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1485085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%27s%20Peter%20Pan%20%26%20the%20Pirates | Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates | Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates (known in international markets as 20th Century Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates) is an American animated television series based on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan that aired on Fox Kids from September 8, 1990, to September 10, 1991. 65 episodes were produced. The show was one of Fox's first forays ... | 2.625 | 0 |
1485097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfratshausen | Wolfratshausen | Wolfratshausen () is a town of the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, located in Bavaria, Germany. The town had a population of 19,033 as of 31 December 2019.
History
The first mention of "Wolveradeshusun" appears in documents from the year 1003. About 100 years later, Otto II, the Graf of Deißen-Andechs, built a ca... | 2.53125 | 0 |
1485104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20ionization | Chemical ionization | Chemical ionization (CI) is a soft ionization technique used in mass spectrometry. This was first introduced by Burnaby Munson and Frank H. Field in 1966. This technique is a branch of gaseous ion-molecule chemistry. Reagent gas molecules (often methane or ammonia) are ionized by electron ionization to form reagent ion... | 2.5 | 0 |
1485104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20ionization | Chemical ionization | Instrumentation
The CI source design for a mass spectrometer is very similar to that of the EI source. To facilitate the reactions between the ions and molecules, the chamber is kept relatively gas tight at a pressure of about 1 torr. Electrons are produced externally to the source volume (at a lower pressure of 10−4 ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
1485104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20ionization | Chemical ionization | CI mass spectrometry is a useful tool in structure elucidation of organic compounds. This is possible with CI, because formation of [M+1]+ eliminates a stable molecule, which can be used to guess the functional groups present. Besides that, CI facilitates the ability to detect the molecular ion peak, due to less extens... | 2.53125 | 0 |
1485104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20ionization | Chemical ionization | Atmospheric-pressure chemical ionization
Chemical ionization in an atmospheric pressure electric discharge is called atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI), which usually uses water as the reagent gas. An APCI source is composed of a liquid chromatography outlet, nebulizing the eluent, a heated vaporizer tube,... | 2.296875 | 0 |
1485108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beveridge%20curve | Beveridge curve | A Beveridge curve, or UV curve, is a graphical representation of the relationship between unemployment and the job vacancy rate, the number of unfilled jobs expressed as a proportion of the labour force. It typically has vacancies on the vertical axis and unemployment on the horizontal. The curve, named after William B... | 2.609375 | 0 |
1485108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beveridge%20curve | Beveridge curve | History
The Beveridge curve, or UV curve, was developed in 1958 by Christopher Dow and Leslie Arthur Dicks-Mireaux. They were interested in measuring excess demand in the goods market for the guidance of Keynesian fiscal policies and took British data on vacancies and unemployment in the labour market as a proxy, since... | 2.578125 | 0 |
1485108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beveridge%20curve | Beveridge curve | The matching process will determine how efficiently workers find new jobs. Improvements in the matching system would shift the curve towards the origin, because an efficient matching process will find jobs faster, filling vacancies and employing the unemployed. Improvements can be made by increasing the mobility of lab... | 2.140625 | 0 |
1485108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beveridge%20curve | Beveridge curve | Skill shortages should not be confused with "labour shortages", which identify an objective lack of workers in the market, independently of their skills, and it may arise because of limited geographical mobility, ageing populations or a labour market approaching full employment during an economic boom. Along with labou... | 2.203125 | 0 |
1485108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beveridge%20curve | Beveridge curve | In addition, skill shortages may be caused by both "horizontal" skill mismatch, when workers have qualifications/skills which are different than the one required by the firms, or by "vertical" skill mismatch, when workers' skills and qualifications are lower levels than what firms require. In the literature, scholars h... | 2.078125 | 0 |
1485115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairro%20Alto | Bairro Alto | Bairro Alto (; literally: Upper District) is a central district of the city of Lisbon, the Portuguese capital. Unlike many of the civil parishes of Lisbon, this region can be commonly explained as a loose association of neighbourhoods, with no formal local political authority but social and historical significance to t... | 2.71875 | 0 |
1485115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairro%20Alto | Bairro Alto | The first phase began in 1487, after the death of Guedelha Palaçano, an influential figure in the kingdom: his widow transferred lands situated on the western limit of the city to the King's equerry, Filipe Gonçalves. The land rights for these lands were sold in 1498 to the nobleman Luís de Atouguia.
Between 1499 and... | 2.796875 | 0 |
1485115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairro%20Alto | Bairro Alto | Around 1513, the first move to divide the lands of the Bairro Alto began, under the approval of Lopo Atouguia. Bartolomeu de Andrade and his wife Francisca Cordovil received permission to section-off plots for the construction of houses. The new urbanization would be designated Vila Nova de Andrade. After the establish... | 2.609375 | 0 |
1485115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairro%20Alto | Bairro Alto | In 1559, the civil parish of Santa Catarina was created. Less than a decade later, the Largo de São Roque was formed, and the beginning of the construction of new church and residences of the Society of Jesus were initiated. The enlargement of the route between the Portas de Catarina and Largo de São Roque would occur ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1485115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairro%20Alto | Bairro Alto | Although central to Lisbon, it is normally identified by a different urban nucleus. Bairro Alto is characterized by orthogonal blocks, sometimes rectangular, with a proportion of two lots wide by six or eight lots in length, with many of the length dimensions accompanying the roads, while the shorter dimensions followi... | 2.734375 | 0 |
1485115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairro%20Alto | Bairro Alto | While, generally, the gaioleiro-style reinforcement of the buildings is not common, many of the Pombaline buildings were redesigned in keeping with the design aesthetic of the time. The construction of palacettes in this Romanticism style, resulted from a collage of the French aesthetic influences, identified primarily... | 2.203125 | 0 |
1485116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uropsilus | Uropsilus | The shrew moles or shrew-like moles (Uropsilus) are shrew-like members of the mole family of mammals endemic to the forested, high-alpine region bordering China, Myanmar, and Vietnam. They possess a long snout, a long slender tail, external ears, and small forefeet unspecialized for burrowing. Although they are simila... | 3 | 0 |
1485137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Speaight | Robert Speaight | Robert William Speaight (; 1904 – 1976) was a British actor and writer, and the brother of George Speaight, the puppeteer.
Speaight studied under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based in the Royal Albert Hall, London. He was an early performer (from 1927) in radio plays. He came to pro... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1485171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian%20conquest%20of%20Ireland | Cromwellian conquest of Ireland | The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649–1653) was the re-conquest of Ireland by the Commonwealth of England, led by Oliver Cromwell. It forms part of the 1641 to 1652 Irish Confederate Wars, and wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Modern estimates suggest that during this period, Ireland experienced a demo... | 2.984375 | 0 |
1485171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian%20conquest%20of%20Ireland | Cromwellian conquest of Ireland | Secondly, Parliament also had a longstanding commitment to re-conquer Ireland dating back to the Irish Rebellion of 1641. Even if the Irish Confederates had not allied themselves with the Royalists, it is likely that the English Parliament would have eventually tried to invade the country to crush Catholic power there.... | 2.578125 | 0 |
1485171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian%20conquest%20of%20Ireland | Cromwellian conquest of Ireland | Upon landing, Cromwell proceeded to take the other port cities on Ireland's east coast, to facilitate the efficient landing of supplies and reinforcements from England. The first town to fall was Drogheda, about 50 km north of Dublin. Drogheda was garrisoned by a regiment of 3,000 English Royalist and Irish Confederate... | 2.671875 | 0 |
1485171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian%20conquest%20of%20Ireland | Cromwellian conquest of Ireland | The Royalist commander Ormonde thought that the terror of Cromwell's army had a paralysing effect on his forces. Towns like New Ross and Carlow subsequently surrendered on terms when besieged by Cromwell's forces. On the other hand, the massacres of the defenders of Drogheda and Wexford prolonged resistance elsewhere, ... | 2.625 | 0 |
1485171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian%20conquest%20of%20Ireland | Cromwellian conquest of Ireland | Ormonde's Royalists still held most of Munster, but were outflanked by a mutiny of their own garrison in Cork. The British Protestant troops there had been fighting for the Parliament up to 1648 and resented fighting with the Confederates. Their mutiny handed Cork and most of Munster to Cromwell and they defeated the l... | 2.625 | 0 |
1485171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian%20conquest%20of%20Ireland | Cromwellian conquest of Ireland | The most formidable force left to the Irish and Royalists was the 6,000-strong army of Ulster, formerly commanded by Owen Roe O'Neill, who died in 1649. However the army was now commanded by an inexperienced Catholic bishop named Heber MacMahon. The Ulster Army met a Parliamentarian army commanded by Charles Coote, at ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
1485171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian%20conquest%20of%20Ireland | Cromwellian conquest of Ireland | By early 1651, it was reported that no English supply convoys were safe if they travelled more than two miles outside a military base. In response, the Parliamentarians destroyed food supplies and forcibly evicted civilians who were thought to be helping the Tories. John Hewson systematically destroyed food stocks in c... | 2.90625 | 0 |
1485171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian%20conquest%20of%20Ireland | Cromwellian conquest of Ireland | Eventually, the guerrilla war was ended when the Parliamentarians published surrender terms in 1652 allowing Irish troops to go abroad to serve in foreign armies not at war with the Commonwealth of England. Most went to France or Spain. The largest Irish guerrilla forces under John Fitzpatrick (in Leinster, Edmund O'Dw... | 2.796875 | 0 |
1485171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian%20conquest%20of%20Ireland | Cromwellian conquest of Ireland | Cromwell's actions in Ireland occurred in the context of a mutually cruel war. In 1641–42 Irish insurgents in Ulster killed some 4,000 Protestant settlers who had settled on land confiscated from their former Catholic owners. These events were magnified in Protestant propaganda as an attempt by Irish Catholics to exter... | 2.46875 | 0 |
1485183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphine%2C%20Virginia | Raphine, Virginia | Raphine is an unincorporated community in Rockbridge County in the Shenandoah Valley in the U.S. state of Virginia.
History
The name "Raphine" was chosen in honor of James Edward Allen Gibbs (1829-1902), a local farmer who patented a novel single-thread chain-stitch sewing machine on June 2, 1857. Gibbs had named his ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1485191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Palatucci | Giovanni Palatucci | Palatucci, known as “the Italian Schindler,” has long been credited with saving thousands of Jews during the Holocaust while serving in the police department in the city of Fiume, and was designated by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
After the promulgation of racial laws against Jews in 1938 and ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
1485191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Palatucci | Giovanni Palatucci | Hagiographers also claim that he managed to destroy all documented records of some 10,000 Jewish refugees living in the town, issuing them false papers and providing them with funds. This theory has been questioned by several historians, including Marco Coslovich and Silva Bon. The latter, in her "The Jewish Communitie... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1485191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Palatucci | Giovanni Palatucci | As the imminent defeat of the Axis became clear, many RSI officers began to negotiate with the Allies concerning Italy's post war fate and their own. The tensions between the German and Italian RSI forces grew harsher. On the Eastern border, near Fiume, British support of Yugoslav resistance fighters grew stronger caus... | 2.34375 | 0 |
1485191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Palatucci | Giovanni Palatucci | Allegations of collaboration
According to the 2013 research, the story surrounding Palatucci stemmed from the activity of Bishop Giuseppe Maria Palatucci and Rodolfo Grani, a Jewish man from Fiume who had briefly been interned in Campagna and remained friendly with the bishop after the war. As shown in the 2013 report,... | 1.992188 | 0 |
1485191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Palatucci | Giovanni Palatucci | The historian of Early Modern Europe Anna Foa of Sapienza University of Rome wrote in a June 2013 article for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that the decision to re-classify Palatucci, a Catholic, as a collaborator was hasty, bur conceded that more study was needed. She asserted that the target of the move ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
1485230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine%20%28novel%29 | Delphine (novel) | Delphine is the first novel by Germaine de Staël, published in 1802. The book is written in epistolary form (as a series of letters) and examines the limits of women's freedom in an aristocratic society. Although de Staël denied political intent, the book was controversial enough for Napoleon to exile the author.
In... | 2.453125 | 0 |
1485231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Colombo | Giuseppe Colombo | Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo (2 October 1920 in Padua – 20 February 1984 in Padua) was an Italian scientist, mathematician and engineer at the University of Padua, Italy.
Mercury
Colombo studied the planet Mercury, and it was his calculations which showed how to get a spacecraft into a solar orbit which would encounter M... | 2.6875 | 0 |
1485239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-time%20buyer | First-time buyer | A first-time buyer (FTB) is a potential house buyer who has not previously purchased a residential property. The term is primarily used in the British, Irish, Canadian, and U.S. property markets, as well as other countries.
Characteristics
A first-time buyer is usually desirable to a seller as they do not have to se... | 2.578125 | 0 |
1485244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Cicerone | Ralph Cicerone | Ralph John Cicerone (May 2, 1943 – November 5, 2016) was an American atmospheric scientist and administrator. From 1998 to 2005, he was the chancellor of the University of California, Irvine. From 2005 to 2016, he was the president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). He was a "renowned authority" on climate chan... | 2.453125 | 0 |
1485248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Distant%20Mirror | A Distant Mirror | A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century is a narrative history book by the American historian Barbara Tuchman, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1978.
It won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in History.
The main title, A Distant Mirror, conveys Tuchman's thesis that the death and suffering of the 14th century... | 2.46875 | 0 |
1485272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian%20Cup | Belgian Cup | Naming
The first two editions of the Belgian Cup were played with provincial sides. During this time, the competition was called Belgian Provinces Cup (Beker der Belgische Provincies in Dutch, Coupe des Provinces Belges in French). The editions before World War 1 were known as the Kings' Cup (Beker van de Koning in Du... | 2.1875 | 0 |
1485296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesketh%20Pearson | Hesketh Pearson | Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson (20 February 1887 – 9 April 1964) was an English actor, theatre director and writer. He is known mainly for his biographies; they made him the leading British biographer of his time, in terms of commercial success.
Early life
Pearson was born in Hawford, Claines, Worcestershire, to a fam... | 2.484375 | 0 |
1485296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesketh%20Pearson | Hesketh Pearson | Wartime and first writing
At the outbreak of the First World War, Pearson enlisted immediately in the British Army but was soon invalided out when it was discovered that he suffered from tuberculosis. He was commissioned into the Army Service Corps and was sent to Mesopotamia, where the climate was conducive to treatm... | 2.609375 | 0 |
1485342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Clonmel | Siege of Clonmel | The siege of Clonmel, from 27 April to 18 May 1650, took place during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, when Clonmel in County Tipperary was besieged by 8,000 men from the New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell. The garrison of 1,500 commanded by Hugh Dubh O'Neill eventually surrendered after inflicting heavy casualti... | 2.5 | 0 |
1485342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Clonmel | Siege of Clonmel | Surrender
Cromwell knew that O'Neill's garrison and supplies were severely depleted and planned the next morning to try a fresh assault with close artillery support to batter the coupure and its defenders. However, O'Neill's men were out of ammunition and slipped away under the cover of darkness – making their way to W... | 2.0625 | 0 |
1485377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drang%20Nach%20Osten%21 | Drang Nach Osten! | Drang Nach Osten! ("Drive to the East!") is a monster board wargame published in 1973 by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) that simulates Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The game was the first of what was envisioned as a series of games with identical wargame rules and map scale tha... | 2.0625 | 0 |
1485387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamstown%2C%20Dublin | Adamstown, Dublin | Concept and commencement
Adamstown originated with the 1998 South Dublin County Development Plan, which considered the creation of several "new towns" – only Adamstown made it to the development stage, and the area was legally designated as a Strategic Development Zone. The advance or parallel provision of a new railwa... | 2.328125 | 0 |
1485387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamstown%2C%20Dublin | Adamstown, Dublin | Development, delays and resumption
It was intended that after an initial ten years of development, it would have around 10,000 homes, and about 25,000 people, with schools, a library, community and healthcare centres, a cinema and a range of retail facilities. Development slowed after the initial phases – which saw aro... | 2.125 | 0 |
1485408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangata%20whenua | Tangata whenua | In New Zealand, tangata whenua () is a Māori term that translates to "people of the land". It can refer to either a specific group of people with historical claims to a district, or more broadly the Māori people as a whole.
Etymology
According to Williams' definitive Dictionary of the Māori Language, tangata means "ma... | 2.59375 | 0 |
1485408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangata%20whenua | Tangata whenua | Whānau
The smallest level, whānau, is what Westerners would consider the extended family, perhaps descended from a common great-grandparent. Traditionally a whānau would hold in common their food store (their forest or bush for hunting birds and gathering or growing plant foods, and a part of the sea, a river or a lak... | 3.046875 | 0 |
1485408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangata%20whenua | Tangata whenua | When, for example, a major real-estate development is proposed to the territorial authority, the tangata whenua must be consulted, although the mere fact that "consultation" take place does not mean that the views of the tangata whenua will necessarily be listened to. When bones are found, the tangata whenua are suppos... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1485411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental%20Empires | Accidental Empires | Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date (1992, 1996), is a book written by Mark Stephens under the pen name Robert X. Cringely about the founding of the personal computer industry and the history of Silicon Valley.
The style of Acc... | 2.03125 | 0 |
1485413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE%20Hall%20of%20Fame | WWE Hall of Fame | The WWE Hall of Fame is a hall of fame which honors professional wrestlers and professional wrestling personalities maintained by WWE. Originally known as the "WWF Hall of Fame", it was created in 1993 when André the Giant was posthumously inducted with a video package as the sole inductee that year. The 1994 and 1995 ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
1485432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%20Union%20men%27s%20national%20ice%20hockey%20team | Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team | The Soviet national ice hockey team was the national men's ice hockey team of the Soviet Union. From 1954, the team won at least one medal each year at either the Ice Hockey World Championships or the Olympic hockey tournament.
After its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet team competed as the CIS team (part of the Unifie... | 2.734375 | 0 |
1485432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%20Union%20men%27s%20national%20ice%20hockey%20team | Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team | The Soviets planned to send a team to the 1953 World Championships, but due to an injury to Vsevolod Bobrov, one of their star players, officials decided against going. They would make their debut at the 1954 World Championships instead. Largely unknown to the larger hockey world, the team surprised many by winning the... | 2.46875 | 0 |
1485432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%20Union%20men%27s%20national%20ice%20hockey%20team | Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team | At the 1980 Winter Olympics, the Soviets also had one of their most notable losses. Playing the United States in the medal round, the Soviets lost 4–3. This match, later dubbed the Miracle on Ice, was notable because it had the Soviets, recognized as the top international team in the world, against an American team com... | 2.375 | 0 |
1485500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero%20India | Aero India | The major attractions of Aero India 2005 were the leading fighter, advanced jet trainers and unmanned aerial vehicles from Russia, US, France, Britain, Israel and India who took part in the flying as well as static displays at the show. The visitors enjoyed the spectacular flying performances and static exhibitions of ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
1485502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Henstock | Ralph Henstock | Ralph Henstock (2 June 1923 – 17 January 2007) was an English mathematician and author. As an Integration theorist, he is notable for Henstock–Kurzweil integral. Henstock brought the theory to a highly developed stage without ever having encountered Jaroslav Kurzweil's 1957 paper on the subject.
Early life
Henstock wa... | 2.140625 | 0 |
1485534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy%20fight | Proxy fight | A proxy fight, proxy contest or proxy battle is an unfriendly contest for control over an organization. The event usually occurs when a corporation's stockholders develop opposition to some aspect of the corporate governance, often focusing on directorial and management positions. Corporate activists may attempt to per... | 2.21875 | 0 |
1485534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy%20fight | Proxy fight | Examples
An acquiring company, frustrated by the takeover defenses of the management, may initiate a proxy fight to install a more compliant management of the target.
Internal opponents to an impending takeover (viewing it will cut value or add much risk) may enter into a proxy fight. Such took place within Hewlett-Pac... | 1.984375 | 0 |
1485547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childs%20Hill | Childs Hill | Childs Hill is one of two areas at the south end of the London Borough of Barnet along with Cricklewood which straddles three boroughs. It took its name from Richard le Child, who in 1312 held a customary house and "30 acres" of its area. It is a mainly late-19th-century suburban large neighbourhood centred 5 miles (8 ... | 2.125 | 0 |
1485579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balchik | Balchik | Karvuna is the old Bulgarian name of the ancient Dionysopol. The external resemblance to the name of the modern town of Kavarna is an occasion for some local historians to identify Karvuna with Kavarna, but the archaeological and historical data are not in favour of this proposal. Karvuna was the capital of the Karvuna... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1485586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desjardins%20Canal | Desjardins Canal | The story of the area around the head of the lake during the early 19th century is one of competition between the towns of Dundas, Ancaster and Hamilton to service this increased trade and achieve economic supremacy. Each town had its unique advantages and disadvantages which might make it more or less attractive to pr... | 2.9375 | 0 |
1485586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desjardins%20Canal | Desjardins Canal | It was in this context that the government of Upper Canada authorized in 1823 the construction of a canal through the sandbar. In 1826 the passage was completed, allowing schooners to sail right up to Hamilton's doorstep. Hamilton then became a major port and quickly expanded as a center of trade and commerce. Access... | 2.359375 | 0 |
1485586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desjardins%20Canal | Desjardins Canal | Search for support
In 1820 Desjardins had petitioned the government for a lot on Spencer Creek as well as for a small island in front of the lot. He planned to build a storehouse beside Spencer Creek, deepen the creek to make a channel from the town to the marsh and cut a channel through the marsh to allow access of la... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1485586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desjardins%20Canal | Desjardins Canal | However Desjardins did not live to see the results of his efforts. The costs that he personally incurred to get the Desjardins Canal project under way exhausted his assets and credit. He had hoped to be reimbursed when investor capital began to flow but instead was required by the agreement with the province to accept... | 2.1875 | 0 |
1485586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desjardins%20Canal | Desjardins Canal | Attracting capital was a continuing problem for the company. Available records do not indicate that at any time more than 70-80% of the authorized shares were subscribed or that more than £6000 (out of an authorized £10000) was raised in this way. A limited amount of money came from canal operations (tolls) but for th... | 2.359375 | 0 |
1485586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desjardins%20Canal | Desjardins Canal | In spite of the economic benefits that the canal was generating, however, the company continued to struggle with technical and financial problems. Repairs and improvements were necessary to make canal operations viable on an ongoing basis but sufficient money was not available from private sources, or from canal opera... | 2.71875 | 0 |
1485586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desjardins%20Canal | Desjardins Canal | End of the road
The first railway in Canada was the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, built in 1836 in Lower Canada to connect ports on the St. Lawrence and Richelieu Rivers. The potential for railroad transportation in Upper Canada was quickly recognized and almost immediately the Desjardins Canal Company was force... | 2.671875 | 0 |
1485586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desjardins%20Canal | Desjardins Canal | All this was exacerbated by squabbling between the railroad, road and canal companies about bridge construction and rights-of-way. As the canal cut through the shortest route between Toronto and Hamilton for both rail and road traffic it was necessary to bridge the gap in some way to accommodate land-based traffic. C... | 2.6875 | 0 |
1485586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desjardins%20Canal | Desjardins Canal | For all practical purposes the canal had ceased to have a serious commercial future once a low level road bridge was constructed in 1869, denying access to most lake schooners. Writing in 1875 a local historian commented on "The ill-fated Desjardins canal. It is now seldom used except by raftsmen for the purpose of fl... | 2.125 | 0 |
1485599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A1udio%20Taffarel | Cláudio Taffarel | International career
Taffarel made his debut for Brazil on 7 July 1988 in the Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup, playing all four games and conceding two goals as his team won the tournament. He was also in goal for the following year's Copa América, which Brazil also won (during his ten-year international career, he appe... | 1.914063 | 0 |
1485612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoHotkey | AutoHotkey | AutoHotkey is a free and open-source custom scripting language for Microsoft Windows, primarily designed to provide easy keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys, fast macro-creation and software automation to allow users of most computer skill levels to automate repetitive tasks in any Windows application. It can easily extend o... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1485616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Cassini | Henri Cassini | Viscount Alexandre Henri Gabriel (vicomte) de Cassini (9 May 1781 – 23 April 1832) was a French botanist and naturalist, who specialised in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) (then known as family Compositae).
He was the youngest of five children of Jacques Dominique, Comte de Cassini, famous for completing the map of ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1485631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20cuisine | Croatian cuisine | Croatian cuisine () is heterogeneous and is known as a cuisine of the regions, since every region of Croatia has its own distinct culinary tradition. Its roots date back to ancient times. The differences in the selection of foodstuffs and forms of cooking are most notable between those in mainland and those in coastal ... | 2.625 | 0 |
1485648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing%20%28music%29 | Dubbing (music) | In sound recording, dubbing is the transfer or copying of previously recorded audio material from one medium to another of the same or a different type. It may be done with a machine designed for this purpose, or by connecting two different machines: one to play back and one to record the signal. The purpose of dubbing... | 3.140625 | 0 |
1485660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batak%2C%20Bulgaria | Batak, Bulgaria | The exact origin of Batak is unknown, since there is a lack of historical data. The earlier view that the settlement was founded by Bulgarians who escaped from the forced mass conversion into Islam in the valley of Chepino in 16th century today is rejected because it is believed that the settlement is much older. This ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
1485764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Woolmer | Bob Woolmer | Robert Andrew Woolmer (14 May 1948 – 18 March 2007) was an English cricket coach, cricketer, and a commentator. He played in 19 Test matches and six One Day Internationals for the England cricket team and later coached South Africa, Warwickshire and Pakistan. During his coaching career with South Africa, he led the tea... | 2.03125 | 0 |
1485764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Woolmer | Bob Woolmer | Selection for Kent
In 1968, at the age of 20, Woolmer joined the Kent cricket staff and made his championship debut against Essex. His ability to move the ball about at medium-pace was ideally suited to one-day cricket at which he became a specialist. He won his county cap in 1969. Woolmer began his coaching career in ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
1485764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Woolmer | Bob Woolmer | Coaching career
Woolmer obtained his coaching qualification in 1968.
In South Africa
After retiring from first-class cricket in 1984, he emigrated to South Africa, where he coached cricket and hockey at high schools. He also became involved in the Avendale Cricket Club in Athlone, Cape Town. He preferred to join a 'co... | 2.53125 | 0 |
1485764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Woolmer | Bob Woolmer | Pakistan
He was appointed coach of the Pakistan team in 2004. This came after Javed Miandad was sacked when the Pakistanis conceded a 2–1 Test and 3–2 ODI series loss on home soil to arch rivals India, their first series win there in two decades. He was feted when his team reversed the result in early 2005 on their ret... | 1.921875 | 0 |
1485774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belene | Belene | Belene ( ) is a town in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Belene Municipality. The town is situated on the right bank of the Danube river, close to the town of Svishtov.
Geography
Location
Belene is located in Pleven Province - 60 km northeast of the regional centr... | 2.171875 | 0 |
1485774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belene | Belene | The available data determine its origin in 1086, when part of the Paulician population after the suppression of the Thracian uprising left the surroundings of Plovdiv and settled near the destroyed and depopulated ancient Roman fortress Dimum (Dum).
In the Middle Ages the settlement was called Dunavgrad (Tunaburgos). ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
1485774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belene | Belene | On 7 September 1964 Belene was proclaimed a city. Here was located the biggest labour camp in Bulgaria (Belene labour camp) after the BCP gained power in 1944. It was constructed on the island of Persin (also known as Belene Island) in the Danube in Spring of 1949.
Religion
The main confessions in the town are Roman ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
1485784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%201%3A13 | Matthew 1:13 | Of the people listed in this passage only Zerubbabel is well known. He plays an important role in the Book of Ezra and appears elsewhere in the Bible. It is at this point that the Old Testament histories conclude, and the other three figures listed here are only known from this genealogy. It is thus unknown where the ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
1485789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan | Overscan | A significant number of people would still see some of the overscan area, so while nothing important in a scene would be placed there, it also had to be kept free of microphones, stage hands, and other distractions. Studio monitors and camera viewfinders were set to show this area, so that producers and directors could... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1485822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao%20Qiang | Xiao Qiang | Xiao Qiang (, born November 19, 1961) is the Director and Research Scientist of the Counter-Power Lab, an interdisciplinary faculty-student research group focusing on digital rights and internet freedom, based in the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley and is funded by the US Department of State. ... | 2 | 0 |
1485823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Public%20Garden | Boston Public Garden | In February 1824, the city of Boston purchased back the land granted to the ropemakers, for a cost of $50,000. The next year, a proposal to turn the land into a graveyard was defeated by a vote of 1632 to 176. The Public Garden was established in 1837, when philanthropist Horace Gray petitioned for the use of land as t... | 2.859375 | 0 |
1485823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Public%20Garden | Boston Public Garden | Originally, the Charles Street side of the Public Garden (along with the adjacent portions of Boston Common) was used as an unofficial dumping ground, due to being the lowest-lying portion of the Garden; this, along with the Garden's originally being a salt marsh, resulted in this edge of the Public Garden being "a moi... | 2.390625 | 0 |
1485823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Public%20Garden | Boston Public Garden | Description
Together with the Boston Common, the parks form the northern terminus of the Emerald Necklace, a long string of parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Both parks have been developed for recreational and aesthetic purposes: while the Common is primarily unstructured open space that facilitate social and po... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1485823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Public%20Garden | Boston Public Garden | Being no more than three feet deep at its deepest point, the pond easily freezes during the colder months. In 1879, the Boston City Council passed an order to maintain the pond for skating during the winter; today, there is an official skating rink maintained at Frog Pond on the Common, instead.
The pond represented a... | 2.734375 | 0 |
1485823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Public%20Garden | Boston Public Garden | Located at the Arlington Street gate and facing Commonwealth Avenue is the equestrian statue of George Washington, designed and cast by Thomas Ball. Unveiled on July 3, 1869, the statue itself is 16 feet tall and made of bronze and stands upon a granite pedestal of , for a total height of . The statue was funded mostly... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1485823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Public%20Garden | Boston Public Garden | A set of bronze statues by Nancy Schön, dating from 1987 and based on the main characters from the children's story Make Way for Ducklings, is located between the pond and the Charles and Beacon streets entrance.
At the east gate on Charles Street is a bronze statue of Edward Everett Hale by Bela Pratt, presented to t... | 2.328125 | 0 |
1485865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firemouth%20cichlid | Firemouth cichlid | The firemouth cichlid (Thorichthys meeki) is a species of cichlid fish native to Central America. They occur in rivers of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, south through Belize and into northern Guatemala.
Their natural habitat is typically shallow, slow-moving, often turbid, water with a pH of 6.5 - 8.0. It has also be... | 2.90625 | 0 |
1485870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belitsa | Belitsa | The economy of Belitsa is based primarily on small workshops in the wood processing and sewing industries. The NSI reports that in the territory of the municipality, there are 150 registered businesses, the largest being related to transportation, repair, and service (totaling 36.6%), followed by manufacturing (24.3%),... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1485905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mothers%20of%20Invention | The Mothers of Invention | Early years (1964–1965)
The Soul Giants were formed in 1964. In early 1965, Frank Zappa was approached by Ray Collins who asked him to take over as the guitarist following a fight between Collins and the group's original guitarist. Zappa accepted, and convinced the other members that they should play his music to incre... | 2.703125 | 0 |
1485916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald%20Necklace | Emerald Necklace | The project began around 1878 with the effort to clean up and control the marshy area which became the Back Bay and The Fens. In 1880, Olmsted proposed that the Muddy River, which flowed from Jamaica Pond through the Fens, be included in the park plan. The current was dredged into a winding stream and directed into the... | 2.59375 | 0 |
1485916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald%20Necklace | Emerald Necklace | Olmsted's original plan called for a U-shaped necklace which terminated at Boston Harbor. The final link, the Dorchesterway, was never realized.
Jurisdiction
Arnold Arboretum is leased to and managed by Harvard University.
The west banks of Olmsted Park and the Riverway are under the jurisdiction of Brookline Parks ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
1485952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf%20Evers | Alf Evers | Alf Evers (February 2, 1905 – December 29, 2004) was an American historian who lived in Ulster County, New York for much of his life and wrote lengthy, definitive histories of the Catskills and Woodstock, serving the latter as town historian. At the time of his death his history of Kingston was nearly complete and awai... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1485957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boboshevo | Boboshevo | Boboshevo ( ) is a town in Western Bulgaria. It is located in Kyustendil Province and is close to the towns of Kocherinovo and Rila.
The town of Boboshevo is situated about to the south of Sofia and from Bulgaria's prime skiing destination, Bansko. It is approximately 4 km away from Boboshevo is the main road that c... | 2.0625 | 0 |
1485970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollendo | Mollendo | Mollendo is a town on the Pacific Ocean in southern Peru. It is located in the Arequipa Region and is the capital of both the Islay Province and the Mollendo District. Mollendo was the main port on the Peruvian southern coast until Matarani was developed around the mid-20th century; the port of Mollendo serves fisherme... | 2.53125 | 0 |
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