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14326035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20Deaths | Three Deaths | Chapter 4
A marble monuments marks the noblewoman's grave, but Uncle Hyedor's remains without a headstone. The cook tells the young post-driver Serega that it would be a shame to not make good on his promise. Serega responds that he will buy the headstone when he is in town, but meanwhile settles on erecting a wooden c... | 2.03125 | 0 |
14326078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actin%2C%20cytoplasmic%202 | Actin, cytoplasmic 2 | Actin, cytoplasmic 2, or gamma-actin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ACTG1 gene. Gamma-actin is widely expressed in cellular cytoskeletons of many tissues; in adult striated muscle cells, gamma-actin is localized to Z-discs and costamere structures, which are responsible for force transduction and transmi... | 2.515625 | 0 |
14326079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20expectancy%20theory | Language expectancy theory | Language expectancy theory (LET) is a theory of persuasion. The theory assumes language is a rules-based system, in which people develop expected norms as to appropriate language usage in given situations. Furthermore, unexpected linguistic usage can affect the receiver's behavior resulting from attitudes towards a per... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14326079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20expectancy%20theory | Language expectancy theory | Communication expectancies are said to derive from three factors:
The communicator – individual features, such as ethos or source credibility, personality, appearance, social status and gender.
The relationship between a receiver and a communicator, including factors such as attraction, similarity and status equal... | 2.578125 | 0 |
14326079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20expectancy%20theory | Language expectancy theory | Summary of propositions
Language expectancy theory is based on 17 propositions. Those propositions can be summarized as listed below:
1, 2 and 3: People create expectations for language. Those expectations determine whether messages will be accepted or rejected by an individual. Breaking expectations positively result... | 2.546875 | 0 |
14326079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20expectancy%20theory | Language expectancy theory | The role of intensity
These propositions give rise to the impact of language intensity—defined by John Waite Bowers as a quality of language that "indicates the degree to which the speaker's attitude toward a concept deviates from neutrality"—on persuasive messages. Theorists have concentrated on two key areas: (1) int... | 2.703125 | 0 |
14326100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Ascutney | USS Ascutney | USS Ascutney was a large steamer with powerful guns acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. Post-war, she performed some steamship service for the Navy.
Service history
Ascutney—a wooden-hulle... | 2.5 | 0 |
14326100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Ascutney | USS Ascutney | Assigned to the outer cordon of blockaders attempting to seal off that vital Confederate port, Ascutney was the first Union warship to encounter CSS Tallahassee when—at 4:30 a.m. on the morning of 25 August—a lookout sighted that Confederate raider, which Comdr. John Taylor Wood, CSN, was bringing back to Wilmington, N... | 2.296875 | 0 |
14326201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariakani | Mariakani | Mariakani is a town in Kenya lying on the boundary of Kaloleni and Kinango subcounties (formerly Kilifi and Kwale respectively) in the former Coast Province of Kenya, 36 kilometres northwest of the port city of Mombasa.
Administration during colonial period
The administrative areas which make up Mariakani today were ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
14326201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariakani | Mariakani | Today
The boundary between the two Counties has changed since the colonial times but nowadays there is the Railway line from Mazeras Town to Maji ya Chumvi. The origin of the centre is set in the 15th Century during the long-distance trade. The traders from Ukambani threw away their weaponry at this spot as a peace ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
14326291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunken%20Village%20Archeological%20Site | Sunken Village Archeological Site | The Sunken Village Archeological Site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 35MU4, is an archaeological site on Sauvie Island in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States. The site consists of a remarkably well-preserved Chinookan village, dating back more than 700 years. It is a major example of a wet archaeologi... | 2.6875 | 0 |
14326462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Chief%20Joseph%20Gravesite | Old Chief Joseph Gravesite | The Old Chief Joseph Gravesite, also known as Nez Perce Traditional Site, Wallowa Lake, Chief Joseph Cemetery and Joseph National Indian Cemetery is a Native American cemetery near Joseph, Oregon. The area was also a traditional campsite of the Nez Perce and may be archaeologically significant. It was declared a Natio... | 2.15625 | 0 |
14326481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heparanase | Heparanase | Heparanase, also known as HPSE, is an enzyme that acts both at the cell-surface and within the extracellular matrix to degrade polymeric heparan sulfate molecules into shorter chain length oligosaccharides.
Synthesis and structure
The protein is originally synthesised in an inactive 65 kDa proheparanase form in the ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
14326598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Xavier%20Castellanos | Francisco Xavier Castellanos | F. Xavier Castellanos (born November 16, 1953) is a Bolivian neuroscientist who is the director of research at the NYU Child Study Center. His work aims at elucidating the neuroscience of ADHD through structural and functional brain imaging studies, collaborating on molecular genetic studies, and coordinating an inter... | 2.421875 | 0 |
14326598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Xavier%20Castellanos | Francisco Xavier Castellanos | After graduation, working as a professional translator in New Orleans, during which time he translated Jean Piaget's Epistemology and Psychology of Functions: Studies in Genetic Epistemology from French to English, Dr. Castellanos began work on a master's degree in experimental psychology at The University of New Orle... | 2.1875 | 0 |
14326659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLWH%20Pegasus | SLWH Pegasus | The Singapore Light Weight Howitzer (SLWH) Pegasus is a helicopter-transportable, towed artillery piece. Developed jointly by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), Defence Science and Technology Agency and ST Kinetics, it was commissioned on 28 October 2005. The Pegasus has replaced the GIAT LG1 105 mm howitzer previously ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
14326662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismer%20Commons | Wismer Commons | Wismer Commons is a residential area of Markham, Ontario, Canada, north of 16th Avenue, west of Markham Road and east of McCowan Road. Wismer Commons is named after the Wismer Family, one of the founding pioneer families of Markham, Ontario. The family of David Wismer, originally from Germany and subsequently Pennsylva... | 2.09375 | 0 |
14326716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20T.%20Gregory | Joseph T. Gregory | Dr. Joseph Tracy Gregory (July 28, 1914 – November 18, 2007) was an American paleontologist and professor.
Joseph Tracy Gregory was born in Eureka, California, the only child of Frank Gregory, a civil engineer, and Edith Tracy, a high school teacher. He grew up in Berkeley, California and continued with his college e... | 2.5 | 0 |
14326771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross%20%28surname%29 | Gross (surname) | Gross or Groß in German is the correct spelling of the surname under German orthographic rules. In Switzerland, the name is spelled Gross. Some Germans and Austrians also use the spelling with "ss" instead of "ß".
It is a surname of German, Prussian, and Yiddish (Ashkenazi Jewish) origin. The word means "big", "tall" ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
14326806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatham%2C%20West%20Sussex | Greatham, West Sussex | Greatham ( ) is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Parham, in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the Coldwaltham to Storrington road about south of Pulborough. In 1931 the parish had a population of 55.
History
The Domesday Book of 1086 records the place village as Gre... | 2.046875 | 0 |
14326819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Miller%20%28philologist%29 | Walter Miller (philologist) | Samuel Walter Miller (May 5, 1864 – July 28, 1949) was an American linguist, classics scholar and archaeologist responsible for the first American excavation in Greece and a founder of the Stanford University Classics department.
Early life
He was born in Ashland County, Ohio to agrarian parents. After receiving an M... | 2.390625 | 0 |
14326819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Miller%20%28philologist%29 | Walter Miller (philologist) | Start of career
Miller returned to the United States as an instructor of Greek at the University of Michigan during the 1886–87 school year and of Latin and Sanskrit in the 1887–88 year, beginning a fifty-year career as a college professor – without ever returning to finish his doctoral degree. Walter Miller married J... | 2.296875 | 0 |
14326819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Miller%20%28philologist%29 | Walter Miller (philologist) | In 1911 he returned to the University of Missouri as professor of Latin and in 1929 became professor of classical languages and archaeology. From 1914 to 1930 he was the dean of the Graduate School at the University of Missouri and during World War I served in the YMCA in France and was a regional director of the YMCA ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
14326913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation%20Services%20Administration | Rehabilitation Services Administration | The Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) is a federal agency under the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, and is headquartered within the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. It was established to administer portions of the Rehabilitation Act o... | 2.25 | 0 |
14326913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation%20Services%20Administration | Rehabilitation Services Administration | History
Prior to the establishment of the RSA, the passage of legislation played a key role in laying the groundwork for the federal and state partnership. The Smith-Hughes Act in 1917 helped to establish the Federal Board for Vocational Education, which would later regulate the veteran and civilian vocational rehabili... | 2.421875 | 0 |
14326913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation%20Services%20Administration | Rehabilitation Services Administration | In 1965, Public Law 89-333 expanded federal funding to a 75-25 ratio. It also removed economic need as a requirement for services.
In 1972 the first versions of the Rehabilitation Act were passed by Congress, but vetoed by President Richard Nixon - once in October 1972 and then again in March 1973. President Nixon eve... | 2.375 | 0 |
14326913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation%20Services%20Administration | Rehabilitation Services Administration | The Rehabilitation Act continued to evolve; in 1986, Public Law 99-506 helped it to refine and focus services offered to those with the most severe disabilities. Supported employment was also defined as a “legitimate rehabilitation outcome”. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 helped to influence additional l... | 2.40625 | 0 |
14326985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila%20Fitzpatrick | Sheila Fitzpatrick | Sheila Mary Fitzpatrick (born June 4, 1941) is an Australian historian, whose main subjects are history of the Soviet Union and history of modern Russia, especially the Stalin era and the Great Purges, of which she proposes a "history from below", and is part of the "revisionist school" of Communist historiography. She... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14326985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila%20Fitzpatrick | Sheila Fitzpatrick | Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of the Stalinist period, particularly on aspects of social identity and daily life, and the social and cultural changes in Soviet Russia of the 1950s and 1960s. In her early works, she focused on the theme of social mobility, suggesting that the opportunity for th... | 2.484375 | 0 |
14326985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila%20Fitzpatrick | Sheila Fitzpatrick | Historiographical debates
Academic Sovietology after World War II and during the Cold War was dominated by the "totalitarian model" of the Soviet Union, stressing the absolute nature of Joseph Stalin's power. The "revisionist school" beginning in the 1960s focused on relatively autonomous institutions which might infl... | 1.945313 | 0 |
14327028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland%20Night%20Express | Cleveland Night Express | The Cleveland Night Express was an American named train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) on its route between Baltimore, Maryland, and Cleveland, Ohio, with major station stops in Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The B&O inaugurated the Cleveland Night Express in 1915. Its discontinuation in 19... | 2.40625 | 0 |
14327058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAC3 | RAC3 | Ras-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate 3 (Rac3) is a G protein that in humans is encoded by the RAC3 gene. It is an important component of intracellular signalling pathways. Rac3 is a member of the Rac subfamily of the Rho family of small G proteins. Members of this superfamily appear to regulate a diverse array of c... | 1.921875 | 0 |
14327096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%932007%20Bolivian%20Constituent%20Assembly | 2006–2007 Bolivian Constituent Assembly | The Bolivian Constituent Assembly (), convened on August 6, 2006, in Sucre, with the purpose of drafting a new national constitution by December 14, 2007; extended from the original deadline of August 6, 2007. The Assembly approved the new Political Constitution of the State on 9 December 2007. It was put to a national... | 2.71875 | 0 |
14327096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%932007%20Bolivian%20Constituent%20Assembly | 2006–2007 Bolivian Constituent Assembly | Two-thirds vote
The Convocation Law required a two-thirds vote of the Assembly to approve the new Constitution. Debates over the specific interpretation of this provision occupied the Assembly from November 2006 to 14 February 2007. In drafting the regulations for the Assembly, the MAS proposed a simple majority vote s... | 1.9375 | 0 |
14327164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%20Queensland%20storms | 1992 Queensland storms | A series of destructive severe thunderstorms struck southeastern Queensland, Australia, on 29 November 1992. The storms produced strong winds, flash flooding and large hailstones in the region, including the capital city of Brisbane. The storms also spawned two of the most powerful tornadoes recorded in Australia, incl... | 2.84375 | 0 |
14327164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%20Queensland%20storms | 1992 Queensland storms | Thunderstorms began to form again just before midday, as the hot and humid conditions became more acute in the middle part of the day. The Bureau of Meteorology radar picked up a series of cells to the north-west of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, and the data suggested that there was a possibility of large hail. ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
14327348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker%20F-32 | Fokker F-32 | The Fokker F-32 was a passenger aircraft built by the Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America in 1929 in their Teterboro, New Jersey factory.
It was the first four-engined aircraft designed and built in the United States. Ten examples were built, but they only entered limited commercial service; their high cost and prob... | 2.359375 | 0 |
14327407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthotospovirus | Orthotospovirus | Orthotospovirus is a genus of negative-strand RNA viruses, in the family Tospoviridae of the order Bunyavirales, which infects plants. Tospoviruses take their name from the species Tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus (TSWV) which was discovered in Australia in 1919. TSWV remained the only known member of the family unt... | 3.15625 | 0 |
14327407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthotospovirus | Orthotospovirus | Agricultural importance
Infection with these viruses results in spotting and wilting of the plant, reduced vegetative output, and eventually death. No antiviral cures have been developed for plants infected with a Tospovirus, and infected plants should be removed from a field and destroyed in order to prevent the sprea... | 2.84375 | 0 |
14327407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthotospovirus | Orthotospovirus | Epidemiology
Tospoviruses are prevalent in warm climates in regions with a high population of thrips. For instance TSWV is an agricultural pest in Asia, America, Europe and Africa. Over the past 15 years outbreaks of Tomato spotted wilt disease have become more prevalent in these regions. Therefore, TSWV is described... | 3.171875 | 0 |
14327578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jura | Al-Jura | Al-Jura () was a Palestinian village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, located immediately adjacent to the towns of Ashkelon and the ruins of ancient Ascalon. In 1945, the village had a population of approximately 2,420 mostly Muslim inhabitants. Though defended by the Egyptian Army, al-Jura was ne... | 2.578125 | 0 |
14327615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick%20de%20Clerck | Hendrick de Clerck | Hendrick de Clerck (c. 1560 – 27 August 1630) was a Flemish painter active in Brussels during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Stylistically he belongs to the late Mannerist generation of artists preceding Peter Paul Rubens and the Flemish Baroque, and his paintings are very similar to his contempora... | 2.09375 | 0 |
14327627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobrovice | Dobrovice | Dobrovice is a town in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,600 inhabitants. It is known for one of the oldest sugar factories in the world.
Administrative division
Dobrovice consists of eight municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):... | 2.078125 | 0 |
14327714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattie%20Ruffner%20Jacobs | Pattie Ruffner Jacobs | Pattie Ruffner Jacobs (sometimes spelled Patti or Patty; October 2, 1875 – December 22, 1935) was an American suffragist from Birmingham, Alabama. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1978.
Life
Pattie Ruffner was born October 2, 1875, in West Virginia; she died December 22, 1935. She was educated... | 2.421875 | 0 |
14327714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattie%20Ruffner%20Jacobs | Pattie Ruffner Jacobs | When speaking before the United States House of Representatives in 1915, Jacobs invoked the legacy of white women who had proved their "worthiness and trustworthiness" through their loyalty to the South "50 years ago"—alluding to white women's continued allegiance to the Confederacy in 1865, the year of the end of the ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
14327725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper%20High%20School%20%28Indiana%29 | Jasper High School (Indiana) | Jasper High School (JHS) is a public high school located in Jasper, Indiana, that serves grades 9 through 12 and is one of five in the Greater Jasper Consolidated Schools' district. The principal is Geoff Mauck. The Vice Principal is Dr. Cassidy Nalley. JHS has an enrollment of approximately 1,050 students. The school'... | 2.46875 | 0 |
14327816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petru%20Giovacchini | Petru Giovacchini | Petru Giovacchini (, ; 1 February 1910 – 29 September 1955) was a Corsican activist, born in Canale-di-Verde to an old family of the Corsican nobility with deep-rooted pro-Italian feelings. Giovacchini was the most renowned of the Corsican Italians, who actively promoted the unification of Corsica to the Kingdom of It... | 2.0625 | 0 |
14327816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petru%20Giovacchini | Petru Giovacchini | In June 1940, Giovacchini organized hundreds of manifestations in many cities of Italy in order to request the Corsica unification to Italy. Because of this he was elected to represent Corsica in the Italian Fascist Parliament in 1942. When Italy occupied Corsica in November 1942, Giovacchini was named as the possible ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
14327873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round%20Mountain%20%28Northern%20Tablelands%29 | Round Mountain (Northern Tablelands) | Round Mountain, a mountain of the Snowy Range, a spur of the Great Dividing Range, is located on the Northern Tablelands in the New England region in New South Wales, Australia.
With an elevation of above sea level, Round Mountain is the highest peak of the Snowy Range which forms part of the eastern escarpment of th... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14327878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20pout | Ocean pout | The ocean pout (Zoarces americanus) is an eelpout in the family Zoarcidae. It is found in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of New England and eastern Canada. The fish has antifreeze proteins in its blood, giving it the ability to survive in near-freezing waters.
Taxonomy
The ocean pout was first formally de... | 2.953125 | 0 |
14327878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20pout | Ocean pout | Biology
The ocean pout is a predatory species which feeds on invertebrates such as bivalves, sea urchins, sand dollars, brittle stars, and crabs, worms, and some fish. They are at least partially migratory with the fishes in the Gulf of Maine moving offshore during the summer and returning to shallower coastal waters i... | 3.125 | 0 |
14327910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans%20Wouters | Frans Wouters | Frans Wouters (1612–1659) was a Flemish Baroque painter who translated the monumental Baroque style of Peter Paul Rubens into the small context of cabinet paintings. He was a court painter to the Roman Emperor and the Prince of Wales and was active as an ambassador and art dealer.
Life
Frans Wouters was born in Lier,... | 2.421875 | 0 |
14327910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans%20Wouters | Frans Wouters | Wouters' style and subject matter reflect the taste of his international aristocratic clients who preferred small paintings, decorative landscapes and mythological stories. Other themes appreciated by these patrons were scenes dealing with alchemy, the four elements, Allegories of the Five Senses as well as iconographi... | 2.453125 | 0 |
14327944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20Salim | Ahmad Salim | Ahmad Salim or Muhammad Salim Khawaja (26 January 1945 – 11 December 2023) was a Pakistani writer, archivist and co-founder of the South Asian Resource and Research Centre, a private archive established in 2001.
Early life
Muhammad Salim Khawaja was born in the village of Miana Gondal in Gujrat District of Punjab. He ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
14327944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20Salim | Ahmad Salim | In 1972 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto appointed Faiz as the Chairman of the National Council of Arts. On Faiz's invitation, Ahmad Salim joined the council. During his association with the National Council of Arts from 1972 through 1975, Ahmad Salim operated the Folklore Research Centre and published material on Punjabi and Sindh... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14327944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20Salim | Ahmad Salim | When Pakistan's National and Provincial assemblies were dissolved by President Ghulam Ishaque Khan in 1990, the Jang group asked Ahmad Salim to write a book on Pakistan's history related to the dissolution of assemblies. Ahmad Salim quickly learned about the scarcity of research material and the difficulty in obtaining... | 2.671875 | 0 |
14328056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%20Morning%20%28song%29 | July Morning (song) | "July Morning" is a song by the English rock band Uriah Heep. It is the third track on their 1971 album Look at Yourself.
The song was written in July 1970 by the band's keyboardist Ken Hensley and lead singer, David Byron, in the key of C minor.
The song has four verses and four choruses, featuring an organ introdu... | 2.15625 | 0 |
14328128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Han%20Righteous%20Army | Grand Han Righteous Army | The Grand Han Righteous Army (大漢義軍) was a collaborationist Chinese army cooperating with the Empire of Japan in campaigns in northern China and Inner Mongolia immediately prior to the official start of hostilities of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
History
The Grand Han Righteous Army was formed by minor warlord and com... | 2.5 | 0 |
14328143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20de%20Paravicini | Percy de Paravicini | Percy John de Paravicini (15 July 1862 – 11 October 1921) was an English amateur cricketer and international footballer in the late nineteenth century.
Early life and education
He was born in Kensington, London, the son of Baron James Prior de Paravicini, of Riverside, Datchet, Windsor. He was educated at Aldin House... | 2.140625 | 0 |
14328163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20Rock%20Indian%20Reservation | Table Rock Indian Reservation | Table Rock Reservation was a short-lived Indian reservation north of the Rogue River in Oregon, United States. It was established by treaty with the Rogue River Indians in 1853. Following the conclusion of the Rogue River Wars in 1856, the Native American inhabitants were moved to other reservations. The reservation ... | 2.890625 | 0 |
14328248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Thomas%20van%20Ieperen | Jan Thomas van Ieperen | Jan Thomas or Jan Thomas van Ieperen (5 February 1617 – 6 September 1673) was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was first active in Antwerp where he worked in the workshop of Rubens. He later became court painter at the Habsburg court in Vienna. He is known for his portraits of the rulers of ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
14328248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Thomas%20van%20Ieperen | Jan Thomas van Ieperen | It is believed that Jan Thomas left Antwerp in 1654 to work as a painter for the bishop of Mainz Johann Philipp von Schönborn one of the important courts at that time. Jan Baptist de Ruel was his pupil during his stay in this city. Around 1658 he was in Frankfurt at the time of the coronation of Leopold I as emperor of... | 2.265625 | 0 |
14328248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Thomas%20van%20Ieperen | Jan Thomas van Ieperen | His style shows a close relationship to that of Rubens, in particular that of Rubens' later work which was sent directly to Spain. This is evidence that he likely worked in Rubens' workshop at the end of the master's life and/or just after his death. Like his contemporary Frans Wouters, many of his works translate the... | 2.53125 | 0 |
14328253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovico%20Marracci | Ludovico Marracci | Ludovico Marracci (6 October 1612 – 5 February 1700), also known by Luigi Marracci, was an Italian Oriental scholar and professor of Arabic in the College of Wisdom at Rome.
He is chiefly known as the publisher and editor of Quran of Muhammad in Arabic. He is also well known for translating Quran in Latin, editing an ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
14328359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel%20Dorsky | Nathaniel Dorsky | Dorsky's next film was Triste, assembled from footage shot over the course of many years and released in 1996. It established his practice of polyvalent montage, marking what he called "the level of cinema language that I have been working towards." He continued to develop this style of editing in his later works. In 2... | 1.945313 | 0 |
14328359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel%20Dorsky | Nathaniel Dorsky | Dorsky's films are available only as 16 mm film prints and are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco and Light Cone in Paris. Prints of stills from his films are available at the Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, and the Peter Blum Gallery, New York City.
Style
Most of Dorsky's films are silent works roughl... | 1.921875 | 0 |
14328394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%20Australian%20GT%20Championship | 1982 Australian GT Championship | The 1982 Australian GT Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title open to Group D GT cars and Group B Sports Sedans. It was the fifth Australian GT Championship, the first to be awarded since 1963 and the first to be contested over a series of races rather than a single race. The GT championship r... | 2 | 0 |
14328605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Puyet | José Puyet | José Puyet (April 22, 1922 – August 28, 2004), full name José Puyet Padilla, was a Spanish, modern impressionist painter, whose popularity spread throughout Spain and the United States.
Early life
Puyet was born in Málaga, Spain. He was grandson of teacher José Padilla, a Spanish artist who began painting in the nine... | 2.1875 | 0 |
14328731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy%20Douglass | Sandy Douglass | Gordon K. "Sandy" Douglass (October 22, 1904 – February 12, 1992) was an American racer, designer, and builder of sailing dinghies. Two of his designs, the Thistle and the Flying Scot, are among the most popular one design racing classes in the United States. The Flying Scot was inducted into the American Sailboat Hall... | 2.21875 | 0 |
14328796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyosan%20station | Soyosan station | Soyosan Station is a ground-level metro station on Line 1 of the Seoul Subway in Sangbongam Dong, Dongducheon, South Korea. It is named after the nearby Soyosan (587 m), a mountain beside the U.S. Army base Camp Casey. It is on this mountain, at the Jajae'am Hermitage, that the Buddhist Saint Wonhyo is said to have rea... | 1.929688 | 0 |
14328867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Obleser | Friedrich Obleser | World War II
World War II in Europe had begun on Friday 1 September 1939 when German forces invaded Poland. In January 1943, Obleser arrived with 8. Staffel under command of Hauptmann Günther Rall at the Gigant airfield which was located in the vicinity of Salsk. At the time, the Red Army had launched Operation Koltso,... | 2.71875 | 0 |
14328987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumut%20River | Tumut River | The Tumut River (), a perennial stream that is part of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Snowy Mountains and South West Slopes districts of New South Wales, Australia.
Location and features
The Tumut River rises on the northern face of Mount Jagungal in the Snowy Mountains a... | 2.546875 | 0 |
14328987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumut%20River | Tumut River | Environmental concerns
The Tumut River has been subject to considerable debate and lobbying on environmental grounds. The Tumut River has been widely documented as suffering from the effects of the un-natural flow regime resulting from the creation of the Snowy Mountain Scheme and the irrigation demand downstream of t... | 2.546875 | 0 |
14329012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20People | Discovery People | Discovery People was an American cable television network.
The channel was launched on March 31, 1997 by CBS as CBS Eye on People, and featured news and human interest stories from CBS News.
The channel suffered significant losses, in part because few cable providers were willing to carry it. By the end of its first ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
14329014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg%20Campbell | Meg Campbell | Aline Margaret Campbell (, 19 November 1937 – 17 November 2007) was a New Zealand poet. She began writing in 1969, and became known as a poet after publishing several well-received collections in the 1980s. Many of her poems deal with issues of mental illness and domestic life, and with her life on the Kāpiti Coast.
P... | 2.09375 | 0 |
14329052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanoise%20massif | Vanoise massif | The Vanoise massif (, ) is a mountain range of the Graian Alps, located in the Western Alps. After the Mont Blanc Massif and the Écrins Massif it is the third-highest massif in France, reaching a height of 3,885 m at the summit of Grande Casse. It lies between Tarentaise Valley to the north and the Maurienne Valley in ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
14329055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumut%20Pond%20Dam | Tumut Pond Dam | Tumut Pond Dam () is a major gated concrete arch dam across the upper reaches of the Tumut River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. The dam's main purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and is one of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and ir... | 2.515625 | 0 |
14329056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Bawa | Geoffrey Bawa | Deshamanya Geoffrey Manning Bawa, (23 July 191927 May 2003) was a Sri Lankan architect. Often referred to as the leader of the Tropical Modernist movement, he was among the most influential Asian architects of his generation.
Early life
Geoffrey Bawa was born in Colombo on 23 July 1919, the youngest of two sons to Ma... | 2.078125 | 0 |
14329056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Bawa | Geoffrey Bawa | In 1952 Reid died, but Bawa still aspired to a career in architecture, so he returned to England. After spending a year at Cambridge, he enrolled as a student at the Architectural Association in London, where he earned a Diploma in Architecture by 1956 and in the following year he became an Associate of the Royal Insti... | 2.1875 | 0 |
14329057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait%C4%81kere%20College | Waitākere College | Waitākere College is a state coeducational secondary school located in Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand, established in 1975. A total of students from Years 9 to 13 (ages 13 to 18) attend Waitākere College as of
Students entering the college are allocated into one of three "Houses". The house names use Māori words: ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
14329063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9gis%20Fran%C3%A7ois%20Gignoux | Régis François Gignoux | Gignoux is best known for his meticulous renderings of Northeast American landscapes, and was the only member of the Hudson River School to specialize in snow scenes. The Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the Georgia Museum of Art (University of Georgia, Athens), the High Museum of Art (At... | 2.296875 | 0 |
14329065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Martin%20%28speaker%29 | Joseph Martin (speaker) | Joseph Charles Martin, SS (October 12, 1924 – March 9, 2009) was an American Catholic priest, recovered alcoholic and renowned speaker and educator on the issues of alcoholism and drug addiction. He was a member of the Sulpicians.
Background
Martin attended St. Thomas Aquinas elementary school from 1930 to 1938, then ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
14329065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Martin%20%28speaker%29 | Joseph Martin (speaker) | Career after treatment
After Martin achieved sobriety and learned all he could from Austin Ripley and Dr. Green, he embarked on a campaign of spreading his message of experience and hope. He attended and completed the Rutgers Summer School of Alcohol Studies during the summer of 1971. He then worked as a lecturer and... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14329068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie%20York%20Erskine | Laurie York Erskine | Laurie York Erskine (23 June 1894 – 30 November 1976) was a popular boys adventure author, educator, and co-founder of the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, United States.
Biography
Erskine was born in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, to actors Wallace Erskine and Ada Margery Bonney Erskine. The family travelled to t... | 2.578125 | 0 |
14329097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian-tsui | Tian-tsui | Tian-tsui (Chinese traditional: 點翠, Chinese simplified: 点翠, pinyin: diǎncuì, "dotting with kingfishers") is a style of Chinese art featuring kingfisher feathers. For 2,000 years, the Chinese have been using the iridescent blue feathers of kingfisher birds as an inlay for fine art objects and adornment, from hairpins, h... | 2.9375 | 0 |
14329123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako%20Mori%20%28politician%29 | Masako Mori (politician) | is a Japanese politician and lawyer who has served in the House of Councillors since 2007, and as Minister of Justice from October 2019 to September 2020. She is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Early life
Masako Mori was born on August 22, 1964, to an impoverished family in Fukushima Prefecture. She decide... | 1.945313 | 0 |
14329172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Fawkes%20River | Guy Fawkes River | Guy Fawkes River, a perennial stream that is part of the Clarence River catchment, is in the New England and Northern Tablelands districts of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Guy Fawkes River rises below Majors Point, on the northern slopes of the Snowy Range, an eastern spur of the Great Dividing Range... | 2.21875 | 0 |
14329212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natsuo%20Yamaguchi | Natsuo Yamaguchi | is a Japanese politician who served as the chief representative of Komeito from 2009 to 2024. He is a member of the House of Councillors since 2001 and previously served in the House of Representatives from 1990 to 1996.
Early life
A native of Nakaminato (now Hitachinaka), Ibaraki and he was raised in Hitachi until hi... | 2.015625 | 0 |
14329235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Thellusson%2C%205th%20Baron%20Rendlesham | Frederick Thellusson, 5th Baron Rendlesham | Frederick William Brook Thellusson, 5th Baron Rendlesham JP DL (9 February 1840 – 9 November 1911), was a British Conservative politician.
Early life
Frederick was born in Florence, Italy on 9 February 1840. He was the only son of Frederick Thellusson, 4th Baron Rendlesham, and his wife Elizabeth Charlotte ( Prescott... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14329253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presque%20Isle%20Bay | Presque Isle Bay | Presque Isle Bay is a natural bay located off the coast of Erie, Pennsylvania. Its embayment is about in length, about across at its widest point, and an average depth of about .
The bay is at an elevation of 571 ft (174 m) above sea level. It is bounded on the north and west by a recurved peninsula that makes up ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
14329282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfrew%20of%20the%20Royal%20Mounted | Renfrew of the Royal Mounted | With limited funding and the enthusiasm that young idealists possess, Laurie York Erskine, along with three good friends, founded the Solebury School for Boys in October 1925. The private boys school was financially established as a result of Erskine's sale of a magazine serial for $20,000, titled The Confidence Man. T... | 2.46875 | 0 |
14329282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfrew%20of%20the%20Royal%20Mounted | Renfrew of the Royal Mounted | Renfrew of the Mounted returned to the air on the evening of January 7, 1939, on NBC-Blue, as a weekly half-hour program. House Jameson reprised his role of Inspector Douglas Renfrew. Unlike the prior incarnation over CBS, the weekly rendition was self-contained stories not told in serial format. This rendition lasted ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Climate change has been a critical issue in Australia since the beginning of the 21st century. Australia is becoming hotter and more prone to extreme heat, bushfires, droughts, floods, and longer fire seasons because of climate change. Climate issues include wildfires, heatwaves, cyclones, rising sea levels, and erosio... | 3.265625 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Climate change also has diverse implications for Australia's economy, it's agriculture and public health. Projected impacts include more severe floods, droughts, and cyclones. Furthermore, Australia's population is highly concentrated in coastal areas at risk from rising sea levels, and existing pressures on water supp... | 3 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | The period from 1922 to 1938 was exceptionally dry, with only 1930 having Australia-wide rainfall above the long-term mean and the Australia-wide average rainfall for these seventeen years being 15 to 20 per cent below that for other periods since 1885. This dry period is attributed in some sources to a weakening of th... | 2.875 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Since 1968, Australia's rainfall has been 15 per cent higher than between 1885 and 1967. The wettest periods have been from 1973 to 1975 and 1998 to 2001, which comprise seven of the thirteen wettest years over the continent since 1885. Overnight minimum temperatures, especially in winter, have been markedly higher tha... | 3.15625 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Bureau of Meteorology records since the 1860s show that a 'severe' drought has occurred in Australia, on average, once every 18 years. Australia is already the driest populated continent in the world.
Rainfall in southwestern Australia has decreased by 10–20% since the 1970s, while southeastern Australia has also expe... | 2.84375 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Healthy and diverse vegetation is essential to river health and quality, and many of Australia's most important catchments are covered by native forest, maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Climate change will affect growth, species composition and pest incursion of native species and in turn, will profoundly affect water ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Firefighting officials are concerned that the effects of climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of bushfires under even a "low global warming" scenario. A 2006 report, prepared by CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Bushfire CRC, and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, identified South Eastern Au... | 2.625 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season was by some measures Australia's "worst bushfire season on record". In New South Wales, the fires burnt through more land than any other blazes in the past 25 years, in addition to being the state's worst bushfire season on record. NSW also experienced the longest continuously bur... | 2.671875 | 0 |
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