | 0 |
9174899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Milnes | Alfred Milnes | Alfred Milnes (May 28, 1844 – January 15, 1916) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Early life
Milnes was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. His parents, Henry and Mary Ann (née Amyss) Milnes joined the LDS Church and left England with their family in 1854. After a sixty-day voyage from Liverpool, th... | 2.0625 | 0 |
9174899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Milnes | Alfred Milnes | With the outbreak of the Civil War, Milnes enlisted as a private in Company C, Seventeenth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, June 30, 1862. The forces mustered at Detroit, and left the state on August 27, 1862, going straight to Washington, D.C. On September 14, he saw action in the Battle of South Mountain in Ma... | 2.375 | 0 |
9174907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Viavattine | John Viavattine | John Viavattine (born March 21, 1955) is an American professional woodwind performer who worked as instrumental music teacher at East Rochester Junior-Senior High School and Spencerport High School in Rochester, New York.
Career
Music performer
Viavattine has performed with a variety of popular musicians. He played o... | 2.25 | 0 |
9174925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Birley | Anthony Birley | Anthony Richard Birley (8 October 1937 – 19 December 2020) was a British ancient historian, archaeologist and academic. He was the son of Margaret Isabel (Goodlet) and historian and archaeologist Eric Birley.
Early life and education
Anthony Birley was the son of the archaeologists Eric Birley and Margaret "Peggy" Bi... | 1.960938 | 0 |
9175030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Kirby%20%28author%29 | William Kirby (author) | William Kirby, (13 October 1817 – 23 June 1906) was a Canadian author, best known for his classic historical novel, The Golden Dog.
Life
Born in Yorkshire, England, Kirby immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1832, and then to Canada in 1839. After visiting Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City, he settled ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
9175031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Darby | George Darby | Darby was appointed to the Board of Admiralty as First Naval Lord in the North ministry in September 1780. In April 1781 he relieved Gibraltar from its siege by the Spanish, for the second time during that war. This event is recorded in a full-length portrait by George Romney, painted 1783–6, which hangs in the Nationa... | 1.960938 | 0 |
9175084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhaus%20theorem | Steinhaus theorem | In the mathematical field of real analysis, the Steinhaus theorem states that the difference set of a set of positive measure contains an open neighbourhood of zero. It was first proved by Hugo Steinhaus.
Statement
Let A be a Lebesgue-measurable set on the real line such that the Lebesgue measure of A is not zero. Th... | 2.3125 | 0 |
9175091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neda%20Ulaby | Neda Ulaby | Neda Ulaby (, born 1970) is an American reporter for National Public Radio, covering arts, cultural trends and digital media. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Early life and education
Born during Black September in Amman, Jordan, Ulaby spent her childhood in Lawrence, Kansas, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. The father who ra... | 2.140625 | 0 |
9175182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochfirst%20Ski%20Jump | Hochfirst Ski Jump | The Hochfirst Ski Jump (German: Hochfirstschanze) is a ski jumping hill located in Titisee-Neustadt in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The ski jump is named after the mountain Hochfirst (1197 m) in the Black Forest. It is the biggest natural ski jumping hill. This means that in contrast to many other ski jum... | 1.953125 | 0 |
9175184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Braun | Albert Braun | Father Albert William Braun OFM (September 5, 1889 – March 6, 1983) was a Roman Catholic priest and teacher in the Southwest and the Pacific United States.
Braun served as a US Army chaplain in both World War I and World War II. During World War II he became a prisoner of war after the fall of Corregidor in the Philip... | 2.265625 | 0 |
9175184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Braun | Albert Braun | World War II
Braun received orders to report for duty on November 1, 1940, at Fort Sam Houston. He insisted on an overseas posting and was assigned as a chaplain with the 92nd Coast Artillery Regiment in the Philippines. In April 1941, he left for his assignment on the island of Corregidor in Manila Bay. Braun was on h... | 2.40625 | 0 |
9175184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Braun | Albert Braun | After the war, Fr. Albert came back to the Fruitvale Neighborhood of Oakland, where he requested from the Provincial to go back with the Mescalero. The Provincial requested he go to Phoenix. Fr. Al requested that he "be out with the people" and asked Fr. Victor, Pastor of St. Mary's, if there were any Spanish speaking ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
9175184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Braun | Albert Braun | Father Al began acquiring land through political activism and brick through a local fundraising campaign within the Golden Gate Barrio whereas every single resident, including children, would each buy at least one red brick after the supply of adobe bricks was destroyed in a rain storm. With an $8,000 loan from the Bis... | 2.453125 | 0 |
9175223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perryville%20Battlefield%20State%20Historic%20Site | Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site | Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site is a park near Perryville, Kentucky. The park continues to expand with purchases of parcels by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves' Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund and the American Battlefield Trust. An interpretive museum is located near the site where many Conf... | 2.328125 | 0 |
9175223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perryville%20Battlefield%20State%20Historic%20Site | Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site | For a century following the war, the memory of the Battle of Perryville (and many others fought in the Western Theater) was minimized by what has been called the "Lee tradition," which emphasized the deeds of the armies and generals who fought in the Eastern Theater, particularly Virginia. However, numerous scholars wo... | 2.609375 | 0 |
9175282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Hall%20State%20Historic%20Site | White Hall State Historic Site | White Hall State Historic Site is a park in Richmond, Kentucky, southeast of Lexington. White Hall was home to two legendary Kentucky statesmen: General Green Clay and his son General Cassius Marcellus Clay, as well as suffragists Mary Barr Clay and Laura Clay. On April 12, 2011, White Hall was designated as a nationa... | 2.125 | 0 |
9175282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Hall%20State%20Historic%20Site | White Hall State Historic Site | Notable residents
White Hall was first home to General Green Clay who built the original structure, Claremont. Clay was an early Kentucky settler and land surveyor. Green Clay made his fortune surveying land, keeping a portion of the land he surveyed as payment. Green Clay became one of the largest land and slave hold... | 2.5 | 0 |
9175282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Hall%20State%20Historic%20Site | White Hall State Historic Site | Acquisition and restoration
The Madison County Garden Club members were among those who spearheaded the effort to preserve the historic home. The club consulted with several prominent Kentucky historical preservationists and preservation societies. Governor Edward Breathitt agreed to purchase White Hall from the curr... | 2.484375 | 0 |
9175282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Hall%20State%20Historic%20Site | White Hall State Historic Site | Two tapestry rugs and a Louis XV table that once belonged to Green Clay and Cassius M. Clay were donated by Annabell Olsen of Somerset, KY. The tapestry rugs are from the Ming Dynasty prior to 1300. The colors, blues, reds, and gold have faded some. Olson found the rugs in a stove pipe in the White Hall kitchen. They w... | 2.140625 | 0 |
9175343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Washington%20Bethune | George Washington Bethune | George Washington Bethune (March 18, 1805 – April 28, 1862) was a preacher-pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church.
Life and career
Of Huguenot descent, his father was Divie Bethune, a highly successful merchant in New York. Originally a student at Columbia College of Columbia University, Bethune graduated in 1822 from D... | 2.421875 | 0 |
9175348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation%20NMS | Regulation NMS | Regulation National Market System (or Reg NMS) is a 2005 US financial regulation promulgated and described by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as "a series of initiatives designed to modernize and strengthen the National Market System for equity securities". The Reg NMS is intended to assure that investors... | 2.078125 | 0 |
9175365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling%20Vidkunsson | Erling Vidkunsson | Erling Vidkunsson (1293–1355) was the Norwegian nobleman and regent of Norway. He received the position of High Justiciar (drottsete) of the country. He was Lord of Bjarkoy and Giske and was probably the most important and wealthy Norwegian noble of his era.
Erling Vidkunsson was born into a noble family of Bjarkøy w... | 1.984375 | 0 |
9175501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20suffrage%20in%20New%20Zealand | Women's suffrage in New Zealand | Women's suffrage was an important political issue in the late-nineteenth-century New Zealand. In early colonial New Zealand, as in European societies, women were excluded from any involvement in politics. Public opinion began to change in the latter half of the nineteenth century and after years of effort by women's su... | 3.28125 | 0 |
9175501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20suffrage%20in%20New%20Zealand | Women's suffrage in New Zealand | The New Zealand suffrage movement began in the late 19th century, inspired by similar groups in the British Empire and United States. The right to vote was largely sought as a way to improve social morality and, by extension, improve women's safety and quality of life. Therefore, the suffrage campaigns were intertwined... | 2.8125 | 0 |
9175501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20suffrage%20in%20New%20Zealand | Women's suffrage in New Zealand | Successful campaign
Women's suffrage was granted after about two decades of campaigning throughout New Zealand by women. The New Zealand branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) led by Anne Ward (1886–1887), Emma Packe (1887–1889), Catherine Fulton (1889–1892), and Annie Jane Schnackenberg (1892–1900) w... | 3.109375 | 0 |
9175501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20suffrage%20in%20New%20Zealand | Women's suffrage in New Zealand | Seddon needed one more vote to defeat the measure in the Upper House. A new Liberal Party councillor, Thomas Kelly, had decided to vote in favour of the measure, but Seddon obtained his consent by wire to change his vote. Seddon's manipulation incensed two other councillors William Reynolds and Edward Cephas John Steve... | 2.703125 | 0 |
9175502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20in%20Vietnam | Football in Vietnam | South Vietnam
By the late 1950s, South Vietnam national football team had become one of the four strongest teams in Asia, as they advanced into the final round of the 1960 AFC Asian Cup together with South Korea, Israel and the Republic of China. The team also won the 10th Merdeka Cup in Malaysia, 1966. It was one of s... | 2.390625 | 0 |
9175502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20in%20Vietnam | Football in Vietnam | Following the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup, Vietnam would start to have tremendous success, after hiring Park Hang-Seo as coach. In 2018, the Vietnam national under-23 football team recorded another remarkable achievement during the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship, winning the silver medal after losing to Uzbekistan in the fina... | 2.109375 | 0 |
9175502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20in%20Vietnam | Football in Vietnam | National identity
Football is an important part of the national identity in Vietnam. Although having a long history, modern Vietnamese football was developed very late than the rest, which only established at 1990s after the end of Sino-Vietnamese War and international isolation. Since 1990s, football has become extrem... | 2.375 | 0 |
9175502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20in%20Vietnam | Football in Vietnam | The emergence of women's football in Vietnam was marked by the establishment of the Cai-Von Women's Football Team (Equipe Feminine de Cai-Von) in 1932, the first women's football team in Vietnam and Asia. Phan Khắc Sửu, an agricultural engineer, with the approval of the South Vietnam government and the Football General... | 2.6875 | 0 |
9175580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugenia%20Burns%20Hope | Lugenia Burns Hope | Lugenia Burns Hope (February 19, 1871 – August 14, 1947), was a social reformer whose Neighborhood Union and other community service organizations improved the quality of life for African Americans in Atlanta, Georgia, and served as a model for the future Civil Rights Movement.
Biography
Education and social outreach... | 2.65625 | 0 |
9175580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugenia%20Burns%20Hope | Lugenia Burns Hope | Activism
Because the United Service Organization limited its entertainment program in World War II, the Neighborhood Union ran YWCA War Work Councils to provide similar services to the African-American community. Their success led to Lugenia Hope coordinating a US-wide network of Hostess Houses that provided services r... | 3.046875 | 0 |
9175611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hunting%20of%20the%20Snark%20%28musical%29 | The Hunting of the Snark (musical) | The Hunting of the Snark is a musical based on Lewis Carroll's 1876 poem The Hunting of the Snark, written by composer Mike Batt.
History
The musical began life in 1984 as a costumed concert with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, conducted by Mike Batt and starring Paul Jones as the Baker and Christopher ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
9175642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Reyunos%20Dam | Los Reyunos Dam | The Los Reyunos Dam is an embankment dam on the Diamante River, in central Mendoza Province, Argentina, some twenty-two miles (thirty-five kilometers) from the city of San Rafael. The dam, built of stone and compacted clay to minimize execution and cost, is high and contains a reservoir covering an area of .
The dam ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9175674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme%20Ruxton | Graeme Ruxton | Graeme Ruxton is a zoologist known for his research into behavioural ecology and evolutionary ecology.
Life and work
Ruxton received his PhD in Statistics and Modelling Science in 1992 from the University of Strathclyde. His studies focus on the evolutionary pressures on aggregation by animals, and predator-prey asp... | 2.21875 | 0 |
9175711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20wild%20ass | Indian wild ass | The Indian wild ass (Equus hemionus khur), also called the Indian wild donkey, Indian onager or, in the local Gujarati language, Ghudkhur and Khur, is a subspecies of the onager native to South Asia.
It is currently listed as Near Threatened by IUCN. The species in wild is found only in the Indian state of Gujarat, wh... | 2.578125 | 0 |
9175711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20wild%20ass | Indian wild ass | Range extension in recent years
The Indian wild ass population has been increasing in numbers and extending its range from Little Rann of Kutch, where the world's last population of this subspecies had got confined to in recent years, and has gradually started moving out and colonizing the Greater Rann of Kutch, also e... | 2.859375 | 0 |
9175711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20wild%20ass | Indian wild ass | Threats
It is unknown how the Indian wild ass disappeared from its former haunts in parts of western India and Pakistan, since the animal was never a hunting target of Indian Maharajas and colonial British officials of the British Raj. However, India's Mughal Emperors and noblemen from the time took great pleasure in ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
9175711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20wild%20ass | Indian wild ass | First census of the wild ass was done in 1940, when there were an estimated 3,500 wild asses. But, by the year 1960, this figure fell to just 362, it was then classified as a highly endangered species. In the years 1973 & 1976, Rann of Kutch and adjoining districts were taken up as the area for conservation for this su... | 2.59375 | 0 |
9175721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Four%20Ice%20Caves | Big Four Ice Caves | Big Four Mountain is a mountain in the Cascade Range of Washington, located east of Granite Falls. The mountain is about high. At the bottom of its steep, high north face, debris piles form from avalanches and are able to remain there year round because of the continuous shade provided by the mountain. At an elevati... | 2.578125 | 0 |
9175925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Elmhirst | Thomas Elmhirst | First World War
In April 1912, Elmhirst joined his first ship, . He was commissioned as a midshipman in the Royal Navy in 1913 and was posted to in the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron under David Beatty. When war came he served on HMS Indomitable as the ship took part in the initial bombardment of the Turkish Dardanelles f... | 2.578125 | 0 |
9175925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Elmhirst | Thomas Elmhirst | In 1953, Elmhirst ran Operation Totem, the first British nuclear bomb land tests in Emu Field, Australia. Later in 1953 he became the Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, welcoming Queen Elizabeth II on her inaugural tour of the island as the new monarch. He held the post for five years, retiring in 1958.
Personal life
El... | 1.914063 | 0 |
9176011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite%20of%20Menophantos | Aphrodite of Menophantos | Shame vs Sexuality
Recent scholars such as Christine Mitchell Havelock have argued that statues with the Pudica posture illustrated a feminine sexuality rooted in passivity, vulnerability, and shame. The hand covering her pudenda may be regarded as an act of external control in ancient Greek mythology and philosophy. F... | 2.390625 | 0 |
9176056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen%20Bell | Gwen Bell | Gwen Bell (born July 20, 1934) was the first president of The Computer Museum in Boston, which she co-founded with her then-husband Gordon Bell.
Life
Bell earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1957, and a Master of City and Regional Planning from Harvard University in 1959. In 1967 she earn... | 2.09375 | 0 |
9176082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Wallis | Helen Wallis | Helen Margaret Wallis (17 August 1924 – 7 February 1995) was the Map Curator at the British Museum (afterwards the British Library) from 1967 to 1987.
Biography
Born at Dunkery, Park Road, Barnet on 17 August 1924, Wallis was the daughter of Leonard Francis Wallis (1880–1965), headmaster, and Mary McCulloch Jones (18... | 2.078125 | 0 |
9176163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poslingford | Poslingford | Poslingford Hall Manor
The Golding family were for several hundred years one of the principal families of the parish. As early as 1573 George and Henry Golding had been called upon to show by what title they held the Rectory of the church, and probably the manor was already in the family at that date. In 1635 Thomas Go... | 1.96875 | 0 |
9176313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Cuthbert%27s%20Swallet | St Cuthbert's Swallet | St Cuthbert's Swallet is the second longest, and most complex, cave on the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. It forms a major part of the Priddy Caves system and water entering this swallet re-emerges at Wookey Hole.
St Cuthbert's Swallet is part of, and lies underneath, the Priddy Pools Site of Special Scientific In... | 2.296875 | 0 |
9176384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode%20bias | Cathode bias | In electronics, cathode bias (also known as self-bias, or automatic bias) is a technique used with vacuum tubes to make the direct current (dc) cathode voltage positive in relation to the negative side of the plate voltage supply by an amount equal to the magnitude of the desired grid bias voltage.
Operation
The most ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
9176384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode%20bias | Cathode bias | Any signal frequency effect of the cathode resistor may be minimized by providing a suitable bypass capacitor in parallel with the resistor. In general, the capacitor value is selected such that the time constant of the capacitor and bias resistor is an order of magnitude greater than the period of the lowest frequency... | 2.3125 | 0 |
9176406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Khachigian | Ken Khachigian | Kenneth L. Khachigian (born September 14, 1944, in Visalia, California) is an American political consultant, speechwriter, and attorney. He is best known for being a longtime aide to President Richard Nixon and chief speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan.
He served as chief speechwriter on Reagan's successful 1980 p... | 2.140625 | 0 |
9176406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Khachigian | Ken Khachigian | 1984 presidential campaign
During the 1984 presidential campaign, Khachigian served as chief campaign speechwriter, senior advisor, and director of issues and research. He wrote the 1984 nomination acceptance speech and was one of only two campaign aides who accompanied President Reagan aboard Air Force One throughout ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
9176412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangential%20quadrilateral | Tangential quadrilateral | In Euclidean geometry, a tangential quadrilateral (sometimes just tangent quadrilateral) or circumscribed quadrilateral is a convex quadrilateral whose sides all can be tangent to a single circle within the quadrilateral. This circle is called the incircle of the quadrilateral or its inscribed circle, its center is the... | 2.75 | 0 |
9176412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangential%20quadrilateral | Tangential quadrilateral | According to the Pitot theorem, the two pairs of opposite sides in a tangential quadrilateral add up to the same total length, which equals the semiperimeter s of the quadrilateral:
Conversely a convex quadrilateral in which a + c = b + d must be tangential.
If opposite sides in a convex quadrilateral ABCD (that is n... | 2.671875 | 0 |
9176412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangential%20quadrilateral | Tangential quadrilateral | which gives the area in terms of the diagonals p, q and the sides a, b, c, d of the tangential quadrilateral.
The area can also be expressed in terms of just the four tangent lengths. If these are e, f, g, h, then the tangential quadrilateral has the area
Furthermore, the area of a tangential quadrilateral can be exp... | 2.34375 | 0 |
9176412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangential%20quadrilateral | Tangential quadrilateral | If R1, R2, R3, and R4 denote the radii in the circumcircles of triangles APB, BPC, CPD, and DPA respectively, then the quadrilateral ABCD is tangential if and only if
In 1996, Vaynshtejn was probably the first to prove another beautiful characterization of tangential quadrilaterals, that has later appeared in several ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
9176439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose%20Township%2C%20Adams%20County%2C%20Illinois | Melrose Township, Adams County, Illinois | Melrose Township is one of twenty-two townships in Adams County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 5,748 and it contained 2,375 housing units. The northwestern part of the township has been separated into Quincy Township.
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total... | 2.09375 | 0 |
9176452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supramolecular%20polymer | Supramolecular polymer | Formation mechanisms
Monomers undergoing supramolecular polymerization are considered to be in equilibrium with the growing polymers, and thermodynamic factors therefore dominate the system. However, when the constituent monomers are connected via strong and multivalent interactions, a "metastable" kinetic state can ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
9176452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supramolecular%20polymer | Supramolecular polymer | Chain-growth polymerization
Conventional chain-growth polymerization involves at least two phases; initiation and propagation, while and in some cases termination and chain transfer phases also occur. Chain-growth supramolecular polymerization in a broad sense involves two distinct phases; a less favored nucleation ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
9176452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supramolecular%20polymer | Supramolecular polymer | Chirality
Stereochemical information of a chiral monomer can be expressed in a supramolecular polymer. Helical supramolecular polymer with P-and M-conformation are widely seen, especially those composed of disc-shaped monomers. When the monomers are achiral, both P-and M-helices are formed in equal amounts. When th... | 1.945313 | 0 |
9176470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Malm%20%28businessman%29 | Otto Malm (businessman) | Otto August Malm (25 July 1838 – 25 November 1898) was one of the most famous shipping magnates in Finland in the 19th century, and at the time of his death, the richest man in Finland.
Life
Malm inherited a large fortune after his father Peter Malm, and further expanded it through many successful entrepreneurial acti... | 2.1875 | 0 |
9176470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Malm%20%28businessman%29 | Otto Malm (businessman) | Malm was a dominating figure in the political life of his hometown, and also a major philanthropist. Having been married for barely a year, his pregnant wife drowned when the ship Österbotten sank after a fire on 20 August 1874. He chose never to marry again, and being without heirs, he donated large parts of his fortu... | 1.992188 | 0 |
9176508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osu%20Castle | Osu Castle | Osu Castle (also known as Fort Christiansborg or the Castle) is a castle located in Osu, Ghana, on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in Africa.
A substantial fort was built by Denmark-Norway in the 1660s; thereafter, the fort changed ownership between Denmark-Norway, Portugal, the Akwamu, Britain, and finally post-Inde... | 2.890625 | 0 |
9176508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osu%20Castle | Osu Castle | Osu Castle was located close to two other forts. Fort Crèvecœur was controlled by the Dutch and Fort James by the British. The settlement at Osu was too small to store sufficient goods to compete with the others. Consequently, Denmark-Norway purchased adjoining land and expanded the building, naming it Fort Christiansb... | 2.890625 | 0 |
9176650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tseax%20Cone | Tseax Cone | Location
Tseax Cone is located about north of Terrace near the Nisga'a villages of Gitwinksihlkw and Gitlaxt'aamiks. It lies within a steep-sided, , east–west valley penetrating the Nass Ranges of the Hazelton Mountains. Tseax Cone is situated at the outlet of Melita Lake, an expansion of Crater Creek which flows west... | 2.515625 | 0 |
9176650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tseax%20Cone | Tseax Cone | Lichens and mosses cover large portions of a lava flow sequence originating from Tseax Cone. They range in colour from green to yellow and reach thicknesses of a few centimetres. In the Tseax River valley, the lava flows have been almost completely covered by dense rainforest. They have also been partially obscured by ... | 3.015625 | 0 |
9176650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tseax%20Cone | Tseax Cone | Tseax Cone has an elevation of and consists of two nested structures: a smaller inner cone and a larger external spatter rampart. The inner cone is high and in diameter, consisting mainly of black ejecta such as scoria, ballistics and lapilli. It contains an approximately volcanic crater with a diameter of . This c... | 2.421875 | 0 |
9176650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tseax%20Cone | Tseax Cone | All of the lava flows from Tseax Cone contain intact and collapsed lava tubes. At least four of these tubes are situated adjacent to and extend under Tseax Cone. They lie at an elevation of and were the subject of a glaciological study in 1975. At the time of study, two of the four lava tubes were found to be ice-free... | 2.75 | 0 |
9176650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tseax%20Cone | Tseax Cone | Age controversy
The exact timing of volcanism at Tseax Cone has been a subject of controversy due to there being no direct written accounts. Reports of the rich oral history of the local Nisga'a people by missionaries as early as the 1910s suggest that Tseax Cone was erupting around 1770. However, the credibility of th... | 2.296875 | 0 |
9176650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tseax%20Cone | Tseax Cone | It has been generally agreed by researchers that the Tseax Cone lava flows were emplaced during a single eruption. However, whether the volcano itself is the product of one or more distinct eruptive episodes has been a point of conjecture. In 1923, G. Hanson suggested that Tseax Cone formed during a single eruption. Th... | 2.78125 | 0 |
9176650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tseax%20Cone | Tseax Cone | Damming of the Nass River by lava flows could negatively affect the salmon fisheries on this river. Carbon dioxide emissions from Tseax Cone could pose a threat to local inhabitants due to the gas's ability to replace oxygen in low-lying areas and poorly ventilated structures. Another potential hazard relating to futur... | 2.953125 | 0 |
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