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10683420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20Cricket%20Association | Women's Cricket Association | The Women's Cricket Association (WCA) was responsible for the running of women's cricket in England between 1926 and 1998. It was formed by a group of enthusiasts following a cricket holiday in Malvern. Forty-nine games were arranged in that first season, and the popular cricket festival at Stowe Lane, Colwall, which i... | 2.953125 | 0 |
10683481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily%20Goddard | Lily Goddard | Lily Goddard (1916 – 2002) was an Austrian textile designer. She attended the Vienna School of Art where she was taught by, among others, Professor Ernst Gombrich, Professor Joseph Hoffmann and Professor Czisek.
She joined the Chartered Society of Designers (then the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers) in 1... | 2.109375 | 0 |
10683575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing%20sarcoma | Ewing sarcoma | Ewing sarcoma is a type of pediatric cancer that forms in bone or soft tissue. Symptoms may include swelling and pain at the site of the tumor, fever, and a bone fracture. The most common areas where it begins are the legs, pelvis, and chest wall. In about 25% of cases, the cancer has already spread to other parts of t... | 3.28125 | 0 |
10683575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing%20sarcoma | Ewing sarcoma | Ewing sarcoma is more common in males (1.6 male:1 female) and usually presents in childhood or early adulthood, with a peak between 10 and 20 years of age. It can occur anywhere in the body but most commonly in the pelvis and proximal long tubular bones, especially around the growth plates. The diaphyses of the femur a... | 2.703125 | 0 |
10683575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing%20sarcoma | Ewing sarcoma | Genetics
Genetic exchange between chromosomes can cause cells to become cancerous. Most cases of Ewing sarcoma (about 85%) are the result of a defining genetic event; a reciprocal translocation between chromosomes 11 and 22, t(11,22), which fuses the Ewing Sarcoma Breakpoint Region 1 (EWSR1) gene of chromosome 22 (whic... | 2.65625 | 0 |
10683575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing%20sarcoma | Ewing sarcoma | Ewing sarcoma is a small-blue-round-cell tumor that typically has a clear cytoplasm on H&E staining, due to glycogen. The presence of the glycogen can be demonstrated with positive PAS staining and negative PAS diastase staining. The characteristic immunostain is CD99, which diffusely marks the cell membrane. However... | 2.171875 | 0 |
10683575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing%20sarcoma | Ewing sarcoma | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) should be routinely used in the work-up of malignant tumors. It will show the full bony and soft tissue extent and relate the tumor to other nearby anatomic structures (e.g. vessels). Gadolinium contrast is not necessary as it does not give additional information over noncontrast studie... | 2.28125 | 0 |
10683575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing%20sarcoma | Ewing sarcoma | Differential diagnosis
Other entities with similar clinical presentations include osteomyelitis, osteosarcoma (especially telangiectatic osteosarcoma), and eosinophilic granuloma. Soft-tissue neoplasms such as pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma (malignant fibrous histiocytoma) that erode into adjacent bone may also h... | 2.046875 | 0 |
10683575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing%20sarcoma | Ewing sarcoma | Retrospective research showed that two chemokine receptors, CXCR4 and CXCR7, can be used as molecular prognosis factors. People who express low levels of both chemokine receptors have the highest odds of long-term survival with >90% survival at five years post-diagnosis versus <30% survival at five years for patients w... | 2.40625 | 0 |
10683646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekabrist-class%20submarine | Dekabrist-class submarine | Many parallels to the Italian design tradition can be identified in the new Dekabrist design, particularly in the hull structure and ballast arrangements: the heavy gauge of the pressure hull, designed to withstand depths of (and constructed using high-quality armour plate from scrapped battlecruisers), the double-hul... | 2.1875 | 0 |
10683646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekabrist-class%20submarine | Dekabrist-class submarine | That said, it is clear that Dekabrist was not simply a copy of an Italian design, but a synthesis of Italian concepts and existing Soviet knowledge, although the most easily recognizable native features are ones that were not strictly necessary in the new design. The pressure hull was scaled up from the proven Bars cla... | 1.929688 | 0 |
10683727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kealia%20Pond%20National%20Wildlife%20Refuge | Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge | Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge is a coastal salt marsh along the south-central coast of Maui, Hawaii. The refuge is located between the towns of Kihei and Maalaea, on both sides of North Kihei Road, Route 31. The wetland is also a bird sanctuary, home to 30 species of waterfowl, shorebirds, and migratory ducks, ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
10683733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter%20van%20Bloemen | Pieter van Bloemen | Pieter van Bloemen, also known as Standaart (bapt. 17 January 1657 – 6 March 1720), first name also spelled Peter or Peeter, was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was a gifted landscape and animal artist and was very successful with his compositions depicting Italian landscapes with figures, equestrian... | 2.203125 | 0 |
10683733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter%20van%20Bloemen | Pieter van Bloemen | He was the teacher of his younger brothers Jan Frans and Norbert as well as of Peeter van Aken and Frans van Alter.
He died in Antwerp.
Work
A prolific painter, van Bloemen was at his best painting animals, although he also produced a wide range of landscape, genre, animal, battle, military camp and history scenes. ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
10683822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleury-devant-Douaumont | Fleury-devant-Douaumont | Fleury-devant-Douaumont (, literally Fleury before Douaumont) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
During the Battle of Verdun in 1916 it was captured and recaptured by the Germans and French 16 times, with all structures being completely destroyed. Since then, it has been declare... | 2.125 | 0 |
10683847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Mayr-Harting | Henry Mayr-Harting | Henry Maria Robert Egmont Mayr-Harting (born 6 April 1936) is a British medieval ecclesiastical historian. From 1997 to 2003, he was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford and a lay canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
Early life and education
Mayr-Harting was born on 6 April 1936 in Prague... | 2.25 | 0 |
10683847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Mayr-Harting | Henry Mayr-Harting | He was elected Visiting Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1983 and Brown Foundation Fellow at Sewanee: The University of the South in 1992. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in the same year and he is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was the president of the Ecclesiastical H... | 1.984375 | 0 |
10683902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dushun | Dushun | Dushun () (557–640) was the First Patriarch of the Huayan School of Chinese Buddhism, which has the Indian Avatamsaka Sutra as its central scripture.
Biography
Dushun was born in present-day Shaanxi province. He ordained at the age of seventeen and became a student of a monk named Weichen, from whom he learned medita... | 2.015625 | 0 |
10683927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Family%20%281987%20film%29 | The Family (1987 film) | Against the background of World War I, Carlo, at the age of ten, along with his three-years-younger brother Giulio and their cousin Enrico, engage in lively play and decide to steal half a lira from Giordani's overcoat, as he rushes to attend to their gravely ill grandfather. Their game is abruptly halted by Susanna, w... | 2.453125 | 0 |
10683990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%20%26%20Ernie%20Sing-Along | Bert & Ernie Sing-Along | Bert and Ernie Sing Along is a Sesame Street album released in 1975 that involved the entire cast of humans and Muppets doing a sing-along in Bert and Ernie's bathroom. The songs and dialog were recorded exclusively for this album. A year later, however, elements of this album were re-imaged into a television storylin... | 1.929688 | 0 |
10684135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brougham%20Hall | Brougham Hall | The rise to power of Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, led to the Hall being extended and enlarged between 1830 and 1847, to designs by the architect Lewis Nockalls Cottingham. The building works were largely overseen by Henry's brother, William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux.
From this point on, Bro... | 2.203125 | 0 |
10684223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika%20%28song%29 | Erika (song) | "Erika" is a German marching song. It is primarily associated with the German Army, especially that of Nazi Germany, although its text has no political content. It was created by Herms Niel and published in 1930, and soon came into usage by the Wehrmacht. It was frequently played during Nazi Party public events. Accor... | 2.65625 | 0 |
10684275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenox%20Hill | Lenox Hill | History
The neighborhood is named for the hill that "stood at what became 70th Street and Park Avenue." The name "Lenox" is that of the immigrant Scottish merchant Robert Lenox (1759-1839), who owned about of land "at the five-mile (8 km) stone", reaching from Fifth to Fourth (now Park) Avenues and from East 74th to 6... | 2.09375 | 0 |
10684275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenox%20Hill | Lenox Hill | Demographics
Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of Lenox Hill and Roosevelt Island, which are combined into one census tabulation area, was 80,771, an increase of 4,140 (5.4%) from the 76,631 counted in 2000. Covering an area of , the neighborhood had a population density of . The median ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
10684305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir%20Balaban | Meir Balaban | Biography and initial studies on Jewish history
He studied law, philosophy and history at Lviv University. He accidentally encountered materials on the history of Jews in Kraków, and on the request of the Kraków Jewish kahal, he wrote the first volume of "The History of Jews in Cracow and Kazimiria 1304-1655" (Kraków, ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
10684305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir%20Balaban | Meir Balaban | He was the first outstanding historian of Polish Jewry and he is fairly considered as the founder of the historiography of Polish Jews. Among his works the most important ones are:
Jews of Lvov (Lemberg) on the eve of 17th century (1916);
History of Jews of Cracow (2 vols, 1931)
Jewry of Lublin (1919).
He wrote a... | 2.234375 | 0 |
10684358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame%20tetra | Flame tetra | The flame tetra (Hyphessobrycon flammeus), also known as the red tetra or Rio tetra, is a small freshwater fish of the characin family Characidae. This tetra was first introduced as aquarium fish in 1920 by C. Bruening, Hamburg, Germany, and formally described in 1924 by Dr. George S. Myers. Today large numbers are br... | 2.6875 | 0 |
10684372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby%20and%20Elizabeth%20Cohen%20Woodlands | Ruby and Elizabeth Cohen Woodlands | The Ruby and Elizabeth Cohen Woodlands is a park located on McDonald Road in Colchester, Connecticut. This park consists of of natural space and includes such facilities as a gazebo, picnic tables, and hiking trails. There are two ponds on the property in addition to marshland.
History
Ruby Cohen was a prominent ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
10684384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20purification%20methods%20in%20chemistry | List of purification methods in chemistry | Affinity purification purifies proteins by retaining them on a column through their affinity to antibodies, enzymes, or receptors that have been immobilised on the column.
Filtration is a mechanical method to separate solids from liquids or gases by passing the feed stream through a porous sheet such as a cloth or memb... | 2.125 | 0 |
10684384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20purification%20methods%20in%20chemistry | List of purification methods in chemistry | Chromatography employs continuous adsorption and desorption on a packed bed of a solid to purify multiple components of a single feed stream. In a laboratory setting, mixture of dissolved materials are typically fed using a solvent into a column packed with an appropriate adsorbent, and due to different affinities for ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
10684424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watertown%20Arsenal | Watertown Arsenal | The Watertown Arsenal was a major American arsenal located on the northern shore of the Charles River in Watertown, Massachusetts. The site is now registered on the ASCE's List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks and on the US National Register of Historic Places, and it is home to a park, restaurants, mixed use of... | 2.5625 | 0 |
10684424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watertown%20Arsenal | Watertown Arsenal | Activities and new construction at the Watertown Arsenal continued to gradually expand until the early 1890s.
Activities changed decisively in 1892 when Congress authorized modernization to gun carriage manufacturing. At this point the arsenal became a manufacturing complex rather than storage depot. A number of major... | 2.671875 | 0 |
10684431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpeduncular%20cistern | Interpeduncular cistern | The interpeduncular cistern (or basal cistern) is the subarachnoid cistern situated between the dorsum sellae (anteriorly) and the two cerebral peduncles at the front of the midbrain. Its roof is represented by the floor of the third ventricle (i.e. posterior perforated substance, and the two mammillary bodies). Its fl... | 2.71875 | 0 |
10684462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Current%20Pictorial | Journal of Current Pictorial | The Journal of Current Pictorial () was a manhua magazine published in 1905. It was authored and drawn by members of the Tongmenghui. The magazine was banned by the Qing dynasty in 1909. Subsequently, few years after the censorship, the Qing was overthrown in 1911 under the Xinhai Revolution.
History
The purpose of t... | 2.25 | 0 |
10684565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt%20Fork%20State%20Park | Salt Fork State Park | Salt Fork State Park is a public recreation area located north of Lore City in Guernsey County, Ohio. It is the largest state park in Ohio, encompassing of land and of water. The grounds include the Kennedy Stone House, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The park is managed by the Ohio Dep... | 2.140625 | 0 |
10684594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20submarine%20Krab%20%281912%29 | Russian submarine Krab (1912) | Krab () was a submarine minelayer built for the Imperial Russian Navy. She was designed by Mikhail Petrovich Nalyotov as the world's first submarine minelayer, although due to construction delays the German UC submarines entered service earlier. The mines were stowed in two horizontal galleries exiting through the ster... | 2.15625 | 0 |
10684676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Patrick%27s%20Day%20Parade%20Scranton | St. Patrick's Day Parade Scranton | The St. Patrick's Parade Day in Scranton or Parade Day is one of the largest Saint Patrick's Day parades in the United States. It is held in Scranton, Pennsylvania every year on the Saturday of the weekend before St. Patrick's Day - even if St Patrick's day falls on a Saturday or Sunday. For Example, in 2013, St. Patri... | 1.984375 | 0 |
10684716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Hermano%20Saraiva | José Hermano Saraiva | José Hermano Saraiva GCIH • GCIP (3 October 1919 – 20 July 2012) was a Portuguese professor, historian and jurist. He was most known as a television personality in Portugal, having been the author and presenter of several documentary series of historical divulgation from 1971 to 2003 on the Portuguese television.
Biog... | 2.203125 | 0 |
10684739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5%20motorway%20%28Greece%29 | A5 motorway (Greece) | The A5 motorway, also known as the Ionia Odos (), is a controlled-access highway in western Greece, which starts at Ioannina and it follows the western coastline of mainland Greece down to the Gulf of Corinth. At Rio, it crosses the gulf via the Rio–Antirrio bridge and is connected with the A8 at an interchange near Pa... | 2.1875 | 0 |
10684739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5%20motorway%20%28Greece%29 | A5 motorway (Greece) | Rest of the motorway - construction progress
As of December 2016, the 25 km Kouvaras interchange - Amfilochia interchange (Amfilochia bypass) segment has been completed. It should have been opened by July 2016, but because of landslides just before the Amfilochia interchange, it was opened on 27 December 2016 by the mi... | 2.015625 | 0 |
10684752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20Rhythm%20Meditation | Heart Rhythm Meditation | Heart Rhythm Meditation (commonly known as HRM) is a type of meditation that involves the synchronization of breath and heartbeat in which the conscious control of breathing is meant to influence a person’s mental, emotional, or physical state, with a claimed therapeutic effect. The core practice in Heart Rhythm Medita... | 2.171875 | 0 |
10684763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny%20Walker%20%28American%20football%29 | Kenny Walker (American football) | Kenny Wayne Walker (born April 6, 1967) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive lineman for the Denver Broncos and the first deaf player to have played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and one of only five to have played in the National Football League (NFL). He played college footba... | 2.25 | 0 |
10684764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPACe%20Centre | SPACe Centre | The Hackney SPACe Sports Centre ("Sport and Performing Arts Centre") is a leisure centre in Hoxton in London Borough of Hackney, England. It is part of Hackney Community College and was opened in February 2001 following grants from Sport England with the intention that it would become the venue for Centres of Excellenc... | 2.234375 | 0 |
10684768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellison%20Capers | Ellison Capers | Ellison Capers (October 14, 1837 – April 22, 1908) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, theologian, college professor and administrator from South Carolina.
Early life
Capers was the son of a Methodist bishop. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and educated in local schools. He graduated from t... | 2.328125 | 0 |
10684981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustad%20Daman | Ustad Daman | Chiragh Deen (; 3 September 1911 – 3 December 1984), known by his pen name Ustad Daman () or Daman, was a Pakistani Punjabi-language poet, writer, mystic and a politician. He was active in politics after the establishment of Pakistan but continued his poetic career and till this day is revered as the "people's poet".
... | 2.125 | 0 |
10684991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrotactin | Astrotactin | Astrotactin-1, abbreviated ASTN1, is a glycoprotein expressed primarily in the central nervous system. ASTN1 and its counterpart ASTN2 are involved in regulation of adhesion during the radial migration of neurons in the developing CNS. Astrotactin is a neuronal adhesion molecule required for glial-guided migration of y... | 2.1875 | 0 |
10684991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrotactin | Astrotactin | Using phase-contrast microscopy the average speed and frequency of migration of individual cells could be used to quantify the movement of large populations of neurons along the glial fibers. One experiment showed that over a three hour observation period, approximately eighty percent of the cells moved more than 15 pm... | 2.296875 | 0 |
10684991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrotactin | Astrotactin | Wnt signal transduction may play a part in alleviating the effect of ASTN1 on migration and invasion of neural cells. ASTN1-silenced cells were treated to inhibit the Wnt signal transduction pathway; significantly increased migration and invasion of cells, whereas control treatment suppressed these effects. These resul... | 2.15625 | 0 |
10684991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrotactin | Astrotactin | Interestingly, as many of the genes are mutated in both early and late stage tumors, ASTN1 mutations are present in stages II–IV tumors but not in stage I tumors. This suggests that ASTN1 plays a role in tumor progression rather than tumor initiation in small cell lung cancers. ASTN1 mutations seemingly play a role acr... | 1.96875 | 0 |
10685039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses%20of%20Bulgaria | Moses of Bulgaria | Moses ( ; died ) was a Bulgarian noble, brother of Emperor Samuel of Bulgaria and second son of komes Nicholas. After the fall of the eastern parts of the Empire under Byzantine occupation in 971, he and his brothers David, Aron and Samuel continued the fight to the west. They ruled together and divided the realm into ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
10685069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume%20Faugues | Guillaume Faugues | Guillaume Faugues (fl. c. 1460–1475) was a French composer of Renaissance music.
Life and career
Very little is known of his life, however, a significant representation of his work survives in the form of five mass settings (a large surviving repertoire for a composer of the time). Faugues holds an important place in ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
10685155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Davis%20%28mariner%29 | James Davis (mariner) | Virginia become a safe refuge when Indian hostilities erupted. She was also used to go inland to relieve Fort Algernon and attempt trade with the Powhatan confederacy. During this trip, Davis decapitated two Indians and left their mutilated bodies near the fort. On yet another inland foray, he destroyed a Powhatan vill... | 2.625 | 0 |
10685198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93%20Creachmhaoil | Ó Creachmhaoil | Ó Creachmhaoil is an Irish surname, often anglicised as Craughwell, Croughwell, Crockwell, and Croghwell. Several sources, including Edward MacLysaght's Surnames of Ireland, associate the surname with the village of Craughwell () in County Galway.
Etymology
Ó, in Irish surnames, indicates a descendant of the person w... | 2.421875 | 0 |
10685209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creoda%20of%20Wessex | Creoda of Wessex | Creoda (493? – 534?) is a shadowy figure from early Wessex history whose existence is disputed.
Introduction
The name Creoda appears in the Anglian king-list and the (possibly derived) West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List, where he is stated to have been the son of Cerdic and father to Cynric. However, the main annali... | 2.296875 | 0 |
10685218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20College%20of%20Oriental%20Medicine | Oregon College of Oriental Medicine | Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM) was a private university in Portland, Oregon focused on graduate degrees in acupuncture and Oriental medicine. OCOM's programs were accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine and authorized by the Oregon Student Assistance Commission's Offic... | 2.15625 | 0 |
10685220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria%20Cordage%20Company | Peoria Cordage Company | Peoria Cordage Company was a major manufacturer of twine and cords, It operated in Peoria, Illinois for almost a century.
History
Peoria Cordage Company was founded in 1888 by Martin Kingman of Peoria and Edward C. Heidrich of Miamisburg, Ohio. It made baling twine and other materials used in agriculture in the Midwes... | 2.25 | 0 |
10685275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos%20Guti%C3%A9rrez | Santos Gutiérrez | José Santos Gutiérrez Prieto (October 24, 1820 - February 6, 1872), was a Colombian statesman and soldier, who became president of the Sovereign State of Boyacá, and later elected as president of the United States of Colombia for the term of 1868-1870.
Biographic data
Gutiérrez was born in the town of El Cocuy, Boyac... | 2.296875 | 0 |
10685375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruonto | Peruonto | Peruonto is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone.
Despite its origins as a literary tale, variants are recorded from oral tradition across Europe, in the Americas, and even in Asia.
Synopsis
A widow named Ceccarella had a stupid son named Peruonto, as ugly a... | 2.421875 | 0 |
10685383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure%20of%20Pouan | Treasure of Pouan | The "Treasure of Pouan" consists of a number of gold and garnet cloisonné jewels and ornaments, buried with a skeleton uncovered in 1842 at Pouan-les-Vallées and identified as the burial of a 5th-century Germanic warrior. Although the warrior had in the past been identified as that of Theodoric I, modern historians ge... | 2.84375 | 0 |
10685390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Health%20and%20Social%20Security%20%28Isle%20of%20Man%29 | Department of Health and Social Security (Isle of Man) | The Department of Health and Social Security () or DHSS provided healthcare (hospitals, doctors, dentistry, ambulance service), social services (mental health, social workers, and residential care), and social security (state pensions, child benefit, sickness benefit, and Jobseeker's Allowance).
Prior to the separatio... | 2.0625 | 0 |
10685411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluj-Napoca%20Hintz%20House | Cluj-Napoca Hintz House | The Mauksch–Hintz House is a historic building on the Main Square of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, which houses the first pharmacy in the city.
The classicist façade dates back to the 1820s; the ground-floor and the basement however were built in the Renaissance era. A fresco from 1752 in the former office tells about the hi... | 1.914063 | 0 |
10685439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987%20Icelandic%20parliamentary%20election | 1987 Icelandic parliamentary election | Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 25 April 1987. The Independence Party remained the largest party in the Lower House of the Althing, winning 12 of the 42 seats.
The Independence Party and the People's Alliance experienced their worst election results to date. Two new parties, the Citizens' Party (which ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
10685502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgetown%20Vocational%20College | Bridgetown Vocational College | Bridgetown College is a secondary school in Bridgetown, County Wexford, Ireland. It is a co-educational school managed by the Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board.
History
After the enactment of the Vocational Education Act in 1930, an experimental vocational school was established in rented accommodatio... | 2.09375 | 0 |
10685549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Belgian%20forces | Free Belgian forces | In Britain, the concept of foreign enlistment into the British army, or the creation of foreign armed forces on British soil, had been approved in the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939 and Allied Forces Act 1940. The first components of a Belgian military in Britain was created after the French surrender when the (C... | 2.875 | 0 |
10685549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Belgian%20forces | Free Belgian forces | In 1940, the Belgian government-in-exile decided to raise a military unit from pre-war Belgian émigrés and soldiers rescued from Dunkirk. The original forces were known as the 1st Fusilier Battalion. A 2nd Fusilier Battalion was formed in Canada from Belgian émigrés in the Americas.
In 1942, the various Belgian ground... | 2.734375 | 0 |
10685549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Belgian%20forces | Free Belgian forces | Unlike the Free French, whose army retained their national rank structure and much of its own equipment and uniforms, the Free Belgians were fully organized and equipped along British lines. Belgian troops adopted the British rank structure along with British Battle Dress uniforms and helmets. They were distinguished f... | 2.59375 | 0 |
10685576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Azores | History of the Azores | According to Bartolomé de las Casas, two dead bodies that looked like those of Amerindians were found on Flores. He said he found that fact in Christopher Columbus's notes, and that it was one reason why Columbus presumed that India was on the other side of the ocean.
In A History of the Azores (1813), by Thomas Ashe,... | 2.59375 | 0 |
10685576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Azores | History of the Azores | Hypogea
There have been recent discoveries (2010–2011) of hypogea (structures carved into embankments, that may have been used for burials) on the islands of Corvo, Santa Maria and Terceira, that might allude to a human presence on the islands before the Portuguese. Until recently there was no clear evidence that ther... | 2.984375 | 0 |
10685576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Azores | History of the Azores | However, geographer Simon Connor comments that a Viking settlement is not certain: "Thanks to widespread trade routes, a mouse from Scandinavia could easily have boarded a ship in what today is Portugal and sailed over to the Azores."
Exploration
Early appearance on charts
The Azores archipelago began to appear on ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
10685576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Azores | History of the Azores | The source of this information is a mystery. It could simply be derived from pure legend, possibly of Andalusian Arab origin e.g. al-Idrisi speaks of an Atlantic island of wild goats (the Caprera?) and another of "cormorants", a scavenger bird (the "sea crows" of Corvis Marinis?) But outside their erroneous axial tilt,... | 2.75 | 0 |
10685576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Azores | History of the Azores | In this context, Prince Henry the Navigator (1394–1460) had an important role. He added his own financial support to the efforts of the Portuguese crown and financed the construction of new ships, establishing naval schools to harness seafaring knowledge and promoting new technologies and their use. Prince Henry is gen... | 2.828125 | 0 |
10685576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Azores | History of the Azores | The classical theory attributes the naming to the presence of diurnal birds of prey (some say goshawks, while others species of eagles), identified by Portuguese sailors at the time of discovery. But this theory has been discredited. The only bird of prey that nests in the archipelago is the common buzzard (Buteo buteo... | 2.859375 | 0 |
10685576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Azores | History of the Azores | It is clear that after 1420, regular expeditions captained by Gonçalo Velho Cabral, Diogo de Silves, and other mariners began exploring to the west and south of continental Portugal. On 15 August 1432, men from a small sailing vessel with a dozen crew landed on the island that would bear the name Santa Maria (owing to ... | 2.921875 | 0 |
10685576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Azores | History of the Azores | By 1440, other settlements had developed along the river-valleys and coastal inlets of São Miguel, Terceira, Faial, and Pico, supported by game animals and fishing. An abundance of potable water sources, along with fertile volcanic soils, made the islands attractive and easy to colonize, and the growing wheat market su... | 2.890625 | 0 |
10685576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Azores | History of the Azores | The island of São Miguel was apparently populated by 1444. The population came mostly from the regions of Estremadura, Alentejo, and Algarve. The colonists spread themselves along the coastline in areas where conditions of accessibility and farming were best. The fertility of the Azores contributed to its population ex... | 3.140625 | 0 |
10685576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Azores | History of the Azores | By 1504 the island's charter had passed to João Fonseca and settlers streamed through the port of Armoeira to the small hamlets. The island became permanently populated during the reign of King Manuel I, in 1510, by people from various regions of continental Portugal, but mainly from the northern provinces. The island ... | 2.984375 | 0 |
10685576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Azores | History of the Azores | The 1820 civil war in Portugal had strong repercussions in the Azores. In 1829, in Vila da Praia, the liberals won over the absolutists, making Terceira the main headquarters of the new Portuguese regime and also where the Council of Regency (Conselho de Regência) of Mary II of Portugal was established.
In the second h... | 2.90625 | 0 |
10685601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20Caetano%20Dias | Miguel Caetano Dias | Miguel Caetano Dias ComA (9 July 1854 – 26 July 1936) was a Goan medical doctor best known for his roles as chief of health services in Portuguese Goa and director of the Escola Médica Cirúrgica de Goa. In these roles, he was widely recognised for waging successful vaccination and sanitation campaigns, and was also ins... | 2.5 | 0 |
10685602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Witch%20Saga | The Witch Saga | Books
In Witch's Sister (1975), 11-year-old Lynn Morley suspects her older sister, Judith, of witchcraft after a series of odd and unexplainable happenings, such as conjuring up a boy from the local creek. Lynn and her friend, Marjorie "Mouse" Beasley, soon realize that Judith is under the influence of an eccentric old... | 2.25 | 0 |
10685654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20sound | Second sound | In condensed matter physics, second sound is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which heat transfer occurs by wave-like motion, rather than by the more usual mechanism of diffusion. Its presence leads to a very high thermal conductivity. It is known as "second sound" because the wave motion of entropy and temperature i... | 2.78125 | 0 |
10685654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20sound | Second sound | In graphite
In 2019 it was reported that ordinary graphite exhibits second sound at 120 K. This feature was both predicted theoretically and observed experimentally, and
was by far the highest temperature at which second sound has been observed. However, this second sound is observed only at the microscale, because th... | 2.1875 | 0 |
10685660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton%20Guildhall | Northampton Guildhall | Northampton Guildhall is a municipal building in St Giles' Square in Northampton, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
History
The first guildhall in Northampton was a 12th-century building at the junction of Gold Street and Horsemarket. The second guildhall was an early 14th-century battlemented structure at ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
10685699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Environmental%20Assessment%20Act%2C%202012 | Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 | The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (, CEAA 2012) and its regulations established the legislative basis for the federal practice of environmental assessment in most regions of Canada from 2012 to 2019. It was repealed with the coming into force of the Impact Assessment Act on August 28, 2019.
History
The... | 2.53125 | 0 |
10685699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Environmental%20Assessment%20Act%2C%202012 | Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 | The previous Act applied to all projects that altered the environment. The Inclusion List Regulations (SOR/94-637) described projects for which a screening report was always required. The Inclusion List regulation was twice the size of the current list of designated physical activities. The previous Act also required a... | 2.078125 | 0 |
10685699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Environmental%20Assessment%20Act%2C%202012 | Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 | Central to the previous Act was a comprehensive study. What was to be included in the study was determined for each project. The agency issued a project-specific comprehensive study guideline within 90 days of receipt of the project application. The comprehensive study specified baseline data that needed to be collecte... | 2.15625 | 0 |
10685699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Environmental%20Assessment%20Act%2C%202012 | Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 | The Minister of the Environment may designate a project when carrying out of the project may cause adverse environmental effects, or that public concerns related to those effects warrant the designation. An environmental assessment under CEAA 2012 is required for each project designated by the Minister of the Environme... | 2.25 | 0 |
10685716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laborist%20Party%20%28Mexico%29 | Laborist Party (Mexico) | The Mexican Laborist Party (, PLM), also translated as the Mexican Labor Party, was a social democratic political party in Mexico that existed from 1919 until the early 1940s.
The PLM was founded by Luis Napoleón Morones, one of Mexico's main union leaders. The PLM functioned as the political branch of the Regional Co... | 2.359375 | 0 |
10685778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumada%20coupling | Kumada coupling | In organic chemistry, the Kumada coupling is a type of cross coupling reaction, useful for generating carbon–carbon bonds by the reaction of a Grignard reagent and an organic halide. The procedure uses transition metal catalysts, typically nickel or palladium, to couple a combination of two alkyl, aryl or vinyl groups.... | 2.078125 | 0 |
10685836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology%20of%20Bedford%20County%2C%20Pennsylvania | Geology of Bedford County, Pennsylvania | Bedford County, Pennsylvania is situated along the western border of the Ridge and Valley physiographic province, which is characterized by folded and faulted sedimentary rocks of early to middle Paleozoic age. The northwestern border of the county is approximately at the Allegheny Front, a geological boundary between ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
10685836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology%20of%20Bedford%20County%2C%20Pennsylvania | Geology of Bedford County, Pennsylvania | All of Bedford County lies far to the south of the terminal moraine, and thus it was never glaciated (PA Geological Survey Map 59). However, during the Pleistocene epoch, or "Ice Age," periglacial (meaning "around glacier" or simply "cold") processes dominated. Most of the county was most likely a tundra at that time... | 2.546875 | 0 |
10685856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutus%20Liber | Mutus Liber | Rev. Arcère, a noted historian of La Rochelle, claims that Jacob Tollé is the author though his very existence was even put in doubt. Tollé was in fact a Rochelais doctor reputed for using chemistry and mastering perspective. These two qualities account for the fact that he was acknowledged as the author for a long tim... | 2.125 | 0 |
10685883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Webster%20House | Noah Webster House | The Noah Webster House is a historic house museum located at 227 South Main Street, West Hartford, Connecticut. It was the boyhood home of American lexicographer Noah Webster (Junior, 1758–1853), and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1962.
Description and history
The main portion of the Webster House is a -... | 2.375 | 0 |
10685925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Way%20Jr. | Frederick Way Jr. | Fredrick Way Jr. (February 17, 1901 – October 3, 1992) was the youngest steamboat captain on the Ohio River and Mississippi River. He was the author of books on the boats that ply the inland waterways. He supervised the flat-bottom, stern paddlewheeler, the Delta Queen, from San Francisco, down the Pacific coast, thro... | 2.65625 | 0 |
10685975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Merchant%20%28fairy%20tale%29 | The Merchant (fairy tale) | The Merchant is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone.
Synopsis
A merchant's son, Cienzo, was throwing stones with the son of the king of Naples, and cracked the prince's head. His father, fearing the consequences, threw him out with some money, an enchanted ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
10686110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2A36%20Giatsint-B | 2A36 Giatsint-B | The 2A36 Giatsint-B (; "Hyacinth") is a Soviet towed field gun which entered service in 1976, replacing the M-46 field gun.
The 2A36 has the longest range of any Soviet or Russian 152 mm caliber artillery fielded since the mid-20th century, with a range of with rocket-assisted projectiles (RAP), while its only ou... | 2.078125 | 0 |
10686210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%20mass | Jupiter mass | The Jupiter mass, also called Jovian mass, is the unit of mass equal to the total mass of the planet Jupiter. This value may refer to the mass of the planet alone, or the mass of the entire Jovian system to include the moons of Jupiter. Jupiter is by far the most massive planet in the Solar System. It is approximately ... | 2.953125 | 0 |
10686210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%20mass | Jupiter mass | Theoretical models indicate that if Jupiter had much more mass than it does at present, its atmosphere would collapse, and the planet would shrink. For small changes in mass, the radius would not change appreciably, but above about (1.6 Jupiter masses) the interior would become so much more compressed under the increa... | 2.609375 | 0 |
10686222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont%20Pass%20wind%20farm | Altamont Pass wind farm | The Altamont Pass wind farm is located in the Altamont Pass of the Diablo Range in Northern California. It is one of the earliest wind farms in the United States. The first wind turbines were placed on the Altamont in the early 1980s by Fayette Manufacturing Corporation, on land owned by cattle rancher Joe Jess. The wi... | 2.421875 | 0 |
10686222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont%20Pass%20wind%20farm | Altamont Pass wind farm | Modern wind turbines and nuclear power plans kill about 0.3 to 0.4 birds per GWh generated, without climate change effects, in comparison with 5.18 birds per GWh with fossil fuels power plants. However, the small turbines used at Altamont in 2007 were dangerous to various raptors that hunt California ground squirrels i... | 2.640625 | 0 |
13168943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US%20Sailing | US Sailing | The United States Sailing Association (US Sailing) is the national governing body for sailing in the United States. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Bristol, Rhode Island, US Sailing is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. US Sailing offers training and education programs for instructors and race officials, suppor... | 2.484375 | 0 |
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