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1486571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Nancy%20%281944%29 | Battle of Nancy (1944) | Dieulouard Bridgehead
After the poor results from the hasty earlier crossing attempts, greater effort was made for a coordinated and well-supported assault, with General Eddy deciding on a concentric advance to encircle the German forces around Nancy. Dieulouard (), located about south of Pont-à-Mousson, was chosen as... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1486571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Nancy%20%281944%29 | Battle of Nancy (1944) | On 10 September, as the 35th Division moved into position to begin their part of the assault, a bridge, rigged with demolition charges but otherwise intact, was located at Flavigny (). The 2nd Battalion of the 134th Infantry Regiment was given permission to assault the bridge at dusk, and although they succeeded in cap... | 2.03125 | 0 |
1486571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Nancy%20%281944%29 | Battle of Nancy (1944) | The 320th and 137th Infantry Regiments pushed out of the Bayon bridgehead and made an oblique advance to the Meurthe River, crossing it by the evening of 14 September. By 16 September, the 320th Infantry had crossed the Marne-Rhin Canal while the 137th Infantry had pushed up to it in the vicinity of Saint-Nicolas-de-Po... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1486577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox%20Union | Orthodox Union | The Orthodox Union (abbreviated OU) is one of the largest Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States. Founded in 1898, the OU supports a network of synagogues, youth programs, Jewish and Religious Zionist advocacy programs, programs for the disabled, localized religious study programs, and international units w... | 2.125 | 0 |
1486577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox%20Union | Orthodox Union | Development
During the early decades of its existence, the Orthodox Union was closely associated with and supported the development of Yeshiva University into a significant Jewish educational institution producing English-speaking, university-trained American rabbis for the pulpits of OU synagogues. Some Orthodox rabbi... | 2.359375 | 0 |
1486596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lough%20Conn | Lough Conn | Lough Conn () is a lake in County Mayo, Ireland. With an area of about , it is Ireland's seventh largest lake. With its immediate neighbour to the south, Lough Cullin, it is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the River Moy. Lough Conn is noted for its trout and salmon fishing. The ruins of a priory exist at Errew Abbey... | 2.671875 | 0 |
1486620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%20Information%20Project | Citizen Information Project | In the United Kingdom, the Citizen Information Project (CIP) was a plan by the Office for National Statistics to build a national population register.
On 18 April 2006 it was announced that instead of continuing as a separate project, it would be integrated into the National Identity Register, the database behind the ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
1486621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katun%20%28river%29 | Katun (river) | The Katun ( ; ) is a river in the Altai Republic and the Altai Krai of Russia. It forms the Ob as it joins the Biya some southwest of Biysk. The Katun is long, and its drainage basin covers . It originates in the Katun glaciers on the southwestern slope of Belukha Mountain. The river freezes up in late November or e... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1486630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Churubusco | Battle of Churubusco | The Battle of Churubusco took place on August 20, 1847, while Santa Anna's army was in retreat from the Battle of Contreras or Battle of Padierna during the Mexican–American War. It was the battle where the San Patricio Battalion, made up largely of US deserters, made their last stand against U.S. forces. The U.S. Army... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1486631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Snow%20White | Operation Snow White | Operation Snow White was a criminal conspiracy by the Church of Scientology during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
1486631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Snow%20White | Operation Snow White | The specific branch of Scientology responsible for Operation Snow White was the Guardian's Office. Created in 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard, the purpose of the Guardian's Office was to protect the interests of Scientology.
At the time of Operation Snow White, the Guardian's Office had its worldwide headquarters (Guardian's Of... | 2.03125 | 0 |
1486637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk%20Maggs | Dirk Maggs | In 1996, Maggs was contacted by 20th Century Fox and asked to create a British-based "parallel-quel" to their summer science fiction blockbuster Independence Day. The resulting programme, Independence Day UK, took place in the same world, and at the same time as the film, but showed a British perspective on the alien i... | 1.914063 | 0 |
1486681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20syrup | Golden syrup | In 1883 Charles Eastick, an English chemist at the Abram Lyle & Sons refinery in Plaistow, east London, further formulated how sugar could be refined to make a preserve and sweetener for cooking, bringing it to its current recipe. Charles and his brother John Joseph Eastick experimented with the refining process of the... | 2.59375 | 0 |
1486681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20syrup | Golden syrup | Commercial
Refiner's syrup begins as a high-Brix, pale sucrose syrup made from white sugar and water, designed to loosen the dried molasses found on raw sugar crystals. The sucrose-saturated content of the initial "green" syrup impedes sugar crystals from dissolving during the process of washing. The purpose is to mix ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1486684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Stanley%20Cup%20champions | List of Stanley Cup champions | The Stanley Cup is a trophy awarded annually to the playoff champion club of the National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey league. It was donated by the Governor General of Canada Lord Stanley of Preston in 1892, and is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America. Inscribed the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, t... | 2.4375 | 0 |
1486691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicollinearity | Multicollinearity | In statistics, multicollinearity or collinearity is a situation where the predictors in a regression model are linearly dependent.
Perfect multicollinearity refers to a situation where the predictive variables have an exact linear relationship. When there is perfect collinearity, the design matrix has less than full ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
1486691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicollinearity | Multicollinearity | Often, problems caused by the use of frequentist estimation are misunderstood or misdiagnosed as being related to multicollinearity. Researchers are often frustrated not by multicollinearity, but by their inability to incorporate relevant prior information in regressions. For example, complaints that coefficients have ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
1486716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious%20Library | Delicious Library | Delicious Library was a digital asset management app for Mac OS X, developed by Delicious Monster to allow the user to keep track and manage their physical collections of books, movies, CDs, and video games.
The software was initially released in November 2004, with $250,000 in sales in its first month. Delicious Libr... | 1.90625 | 0 |
1486750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau%20of%20Consular%20Affairs | Bureau of Consular Affairs | The Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA) is a bureau of the United States Department of State reporting to the under secretary of state for management. The mission of the Bureau is to administer laws, formulate regulations and implement policies relating to the broad range of consular services and immigration. , the bureau ... | 2.25 | 0 |
1486760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Jacobsen | Robert Jacobsen | Robert Julius Tommy Jacobsen (4 June 1912 – 26 January 1993) was a Danish sculptor and painter. The Danish Robert Award is named in his honor.
Biography
In this period he created massive granite and sandstone structures which he called "Mythical Creatures" (Danish: Fabeldyr ). In the late 1940s, he creates a group of ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1486764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCall%27s | McCall's | In 1928, the 23-year-old associate editor, Otis Wiese, was promoted to editor. He believed "women were ready for more significant fiction than Gene Stratton-Porter" and suggested that McCall's sell Burton's acquisitions of popular fiction to Ladies Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion. Such radical ideas caused Wies... | 2.03125 | 0 |
1486780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20John%20Osborn%2C%205th%20Baronet | Sir John Osborn, 5th Baronet | Sir John Osborn, 5th Baronet (3 December 1772 – 28 August 1848), of Chicksands Priory in Bedfordshire, was an English politician.
Biography
He was the only son of Sir George Osborn, 4th Baronet who he succeeded in 1818. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.
Osborn was Member of Parliament ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1486784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthasar%20Charles%2C%20Prince%20of%20Asturias | Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias | Balthasar Charles (Spanish: Baltasar Carlos de Austria; 17 October 1629 – 9 October 1646), Prince of Asturias, Prince of Girona, Duke of Montblanc, Count of Cervera, and Lord of Balaguer, Prince of Viana was heir apparent to all the kingdoms, states and dominions of the Spanish monarchy from his birth until his death.
... | 2.5 | 0 |
1486793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Russian%20Campaign | The Russian Campaign | The Russian Campaign is a strategic board wargame published by Jedko Games in 1974 that simulates combat on the Eastern Front during World War II. Avalon Hill later bought the game and produced several editions.
The unit scale is German Corps and Soviet Armies and roughly covers the Berlin to Gorki region (west to ea... | 2.0625 | 0 |
1486793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Russian%20Campaign | The Russian Campaign | The die-cut cardboard counters are colored according to nationality, with field gray for German, light olive for German allies (Hungary, Romania, Italy and Finland with a letter indicating the nationality) and black for German SS units. Soviet tank corps and Guard armies (both infantry and tank) are printed in a lighte... | 2.140625 | 0 |
1486793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Russian%20Campaign | The Russian Campaign | The effect of weather rolls has a huge impact on the game, especially in 1941, when the German player might stymie his advance by rolling "Mud" in the autumn, yet also has a slim chance of rolling clear weather through to the end of the year (this is no longer possible in the L2 Edition), greatly increasing his chances... | 1.953125 | 0 |
1486793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Russian%20Campaign | The Russian Campaign | Combat
If a unit ends its movement in a zone of control of the opponent's units, then those units must be attacked. (Not necessarily by every one of the player's units in the opponent's zone of control.) Each attacks is performed separately by adding up the combat factors of the player's attacking units, then dividing ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
1486793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Russian%20Campaign | The Russian Campaign | Supply, air support and paratroops
Supply plays an important role during the game. Combat units must be able to trace a supply line to a friendly city or rail line (captured railway lines automatically convert to friendly control). Units out of supply have their combat rating halved. The first and second winters in Rus... | 2.171875 | 0 |
1486793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Russian%20Campaign | The Russian Campaign | Related games
In 1980 Avalon Hill also published "Fortress Europa", covering the Western Front from June 1944 to the end of the war. Although on a slightly smaller scale (divisions/brigades rather than corps/armies), the game was based on an essentially similar system to "The Russian Campaign", and indeed began with th... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1486798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia%20%28Ribeira%20Grande%29 | Maia (Ribeira Grande) | Maia is a civil parish in the municipality of Ribeira Grande in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 1,900, in an area of 21.97 km². Maia is the largest parish by area in Ribeira Grande.
History
The first Azorean historians referred to this parish, owing to the settlement of Inês da Ma... | 2.25 | 0 |
1486814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Contreras | Battle of Contreras | Background
General Gabriel Valencia's army of the north was part of the forces that fought at the Battle of Buena Vista in February 1847, in which Santa Anna retreated before giving a crushing blow to the forces of Zachary Taylor. The Mexican forces were then divided in two, with one sent to Cerro Gordo and the other ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
1486814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Contreras | Battle of Contreras | The battle was the first one in the immediate environs of the capital, as part of General Winfield Scott's invasion of Mexico's heartland and drive to the capital. Leaving Puebla on 7 August for his march on Mexico City, the U.S. army under Scott, reached Ayotla and Chalco on 11 August with the divisions of David E. T... | 2.53125 | 0 |
1486814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Contreras | Battle of Contreras | Santa Anna was angered by Valencia's disobedience, but nonetheless sought to save his army. He moved with Brigadier General Francisco Pérez's 3,000 man brigade to San Ángel, just north of the fighting. Night brought a cold rain and the end of fighting for the day. The American forces had positioned themselves to block... | 2.390625 | 0 |
1486814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Contreras | Battle of Contreras | With the rout of Valencia, Twiggs' army was in full pursuit as they retreated toward Mexico City. Santa Anna had to fall to his second line of defense at fortifications he has created at the Churubusco River. He ordered Major General Nicolás Bravo at San Antonio and Brigadier General Antonio Gaona at Mexicalzingo bot... | 2.859375 | 0 |
1486838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Key%20%28U.S.%20politician%29 | Philip Key (U.S. politician) | Philip Key (1750 – January 4, 1820) was an American congressional representative from Maryland.
Key was the son of Dr. John Key and was probably born on his father's estate near Leonardtown, Maryland. His father died in 1755, leaving his grandfather and later his uncles to act as his guardians. He pursued an academic ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
1486840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cus%20D%27Amato | Cus D'Amato | Constantine "Cus" D'Amato (January 17, 1908 – November 4, 1985) was an American boxing manager and trainer who handled the careers of Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson, and José Torres, all of whom went on to be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Several successful boxing trainers, including Teddy Atlas and... | 2.453125 | 0 |
1486840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cus%20D%27Amato | Cus D'Amato | It is unclear at exactly which age (11 or 12) Tyson first became seriously interested in becoming a professional boxer. "Irish" Bobby Stewart, a former Golden Gloves Champion, was approached by Tyson while working as a counselor at the Tryon School For Boys. Tyson knew of Stewart's former boxing glory and specifically ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
1486868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Doherty | Catherine Doherty | Catherine de Hueck Doherty (née Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkina; August 15, 1896 – December 14, 1985) was a Russian-born Catholic activist who founded the Madonna House Apostolate in 1947. She was a pioneer in the struggle for interracial justice, spiritual writer, lecturer, and spiritual mother to priests and laity.
... | 2.5 | 0 |
1486868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Doherty | Catherine Doherty | At the outbreak of World War I, Catherine served as a nurse at the front, experiencing firsthand the horrors of war. Returning to St. Petersburg and the Russian Revolution, she escaped with her husband to Finland, where they nearly met death at the hands of Bolshevik peasants. They served with the Allied army in Murman... | 2.734375 | 0 |
1486883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll%20%28Dungeons%20%26%20Dragons%29 | Troll (Dungeons & Dragons) | Trolls are fictional monsters in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.
Publication history
While trolls can be found throughout folklores worldwide, the D&D troll has little in common with these. Instead it was inspired partly by Norse myth, and partly by a troll that appears in Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Thr... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1486883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll%20%28Dungeons%20%26%20Dragons%29 | Troll (Dungeons & Dragons) | Dungeons & Dragons (1977–1999)
This edition of the D&D game included its own version of the troll, in the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (1977), and Expert Set (1981 & 1983). The troll was featured as a player character race in the gazetteer The Orcs of Thar (1989). Trolls were also later featured in the Dungeons & Drago... | 2.625 | 0 |
1486883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll%20%28Dungeons%20%26%20Dragons%29 | Troll (Dungeons & Dragons) | Related creatures
Thouls – Combinations of trolls, hobgoblins, and ghouls. These are usually unique to the Mystara setting.
Trollhounds – Wolf-like creatures that share many of the same traits as trolls, including the powerful regenerative capabilities. They often associate with trolls.
Gnolls – When the gnoll as a ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
1486899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20and%20System%20Information%20Protocol | Program and System Information Protocol | PMCP, defined in the Advanced Television Systems Committee's A/76B, provides ATSC broadcasters with a standardized means to exchange system information (SI) among systems that create and manage these data elements. These systems can be outside Program listing services, program management systems, traffic (commercial an... | 1.992188 | 0 |
1486905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok%20%28Mike%20Oldfield%20album%29 | Amarok (Mike Oldfield album) | It was recorded on 48-track and mixed with a Harrison mixing console. Oldfield's decision to combine AMS Neve amplifiers with Brüel & Kjær microphones made the album "sound much better than anything I've done". It marked a departure from the sound of his recent albums from the 1980s as he avoided his Fairlight CMI comp... | 1.914063 | 0 |
1486905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok%20%28Mike%20Oldfield%20album%29 | Amarok (Mike Oldfield album) | Comparison to Ommadawn
Oldfield's original concept was to make Amarok a sequel to his third album, Ommadawn (1975). Despite Virgin suggesting to rename the album Tubular Bells II based on its style and strength of the music, Oldfield refused and later said: "if anything, it's Ommadawn II". Many of the people who were ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
1486911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official%20Solicitor | Official Solicitor | The Office of the Official Solicitor is a part of the Ministry of Justice of the Government of the United Kingdom. The Official Solicitor acts for people who, because they lack mental capacity and cannot properly manage their own affairs, are unable to represent themselves and no other suitable person or agency is able... | 2.640625 | 0 |
1486911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official%20Solicitor | Official Solicitor | The development of the functions of the Official Solicitor can be traced back to the 18th century when the Office of the Six Clerks, which is mentioned in Samuel Pepys’ Diary, assisted destitute litigants, lunatics and infants in Chancery suits and this form of support continued until the modern system of legal funding... | 2.40625 | 0 |
1486911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official%20Solicitor | Official Solicitor | The present legal basis of the Office of the Official Solicitor dates from 1981 when, under s.90 of the Supreme Court Act 1981, that the Official Solicitor became a statutory officer of the then-Supreme Court of England and Wales appointed by the Lord Chancellor under the name of Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court... | 2.4375 | 0 |
1486975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau%20de%20Breteuil | Château de Breteuil | The Château de Breteuil (previously called the Château de Bevilliers) is a château situated in the Vallée de Chevreuse in Yvelines department of France, to the southwest of Paris. The château was designated a monument historique in 1973.
The family of the Marquis de Breteuil gave three ministers to the Kings of Franc... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1486980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uridium | Uridium | Uridium (released on the NES as The Last Starfighter) is a science fiction side-scrolling shoot 'em up initially designed by Andrew Braybrook for the Commodore 64, and later ported to other 8-bit machines. It consists of fifteen levels, each named after a metal element, with the last level being called Uridium (a ficti... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1486980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uridium | Uridium | Technical details
When Uridium was originally released, reviewers were impressed by the way the Dreadnoughts were presented. In a simulation of parallax scrolling, the surface of the Dreadnoughts scrolls horizontally, whereas the stars in the background stay still.
Since the Commodore 64's graphics do not support para... | 1.96875 | 0 |
1486987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Lattner | Johnny Lattner | John Joseph Lattner (October 24, 1932 – February 12, 2016) was an American football halfback. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, winning the Heisman Trophy in 1953 and the Maxwell Award in both 1952 and 1953. He also played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) for one s... | 1.992188 | 0 |
1486987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Lattner | Johnny Lattner | In 1954, Lattner was selected in the first round of the 1954 NFL draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers, and played with them for one season before entering the United States Air Force for two years. There, during a football game, he suffered a severe knee injury that prevented him from playing professional football again. L... | 1.929688 | 0 |
1486991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel%20GT | Opel GT | The Opel GT has a steel unibody chassis and a front mid-engined, rear-wheel drive layout. The engine is mounted far back in the chassis to improve weight distribution. Front suspension consists of upper A-arms and a lower transverse leaf spring. A live axle and coil springs are used in the rear. The power-assisted brak... | 2 | 0 |
1486992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Lujack | Johnny Lujack | John Christopher Lujack Jr. (; January 4, 1925 – July 25, 2023) was an American football quarterback and safety. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, winning the Heisman Trophy in 1947. He was also a unanimous All-American in both 1946 and 1947, leading the team to national championships both y... | 2.5 | 0 |
1486994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Hart | Leon Hart | Leon Joseph Hart (November 2, 1928 – September 24, 2002) was an American football end and fullback. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, winning the Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award in 1949. He also received All-America honors three consecutive years from 1947 to 1949. In his four years at Notr... | 2.203125 | 0 |
1486994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Hart | Leon Hart | College career
Hart attended the University of Notre Dame where he played college football at the end position, both offense and defense, for Frank Leahy's Fighting Irish football teams from 1946 to 1949. He received first-team All-American honors three times, from the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) in ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1487005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedeo%20Obici | Amedeo Obici | Amedeo Obici (July 15, 1877 – May 22, 1947) was an Italian-born American businessman and philanthropist who founded Planters.
Biography
Early life
Obici was born in Oderzo in the Veneto region of Italy to Pietro Ludovico Obici and Luigia Carolina Sartori. His father died when Amedeo was seven years old, leaving behin... | 2.0625 | 0 |
1487009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race%20and%20Economics | Race and Economics | Race and Economics is a book by Thomas Sowell, in which the author analyzes the relationship between race and wealth in the United States, specifically, that of blacks. The book was initially published by David McKay Company in January 1975.
Overview
Sowell makes three basic arguments. First, he examines the economic ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
1487027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy%20Doctrine | Kennedy Doctrine | The Kennedy Doctrine was essentially an expansion of the foreign policy prerogatives of the administrations of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman. The foreign policies of these presidents all revolved around the threat of communism and the means by which the US would try containing the spread of it.
The Truman ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
1487027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy%20Doctrine | Kennedy Doctrine | In the address, Kennedy reaffirmed the United States' pledge of coming to the defense of any nation whose independence was endangered, promised to increase the food-for-peace emergency program and to provide economic aid to nations in need. He requested that Latin American countries promote social change within their b... | 2.640625 | 0 |
1487030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Franks%20%28musician%29 | Michael Franks (musician) | Michael Franks (born September 18, 1944) is an American singer and songwriter, considered a leader of the quiet storm movement. He has recorded with a variety of well-known artists, such as Patti Austin, Art Garfunkel, Brenda Russell, Claus Ogerman, Joe Sample, and David Sanborn. His songs have been recorded by Gordon... | 2.203125 | 0 |
1487039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20wartime%20orders%20of%20battle%20for%20the%20British%201st%20Division%20%281809%E2%80%931945%29 | List of wartime orders of battle for the British 1st Division (1809–1945) | An order of battle is a list of the various elements of a military formation organised within a hierarchical command structure. It can provide information on the strength of that formation and the equipment used. An order of battle is not necessarily a set structure, and it can change depending on tactical or strategic... | 2.859375 | 0 |
1487039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20wartime%20orders%20of%20battle%20for%20the%20British%201st%20Division%20%281809%E2%80%931945%29 | List of wartime orders of battle for the British 1st Division (1809–1945) | First World War
On 28 July 1914, the First World War began. On 4 August, Germany invaded Belgium and the United Kingdom entered the war against the German Empire. The division soon deployed to France, as part of the British Expeditionary Force, and it then served on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918.
The war est... | 2.765625 | 0 |
1487049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta%20Bates%20Summit%20Medical%20Center | Alta Bates Summit Medical Center | Herrick Campus
In 1904, Dr. LeRoy Francis Herrick, a graduate of the Kentucky College of Medicine (1893), purchased a Berkeley mansion known as the Hume House, located on the same block upon which the current Herrick Campus is situated, between Dwight and Channing Ways, and Milvia and Grove (now Martin Luther King Way)... | 2.375 | 0 |
1487049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta%20Bates%20Summit%20Medical%20Center | Alta Bates Summit Medical Center | Summit Campus
The Summit Campus of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center was previously three separately owned and operated facilities located in the same "Pill Hill" neighborhood, generally bounded by Broadway, Telegraph Avenue and the 580 (Macarthur) freeway, immediately north of downtown Oakland: Providence Hospital (fo... | 2.1875 | 0 |
1487091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembrey | Pembrey | Pembrey (Welsh: Pen-bre) is a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales, situated between Burry Port and Kidwelly, overlooking Carmarthen Bay, with a population of about 2,154 in 2011. The electoral ward having a population of 4,301. It is in the community of Pembrey and Burry Port Town.
History
The name Pembrey is an Anglici... | 2.40625 | 0 |
1487091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembrey | Pembrey | Pembrey's mountain and beach Cefn Sidan are reputed to have provided some villagers with careers as wreckers, known locally as Gwyr-y-Bwelli Bach (translated as People with Little Hatchets) - attracting sailing ships with fires purporting to be beacons, then raiding them when they foundered. However, no firm evidence o... | 2.25 | 0 |
1487101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rab%20concentration%20camp | Rab concentration camp | The Rab concentration camp (; ; ) was one of several Italian concentration camps. It was established during World War II, in July 1942, on the Italian-annexed island of Rab (now in Croatia).
According to historians James Walston and Carlo Spartaco Capogeco, at 18%, the annual mortality rate in the camp was higher than... | 2.5625 | 0 |
1487101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rab%20concentration%20camp | Rab concentration camp | Although most of the Jews from the camp were evacuated to Partisan-held territory, 204 (7.5%) of them, the elderly or sick, were left behind and were sent to Auschwitz by the Germans for extermination. Ivan Vranetić was honored as one of the Croatian Righteous among the Nations for helping save the Jews evacuated from ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
1487118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Sohn-Rethel | Alfred Sohn-Rethel | Alfred Sohn-Rethel (4 January 1899 – 6 April 1990) was a French-born German Marxian economist and philosopher especially interested in epistemology. His main intellectual achievement was the publication of Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology. He also wrote about the relationship between German in... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1487118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Sohn-Rethel | Alfred Sohn-Rethel | Sohn-Rethel received his doctorate with the Austrian economist Emil Lederer in 1928. In his thesis he criticized the theory of marginal utility as a petitio principii because it implies the notion of number implicitly.
Thanks to Poensgen he found a job as research assistant at the Mitteleuropäischer Wirtschaftstag (MW... | 1.914063 | 0 |
1487118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Sohn-Rethel | Alfred Sohn-Rethel | Sohn-Rethel's lifelong project was the critique of Kantian epistemology through Marx's critique of political economy. Even though individuals exchange commodities in order to gain access to their use-value, the act of exchange is possible only through the abstraction from the use-value that permits to draw an equivalen... | 2.0625 | 0 |
1487120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts%20and%20famines%20in%20Russia%20and%20the%20Soviet%20Union | Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union | Throughout Russian history famines, droughts and crop failures occurred on the territory of Russia, the Russian Empire and the USSR on more or less regular basis. From the beginning of the 11th to the end of the 16th century, on the territory of Russia for every century there were 8 crop failures, which were repeated e... | 2.625 | 0 |
1487120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts%20and%20famines%20in%20Russia%20and%20the%20Soviet%20Union | Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union | The early 1920s saw a series of famines. The deadly Russian famine of 1921–1922 happened as a result of the ongoing civil war and garnered wide international attention, the most affected area being the Southeastern areas of European Russia (including Volga region, especially national republics of Idel-Ural, see 1921–22... | 2.90625 | 0 |
1487120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts%20and%20famines%20in%20Russia%20and%20the%20Soviet%20Union | Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union | While the Moscow government recognized the famine in Russia, Soviet authorities paid little attention to the 1921–1923 famine in Ukraine. Moreover, Vladimir Lenin ordered to move trains full of grain from Ukraine to the Volga region, Moscow, and Petrograd, to combat starvation there; 1,127 trains were sent between fall... | 2.625 | 0 |
1487120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts%20and%20famines%20in%20Russia%20and%20the%20Soviet%20Union | Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union | Estimates of Soviet deaths attributable to the 1932–1933 famine vary wildly, but are typically given in the range of millions. Vallin et al. estimated that the disasters of the decade culminated in a dramatic fall in fertility and a rise in mortality. Their estimates suggest that total losses can be put at about 4.6 mi... | 2.59375 | 0 |
1487143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb%20Ellis%20Rugby%20Football%20Museum | Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum | The Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum is a rugby football museum in the town centre of Rugby in Warwickshire, England, near Rugby School. It takes its name from William Webb Ellis, who is credited with inventing the game of rugby football.
The building dates from 1842, and it historically housed the Gilbert company, ma... | 2.609375 | 0 |
1487232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torban | Torban | The torban (, also teorban or Ukrainian theorbo) is a Ukrainian musical instrument that combines the features of the Baroque lute with those of the psaltery. The Тorban differs from the more common European bass lute known as the theorbo in that it had additional short unfretted treble strings (known as prystrunky) str... | 2.609375 | 0 |
1487232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torban | Torban | The multi-strung, expensive in manufacture, stringing, maintenance and technically difficult fretted torban was considered an instrument of Ukrainian gentry, although most of its practitioners were Ukrainians and Jews of low birth, with a few aristocratic exceptions. A few virtuoso players are known by their reputation... | 2.65625 | 0 |
1487249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-centered%20computing | Human-centered computing | Human-centered computing (HCC) studies the design, development, and deployment of mixed-initiative human-computer systems. It is emerged from the convergence of multiple disciplines that are concerned both with understanding human beings and with the design of computational artifacts. Human-centered computing is close... | 2.59375 | 0 |
1487249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-centered%20computing | Human-centered computing | Human-centered systems
Human-centered systems (HCS) are systems designed for human-centered computing. This approach was developed by Mike Cooley in his book Architect or Bee? drawing on his experience working with the Lucas Plan. HCS focuses on the design of interactive systems as they relate to human activities. A... | 2.828125 | 0 |
1487249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-centered%20computing | Human-centered computing | Human-computer interaction
Within the field of human-computer interaction (HCI), the term "user-centered" is commonly used. The main focus of this approach is to thoroughly understand and address user needs to drive the design process. However, human-centered computing (HCC) goes beyond conventional areas like usabili... | 2.5 | 0 |
1487249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-centered%20computing | Human-centered computing | The human-centered activities in multimedia, or HCM, can be considered as follows according to: media production, annotation, organization, archival, retrieval, sharing, analysis, and communication, which can be clustered into three areas: production, analysis, and interaction.
Multimedia production
Multimedia produc... | 2.46875 | 0 |
1487249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-centered%20computing | Human-centered computing | To conclude the Human-Centered Design Process, there are two final steps. Upon wireframing or sketching, the designer will usually turn their paper sketches or low-fidelity wireframes into high-fidelity prototypes. Prototyping allows the designer to explore their design ideas further and focus on the overall design con... | 2.578125 | 0 |
1487249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-centered%20computing | Human-centered computing | Based on the principles of human-centered computing, the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) at Arizona State University develops assistive, rehabilitative and healthcare applications. Founded by Sethuraman Panchanathan in 2001, CUbiC research spans three main areas of multimedia computing: sensing and pr... | 2.25 | 0 |
1487254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikhil%20Dhurandhar | Nikhil Dhurandhar | Nikhil V. Dhurandhar is a university professor who has published details about the proposed adipogenic effect of the human adenovirus AD-36 on laboratory animals and also its association with human obesity.
He trained as a homeopath in India, studied Nutrition at North Dakota State University and has a PhD from Bombay.... | 2.21875 | 0 |
1487277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altea | Altea | Altea (, ) is a city and municipality located in the Valencian Community, Spain, on the section of Mediterranean coast called the Costa Blanca.
At present, the economy of Altea is based on tourism, which started to grow in the 1950s because of its good weather, beaches and the labyrinthine streets with whitewashed hou... | 2 | 0 |
1487277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altea | Altea | Castell de l'Olla
The most important and well-known festival in Altea is the Castell de l'Olla, a festival of fireworks that are launched into the sea, on the beach of l'Olla, giving rise to an impressive combination of light, gunpowder and music. In the Valencian language, this type of fireworks is called Castell (Ca... | 2.546875 | 0 |
1487305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield%20Shipbuilding%20and%20Engineering%20Company | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company | The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, was a Scottish shipbuilding company in the Govan area on the Clyde in Glasgow. Fairfields, as it is often known, was a major warship builder, turning out many vessels for the Royal Navy and other navies through the First World War and the Second World War. It... | 2 | 0 |
1487305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield%20Shipbuilding%20and%20Engineering%20Company | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company | Randolph, Elder and Co starts to build ship engines
In 1852 the company became Randolph, Elder and Company when John Elder (1824–1869) joined the business. Elder had a natural talent for engineering and had also worked at the Napier shipyard. It enabled the company to start diversifying into marine engineering. In thi... | 2.625 | 0 |
1487305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield%20Shipbuilding%20and%20Engineering%20Company | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company | The Pacific Steam Navigation Company did become an enthusiastic customer. In 1855-1856 it operated on the west coast of South America. In that area, fuel was imported from Britain and therefore more costly. When the Crimean War broke out, freight tariffs increased to the point that the price of coal almost doubled ther... | 2.796875 | 0 |
1487305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield%20Shipbuilding%20and%20Engineering%20Company | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company | John Carmichael was manager of the Fairfield yard in 1894. He had been born in Govan in 1858 and had entered Fairfield as an apprentice in 1873. When his apprenticeship was completed seven years later, Sir William Pearce made him head draughtsman, and later he was promoted to assistant manager.
In February 1897 a majo... | 2.078125 | 0 |
1487320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS%20Distribution | PBS Distribution | PBS Distribution (PBSd), formerly known as PBS Ventures, PBS Home Video, and Public Media Distribution, is the home distribution unit of the American television network PBS. The company manages streaming channels, video on demand releases, and sells home videos of PBS series and movies and PBS Kids series in various fo... | 2.171875 | 0 |
1487382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester%20Ronning | Chester Ronning | Chester Alvin Ronning (December 13, 1894 – December 31, 1984) was a Canadian educator, politician, and diplomat.
Ronning was born in Fancheng, China, now in Xiangyang, Hubei province, the son of Norwegian American Lutheran missionaries, and graduated from the University of Alberta in 1916 with a B.Sc. Ronning's famil... | 2.390625 | 0 |
1487479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster%20trap | Lobster trap | A lobster trap or lobster pot is a portable trap that traps lobsters or crayfish and is used in lobster fishing. In Scotland (chiefly in the north), the word creel was used to refer to a device used to catch lobsters and other crustaceans. A lobster trap can hold several lobsters. Lobster traps can be constructed of wi... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1487482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket%20computer | Pocket computer | A pocket computer is a class of handheld computer characterized by very short displays (typically accommodating only one or a handful of lines of text) and calculator-style alphanumeric keypads. Pocket computers occupy a small footprint, allowing the unit to be comfortably stashed in one's pocket when on the go, and us... | 2.796875 | 0 |
1487482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket%20computer | Pocket computer | Pocket computers had a surge of popularity on their market introduction in the early 1980s. In 1983, however, sales of pocket computers dropped considerably; Radio Shack reported that they had shipped 40,000 units of their pocket computers in 1983, compared to 70,000 in 1982. According to InfoWorld, this drop was due t... | 2.4375 | 0 |
1487520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glienicke%20Bridge | Glienicke Bridge | In 1904, the Prussian government held a design competition to replace Schinkel's bridge with a modern, iron bridge. The Johann Caspar Harkort Company of Duisburg submitted the winning design, and the present-day bridge was inaugurated on 16 November 1907.
The German film studio UFA shot the film Unter den Brücken (Und... | 2.78125 | 0 |
1487520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glienicke%20Bridge | Glienicke Bridge | By the 1970s, the bridge had outlived its projected lifespan and needed significant repairs. The cost of these repairs became a focus of a dispute between the government of West Berlin and the government of East Germany. In 1980 the West Berlin government repaired its half of the bridge, and in 1985 the West Berlin gov... | 2.53125 | 0 |
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