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2936492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th%20Marine%20Regiment | 5th Marine Regiment | In late May 2013, Marines of 5th Marine Regiment participated in a training exhibition with the French 21st Marine Infantry Regiment in Frejus, France. The Marines learned about and fired French weapons systems, including the FAMAS G2 assault rifle. They also used kayaks to venture into the Mediterranean Sea, providin... | 2 | 0 |
2936499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20of%20Creation | Ray of Creation | The names of the notes have historically been attributed to the hymn 'Ut queant laxis' by Paulus Diaconus, where UT is used instead of DO. Mouravieff explains UT as indicating the uterus in the birth of flesh, and SI as representing "the door of the second Birth, according to the Spirit".
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2936554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont%20Alexandre%20III | Pont Alexandre III | The Pont Alexandre III () is a deck arch bridge that spans the Seine in Paris. It connects the Champs-Élysées quarter with those of the Invalides and Eiffel Tower. The bridge is widely regarded as the most ornate, extravagant bridge in the city. It has been classified as a French monument historique since 1975.
Histor... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2936558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replacement%20value | Replacement value | The term replacement cost or replacement value refers to the amount that an entity would have to pay to replace an asset at the present time, according to its current worth.
In the insurance industry, "replacement cost" or "replacement cost value" is one of several methods of determining the value of an insured item.... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2936558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replacement%20value | Replacement value | Underinsurance responsibility
Although insurance is decided at the state-level, most states follow similar practices. In California and Texas, the insured is responsible for determining the proper amount of insurance. However, one survey found that about half of consumers believe it is insurer's responsibility, and co... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2936567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Bank%20Building%20%28Toronto%29 | Royal Bank Building (Toronto) | The Royal Bank Building refers to two office buildings constructed for the Royal Bank of Canada in Toronto financial district in Ontario, Canada:The first building is a 20-storey structure situated on the northeast corner of Yonge and King Streets. It was completed in 1915 and designed by the architectural firm Ross ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2936624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wave%20%28Arizona%29 | The Wave (Arizona) | The Wave is a sandstone rock formation located in Arizona, US, near its northern border with Utah. The formation is situated on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness of the Colorado Plateau. The area is administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) at the Grand Staircase–... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2936624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wave%20%28Arizona%29 | The Wave (Arizona) | The Wave exposes large-scale sets of cross-bedded eolian sandstone composed of rhythmic and cyclic alternating grainflow and windripple laminae. The rhythmic and cyclic alternating laminae represent periodic changes in the prevailing winds during the Jurassic period as large sand dunes migrated across a sandy desert. T... | 3.3125 | 0 |
2936624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wave%20%28Arizona%29 | The Wave (Arizona) | Access policy
The Wave is located within the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness. This wilderness is administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), part of the United States Department of the Interior. A day-use permit from BLM is required to visit The Wave.
BLM limits access to the North Coyote Buttes Wil... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2936624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wave%20%28Arizona%29 | The Wave (Arizona) | The shortest hike to The Wave begins at the Wire Pass Trailhead, about south of U.S. Route 89 along House Rock Valley Road, a dirt road about west of Page, Arizona or east of Kanab, Utah that is accessible to most vehicles in good weather. During and after a storm the road may be impassable, even with a four-wheel-d... | 1.96875 | 0 |
2936666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wah%20Ching | Wah Ching | During the 1960s and 1970s in Chinatown, Los Angeles, the contest for gang dominance was between the Joe Boys, Yao Lai, and the Wah Ching. However, Wah Ching was able to push these gangs out of Los Angeles Chinatown and took over their illegal establishments. Wah Ching became the dominant gang in Chinatown, Los Angeles... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2936672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sihl | Sihl | The Sihl is a Swiss river that rises near the Druesberg mountain in the canton of Schwyz, and eventually flows into the Limmat in the centre of the city of Zürich, after crossing the Zürich–Winterthur railway at . It has a length of , including the Sihlsee reservoir, through which the river flows. Water is abstracted f... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2936672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sihl | Sihl | The Sihlsee is some long, and lies close to the town of Einsiedeln. It is Switzerland's largest artificial lake, and is impounded by a high dam. Electricity is generated by diverting water down a tunnel from the Sihlsee, which has a water level elevation of , through the Etzelwerk hydroelectric power station at Alten... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2936672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sihl | Sihl | Reaching the town of Langnau am Albis, on the west bank of the river, and the village of Gattikon, on the east bank, the valley becomes more populous and industrial, with industry originally attracted by the available water power. From here the valley bottom is continuously built-up through the town of Adliswil to the ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2936679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse%20Astronuclear%20Laboratory | Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory | Under the NERVA contract, the initial objective was to build a rocket engine that could deliver at least 825 seconds of specific impulse, at least 50,000 pounds of thrust, at least 10 minutes of continuous operation at full thrust, and have the ability to start up on its own with no external energy source. Liquid hydro... | 2.625 | 0 |
2936679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse%20Astronuclear%20Laboratory | Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory | The first proof of concept test of an assembled Westinghouse-Aerojet rocket engine (NRX-A2) was conducted at Jackass Flats, Nevada on September 24, 1964 that provided six minutes of continuous operation. By April 23, 1965 the NRX-A3 provided sixteen minutes of operation and a three-minute restart and incorporated pul... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2936679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse%20Astronuclear%20Laboratory | Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory | Among AESD's successes was the winning site and conceptual design proposal for the Solar Total Energy Project (STEP) in Shenandoah [now part of Newnan], Coweta County, Georgia, south of Atlanta along I-85. Financed as a joint project by Georgia Power Company (part of Southern Company) and the U.S. Department of Energy... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2936682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovruch | Ovruch | During World War II, the German occupiers operated a Jewish forced labour battalion in the town. Mordechai Schlein, a Jewish-Belarussian partisan, blew up a restaurant with about 200 German officers in it.
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, on March 6, at 2:32 a.m., the occupants launched 3 bomb attacks on t... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2936723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthetical%20referencing | Parenthetical referencing | How to cite
The structure of a citation under the author–date method is the author's surname, year of publication, and page number or range, in parentheses, as in "(Smith 2010, p. 1)".
The page number or page range may be omitted if the entire work is cited, as in "(Smith 2010)".
Narrative style citations have the au... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2936723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthetical%20referencing | Parenthetical referencing | A citation is placed wherever appropriate in or after the sentence. If it is at the end of a sentence, it is placed before the period, but a citation for an entire block quote immediately follows the period at the end of the block since the citation is not an actual part of the quotation itself. When citing quotes it’s... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2936723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthetical%20referencing | Parenthetical referencing | The principal advantage of the author–date method is that a reader familiar with a field is likely to recognize a citation without having to check in the references section. This is most useful in fields whose works are commonly known by their date of publication (for example, the sciences and social sciences in which ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2936723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthetical%20referencing | Parenthetical referencing | Parenthetical referencing works well in combination with substantive notes. When the note system is used for source citations, two different systems of note marking and placement are needed—in Chicago Style, for instance, "the citation notes should be numbered and appear as endnotes. The substantive notes, indicated by... | 1.984375 | 0 |
2936723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthetical%20referencing | Parenthetical referencing | Taking up space and distracting, especially when many works are cited in a single place (which often occurs when reviewing a large body of previous work). Numbered footnotes or endnotes, by contrast, can be combined into a range, e.g. "[27–35]". However this disadvantage is offset by the fact that parenthetical referen... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2936723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthetical%20referencing | Parenthetical referencing | Origins and use
The origin of the author–date style is attributed to a paper by Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey professor of anatomy and director of the zoological laboratory at Harvard University, who may have copied it from the cataloguing system used then and now by the library of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoolog... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2936740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossraguel%20Abbey | Crossraguel Abbey | The Abbey of Saint Mary of Crossraguel is a ruin of a former abbey near the town of Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Although it is a ruin, visitors can still see the original monks’ church, their cloister and their dovecot (pigeon tower).
Foundation
Founded in 1244 by Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick, following an earlie... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2936740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossraguel%20Abbey | Crossraguel Abbey | In 1570, the Kennedy family, Earls of Cassilis famously obtained the lands of Crossraguel Abbey through the torturing by Gilbert Kennedy, 4th Earl of Cassilis of Allan Stewart, the commendator at his castle of Dunure. A feud followed including a number of families and lasted until at least 1611. The Reformation (c. 156... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2936758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaxley%2C%20Suffolk | Yaxley, Suffolk | Yaxley is a small village just west of Eye in Suffolk, England. The name means 'cuckoo-clearing'.
Church of St. Mary
Pevsner describes the north porch of the 12th-century church as 'one of the most swagger in Suffolk'.
Inside the church are the remnants of a large medieval doom painting and high on the wall above the... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2936762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claris%20Resolve | Claris Resolve | Claris Resolve was a spreadsheet computer program for the Apple Macintosh. It was released by Claris in 1991 and sold until 1994.
In an effort to flesh out their software suite, in the early 1990s Claris wanted to introduce a spreadsheet application, and decided to buy an existing one. This was not particularly diffic... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2936775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsthaler | Reichsthaler | Prior to the Guldengroschen
Since the Holy Roman Empire was a loose federation of hundreds of feudal and princely rulers, Germany had a collection of currency systems loosely related to the Frankish Carolingian monetary system with one pound (later Gulden) equal to 20 shillings (later Groschen), and a shilling equal to... | 2.78125 | 0 |
2936782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutso | Mutso | Mutso () is a small village in Georgia. One of the former strongholds of the historic Georgian province of Khevsureti (now part of Mtskheta-Mtianeti region), it is located on a rocky mountain (1880 m) on the right bank of the Andakistskali river (ანდაქისწყალი).
Geography
The village, almost completely abandoned more ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2936784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum%20of%20Mohammed%20V | Mausoleum of Mohammed V | The Mausoleum of Mohammed V () is a mausoleum located across from the Hassan Tower in Rabat, Morocco. It contains the tombs of the Moroccan king Mohammed V and his two sons, late King Hassan II and Prince Abdallah.
History
Mohammed V died in 1961. Construction of his mausoleum was commissioned by Hassan II. The compl... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | Transcontinental links
The very first "inter-oceanic" railroad that affected California was built in 1855 across the Isthmus of Panama, the Panama Railway. The Panama Railway reduced the time needed to cross the Isthmus from a week of difficult and dangerous travel to a day of relative comfort. The building of the Pana... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | "Transportation determines the flow of population," declared J. D. Spreckels, one of California's early railroad entrepreneurs, just after the dawn of the twentieth century. "Before you can hope to get people to live anywhere...you must first of all show them that they can get there quickly, comfortably and, above all,... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | When the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad charted its own solo course across the continent in 1885 it chose Los Angeles as its western terminus, and in doing so fractured the Southern Pacific Railroad's near total monopoly on rail transportation within the state. The original purpose of this new line was to augm... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | As with the Comstock mining securities boom of the 1870s, Los Angeles' land boom attracted an unscrupulous element that often sold interest in properties whose titles were not properly recorded, or in tracts that did not even exist. Major advertising campaigns by the SP, Santa Fe, Union Pacific, and other major carrier... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | While the completion of the first transcontinental railroad was a major milestone in America's history, it would also foster the birth of a railroad empire that would have a dominant influence over California's evolution for years to come. Despite all of the shortcomings, in the end the State gained unprecedented benef... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | For years, the overall scarcity of oranges in particular led to the general perception that they were suitable only for holiday table decoration or as indulgences for the affluent. During the 1870s, however, hybridization of California oranges led to the creation of several flavorful strains, chief among these the Nave... | 2.625 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | With the expansion of agriculture interests throughout the state (along with new rail lines to carry the goods to faraway markets), new communities were founded and existing towns expanded. Agrarian successes led to the establishment of post offices, schools, churches, mercantile outlets, and ancillary industries such ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | The railroads were among the first to promote California tourism as early as the 1870s, both as a means to increase ridership and to create new markets for the freight hauling business in the areas they served. Some sixty years later, the Santa Fe would lead a resurgence in leisure travel to and along the west coast ab... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | While it is true that much of the traveling public would have been unable to make the trip to California's sunny climate were it not for the fleet, relatively safe, and affordable trains of the western railroads, it is also true that those companies in effect preyed on those same settlers once they arrived at the end o... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | Perhaps the most notorious examples of impropriety on the part of the railroads surround the process of land acquisition and sales. Since the federal government granted to the companies alternate tracts of land that ran along the tracks they had laid, it was generally assumed that the land would in turn be sold at its ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | Local services were mostly controlled by a few primary operators. The San Diego Electric Railway, founded by John D. Spreckels in 1892, was the major transit system in the San Diego area during that period. In the Los Angeles area, real estate tycoon Henry Huntington established both the Los Angeles Railway, also known... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | One urban system that survived the streetcar decline was the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) in San Francisco. Its five heavily used streetcar lines traveled for at least part of their routes through tunnels or otherwise reserved right-of-way, and thus could not be converted to bus lines. As a result, these line... | 2.9375 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | When Amtrak assumed operation of passenger rail services in the United States in 1971, most long-haul and commuter trains ceased operation. New lines were either based on previous routings or extended from old services. Service to Denver was provided via the San Francisco Zephyr (on a route largely retained from the Ci... | 1.976563 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | Caltrans and Amtrak partnered together to form Amtrak California in 1976. The Pacific Surfliner, serving the coastal communities of Southern California between San Diego and San Luis Obispo, is an extension of the historical San Diegan that was previously operated by ATSF and continued service under Amtrak – it is the ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | Railway expansion
Rail systems saw initial expansion in the first decades of the century. San Diego Trolley's Green Line began service in 2005, and Silver Line heritage streetcar service began limited service in 2011 with refurbished PCC's. The SacRT light rail extended all of its lines including one linking Folsom to ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | San Francisco's Muni Metro has expanded service via the sequential Third Street Light Rail Project and Central Subway (with plans for a third extension underway). The heritage streetcar service was extended to Fisherman's Wharf via constructing light rail infrastructure in place of the demolished Embarcadero Freeway, a... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | Diesel multiple unit services
Sprinter began diesel multiple unit (DMU) service in 2008, connecting cities in northern San Diego County. This service follows the Escondido Branch, which was acquired by the San Diego Northern Railway in 1992 and was later transferred to the North County Transit District. The passenger ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2936787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transportation%20in%20California | History of rail transportation in California | The aforementioned East Contra Costa BART Extension breaks from Bay Area Rapid Transit convention by using standard gauge rail (the main system uses a broad gauge), allowing for standard modern DMU trainsets to operate on the branch line. Plans originally called for trains to share right of way with pre-existing freigh... | 2.125 | 0 |
2936800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit%20%28ship%29 | Transit (ship) | Transit was the name given to an innovative sailing ship designed for speed by Captain Richard Hall Gower and built in 1800. Gower also designed two similar ships with the same name. He hoped to have his designs adopted by the British Admiralty but failed to achieve his aim.
Description
All three Transits designed b... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2936817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Converse%20Beach | Frederick Converse Beach | Frederick Converse Beach (March 27, 1848 – June 8, 1918), was a New York patent attorney, editor and co-owner of Scientific American, and editor-in-chief of the new Encyclopedia Americana in the early 1900s. He became President of the oldest operating yacht club in Connecticut. He was also the father of Stanley Yale Be... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2936832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macas%20%28city%29 | Macas (city) | Macas () is the capital of Morona Santiago province in southeastern Ecuador. The city is also the seat of the county Morona. Known as the "Emerald of the East" due to its location east of the Andes mountains, Macas lies in the Upano Valley overlooking the Upano river. The city has a population of 22,398 and along with ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2936835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20Platform%20Module | Trusted Platform Module | The TPM 2.0 policy authorization includes the 1.2 HMAC, locality, physical presence, and PCR. It adds authorization based on an asymmetric digital signature, indirection to another authorization secret, counters and time limits, NVRAM values, a particular command or command parameters, and physical presence. It permits... | 1.945313 | 0 |
2936835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20Platform%20Module | Trusted Platform Module | The primary scope of TPM is to ensure the integrity of a platform during boot time. In this context, "integrity" means "behaves as intended", and a "platform" is any computer device regardless of its operating system. This is to ensure that the boot process starts from a trusted combination of hardware and software, an... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2936835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20Platform%20Module | Trusted Platform Module | In October 2017, it was reported that a code library developed by Infineon, which had been in widespread use in its TPMs, contained a vulnerability, known as ROCA, which generated weak RSA key pairs that allowed private keys to be inferred from public keys. As a result, all systems depending upon the privacy of such we... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2936892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission%20Ribas | Mission Ribas | Misión Ribas (launched November 2003) is a Venezuelan Bolivarian Mission that provides remedial high school level classes to the five million Venezuelan high school dropouts; named after independence hero José Félix Ribas.
In July 2006 President Chávez announced that the Mission Ribas should become a socio-political m... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2936900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piled%20Higher%20and%20Deeper | Piled Higher and Deeper | The Nameless Grad Student (a.k.a., The Nameless Hero) – a graduate student in engineering, this bespectacled protagonist has procrastinated through the entire strip without receiving a name. He looks similar to comic strip author, Jorge Cham and is modelled after him (at one point, the younger sister of the character, ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2936910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20MacBeth | George MacBeth | George Mann MacBeth (19 January 1932 – 16 February 1992) was a Scottish poet and novelist.
Biography
George MacBeth was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland. When he was three, his family moved to Sheffield in England. He was educated in Sheffield at King Edward VII School, where he was Head Prefect in 1951 (photo), ... | 2.5 | 0 |
2936926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockbridge%2C%20Edinburgh | Stockbridge, Edinburgh | Stockbridge is a district of Edinburgh, located north of the city centre, bounded by the New Town and by Comely Bank. The name is Scots stock brig from Anglic stocc brycg, meaning a timber bridge. Originally a small outlying village, it was incorporated into the City of Edinburgh in the 19th century. The current "Stock... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2936926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockbridge%2C%20Edinburgh | Stockbridge, Edinburgh | The main road through Stockbridge is Raeburn Place, a street of mixed character, with numerous small shops at ground-floor level. The link from this street to the New Town is via Deanhaugh Street and North West Circus Place.
Saunders Street, south of the bridge, was built in 1974 as part of a slum clearance programme.... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2936926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockbridge%2C%20Edinburgh | Stockbridge, Edinburgh | In 1884 St. Bernard's Well was purchased and presented to his fellow Edinburgh townsmen by the publisher William Nelson, after it had been restored and redecorated by Thomas Bonnar, with a new statue of Hygieia, carved by David Watson Stevenson. Dean Terrace and Ann Street today overlook the valley and Well. The well c... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2936934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20H.%20Muirhead | J. H. Muirhead | John Henry Muirhead (28 April 1855 – 24 May 1940) was a Scottish philosopher best known for having initiated the Muirhead Library of Philosophy in 1890. He became the first person named to the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham in 1900.
Biography
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Muirhead was educated at Gil... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2936950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-pool%20resource | Common-pool resource | In economics, a common-pool resource (CPR) is a type of good consisting of a natural or human-made resource system (e.g. an irrigation system or fishing grounds), whose size or characteristics makes it costly, but not impossible, to exclude potential beneficiaries from obtaining benefits from its use. Unlike pure publi... | 3.125 | 0 |
2936950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-pool%20resource | Common-pool resource | In James Bay, Quebec, the beaver was an important species for food and later commerce when the fur trade started in 1670. Amerindian groups in the area have traditionally used resources communally and have a heritage of customary laws to regulate hunting. However, in the 1920s the railroads caused a large influx of non... | 3.203125 | 0 |
2936950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-pool%20resource | Common-pool resource | In the New York Bight region, a cooperative of trawl fishermen that specializes in harvesting whiting limits entry into the local fishery and establishes catch quotas among members. These quotas are based on regional market sales estimations and attempt to encourage initiative while discouraging “free-riding.” They lim... | 2.9375 | 0 |
2936950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-pool%20resource | Common-pool resource | Resource systems like pastoral areas, fishing grounds, forest areas are storage variables. Under favorable conditions, they can maximize the flow without harming the total storage volume and the entire resource system. Different from the resource system, the resource unit is the amount that an individual occupies or us... | 2.859375 | 0 |
2936950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-pool%20resource | Common-pool resource | Adaptive governance
The management of common-pool resources is highly dependent upon the type of resource involved. An effective strategy at one location, or of one particular resource, may not be necessarily appropriate for another. In The Challenge of Common-Pool Resources, Ostrom makes the case for adaptive governa... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2936953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delapr%C3%A9%20Abbey | Delapré Abbey | Delapré Abbey is a neo-classical mansion in Northampton, England.
The mansion and outbuildings incorporate remains of a former monastery, the Abbey of St Mary de la Pré (the suffix meaning "in or of the Meadow"), near the River Nene south south-east of the centre of Northampton. It was founded as a nunnery about the... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2936970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant%20%28role-playing%20game%29 | Mutant (role-playing game) | Mutant is a series of Swedish role-playing games developed and published by Target Games using their Äventyrsspel (Adventure games) brand. The current version was created by Fria Ligan under license by Cabinet Entertainment and published in Swedish and English by Fria Ligan and Modiphius respectively. A video game ada... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2937015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinu%20Yohannan | Tinu Yohannan | Tinu Yohannan (born 18 February 1979) is a former Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed fast medium bowler. He played first-class cricket for Kerala and was the first Kerala player to play Test and one-day cricket for India. He is the current coach of Kerala cricket team.
A tall athlete, Yohannan was selected in 200... | 1.984375 | 0 |
2937020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolaghat | Kolaghat | Demographics
As per 2011 Census of India Kolaghat had a total population of 25,191 of which 12,890 (51%) were males and 12,301 (49%) were females. Population below 6 years was 2,349. The total number of literates in Kolaghat was 19,909 (87.16% of the population over 6 years). India census, Kolaghat had a population of ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2937024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Badi%20Palace | El Badi Palace | Background
Prior to the reign of the Saadian sultan Moulay Abdallah al-Ghalib (ruled 1557-1574), the rulers of Marrakesh resided in the old Kasbah (citadel) built by the Almohad dynasty in the late 12th and early 13th century. According to the contemporary chronicler Marmol, Moulay Abdallah, a major builder in his tim... | 2.875 | 0 |
2937024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Badi%20Palace | El Badi Palace | Construction
According to al-Ifrani, construction of the palace began in December 1578 (Shawwal 986 AH), only a few months after the Saadian victory at the Battle of the Three Kings and Ahmad's accession to power, and took fifteen years, finishing in 1593 (1002 AH). French historian Gaston Deverdun, however, points ou... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2937024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Badi%20Palace | El Badi Palace | According to al-Ifrani, in 1707-08 (1119 AH) Moulay Isma'il ordered that the palace be demolished and stripped of its contents, materials and decorations, which were then re-used in the construction of his new palace and capital in Meknes. In reality, the dismantlement of the palace likely occurred progressively over t... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2937024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Badi%20Palace | El Badi Palace | The El Badi Palace itself was a reception palace where Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur hosted and received guests. The floor plan of the palace is essentially rectangular, centered around a huge courtyard (measuring 135 by 110 metres) with a central pool (measuring 90.4 by 21.7 metres). The courtyard also had four enormous sunk... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2937024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Badi%20Palace | El Badi Palace | The pavilion on the eastern side of the courtyard (no longer standing today) was known as the Qubbat az-Zujaj () or Qubbat ad-Dahab (). It was reserved for the sultan's private use and gave access to the Crystal Garden to the east (mentioned above).
The pavilion on the courtyard's north side was known as the Qubbat a... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2937077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20scaling | Image scaling | In computer graphics and digital imaging, image scaling refers to the resizing of a digital image. In video technology, the magnification of digital material is known as upscaling or resolution enhancement.
When scaling a vector graphic image, the graphic primitives that make up the image can be scaled using geometric... | 2.953125 | 0 |
2937077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20scaling | Image scaling | Specialized algorithms were developed to handle pixel-art graphics, as the traditional scaling algorithms do not take perceptual cues into account.
Since a typical application is to improve the appearance of fourth-generation and earlier video games on arcade and console emulators, many are designed to run in real tim... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2937086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20cruiser%20Gorizia | Italian cruiser Gorizia | Gorizia was the third member of the of heavy cruisers to be built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1930s. Named for the town of Gorizia, the ship was laid down at the OTO Livorno shipyard in March 1930, was launched in December that year and was commissioned into the fleet in December 1931. Armed with ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2937086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20cruiser%20Gorizia | Italian cruiser Gorizia | While in Messina on 25 January 1942, the ship was visited by the German Luftwaffe officer Generaloberst Bruno Loerzer, who had arrived to command German air units stationed on the island. Five days later, Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, the heir to the italian crown, and Hermann Göring, the commander of the Luftwaffe, vis... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2937086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20cruiser%20Gorizia | Italian cruiser Gorizia | By May, her 203 mm guns were worn out from their use in the Battles of Sirte, and so they were relined in Messina early that month. Allied air attacks targeted the ship in Messina on 25 and 26 May, but she suffered only splinter damage. Further attacks over the following two days inflicted no damage at all. On the 28th... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2937086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20cruiser%20Gorizia | Italian cruiser Gorizia | By December, the threat from Allied bombers had increased significantly, forcing the Regia Marina to abandon Messina as a major base. On 9 December, the 3rd Division left for La Maddalena further north in Sardinia, arriving the next day. Nevertheless, a major attack from USAAF heavy bombers struck La Maddalena on 10 Ap... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2937086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20cruiser%20Gorizia | Italian cruiser Gorizia | Gorizia entered the dry dock in La Spezia to begin repairs on 4 May; she was still under repair when Italy surrendered to the Allies in September. The ship's commander initially ordered the caretaker crew to flood the drydock and scuttle the ship when German troops occupied the port, but cancelled the order when it bec... | 2.375 | 0 |
2937089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Cheyne%20%28physician%29 | George Cheyne (physician) | George Cheyne, M.D. R.C. E.d. R.S.S. (1672–1743), was a pioneering physician, early proto-psychiatrist, philosopher and mathematician.
Life
George Cheyne was a Newtonian physician and Behmenist, deeply immersed in mysticism. Born in 1672 in Methlick, near Aberdeen in Scotland, he was baptized in Mains of Kelly, Methli... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2937089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Cheyne%20%28physician%29 | George Cheyne (physician) | Cheyne also wrote on fevers, nervous disorders, and hygiene. In 1740 he wrote The Essay on Regimen and this work is often quoted by vegetarians and animal rights activists, particularly the following passage:
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompens... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2937089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Cheyne%20%28physician%29 | George Cheyne (physician) | The Importance of Exercise
Cheyne was always stressing to his patients the importance of exercise. In winter and bad weather he advised within doors the tremoussoir (or chamber-horse), or walking in a gallery or a suite of rooms, and in good weather any of the exercises mentioned in his earlier works such as walking, r... | 2.90625 | 0 |
2937089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Cheyne%20%28physician%29 | George Cheyne (physician) | Aversion of Pain
Cheyne had a deep aversion against pain. He concluded The English Malady (1733) by stating that he was one of those "mean-spirited Wretches" who was content to live as long as nature designed him to last and that he would submit with the utmost peace and resignation he could arrive at when his life had... | 2.25 | 0 |
2937099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel%20H%C3%A4gerstr%C3%B6m | Axel Hägerström | Axel Anders Theodor Hägerström (6 September 1868, Vireda – 7 July 1939, Uppsala) was a Swedish philosopher.
Born in Vireda, Jönköping County, Sweden, he was the son of a Church of Sweden pastor. As student at Uppsala University, he gave up theology for a career in philosophy. Teaching there from 1893 until his retirem... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2937104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-sector%20model | Dual-sector model | The Dual Sector model, or the Lewis model, is a model in developmental economics that explains the growth of a developing economy in terms of a labour transition between two sectors, the subsistence or traditional agricultural sector and the capitalist or modern industrial sector.
History
Initially enumerated in an a... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2937104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-sector%20model | Dual-sector model | Since the agricultural sector has a limited amount of land to cultivate, the marginal product of an additional farmer is assumed to be zero as the law of diminishing marginal returns has run its course due to the fixed input, land. As a result, the agricultural sector has a quantity of farm workers that are not contrib... | 2.375 | 0 |
2937104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-sector%20model | Dual-sector model | If a quantity of workers moves from the agricultural to the manufacturing sector equal to the quantity of surplus labour in the agricultural sector, regardless of who actually transfers, general welfare and productivity will improve. Total agricultural product will remain unchanged while total industrial product increa... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2937111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordance%20%28publishing%29 | Concordance (publishing) | A concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, listing every instance of each word with its immediate context. Historically, concordances have been compiled only for works of special importance, such as the Vedas, Bible, Qur'an or the works of Shakespeare, James Joyce or cl... | 2.71875 | 0 |
2937118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddy%20Kilowatt | Reddy Kilowatt | Reddy Kilowatt is a cartoon character that served as a corporate spokesman for electricity generation in the United States and other countries for nearly one hundred years. Currently, the Reddy Kilowatt trademark is owned by Xcel Energy.
Description
Reddy Kilowatt is drawn as a stick figure whose body, limbs, and hair... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2937118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddy%20Kilowatt | Reddy Kilowatt | APC copyrighted the character on March 6, 1926. Over the next few years, Reddy appeared in print advertising for the company. He made his first three-dimensional appearance at the Alabama Electrical Exposition of 1926.
Adolescence
The onset of the Great Depression in 1929 would further suppress demand for new elect... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2937118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddy%20Kilowatt | Reddy Kilowatt | With the impending end of hostilities in the final months of World War II, utility companies began to prepare for a return to a consumer-driven economy, and to respond to 15 years of pent-up demand for new household appliances. Demand for electric power jumped 14 per cent between 1946 and 1947 alone. An important driv... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2937118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddy%20Kilowatt | Reddy Kilowatt | "Reddy," insisted Louise Bender in 1978, "is the friend of the consumer," adding that urging users to keep their power consumption down was just fulfilling his mission; however, the character's updated image was not an easy fit. Reddy Kilowatt had acted as a cheerleader for energy consumption for more than half a cent... | 1.945313 | 0 |
2937130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20Corporation | Atari Corporation | History
The company was founded by Commodore International's founder Jack Tramiel soon after his resignation from Commodore in January 1984. Initially named Tramel Technology, Ltd., the company's goal was to design and sell a next-generation home computer. On July 1, 1984, TTL bought the Consumer Division assets of Ata... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2937130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20Corporation | Atari Corporation | In 1988, Stewart Alsop II said that Atari was among several companies that "have already been knocked out" of the GUI market by Apple, IBM/Microsoft, and others, but Atari's sales hit their peak that year, at $452 million.
In 1989, Atari released the Lynx, a handheld console with color graphics, to critical acclaim. H... | 2.25 | 0 |
2937131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaskaskia%20Baptist%20Association | Kaskaskia Baptist Association | Founded in 1840, the Kaskaskia Baptist Association is a Southern Baptist ministry centered in Patoka, Illinois and is active in ministry to people in Southern and South Central Illinois Named after the Kaskaskia River, it consists of thirty-three churches in Southern and South Central Illinois, and in recent years has ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2937135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop%20John%20T.%20Walker%20Distinguished%20Humanitarian%20Service%20Award | Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award | The Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award (BWD or Bishop Walker Dinner) is an award presented annually by Africare to recognize those whose work has made a significant impact on raising the standard of living in Africa. The award is named after John T. Walker, former Episcopal Bishop of Washin... | 1.90625 | 0 |
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