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10676284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20A.%20McCarthy | Edward A. McCarthy | Edward Anthony McCarthy (April 10, 1918 – June 7, 2005) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the second archbishop of the Archdiocese of Miami in Florida from 1977 to 1994. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix in Arizona from 1969 to 1977 and as an auxiliary bishop of... | 2.015625 | 0 |
10676284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20A.%20McCarthy | Edward A. McCarthy | Coadjutor Archbishop and Archbishop of Miami
On September 17, 1976, Paul VI appointed McCarthy as the coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Miami due to the failing health of Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll. Upon Archbishop Carroll's death on July 26, 1977, McCarthy automatically succeeded him. Soon after arriving... | 2.390625 | 0 |
10676300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmanny%20District | Basmanny District | Date of foundation of Ivanovsky Convent (4, Zabelina Street) remains unknown; it was used as a high security prison for state prisoners like Maria Shuiskaya, wife of deposed Vasili IV of Russia, and Darya Saltykova. Present-day cathedral and towers were built by Mikhail Bykovsky in 1861. Nearby Moscow Choral Synagogue ... | 2.25 | 0 |
10676300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmanny%20District | Basmanny District | "Basman" in the 17th century referred to a particular sort of bread supplied to the court and troops, however, historians argue that Basmannaya sloboda was too large for bakers alone. This sloboda occupied the beginning of Staraya Basmannaya Street, while the present-day Novaya Basmannaya Street was known as Kapitanska... | 2.21875 | 0 |
10676327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20O%27Neill%2C%202nd%20Baron%20O%27Neill | Edward O'Neill, 2nd Baron O'Neill | Edward O'Neill, 2nd Baron O'Neill (31 December 1839 – 19 November 1928), known as Edward Chichester until 1855, was an Irish peer and Conservative politician.
O'Neill was the eldest son of William O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill, and his first wife Henrietta (née Torrens), daughter of Robert Torrens, judge of the Court of ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
10676382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20St.%20Mary%27s%20Hospital | Mount St. Mary's Hospital | Mount St. Mary's Hospital or St. Mary's Manor is a historic Neoclassical Revival hospital building located at Niagara Falls in Niagara County, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
Design
The building was constructed in 1912-1914 and designed by architect William P. Ginther. T... | 2.09375 | 0 |
10676397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geji | Geji | Geji () were female Chinese performing artists and courtesans who trained in singing and dancing in ancient China.
During the Warring States Period, a legendary figure named Han'e is believed to be the first example of a geji. Recorded in the Taoist manuscript the Liezi, Han'e is said to have traveled and made her liv... | 2.828125 | 0 |
10676431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Freiherr%20von%20Eltz-R%C3%BCbenach | Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach | Peter Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach (9 February 1875 – 25 August 1943) was Reich Postal Minister (Reichspostminister) and Reich Minister of Transport (Reichsminister für Verkehr) of Germany between 1932 and 1937.
Early life
Eltz-Rübenach was born in Wahn (today part of Cologne), a scion of the Rhenish noble house of... | 2.140625 | 0 |
10676451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen%20Avenue | Aberdeen Avenue | Aberdeen Avenue is a Lower City minor arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off just west of Longwood Road South and east of Highway 403 as a two-way thoroughfare up to Queen Street South, where it then switches over to a one-way collector road (eastbound) to Bay Street South and then to another two-way... | 2.140625 | 0 |
10676502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%20Gongren | Yang Gongren | During Emperor Gaozu's reign
Emperor Gaozu soon made Yang Gongren the commandant at Liang Prefecture (涼州, roughly modern Wuwei, Gansu), because of his familiarity with the region. Yang was able to govern effectively, and it was said that tribes east of the Pamir Mountains were all nominally submitting to Tang as a res... | 2.15625 | 0 |
10676502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%20Gongren | Yang Gongren | During Emperor Taizong's reign
Two months later, Emperor Gaozu yielded the throne to Li Shimin, who became emperor (as Emperor Taizong). He initially made Yang Gongren to be the governor of the capital prefecture Yong Prefecture (雍州), and then made him the assistant to the commandant at Yang Prefecture (揚州, roughly mo... | 2.078125 | 0 |
10676517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20O%27Neill | Arthur O'Neill | Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill (19 September 1876 – 6 November 1914), was an Irish Ulster Unionist Party politician who was the first Member of Parliament to be killed in World War I.
Early life
O'Neill was the second but eldest surviving son of Edward O'Neill, 2nd Baron O'Neill, and his wife Lady Louisa Katherine Emma (... | 2.328125 | 0 |
10676540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics%20at%20the%201956%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20hammer%20throw | Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw | The men's hammer throw was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The qualifying round and the final both were held on Saturday November 24, 1956. There were 22 competitors from 14 nations. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
10676544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew%20Tendler | Lew Tendler | "Lefty" Lew Tendler (September 28, 1898, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – November 5, 1970, in Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American boxer. He is generally considered one of the best boxers to never have won a world title, though he was a top rated contender for both the world light and welterweight championships. ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
10676544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew%20Tendler | Lew Tendler | Close bouts with champion Johnny Dundee, 1917
On October 1, 1917, Tendler defeated future world junior lightweight champion Johnny Dundee in a close six-round newspaper decision in Philadelphia. Tendler took the lead in most of the fighting, used his reach advantage to dominate at long range, and landed more blows to ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
10676544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew%20Tendler | Lew Tendler | Attempts at lightweight championship against Benny Leonard, 1922-3
On July 27, 1922, Tendler fell to fellow Jewish boxer Benny Leonard in a twelve-round newspaper decision in Jersey City in a lightweight world title match, that may have been the most remarkable bout of Tendler's career. Before a record audience of over... | 2.140625 | 0 |
10676544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew%20Tendler | Lew Tendler | Tendler first defeated Sailor Friedman, a highly rated lightweight, on December 16, 1921, in an eight-round newspaper decision at New York's Madison Square Garden. Tendler floored Friedman four times in the second round in the Garden. Friedman came back hard in the fourth, staggering Tendler with a left to the jaw, and... | 1.953125 | 0 |
10676551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%20Davis%20Cup%20team | Bangladesh Davis Cup team | The Bangladesh Davis Cup team represents Bangladesh in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Bangladesh Tennis Federation.
Bangladesh currently competes in the Asia/Oceania Zone of Group IV.
In the 2022 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV, Bangladesh lost both matches 3–0, against Sri Lanka and Kyrgyz... | 2.125 | 0 |
10676573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosman%20Rugby%20Club | Mosman Rugby Club | Mosman Rugby Club (known as The Mosman Whales) is an Australian rugby union club. It is based is Mosman on the Lower North Shore of Sydney. Home games are played at Rawson Oval and Balmoral Oval. Mosman won the first Kentwell Cup in 1923 and Mosman continues to compete in Division One of the New South Wales Suburban Ru... | 2.234375 | 0 |
10676612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics%20at%20the%201956%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20discus%20throw | Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's discus throw | The men's discus throw was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty athletes from 15 nations competed. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The qualifying round and the final both were held on Tuesday November 27, 1956. The event was wo... | 2.375 | 0 |
10676657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20power%20in%20Europe | Wind power in Europe | As of 2023, Europe had a total installed wind capacity of 255 gigawatts (GW). In 2017, a total of 15,680 MW of wind power was installed, representing 55% of all new power capacity, and the wind power generated 336 TWh of electricity, enough to supply 11.6% of the EU's electricity consumption.
In Q4 2023, wind power ex... | 2.5625 | 0 |
10676657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20power%20in%20Europe | Wind power in Europe | Ireland is the best location in Europe for wind power as it is situated on the Western edge of Europe and is exposed to high winds from the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea. Wind power capacity factors tend to be higher in Ireland than anywhere else. By the end of 2019 the installed capacity of wind power in Ireland was 4,... | 2.515625 | 0 |
10676657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20power%20in%20Europe | Wind power in Europe | 1.8 GW of new wind power capacity was brought online during 2012, a 30% increase of the total UK installed capacity. 2012 was a significant year for the offshore wind industry with 4 large wind farms becoming operational with over 1.1 GW of generating capability coming on stream.
Through the Renewables Obligation, Bri... | 2.703125 | 0 |
10676657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20power%20in%20Europe | Wind power in Europe | In the Europe's Premier Wind Energy Event February 2013 wind was evaluated by Robert Clover from MAKE Consulting as the cheapest electricity technology after 2020 meeting 50% of electricity demand in Europe by 2050. According to Fatih Birol, Chief Economist at the International Energy Agency, without phasing out fossil... | 2.515625 | 0 |
10676664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics%20at%20the%201956%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20shot%20put | Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put | The men's shot put was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The event was also known at the time as putting the weight. The qualifying round and the final both were held on Wednesday November 28, 1956. Fourteen shot putters from ten nations competed. The maximum number of athletes per nation ha... | 2.4375 | 0 |
10676674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating%21 | Keating! | Background
Paul Keating was the Labor Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996, ascending to the office after two leadership challenges against his predecessor, Bob Hawke. As Prime Minister, he was interested in a "big picture" approach to government, engaging with issues such as a closer relationship with Asia, ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
10676674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating%21 | Keating! | Music
The songs of Keating! employ a wide range of musical styles, including bossa nova, blues, rap, reggae, soul, swing and beer-barrel waltz. Mara Lazzarotto Davis has written an academic study of Casey Bennetto's "Keating!" as a generic hybrid - deftly blending vaudeville, theatre and musical comedy (""Flicking the ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
10676738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupa%20Bhawani | Rupa Bhawani | Mata Rupa Bhawani (c. 1621 – c. 1721 birth name: Alakheswari ) was a Kashmiri poet. Bhawani was a 17th-century Hindu saint who lived in present-day Kashmir.
Early life
She was the daughter of Pandit Madhav Joo Dhar, a resident of Khankah-i-Shokta, Nawakadal (now Srinagar), in the early 17th century. He introduced her ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
10676785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20Azerbaijan | Copyright law of Azerbaijan | Copyright law in Azerbaijan governs copyright in Azerbaijan. The status of copyright law and its protection is regulated by the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan signed in 1996. The Law on Copyright and Related Rights regulates the relations that arise while creating or using scientific and literary works, as well as w... | 2.046875 | 0 |
10676802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Settlers%20%28band%29 | The Settlers (band) | The Settlers were an English folk-orientated music group, originally from the English West Midlands, who formed in the mid-1960s. The band folded in the early 1980s, relaunched in 2018, and disbanded again in 2021.
Formation and genre
The group started as a trio, but almost immediately expanded by adding a bassist to ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
10676872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Dreyfus | Karen Dreyfus | Karen Dreyfus is a violist who currently teaches at the USC Thornton School of Music. Ms. Dreyfus has distinguished herself as a recipient of many prizes, including the Naumburg Viola Competition (1982), the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition (1980), the Washington International Competition (1979), and the H... | 2.1875 | 0 |
10676901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra%20Davis%20Cup%20team | Andorra Davis Cup team | The Andorra Davis Cup team represents Andorra in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Federació Andorrana de Tennis.
Andorra currently competes in the Europe Zone of Group IV, and have done so since 2008. They reached Group II in 2003, losing to Greece in the first round 1-4 and to Egypt 2-3 in the re... | 2.078125 | 0 |
10676912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority%20%28short%20story%29 | Superiority (short story) | "Superiority" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1951. It depicts an arms race during an interstellar war. It shows the side which is more technologically advanced being defeated, despite its apparent superiority, because of its willingness to discard old technolo... | 2.0625 | 0 |
10676992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustino%20Oramas | Faustino Oramas | Faustino Oramas Osorio (4 June 1911 – 27 March 2007), better known as El Guayabero, was a Cuban trova singer, tres guitarist and composer. Most of his repertoire consisted of sones and guaracha-sones, many with double entendres in the lyrics. His composition "Candela" gained international fame due to its inclusion in t... | 2.1875 | 0 |
10677076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester%20City%20Police | Leicester City Police | The city of Leicester in England was policed independently until 1 April 1967 when its police force was merged with the Leicestershire and Rutland Constabulary to form the Leicester and Rutland Constabulary.
From about 1750 until September 1835 the borough corporation appointed
night watchmen and day "police".
Under ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
10677136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toongabbie%2C%20Victoria | Toongabbie, Victoria | Toongabbie is a town located in the City of Latrobe and Shire of Baw Baw, Victoria, Australia, from Melbourne and just north of Traralgon. The railway station was closed in 1986 and the former railway line has now been incorporated into the Gippsland Plains Rail Trail. At the , Toongabbie had a population of 500.
Th... | 2.046875 | 0 |
10677276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puti%20Tipene%20Watene | Puti Tipene Watene | Puti Tipene "Steve" Watene (18 August 1910 – 14 June 1967) was a New Zealand rugby league footballer and politician. He was the first Māori to captain the New Zealand league side and he is the only person to both represent the New Zealand national rugby league team and become a Member of Parliament.
Early years and pe... | 2.03125 | 0 |
10677276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puti%20Tipene%20Watene | Puti Tipene Watene | Watene was first selected for the New Zealand national rugby league team while only 19 in 1930 and played for them until 1937. Watene was part of the first ever Auckland Māori rugby league team which played 4 matches in 1934 of which he played in all of them. He played 2 further matches in 1935. He also captained the N... | 2.078125 | 0 |
10677280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Mark | Robert Mark | Sir Robert Mark (13 March 1917 – 30 September 2010) was a senior British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Leicester City Police, and later as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1972 to 1977.
Mark was the first Metropolitan Commissioner to have risen through all the ranks from the lowest to th... | 2.140625 | 0 |
10677280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Mark | Robert Mark | CID reform
The Metropolitan Police had recently been rocked by exposure of massive corruption in the Criminal Investigation Department, and Mark, with the famous pronouncement, that "a good police force is one that catches more crooks than it employs", set about attempting to reform it. He changed disciplinary procedur... | 2.15625 | 0 |
10677281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Parr%20%28colonial%20governor%29 | John Parr (colonial governor) | John Parr (20 December 1725, Dublin, Ireland – 25 November 1791, Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a British military officer and governor of Nova Scotia. He is buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Church.
Early life and family
Parr was born in Dublin, Ireland, to Captain John Parr and Eleanor Clements, as part of the Anglo-Iris... | 2.015625 | 0 |
10677281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Parr%20%28colonial%20governor%29 | John Parr (colonial governor) | In 1755, he became adjutant to James Wolfe, the colonel of the 20th Regiment of Foot. In 1759, during the Seven Years' War, he was wounded at the Battle of Minden and spent six months in hospital. He was then stationed at Gibraltar for six years and purchased the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1776, he resigned his reg... | 2.765625 | 0 |
10677281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Parr%20%28colonial%20governor%29 | John Parr (colonial governor) | Parr's administration oversaw the settlement of Black Nova Scotians, who were African-American Loyalists fleeing the United States. Parr was accused of "discriminatory practices and long delays" in the matter. He attempted to establish a whaling industry in Dartmouth (see Quaker Whaler House), and was embroiled in the ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
10677309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Coastal%20Plains | Western Coastal Plains | The Western Coastal Plains is a narrow stretch of landmass lying between the western part of the Deccan plateau and the Arabian sea in India. The plains stretch from the Kutch region to Kaniyakumari at the southern tip of the Indian peninsula with the Western Ghats forming its eastern boundary. It traverses the states ... | 3.015625 | 0 |
10677309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Coastal%20Plains | Western Coastal Plains | Gujarat Plains
The Gujarat Plains extend from the Thar desert in the north to the border with Maharashtra. It forms the central part of Gujarat and lies to the east of the Kathiawar peninsula. The area extends for about and has an average elevation of . It is an extension of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and is drained by ... | 3 | 0 |
10677341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20divide | Ice divide | An ice divide is the boundary on an ice sheet, ice cap or glacier separating opposite flow directions of ice, analogous to a water divide. Ice divides are important for geochronological investigations that use ice cores, since such coring is typically made at highest point of an ice sheet dome to avoid disturbances ari... | 3.265625 | 0 |
10677341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20divide | Ice divide | Scientists from around the United States came together to find the best ice divide in order to go further into the past. They founded the WAIS project, which is funded by the United States National Science Foundation, and is run by scientists from many organizations e.g. National Ice Core Laboratory, Ice Drilling Desig... | 2.71875 | 0 |
10677363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tummala%20Seetharama%20Murthy | Tummala Seetharama Murthy | Tummala Seetharama Murthy or Tummla Seetharama Murthy Choudary (1901–1990) was an Indian poet writing in Telugu.
Murthy was born in Kavuru village in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Works such as "Rashtragaanamu" reflect patriotism and the Indian independence struggle. He was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi A... | 2.765625 | 0 |
10677363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tummala%20Seetharama%20Murthy | Tummala Seetharama Murthy | His Early Life
Like a lotus born in mud, Sitaramamurthy was born in a family of land cultivators. He was born on 25-Dec-1901, at Kavoor, a hamlet in Repalle Taluq of Krishna district (later divided into Guntur and Krishna), in the presidency of Madras (later divided into Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu). His parents Nar... | 2.359375 | 0 |
10677363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tummala%20Seetharama%20Murthy | Tummala Seetharama Murthy | His Literary Ideals
The modern age has brought a remarkable change in the outlook, philosophy and ideals of literature. Literature has come nearer to human life, its problems and its solutions. This has brought a breakthrough in the literary thinking of the present age. The puranic (mythological) themes have given way... | 2.328125 | 0 |
10677374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20R.%20Rose | Michael R. Rose | Michael R. Rose (born 25 July 1955) is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine.
Michael Roberson Rose was born on July 25, 1955. He obtained his B.S. in 1975 from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In 1976 he obtained his M.S.. In 1978 he ob... | 2.03125 | 0 |
10677374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20R.%20Rose | Michael R. Rose | Antagonistic pleiotropy
The phenomenon was first described by George C. Williams in 1957, but it was Rose who coined the phrase "antagonistic pleiotropy". Rose's laboratory has conducted the longest-running experimental evolution experiment designed to test the theory of antagonistic pleiotropy. Fruit flies (Drosophila... | 2.71875 | 0 |
10677378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapas%20Acupressure%20Technique | Tapas Acupressure Technique | Tapas Acupressure Technique (or TAT) is an alternative medicine therapy that claims to clear negative emotions and past traumas. Though the full technique was invented in 1993 by Tapas Fleming, TAT incorporates elements of and builds on other acupressure techniques. TAT is classified as energy therapies as TAT claims ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
10677475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin%20Kempton%20Mapes | Erwin Kempton Mapes | Erwin Kempton Mapes (9 June 1884 – 18 February 1961) was an American scholar of Spanish-American literature and Hispanist, renowned for his work on the Hispanic Modernists.
Born in Gilman, Illinois, Mapes received his bachelors from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, in 1909. He then went to Harvard University and... | 2.015625 | 0 |
10677559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M520%20Goer | M520 Goer | Field performance
Not only did the Caterpillar offer extreme off-road ability, including 20° longitudinal articulation and 30° side-slopes, it was also fully amphibious, using the wheels for propulsion in the water. The rear cargo-bed tailgate and drop-side doors, that allowed rapid discharge of cargo, had watertight s... | 2.125 | 0 |
10677592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Schwartz | Maurice Schwartz | Maurice Schwartz, born Avram Moishe Schwartz (June 18, 1890 – May 10, 1960), born in the Volhynia province of the Russian Empire, was a stage and film actor active in the United States. He founded the Yiddish Art Theatre and its associated school in 1918 in New York City and was its theatrical producer and director. He... | 2.359375 | 0 |
10677592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Schwartz | Maurice Schwartz | In 1947 the couple adopted two Polish Jewish war orphans, Moses and Fannie Englander, aged 9- and 8-years old, respectively. After losing their parents Abraham Joseph and Chana Englander in 1942, the children had been placed by the underground with Belgian Christian families. Fannie was renamed Marcelle and grew up wit... | 2.328125 | 0 |
10677592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Schwartz | Maurice Schwartz | In 1918, Schwartz founded the Yiddish Art Theatre, taking a lease on the Irving Place Theatre, in the Union Square neighborhood in New York City. He had ambitions for a people's theater that would produce classic, literary works. As he announced in Der Tog (The Day), a Yiddish-language newspaper, he wanted "a company t... | 2.609375 | 0 |
10677607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micron%20Memory%20Japan | Micron Memory Japan | Micron Memory Japan, K.K. is a Japanese subsidiary of Micron Technology. It was formerly known as established in 1999 that developed, designed, manufactured and sold dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) products. It was also a semiconductor foundry. With headquarters in Yaesu, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan, it was initially form... | 2.015625 | 0 |
10677647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Surfaces | Battle of Surfaces | The Battle of Surfaces was a men's tennis exhibition match that was held on May 2, 2007, between Roger Federer, the then top-ranked men's singles player, and Rafael Nadal, the then world No. 2 in men's singles. The match was played in the capital city of Nadal's home island, Palma de Mallorca, in front of a home crowd ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
10677693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria%20Mineral%20Springs | Peoria Mineral Springs | Peoria Mineral Springs is 14,500-year-old natural spring in the city of Peoria, Illinois, United States. The site, also known as Spring Hill, is located on a hillside on the historic West Bluff between Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Moss Avenue.
History
Peoria Mineral Springs are a remnant of the glacial retreat of... | 2.5625 | 0 |
10677722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Alfonse | Jean Alfonse | In service of France
Before or around 1530, for some reasons, he moved to France putting himself at the service of Francis I. The correspondence of diplomatic agents of the king of Portugal in France, in the first half of the century, tried to clarify the causes of this change of allegiance. Gaspar Palha, a Portuguese... | 2.421875 | 0 |
10677722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Alfonse | Jean Alfonse | In 1542–1543, Alfonse piloted Jean-François de la Roque de Roberval's attempt to colonize Canada on the heels of Jacques Cartier's third voyage there. Alfonse established that one could sail through a passage between Greenland and Labrador. The crew of 200, including prisoners and a few women, spent a harsh winter on t... | 2.921875 | 0 |
10677733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Rubenstein | Louis Rubenstein | Louis Rubenstein (September 23, 1861, in Montreal – January 3, 1931) was a Canadian figure skater, sportsman and politician. Rubenstein is considered the "Father of Canadian Figure Skating." After retirement from skating in 1892, Rubenstein became involved in the sports of bowling, curling, and cycling. He was elected ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
10677746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20exchange | Information exchange | Information exchange or information sharing means that people or other entities pass information from one to another. This could be done electronically or through certain systems. These are terms that can either refer to bidirectional information transfer in telecommunications and computer science or communication seen... | 2.859375 | 0 |
10677746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20exchange | Information exchange | Advanced information sharing platforms provide controlled vocabularies, data harmonization, data stewardship policies and guidelines, standards for uniform data as they relate to privacy, security, and data quality.
Information Sharing, Intelligence Reform, and Terrorism Prevention Act
The term information sharing gai... | 2.25 | 0 |
10677761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalabrinitherium | Scalabrinitherium | Scalabrinitherium is an extinct genus of mammals of the family Macraucheniidae. Fossils of this animal were found among the fossils of prehistoric xenarthrans in the Ituzaingó Formation of Argentina.
Description
This animal was rather similar to a llama with a slightly heavy build; the skull was long and low, the fro... | 2.515625 | 0 |
10677853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Conon | River Conon | The River Conon () is a river in the Highlands of Scotland. It begins at Loch Luichart, and flows in a south-easterly direction to be joined by the River Meig at Scatwell before passing through Loch Achonachie. It is joined by the Black Water at Moy Bridge, and the River Orrin at Urray, before flowing past Conon Bridge... | 2.75 | 0 |
10677853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Conon | River Conon | Route
The waters that form the River Conon rise on Mòine Mhòr ("Great Moss"), an upland peat bog to the west of Achnasheen and to the south east of Kinlochewe. A series of springs on the slopes of Càrn Loisgte and Carn Breac fall into Loch na Mòine Mhòr and Loch an Fhiarlaid, from which the Abhain Dubh ("Black River") ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
10677853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Conon | River Conon | The railway crosses to the south side of the waterway at a tiny river section called A Phait, between Loch Achanalt and Loch a' Chuilinn. There is a dam at the eastern end of the loch, and a little further downstream is Achanalt power station. This is housed in a tall single-storey building designed by James Shearer in... | 2.640625 | 0 |
10677853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Conon | River Conon | Below the dam, Allt a' Ghlinne joins the river on its right bank. A bridge carries the minor road from Little Scatwell, and immediately afterwards is Luichart power station, fed with water from Loch Luichart by a tunnel. The next tributary is the River Meig, which joins on the right bank. It rises as a series of spring... | 2.390625 | 0 |
10677853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Conon | River Conon | Eastern section
The river continues eastwards to reach Loch Achonachie. On its southern bank is Orrin power station, which receives its water supply from Orrin Reservoir, an artificial loch on the River Orrin. Loch Achonachie was created by constructing a concrete mass gravity dam at its eastern end. It includes a Borl... | 2.796875 | 0 |
10677853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Conon | River Conon | The railway bridge is the normal limit of tides. Next to the northern end of the bridge is an octagonal tollhouse, built by Joseph W Mitchell in 1828, which was used to collect tolls from people using Thomas Telford's Conon Bridge, which has since been demolished. The A862 road now crosses the river on a newer bridge. ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
10677853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Conon | River Conon | Hydroelectric development
Dingwall and Strathpeffer, both slightly to the north of the Conon near its mouth, had been supplied with hydro-electric power since 1903, when an 80 kW station was financed by Colonel E W Blunt-MacKenzie, the husband of the Countess of Cromarty. It was located at Ravens on Ben Wyvis. In 1926,... | 2.59375 | 0 |
10677853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Conon | River Conon | North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board schemes
The Conon Valley was one of the early hydroelectric schemes implemented by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, although it was constructed in three phases between 1946 and 1961. After the board was created in 1943, Edward MacColl the chief executive produced a list... | 2.296875 | 0 |
10677853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Conon | River Conon | The project involved the construction of several aqueducts and tunnels, to divert additional flow into Loch Fannich. The surface of the loch was around above ordnance datum (AOD), while the surface of Loch Luichart is AOD. A sloping tunnel was constructed from a point above the site of the power station to a point ar... | 2.625 | 0 |
10677853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Conon | River Conon | Fishing
The River Conon and its tributaries are fished for trout and salmon, but the present healthy state of the fish populations does not reflect the history of the river. The catching of salmon in the river and in the Cromarty Firth, which is protected from the open sea, has been a lucrative occupation for several c... | 3.125 | 0 |
10677853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Conon | River Conon | The Conon and the Black Water were spring fisheries, but both rivers became less wild and more predictable after the construction of the hydroelectric scheme at the Falls of Conon in the 1920s and the major schemes built between 1946 and 1961. Although there had been floods in 1892 and 1922, there were four major flood... | 2.953125 | 0 |
10677853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Conon | River Conon | The spawning grounds of the Black Water were largely destroyed by the damming of the river, and the dams do not have fish lifts. A fish trap on the upper Black Water is used to catch adult salmon, which are used to provide eggs for the hatchery. Although the fish lifts meant that adult salmon could more easily return t... | 2.84375 | 0 |
10677863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusky%20woodswallow | Dusky woodswallow | The dusky woodswallow (Artamus cyanopterus) is a bird species of forests and woodlands in temperate and subtropical regions, extending into tropical areas around the Atherton Tableland, in eastern and southern Australia.
The global population of the species has as yet not been formally confirmed, but it has been offic... | 2.671875 | 0 |
10677863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusky%20woodswallow | Dusky woodswallow | The birds live primarily in open eucalyptus forests and woodlands. They range mostly from Atherton Tableland, Queensland, down to Tasmania and west to Eyre Peninsula, in South Australia. They roost communally, usually nocturnally. During the breeding season, they nest in large flocks to make sure to keep predators away... | 3.0625 | 0 |
10677863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusky%20woodswallow | Dusky woodswallow | Breeding
The nest of the dusky woodswallow consists of twigs, roots and other similar foliage matted together to form a bowl shape, which is lined with grass. It is positioned safely, behind bark, and/or high in a tree branch, and sometimes in a hollowed out tree stump. The nest is made during the period from August to... | 2.96875 | 0 |
10677886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keizersgracht | Keizersgracht | The Keizersgracht (; "Emperor's canal") is a canal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is the second of the three main Amsterdam canals that together form the Grachtengordel, or canal belt, and lies between the inner Herengracht and outer Prinsengracht.
History
The first part of the Keizersgracht, between Brouwersgracht... | 2.4375 | 0 |
10677894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bormida%20%28river%29 | Bormida (river) | The Bormida (Bormia in Piedmontese language) is a river of north-west Italy.
Toponymy
The hydronym Bormida derives from the pre-Roman Ligurian proto-form *bormo ('warm or bubbling water'), also linked to the names of the gods of the springs Bormō and Bormānus. Similar hydronyms are present in the region: the river Bo... | 2.5625 | 0 |
10677900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altyndepe | Altyndepe | (, sometimes Altyn Tepe, Turkmen "Golden Hill"), is a Bronze Age (BMAC) archaeological site in Turkmenistan, near Aşgabat, inhabited first from c. 3200 to 2400 BCE in the Late Regionalization Era, and from c. 2400 to 2000 BCE in the Integration Era as a full urban site.
Excavations
Large-scale excavations at Altyn-de... | 2.359375 | 0 |
10677907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Gresham | Richard Gresham | Sir Richard Gresham (c. 1485 – 21 February 1549) was an English mercer, Merchant Adventurer, Lord Mayor of London, and Member of Parliament. He was the father of Sir Thomas Gresham.
Biography
The Gresham family had been settled in the Norfolk village of Gresham since at least the late 14th century. Richard Gresham's ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
10677909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herengracht | Herengracht | The Herengracht () is the second of four Amsterdam canals belonging to the canal belt and lies between the Singel and the Keizersgracht.
The Gouden Bocht (Golden Bend) in particular is known for its large and beautiful canal houses.
History
The Herengracht was built starting in 1612 on the initiative of Mayor Frans ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
10677927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNLV%20School%20of%20Architecture | UNLV School of Architecture | The School of Architecture (SOA) is part of the College of Fine Arts at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. It is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) in October 1997 and currently provides the only program accredited for architecture in the state of Nevada. The school offers a Bachelor of Sc... | 1.921875 | 0 |
10677933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nara%20Unateze | Nara Unateze | Nara Unateze (originally eraranwata) is a town in the Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State Nigeria. It belongs to the Nkanu clan of Igbo land and speaks the Nkanu dialect of Igbo language. It is popularly known as Obodo Iwewe (the town that never gets angry).
Politically, Nara consists of two Electoral Ward... | 1.992188 | 0 |
10677992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abi%20Gamin | Abi Gamin | Abi Gamin (also known as Ibi Gamin) is a Himalayan mountain peak mostly situated in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand state in India, roughly 2 km (1.2 mi) northeast of Kamet. Its summit is on the border with Tibet and its northern slope is in the Ngari Prefecture of Tibet.
Abi Gamin is located in the central Himal... | 2.125 | 0 |
10678009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucopaxillus | Leucopaxillus | Leucopaxillus is a genus of fairly large white-spored gilled mushrooms which are found worldwide growing on the ground in woodlands. These are saprotrophs, but may sometimes be ectomycorrhizal. Less than ten species of Leucopaxillus are known to grow in North America. No species of Leucopaxillus are known to be pois... | 2.703125 | 0 |
10678027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection-oriented%20Ethernet | Connection-oriented Ethernet | Connection-oriented Ethernet refers to the transformation of Ethernet, a connectionless communication system by design, into a connection-oriented system. The aim of connection-oriented Ethernet is to create a networking technology that combines the flexibility and cost-efficiency of Ethernet with the reliability of c... | 2.21875 | 0 |
10678027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection-oriented%20Ethernet | Connection-oriented Ethernet | Services in the data network are typically classified into 2 major categories: Committed Information Rate (CIR) and Excess Information Rate (EIR). A CIR service guarantees its user a fixed amount of bandwidth, whereas an EIR service offers best-effort only transport. Both types of services share a single capacity-co... | 2.140625 | 0 |
10678092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20invasive%20and%20interventional%20cardiology | History of invasive and interventional cardiology | The history of invasive and interventional cardiology is complex, with multiple groups working independently on similar technologies. Invasive and interventional cardiology is currently closely associated with cardiologists (physicians who treat the diseases of the heart), though the development and most of its early ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
10678092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20invasive%20and%20interventional%20cardiology | History of invasive and interventional cardiology | Development of the diagnostic coronary angiogram
In 1958, Interventional Radiologist, Dr. Charles Dotter began working on methods to visualize the coronary anatomy via sequential radiographic films. He invented a method known as occlusive aortography in an animal model. Occlusive aortography involved the transient oc... | 2.28125 | 0 |
10678092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20invasive%20and%20interventional%20cardiology | History of invasive and interventional cardiology | Dawn of the interventional era
The use of tapered Teflon dilating catheters for the treatment of atherosclerotic vascular disease was first described in 1964 by two interventional radiologists, Charles Dotter and Melvin Judkins, when they used it to treat a case of atherosclerotic disease in the superficial femoral art... | 1.945313 | 0 |
10678092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20invasive%20and%20interventional%20cardiology | History of invasive and interventional cardiology | In recognition of the focused training required by cardiologists to perform percutaneous coronary interventions and the rapid progression in the field of percutaneous coronary interventions, specialized fellowship training in the field of Interventional Cardiology was instituted in 1999.
Changes in post-procedure medi... | 2.015625 | 0 |
10678092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20invasive%20and%20interventional%20cardiology | History of invasive and interventional cardiology | Since 2006, technology advancements for drug-eluting stents have led to safety improvements. More recent analysis of clinical data note drug-eluting stents can be safely used and can lead to more effective reduction in stent thrombosis than bare metal stents. According to a 2018 data analysis, using drug-eluting stents... | 2.03125 | 0 |
10678097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazl-e-Haq%20Khairabadi | Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi | Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi (1796/1797 – 19 August 1861) was a Hanafi mufti, Kalam scholar, Maturidi theologian, and poet. He was an activist of the Indian independence movement and campaigned against British colonialism. He issued an early religious edict in favour of doing military jihad against British colonialism during ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
10678097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazl-e-Haq%20Khairabadi | Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi | Jihad against British governance
As the Indians started to struggle against British occupation, Khairabadi conducted several private meetings with the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, which continued until May 1857. On June 26, 1857, when General Bakht Khan along with his army of 14000, reached Delhi from Bareilly, K... | 2.578125 | 0 |
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