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5401780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism%20in%20North%20Korea | Tourism in North Korea | In 1998, Mount Kumgang near the southern border was opened to South Korean visitors and received almost two million South Korean tourists between 1998 and 2008. Mount Kumgang Tourist Region, which was jointly administered by the North and South Korean governments, was established in 2002, but South Korean tourism to th... | 2.359375 | 0 |
5401780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism%20in%20North%20Korea | Tourism in North Korea | As North Koreans are severely punished for making (or receiving) international calls, watching any foreign programs, videos, etc., visitors put local people at very high risk by merely showing them, let alone lending them their own phones, iPods and other similar devices.
Satellite phones and drones are not allowed.
... | 2.375 | 0 |
5401780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism%20in%20North%20Korea | Tourism in North Korea | For Westerners, there are a small number of private tour operators that help provide access to North Korea. These include Koryo Tours (known for its North Korean-related films such as Comrade Kim Goes Flying and strong history in the region);
Uri Tours (known for its role in Dennis Rodman's and Eric Schmidt's trips to... | 1.90625 | 0 |
5401780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism%20in%20North%20Korea | Tourism in North Korea | Post-pandemic reopening of borders for tourism
Due to a rise in COVID-19 cases, the North Korean government decided to close its borders for visitors in January 2020.
In July 2023, Russian and Chinese delegations were the first known foreign groups to be invited to the country since the borders were closed in Januar... | 2.0625 | 0 |
5401783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McNeil | John McNeil | On May 10, 1861, he commanded some troops at the notorious Camp Jackson Affair at the present day Frost Campus of St. Louis University. The Missouri militia had been called up by the governor for drill. Union supporters feared they might attack the St. Louis Arsenal. Captain Nathaniel Lyon, aware that the governor had... | 2.65625 | 0 |
5401783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McNeil | John McNeil | He returned to St. Louis in the spring of 1862 and took over a cavalry regiment, with command of the District of Northeast Missouri, and the special charge of clearing the area of guerrillas—notably, those flocking to Joseph C. Porter. He spent the summer in pursuit of Porter, who had been ordered into the region to re... | 2.15625 | 0 |
5401783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McNeil | John McNeil | Later campaigns
McNeil was made brigadier general to rank from November 29, 1862.
In the spring of 1863, McNeil held Cape Girardeau with 1,700 men against Gen. John Sappington Marmaduke's force of 10,000. In 1864 he was appointed to command the district of Rolla, Missouri, and, with the assistance of Gen. John B. Sanb... | 1.929688 | 0 |
5401791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Also%20People | The Also People | The People
The Also People introduces a race of beings known as "The People", later used in the Bernice Summerfield Virgin New Adventures. The People are a highly advanced society (for example, they live inside a Dyson sphere), with abilities rivalling those of the Time Lords; as such, they have been kept in check by ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
5401806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Dam | Crystal Dam | Crystal Dam is a , double-curvature, concrete, thin arch dam located 6 miles downstream from Morrow Point Dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado, United States. Crystal Dam is the newest of the three dams in Curecanti National Recreation Area; construction on the dam was finished in 1976. The dam impounds Crystal Reser... | 2.59375 | 0 |
5401806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Dam | Crystal Dam | Crystal Dam was the last of the three dams in the Aspinall Unit of the Colorado River Storage Project to be completed. Crystal Dam's design and construction lagged behind Morrow Point and Blue Mesa dams. Construction started in 1964 on a materials borrow pit, with construction at the damsite beginning in 1965 for an ac... | 2.375 | 0 |
5401810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug%20%28typesetting%29 | Slug (typesetting) | In typesetting, a slug is any of several kinds of piece of lead or other type metal. One kind of slug is a piece of spacing material used to space paragraphs. In the era of commercial typesetting in metal type, they were usually manufactured in strips of 6-point lead. Another kind of slug is a single sort, bearing a s... | 3.015625 | 0 |
5401829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20P.%20Kennedy%20Jr. | Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. | Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. (July 25, 1915 – August 12, 1944) was an American naval aviator who was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Kennedy family and the eldest of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. During World War II, Kennedy was killed in action while s... | 2.71875 | 0 |
5401834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Oliva | Viktor Oliva | Viktor Oliva (24 April 1861 – 5 April 1928) was a Czech painter and illustrator.
His most famous painting, Absinthe Drinker (), is owned by Zlata Husa Gallery Prague and hangs there.
Life and work
Viktor Oliva was a master of drawing, illustration, and painting born in Nové Strašecí, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary 24 April... | 1.984375 | 0 |
5401871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadoon%3A%20Marin%20%26%20Melan | Brigadoon: Marin & Melan | is a Japanese anime television series animated by Sunrise. It aired on Wowow from July 21, 2000 to February 9, 2001 and a manga adaptation by Nozomi Watase was published by Kadokawa. The story takes place in Japan in 1969 and it is about an orphan girl named Marin Asagi who befriends an alien named Melan Blue.
The ser... | 2.125 | 0 |
5401871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadoon%3A%20Marin%20%26%20Melan | Brigadoon: Marin & Melan | Main characters
Marin is the heroine of the series, a 13-year-old girl in the seventh grade. She was abandoned as a baby at the door of a tenement house and adopted by the elderly couple Gen and Moto Asagi. She is far-sighted and wears glasses to see properly. At school she is often picked on by her peers, but she... | 2.046875 | 0 |
5401878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shree%20Lal%20Joshi | Shree Lal Joshi | Shree Lal Joshi (5 March 1931 – 2 March 2018) was an Indian Chippa caste artist of phad painting, a form of popular folk painting of Rajasthan.
Life
Joshi was born on 5 March 1931 at Shahpura in Bhilwara district in a family widely known as the traditional artists of phad painting for the last few centuries. His fathe... | 2.09375 | 0 |
5401904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey%20the%20Whale | Humphrey the Whale | Humphrey the Whale is a humpback whale that twice deviated from his Mexico to Alaska migration by entering San Francisco Bay. This behavior is unusual for a humpback whale, and Humphrey attracted wide media attention when entering the bay in both 1985 and 1990. Both of his bay incursions resulted in rescue by the Marin... | 2.65625 | 0 |
5401904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey%20the%20Whale | Humphrey the Whale | Numerous attempts to coax him back to the ocean failed. One initial attempt involved playing sounds of orcas to frighten Humphrey into leaving. Another attempt was made using a "sound net" in which people in a flotilla of boats made unpleasant noises behind the whale by banging on steel pipes, a Japanese fishing techni... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5401953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Resistance%20Memorial%20Center | German Resistance Memorial Center | The German Resistance Memorial Center () is a memorial and museum in Berlin, capital of Germany.
History
It was opened in 1980 in part of the Bendlerblock, a complex of offices in Stauffenbergstrasse (formerly Bendlerstrasse), south of the Großer Tiergarten in Tiergarten. It was here that Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von... | 2.28125 | 0 |
5401953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Resistance%20Memorial%20Center | German Resistance Memorial Center | The museum also makes a particular point of both demonstrating and criticizing how Hitler manipulated, exploited, and weaponized anti-Semitism, Eugenics, ultra-nationalism, and scientific racism to seize absolute power and then led the German people to the ruin and starvation of the Second World War and its aftermath a... | 2.296875 | 0 |
5401987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Maid%20of%20Arran | The Maid of Arran | The Maid of Arran, An Idyllic Irish Drama Written for the People, Irrespective of Caste or Nationality is an 1882 musical play by L. Frank Baum, writing and performing under the pseudonym, "Louis F. Baum", based on the novel A Princess of Thule by William Black. It was described as "A Play to Ensnare All Hearts and Le... | 2.125 | 0 |
5401995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Rhoads%20Fisher | Samuel Rhoads Fisher | Samuel Rhoads Fisher was the secretary of the Navy of the Republic of Texas.
He was born in Pennsylvania on December 31, 1794, and settled in Texas in 1830 with his wife and four children in the Matagorda area. He represented Matagorda Municipality in the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos where he signed ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
5402001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Order%20191 | Special Order 191 | Special Order 191 (series 1862), also known as the "Lost Dispatch" and the "Lost Order", was a general movement order issued by Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee on about September 9, 1862, during the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War. A lost copy of this order was recovered on September 13 by Union Army... | 2.15625 | 0 |
5402004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20K.%20Sorenson | Richard K. Sorenson | Richard Keith Sorenson (August 28, 1924 – October 9, 2004) was a United States Marine who, as a private, received the Medal of Honor during World War II for his heroism during the Marine landing on Kwajalein Atoll on the night of February 1–2, 1944. He threw himself on a Japanese grenade that was part of US munitions c... | 1.992188 | 0 |
5402004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20K.%20Sorenson | Richard K. Sorenson | Sorenson landed with his battalion at Namur, Kwajalein, on February 1, 1944. On that first day of the invasion, he was wounded in action, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. After a fierce night of battle, a Japanese soldier threw a grenade in the midst of his squad. Sorenson threw himself on the grenade and t... | 2.171875 | 0 |
5402012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood%20to%20Coast | Hood to Coast | Hood To Coast is a long distance relay race that starts at Mount Hood and continues nearly 200 miles to the Oregon Coast. Known as "the mother of all relays", it is the largest running and walking relay in the world, with 12,600 runners in the Hood To Coast relay and 19,000 total participants, including events like the... | 2.328125 | 0 |
5402012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood%20to%20Coast | Hood to Coast | Logistics and atmosphere
Each twelve-person team is allowed two vehicles no larger than a standard-sized van. While the vans generally follow the race course in support of their runners, certain narrower portions of the course require one van to make a predetermined detour route to alleviate traffic congestion. Teams... | 2.234375 | 0 |
5402052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Bend | Fort Bend | Fort Bend was a blockhouse built in a large bend of the Brazos River in what is now Fort Bend County, Texas, to provide protection against Indian raids. It was erected in November 1822 by several members of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, including William W. Little, Joseph Polley, William Smithers [Smeathers], ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
5402057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim%20Bek | Ibrahim Bek | Ibrahim Bek or Ibrahim Beg (; 1889 – 31 August 1931) was a leader in the Basmachi movement, a liberation movement in Central Asia, which fought against the Red Army. He was a member of the Uzbek Lakai tribe in Eastern Bukhara and led an organized resistance against the Soviet military in the early 1920s.
A religious ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
5402099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azi%20%28clone%29 | Azi (clone) | Azi are a fictional type of human clones invented by science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh. They appear in various books in her Alliance-Union universe. "Azi" is an acronym for "artificial zygote insemination". The subject is treated at length in Cherryh's 1989 novel Cyteen and its 2009 sequel, Regenesis.
... | 1.960938 | 0 |
5402129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20A.%20R.%20Nelson | Thomas A. R. Nelson | Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson (March 19, 1812 – August 24, 1873) was an American attorney, politician, and judge, active primarily in East Tennessee during the mid-19th century. He represented Tennessee's 1st Congressional District in the 36th U.S. Congress (1859–1861), where he gained a reputation as a staunch pro-Union s... | 2.53125 | 0 |
5402129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20A.%20R.%20Nelson | Thomas A. R. Nelson | In Elizabethton, Nelson took an active role in the promotion of Whig ideals. He was appointed acting district attorney in 1833, and campaigned on behalf of Whig presidential candidate Hugh Lawson White in 1836. Around 1839, Nelson met William G. "Parson" Brownlow, and encouraged him to start a pro-Whig newspaper. In su... | 2.015625 | 0 |
5402129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20A.%20R.%20Nelson | Thomas A. R. Nelson | As the secession debate reached a fevered pitch in the wake of Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860, Nelson campaigned vigorously to keep Tennessee in the Union. On April 27, 1861, pro-Union and pro-Confederate factions held simultaneous rallies at opposite ends of Gay Street in Knoxville, and Nelson spoke along... | 2.546875 | 0 |
5402129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20A.%20R.%20Nelson | Thomas A. R. Nelson | While in Knoxville, Nelson wrote several poems about his wartime experiences, one of which was published as Secession, Or Prose in Rhyme and East Tennessee, A Poem. In April 1864, at a meeting of the revived East Tennessee Convention, Nelson led a faction which called for a return to the Union, but still rejected the a... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5402137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral%20Square%20Park | Cathedral Square Park | Cathedral Square Park is a small urban Milwaukee County Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, located to the west of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. The park only takes the name of the nearby cathedral, with the Archdiocese of Milwaukee holding no ownership of the site.
History
Originally known as Courthouse Sq... | 2.25 | 0 |
5402141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel%20Ullrich | Axel Ullrich | Axel Ullrich (born 19 October 1943) is a German cancer researcher and has been the director of the molecular biology department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany since 1988. This department's research has primarily focused on signal transduction. Ullrich has received Hamdan Award for M... | 2.171875 | 0 |
5402159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watoga%20State%20Park | Watoga State Park | Watoga State Park is a state park located near Seebert in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The largest of West Virginia's state parks, it covers slightly over . Nearby parks include the Greenbrier River Trail, which is adjacent to the park, Beartown State Park, and Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park. Also immediate... | 2.359375 | 0 |
5402225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devendra%20Jhajharia | Devendra Jhajharia | Devendra Jhajharia (born 10 June 1981) is an Indian Paralympic javelin thrower competing in F46 events. He is the first Indian Paralympics player to win two gold medals at the Paralympics. He won his first gold in the javelin throw at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, becoming the second gold medalist at the Paral... | 1.9375 | 0 |
5402249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1no%C4%8Dka | Vánočka | Vánočka () is a plaited bread, baked in Czech Republic and Slovakia (in Slovak called vianočka) traditionally at Christmas time. Such special festive Christmas bread made from white flour, either in the form of a wedge or of plait, was first mentioned around 1400 by Benedictine monk Jan of Holešov in his work Treatise ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5402297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fachan | Fachan | In Scottish folklore, the fachan (or fachin, fachen, Direach Ghlinn Eitidh or Dithreach (dwarf of Glen Etive)) is a monster or giant described by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands as having a single eye in the middle of its face, a single hand protruding from its chest instead of arms, and a ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
5402315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Querbes | Louis Querbes | Louis Querbes (21 August 1793 – 1 September 1859) was a Catholic priest in France who founded the Clerics of Saint Viator (CSV), a religious order which specializes in teaching.
Life
Louis-Joseph Marie Querbes (often pronounced in English as "curbs", although in French it is "kerb" with a rolled "r") was born in Lyon,... | 2.015625 | 0 |
5402331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20family | Berkeley family | The Berkeley family is an ancient English noble family. It is one of only five families in Britain that can trace its patrilineal descent back to an Anglo-Saxon ancestor (the other four being the Arden family, the Swinton family, the Wentworth family, and the Grindlay family). The Berkeley family retains possession of ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
5402337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden%20family | Arden family | The Arden family is an English gentry family that can be traced back in the male line to Anglo-Saxon landholders who managed to maintain status after the 1066 invasion of England by the Normans of France.
The family held lands in Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Worcester, Cheshire and Shropshire. The family shares its n... | 2.640625 | 0 |
5402359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente%20Piedra%20District | Puente Piedra District | Puente Piedra is one of the 43 districts in Lima Province, Peru. It is located in the north of the city.
History
In the era of the Inca Empire, in the government of Topa Inca Yupanqui, after conquering the coastal town of the Chillón River valley, he ordered the construction of bridges and roads to facilitate the pas... | 2.734375 | 0 |
5402359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente%20Piedra%20District | Puente Piedra District | In 1906, the Italian Tomás Marsano appeared, asking the Peruvian government to grant the gramadales under the pretext of an irrigation project. His opponent was, at this time, Rigoberto Molina, owner of Copacabana. Marsano, for his part, insisted on claiming ownership of those lands, which were to the west of the Copac... | 2.4375 | 0 |
5402361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Catholic%20High%20School%20%28Perry%20Township%2C%20Ohio%29 | Central Catholic High School (Perry Township, Ohio) | In the late 1980s, the school dedicated over $50,000 towards renovation. These funds were put towards classrooms and a new football stadium. During the 2007-2008 school year, Central completed $3.2 million in renovations and upgrades: the old heating and electrical systems were replaced, academic spaces were vastly imp... | 2.015625 | 0 |
5402369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Story%20of%20Oki%20Islands | A Story of Oki Islands | A Story of Oki Islands is a supposed Japanese folk story found in Richard Gordon Smith's 1918 book Ancient Tales and Folk-Lore of Japan. Set in the Oki Islands located in the Sea of Japan, the story portrays Tokoyo as the daughter of an exiled samurai who slew a malevolent sea monster that demanded the sacrifice of vir... | 2.625 | 0 |
5402369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Story%20of%20Oki%20Islands | A Story of Oki Islands | Coming upon a small shrine, Tokoyo implored the Buddha for his aid to find her father and then laid down to rest. She was awoken by the sound of a girl crying, and looked up to see a fifteen-year-old girl and a priest, who was leading the girl to the edge of a cliff. Tokoyo quickly came to the girl's rescue. The priest... | 1.953125 | 0 |
5402377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden%20tourism | Garden tourism | Garden tourism is a type of niche tourism involving visits to famous gardens and botanical gardens and places which are significant in the history of gardening. Garden tourists often travel individually in countries with which they are familiar but often prefer to join organized garden tours in countries where they mig... | 2.34375 | 0 |
5402377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden%20tourism | Garden tourism | Garden tours and literature
Michel de Montaigne was one of the earliest garden tourists to record his impressions of gardens (c1580).
John Evelyn also recorded his visits to gardens in France and Italy, as did Fynes Moryson. Maggie Campbell-Culver wrote a biography of John Evelyn as she sourced from woods and gardens ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
5402386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kioloa%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Kioloa, New South Wales | Kioloa is a small hamlet located on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia and is within the City of Shoalhaven local government area. It is pronounced by locals as 'Ky-ola'. At the , Kioloa had a population of 257.
The Australian National University's Kioloa Coastal Campus is north of the town.
Its neighbour ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
5402411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drude | Drude | In German folklore, a drude (, , pl. Druden) is a kind of malevolent nocturnal spirit (an alp, kobold or hag) associated with nightmares, prevalent especially in Southern Germany. Druden were said to participate in the Wild Hunt and were considered a particular class of demon in Alfonso de Spina's hierarchy. The word ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
5402442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20L.%20Van%20Autreve | Leon L. Van Autreve | Leon L. Van Autreve (January 29, 1920 – March 14, 2002) was a United States Army soldier who served as the fourth Sergeant Major of the Army. He was sworn in on July 1, 1973, and served until June 1975.
Early life and education
Van Autreve was born in Eeklo, Belgium, on January 29, 1920.
Van Autreve attended George W... | 1.914063 | 0 |
5402517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisby%20McCullough | Frisby McCullough | Frisby Henderson McCullough (March 8, 1828 – August 8, 1862) was a Confederate army soldier in the American Civil War, executed on the orders of Union Colonel (later a general) John McNeil after the Battle of Kirksville.
Early years
Born in New Castle County, Delaware, to James and Delia (Pennington) McCullough, he mo... | 2.109375 | 0 |
5402517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisby%20McCullough | Frisby McCullough | Capture and execution
After Porter's disastrous defeat at Kirksville, McCullough became ill. Declining Porter's offer of escort, he rode alone towards Edina to recover and continue recruiting. He was discovered by Federal troops and surrendered.
McCullough requested to be sent to Palmyra, rather than to Kirksville, po... | 2.078125 | 0 |
5402523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurdulac | Wurdulac | Wurdulac, also spelled wurdalak, verdilak or vurdulak, is a kind of vampire in the Slavic folklore mythology. Some Western sources define it as a type of "Russian vampire" that must consume the blood of its loved ones and convert its whole family. This notion is based apparently on Alexey K. Tolstoy's novella The Famil... | 2.40625 | 0 |
5402584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penninic | Penninic | The Penninic nappes or the Penninicum, commonly abbreviated as Penninic, are one of three nappe stacks and geological zones in which the Alps can be divided. In the western Alps the Penninic nappes are more obviously present than in the eastern Alps (in Austria), where they crop out as a narrow band. The name Penninic ... | 2.625 | 0 |
5402608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling%20vest | Cooling vest | A cooling vest is a piece of specially made clothing designed to lower or stabilize body temperature and make exposure to warm climates or environments more bearable. Cooling vests are used by many athletes, construction workers, and welders, as well as individuals with multiple sclerosis, hypohidrotic ectodermal dyspl... | 2.78125 | 0 |
5402628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Angeles%20Chamber%20Orchestra | Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra | The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) is an American chamber orchestra based in Los Angeles, California. LACO presents its Orchestral Series concerts at two venues, the Alex Theatre in Glendale and UCLA's Royce Hall.
History
James Arkatov, a cellist, established LACO in 1968 as an artistic outlet for musicians fro... | 2.453125 | 0 |
5402646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeocastor | Palaeocastor | Palaeocastor ('ancient beaver') is an extinct genus of beavers that lived in the North American Badlands during the late Oligocene period to early Miocene. Palaeocastor was much smaller than modern beavers. There are several species including Palaeocastor fossor, Palaeocastor magnus, Palaeocastor wahlerti, and Palaeoc... | 2.828125 | 0 |
5402646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeocastor | Palaeocastor | This does seem to contradict an essay by Barbour in 'The American Naturalist Vol. XXIX June 1895'. Here Dr. Barbour attempts to refute a theory put forward by Dr. Theodor Fuchs, in which Fuchs states exactly that the Daemonelix was just the result of the burrowing of a Miocene Gopher. In this essay Barbour seems to be... | 2.125 | 0 |
5402650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushmen%20of%20the%20Bush | Brushmen of the Bush | Brushmen of the Bush was a painting group of five artists who collaborated in Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1973. It was active until 1989. The five members of the group were Pro Hart, Eric Minchin, Jack Absalom, John Pickup and Hugh Schulz.
Following their inaugural exhibition in 1973, the name Brushmen of the Bu... | 2.109375 | 0 |
5402671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Scerri | Pierre Scerri | Pierre Scerri is a French telecommunications engineer and model builder, who gained fame in 1998 after having his highly accurate 1:3 scale model of a Ferrari 312 PB featured on the BBC television programme Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines.
He began his project for the model in 1978, out of desire for having a Ferra... | 2.234375 | 0 |
5402674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20Rosenquist | Jesse Rosenquist | Jesse Rosenquist (26 August 1899 in Martin, Tennessee, United States – June 1966 in Los Angeles, California, United States)
was one of the world's first police radio dispatchers.
A sergeant with the Los Angeles Police Department, he achieved unexpected fame due to the early police radio frequencies being tuned in on h... | 2.03125 | 0 |
5402700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Engineering%2C%20University%20of%20Cambridge | Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge | All students are enrolled in general coursework during their first two years, which consists of mechanical and structural engineering, as well as materials, electrical, and information engineering. In their final two years of undergraduate work, students can choose to specialize in one of two concentrations (Engineerin... | 2.078125 | 0 |
5402724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20B.%20Stokes | William B. Stokes | William Brickly Stokes (September 9, 1814 – March 14, 1897) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee. He also served as colonel of the 5th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry during the American Civil War.
Biography
He was born on September 9, 1814, in Chath... | 2.375 | 0 |
5402789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%20Verney%20House | Compton Verney House | According to William Dugdale there was a manor-house built at Compton Verney in about 1442. In 1656 William Dugdale wrote in his Antiquities of Warwickshire:
Tudor and Stuart
The house was further extended in the late sixteenth century, following the marriage of Sir Richard Verney (1536–1630) to Margaret, daughter of ... | 2 | 0 |
5402789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%20Verney%20House | Compton Verney House | The building work for Adam's alterations was carried out from about 1762–1768, supervised by the Warwick architect and mason, William Hiorn, who was also employed locally at Charlecote House and Stoneleigh Abbey. The stone came from the estate and the surrounding local quarries of Warwick, Hornton, Gloucester and Pains... | 1.976563 | 0 |
5402846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLDL%20receptor | VLDL receptor | Protein structure
VLDLR is a member of the low-density-lipoprotein (LDL) receptor family, which is entirely composed of type I transmembrane lipoprotein receptors. All members of this family share five highly conserved structural domains: an extracellular N-terminal ligand-binding domain with cysteine-rich repeats (a... | 2.234375 | 0 |
5402846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLDL%20receptor | VLDL receptor | Isoforms
The full-length human VLDLR genome is located on locus 9p24 on chromosome 9. It consists of a 40 kb segment that includes 19 exon-coding sequences, which is one more exon than encoded by LDLR. This extra exon in the VLDLR gene accounts for the extra cysteine-binding repeat not found in LDLR. Together, the exo... | 2.15625 | 0 |
5402846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLDL%20receptor | VLDL receptor | Tissue distribution and expression
VLDLR is found throughout the body, with particularly high expression in fatty acid tissues due to their high level of triglycerides, VLDLR’s primary ligand. These tissues include those of the heart, skeletal muscle, and adipose layer. In addition, the receptor is found in macrophage... | 2.328125 | 0 |
5402846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLDL%20receptor | VLDL receptor | Regulation
Unlike LDLR, VLDLR does not exhibit any feedback mechanism, and hence intracellular lipoproteins are incapable of regulating it. This phenomenon is due to a difference in the sterol regulatory element-1 (SRE-1) of VLDLR. Normal SRE-1 sequences, like those found in LDLR, are characterized by two repeats of ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5402846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLDL%20receptor | VLDL receptor | Many other hormones and dietary factors also regulate VLDLR expression. Thyroid hormone positively regulates VLDLR expression in skeletal muscles of rats, but not in adipose or heart tissues. In rabbits, VLDLR expression in heart muscle is up-regulated by estrogen and down-regulated by granulocyte-macrophage colony-sti... | 2.140625 | 0 |
5402846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLDL%20receptor | VLDL receptor | Endocytosis
VLDLR is known to employ endocytosis, although the exact mechanism of this process is unknown for this protein. Endocytosis is mediated through NPxY sequences known to signal for receptor internalization through clathrin-coated pits. The presence of this sequence in the cytoplasmic tail of VLDLR makes endo... | 2.546875 | 0 |
5402846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLDL%20receptor | VLDL receptor | Neuronal migration
VLDLR is expressed on migrating neurons to help guide them to their proper location in the brain. This process is part of the reelin pathway, which is responsible for the inside-out formation of the six-layered neocortex. Despite the discovery of this pathway, many of the specifics and molecular mec... | 2.21875 | 0 |
5402846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLDL%20receptor | VLDL receptor | Associated disorders
Mutations within the VLDLR gene lead to a multitude of disorders of varying severities. These disorders are usually associated with cholesterol homeostasis or a disorganization of neuron ordering in the brain due to disruption of the reelin pathway. The most prominent of these diseases are type I ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
5402846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLDL%20receptor | VLDL receptor | VLDLR-associated cerebellar hypoplasia
Disequilibrium syndrome (DES) was first described in the 1970s as a non-progressive, neurological disorder. In a 2005 study, DES was renamed as VLDLR-associated cerebellar hypoplasia (VLDLRCH) after its cause was linked to a disruption in the VLDLR gene. At least six mutations af... | 2.5625 | 0 |
5402895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20A.%20Raiba | A. A. Raiba | Early life
Temkar Street, off Kamathipura, in Bombay Central, is a street that is inhabited predominantly by Konkani Muslims, coming from the coastal regions of Maharashtra, who speak a dialect of Marathi. Their family names are similar to those of their Hindu neighbours. Abdul Aziz Raiba, was born into one such famil... | 2.6875 | 0 |
5402895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20A.%20Raiba | A. A. Raiba | Raiba was introduced to Charles Gerard, then dean of Sir JJ School of Art, who urged him to pursue mural painting and work with oils. Raiba greatly admired the works of his professor J. M. Ahivasi, who belonged to the revivalist school of Indian miniature painting. Raiba, though, believed that the technique of oil pain... | 2.484375 | 0 |
5402895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20A.%20Raiba | A. A. Raiba | Raiba studied at the Sir JJ School of Art, from 1942 to 1946. After graduating with a diploma, Charles Gerard appointed him as a fellow to assist other students. Though there were protestations to his appointment, as he lacked fluency in spoken English, Gerard asked him to continue. Later that year he was contemplating... | 2.359375 | 0 |
5402895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20A.%20Raiba | A. A. Raiba | Raiba lived in a 100 square feet tenement with his mother, his wife and three children. This space served too as the studio. Canvas in those was not easy to come by and was usually imported. During his time in Kashmir stretched cloth on a board served as his canvas. Jute when stretched tight is extremely taught, but th... | 2.640625 | 0 |
5402895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20A.%20Raiba | A. A. Raiba | The invites to his exhibitions were self designed, experimenting often with font, paper textures and improvising the design of the catalogue into shapes that were innovative in their fold. Raiba, had a lifelong experimentation with Calligraphy which he often took to with passion, conjuring bird shapes out of Urdu coupl... | 2.3125 | 0 |
5402895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20A.%20Raiba | A. A. Raiba | AA Raiba had hung three large unfinished works from his Kashmir Series of the 1950s on the walls of his studio. These unfinished panoramas of Kashmir's wintry landscapes, towns and temples, include a large primed canvas of coarse coatings on jute whose embedded designs and relief, reveal a plethora of stages to fathom ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
5402895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20A.%20Raiba | A. A. Raiba | His experiments with material may have to do with growing up in his father's small tailor's shop in Temkar Street in Bombay, with small strips of waste cloth lying heaped on the floor of the shop, amidst which he was allowed to play. A polyglot, Raiba, learned Urdu as a child at school, soon composing couplets, and the... | 2.125 | 0 |
5402912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20cruiser%20Yakumo | Japanese cruiser Yakumo | Background and design
The 1896 Naval Expansion Plan was made after the First Sino-Japanese War, and included four armored cruisers in addition to four more battleships, all of which had to be ordered from overseas shipyards as Japan lacked the capability to build them itself. Further consideration of the Russian buildi... | 2.921875 | 0 |
5402912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20cruiser%20Yakumo | Japanese cruiser Yakumo | During a visit to Qingdao in 1932, Yakumo and Izumo had to land marines on 13 January to quell a riot by Japanese residents there. The following year, the ship was reclassified as a training ship. On 6 November 1936, between the islands of Saipan and Truk, an accidental explosion in her front magazine killed four crewm... | 2.359375 | 0 |
5402932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaspore | Megaspore | Megaspores, also called macrospores, are a type of spore that is present in heterosporous plants. These plants have two spore types, megaspores and microspores. Generally speaking, the megaspore, or large spore, germinates into a female gametophyte, which produces egg cells. These are fertilized by sperm produced by th... | 3.328125 | 0 |
5402932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaspore | Megaspore | Megagametogenesis
After megasporogenesis, the megaspore develops into the female gametophyte (the embryo sac) in a process called megagametogenesis. The process of megagametogenesis varies depending on which pattern of megasporogenesis occurred. Some species, such as Tridax trilobata, Ehretia laevis, and Alectra tho... | 3.03125 | 0 |
5402948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richa | Richa | Richa (), also rendered rucha, refers to a mantra, usually one in line, found in the Sanskrit religious scriptures, the Vedas. It is a term used to refer to each verse of the Rigveda.
Etymology
The etymological origin of the richa is the Sanskrit word Ṛc (ऋच्), which means to praise. Richa, is therefore, one ṛc after... | 2.625 | 0 |
5402995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo%20Stefano%20degli%20Ungheresi | Santo Stefano degli Ungheresi | Santo Stefano degli Ungheresi (also San Stefanino and Santo Stefano degli Unni) was the church of the Hungarians in Rome. Located next to the Vatican, the old church was pulled down in 1778, to make room for an extension of St. Peter's Basilica.
Description
The church of Santo Stefano was established by Charlemagne in... | 2.4375 | 0 |
5403000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo%20%22Willy%22%20Odd%C3%B3 | Guillermo "Willy" Oddó | Guillermo "Willy" Oddó Parraguez (October 14, 1943 – November 7, 1991) was a
Chilean musician and engineer known as a leading vocalist in the Chilean folk music ensemble, Quilapayún between 1967 and 1987.
Biography
He was born in Chile and studied at the State Technical University in Santiago de Chile, where he parti... | 2.046875 | 0 |
5403006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle%20Dojo | Seattle Dojo | The Seattle Dojo is located at 1510 S. Washington in the Squire Park neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It is the oldest judo dojo in the continental United States, having been founded sometime before 1907 in what is today the International District.
Establishment of the Seattle Dojo
On October 17, 1903, a Kodokan... | 2.34375 | 0 |
5403026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons%20%26%20Dragons%3A%20Heroes | Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes | Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes is a hack and slash video game with RPG elements. It was published by Atari Interactive and developed by the subsidiary's Hunt Valley development studio, exclusively for Xbox in 2003. It is set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe and is playable solo or with up to four players. Players take on... | 2.09375 | 0 |
5403026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons%20%26%20Dragons%3A%20Heroes | Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes | Characters
There are four playable characters in the game:
Human Fighter: he is from Castle Baele originally, after losing his father in the Far North on the island of Axion. He arrived in Baele as Kaedin rose to power, and helped defeat the wizard the first time (and losing his life in the process). 150 years after, ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
5403032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec%20Wilder | Alec Wilder | Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980) was an American composer and author.
Biography
Wilder was born in Rochester, New York, United States, to a prominent family; the Wilder Building downtown (at the "Four Corners") bears the family's name and his maternal grandfather, and namesake, ... | 2.25 | 0 |
5403032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec%20Wilder | Alec Wilder | In addition to writing popular songs, Wilder also composed classical pieces for unique combinations of orchestral instruments. The Alec Wilder Octet, including Eastman classmate Mitch Miller on oboe, recorded several of his originals for Brunswick Records in 1938-40. His classical numbers, which often had off-beat, hum... | 2.328125 | 0 |
5403084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%3A%20Long%20range%20Investigation%2C%20Mapping%2C%20and%20Prediction | Climate: Long range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction | Climate: Long range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction, known as CLIMAP, was a major research project of the 1970s and 80s to produce a map of climate conditions during the Last Glacial Maximum. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration (1970s... | 2.96875 | 0 |
5403084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%3A%20Long%20range%20Investigation%2C%20Mapping%2C%20and%20Prediction | Climate: Long range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction | However, CLIMAP also suggested that some of the tropics and in particular much of the Pacific Ocean were warmer than they are today. To date, no climate model has been able to reproduce the proposed warming in the Pacific (Yin and Battisti 2001), with most preferring a several degree cooling. Also, it appears that clim... | 2.125 | 0 |
5403118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs.%20Prosser | Mrs. Prosser | Mrs. Prosser (pseud.) or Sophie Amelia Prosser, born Sophia Amelia Dibdin (17 May 1807 – 14 February 1882) was a British author. She was known for her sentimental morality tales and fables.
Personal
Prosser was born in London, the daughter of Charles Dibdin the Younger and his wife Mary Bates. She was the granddaught... | 2.078125 | 0 |
5403133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Bingham%20Walkley | Arthur Bingham Walkley | Walkley's abilities were recognised by the civil service. He was promoted successively to the grade of second-class clerk (1882), first-class clerk (1892), principal clerk (1899) and assistant secretary, in charge of the telegraph branch (1911). He represented the Post Office at three important international gatherings... | 2.03125 | 0 |
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