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2940905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adragon%20De%20Mello | Adragon De Mello | Adragon De Mello (born October 8, 1976) is an American prodigy who graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in computational mathematics in 1988, at age 11. At the time, he was the youngest college graduate in U.S. history, a record that was later broken in 1994 by Michael Kearney.
Childho... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2940911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism%20%28international%20relations%29 | Realism (international relations) | Realism, a school of thought in international relations theory, is a theoretical framework that views world politics as an enduring competition among self-interested states vying for power and positioning within an anarchic global system devoid of a centralized authority. It centers on states as rational primary actors... | 2.625 | 0 |
2940911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism%20%28international%20relations%29 | Realism (international relations) | Realism became popular again in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. At that time, it polemicized with the progressive, reformist optimism associated with liberal internationalists like U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The 20th century brand of classical realism, exemplified by theorists such as Reinhold Niebuhr and H... | 2.875 | 0 |
2940911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism%20%28international%20relations%29 | Realism (international relations) | Realists believe that mankind is not inherently benevolent but rather self-centered and competitive. This perspective, which is shared by theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, views human nature as egocentric (not necessarily selfish) and conflictual unless there exist conditions under which humans may coexist. It is also d... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2940911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism%20%28international%20relations%29 | Realism (international relations) | States employ the rational model of decision making by obtaining and acting upon complete and accurate information. The state is sovereign and guided by a national interest defined in terms of power. Since the only constraint of the international system is anarchy, there is no international authority and states are lef... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2940911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism%20%28international%20relations%29 | Realism (international relations) | Realists often hold that statesmen tend towards realism whereas realism is deeply unpopular among the public. When statesmen take actions that divert from realist policies, academic realists often argue that this is due to distortions that stem from domestic politics. However, some research suggests that realist polici... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2940915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose%20of%20Turkey | Prose of Turkey | Prose of the Republic of Turkey covers the "Turkish Prose" beginning with 1911 with the national literature movement.
Stylistically, the prose of the early years of the Republic of Turkey was essentially a continuation of the National Literature movement, with Realism and Naturalism predominating. This trend culminate... | 1.96875 | 0 |
2940926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20of%20Navarre | Eleanor of Navarre | Eleanor of Navarre, (2 February 1426 – 12 February 1479), was a Navarrese princess and monarch. She served as the regent of Navarre from 1455 to 1479, during the absence of her father, and then briefly as the queen regnant of Navarre in 1479. She was crowned on 28 January 1479 in Tudela.
Life
She was born in Olite, N... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2940937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olana%20State%20Historic%20Site | Olana State Historic Site | Olana State Historic Site is a historic house museum and landscape in Greenport, New York, near the city of Hudson. The estate was home to Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting. The centerpiece of Olana is an eclectic villa which overlooks parkland ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2940937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olana%20State%20Historic%20Site | Olana State Historic Site | History
In 1845, Frederic Church first sketched on the property that was to become Olana. He was then a student of Thomas Cole, now considered a founding figure of the Hudson River School of painters. On March 31, 1860, a few months before his marriage to Isabel Carnes, Church returned to purchase a hardscrabble farm ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2940937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olana%20State%20Historic%20Site | Olana State Historic Site | In 1867 Church acquired a parcel of mature woods at the top of his hill, and began planning a large house for the site. After an 18-month trip to Europe and the Middle East, Church hired architect Calvert Vaux and worked with him on the design of the mansion, which was constructed between 1870 and 1872. The Churches ho... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2940937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olana%20State%20Historic%20Site | Olana State Historic Site | Over the last forty years of his life, Frederic Church created a designed landscape at Olana. In an 1884 letter, Church wrote of his work on the grounds at Olana, "I can make more and better landscapes in this way than by tampering with canvas and paint in the studio." Today Olana is known as one of the most important... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2940937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olana%20State%20Historic%20Site | Olana State Historic Site | To conceal, reveal and frame vistas of his own property and the wider Hudson Valley, Church combined natural landforms with the careful layout of carriage drives and extensive plantings of trees and shrubs. Frederick Law Olmsted thought of such landscapes as "pictures" through which people might wander. In addition to ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2940937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olana%20State%20Historic%20Site | Olana State Historic Site | In the studio at Olana he made hundreds of pencil and oil technical drawings for stencils, mantels, banisters, and other architectural elements of the main house. With the onset of rheumatism in the 1870s, Church's painting became severely curtailed. Increasingly, he turned his attention to Olana itself, improving the ... | 2.125 | 0 |
2940937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olana%20State%20Historic%20Site | Olana State Historic Site | Restoration and management
Olana is managed by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, with support from the Olana Partnership. Both work to restore Olana to its 1890s appearance. A large museum and archive, part of the original Church property, is open to the public and includes over ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2940937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olana%20State%20Historic%20Site | Olana State Historic Site | The former wagon house in the barn complex now houses educational programs. Future plans include a reconstruction of the wagon house and a stabilization of the main barn, to better fit their role as year-round centers for education. Olana has been cited as an innovative example of a public-private partnership. Olana ad... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2940943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%20detent | Ball detent | A ball detent is a simple mechanical arrangement used to hold a moving part in a temporarily fixed position relative to another part. Usually the moving parts slide with respect to each other, or one part rotates within the other.
The ball is a single, usually metal sphere, sliding within a bored cylinder, against the... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2940968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20Gate | Death Gate | Death Gate is an adventure game loosely based on Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's fantasy book series The Death Gate Cycle. Legend Entertainment released it for MS-DOS compatible operating systems in 1994. It received several awards. The box cover is the painting that Keith Parkinson created for the third book, Fire S... | 1.96875 | 0 |
2940988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annuario%20Pontificio | Annuario Pontificio | The Annuario Pontificio (Italian for Pontifical Yearbook) is the annual directory of the Holy See of the Catholic Church. It lists the popes in chronological order and all officials of the Holy See's departments. It also provides names and contact information for all cardinals and bishops, the dioceses (with statistics... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2940988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annuario%20Pontificio | Annuario Pontificio | The Vatican Press took over the Gerarchia Cattolica in 1885, thus making it a semi-official publication. It bore the indication "official publication" from 1899 to 1904, but this ceased when, giving the word "official" a more restricted sense, the Acta Sanctae Sedis, forerunner of the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, was decla... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2940997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity%20%28international%20relations%29 | Polarity (international relations) | Polarity in international relations is any of the various ways in which power is distributed within the international system. It describes the nature of the international system at any given period of time. One generally distinguishes three types of systems: unipolarity, bipolarity, and multipolarity for three or more ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
2940997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity%20%28international%20relations%29 | Polarity (international relations) | In a 2009 study, Martha Finnemore argues that unipolarity has, contrary to some expectations, not given the United States a free rein to do what it wants and that unipolarity has proven to be quite frustrating for the United States. The reasons for this is that unipolarity does not just entail a material superiority by... | 2.25 | 0 |
2940997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity%20%28international%20relations%29 | Polarity (international relations) | Impact on conflict and cooperation
Kenneth Waltz's influential Theory of International Politics argued that bipolarity tended towards the greatest stability because the two great powers would engage in rapid mutual adjustment, which would prevent inadvertent escalation and reduce the chance of power asymmetries formin... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2940997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity%20%28international%20relations%29 | Polarity (international relations) | Neorealists hold that multipolar systems are particularly unstable and conflict-prone, as there is greater complexity in managing alliance systems, and a greater chance of misjudging the intentions of other states. Thomas Christensen and Jack Snyder argue that multipolarity tends towards instability and conflict escala... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2941060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%20Savings%20Bond | Ontario Savings Bond | Ontario Savings Bonds (, OSBs) were bond securities offered by the province of Ontario from 1995 to 2018. Unlike the Canada Savings Bond, OSBs were sold only to residents of Ontario, and their principal and interest were backed by the Province of Ontario. The OSBs were available from financial institutions, credit unio... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2941076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Engage%20%28MSO-433%29 | USS Engage (MSO-433) | Engage also participated in Operation End Sweep which began in January 1973. The last provision of the Vietnam war cease-fire agreement that directly related to the Navy entailed removal of the U.S. sea mines laid along the North Vietnamese coast and the Mark 36 Destructors dropped into inland waterways. On 28 January,... | 1.9375 | 0 |
2941080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chea%20Cheapoo | Chea Cheapoo | Following the resignation of Chief Justice James N. Nagbe in June 1987, Cheapoo was appointed by President Samuel Doe as Chief Justice. Soon after taking office, he was accused of illegally ordering the arrest of a probate judge and his wife, Harper S. Bailey and Muna Stubblefield, whom he stated had tried to bribe h... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2941083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Bates | Albert Bates | Albert Kealiinui Bates (born January 1, 1947) is a member of the intentional community and ecovillage movements. A lawyer, author and teacher, he has been director of the Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology since 1984 and of the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee, since 1994... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2941083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Bates | Albert Bates | Bates has played a major role in the ecovillage movement as one of the organizers of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), and served as GEN's chairman of the board (from 2002 to 2003) and president (from 2003 to 2004). He was also the principal organizer of the Ecovillage Network of the Americas and served as its presi... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2941083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Bates | Albert Bates | In his introduction, Bates outlines the realities of declining fossil energy and global climate change. He puts forward a "twelve step petrochemical addiction recovery program," from post-growth economics through methods to conserve fresh water, manage wastes, generate energy, produce and store food, and travel without... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2941091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Malpass | Michael Malpass | Michael Allen Malpass (1946–1991) was an American artist, best known for his large, intricate sphere sculptures forged and welded from discarded metals.
Malpass was born to be an artist, and his relentless pursuit, together with his belief in the process of working and making art in virtually every moment, can only ex... | 2.125 | 0 |
2941091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Malpass | Michael Malpass | Life
Michael Malpass was born on August 18, 1946, in Yonkers, New York. In 1965, he enrolled at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he would ultimately earn his BFA (1969), MFA (1973), and MS (1977). Malpass was drafted and served in the US Army in 1970, where he was a Spec 4 Sergeant stationed in Berlin, and earned a m... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2941110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s%20problem | Napoleon's problem | Napoleon's problem is a compass construction problem. In it, a circle and its center are given. The challenge is to divide the circle into four equal arcs using only a compass. Napoleon was known to be an amateur mathematician, but it is not known if he either created or solved the problem. Napoleon's friend the Ita... | 2.875 | 0 |
2941134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical%20water%20reactor | Supercritical water reactor | The supercritical water reactor (SCWR) is a concept Generation IV reactor, designed as a light water reactor (LWR) that operates at supercritical pressure (i.e. greater than ). The term critical in this context refers to the critical point of water, and should not be confused with the concept of criticality of the nucl... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2941134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical%20water%20reactor | Supercritical water reactor | Supercritical water has excellent heat transfer properties allowing a high-power density, a small core, and a small containment structure.
The use of a supercritical Rankine cycle with its typically higher temperatures improves efficiency (would be ~45 % versus ~33 % of current PWR/BWRs).
This higher efficiency would... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2941134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical%20water%20reactor | Supercritical water reactor | Lower water inventory (due to compact primary loop) means less heat capacity to buffer transients and accidents (e.g., loss of feedwater flow or large break loss-of-coolant accident) resulting in accident and transient temperatures that are too high for conventional metallic cladding.
However, it is not too high for st... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2941134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical%20water%20reactor | Supercritical water reactor | However, a LWR type SCWR design adopts water rods in the fuel assemblies as BWRs. The coolant density in water rods is kept high with thin thermal insulation, not fully insulated. Most designs of CANDU type SCWR use an internal calandria where part of the feedwater flow is guided through top tubes through the core, th... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2941134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical%20water%20reactor | Supercritical water reactor | However, LWRs were developed in the 1950s based on the subcritical fossil fired power technologies. The success of LWRs is based on that experience. Supercritical fossil fired power plants were developed after 1950s. Components such as valves, piping, turbines, feedwater pumps and heaters for operation at turbine throt... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2941177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20College%20of%20Engineering%2C%20Kannur | Government College of Engineering, Kannur | The Government College of Engineering, Kannur (GCEK) is a public engineering institute affiliated to APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University in Kerala, India. The institute was established in October 1986 by Directorate of Technical Education under the Government of Kerala. In 2012, Careers360, a magazine promoted by ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2941177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20College%20of%20Engineering%2C%20Kannur | Government College of Engineering, Kannur | Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Non-engineering
Department of Mathematics
Department of Physics
Department of Chemistry
Department of Economics
Department of Geology
Depar... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2941185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC%20Northwind%20%28WAGB-282%29 | USCGC Northwind (WAGB-282) | USCGC Northwind (WAG/WAGB-282) was a , the second United States Coast Guard Cutter of her class to bear the name. She was built to replace which was in Soviet lend-lease service.
During her career, Northwind conducted extensive oceanography, hydrography and cartography studies, as well as icebreaking, during Operatio... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2941185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC%20Northwind%20%28WAGB-282%29 | USCGC Northwind (WAGB-282) | During May to August 1948 Northwind conducted her first Bering Sea Patrol, the first in eight years, as the patrol had been suspended during World War II. She functioned as a "floating court" for a United States federal judge and staff, while U.S. Coast Guard medical personnel and United States Public Health Service of... | 2.78125 | 0 |
2941185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC%20Northwind%20%28WAGB-282%29 | USCGC Northwind (WAGB-282) | In 1961 Northwind sailed on Bering Sea Patrol for Arctic West Summer operations.
From 5 through 25 July 1962 and 6 through 19 September 1962, Northwind conducted oceanographic experiments in the Chukchi Sea in cooperation with universities of the Pacific Northwest. From 2 through 26 October 1962, she conducted more oce... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2941185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC%20Northwind%20%28WAGB-282%29 | USCGC Northwind (WAGB-282) | From July through August 1967, Northwind conducted a current and hydrographic survey in the Bering Strait and resupplied Fairway Rock.
During this Bering Sea Patrol, on 23 July 1967, Northwind diverted to respond to the distress call of Canadian Survey Ship (CSS) Richardson of the Canadian Hydrographic Service and was... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2941204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Busette | Wayne Busette | The Wayne Busette is a minibus that was assembled by Wayne Corporation. The Busette was first introduced as a compact school bus in 1974. The school bus body was designed to fit on a Chevrolet, Ford, or GMC chassis.
One of the first examples produced with a cutaway van chassis, the Busette mated a purpose-built schoo... | 2.625 | 0 |
2941204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Busette | Wayne Busette | Cutaway van chassis
From 1971 to 1975, all three American major automotive manufacturers ("Big Three") would completely redesign their full-size van product lines, introducing heavier-duty chassis and higher payload capacity, with all three designs moving the engine forward of the driver. The latter move drew the inter... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2941214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%20Power%20Shovel%20Company | Marion Power Shovel Company | Marion Power Shovel Company was an American firm that designed, manufactured and sold steam shovels, power shovels, blast hole drills, excavators, and dragline excavators for use in the construction and mining industries. The company was a major supplier of steam shovels for the construction of the Panama Canal. The co... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2941214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%20Power%20Shovel%20Company | Marion Power Shovel Company | Marion Steam Shovel Company
The Marion Steam Shovel Company was established by Henry Barnhart, George W. King and Edward Huber in August 1884. While steam shovels had been made prior to this date in the United States, Barnhart persuaded Huber to financially back his design, which incorporated a stronger bucket support ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2941214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%20Power%20Shovel%20Company | Marion Power Shovel Company | Marion Power Shovel
In April 1946, the company changed its name to the Marion Power Shovel Company to more closely reflect its products.
Marion built its first walking dragline in 1939 and became a key player in providing giant stripping shovels to the coal industry, being the first to put a long-boom revolving stripp... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2941240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C4%83pu%C8%99na%20County%20%28Romania%29 | Lăpușna County (Romania) | The area county of the county was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940 and became part of the Moldavian SSR. The area returned to Romanian administration as the Bessarabia Governorate following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in July 1941. A military administration was established and the region's Jewish populati... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2941264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis%20A | Hypervitaminosis A | Storage
Eighty to ninety percent of the total body reserves of preformed vitamin A are in the liver (with 80–90% of this amount being stored in hepatic stellate cells and the remaining 10–20% being stored in hepatocytes). Fat is another significant storage site, while the lungs and kidneys may also be capable of storag... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2941264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis%20A | Hypervitaminosis A | Vitamin A toxicity has long been known to the Inuit as they will not eat the liver of polar bears or bearded seals due to them containing dangerous amounts of Vitamin A. It has been known to Europeans since at least 1597 when Gerrit de Veer wrote in his diary that, while taking refuge in the winter in Nova Zemlya, he a... | 2.828125 | 0 |
2941266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin%20D%20toxicity | Vitamin D toxicity | Vitamin D toxicity, or hypervitaminosis D, is the toxic state of an excess of vitamin D. The normal range for blood concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in adults is 20 to 50 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL). Blood levels necessary to cause adverse effects in adults are thought to be greater than about 150 ng/mL, leadi... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2941266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin%20D%20toxicity | Vitamin D toxicity | Cardiovascular disease
Evidence suggests that dietary vitamin D may be carried by lipoprotein particles into cells of the artery wall and atherosclerotic plaque, where it may be converted to active form by monocyte-macrophages. This raises questions regarding the effects of vitamin D intake on atherosclerotic calcific... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2941266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin%20D%20toxicity | Vitamin D toxicity | Recommendations stemming for a single standard for optimal serum 25(OH)D concentrations ignores the differing genetically mediated determinates of serum 25(OH)D and may result in ethnic minorities in Western countries having the results of studies done with subjects not representative of ethnic diversity applied to the... | 2.375 | 0 |
2941282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing%20Liberty%20quarter | Standing Liberty quarter | The Standing Liberty quarter is a 25-cent coin that was struck by the United States Mint from 1916 to 1930. It succeeded the Barber quarter, which had been minted since 1892. Featuring the goddess of Liberty on one side and an eagle in flight on the other, the coin was designed by American sculptor Hermon Atkins MacNei... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2941282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing%20Liberty%20quarter | Standing Liberty quarter | In April 1915, Robert W. Woolley took office as Mint Director. On April 14, he asked Superintendent Joyce to request Chief Engraver Barber, then in his 36th year in office, to prepare new designs. The same day, Malburn requested the opinion of the Treasury Department's Solicitor concerning the Mint view that it could s... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2941282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing%20Liberty%20quarter | Standing Liberty quarter | The Commission disliked the sketches from the Mint (submitted by Barber) and selected sculptors Adolph Weinman, Hermon MacNeil and Albin Polasek to submit proposals for the new coins. The sculptors could submit multiple sketches. Although the Mint could decide to use a design on a denomination not intended by its sculp... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2941282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing%20Liberty%20quarter | Standing Liberty quarter | On March 3, the new coins were publicly announced, with the Treasury noting, "[d]esigns of these coins must be changed by law every 25 years and the present 25 year period ends with 1916." The press release indicated that the Treasury hoped production of the new coins would begin in about two months, once the designs w... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2941282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing%20Liberty%20quarter | Standing Liberty quarter | The identity of the model for the obverse of the quarter is uncertain. As early as May 1917, the model for the depiction of Liberty was reported to be Doris Doscher, who would later become a silent film actress under the name Doris Doree. This was accepted for many years. Doscher became well known as "the girl on the q... | 1.96875 | 0 |
2941282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing%20Liberty%20quarter | Standing Liberty quarter | MacNeil's accepted obverse is only slightly less militaristic; his Liberty faces to the viewer's right (heraldic east) in the direction of the European war, and her shield faces in that direction as well. She holds an olive branch as she strides through a gate in a wall which is inscribed, "In God We Trust", with the "... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2941282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing%20Liberty%20quarter | Standing Liberty quarter | Throughout late 1916, the Mint was intensely busy first sharpening the design to be used in 1917, and then in large-scale preparation of dies to begin striking the new quarters on a massive scale once the new year began. Small change was in great demand: Mint officials had hoped not to strike any Barber pieces in 1916,... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2941282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing%20Liberty%20quarter | Standing Liberty quarter | MacNeil hoped to take what he considered to be the best elements of the two versions of the obverse which had been accepted by the Mint the previous year. The figure of Liberty would be taken from the second version; all other elements would come from the first. No change was to be made to Liberty's bare right breast, ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2941282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing%20Liberty%20quarter | Standing Liberty quarter | The Standing Liberty quarter was struck at the Philadelphia Mint from 1916 to 1930 with the exception only of 1922, when no quarters were struck at any mint. It was produced less regularly at Denver and San Francisco beginning in 1917. The mint mark "D" for Denver or "S" for San Francisco may be found at the base of th... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2941282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing%20Liberty%20quarter | Standing Liberty quarter | By late 1924, Mint officials realized there was a problem with the quarter in circulation. Quarters were returning to the Mint with the date completely worn off. Unwilling to seek another act of Congress, Mint officials made the step on which the date appears recessed into the design, rather than raised from it. This c... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2941301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin%20City%20School%20District%20%28Ohio%29 | Dublin City School District (Ohio) | The Dublin City School District, also known as Dublin City Schools, is a public school district in Ohio. It encompasses , and serves most of the city of Dublin, Ohio, as well as part of the city of Columbus, and unincorporated parts of Delaware and Union Counties.
In the fall of 2022, district enrollment exceeded 16,0... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2941319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Morris%20%28composer%29 | Robert Morris (composer) | Robert Daniel Morris (born October 19, 1943) is a British-born American composer and music theorist.
Early life and education
Born in Cheltenham, England, in 1943, Morris received his musical education at the Eastman School of Music (B.M. in composition with distinction) and the University of Michigan (M.M. and D.M.A.... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2941319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Morris%20%28composer%29 | Robert Morris (composer) | Musical compositions
Morris has written music for a wide variety of musical forms and media. He has composed over 200 works including computer and improvisational music. Much of his output from the 1970s is influenced by non-Western music and uses structural principles from Arabic, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, and ear... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2941343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutaway%20van%20chassis | Cutaway van chassis | Cutaway van chassis are used by second stage manufacturers for a wide range of completed motor vehicles. Especially popular in the United States, they are usually based upon incomplete vans made by manufacturers such as Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors which are generally equipped with heavier duty components than mo... | 2.25 | 0 |
2941362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20W.%20Gardiner | Anthony W. Gardiner | In the decades after 1868, escalating economic difficulties weakened the state's dominance over the coastal indigenous population. Conditions worsened, and the cost of imports was far greater than the income generated by exports of coffee, rice, palm oil, sugarcane, and timber. Liberia tried desperately to modernize it... | 3.046875 | 0 |
2941382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghanzi | Ghanzi | Ghanzi is a town in the middle of the Kalahari Desert the western part of the Republic of Botswana in southern Africa. The region is the country's pride in contributing a large portion towards the beef industry. In fact, Ghanzi farmers provide about 75% percent of beef exports, according to the Botswana Meat Commission... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2941382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghanzi | Ghanzi | The town of Ghanzi was the subject of a 1988 LA Times article which described the close-knit relationship between resident Afrikaners and Bushmen. At the time, there was no radio or television in Ghanzi, and the Kalahari Arms Hotel, which was surrounded by a 9 foot high fence to keep lions out, hosted the only bar and ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
2941387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction%20fragment | Restriction fragment | A restriction fragment is a DNA fragment resulting from the cutting of a DNA strand by a restriction enzyme (restriction endonucleases), a process called restriction. Each restriction enzyme is highly specific, recognising a particular short DNA sequence, or restriction site, and cutting both DNA strands at specific po... | 3.421875 | 0 |
2941508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian%20Codman | Julian Codman | Julian Codman (September 21, 1870 – December 30, 1932), was an American lawyer who was a vigorous opponent of Prohibition who was also involved with the Anti-Imperialist League.
Early life
Codman was born in Cotuit, Massachusetts, on September 21, 1870. He was the son of Col. Charles Russell Codman (1829–1918), a colo... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2941511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Palin | Sarah Palin | Palin declared that top priorities of her administration would be resource development, education and workforce development, public health and safety, and transportation and infrastructure development. She had championed ethics reform throughout her election campaign. Her first legislative action after taking office wa... | 2 | 0 |
2941525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20District%20%28Botswana%29 | Southern District (Botswana) | In the south, Southern borders the North West Province of South Africa. Domestically, it borders South-East District in east, Kweneng District in north, Kgalagadi District and south west. Southern District is traversed by the northwesterly line of equal latitude and longitude. Most part of Botswana has tableland slopes... | 2.8125 | 0 |
2941525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20District%20%28Botswana%29 | Southern District (Botswana) | The sub-districts of Southern District created as a part of National Development Park of the district are Barolong, Ngwaketse and Ngwaketse West.
In the 2022 Census the following are listed as big villages under each sub-district:
Demographics
As of 2011, the total population of the district was 197,767 compared ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2941526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-East%20District%20%28Botswana%29 | North-East District (Botswana) | The North-East District is one of the administrative districts of Botswana. Its capital is Francistown. In 2011, North-East had a population of 60,264 people. The district is predominantly occupied by Kalanga-speaking people, the BaKalanga. The district is administered by a district administration and district council,... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2941526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-East%20District%20%28Botswana%29 | North-East District (Botswana) | According to the Census of Botswana, the district's total population was 60,264 in 2011, up from 49,399 in 2001 (an increase of 21.99%). The annual population growth rate during the decade was 2.01%. The population in the district was 2.98% of the total population in the country. The sex ratio was 90.30 females for eve... | 2.625 | 0 |
2941526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-East%20District%20%28Botswana%29 | North-East District (Botswana) | The district is administered by a district administration and district council, which are responsible for local administration. The policies for the administration are framed by the Ministry of Local Government. The council's primary activities are Tribal Administration, Remote Area Development, and Local Governance. T... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2941528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kweneng%20District | Kweneng District | Kweneng is one of the districts of Botswana and is the recent historical homeland of the Bakwena people, the first group in Botswana converted to Christianity by famed missionary David Livingstone. Various landmarks, including Livingstone's Cave, allude to this history. The seat of the district's government is Molepo... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2941528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kweneng%20District | Kweneng District | Geography
Kweneng is the only district without a foreign border. It borders Central District in northeast, Kgatleng District on the east, South-East District in southeast, Southern District in south, Kgalagadi District in the west, Ghanzi District in the north. The region is traversed by the northwesterly line of equa... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2941529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West%20District%20%28Botswana%29 | North-West District (Botswana) | History
In the late 18th century, the Tswana people, primarily herders, began expanding northward into what is now called Ngamiland. Older sources occasionally reference the area with names suggesting a triad, such as Trio Java anglicised, or Tawana, reflecting its historical ties and connections. It later became home ... | 2.96875 | 0 |
2941531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kgatleng%20District | Kgatleng District | Kgatleng is one of the districts of Botswana, coterminous with the homeland of the Bakgatla people. Its capital is Mochudi, the hometown of protagonist Precious Ramotswe in Alexander McCall Smith's popular The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. According to the 2001 Census, Kgatleng had a population of 73,507.
K... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2941548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20District%20%28Botswana%29 | Central District (Botswana) | Central is the largest of Botswana's districts in terms of area and population. It encompasses the traditional homeland of the Bamangwato people. Some of the most politically connected Batswana have come from the Central District, including former President Sir Seretse Khama, former President Festus Mogae, and former P... | 2.625 | 0 |
2941579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Pankejeff | Sergei Pankejeff | Sergei Konstantinovitch Pankejeff (; 24 December 1886 – 7 May 1979) was a Russian aristocrat from Odesa, Russian Empire. Pankejeff is best known for being a patient of Sigmund Freud, who gave him the pseudonym of Wolf Man (German: der Wolfsmann) to protect his identity, after a dream Pankejeff had of a tree full of whi... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2941579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Pankejeff | Sergei Pankejeff | Freud's first publication on the "Wolf Man" was "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis" (Aus der Geschichte einer infantilen Neurose), written at the end of 1914, but not published until 1918. Freud's treatment of Pankejeff centered on a dream the latter had as a very young child which he described to Freud:
I dre... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2941579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Pankejeff | Sergei Pankejeff | Pankejeff's dream played a major role in Freud's theory of psychosexual development, and along with Irma's injection (Freud's own dream, which launched dream analysis), it was one of the most important dreams for the developments of Freud's theories. Additionally, Pankejeff became one of the main cases used by Freud to... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2941579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Pankejeff | Sergei Pankejeff | The psychoanalytical movement also provided Pankejeff with financial support in Vienna; psychoanalysts like Kurt Eissler (a former student of Freud's) dissuaded Pankejeff from talking to any media. The reason for this was that Pankejeff being one of Freud's most famous "cured" patients and the fact revealing that he w... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2941587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Island%20%28TV%20series%29 | Adventure Island (TV series) | Writing
Whereas on The Magic Circle Club Howson shared scriptwriting duties fairly equally with Peter Homewood and Max Bartlett, for Adventure Island Howson wrote most of the scripts, with others contributed by Peter Homewood. Howson also wrote four illustrated storybooks based on the show which were given a single lim... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2941587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Island%20%28TV%20series%29 | Adventure Island (TV series) | Each show would close with Sue talking to Samson the cat, but on Fridays she would click her fingers and magically transport herself to Diddley-Dum-Diddley for a sit-down chat and a cup of tea with all the characters.
Premise
The show was highly moralistic with a strong "good over evil" motif in every story.
The scri... | 1.992188 | 0 |
2941587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Island%20%28TV%20series%29 | Adventure Island (TV series) | Music
In true 'panto' style, music was an essential element of Adventure Island. Nearly every moment was accompanied by instrumental improvisation. Each episode contained two original songs relevant to the show's plot. The lyrics for these were typically written by the week's scriptwriter (either Howson or Homewood) an... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2941620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Trousselier | Louis Trousselier | Louis Trousselier (; 1881 – 24 April 1939) was a French racing cyclist who won the 1905 Tour de France. His other major wins were Paris–Roubaix, also in 1905, and the 1908 Bordeaux–Paris. He came third in the 1906 Tour de France and won 13 stages of the Tour de France over his career. He also competed in the men's 25... | 2.25 | 0 |
2941630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20deviance | Primary deviance | Peers
Strong parental bonds are essential to the social group that the child will choose to associate with. When there is little to no control in the home, no positive enforcement from parents, and the child does not have positive feelings towards schooling and education; they are more likely to associate with deviant... | 2.796875 | 0 |
2941630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20deviance | Primary deviance | The most prevalent theory as it relates to primary deviance was developed in the early 1960s by a group of sociologists and was titled "labeling theory". The labeling theory is a variant of symbolic interactionism. Symbolic interactionism is "a theoretical approach in sociology developed by George Herbert Mead. It emph... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2941630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20deviance | Primary deviance | Social learning theory
The social learning theory theorizes that deviant behavior is learned through social interactions with other people. Edwin Sutherland developed an explanation for this theory which explains how one learns deviant behavior. This explanation is called differential association.
Differential associ... | 2.75 | 0 |
2941630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20deviance | Primary deviance | Following the counsel of another uncle, a "mountain man" who lived in the mountains of Kentucky, Manson labeled himself a rebel. Manson's first act of deviancy began at the age of 9 years old when he set his school on fire and was sent to reform school. Throughout his adolescent, Manson was sent to several reform schoo... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2941631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionheart%20%28Saxon%20album%29 | Lionheart (Saxon album) | Lionheart is the sixteenth studio album by English heavy metal band Saxon, released in 2004. It is the only studio album featuring drummer Jörg Michael.
The title is inspired from Richard the Lionheart, a 12th-century King of England. "Beyond the Grave" was released as a single and a video. The album was re-released o... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2941632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Gardner%20%28activist%29 | Fred Gardner (activist) | Fred Gardner is an American political organizer and author best known for his opposition to the Vietnam War and his writings about the medical marijuana movement in the United States.
Biography
Gardner received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1963. He has been an editor at Scientific American and Ramparts, a pri... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2941671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Esso%20Longford%20fire | 1998 Esso Longford fire | On 25 September 1998 a catastrophic accident occurred at the Esso natural gas plant in Longford, Victoria, Australia. A pressure vessel ruptured resulting in a serious jet fire, which escalated to a conflagration extending to a large part of the plant. Fires lasted two days before they were finally extinguished.
Two w... | 2.609375 | 0 |
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