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5405001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeghishe%20Charents | Yeghishe Charents | Charents joined the Red Army and fought during the Russian Civil War as a rank and file soldier in Russia (Tsaritsin) and the Caucasus. In 1919, he returned to Armenia and took part in revolutionary activities there. A year later, he began work at the Ministry of Education as the director of the Art Department. Charent... | 2.484375 | 0 |
5405036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arto%20Noras | Arto Noras | Arto Noras (born 12 May 1942, in Turku) is a Finnish cellist who is one of Finland's most celebrated instrumentalists and amongst the most outstanding internationally acknowledged cellists of his generation.
At the age of 8, Arto Noras started his studies at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. After... | 2.109375 | 0 |
5405045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20education%20for%20young%20children | Music education for young children | Music education for young children is an educational program introducing children in a playful manner to singing, speech, music, motion and organology. It is a subarea of music education.
Benefits
There are many benefits that music provides for children as they continue to grow. The benefits that young children acqu... | 3.40625 | 0 |
5405045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20education%20for%20young%20children | Music education for young children | Forms and activities
Music education for young children is offered privately through classes and music organizations or integrated into educations private and public schools. Activities and classes can start as early as prenatally or newborn and in private education, music programs are often integrated in as early as... | 3.109375 | 0 |
5405045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20education%20for%20young%20children | Music education for young children | Pedagogies of early childhood music education
Several pedagogical approaches exist which promote specific methods of training young children in music, many of which share commonalities, such as music and rhythm development through body movements, folk songs, aural training, and the belief that music literacy from an ea... | 3.265625 | 0 |
5405066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Brand | Neil Brand | Neil Brand (born 18 March 1958) is an English dramatist, composer and author. In addition to being a regular silent film accompanist at London's National Film Theatre, Brand has composed new scores for two restored films from the 1920s, The Wrecker and Anthony Asquith's Underground.
Neil Brand has been a silent film a... | 2.125 | 0 |
5405066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Brand | Neil Brand | Other work for the BBC has included musical compositions and radio plays. He also composed the score for Channel Four's three-part documentary series on the Crimean War in 1997. One of his plays, Stan, was broadcast on radio in 2004 on BBC Radio 4 and then adapted as a television play, first broadcast on BBC Four. It d... | 2.015625 | 0 |
5405088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20London%20derby | West London derby | The 2014–15 Football League Championship season brought Brentford and Fulham together in the same division for the first time since 1998, following Brentford's promotion from League One and Fulham's relegation from the Premier League.
Prior to meeting in the league, the two sides were drawn together in the League Cup ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
5405103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiphinema | Xiphinema | Xiphinema is a genus of ectoparasitic root nematodes commonly known as dagger nematodes. The genus is of economic importance on grape, strawberry, hops and a few other crops. Major species include X.americanum, X.diversicaudatum, X.index, X.italiae and X.pachtaicum. They can be easily recognized by their long bodies an... | 2.546875 | 0 |
5405121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibui | Shibui | Shibui (渋い) (adjective), shibumi (渋み) (subjective noun), or shibusa (渋さ) (objective noun) are Japanese words that refer to a particular aesthetic of simple, subtle, and unobtrusive beauty. Like other Japanese aesthetics terms, such as iki and wabi-sabi, shibui can apply to a wide variety of subjects, not just art or fa... | 2.3125 | 0 |
5405121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibui | Shibui | The seven elements of shibusa are simplicity, implicity, modesty, naturalness, everydayness, imperfection, and silence. They are adapted from the concepts authored by Dr. Yanagi Sōetsu (1898–1961), aesthetician and museum curator, published in the Japanese magazine between 1930 and 1940. The aristocratic simplicity of... | 2.265625 | 0 |
5405121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibui | Shibui | Shibui, a registration or "felt sense" of evolving perfection. What is being registered is the "life" behind the qualities of any experience. A felt sense of qualities, such as, quiet beauty with intelligence, love, light, and joy. These qualities can be more easily registered when quietly viewing simple, natural, ever... | 2.375 | 0 |
5405121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibui | Shibui | Potters, musicians, painters, bonsai, and other artists often work to bring in shibui-like qualities into their art. A few go behind these qualities to bring the underlying "life" into their art. Expert singers, actors, potters, and artists of all other sorts were often said to be shibui; their expertise caused them to... | 2.4375 | 0 |
5405156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Goodrich%20Kirk | Alan Goodrich Kirk | Alan Goodrich Kirk (October 30, 1888 – October 15, 1963) was a United States Navy admiral during World War II who most notably served as the senior naval commander during the Normandy landings. After the war he embarked on a diplomatic career serving as US ambassador to Belgium, the Soviet Union and the Republic of Chi... | 2.203125 | 0 |
5405180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesia%20zone | Sesia zone | The Sesia unit or Sesia nappe, also called the Sesia-Dent Blanche unit is a tectonic unit or terrane in the Swiss and Italian Alps. The zone crops out in the Pennine Alps and in the southeastern part of the Aosta Valley. It is widely seen as part of the Austroalpine nappes and correlated with the Dent Blanche nappe tha... | 2.328125 | 0 |
5405253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Angus%20Knight | William Angus Knight | William Angus Knight (22 February 1836 – 4 March 1916) was a Scottish Free Church minister and author and Professor of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews University. He created the Lady Literate in Arts qualification.
Life
He was born in the manse at Mordington in the Scottish Borders on 22 February 1836, the son of Rev ... | 2.375 | 0 |
5405254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixty-Four%20Villages%20East%20of%20the%20River | Sixty-Four Villages East of the River | The Sixty-Four Villages East of the River were a group of Manchu, Daur and Han-inhabited villages located on the left (north) bank of the Amur River (Heilong Jiang) opposite of Heihe, and on the east bank of Zeya River opposite of Blagoveshchensk. The area totaled .
Among Russian historians, the district occupied by t... | 2.5625 | 0 |
5405260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douai%20Abbey | Douai Abbey | Douai Abbey is a Benedictine Abbey at Upper Woolhampton, near Thatcham, in the English county of Berkshire, situated within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth. Monks from the monastery of St. Edmund's, in Douai, France, came to Woolhampton in 1903 when the community left France as a result of anti-clerical legisl... | 2.375 | 0 |
5405273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Huet | Henri Huet | Henri Huet (4 April 1927 – 10 February 1971) was a French war photographer, noted for his work covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press (AP).
Early life
Henri Huet was born in Da Lat, French Indochina, the son of a Breton engineer and Vietnamese mother. At age five he was sent to France, where he was educate... | 2.234375 | 0 |
5405273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Huet | Henri Huet | Death
On February 10, 1971, during South Vietnam's invasion of southern Laos, known as Operation Lam Son 719, Huet and three other photojournalists joined the operation commander, Lt Gen Hoàng Xuân Lãm, on a helicopter inspection tour of the battlefront. The pilots of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) UH-1 Hue... | 2.03125 | 0 |
5405274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin%20Peete | Calvin Peete | Calvin Peete (July 18, 1943 – April 29, 2015) was an American professional golfer. He was the most successful African-American to have played on the PGA Tour, with 12 wins, prior to the emergence of Tiger Woods. Peete won the 1985 Tournament Players Championship and finished the season top-5 on the PGA Tour money list ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
5405274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin%20Peete | Calvin Peete | Professional career
Peete successfully graduated onto the PGA Tour at the Spring 1975 PGA Tour Qualifying School. Peete struggled in his early years, winning just barely over $60,000 in his first three years combined. An admitted "poor putter" when he entered the Tour, Peete eventually improved his skills by the end o... | 2.265625 | 0 |
5405274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin%20Peete | Calvin Peete | In 1984, Peete won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average (70.56), albeit not without controversy. In the Heritage Classic, he withdrew after shooting a 41 on the front nine. In the Tournament of Champions, he received a disqualification after forgetting what his score was on a hole, which didn't harm his average... | 1.976563 | 0 |
5405278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Hill%20Valley | Red Hill Valley | Red Hill Valley is a valley in eastern and south-eastern Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The valley is named after and home to the Red Hill Creek, which flows north-east from Albion Falls on the Niagara Escarpment, before bending north-west near the Queen Elizabeth Way and discharging into Hamilton Harbour at Windermere Ba... | 2.25 | 0 |
5405333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RenderMan%20Shading%20Language | RenderMan Shading Language | Renderman Shading Language (abbreviated RSL) is a component of the RenderMan Interface Specification, and is used to define shaders. The language syntax is C-like.
A shader written in RSL can be used without changes on any RenderMan-compliant renderer, such as Pixar's PhotoRealistic RenderMan, DNA Research's 3Delight,... | 2.5625 | 0 |
5405427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Eckhardt%20%28lawyer%29 | William Eckhardt (lawyer) | William G. Eckhardt is a lawyer, a professor of law at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and formerly a military officer, where his most notable case was the prosecution of Captain Ernest Medina, for the My Lai Massacre.
Professor Eckhardt received his B.A., with honors from the University of Mississippi in 1963... | 1.929688 | 0 |
5405446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Man%27s%20War | Old Man's War | Consu
The Consu are a fierce, technologically advanced, and strongly religious alien race. They believe in helping deserving races reach "Ungkat", a state of perfection for a whole race.
The Consu are the most advanced alien race presented in the Old Man's War. Their home system is surrounded by a Dyson sphere, which ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
5405459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20E.%20Swett | James E. Swett | James Elms Swett (June 15, 1920 – January 18, 2009) was a United States Marine Corps fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II. He was awarded the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for actions while a division flight leader in VMF-221 over Guadalcanal on April 7, 1943. He downed a t... | 2.203125 | 0 |
5405459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20E.%20Swett | James E. Swett | His first mission was as a division leader on a combat air patrol over the Russell Islands early on the morning of April 7 in expectation of a large Japanese air attack. Landing to refuel, the four-plane division of Grumman F4F Wildcats he was leading was scrambled after other aircraft reported 150 planes approaching I... | 2.03125 | 0 |
5405459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20E.%20Swett | James E. Swett | Swett commanded VMF-141 flying Corsairs at NAS Alameda, California, following the end of World War II. After the onset of the Korean War his squadron was deployed to Korea, but he was left behind because the Navy thought putting a Medal of Honor recipient in combat was too risky. Swett left active duty and continued se... | 2.0625 | 0 |
5405462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulia%20%28company%29 | Simulia (company) | In addition to the development of the pre-existing Abaqus portfolio, DS has also developed Simulia V5 and V6 product suites which seeks to combine the modelling and simulations aspect into one tool.
CST Studio Suite
CST Studio Suite is a computational electromagnetics tool developed by Dassault Systèmes Simulia. It c... | 1.945313 | 0 |
5405478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCndner%20schist | Bündner schist | The Bündner schist or Bündner slate (; ) is a collective name for schistose rocks that form a number of geologic formations in the Penninic nappes of the Alps. Bündner schists were originally marine sediments that underwent metamorphism at large depths.
The Bündner schists were deposited in the two small oceanic basin... | 2.46875 | 0 |
5405583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Western%20Australia | Rail transport in Western Australia | Railways in Western Australia were developed in the 19th century both by the Government of Western Australia and a number of private companies. Today passenger rail services are controlled by the Public Transport Authority (a department of the Government of Western Australia) through Transperth, which operates public t... | 2.546875 | 0 |
5405583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Western%20Australia | Rail transport in Western Australia | Five railway Master Plans have since been produced, and in the 2010 report these plans are credited for ensuring the provision of infrastructure and rolling stock to improve and expand the suburban rail system in Perth. Patronage of the Perth to Fremantle train line, which had initially been shut down in 1979 to prepar... | 2.046875 | 0 |
5405632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clicquot%20Club%20Company | Clicquot Club Company | Even though word of his soda spread over southeastern New England in the next few years, the cost of such fine ingredients eventually forced Henry Millis to sell his company in 1901. The new proprietors, Horace A. Kimball and his son, H. Earle Kimball, took advantage of every form of advertising, including the characte... | 2.15625 | 0 |
5405643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Church%20in%20the%20Wildwood | The Church in the Wildwood | Nearing the twentieth century, small Bradford was in great decline. The village had been bypassed by a new railroad through Nashua, Iowa, two miles west, and the flour mill moved to New Hampton, Iowa to be on a bigger river. The town was once the county seat, but population was in steady decline, and the church had gro... | 2.09375 | 0 |
5405750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian%20Legion | Bulgarian Legion | The Bulgarian Legion (, ) was the name of two military bands formed by Bulgarian volunteers in the Serbian capital of Belgrade in the second part of the 19th century. Their ultimate goal was the liberation of the Bulgarian people from Ottoman rule through coordinated actions with the neighbouring Balkan countries.
Fir... | 2.515625 | 0 |
5405750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian%20Legion | Bulgarian Legion | Second Bulgarian Legion
The Second Bulgarian Legion (Втора българска легия) was founded in 1867, as relations between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire once again worsened and the Serbian authorities began preparing for war and organizing the First Balkan Alliance. This was used by the Band of Virtues (Добродетелна дружина... | 2.578125 | 0 |
5405765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konditorei | Konditorei | Lebkuchen
The profession of the Konditor developed from that of the baker. Once the bakers of medieval times (15th century) mastered the art of baking bread, some started to enrich the dough with honey, dried fruits and spices. These specialists called themselves Lebküchler, Lebküchner or Lebzelter. They founded a gui... | 2.84375 | 0 |
5405774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork%20City%20%28Parliament%20of%20Ireland%20constituency%29 | Cork City (Parliament of Ireland constituency) | Cork City (also known as Cork Borough) was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801.
Boundaries and boundary changes
This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Cork in County Cork. It comprised the whole of the County of the City of Cork. Cork had the statu... | 2.234375 | 0 |
5405849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20cruiser%20Akashi | Japanese cruiser Akashi | Unwilling to write off the ship as a loss, the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff ordered Akashi to be completely overhauled at Kure Naval Arsenal in March 1903, and then sent the ship as a training vessel with instructors and cadets from the Imperial Naval Engineering Academy on a cruise around the coasts of China a... | 2.640625 | 0 |
5405849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20cruiser%20Akashi | Japanese cruiser Akashi | After the battle, on 14 June, "Akashi" returned to Takeshiki Guard District to start patrols of the Korea Strait. She was overhauled at Kure Naval Arsenal from 4–29 July. On 10 October, Akashi intercepted the German-flagged steamer, M Struve (1582 tons), which was attempting to smuggle a cargo of rice, salt, bread and ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
5405878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valais%20Ocean | Valais Ocean | The Valais Ocean is a subducted oceanic basin which was situated between the continent Europe and the microcontinent Iberia or so called Briançonnais microcontinent. Remnants of the Valais ocean are found in the western Alps and in tectonic windows of the eastern Alps and are mapped as the so-called "north Penninic" na... | 2.84375 | 0 |
5405886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluecoat%20school | Bluecoat school | A bluecoat school is a type of charity school in England, the first of which was founded in the 16th century. Most of them have closed; some remain open as schools, often on different sites, and some of the original buildings have been adapted for other purposes. They are known as "bluecoat schools" because of the dist... | 2.421875 | 0 |
5405900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20East%20High%20School | Allen East High School | Allen East High School is a four-year high school in Allen County, Ohio, U.S.. It was formed in the autumn of 1965 with the consolidation of the two eastern Allen County School Districts: Lafayette-Jackson and Auglaize-Local. The school was recognized with a Bronze Medal as one of the top schools in the nation by U.S. ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
5405926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy%20corporation | Dummy corporation | Hiding identity
Another use is to prevent speculators from intruding on imminent plans of the parent organisation. Dummy corporations may also be used in crime to hide the identity of a criminal, similar to the use of a criminal alias.
Raymond Davis, a former Blairstown, New Jersey committee member, diverted $46,000 ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
5405950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Monkey%20Ball%20Deluxe | Super Monkey Ball Deluxe | Super Monkey Ball Deluxe is a platform video game developed and published by Sega. It was released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2005. The game compiles all stages from Super Monkey Ball and Super Monkey Ball 2, as well as adding original levels.
Super Monkey Ball Deluxe was well received, with critics praising t... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5405981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Rosenberg%20%28curator%29 | David Rosenberg (curator) | David Rosenberg (born 3 November 1965) is a French art curator and author, specialized in modern and contemporary art styles.
Biography
David Rosenberg has curated exhibitions and organized art events in France and internationally in collaboration with museums and foundations.
In his works, he has explored relations... | 2.0625 | 0 |
5406084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viggo%20Ullmann | Viggo Ullmann | Johan Christian Viggo Ullmann (21 December 1848 – 30 August 1910) was a Norwegian educator and politician with Venstre, the Norwegian Liberal party. He was the son of the author Vilhelmine Ullmann, brother of the feminist Ragna Nielsen and the great grandfather of actress Liv Ullmann. Norway's first social doctor was h... | 2.28125 | 0 |
5406090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sippenhaft | Sippenhaft | Many people who had committed no crimes were arrested and punished under Sippenhaft decrees introduced after the failed 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944.After the failure of the 20 July plot, the SS chief Heinrich Himmler told a meeting of Gauleiters in Posen that he would "introduce absolute respo... | 2.28125 | 0 |
5406098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurices | Laurices | Laurices are rabbit fetuses prepared without evisceration and consumed as a table delicacy. The word is the plural of the Latin word laurex (variant laurix, n. masc., pl. laurices; English singular occasionally laurice), assumed to have been borrowed from an Iberian source. The word is normally found in the plural nu... | 2.96875 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | The Byzantine army of the Komnenian era or Komnenian army was a force established by Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos during the late 11th/early 12th century. It was further developed during the 12th century by his successors John II Komnenos and Manuel I Komnenos. From necessity, following extensive territorial lo... | 3 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | At the beginning of the Komnenian period in 1081, the Byzantine Empire had been reduced to the smallest territorial extent in its history. Surrounded by enemies, and financially ruined by a long period of civil war, the empire's prospects had looked grim. The state lay defenceless before internal and external threats, ... | 2.875 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | The Komnenian period, despite almost constant warfare, is notable for the lack of military treatise writing, which seems to have petered out during the 11th century. So, unlike in earlier periods, there are no detailed descriptions of Byzantine tactics and military equipment. Information on military matters in the Komn... | 2.84375 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | Modern historians have estimated the size of Komnenian armies on campaign at about 15,000 to 20,000 men, but field armies with less than 10,000 men were quite common. In 1176 Manuel I managed to gather approximately 30,000–35,000 men, of which 25,000 were Byzantines and the rest were allied contingents from Hungary, Se... | 2.953125 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | Taxation and pay
The financial state of the Empire improved throughout the Komnenian period; while Alexios I in the early part of his reign was reduced to producing coin from church gold and silver plate, his successors were able to spend very great sums on the army. One of the strengths of the Byzantine emperor was hi... | 2.96875 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | Native regiments
In the course of the 11th century the units of part-time soldier-farmers belonging to the (military provinces) were largely replaced by smaller, full-time, provincial (regiments). The political and military anarchy of the later 11th century meant that it was solely the provincial of the southern Bal... | 2.8125 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | In order to increase the size of his army, Alexios I even recruited 3,000 Paulicians from Philippopolis and formed them into the " of the Manichaeans", while 7,000 Turks were also hired. Foreign mercenaries and the soldiers provided by imperial vassals (such as the Serbs and Antiochenes), serving under their own leader... | 2.9375 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | Armed followers of the aristocracy
Though fief-holding as such did not exist in the Byzantine state, the concept of lordship pervaded society, with not only the provincial magnates but also state functionaries having authority over private citizens. The semi-feudal forces raised by the or provincial magnates were a us... | 2.5625 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | The repertoire of metal body armour included mail (), scale () and lamellar (). Both mail and scale armours were similar to equivalent armours found in Western Europe, a pull-on "shirt" reaching to the mid-thigh or knee with elbow length sleeves. The lamellar was a rather different type of garment. Byzantine lamellar,... | 2.8125 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | Icons of soldier-saints, often showing very detailed illustrations of body armour, usually depict their subjects bare-headed for devotional reasons and therefore give no information on helmets and other head protection. Illustrations in manuscripts tend to be relatively small and give a limited amount of detail. Howev... | 2.328125 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | Few archaeological specimens of helmets attributable to Byzantine manufacture have been discovered to date, though it is probable that some of the helmets found in pagan graves in the Ukrainian steppe are of ultimately Byzantine origin. A rare find of a helmet in Yasenovo in Bulgaria, dating to the 10th century, may re... | 2.359375 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | Most Byzantine helmets are shown being worn with armour for the neck. Somewhat less frequently the defences also cover the throat and there are indications that full facial protection was occasionally afforded. The most often illustrated example of such armour is a sectioned skirt depending from the back and sides of t... | 2.875 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | The Komnenian army had a formidable artillery arm which was particularly feared by its eastern enemies. Stone-firing and bolt-firing machines were used both for attacking enemy fortresses and fortified cities and for the defence of their Byzantine equivalents. In contemporary accounts the most conspicuous engines of wa... | 2.828125 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | The Varangian Guard were the elite of the infantry. In the field they operated as heavy infantry, well armoured and protected by long shields, armed with spears and their distinctive two-handed Danish axes. Unlike other Byzantine heavy infantry their battlefield employment appears to have been essentially offensive in ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | Native heavy infantry
Heavy infantry are almost invisible in the contemporary sources. In the Macedonian period a heavy infantryman was described as a (shieldbearer) or . These terms are not mentioned in 12th-century sources; Choniates used the terms and (spearbearer/spearman). Choniates' usage was, however, literar... | 2.546875 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | Peltasts
The type of infantryman called a peltast () is far more heavily referenced in contemporary sources than the "spearman". Although the peltasts of Antiquity were light skirmish infantry armed with javelins, it would be unsafe to assume that the troops given this name in the Komnenian period were identical in fun... | 2.96875 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | A category of cavalryman termed a (pl. ) is documented in Byzantine military literature from the sixth century onwards. The term is a transliteration of the Latin with the meaning 'raider' (from 'course, line of advance, raid, running, speed, zeal' – in Medieval Latin a term for a raider or brigand was , which was t... | 2.90625 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | The light cavalry of the Komnenian army consisted of horse-archers. There were two distinct forms of horse-archer: the lightly equipped skirmisher and the heavier, often armoured, bow-armed cavalryman who shot from disciplined ranks. The native Byzantine horse-archer was of the latter type. They shot arrows by command ... | 3.09375 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | Skirmish horse-archers, usually unarmoured, were supplied by the Turkic Pechenegs, Cumans and Uzes of the steppes. These troops were ideal scouts and were adept at harassment tactics. They usually attacked as a swarm and were very difficult for a more heavily equipped enemy to bring into close combat. Light horse-arche... | 3 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | Under John II, a Macedonian division was described, and new native Byzantine troops were recruited from the provinces. As Byzantine Anatolia began to prosper under John and Manuel, more soldiers were raised from the Asiatic provinces of Thrakesion, Mylasa and Melanoudion, Paphlagonia and even Seleucia (in the south-eas... | 3.1875 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | Permanent military camps were established in the Balkans and in Anatolia, they are first mentioned during the reign of Alexios I (Kypsella and Lopadion), but as Lopadion is recorded as being newly fortified in the reign of John II it is the latter who seems to have fully realised the advantages of this type of permanen... | 2.671875 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | The Komnenian Byzantine army was a resilient and effective force but it was over-reliant on the leadership of an able emperor. After the death of Manuel I in 1180 able leadership was wanting. First there was Alexios II, a child-emperor with a divided regency, then a tyrant, Andronikos I, who attempted to break the powe... | 2.84375 | 0 |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | 1155–56 – The generals Michael Palaiologos and John Doukas were sent with 10 ships to invade Apulia. A number of towns, including Bari, and most of coastal Apulia were captured, however, the expedition ultimately failed, despite the reinforcements sent by the emperor because the Byzantine fleet of 14 ships was vastly o... | 2.9375 | 0 |
5406115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20triangle | Wind triangle | In air navigation, the wind triangle is a graphical representation of the relationship between aircraft motion and wind. It is used extensively in dead reckoning navigation.
The wind triangle is a vector diagram, with three vectors.
The air vector represents the motion of the aircraft through the airmass. It is des... | 3.046875 | 0 |
5406115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20triangle | Wind triangle | Solve for the ground vector. This type of problem arises when true heading and true airspeed are known by reading the flight instruments and when wind direction and speed are known from either the meteorological forecast or from determination in flight.
Solve for the wind vector. This type of problem arises when dete... | 2.578125 | 0 |
5406119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa%20%C3%81ngela | Villa Ángela | Villa Ángela is a city in the province of Chaco, Argentina, 186 km west of the provincial capital Resistencia. It is on the Gran Chaco, a lowland region of the Río de la Plata basin. It has 43,511 inhabitants as per the , making it the third largest in the province.
History
In 1908, Carlos Gruneisen y Julio Ulises ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
5406147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunis%20Campbell | Tunis Campbell | A head waiter in New York
Campbell was the principal waiter at the Howard Hotel in New York City for some time (at least from 1842 to 45). He later wrote a well-regarded 1848 guide to hotel management, Hotel Keepers, Head Waiters, and Housekeepers' Guide (1848), one of the earliest hospitality books by an African Ameri... | 2.703125 | 0 |
5406249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon-Jefferson%20culture | Leon-Jefferson culture | The Leon-Jefferson Culture is the term used by archaeologists for a protohistoric Native American archaeological culture that flourished in southeastern North America from approximately 1500–1704 CE and is associated with the historic Apalachee people. It was located in and named for the present day Leon and Jefferson... | 3.078125 | 0 |
5406249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon-Jefferson%20culture | Leon-Jefferson culture | Early in the Leon-Jefferson period ceramics are well-made vessels, using grit tempering rather than the more common Mississippian culture trait of using ground mussel shells. About 1450 CE distinctive central Georgian stamped and incised pottery begins to appear in the Apalachee area, probably representing trade or all... | 3.03125 | 0 |
5406278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bienvenido%20Santos | Bienvenido Santos | Bienvenido Nuqui Santos (March 22, 1911 – January 7, 1996) was a Filipino-American fiction, poetry and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines. He lived in the United States for many years where he is widely credited as a pioneering A... | 2.515625 | 0 |
5406303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landulf%20VI%20of%20Benevento | Landulf VI of Benevento | Landulf VI (died 27 November 1077) was the last Lombard prince of Benevento. Unlike his predecessors, he never had a chance to rule alone and independent. The principality lost its independence in 1051, at which point Landulf was only co-ruling with his father, Pandulf III.
Landulf was the eldest son of Pandulf III an... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5406303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landulf%20VI%20of%20Benevento | Landulf VI of Benevento | In the aftermath of the Battle of Civitate in 1053, in which the pope was imprisoned in Benevento, the city invited Pandulf and Landulf back (sometime between June 1053 and March 1054). They returned by 1055 and ruled as vassals of the pope. In 1056, Landulf associated his son Pandulf IV. Probably in 1059, the elder Pa... | 2.203125 | 0 |
5406319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Sharp%20%28historian%29 | Martin Sharp (historian) | Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (8 December 1843 – 1 July 1910), born Martin Andrew Sharp, was an English historian, long a resident in Spain.
Background and early life
Martin Andrew Sharp was born in London on 8 December 1843. He was second son of William Lacy Sharp, of the East India Company's service, who married Louisa C... | 2.171875 | 0 |
5406328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Telephone%20Company | National Telephone Company | The National Telephone Company (NTC) was a British telephone company from 1881 until 1911 which brought together smaller local companies in the early years of the telephone. Under the Telephone Transfer Act 1911 it was taken over by the General Post Office (GPO) in 1912.
History
Three years after the first telephone ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
5406328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Telephone%20Company | National Telephone Company | The amalgamation policy continued; in 1890 the NTC absorbed the Northern District Telephone Company and the South of England Telephone Company, in 1892 the Western Counties and South Wales Company and the Sheffield Telephone Exchange and Electric Light Company and in 1893 the Telephone Company of Ireland Limited. Throu... | 2.1875 | 0 |
5406331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Sostero | Giovanni Sostero | Giovanni Sostero (18 March 1964 – 6 December 2012) was an Italian amateur astronomer. He was one of the leading members of the Associazione Friulana di Astronomia e Meteorologia (Friuli, Italy). He was an honorary member of the Astronomical Observatory of Visnjan (Croatia), too.
Sostero was very active as a public out... | 1.914063 | 0 |
5406335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Cod%20Regional%20Transit%20Authority | Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority | Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority (CCRTA) operates a bus transit system of fixed and flexible routes, seasonal rail service to Boston, and a paratransit service in the Cape Cod region of Massachusetts. The CCRTA was created under the provisions of Chapter 161B of the Massachusetts General Laws in 1976. Its main hub a... | 2.234375 | 0 |
5406349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akoris%2C%20Egypt | Akoris, Egypt | Akoris ( or Ἀκορίς); Egyptian: Mer-nefer(et) (Old and Middle Kingdoms), Per-Imen-mat-khent(j) (New Kingdom), or Dehenet (since 26th Dynasty) is the Greek name for the modern Egyptian village of (, from ), located about 12 km north of Al Minya. The ancient site is situated in the southeast of the modern village.
Locat... | 2.609375 | 0 |
5406349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akoris%2C%20Egypt | Akoris, Egypt | Akoris became an important town during the Greek and Roman periods, and its name was changed to Akoris. The today's settlement traces came from the Roman and Coptic times.
Monuments
Akoris is home to several archaeological sites, including a number of rock-cut tombs from the Old Kingdom period, known as Fraser Tombs... | 2.671875 | 0 |
5406370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petru%20Rare%C8%99 | Petru Rareș | It took over two years and various political changes in Transylvania and Moldavia before Petru was able to gain the sultan's forgiveness and regain the Moldavian throne in early 1541. Entering the country, he captured voievod Alexandru Cornea and his faithful boyars and killed them. Now, however, he was no longer trust... | 2.171875 | 0 |
5406420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Jos%C3%A9%20Castelli%2C%20Chaco | Juan José Castelli, Chaco | Juan José Castelli (usually abbreviated to Castelli) is a town in the province of Chaco, Argentina. It is located 274 km from the provincial capital Resistencia and has about 27,000 inhabitants as per the . It is the head town of the General Güemes Department. Its population is mainly of Volga German descent.
The area... | 2.328125 | 0 |
5406421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%20%28S-train%29 | C (S-train) | C is a service on the S-train network in Copenhagen. It serves the Klampenborg radial and the inner part of the Frederikssund radial, and also reinforces service on the outer part of the Frederikssund radial in high-traffic period.
Service C is one of the base services on the network, running between Ballerup and Klam... | 2 | 0 |
5406474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus%20%28computer%20science%29 | Consensus (computer science) | A fundamental problem in distributed computing and multi-agent systems is to achieve overall system reliability in the presence of a number of faulty processes. This often requires coordinating processes to reach consensus, or agree on some data value that is needed during computation. Example applications of consensus... | 2.40625 | 0 |
5406474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus%20%28computer%20science%29 | Consensus (computer science) | Varying models of computation may define a "consensus problem". Some models may deal with fully connected graphs, while others may deal with rings and trees. In some models message authentication is allowed, whereas in others processes are completely anonymous. Shared memory models in which processes communicate by acc... | 2.03125 | 0 |
5406474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus%20%28computer%20science%29 | Consensus (computer science) | The consensus problem may be considered in the case of asynchronous or synchronous systems. While real world communications are often inherently asynchronous, it is more practical and often easier to model synchronous systems, given that asynchronous systems naturally involve more issues than synchronous ones.
In sync... | 2.09375 | 0 |
5406474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus%20%28computer%20science%29 | Consensus (computer science) | Consensus algorithms traditionally assume that the set of participating nodes is fixed and given at the outset: that is, that some prior (manual or automatic) configuration process has permissioned a particular known group of participants who can authenticate each other as members of the group. In the absence of such a... | 2.109375 | 0 |
5406474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus%20%28computer%20science%29 | Consensus (computer science) | Other cryptocurrencies (e.g. Ethereum, NEO, STRATIS, ...) use proof of stake, in which nodes compete to append blocks and earn associated rewards in proportion to stake, or existing cryptocurrency allocated and locked or staked for some time period. One advantage of a 'proof of stake' over a 'proof of work' system, is ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
5406474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus%20%28computer%20science%29 | Consensus (computer science) | Consensus number
To solve the consensus problem in a shared-memory system, concurrent objects must be introduced. A concurrent object, or shared object, is a data structure which helps concurrent processes communicate to reach an agreement. Traditional implementations using critical sections face the risk of crashing i... | 2.53125 | 0 |
5406518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwan%20Roberts | Iwan Roberts | Roberts says that most football fans would know him ("if you know me at all") as "that gap-toothed ginger lunk". He started losing his front tooth when he was just 10: his best friend's heel chipping half of his tooth off, the result of an incident playing football. Some years later, a dentist removed the stump when an... | 2.0625 | 0 |
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