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1484071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic%20Park%20video%20games | Jurassic Park video games | Jurassic Park III: Island Attack was developed by Mobile21. The game is an isometric action-adventure game, where one plays as Dr. Alan Grant trying to escape Isla Sorna by traversing the 8 different game environments to reach a rescue boat. The game allows the player to choose to run from many of the enemies encounter... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1484071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic%20Park%20video%20games | Jurassic Park video games | Jurassic Park: Dinosaur Battles (2002)
A PC game titled Jurassic Park: Dinosaur Battles, also produced by Knowledge Adventure, was released on September 10, 2002. Dinosaur Battles is basically Scan Command: Jurassic Park without the portable scanner accessory. The game involves a group of young explorers stranded on Is... | 2.375 | 0 |
1484086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalupe%20River%20%28Texas%29 | Guadalupe River (Texas) | The San Antonio River flows into it just north of Tivoli. Ahead of the entry into the San Antonio Bay estuary, it forms a delta and splits into two distributaries referred respectively as the North and South parts. Each distributary flows into the San Antonio Bay estuary at Guadalupe Bay.
History
The river was first c... | 2.921875 | 0 |
1484086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalupe%20River%20%28Texas%29 | Guadalupe River (Texas) | In the summer of 1988, near the edge of the river and at the foot of the driveway to the Pot O' Gold Ranch, a memorial plaque was dedicated to the children who died as well as those who survived. On April 18, 1989, the story of the deaths and rescues was shown as the pilot episode of Rescue 911, and in 1993 was made in... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1484091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo%20Casaca | Paulo Casaca | Paulo Casaca (born 2 July 1957, in Lisbon) is a Portuguese politician and was a Member of the European Parliament for Portugal's Socialist Party (Partido Socialista) and was also a part of the Party of European Socialists from 1999 to 2009. He was also a member of the regional Azorean and Portuguese parliaments.
Paulo... | 2.046875 | 0 |
1484094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Smirke%20%28architect%29 | Robert Smirke (architect) | Sir Robert Smirke (1 October 1780 – 18 April 1867) was an English architect, one of the leaders of Greek Revival architecture, though he also used other architectural styles (such as Gothic and Tudor). As an attached (i.e. official) architect within the Office of Works, he designed several major public buildings, incl... | 2.8125 | 0 |
1484094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Smirke%20%28architect%29 | Robert Smirke (architect) | In 1801, accompanied by his elder brother Richard, he attempted to embark on a Grand Tour, but was forced to return to England because war with France made it impossible to travel safely without fear of arrest. The short-lived Peace of Amiens the following year allowed British travellers to visit France, and Smirke set... | 2.34375 | 0 |
1484094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Smirke%20%28architect%29 | Robert Smirke (architect) | Following his departure from Athens, Smirke visited other famous ancient sites such as Thebes and Delphi.
Smirke's return from Greece was complicated by the resumption of war between Britain and France, and he had to travel via Sicily and Malta to avoid the risk of capture by enemy troops, though this challenge allowe... | 2.796875 | 0 |
1484094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Smirke%20%28architect%29 | Robert Smirke (architect) | During his Grand Tour, Smirke made drawings and watercolours of many buildings, including most of the surviving ancient structures in Athens and the Morea. Most however were never published, and few were exhibited in his lifetime, though a considerable number are preserved in the RIBA, the Paul Mellon Center for Britis... | 2.296875 | 0 |
1484094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Smirke%20%28architect%29 | Robert Smirke (architect) | Projects in which he used concrete foundations included the Millbank Penitentiary, the rebuilding of the London Custom House and the British Museum. At the first two he was called in when work overseen by previous architects had proved unstable. The Millbank Prison (1812–21; demolished c. 1890) had been designed by an ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
1484094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Smirke%20%28architect%29 | Robert Smirke (architect) | Another area where Smirke was an innovator was in the use of quantity surveyors to rationalise the various eighteenth-century systems of estimating and measuring building work.
Writings
In 1806 he published the first and only volume of an intended series of books Specimens of Continental Architecture. Smirke started t... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1484094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Smirke%20%28architect%29 | Robert Smirke (architect) | The main feature of the south front is the great colonnade of 44 Greek Ionic columns. The columns are 45 feet high and five feet in diameter; their capitals are loosely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene and the bases on those of the temple of Dionysus at Teos. Many of the mouldings in turn derive ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1484096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Smirke%20%28painter%29 | Robert Smirke (painter) | Robert Smirke (15 April 1753 – 5 January 1845) was an English painter and illustrator, specialising in small paintings showing subjects taken from literature. He was a member of the Royal Academy.
Life
Smirke was born at Wigton near Carlisle, the son of a travelling artist. When he was twelve he was apprenticed to a ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
1484096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Smirke%20%28painter%29 | Robert Smirke (painter) | In 1815 the British Institution upset many British artists by a preface to the catalogue of their exhibition of Old Masters, The Catalogues Raisonnés, implying rather too strongly that British artists had a lot to learn from them. Smirke is generally accepted as the author in 1815–16 of a series of satirical "Catalogue... | 2.640625 | 0 |
1484098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium%20carbide | Titanium carbide | Titanium carbide, TiC, is an extremely hard (Mohs 9–9.5) refractory ceramic material, similar to tungsten carbide. It has the appearance of black powder with the sodium chloride (face-centered cubic) crystal structure.
It occurs in nature as a form of the very rare mineral () - (Ti,V,Fe)C. It was discovered in 1984 ... | 2.25 | 0 |
1484102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20La%20Mesa | Battle of La Mesa | The Battle of La Mesa (also known as the Battle of Los Angeles) was the final battle of the California Campaign during the Mexican–American War, occurring on January 9, 1847, in present-day Vernon, California, the day after the Battle of Rio San Gabriel. The battle was a victory for the United States Army under Commodo... | 2.671875 | 0 |
1484107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20F.%20Bruce | F. F. Bruce | F. F. Bruce was charitable, gentle, and respected those with whom he disagreed and those who disagreed with him. He seemed to be genuinely humble, teachable, and diplomatic. J. I. Packer said, "No Christian was ever more free of narrow bigotry, prejudice and eccentricity in the views he held and the way he held them; n... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1484107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20F.%20Bruce | F. F. Bruce | Career
Although he intended to study for a Ph.D. at Vienna, F.F. Bruce took a post as an assistant lecturer in Greek at the University of Edinburgh and then taught Greek at the University of Leeds. He never earned a doctorate, although he received several honorary doctorates. His increasing focus on biblical studies le... | 2.375 | 0 |
1484107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20F.%20Bruce | F. F. Bruce | He wrote commentaries on Habakkuk (in The Minor Prophets, ed. by Thomas Edward McComiskey, Baker, 1992) Matthew, John, Acts (one on the Greek text and one on the English text), Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Philemon, Hebrews, and the Epistles of John.
He... | 1.976563 | 0 |
1484107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20F.%20Bruce | F. F. Bruce | Although most of Bruce's works were scholarly, he also wrote many popular works on the Bible. He viewed the New Testament writings as historically reliable and the truth claims of Christianity as hinging on their being so. To Bruce, this did not mean that the Bible was always precise or that this lack of precision coul... | 2.015625 | 0 |
1484119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Pet%20Monster | My Pet Monster | My Pet Monster also spawned a children's cartoon series that ran for one season on ABC, produced by Ellipse (France), Nelvana Limited (Canada), and Hi-Tops Video in association with Golden Books. It gives a completely different origin for the creature than the live-action film. The show follows Monster, who lives with ... | 1.960938 | 0 |
1484129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanabozho | Nanabozho | Nanabozho (in syllabics: , ), also known as Nanabush, is a spirit in Anishinaabe aadizookaan (traditional storytelling), particularly among the Ojibwe. Nanabozho figures prominently in their storytelling, including the story of the world's creation. Nanabozho is the Ojibwe trickster figure and culture hero (these two a... | 2.75 | 0 |
1484129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanabozho | Nanabozho | Fight with Paul Bunyan
An Ojibwe legend describes Nanabozho's encounter with folkloric lumberjack Paul Bunyan. Along Bunyan's path of deforestation, Nanabozho confronts Bunyan in Minnesota and implores him to leave the state without logging any more timber. A fight ensues and they battle for forty days and forty night... | 2.640625 | 0 |
1484129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanabozho | Nanabozho | Nanabozho name variations
The Nanabozho name varies in the Ojibwe language depending on whether it is presented with a first-person prefix n- (i.e. Nanabozho), third-person prefix w- (i.e. Wanabozho), or null-person prefix m- (i.e. Manabozho); the "Manabozho" form of the name is most commonly associated with Menominee ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
1484132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20Gomes | Ana Gomes | During the 1980 presidential election, Gomes was invited to join the National Commission to Support the Reelection of President Eanes (CNARPE; Comissão Nacional de Apoio à Reeleição do Presidente Eanes) as a jurist. In 1982, she was chosen to replace José Filipe Moraes Cabral as the diplomatic advisor to President Antó... | 1.9375 | 0 |
1484136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Kesselring | Joseph Kesselring | Joseph Otto Kesselring (June 21, 1902 – November 5, 1967) was an American playwright who was best known for writing Arsenic and Old Lace, a hit on Broadway from 1939 to 1944 and in other countries as well.
Biography
He was born in New York City to Henry and Frances Kesselring. His father's parents were immigrants fro... | 2.375 | 0 |
1484154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hementin | Hementin | Hementin is an anticoagulant protease (fibrinogen lytic enzyme) from the salivary glands of the giant Amazon leech (Haementeria ghilianii). Hementin is a calcium-dependent protease with a molecular weight of 80–120 kDa, and it contains 39 amino acid sequences. Hementin is present in both the anterior and posterior sali... | 1.96875 | 0 |
1484202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Jacinto%20River%20%28Texas%29 | San Jacinto River (Texas) | The San Jacinto River ( , ) flows through southeast Texas. It is named after Saint Hyacinth. In the past, it was home to the Karankawa and Akokisa tribes.
The river begins with a west and east fork; the west fork begins in Walker County, to the west of Huntsville, and flows southeast through Montgomery County, where ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
1484208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20Canuck | Captain Canuck | Captain Canuck is a Canadian comic book superhero. Created by cartoonist Ron Leishman and artist/writer Richard Comely, the original Captain Canuck first appeared in Captain Canuck #1 (July 1975). The series was the first successful Canadian comic book since the collapse of the nation's comic book industry following Wo... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1484209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Destruction%20of%20Sennacherib | The Destruction of Sennacherib | "The Destruction of Sennacherib" is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1815 in his Hebrew Melodies (in which it was titled The Destruction of Semnacherib). The poem is based on the biblical account of the historical Assyrian siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC by Assyrian king Sennacherib, as described in 2 Kings 18–19, ... | 2.25 | 0 |
1484228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montel%27s%20theorem | Montel's theorem | In complex analysis, an area of mathematics, Montel's theorem refers to one of two theorems about families of holomorphic functions. These are named after French mathematician Paul Montel, and give conditions under which a family of holomorphic functions is normal.
Locally uniformly bounded families are normal
The fi... | 2.046875 | 0 |
1484232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizabella | Grizabella | Grizabella makes her entrance early on in the first act of the musical. She approaches the other cats, but they treat her like a pariah as Demeter and Bombalurina explain who she is ("Grizabella: The Glamour Cat"). She comes back at the end of the first act, watching from afar as the other cats dance at the Jellicle Ba... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1484237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny%20Moseley | Jonny Moseley | Jonathan William Moseley (born August 27, 1975) is an American freestyle skier and television presenter. He is the first person born in Puerto Rico to become a member of the U.S. Ski Team. He is also known for hosting three seasons of MTV's The Challenge, which was formerly known as Real World/Road Rules Challenge. He ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
1484238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long/short%20equity | Long/short equity | Long/short equity is an investment strategy generally associated with hedge funds. It involves buying equities that are expected to increase in value and selling short equities that are expected to decrease in value. This is different from the risk reversal strategies where investors will simultaneously buy a call opt... | 2.125 | 0 |
1484238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long/short%20equity | Long/short equity | Hedging example
A hedge fund might sell short one automobile industry stock, while buying another—for example, short $1 million of DaimlerChrysler, long $1 million of Ford. With this position, any event that causes all auto industry stocks to fall will cause a profit on the DaimlerChrysler position and a matching loss... | 1.90625 | 0 |
1484249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aghwee%20the%20Sky%20Monster | Aghwee the Sky Monster | Matters reach a crisis when a pack of dogs (of which Aghwee is said to be afraid) comes across D and the narrator while D is talking to Aghwee. However it is the narrator who panics until he feels a hand on his shoulder, "gentle as the essence of all gentleness" which he says he knows to be the D's but imagines to be... | 2.015625 | 0 |
1484283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o%20de%20Deus%20Pinheiro | João de Deus Pinheiro | João de Deus Rogado Salvador Pinheiro, GCC GCIH (born 11 July 1945), is a Portuguese politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group.
Academic career
João de Deus Pinheiro has a licentiate deg... | 1.9375 | 0 |
1484308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant%20Marine%20Act%20of%201920 | Merchant Marine Act of 1920 | The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 is a United States federal statute that provides for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine. Among other purposes, the law regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters and between U.S. ports. Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act is known as the Jones Act and deals w... | 2.96875 | 0 |
1484308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant%20Marine%20Act%20of%201920 | Merchant Marine Act of 1920 | The cabotage provisions relating to the Jones Act restrict the carriage of goods or passengers between U.S. ports to U.S.-built and flagged vessels. It has been codified as portions of 46 U.S.C. Generally, the Jones Act prohibits any foreign-built, foreign-owned, or foreign-flagged vessel from engaging in coastwise tra... | 2.828125 | 0 |
1484308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant%20Marine%20Act%20of%201920 | Merchant Marine Act of 1920 | The United States Supreme Court, in Chandris, Inc., v. Latsis, 515 U.S. 347, 115 S.Ct. 2172 (1995), set a benchmark for determining the status of any employee as a "Jones Act" seaman. Workers who spend less than 30 percent of their time in the service of a vessel on navigable waters are presumed not to be seaman under ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1484308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant%20Marine%20Act%20of%201920 | Merchant Marine Act of 1920 | In March 2013, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a study of the effect of the Jones Act on Puerto Rico that noted, "Freight rates are set based on a host of supply and demand factors in the market, some of which are affected directly or indirectly by Jones Act requirements." The report further conclud... | 1.921875 | 0 |
1484308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant%20Marine%20Act%20of%201920 | Merchant Marine Act of 1920 | Support
Jones Act supporters maintain that it is of strategic economic and wartime interest to the United States. The act, they say, protects the nation's sealift capability and its ability to produce commercial ships. In addition, the act is seen as a vital factor in maintaining a viable workforce of trained merchant ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
1484308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant%20Marine%20Act%20of%201920 | Merchant Marine Act of 1920 | The Jones Act lacks any mechanism to force shippers to always use Jones Act ships over all other modes of transport irrespective of price, or to force other modes not to compete with Jones Act ships. As a result, the Jones Act fleet is used only where shippers have no choice: for moving large quantities of cargo over t... | 1.976563 | 0 |
1484313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones%E2%80%93Shafroth%20Act | Jones–Shafroth Act | All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899, and prior to January 13, 1941, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, residing on January 13, 1941, in Puerto Rico or another territory over which the United States exercises rights of sovereignty and not citizens of the United States under any othe... | 2.828125 | 0 |
1484313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones%E2%80%93Shafroth%20Act | Jones–Shafroth Act | Presently, Puerto Rico lacks voting representation in Congress, and residents of the island aren't qualified to participate in general elections but can only vote in primaries. Puerto Ricans residing on the U.S. mainland, however, have the option to register and vote in their respective states.
Legislators
The Act c... | 3.265625 | 0 |
1484313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones%E2%80%93Shafroth%20Act | Jones–Shafroth Act | Before the Jones–Shafroth Act, insular Puerto Ricans were not citizens of the United States. Subsequent to the Act, they immediately became U.S. citizens. The act also extended almost all U.S. laws to have the same force and effect in Puerto Rico as in the United States (the only laws excepted were those concerning int... | 2.8125 | 0 |
1484319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld%20electronic%20game | Handheld electronic game | Handheld electronic games are interactive electronic games, often miniaturized versions of video games, that are played on portable handheld devices, known as handheld game consoles, whose controls, display and speakers are all part of a single unit. Rather than a general-purpose screen made up of a grid of small pixel... | 2.890625 | 0 |
1484319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld%20electronic%20game | Handheld electronic game | The initial success of Mattel and Parker Brothers' entries spawned a wave of similar handheld devices which were released through the early 1980s. Notable among these were a series of popular 2-player "head-to-head" games from Coleco. Other games were miniaturized versions of popular arcade video games.
In 1979, Gunpe... | 2.21875 | 0 |
1484319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld%20electronic%20game | Handheld electronic game | The Chinese/Russian Brick Game, popular in the early 1990s, includes games using a 10 × 20 block grid as a crude, low resolution dot matrix screen. Such devices often have many variations of Tetris and sometimes even other kinds of games like racing, Breakout or even shoot 'em up, such as those resembling Galaga or Bat... | 2.15625 | 0 |
1484327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou%20Metro | Guangzhou Metro | The Guangzhou Metro () is the rapid transit system of the city of Guangzhou in the Guangdong Province of China. It is operated by the state-owned Guangzhou Metro Corporation and was the fourth metro system to be built in mainland China, after those of Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai.
The earliest efforts to build an un... | 2.171875 | 0 |
1484327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou%20Metro | Guangzhou Metro | As envisaged by Chen Yu, the metro system of Guangzhou would consist of two lines: a north–south line that would connect Nanfang Building to Sanyuanli via Renmin Lu and Jiefang Beilu, and an east–west line that would run from Xichang to Dongshan along today's Dongfeng Lu. The two lines roughly parallelled Line 2 and Li... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1484327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou%20Metro | Guangzhou Metro | Line 4 is a north–south line running parallel to Line 2 along the east of the city. It is long with 24 stations. The section of the line from Huangcun to Xinzao, Feishajiao to Nansha Passenger Port are built underground, while that from Xinzao to Jinzhou is built at the elevated track. It was the first metro line in m... | 2.140625 | 0 |
1484327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou%20Metro | Guangzhou Metro | The Automated People Mover System of Zhujiang New Town Core District Municipal Traffic Project () is an underground automated people mover that serves the central business district of Zhujiang New Town. It is commonly known as Zhujiang New Town Automated People Mover System or the APM for short. At a length of , it con... | 2.140625 | 0 |
1484327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou%20Metro | Guangzhou Metro | Ridership under-prediction
The first lines that were constructed, such as Lines 1, 2, and 8, used high capacity 6-car A-type trains in anticipation to heavy ridership. This choice later proved invaluable in the densely populated Guangzhou with all three aforementioned lines today having a peak daily usage of over 1 mi... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1484327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou%20Metro | Guangzhou Metro | Universal free access in November 2010
In January 2010, then-mayor Zhang Guangning revealed to the media that the local government was considering rewarding residents with an "Asian Games gift package" in acknowledgement of their support for the Games. On 27 September 2010, contents of the gift package were officially... | 1.9375 | 0 |
1484334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Italy%2C%20Baltimore | Little Italy, Baltimore | Little Italy is a neighborhood located in southeastern Baltimore, Maryland. The neighborhood is known for its strong Italian-American heritage and identity. The neighborhood is still mostly populated by the descendants of Italian-American immigrants and remains a closely knit ethnic enclave.
Due to its close proximity... | 2.171875 | 0 |
1484338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%2020%3A6 | John 20:6 | John 20:6 is the sixth verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the Bible. Peter and the Beloved Disciple have just arrived at the empty tomb of Jesus. The Beloved Disciple, who arrived slightly ahead of Peter, paused outside the empty tomb. In the verse, Peter enters the tomb upon his arrival.
Conten... | 2.078125 | 0 |
1484348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie%20McEwen | Robbie McEwen | Tour de France
McEwen participated in the Tour de France on 12 occasions: 1997 (117th), 1998 (89th), 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010. Over the years, he has won 12 stages. In 1999, McEwen won the final stage sprint in Paris on the Champs-Élysées. In 2002, McEwen won stage 3 (Metz–Reims) an... | 1.953125 | 0 |
1484351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o%20Pinheiro | João Pinheiro | João Pinheiro da Silva (16 December 1860 – 25 October 1908) was a Brazilian lawyer, industrialist and politician who served as president of Minas Gerais. A defender of republicanism during Brazil's Imperial era, Pinheiro became the main republican figure in Minas Gerais, leading the foundation of the Republican Party ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
1484351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o%20Pinheiro | João Pinheiro | Pignataro's death forced the widow to live with relatives in several cities in Minas Gerais until settling in her native Caeté. Faced with financial difficulties, Carolina sent João and José to study at the Mariana Seminary. After finishing his secondary studies at the seminary, João Pinheiro enrolled in the engineerin... | 2.5 | 0 |
1484388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic%20and%20Old%20Lace%20%28play%29 | Arsenic and Old Lace (play) | Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the 1944 film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra.
The play was produced by Lindsay and Crouse and directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on Broadway at the Fulton Theatr... | 2.140625 | 0 |
1484388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic%20and%20Old%20Lace%20%28play%29 | Arsenic and Old Lace (play) | Inspiration
When Kesselring taught at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas, he lived in a boarding house called the Goerz House, and many of the features of its living room are reflected in the Brewster sisters' living room, where the action of the play is set. The Goerz House is now the home of the college president... | 2.484375 | 0 |
1484433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iba%2C%20Zambales | Iba, Zambales | Languages
Originally, the population was composed of Sambal and Ilocano-speaking people. While Sambal and Ilocano are spoken by many of the population, Tagalog has become the common language spoken in Iba. Sambal residents have switched their language from Sambal to Ilocano and Tagalog.
Religion
The majority of the pe... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1484434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant%20%28biblical%29 | Covenant (biblical) | There are two major types of covenants in the Hebrew Bible, including the obligatory type and the promissory type. The obligatory covenant is more common with the Hittite peoples, and deals with the relationship between two parties of equal standing. In contrast, the promissory type of covenant is seen in the Abrahamic... | 2.765625 | 0 |
1484434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant%20%28biblical%29 | Covenant (biblical) | Terminology
Weinfeld believes that similar terminology and wording can connect the Abrahamic and Davidic covenants with ancient Near Eastern grants, as opposed to being largely similar to the Mosaic covenant, which, according to Weinfeld, is an example of a suzerainty treaty. He goes on to argue that phrases about havi... | 2.25 | 0 |
1484434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant%20%28biblical%29 | Covenant (biblical) | Dissolution
According to Mendenhall, pressures from outside invaders led the loosely bound Israelite tribes to converge into monarchical unity for stability and solidarity. He also argues that during this consolidation, the new state also had to unify the religious traditions that belonged to the different groups to pr... | 3.015625 | 0 |
1484434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant%20%28biblical%29 | Covenant (biblical) | In Genesis chapters 12, 15, and 17, three covenants can be distinguished based on the differing Jahwist, Elohist and Priestly sources. For the first two covenants, God grants Abraham land and a multitude of descendants but does not place any stipulations (meaning it was unconditional) on Abraham for the covenant's fulf... | 2.703125 | 0 |
1484434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant%20%28biblical%29 | Covenant (biblical) | According to Weinfeld, the Abrahamic covenant represents a covenant of grant, which binds the suzerain. It is the obligation of the master to his servant and involves gifts given to individuals who were loyal serving their masters. In the covenant with Abraham in Genesis 15, it is God who is the suzerain who commits hi... | 2.640625 | 0 |
1484443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%C5%A1tejn | Karlštejn | Karlštejn Castle (; ) is a castle in the Czech Republic. It is a large Gothic castle founded in 1348 by King Charles IV. The castle served as a place for safekeeping the Imperial Regalia as well as the Bohemian Crown Jewels, holy relics, and other royal treasures. Karlštejn is among the most famous and most frequently ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
1484443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%C5%A1tejn | Karlštejn | Later, the Bohemian crown jewels were moved back to the castle and kept there for almost two centuries, with some short breaks. The castle underwent several reconstructions: in late Gothic style after 1480, in Renaissance style in the last quarter of the 16th century. In 1487, the big tower was damaged by fire and duri... | 2.59375 | 0 |
1484443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%C5%A1tejn | Karlštejn | The core of the castle consisted of three parts placed on three levels-differentiated terraces; every level express different importance. On the lowest terrace there stood the Imperial Palace, above it there was the Marian Tower and the Big Tower stood the highest. The Palace is a single-tract building, about wide and... | 2.609375 | 0 |
1484465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periaqueductal%20gray | Periaqueductal gray | The periaqueductal gray (PAG), also known as the central gray, is a brain region that plays a critical role in autonomic function, motivated behavior and behavioural responses to threatening stimuli. PAG is also the primary control center for descending pain modulation. It has enkephalin-producing cells that suppress p... | 2.390625 | 0 |
1484465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periaqueductal%20gray | Periaqueductal gray | The activation of the mu-opioid receptor inhibits the release of substance P from these incoming first-order neurons and, in turn, inhibits the activation of the second-order neuron that is responsible for transmitting the pain signal up the spinothalamic tract to the ventral posterolateral nucleus (VPL) of the thalamu... | 2.140625 | 0 |
1484486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallmadge%20Amendment | Tallmadge Amendment | The Tallmadge Amendment was a proposed amendment to a bill regarding the admission of the Territory of Missouri as a state, under which Missouri would be admitted as a free state. The amendment was submitted in the U.S. House of Representatives on February 13, 1819, by James Tallmadge Jr., a Democratic-Republican from... | 2.625 | 0 |
1484486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallmadge%20Amendment | Tallmadge Amendment | There were two senators from each state, regardless of its population. The number of seats in the House of Representatives, however, was based on the population of the state, and to complicate matters further, slave states were allowed to count three fifths of their slave population, which increased their number of rep... | 2.84375 | 0 |
1484495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20privatization | Mobile privatization | Mobile privatization can be described as an individual's attachment to a mobile device. This leads to a feeling of being "at home" while connected to a device in a mobile setting. Using a mobile device, an individual can feel as though they could travel anywhere in the world while still feeling comfortable because of t... | 2.328125 | 0 |
1484501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downes%20v.%20Bidwell | Downes v. Bidwell | Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U.S. 244 (1901), was a case in which the US Supreme Court decided whether US territories were subject to the provisions and protections of the US Constitution. The issue is sometimes stated as whether the Constitution follows the flag. The decision narrowly held that the Constitution does not nec... | 2.359375 | 0 |
1484501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downes%20v.%20Bidwell | Downes v. Bidwell | Decision
The Supreme Court decided 5–4 that the newly-annexed territories were not properly part of the United States for purposes of the Constitution in the matter of revenues, administrative matters, and the like. However, the court was careful to note that the constitutional guarantees of a citizen's rights of liber... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1484504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul%20Injai | Abdul Injai | An outraged Portuguese lawyer later published a damning report on the atrocities committed by African mercenaries under the command of Abdul Injai and Pinto:"Numerous bands, in which were also found the old, the crippled, women and children, fled, terrorized in the face of the triumphant march of the force of the irreg... | 2.453125 | 0 |
1484527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frass | Frass | Frass refers loosely to the more or less solid excreta of insects, and to certain other related matter.
Definition and etymology
Frass is an informal term and accordingly it is variously used and variously defined. It is derived from the German word Fraß, which means the food takeup of an animal. The English usage app... | 2.578125 | 0 |
1484527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frass | Frass | In contrast, larvae of most powder post beetles (Lyctus) partly eject their finely granular frass from their tunnels when boring in the wood on which they feed, while the larvae of most dry-wood Cerambycidae leave their frass packed tightly into the tunnels behind them. Many other species of wood borers also leave the... | 2.328125 | 0 |
1484527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frass | Frass | In a significantly different sense the term "frass" also may refer to excavated wood shavings that carpenter ants, carpenter bees and other insects with similar wood-boring habits eject from their galleries during the tunneling process. Such material differs from the frass residues of foods, because insects that tunnel... | 2.65625 | 0 |
1484541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront | Wavefront | In physics, the wavefront of a time-varying wave field is the set (locus) of all points having the same phase. The term is generally meaningful only for fields that, at each point, vary sinusoidally in time with a single temporal frequency (otherwise the phase is not well defined).
Wavefronts usually move with time. ... | 2.875 | 0 |
1484541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront | Wavefront | Simple wavefronts and propagation
Optical systems can be described with Maxwell's equations, and linear propagating waves such as sound or electron beams have similar wave equations. However, given the above simplifications, Huygens' principle provides a quick method to predict the propagation of a wavefront through, f... | 3.046875 | 0 |
1484575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alix%20Olson | Alix Olson | Alix L. Olson (born 1975) is an American poet who works exclusively in spoken word. She uses her work to address issues of capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, heterosexism, misogyny, and patriarchy. She identifies as a queer feminist.
Early years and education
Olson was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1975 to p... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1484599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Act%20of%201912 | Radio Act of 1912 | The Radio Act of 1912, formally, known as "An Act to Regulate Radio Communication" (), is a United States federal law which was the country's first legislation to require licenses for radio stations. It was enacted before the introduction of broadcasting to the general public, and was eventually found to contain insuff... | 2.65625 | 0 |
1484599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Act%20of%201912 | Radio Act of 1912 | The U.S. policy of unrestricted stations differed from most of the rest of the world. The 1906 International Radiotelegraph Convention, held in Berlin, called for countries to license their stations, and although United States representatives had signed this agreement, initially the U.S. Senate did not ratify the treat... | 2.78125 | 0 |
1484599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Act%20of%201912 | Radio Act of 1912 | The broadcasting of news and entertainment to the general public, which began to be significantly developed in early 1920s, was not foreseen by this legislation. The first regulations specifically addressing broadcasting were adopted on December 1, 1921, when two wavelengths were set aside for stations making broadcast... | 2.859375 | 0 |
1484599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Act%20of%201912 | Radio Act of 1912 | A second, ultimately successful, challenge occurred in 1926. The Zenith Radio Corporation in late 1925 established a high-powered radio station in Chicago, WJAZ. Due to a lack of available frequencies, the station was only authorized to transmit two hours each week. Based on the Intercity Radio Company ruling, company ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
1484601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalen%20Hsu-Li | Magdalen Hsu-Li | Magdalen Hsu-Li (born Rochelle Li; 1970) is a Chinese American singer-songwriter, painter, speaker, writer and cultural activist. She is also a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine.
Biography
Hsu-Li was born in the southern city of Martinsville, Virginia to Chinese immigrant parents. She began piano lessons at a... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1484606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20directions | Rail directions | Rail directions are used to describe train directions on rail systems. The terms used may be derived from such sources as compass directions, altitude directions, or other directions. These directions are often specific to system, country, or region.
Radial directions
Many rail systems use the concept of a centre (usu... | 2.734375 | 0 |
1484606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20directions | Rail directions | In China, railway directions with terminus in Beijing are described as "up" (, shàngxíng) and "down" (, xiàxíng), with "up" towards Beijing; while trains leaving Beijing are "down". Trains run through Beijing may have two or more numbers, for example, the train from Harbin to Shanghai K58/55 uses two different numbers:... | 1.96875 | 0 |
1484606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20directions | Rail directions | In Hong Kong, most lines have their "down" direction towards the terminal closer to Central, with the exception of Disneyland Resort line, where the down line is towards Disneyland to be consistent with Tung Chung line where it branches from. On Tuen Ma line, the "down" end is Wu Kai Sha. The up/down direction was swit... | 2.296875 | 0 |
1484606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20directions | Rail directions | Polish railways also use parzysty and nieparzysty (even and odd) to designate line directions, with odd directions usually heading away from major cities (with historical exceptions in place) and thus functionally the equivalent of the British "down" direction. The odd direction is the direction of increasing mileage. ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
1484635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%20684 | Interstate 684 | Within a thousand feet () of the county line, the Brewster rest area serves northbound traffic. Beyond, the highway turns slightly more to the east, then swings back to the north into its northern terminus at I-84. An almost-complete cloverleaf interchange guides traffic east to Danbury, Connecticut, or west toward New... | 2.0625 | 0 |
1484640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat%20banking | Wildcat banking | Wildcat banking was the issuance of paper currency in the United States by poorly capitalized state-chartered banks. These wildcat banks existed alongside more stable state banks during the Free Banking Era from 1836 to 1865, when the country had no national banking system. States granted banking charters readily and a... | 3 | 0 |
1484640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat%20banking | Wildcat banking | A number of etymological explanations for the term have been proposed. The OED suggests that the term may have originated as a reference to the notes of a particular Michigan bank which bore the emblem of a panther (which were locally referred to as "wild cats"). The collection of Eric P. Newman includes a counterfeit ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
1484640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat%20banking | Wildcat banking | The earliest example of what came to be called wildcat banking began in New England during the 1790s. The banking establishment of Boston was opposed by a greater number of country banks throughout the region. Because the city banks refused the country banks' currency, it came to dominate the commercial activity of Bos... | 3.015625 | 0 |
1484640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat%20banking | Wildcat banking | First federal bank interim
Another period of credit expansion by state banks occurred after the expiration of the First Bank of the United States in 1811, culminating in the Panic of 1819. The Bank's prompt collection of state bank notes had enforced a degree of responsibility that soon faded. The burning of Washington... | 3.015625 | 0 |
1484640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat%20banking | Wildcat banking | When bank charters were not available, entrepreneurs found other ways of entering the business. In New York, the law prohibited anyone from forming a corporation for the purpose of banking without a state charter, but did not prevent banking as a side business. By the time the legislature closed the loophole in 1818, t... | 2.640625 | 0 |
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