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2941671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Esso%20Longford%20fire | 1998 Esso Longford fire | Gas Plant 1 was a lean-oil absorption plant separating methane from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by stripping the gas using a liquid hydrocarbon stream called "lean oil" (a light oil similar to aviation kerosene). This occurred in two absorbers (working in a parallel configuration), large vertical pressure vessels in ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2941671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Esso%20Longford%20fire | 1998 Esso Longford fire | During the morning of Friday 25 September 1998, a pump supplying heated lean oil to shell-and-tube heat exchanger GP905 in Gas Plant 1 tripped. This was likely due to high level of liquid in one of the process drums, which in turn was caused by excess liquid overflowing from the demethaniser column. This chain of event... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2941671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Esso%20Longford%20fire | 1998 Esso Longford fire | The jet fire burnt beneath a critical pipe rack section colloquially known to the operators as "King's Cross". In a case of domino effect accident, over a 30-minute period from 13:00 to 13:32, impinging flames led to three other releases of large flammable inventories. A full-blown plant conflagration ensued.
Aftermat... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2941671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Esso%20Longford%20fire | 1998 Esso Longford fire | Esso blamed the accident on plant operators negligence, even producing the training records of one particular operator in an attempt to show he should have known how to manage the plant upset. The findings of the Longford Royal Commission, however, focused on Esso's safety practices rather than on actions by individual... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2941678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito%20Cascio%20Ferro | Vito Cascio Ferro | Vito Cascio Ferro or Vito Cascioferro (; 22 January 1862 – 20 September 1943), also known as Don Vito, was an Italian criminal who was a prominent member of the Sicilian Mafia. He also operated for several years in the United States. He is often depicted as the "boss of bosses", although such a position does not exist ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2941678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito%20Cascio%20Ferro | Vito Cascio Ferro | On 21 May 1902, Cascio Ferro was arrested in connection with a large counterfeiting operation in Hackensack, New Jersey. He was arrested at the barbershop of Giuseppe Romano on First Avenue, from which the counterfeit money had been distributed. Cascio Ferro managed to escape conviction—his alibi was that he worked at ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2941685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Curry | Dan Curry | Daniel Curry is a visual effects producer and supervisor, as well as a main title designer in the film and television industry.
Curry attended Middlebury College in Vermont and graduate school at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt in California.
He is best known for his work on Star Trek: The Next Gene... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2941703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lost%20Chapter%20of%20the%20Acts%20of%20the%20Apostles | The Lost Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles | The Lost Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, also known as the Sonnini Manuscript, is a short text purporting to be the translation of a manuscript containing the 29th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, detailing Paul the Apostle's journey to Britannia, where he preached to a tribe of Israelites on "Mount Lud" (Ludg... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2941715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex%20sign | Hex sign | These signs were traditionally adorned with six-pointed stars. There is also the belief that the origin leading to the term "hex sign" is that English settlers mispronounced the German word for six, "sechs", as "hex".
In recent years, hex signs have come to be used by non–Pennsylvania Dutch persons as talismans for fo... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2941730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered%20speakers | Powered speakers | Powered speakers, also known as self-powered speakers and active speakers, are loudspeakers that have built-in amplifiers. Powered speakers are used in a range of settings, including in sound reinforcement systems (used at live music concerts), both for the main speakers facing the audience and the monitor speakers fac... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2941730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered%20speakers | Powered speakers | Powered speakers are available with passive or active crossovers built into them. Since the early 2000s, powered speakers with active crossovers and other DSP have become common in sound reinforcement applications and in studio monitors. Home theater and add-on domestic/automotive subwoofers have used active powered sp... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2941730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered%20speakers | Powered speakers | In 1980, Meyer Sound Laboratories produced an integrated active 2-way system, the passive UPA-1, which incorporated lessons John Meyer learned on the McCune JM-3. It used active electronics mounted outside of the loudspeaker enclosure, including Meyer's integrated active crossover with feedback comparator circuits dete... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2941730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered%20speakers | Powered speakers | Fidelity
The main benefit of active versus passive speakers is in the higher fidelity associated with active crossovers and multiple amplifiers, including less IMD, higher dynamic range and greater output power. The amplifiers within the loudspeaker enclosure may be ideally matched to the individual drivers, eliminatin... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2941730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered%20speakers | Powered speakers | Weight
A powered speaker usually weighs more than an equivalent passive speaker because the internal amplifier circuitry usually outweighs a speaker-level passive crossover. A loudspeaker associated with an integrated active system is even lighter because it has no internal crossover. A lightweight loudspeaker can be m... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2941730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered%20speakers | Powered speakers | Ease of use
In professional audio and some home cinema and hi-fi applications, the active speaker may be easier to use because it eliminates the complexity of properly setting crossover frequencies, equalizer curves and limiter thresholds. Cabling is not as simple, however, because active speakers require two cables in... | 2.375 | 0 |
2941734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanda | Shanda | 2005-2007: Free-to-play model
In the summer of 2005, Shanda Interactive's revenue dropped significantly as its old hit Legend of Mir II began to lose subscribers. With the intent of extending the life of its older MMORPGs, in December 2005, Shanda announced that its three major games Magical Land, Woool, and Legend of ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2941735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirzada | Pirzada | Pirzada is historically described as official owners of Sufi mausoleums and shrines in Muslim lands, with their earliest mentions being in Baghdad, Iraq, during the period of the Ilkhanate, Timurids and Mamluks. Often a Pirzada was a descendant of those buried within the tomb they were assigned to, hence most of the Pi... | 2.796875 | 0 |
2941735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirzada | Pirzada | Pirzadas of Iran
Pirzadas were first recorded in modern-day Persia during the rule of the Qajar dynasty, which ruled Iran from 1785 to 1925. Census records indicate their first presence being in the village of Urmia, close to the border with Azerbaijan, in the year 1783, although they had been a mainstay in the region ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2941766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20River%2C%20Western%20Australia | Arthur River, Western Australia | Arthur River is a small town located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, between Williams and Kojonup on the Albany Highway.
History
The town is named after the Arthur River, which flows through it, a headwater of the Blackwood River. The river was named by Governor James Stirling in October 1835 after Arthu... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2941781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams%2C%20Western%20Australia | Williams, Western Australia | Williams is a town located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, south-southeast of the state capital, Perth along Albany Highway and 32 kilometres (20 mi) west of Narrogin. The Williams River passes through the town. At the 2016 census, Williams had a population of 411.
History
Williams is named after the W... | 2.375 | 0 |
2941820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Guy%20%28New%20Zealand%20cricketer%29 | John Guy (New Zealand cricketer) | John William Guy (born 29 August 1934) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played 12 Tests for the national team between 1955 and 1961. He currently resides in Melbourne, Australia.
Life and career
Guy was born in Nelson on 29 August 1934, and was educated at Nelson College between 1950 and 1953.
Guy made his first... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2941833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudrama%20Devi | Rudrama Devi | Rudrama Devi (r. c. 1262 - 1289; also known by her regnal name Rudra-deva Maharaja) was a Kakatiya Queen regnant who ruled substantial parts of present-day Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in southern India. She was among the few successful female rulers in Indian history.
Rudrama's father and predecessor Ganapati, who ha... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2941833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudrama%20Devi | Rudrama Devi | The Seuna (Yadava) king Mahadeva invaded the Kakatiya kingdom during Rudrama's reign. The Seuna records, including Mahadeva's inscriptions and Hemadri's Vrata-khanda, suggest that he achieved military successes against the ruler of Tilinga (Telangana), that is, the Kakatiya monarch. For example, they claim that Mahadev... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2941833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudrama%20Devi | Rudrama Devi | A fragmentary Bidar Fort inscription mentions Rudrama's subordinate Bhairava of Sinda family, and states that he accompanied Rudrama as a commander of her army in all her expeditions. Bidar is located in the southern part of the traditional Seuna territory, and this inscription may have been issued during Rudrama's off... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2941833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudrama%20Devi | Rudrama Devi | In 2017, archaeologist D. Kanna Babu of Archaeological Survey of India identified two sculptures at Pochalamma temple in Bollikunta as depictions of Rudrama. The first sculpture shows her riding a horse with reins in her left hand and a sword in her right hand; it features an overhead umbrella - the royal insignia. The... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2941833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudrama%20Devi | Rudrama Devi | Rudrama recruited several non-aristocratic warriors into the Kakatiya service: her successor Prataparudra as well as the later Vijayanagara emperors adopted this policy as well. Epigraphic evidence suggests that during and after the later part of Ganapati's reign, the number and proportion of officers (as opposed to ch... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2941833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudrama%20Devi | Rudrama Devi | Rudrama built a ranga-mandapa dedicated to her family deity Svayambhu-deva (Shiva) in the Warangal Fort. A sculpture discovered among the ruins of this structure depicts her as a lion-mounted warrior holding a dagger and a shield in her hands. The image also depicts an elephant holding a lotus in its trunk: according t... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2941841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace%20S.%20Carswell%20Jr. | Horace S. Carswell Jr. | Citation:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Major (Air Corps) Horace Seaver Carswell, Jr., United States Army Air Forces, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2941856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnybrook%2C%20Western%20Australia | Donnybrook, Western Australia | Donnybrook is a town situated between Boyanup and Kirup on the South Western Highway, south of Perth, Western Australia. The town is the centre of apple cultivation in Western Australia. The town is also known for its picturesque abundance of English oak trees, as well as for the Apple Fun Park, a large outdoor playgr... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2941857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zo%C3%A9%20Talon%20du%20Cayla | Zoé Talon du Cayla | She was also the avenue through which office-seekers could find places. After the death of her royal patron in 1824 she turned her attention to agriculture, raising a new breed of sheep named in her honour, from a long-haired Nubian ram that had been presented to her by Muhammad Ali, viceroy of Egypt. She supported the... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2941860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inositol%20phosphate | Inositol phosphate | Inositol phosphates are a group of mono- to hexaphosphorylated inositols. Each form of inositol phosphate is distinguished by the number and position of the phosphate group on the inositol ring.
inositol monophosphate (IP)
inositol bisphosphate (IP2)
inositol trisphosphate (IP3)
inositol tetrakisphosphate (IP4)
in... | 2.71875 | 0 |
2941863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methionine%20synthase | Methionine synthase | Methionine synthase (MS, MeSe, MTR) is primarily responsible for the regeneration of methionine from homocysteine in most individuals. In humans it is encoded by the MTR gene (5-methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine methyltransferase). Methionine synthase forms part of the S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe) biosynthesis and reg... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2941867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullalyup%2C%20Western%20Australia | Mullalyup, Western Australia | Mullalyup is a town in the South West region of Western Australia, situated between Kirup and Balingup on the South Western Highway, south of Perth. The town is in the shire of Donnybrook-Balingup, known for its scenic Blackwood River Valley and agricultural industries.
The name is taken from the nearby Mullalyup Bro... | 1.914063 | 0 |
2941886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Derby | Western Derby | The Western Derby () is the name given to the Australian rules football matches between the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Dockers, who both participate in the Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's (AFLW).
As both teams are based in Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, the term "derby" is used... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2941905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reis%20%C3%BCl-K%C3%BCttab | Reis ül-Küttab | The Reis ül-Küttab (), or Reis Efendi (), was a senior post in the administration of the Ottoman Empire. Translated as "chief of the scribes" or "head clerk", the holder of the post was originally the head of the chancery of the Imperial Council, evolving into an analogue to a Foreign Minister. In 1836, the title of re... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2941905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reis%20%C3%BCl-K%C3%BCttab | Reis ül-Küttab | In the 16th and 17th centuries, the reis ül-küttab was drawn from the senior secretarial staff of the viziers or, more often, and from the early 17th century almost exclusively, the Grand Vizier. A regular line of promotion (tarik) was established, whereby one advanced from ordinary secretary (Persian: khalife, Turkish... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2941911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime%20S%C3%A1enz | Jaime Sáenz | Jaime Sáenz Guzmán (8 October 1921 – 16 August 1986) was a Bolivian writer, poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, illustrator, dramaturge, and professor, known best for his narrative and poetic works. His poetry, though individual to the point of being difficult to classify, bears some similarities with surrealist lite... | 2.25 | 0 |
2941915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanente%20Metals | Permanente Metals | Permanente Metals Corporation (PMC) is best known for having managed the Richmond Shipyards in Richmond, California, owned by one of industrialist Henry J. Kaiser's many corporations, and also engaged in related corporate activities. These four of the seven west coast Kaiser Shipyards were known for their construction ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
2941923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley%20of%20a%20Thousand%20Hills | Valley of a Thousand Hills | The Valley of a Thousand Hills is a valley between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, South Africa. The Umgeni River meets the Msunduzi River (Duzi River) in the valley, and the Dusi Canoe Marathon is run through the area every year.
Geography
The Valley of a Thousand Hills stretches from Cato Ridge in the west to Kloof in ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2941926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20journalism | Visual journalism | Visual journalism is the practice of strategically combining words and images to convey information.
Overview
Visual journalism is premised upon the idea that at a time of accelerating change, often words cannot keep pace with concepts. Visual journalism incorporates ancient symbols that resonate with humans across cu... | 2.828125 | 0 |
2941933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collared%20aracari | Collared aracari | The collared aracari or collared araçari (Pteroglossus torquatus) is a near-passerine bird in the toucan family Ramphastidae. It is found from Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela.
Taxonomy
The collared aracari was described by the Spanish naturalist Francisco Hernández (1514–1587) in his work Rerum medicarum Novae Hispan... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2941933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collared%20aracari | Collared aracari | P. t. torquatus - (Gmelin, 1788)
P. t. erythrozonus - Ridgway, 1912
P. t. nuchalis - Cabanis, 1862 (originally described as a separate species.)
The South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society and the Clements taxonomy include two other subspecies that IOC and HBW separate as the s... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2941933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collared%20aracari | Collared aracari | The most common call is described as "a high, sharp, squeaky, note, such as seek, pseek, pink or penk, or a two-parted pi-cheet or squi-zeek." They also make a "purr" and an "“aggressive, rasping grhhrr". A rattle call "bddddddt" may actually be non-vocal. Collared aracari's wings make an audible whir during flight.
D... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2941951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyustendil | Kyustendil | Under the name Pautalia ( or Πανταλία) it was a town in the district of Dentheletica. Its position in the Peutinger Table places Pautalia at Kyustendil; and the situation of this town at the sources of the Strymon agrees remarkably with the figure of a river-god, accompanied by the "legend" Στρύμων ("Strymon"), on some... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2941951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyustendil | Kyustendil | Middle Ages
The town was mentioned under the Slavic name of Velbazhd (Велбъжд, meaning "camel") in a 1019 charter by the Byzantine Emperor Basil II. It became a major religious and administrative centre of the Byzantine Empire, and subsequently the Second Bulgarian Empire after Kaloyan conquered the area between 1201 ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2941951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyustendil | Kyustendil | Climate
Kyustendil has a temperate climate with mediterranean and continental influence (because of the Struma river). The average annual temperature is around . The highest average temperatures are in July and August at and lowest in January at . The annual temperature range is .Summers are hot and long, winters are... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2941963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance | Remittance | A remittance is a non-commercial transfer of money by a foreign worker, a member of a diaspora community, or a citizen with familial ties abroad, for household income in their home country or homeland.
Money sent home by migrants competes with international aid as one of the largest financial inflows to developing co... | 2.828125 | 0 |
2941963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance | Remittance | Remittances make up a significant portion of economies of developing countries. Many receive over 10% of their gross domestic product (GDP) in remittances each year, with some exceptional cases as high as a third of their GDP.
International remittances have a major impact on developing countries around the world becau... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2941963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance | Remittance | Although the remittance market share has diversified when fintech startups entered the market in the 2010s, Western Union continues to dominate the majority of the remittance market share. Since the advent of fintech, many digital remittances have emerged on the scene, leading to the rise of comparison platforms or agg... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2941963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance | Remittance | Asia
A majority of the remittances have been directed to Asian countries like India (approx. US$87.0 billion in 2021), China (approx. US$ 60.0 billion in 2021), the Philippines (approx. US$33.5 billion in 2020), Pakistan (US$26.0 billion in 2020), Bangladesh (US$21.5 billion in 2020) and more. Asian countries such as T... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2941963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance | Remittance | In 2017, the majority of remittance flows to Armenia originated from Russia, about 60.5% of overall remittances. The figure amounted to nearly $945 million due to more than 2 million Armenians living in Russia. The next biggest inflows were recorded from the U.S. (with around 500,000-1,000,000 Armenians), at over $160 ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2941963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance | Remittance | Jordan
The flow of remittances to Jordan experienced rapid growth during the 1970s and 1980s when Jordan started exporting skilled labor to the Persian Gulf. These remittances represent an important source of funding for many developing countries, including Jordan. According to the World Bank data on remittances, with ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2941963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance | Remittance | A 2004 study found that over 60% of the 16.5 million Latin American-born adults who resided in the United States at the time of the survey regularly sent money home. The remittances sent by these 10 million immigrants were transmitted via more than 100 million individual transactions per year and amounted to an estimat... | 2.875 | 0 |
2941963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance | Remittance | After the Great Recession, remittances from the United States to Latin America have been on the decline. While there were US$69.2 billion worth of remittances sent in 2008, that figure has fallen to $58.9 billion for 2011. This trend is a result of many factors including the recession itself, more economic opportunity ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2941963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance | Remittance | Most African countries restrict the payment of remittances to banks, which in turn, typically enter into exclusive arrangements with large money transfer companies, like Western Union or Money Gram, to operate on their behalf. This results in limited competition and limited access for consumers, which allows these Mone... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2941963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance | Remittance | According to the World Bank remittance to low- and middle-income countries reached $529 billion in 2018, which was a record high.
Dynamics
Emergencies
During disasters or emergencies, remittances can be a vital source of income for people whose other forms of livelihood may have been destroyed by conflict or natural ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2941963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance | Remittance | World Bank economists contend that remittance receivers' higher propensity to own a bank account means that remittances can promote access to financial services for the sender and recipient, claimed to be an essential aspect of leveraging remittances to promote economic development. For example, in Armenia, which has a... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2941963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance | Remittance | Remittances are generally thought to be counter-cyclical. The stability of remittance flows amidst financial crises and economic downturns make them a reliable source of foreign exchange earnings for developing countries. As migrant remittances are sent cumulatively over the years and not only by new migrants, remittan... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2941975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayherre | Ayherre | Economic activity in the commune is mainly agricultural. The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) zone of Ossau-iraty.
The Lauak company (aeronautical and aerospace industry) is located in the industrial zone of Ayherre.
The Uhagun Mill on the Aran dates to the 19th century and has been conver... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2941992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenal%20fatigue | Adrenal fatigue | Adrenal fatigue or hypoadrenia is a pseudo-scientific term used by alternative medicine providers to suggest that the adrenal glands are exhausted and unable to produce adequate quantities of hormones, primarily cortisol, due to chronic stress or infections. There is no scientific basis for the existence of adrenal fat... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2941995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amendeuix-Oneix | Amendeuix-Oneix | The fiscal census of 1412-1413, made on the orders of Charles III of Navarre, compared with that of 1551 men and weapons that are in this kingdom of Navarre this side of the ports, reveals a demography with strong growth. The first census indicated the presence of 13 fires in Amendeuix with the second showing 40 (33 + ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2942010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Maheno | SS Maheno | SS Maheno was an ocean liner belonging to the Union Company of New Zealand that operated in the Tasman Sea, crossing between New Zealand and Australia, from 1905 until 1935.
She was also used as a ship by the New Zealand Naval Forces during World War I; as His Majesty's New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 1. She was washed ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2942010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Maheno | SS Maheno | During World War I Maheno was converted into a hospital ship using money raised by an appeal by the Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General. She was fitted with eight wards and two operating theatres, and had a medical team consisting of five doctors and 61 orderlies from the Army Medical Corps, a matron, thirteen nurs... | 2.8125 | 0 |
2942010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Maheno | SS Maheno | Maheno sailed back to New Zealand in December 1916, and then made six more voyages between New Zealand and the British Isles, bringing back patients. There were criticisms of the Maheno making several trips to New Zealand to refit or to transport wounded soldiers home when most could have gone in a troopship; and also ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
2942010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Maheno | SS Maheno | On the afternoon of 7 July, about 50 miles from the coast, the towline parted in a cyclone. Attempts to re-attach the towline failed in the heavy seas, and the Maheno, with a skeleton crew of eight men aboard, drifted off and disappeared. The Oonah, with its steering gear temporarily disabled, broadcast a radio message... | 1.953125 | 0 |
2942051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antennaria%20dioica | Antennaria dioica | Antennaria dioica (mountain everlasting, stoloniferous pussytoes, catsfoot or cudweed) is a Eurasian species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a perennial herb found in cool northern and mountainous regions of Europe and northern Asia (Russia, Mongolia, Japan, Kazakhstan, China (Xinjiang, Heilongjiang,... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2942072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Bastide-Clairence | La Bastide-Clairence | La Bastide-Clairence appears as LA BASTIDE Clerence on the 1750 Cassini Map and as LA BASTIDE on the 1790 version.
History
A Navarrese fortified village was founded in 1288 by Claire de Rabastens on a hillside next to the Aran river hence its Gascon name Bastida Clarença.
800 refugees, mainly from Bigorre, were gran... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2942099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiko%2C%20Nevada | Hiko, Nevada | Hiko is a small, agrarian community in the Tonopah Basin on State Route 318 in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States. It is a census-designated place, with a population of 119 at the 2010 census.
Description
The first permanent settlement at Hiko was made in 1853. Hiko was the county seat of Lincoln County from 1867 ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2942106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Vane%2C%201st%20Duke%20of%20Cleveland | William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland | William Henry Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland, KG (27 July 1766 – 29 January 1842), styled Viscount Barnard until 1792 and known as The Earl of Darlington between 1792 and 1827 and as The Marquess of Cleveland between 1827 and 1833, was a British landowner, slave holder and politician.
Background and education
Styled Visc... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2942129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20and%20use%20of%20the%20single%20transferable%20vote | History and use of the single transferable vote | The Assembly surprised many when it proposed an STV electoral model called BC-STV and recommended it to the electorate. In the ensuing electoral reform referendum held on May 17, 2005, BC-STV achieved a majority 57.7% Yes support. However, this did not give it the 60% province-wide support set as a requirement by the L... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2942129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20and%20use%20of%20the%20single%20transferable%20vote | History and use of the single transferable vote | In 1955, Manitoba changed to single-member districts and began to use first past the post voting, which was implemented in the 1958 election.
Municipal elections in Winnipeg, Transcona, St. James and St. Vital were also conducted by STV from 1920 to 1971.
Ontario
The municipal election act used for elections to all ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2942129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20and%20use%20of%20the%20single%20transferable%20vote | History and use of the single transferable vote | All votes are paper ballots completed and counted manually. Electronic voting was trialled in some constituencies in the 2002 election, but discontinued due to concerns about the lack of an audit trail. Irish STV elections use the simple Hare method of surplus transfers, except for the Senate panels, which use the Greg... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2942129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20and%20use%20of%20the%20single%20transferable%20vote | History and use of the single transferable vote | STV is also used by many private organisations. For example, it is used in many British university students' unions (and promoted by the National Union of Students as the fairest way of running elections), for all elections within the University of Cambridge and for electing board members in The Co-operative Group.
As... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2942129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20and%20use%20of%20the%20single%20transferable%20vote | History and use of the single transferable vote | More recently, there have been other campaigns in some cities to introduce STV. Davis, California passed an advisory referendum to use STV for future city council elections. The community school boards of the City of New York used STV until the school boards themselves were abolished in 2002. The city of San Francisco ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2942137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada%20State%20Route%20318 | Nevada State Route 318 | State Route 318 (SR 318) is a state highway in eastern Nevada. It is often used as a shortcut for long-distance traffic along U.S. Route 93, bypassing the longer and less direct route U.S. Route 93 follows between Ely and Crystal Springs. The highway was established in the 1930s as State Route 38 and State Route 38A, a... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2942153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maladaptation | Maladaptation | In evolution, a maladaptation () is a trait that is (or has become) more harmful than helpful, in contrast with an adaptation, which is more helpful than harmful. All organisms, from bacteria to humans, display maladaptive and adaptive traits. In animals (including humans), adaptive behaviors contrast with maladaptive ... | 2.875 | 0 |
2942153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maladaptation | Maladaptation | Neuroplasticity is defined as "the brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life". Neuroplasticity is seen as an adaptation that helps humans to adapt to new stimuli, especially through motor functions in musically inclined people, as well as several other hand-eye coordination ... | 3.21875 | 0 |
2942180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Parsons%20%28composer%29 | Michael Parsons (composer) | Michael Edward Parsons (born 12 December 1938) is a British composer. Since the 1960s, when he met Cornelius Cardew and helped found the Scratch Orchestra, Parsons has been strongly associated with the English school of experimental music.
He was born in Bolton and studied at St John's College, Oxford before taking up ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2942212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaufre | Jaufre | King Arthur's Court: 95–485
The poem proper begins. The court of King Arthur is assembled in the hall at (i.e. Carlisle) for the feast of Pentecost, but King Arthur declares that no one shall eat until an adventure has occurred. When no adventure appears, King Arthur goes into the Forest of Brécéliande in search of it... | 2.890625 | 0 |
2942212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaufre | Jaufre | Castle Monbrun: 3017–4167
Jaufre, continuing on his way, enters the gardens of a castle called Monbrun. He is so tired he decides to sleep on the grass. This stops the birds in the garden from singing. The chatelaine, Brunissen, who is usually lulled to sleep by the birdsong, is furious, and sends her seneschal to inve... | 2.125 | 0 |
2942212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaufre | Jaufre | The Tortured Knight: 4879–5169
Jaufre passes an encampment before arriving at the neighbouring castle. Jaufre approaches the elder of the two women, who informs him of the reason behind the lamentations: once a month for seven years, Taulat has forced the injured man, who they care for and who is the true lord of the l... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2942212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaufre | Jaufre | Author and dating
Jaufré is quite possibly the product of two anonymous authors, "the one who commenced the work and the one who completed it" referred to in the explicit to the work. The laudatory passages to the King of Aragon on vv. 2616–2630 may be the demarcation where the second poet intervened to continue the t... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2942246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Henry%20Ambrose%20Scrivener | Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener | Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (September 29, 1813, Bermondsey, Surrey – October 30, 1891, Hendon, Middlesex) was a New Testament textual critic and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version of the Bible. He was prebendary of Exeter, and vicar of Hendon.
Graduating ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2942304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik%20Sixten | Fredrik Sixten | Sven Fredrik Johannes Sixten (born 21 October 1962) is a Swedish composer, cathedral organist and conductor. Sixten was born in Skövde, Sweden. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (1986) at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. He studied composition with Professor Sven-David Sandström and is now recognized as one of Swede... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2942310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Elder%20Scrolls%3A%20Arena | The Elder Scrolls: Arena | The Elder Scrolls: Arena is an open-world action role-playing video game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks. The first game in the Elder Scrolls series, it was released for MS-DOS on March 25, 1994. The game follows the player trying to uncover a conspiracy against Emperor Uriel Septim VII.
Arena takes plac... | 2.25 | 0 |
2942310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Elder%20Scrolls%3A%20Arena | The Elder Scrolls: Arena | Design goals
Initially, Arena was not to be an RPG at all. The player and a team of his fighters would travel about a world fighting other teams in their arenas until the player became "grand champion" in the world's capital, the Imperial City. Along the way, side quests of a more role-playing nature could be complete... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2942317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Elder%20Scrolls%20II%3A%20Daggerfall | The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall | The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is an open-world, action role-playing game published by Bethesda Softworks. The second video game in the Elder Scrolls series, it was released on September 20, 1996 for MS-DOS, following the success of 1994's The Elder Scrolls: Arena. The story follows the player, sent by the Emperor, t... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2942317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Elder%20Scrolls%20II%3A%20Daggerfall | The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall | Plot
Daggerfall is set in the Iliac Bay, between the provinces of High Rock and Hammerfell. The player is sent here at the Emperor's request. He wants the player to do two things: First, the player must free the ghost of King Lysandus from his earthly shackles; Second, the player must discover what happened to a lette... | 1.914063 | 0 |
2942333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMaster%20Arts%20and%20Science | McMaster Arts and Science | The Arts & Science Program awards its students with a B. Arts Sc. Students may earn the degree in 3 years, although most students complete the degree in 4 years and earn the "Honours" appellation as any other undergraduate program. At the general faculty meeting of March 1980, the professors from the faculty of Health ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
2942333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMaster%20Arts%20and%20Science | McMaster Arts and Science | Curriculum/Structure
Arts & Science stresses the development of skills in writing, speaking, research, and critical and quantitative reasoning. Its curriculum also aims to provide a foundational university-level knowledge base in the natural sciences and the social thought of the Western world. The program's small size... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2942333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMaster%20Arts%20and%20Science | McMaster Arts and Science | Expansion
During the mid-'00s, the McMaster administration began putting pressure on the program to increase its size from 60 to 100 students per year. This campaign was part of a University-wide expansion of all smaller programs such as Medicine and Health Sciences. The idea was met with opposition from most students... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2942357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20television%20in%20Canada | Community television in Canada | History
In Canada, citizen media has roots going back to 1922 when filmmaker Robert Flaherty brought in an Inuit hunter to participate in Nanook of the North. In the 1960s this film was cited as an inspiration by a group of filmmakers associated with the National Film Board of Canada, whose Challenge for Change projec... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2942367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthotyros | Anthotyros | Anthotyros () (Anthotyro in modern Greek, "flowery cheese") is a traditional fresh cheese. There are dry Anthotyros and fresh Anthotyros. Dry Anthotyros is a matured cheese similar to Mizithra. Anthotyros is made with milk and whey from sheep or goats, sometimes in combination. The ratio of milk to whey usually is 9-to... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2942384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sames%2C%20Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es-Atlantiques | Sames, Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Neighbourhoods
The commune is organized into several neighbourhoods, with distinct personalities partly shaped by history:
Le Bourg, a small borough uphill, consists of a cluster of homes around a medieval church. Traces of human habitation have been found dating back to the 3rd century.
Quartier Saint-Jean dates ba... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2942384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sames%2C%20Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es-Atlantiques | Sames, Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Settlement
Artifacts discovered in Sames (such as a set of 3rd-century Roman bronze coins found in the recess of a wall) indicate that some type of settlement, probably agricultural, existed at the hilltop site of Le Bourg in ancient times. The local church—built in a simple Roman style, which was all that a very rura... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2942384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sames%2C%20Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es-Atlantiques | Sames, Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Until the late 12th century, the area was part of the province of Labourd, ruled from Bayonne and included in the dukedom of Aquitaine, and hence the realm of France. The local powers were the lords of Guiche, 1.5 km away across the Bidouze, and the Abbey of Arthous 2 km away on the other side of the hills, which was f... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2942415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9lestine%20Galli-Mari%C3%A9 | Célestine Galli-Marié | Célestine Galli-Marié (; November 1840 – 22 September 1905) was a French mezzo-soprano who is most famous for creating the title role in the opera Carmen.
Early life
She was born Marie-Célestine Laurence Marié de l'Isle in November 1840 in Paris, France. She was taught singing by her father, Mécène Marié de l'Isle, w... | 2 | 0 |
2942448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennine%20Cycleway | Pennine Cycleway | The Pennine Cycleway is a Sustrans-sponsored route in the Pennines range in northern England, an area often called the "backbone of England". The route passes through the counties of Derbyshire, West Yorkshire, Lancashire, North Yorkshire, Cumbria and Northumberland. It is part of the National Cycle Network (NCN). Sust... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2942473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dma%20Station%20%28Iwate%29 | Kōma Station (Iwate) | is a railway station in the city of Morioka, Iwate Prefecture Japan, jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the operated by the third sector Iwate Ginga Railway Company.
Lines
Kōma Station is a terminal station on the JR East Hanawa Line, and is located 106.9 rail kilometers from the opposing te... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2942482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date%20nail | Date nail | Date nails were tagging devices utilized by railroads and utility companies to visually identify the age of railroad ties or utility poles. Octave Chanute, railroad and aviation pioneer, is credited with the idea for using date nails as a way of tracking the life of railroad ties. Different railroads used different siz... | 2.84375 | 0 |
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