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1485970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollendo | Mollendo | Cápac Yupanqui's son, Sinchi Rocca, conquered all of Arequipa and Moquegua coast area. From this event and ahead, Tambo is a main protagonist into the region history, due their geographical position and serving as weapons and food supply depot. Inca Yáhuar Huácac, successor of Inca Cápac Yupanqui, established his suppl... | 2.75 | 0 |
1485973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiker | Eiker | Eiker is a traditional district in the county of Buskerud, Norway.
History
Eiker consists of the municipalities of Nedre Eiker and Øvre Eiker. The area is located in the southern part of Buskerud county.
Eiker is an agricultural area with a long history. The area was first inhabited around 8000 BC. During the early V... | 2.21875 | 0 |
1485978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20handball | Chinese handball | Chinese handball is a form of American handball popular on the streets of New York City, Philadelphia, and Bridgewater during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and still played today, mostly in New York City, Philadelphia, and San Diego. Different variations are played around the world. Its defining feature is that, u... | 2.421875 | 0 |
1485978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20handball | Chinese handball | 1v1 duels or American-style 2v2 can be played, with teams alternating hitting the ball and points awarded whenever the opposing team fails to make a valid return. However, it is usually played with larger numbers, in an elimination style. If a player makes an invalid return, they are "out", and exit the court. Whoever ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
1486011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency%20in%20Northeast%20India | Insurgency in Northeast India | The Insurgency in Northeast India involves multiple separatist and jihadist militant groups operating in some of India's northeastern states, which are connected to the rest of India by the Siliguri Corridor, a strip of land as narrow as wide.
Northeastern India consists of seven states (also known as the Seven Sist... | 2.609375 | 0 |
1486011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency%20in%20Northeast%20India | Insurgency in Northeast India | The first militant outfit to emerge in the region was the Hynniewtrep Achik Liberation Council (HALC). It was formed in 1992, aiming to protect the interests of Meghalaya's indigenous population from the rise of non-tribal ("Dkhar") immigration.
A conflict of interest soon led to a split of the HALC. The Garo members ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1486014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunga | Dunga | During his early career and throughout his mid-twenties, Dunga alternated between playing as a holding-role midfielder and playing a box-to-box role. He was equally as effective playing either role, because he was quite a mobile player with excellent stamina, and therefore could get forward quickly to support his team'... | 1.976563 | 0 |
1486029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Alexis%20Brialmont | Henri Alexis Brialmont | Henri-Alexis Brialmont (Venlo, 25 May 1821 – Brussels, 21 July 1903), nicknamed The Belgian Vauban after the French military architect, was a Belgian army officer, politician and writer of the 19th century, best known as a military architect and designer of fortifications. Brialmont qualified as an officer in the Belgi... | 2.65625 | 0 |
1486029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Alexis%20Brialmont | Henri Alexis Brialmont | From his early career, Brialmont advocated expanding the importance of the Belgian army. In 1850, he convinced his father to resign his ministerial post rather than consent to a lowering of defence spending. His stance put him into conflict with Walthère Frère-Orban and the Liberals. From 1855, he began campaigning for... | 2.390625 | 0 |
1486029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Alexis%20Brialmont | Henri Alexis Brialmont | Political and historical writings
Brialmont was an energetic writer on military and political subjects. In 1851, he published his first major work, entitled Considérations politiques et militaires sur la Belgique, which was well received. He wrote a number of books on fortifications including La Fortification du temps ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1486029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Alexis%20Brialmont | Henri Alexis Brialmont | The Brialmont forts would be used for the first time after Brialmont's death during the German invasion of Belgium in 1914. The system of fortifications established by Brialmont was at the heart of the ultimately unsuccessful Belgian defensive strategy and led to decisive battles at major fortified regions, including t... | 2.734375 | 0 |
1486031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District%20magistrate | District magistrate | The district magistrate, also known as the district collector or deputy commissioner, is a career civil servant who serves as the executive head of a district's administration in India. The specific name depends on the state or union territory. Each of these posts has distinct responsibilities, and an officer can assum... | 3.15625 | 0 |
1486031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District%20magistrate | District magistrate | The office of a collector during the British Raj held multiple responsibilities as collector, he was the head of the revenue organization, charged with registration, alteration, and partition of holdings; the settlement of disputes; the management of indebted estates; loans to agriculturists, and famine relief. As dist... | 2.84375 | 0 |
1486031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District%20magistrate | District magistrate | The different names of the office are a legacy of the varying administration systems in British India. While the powers exercised by the officer were mostly the same throughout the country, the preferred name often reflected his primary role in the particular province. In the Bengal Presidency, the post was called Dist... | 2.78125 | 0 |
1486032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy%20film | Buddy film | The buddy film is a subgenre of adventure and comedy film in which two people go on an adventure, mission, or road trip. The two typically are males with contrasting personalities. The contrast is sometimes accentuated by an ethnic difference between the two. The buddy film is commonplace in Western cinema; unlike some... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1486032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy%20film | Buddy film | 1980s: Action films and biracial pairings
The 1980s was a popular decade for action films, and the genre that "blended masculinity, heroism, and patriotism into an idealized image" was hybridized with buddy films. Following the Civil Rights Movement, black advancement was also reflected in more common biracial pairings... | 1.992188 | 0 |
1486044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow%20dung | Cow dung | In 2021, the Government of India's Khadi and Village Industries Commission launched the Khadi Prakritik paint, which has cow dung as its main ingredient, promoting it as an eco-friendly paint with anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties.
Other uses
In central Africa, Maasai villages have burned cow dung inside to ... | 2.890625 | 0 |
1486054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritz%20rebellion | Maritz rebellion | The government declared martial law on 12 October 1914, and forces loyal to the government under the command of General Louis Botha and Jan Smuts proceeded to destroy the rebellion. General Maritz was defeated on 24 October and took refuge with the Germans. The Beyers commando was attacked and dispersed at Commissioner... | 2.546875 | 0 |
1486059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasselt%20University | Hasselt University | Hasselt University (Dutch: Universiteit Hasselt or UHasselt) is a public research university with campuses in Hasselt and Diepenbeek, Belgium. It has more than 7,500 students and 1,800 academic, administrative and technical staff (2023). The university was officially established in 1971 as the Limburg Universitair Cent... | 1.90625 | 0 |
1486065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Hood%20Battalion | Robin Hood Battalion | On 19 September, a duplicate battalion of the Robin Hoods was formed, the original becoming the 1/7th. This duplicate joined the 2nd Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Brigade, 2nd North Midland Division, which later became the 178th (2nd Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire) Brigade and 59th (2nd North Midland) Division respect... | 2.421875 | 0 |
1486065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Hood%20Battalion | Robin Hood Battalion | The air situation was quiet until 21 October, when the Germans began a bombardment of Antwerp and Brussels with V-1 flying bombs. With experience drawn from defending against the V-1 attacks on Southern England (Operation Diver), GHQ AA Troops with 21st Army Group had a contingency plan for this, known as 'X' defences.... | 2.53125 | 0 |
1486077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield%20House | Winfield House | Subsequent occupants who leased Hertford Villa–St. Dunstan's included American financier Otto Kahn and British newspaper proprietor Lord Rothermere. During the First World War, Kahn lent the house to a new charity for blinded servicemen, which took the name of St Dunstan's (now Blind Veterans UK). After a fire in 1936,... | 2.0625 | 0 |
1486078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias%20Schneebaum | Tobias Schneebaum | Tobias Schneebaum (March 25, 1922 – September 20, 2005) was an American artist, anthropologist, and AIDS activist. He is best known for his experiences living and traveling among the Harakmbut people of Peru, and the Asmat people of Papua, Indonesia.
Early life
Schneebaum was born into a family of Jewish emigres from ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
1486078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias%20Schneebaum | Tobias Schneebaum | Later life
Schneebaum spent the final years of his life in Westbeth Artists Community, an artists' commune in Greenwich Village, New York City, also home to Merce Cunningham and Diane Arbus, and died in 2005 in Great Neck, New York of Parkinson's disease. He bequeathed his renowned Asmat shield collection to the Metrop... | 1.9375 | 0 |
1486096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory%20affairs | Regulatory affairs | Regulatory affairs (RA), is a profession that deals with an organization’s adherence to regulatory compliance.
It is a position mostly found within regulated industries, such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, cosmetics, agrochemicals (plant protection products and fertilizers), energy, banking, telecom etc. Regul... | 2.25 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | From 1900 to 1940, the Netherlands experienced significant population growth. This era included significant colonial expansion, particularly in the Dutch East Indies, coupled with the challenges posed by World War I and the Great Depression. Although the Netherlands maintained neutrality during World War I, its strateg... | 2.890625 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | In recent decades, the Netherlands has continued to play a significant role in global affairs, maintaining a strong economy and a high standard of living. Challenges such as immigration and integration have sparked considerable debate, particularly in the context of rising global tensions and the impact of globalizatio... | 2.6875 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | Emergence of socialist parties
At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism began to develop in the industrial centers. Although the first socialist party, the Social Democratic League, was founded in the 19th century, the electoral system, combined with a policy of containment and repression, prevented the develop... | 2.703125 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | The colony brought economic opportunity to the mother country and there was little concern at the time about it. One exception came in 1860 when Eduard Dekker, under the pen name "Multatuli" wrote the novel Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company, one of the most notable books in the history o... | 2.75 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | The German war plan (the Schlieffen Plan) of 1905 was modified in 1908 to invade Belgium on the way to Paris but not the Netherlands. It supplied many essential raw materials to Germany such as rubber, tin, quinine, oil and food. The British used its blockade to limit supplies that the Dutch could pass on. There were o... | 2.671875 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | Food shortages were extensive, due to the control the belligerents exercised over the Dutch. Each wanted their share of Dutch produce.
The country was surrounded by states at war, and with the North Sea unsafe for civilian ships to sail on, food became scarce; food was now distributed using coupons. An error in food d... | 2.953125 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | There were separate fascist and Nazi movements in the 1930s. Dutch Fascists admired Mussolini's Italy and called for a traditional corporate ideology. The membership was small, elitist and ineffective. The pro-Nazi movement, however, won support from Berlin and attempted to build a mass base by 1935. It failed because ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | Areas south of the Rhine river were liberated in the period September–December 1944, including the province of Zeeland, which was liberated in October and November in the Battle of the Scheldt. This opened Antwerp to allied shipping. The First Canadian Army held a static line along the Meuse () from December 1944 throu... | 2.890625 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | After the euphoria and settling of scores had ended, the Dutch were a traumatised people with a ruined economy, a shattered infrastructure and several destroyed cities including Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Arnhem and part of The Hague.
Post-war events
After the war, there were reprisals against those who had collaborated wi... | 2.75 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | Immediately after the war, rationing was imposed on many goods, including: cigarettes, textiles, washing powder and coffee. Even traditional wooden shoes were rationed. There was severe housing shortages in the Netherlands as a result of the war. In the 1950s, there was mass emigration, especially to Canada, Australia ... | 2.828125 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | Despite the socio-economic problems, this was a period of optimism for many. A baby boom followed the war, as young Dutch couples started the families they could not previously due to the war. They had lived through the hardships of the Great Depression and the hell of war. They wanted to start afresh and live better l... | 2.546875 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | Across Western Europe, the period from 1973 to 1981 marked the end of the booming economy of the 1960s. The Netherlands also experienced years of negative growth after that. Unemployment increased steadily, causing rapid growth in social-security expenditures. Inflation reached double digits; government surpluses disap... | 2.78125 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | The Netherlands is a founding member of the EU, NATO, OECD and WTO. Together with Belgium and Luxembourg it forms the Benelux economic union. The country is host to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and five international courts: the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the International Court of Just... | 2.8125 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | There were hundreds of thousands of Indonesians who supported the Dutch position; when Independence finally arrived, most of them were relocated to the Netherlands. The UK mediated a compromise signed in March 1947 whereby de facto control of the new Indonesian Republic was acknowledged over Java, Maduro and Sumatra, w... | 2.8125 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | During and after the Indonesian National Revolution, over 350,000 people, left Indonesia for the Netherlands. This included 250,000 Europeans and "Indos" (Dutch-Indonesian Eurasians), Along with 100,000 military conscripts, and 12,000 South Moluccans who settled in the Netherlands. Similarly after independence in 1975,... | 2.671875 | 0 |
1486117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20%281900%E2%80%93present%29 | History of the Netherlands (1900–present) | Liberalisation
When the post-war baby boom children grew up, they led the revolt in the 1960s against all rigidities in Dutch life. The 1960s and 1970s were a time of great social and cultural change, such as rapid de-pillarization leading to the erosion of the old divisions along class and religious lines. A youth cul... | 2.5 | 0 |
1486119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Amadeus | Lake Amadeus | Lake Amadeus (together with Lake Neale, Pitjantjatjara: Pantu ("salt lakes")) is a large salt lake in the southwest corner of Northern Territory of Australia, about north of Uluru. The smaller Lake Neale is adjacent to the northwest. It is part of (or a surface feature of) the Amadeus Basin that was filled with the e... | 2.53125 | 0 |
1486120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Mercator | Nicholas Mercator | Nicholas (Nikolaus) Mercator (c. 1620, Holstein – 1687, Versailles), also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century mathematician.
He was born in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and educated at Rostock and Leyden after which he lived from 1642 to 1648 in the Netherlands. He lectured at the University o... | 2.421875 | 0 |
1486133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuckie%20Egg | Chuckie Egg | Chuckie Egg is a platform game released by A&F Software in 1983 initially for the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and Dragon 32/64. It was ported to the Commodore 64, Acorn Electron, MSX, Tatung Einstein, Amstrad CPC, and Atari 8-bit computers. It was later updated for the Amiga, Atari ST, and IBM PC compatibles.
The game was... | 2.421875 | 0 |
1486133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuckie%20Egg | Chuckie Egg | Eight levels are defined and are played initially under the watch of a giant caged duck. Upon completion of all eight the levels are played again without hens, but Harry is now pursued by the freed duck flying around the screen and homing in on him. A second completion of all eight levels yields a third play through wi... | 2.203125 | 0 |
1486152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20Uganda | Culture of Uganda | In Western Uganda, there is the Empaako naming system where the indigenous communities of Batooro, Banyoro, Batuku, Banyabindi, and Batagwenda identify traditional names that match different seasons, times, and clans, among others. Other traditions include dances, namely Entogoro and Ekitagururo, performed by tradition... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1486167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes%20Compton | Barnes Compton | Barnes Compton (November 16, 1830 – December 2, 1898) was a Representative of the fifth congressional district of Maryland and a Treasurer of Maryland.
Early life
Barnes Compton was born on November 16, 1830, in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland to Mary Clarissa (née Barnes) and William Penn Compton. His parents ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
1486178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulwar | Pulwar | The pulwar or pulouar () is a single-handed curved sword originating in Afghanistan.
Origin
The pulwar originated alongside other scimitar-type weapons such as the Arab saif, the Persian shamshir, the Turkish kilij, and the Indian talwar, all of them ultimately based on earlier Central Asian swords. Originally, the Kh... | 2.46875 | 0 |
1486185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel%20%28video%20game%29 | Citadel (video game) | Citadel is a computer game developed by Michael Jakobsen for the BBC Micro, and released by Superior Software in 1985. It was also ported to the Acorn Electron. Centred around a castle, this platform game with some puzzle-solving elements requires players to find five hidden crystals and return them to their rightful p... | 2.21875 | 0 |
1486185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel%20%28video%20game%29 | Citadel (video game) | The game also allows the player to choose the sex of their character and uses a different sprite accordingly - quite unusual in the days when in-game memory was at a premium (although the chosen gender of the sprite does not affect gameplay). The player sprite is not superimposed over objects that it walks "in front" o... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1486185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel%20%28video%20game%29 | Citadel (video game) | The player is limited to carrying two items at any one time and a certain combination of objects in their inventory is often needed to solve particular problems. For example, one crystal is located in a room behind a brick wall. Access is obtained by finding a cannonball and sack of gunpowder and then walking past a ca... | 2.15625 | 0 |
1486198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A.O.K. | P.A.O.K. | T. Triantafyllidis (President)
P. Kalpaktsoglou (1st vice-president)
K. Kritikos (General Secretary)
M. Tsoulkas (Special Secretary)
T. Ioakimopoulos (Treasurer)
A. Angelopoulos (Director of Football)
A. Dimitriadis (Director of Sports)
P. Maleskas (Consultant)
K. Koemtzopoulos (Consultant)
M. Theodosiadis (Co... | 1.976563 | 0 |
1486232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish | Oarfish | Oarfish are large and extremely long pelagic lampriform fish belonging to the small family Regalecidae. Found in areas spanning from temperate ocean zones to tropical ones, yet rarely seen, the oarfish family contains three species in two genera. One of these, the giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne), is the longest bony f... | 2.859375 | 0 |
1486232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish | Oarfish | Through the analysis of the mitochondrial genome of Regalecus glesne, the phylogenetic placement of the giant oarfish was further verified. Oarfish are Lampriformes, so placed due to their morphology. Analysis of the mitochondrial genome of an R. glesne specimen clusters the species with Trachipterus trachypterus and Z... | 3.0625 | 0 |
1486232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish | Oarfish | Rare encounters with divers and accidental catches have supplied what little is known of oarfish ethology (behavior) and ecology. In 2001, an oarfish was filmed alive in the wild. The fish was spotted by a group of U.S. Navy personnel during the inspection of a buoy in the Bahamas. The oarfish was observed to propel i... | 3.15625 | 0 |
1486232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish | Oarfish | In 2016, Animal Planet aired an episode of the television series River Monsters named "Deep Sea Demon" in which Jeremy Wade was filmed with a live oarfish. The oarfish at this location seemed to be using a buoy anchor chain as a guide to ascend to the surface. On his second diving attempt, he filmed two live oarfish as... | 2.953125 | 0 |
1486232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish | Oarfish | From January to February 2019, researchers tested and recorded the first successful instance of artificial insemination and hatching of Regalecus russellii using gonads from two washed-up specimens. Compared to adults, the body structure of newly hatched oarfish larvae look more compressed. The larvae often swam using ... | 3.046875 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | Types of Buddhism in the United States
Three broad types of American Buddhism are found in the United States:
The oldest and largest of these is "immigrant" or "ethnic Buddhism", those Buddhist traditions that came to America with immigrants who were already practitioners and that largely remained with those immigrant... | 2.421875 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | Buddhist Churches of America
The Buddhist Churches of America and the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii are immigrant Buddhist organizations in the United States. The BCA is an affiliate of Japan's Nishi Hongwanji, a sect of Jōdo Shinshū, which is, in turn, a form of Pure Land Buddhism. Tracing its roots to the Young M... | 2.546875 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | An early American to publicly convert to Buddhism was Henry Steel Olcott. Olcott, a former U.S. army colonel during the Civil War, had grown interested in reports of supernatural phenomena that were popular in the late 19th century. In 1875, he, Helena Blavatsky, and William Quan Judge founded the Theosophical Society,... | 2.859375 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | Paul Carus, a German American philosopher and theologian, was at work on a more scholarly prose treatment of the same subject. Carus was the director of Open Court Publishing Company, an academic publisher specializing in philosophy, science, and religion, and editor of The Monist, a journal with a similar focus, both ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | Dwight Goddard
One American who attempted to establish an American Buddhist movement was Dwight Goddard (1861–1939). Goddard was a Christian missionary to China when he first came in contact with Buddhism. In 1928, he spent a year living at a Zen monastery in Japan. In 1934, he founded "The Followers of Buddha, an Amer... | 2.6875 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | Shaku was followed by Nyogen Senzaki, a young monk from Shaku's home temple in Japan. Senzaki briefly worked for the Russells and then as a hotel porter, manager and eventually, owner. In 1922 Senzaki rented a hall and gave an English talk on a paper by Shaku; his periodic talks at different locations became known as t... | 2.140625 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | Taizan Maezumi arrived as a young priest to serve at Zenshuji, the North American Sōtō sect headquarters in Los Angeles, in 1956. Maezumi received dharma transmission (shiho) from Baian Hakujun Kuroda, his father and high-ranked Sōtō priest, in 1955. By the mid-1960s he had formed a regular zazen group. In 1967, he and... | 2.5 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | Dilowa Gegen (Diluu Khudagt) was the first lama to immigrate to the United States in 1949 as a political refugee and joined Owen Lattimore's Mongolia Project. He was born in Tudevtei, Zavkhan, Mongolia and was one of the leading figures in declaration of independence of Mongolia. He was exiled from Mongolia, the reason... | 2.328125 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | In the 21st century, the Nyingma lineage is increasingly represented in the West by both Western and Tibetan teachers. Lama Surya Das is a Western-born teacher carrying on the "great rimé", a non-sectarian form of Tibetan Buddhism. The late Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche founded centers in Seattle and Brazil. Gochen Tulku Sang... | 2.171875 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | Sravasti Abbey is notable because it is home to a growing group of fully ordained bhikshunis (Buddhist nuns) practicing in the Tibetan tradition. This is special because the tradition of full ordination for women was not transmitted from India to Tibet. Ordained women practicing in the Tibetan tradition usually hold a ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | Rita M. Gross, a feminist religious scholar, claims that many people converted to Buddhism in the 1960s and 1970s as an attempt to combat traditional American values. However, in their conversion, they have created a new form of Buddhism distinctly Western in thought and practice. Democratization and the rise of women ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | The mass conversion of the 60s and 70s was also occurring alongside the second-wave feminist movement. While many of the women who became Buddhists at this time were drawn to its "gender neutral" teachings, in reality Buddhism is a traditionally patriarchal religion. These two conflicting ideas caused "uneasiness" with... | 2.625 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | In 2007, the American Buddhist scholar-monk, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, was invited to write an editorial essay for the Buddhist magazine Buddhadharma. In his essay, he called attention to the narrowly inward focus of American Buddhism, which has been pursued to the neglect of the active dimension of Buddhist compassion expre... | 1.984375 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | James Ford claims that about eighty percent of authentic teachers in the United States belong to the American Zen Teachers Association or the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and are listed on their websites. This can help a prospective student sort out who is a "normative stream" teacher from someone who is perhaps not, ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
1486241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20in%20the%20United%20States | Buddhism in the United States | Demographics of Buddhist Converts
A sociological survey conducted in 1999 found that relative to the US population as a whole, Buddhist converts are proportionately more likely to be white, upper middle class, highly educated, and left-leaning in their political views. In terms of race, only 10% of survey respondents ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
1486262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hixon%20rail%20crash | Hixon rail crash | On 6 January 1968, a low-loader transporter carrying a 120-ton electrical transformer was struck by a British Rail express train on a recently installed automatic level crossing at Hixon, Staffordshire, England.
The collision resulted in 11 deaths and 45 people injured, and led to improvements in signage around automa... | 2.453125 | 0 |
1486262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hixon%20rail%20crash | Hixon rail crash | Eleven people (eight passengers and three railwaymen) were killed, with 45 being injured, six of them seriously. The relatively small number of casualties was due to the sturdy steel construction of the coaches and the first class carriages at the front being only lightly occupied. The three railwaymen were all in the ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
1486266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimcha | Nimcha | A Nimcha () is a single-handed sword from north Africa, especially used in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. It is classified as a type of scimitar or saif. Becoming popular in north Africa during the 16th century, surviving nimcha are usually from the late 18th century onward and are notable for often using older blades.... | 2.71875 | 0 |
1486278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hixon%2C%20Staffordshire | Hixon, Staffordshire | Hixon is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Staffordshire.
Location
The village is east of the town of Stafford, southeast of the town of Stone, northwest of the town of Rugeley and south west of Uttoxeter. The nearest railway station is at Rugeley. The nearest main roads are the A518 which ski... | 2.125 | 0 |
1486283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rbol%20del%20Tule | Árbol del Tule | El Árbol del Tule (Spanish for The Tree of Tule) is a tree located in the church grounds in the town center of Santa María del Tule in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, approximately east of the city of Oaxaca on the road to Mitla. It is a Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum), or ahuehuete (meaning "old man of the water... | 2.4375 | 0 |
1486295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Ferguson%20Davie | Henry Ferguson Davie | General Sir Henry Robert Ferguson Davie, 1st Baronet DL (1797 – 30 November 1885), known as Henry Ferguson until 1846, of Creedy Park, Sandford, Devon, was Liberal Member of Parliament for Haddington in East Lothian, Scotland, 1847 to 1878 and an army officer.
The son of Robert Ferguson, Fife, he joined the British Ar... | 2.015625 | 0 |
1486300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost%20heaving | Frost heaving | Since the molar volume of water expands by about 9% as it changes phase from water to ice at its bulk freezing point, 9% would be the maximum expansion possible owing to molar volume expansion, and even then only if the ice were rigidly constrained laterally in the soil so that the entire volume expansion had to occur ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
1486300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost%20heaving | Frost heaving | Water has a lower thermodynamic free energy when in bulk ice than when in the supercooled liquid state. Therefore, there is a continuous replenishment of water flowing from the warm side to the cold side of the particle, and continuous melting to re-establish the thicker film on the warm side. The particle migrates dow... | 3 | 0 |
1486307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruiser%20Mk%20III | Cruiser Mk III | The Tank, Cruiser, Mk III, also known by its General Staff specification number A13 Mark I, was a British cruiser tank of the Second World War. It was the first British cruiser tank to use the Christie suspension system, which gave higher speeds and better cross-country performance; previous cruiser tank models had use... | 2.1875 | 0 |
1486335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm%20%28Don%20Lawrence%29 | Storm (Don Lawrence) | The Chronicles of Pandarve
Storm and Ember get beamed to the Pandarve multiverse, where they meet Nomad, and a new enemy: Marduk, the Theocrat of Pandarve. Marduk wants to catch Storm, because Storm is an anomaly (he imbalances the multiverse because he traveled through time) and is the key to give him power over the m... | 1.992188 | 0 |
1486348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20V.%20Gundappa | D. V. Gundappa | He also wrote Srimad BhagavadGeeta Tatparya, also known as Jeevana Dharma Yoga, which has received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967. Jeevanadharmayoga (yoga of everyday life) is an extraordinary piece of literature, which provides great solace and at the same time makes a commoner realize values of life, D.V.G has tur... | 2.03125 | 0 |
1486348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20V.%20Gundappa | D. V. Gundappa | Among his books, the one on Political Science published in 1952 can be said to be his tour de force. The rich experience he earned through years of keen observation of state administration, deep study of books of important western political thinkers and his own political formulations have gone into the making of this b... | 2.15625 | 0 |
1486369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%2C%20Rastrick%20and%20Company | Foster, Rastrick and Company | Products
The company produced a variety of engineering products including steam engines, proving machines for chain cable, saws, mills, and boilers. It also produced structural components for buildings, bridges and gas works. It had the facilities to produce cast industrial components including beams, cylinders and fl... | 2.390625 | 0 |
1486369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%2C%20Rastrick%20and%20Company | Foster, Rastrick and Company | The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company built a canal of total length 108 miles from Rondout on the Hudson River to Honesdale near a coal-bearing region named Carbondale. The canal was finished in 1828 but in order to connect the mines to the canal, the Chief Engineer of the project, John Jervis, planned to construct a r... | 2.765625 | 0 |
1486369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%2C%20Rastrick%20and%20Company | Foster, Rastrick and Company | For England
The fourth locomotive, Agenoria, was built for service on the Earl of Dudley's Shutt End Colliery Railway in Kingswinford, Staffordshire. It weighed 11 tons, had four coupled wheels of 4 ft ¾in diameter and two cylinders of 8.5 inches diameter by 36 inches stroke. Agenoria was probably the first locomotive... | 2.578125 | 0 |
1486386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/505%20%28dinghy%29 | 505 (dinghy) | It is typical for sailors to purchase bare hulls, spars and foils, and then rig the boats themselves. The result is that there is a wide variety of setups, with some notable regional preferences. For example, US boats traditionally have end-boom sheeting while German boats have mid-boom. This has led to the establishm... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1486422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reese%27s%20Peanut%20Butter%20Cups | Reese's Peanut Butter Cups | Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (, ) are an American candy by the Hershey Company consisting of a peanut butter filling encased in chocolate. They were created on November 15, 1928, by H. B. Reese, a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton S. Hershey. Reese was let go from his job with Hershey when the Round Bar... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1486425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20Plan | Transport Plan | The Transportation Plan was a plan for strategic bombing during World War II against bridges, rail centres, including marshalling yards and repair shops in France with the goal of limiting the German military response to the invasion of France in June 1944.
The plan was based on those of Air Marshal Tedder and the "Ov... | 2.03125 | 0 |
1486485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | Temple (Latter Day Saints) | In the Latter Day Saint movement, a temple is a building dedicated to being a house of God and is reserved for special forms of worship. A temple differs from a church meetinghouse, which is used for weekly worship services. Temples have been a significant part of the Latter Day Saint movement since early in its incept... | 2.65625 | 0 |
1486485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | Temple (Latter Day Saints) | On December 27, 1832, two years after the organization of the Church of Christ, the church's founder, Joseph Smith, reported receiving a revelation that called upon church members to restore the practice of temple worship. The Latter Day Saints in Kirtland, Ohio, were commanded to:
"Establish a house, even a house of p... | 2.625 | 0 |
1486485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | Temple (Latter Day Saints) | Conflict relating to the failure of the church's Kirtland Safety Society bank, caused the church presidency to leave Kirtland and move the church's headquarters to the Mormon settlement of Far West, Missouri. Far West was also platted along the lines of the City of Zion plan and in 1838 the church began construction of... | 2.546875 | 0 |
1486485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | Temple (Latter Day Saints) | Unsuccessful attempts at building temples
During the life of Joseph Smith, a few years before the Kirtland temple was built, Smith dedicated a location in Independence, Missouri, for the building of a special temple, which was to be the center of a New Jerusalem. However, hostile action by non-Mormon citizens resulted ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1486561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cultural | Cross-cultural | Cross-cultural may refer to:
cross-cultural studies, a comparative tendency in various fields of cultural analysis
cross-cultural communication, a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate
any of various forms of interactivity between members of disparate cultural groups (... | 2.921875 | 0 |
1486561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cultural | Cross-cultural | Cross-cultural studies is an adaptation of the term cross-cultural to describe a branch of literary and cultural studies dealing with works or writers associated with more than one culture. Practitioners of cross-cultural studies often use the term cross-culturalism to describe discourses involving cultural interactiv... | 2.296875 | 0 |
1486561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cultural | Cross-cultural | Cross-culturalism in literary and cultural studies is a useful rubric for works, writers and artists that do not fit within a single cultural tradition. To the extent that cultures are national, the cross-cultural may be considered as overlapping the transnational. The cross-cultural can also be said to incorporate ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
1486564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%20Building | Fisher Building | The Fisher Building is a landmark skyscraper located at 3011 West Grand Boulevard in the heart of the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan. The ornate 30-story building, completed in 1928, is one of the major works of architect Albert Kahn, and is designed in an Art Deco style, faced with limestone, granite, and severa... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1486564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%20Building | Fisher Building | Architecture
The Fisher Building rises 30 stories with a roof height of , a top floor height of , and the spire reaching . The building has 21 elevators. Albert Kahn and Associates designed the building with Joseph Nathaniel French serving as chief architect. French took inspiration from Eliel Saarinen's Tribune Tower ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
1486571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Nancy%20%281944%29 | Battle of Nancy (1944) | Confronting the German 92. Luftwaffe-Regiment around Marbache, the 318th Infantry had a difficult fight through the woods as they tried to seize the high ground which commanded the vicinity. After a two-day battle, they managed to dislodge the German defenders and capture the hill, but were soon thrown back by a German... | 2.03125 | 0 |
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