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14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Researchers claim that the exceptionally strong wildfires in 2019–2020 were impossible without the effects of climate change. More than one-fifth of Australian forests were burned in one season, which was completely unprecedented. They say that: "In the case of recent events in Australia, there is no doubt that the rec... | 2.890625 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Summer 2013–14 was warmer than average for the entirety of Australia. Both Victoria and South Australia saw record-breaking temperatures. Adelaide recorded a total of 13 days reaching 40 °C or more, 11 of which reached 42 °C or more, as well as its fifth-hottest day on record—45.1 °C on 14 January. The number of days o... | 3.203125 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | The Great Barrier Reef could be killed as a result of the rise in water temperature forecast by the IPCC. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the reef has experienced unprecedented rates of bleaching over the past two decades, and additional warming of only 1 °C is anticipated to cause considerable losses or contractions of ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | A 1-metre sea level rise would have massive impacts, not just on property and associated economic systems, but in displacement of human populations throughout the continent. Queensland is the state most at risk due to the presence of valuable beachfront housing.
Impacts on foreign policy and national security
Several... | 2.703125 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Several reports also warn that climate change poses significant challenges to the capacities of the Australian Defence Force. Many military bases are located close to the coastline, which is threatened by sea-level rise and more intense storms. Civilian infrastructure relevant to military operations (like transports ne... | 3.046875 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Some of these changes include a rise in sea levels, getting hotter and for a longer period of time, and more severe cyclones during the cyclone season. Climate issues include wild fires, heatwaves, floods, cyclones, rising sea levels, rising temperatures, and erosion. The communities most affected by climate changes a... | 3.140625 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Vulnerability
The vulnerability comes from remote location where indigenous groups live, lower socio-economic status, and reliance of natural systems for economic needs. Disadvantages which are compounding Indigenous peoples vulnerability to climate change include inadequate health and educational services, limited em... | 3.015625 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | In Australia, Aboriginal people have argued that in order for the government to combat climate change, their voices must be included in policy making and governance over traditional land. Much of the government and institutional policies related to climate change and environmental issues in Australia has been done so t... | 2.921875 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Impact of climate change on health
Increased temperatures, wildfires, and drought are major issues in regard to the health of Aboriginal Australian communities. Heat poses a major risk to elderly members of communities in the North. This includes issues such as heat stroke and heat exhaustion. Many of the rural indige... | 2.96875 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Indigenous people have always responded and adapted to climate change, including indigenous people of Australia. Aboriginal Australian people have existed in Australia for tens of thousands of years. Due to this continual habitation, Aboriginal Australians have observed and adapted to climatic and environmental change... | 3 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Though some of this traditional knowledge was not utilised and conceivably lost with the introduction of white settlers in the 18th century, recently communities have begun to revitalize these traditional practices. Australian Aboriginal traditional knowledge includes language, cultural, spiritual practices, mythology ... | 3.109375 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | According to the CSIRO and Garnaut Climate Change Review, climate change is expected to have numerous adverse effects on many species, regions, activities and much infrastructure and areas of the economy and public health in Australia. The Stern Report and Garnaut Review on balance expect these to outweigh the costs of... | 2.203125 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Forestry and forest-related options for carbon sinks
In Australia, forestry and forest-related options are the most significant and most easily achieved carbon sink making up 105 Mt per year CO2-e or about 75 per cent of the total figure attainable for the Australian state of Queensland from 2010 to 2050. Among the fo... | 2.53125 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Victoria
The Climate Change Act was adopted in 2017 and is part of a broader Victorian environmental legislation taking climate change into account. It establishes a net-zero emission target by 2050 and interim targets set every five years to adapt and keep Victoria on track with the 2050 goal.
Adaptation
According... | 2.984375 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Regional natural resource management (NRM) organisations
Federal natural resource goals, government agencies and non-government organizations established 56 regional natural resource management (NRM) organisations beginning in the mid-1990s. NRM organisations fall under the federal government Natural Heritage Trust. N... | 2.671875 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Climate Adaptation Flagship
The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) started the Climate Adaptation Flagship. Its aim is "enabling Australia to adapt more effectively to the impacts of climate change and variability and informing national planning, regulation and investment d... | 2.5625 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | The key roles of NCCARF include:
developing National Adaptation Research Plans to identify critical gaps in the information available to decision-makers
synthesising existing and emerging national and international research on climate change impacts and adaptation and developing targeted communication products
under... | 2.46875 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | The Climate Change Authority, an independent statutory body that provides advice and performs research for the federal government on climate change.
The Clean Energy Regulator, an independent statutory body that administers federal government schemes to measure and reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.
The Aus... | 2.296875 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | In May 2022, the Coalition lost the federal election to the Labor Party, led by Anthony Albanese. In a machinery of government change, a new Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water will be established. The new government committed to a 43% reduction in Australia's emissions by 2030 (compared to ... | 2.75 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | In the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000, the Federal Government introduced the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target program, which aimed to sustainably source 10% of electrical energy by 2010. In 2011, the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target program was divided into the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target and the Sma... | 2.3125 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Despite the support of a clear scientific consensus, climate change has been a divisive or controversial issue in Australian politics since the 2000s. It has sometimes been referred to as a "culture war" in the country. Conservatives have generally opposed climate mitigation policies and renewable energy, instead favou... | 2.515625 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Groups including Rising Tide and Queensland Conservation have initiated legal challenges to coal mines under the Commonwealth EPBC legislation. In late 2006, Queensland Conservation lodged an objection to the greenhouse gas emissions from a large coal mine expansion proposed by Xstrata Coal Queensland Pty Ltd. QC's act... | 2.984375 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Temperature in Sydney will increase between 0.9° and 4.2°, while rainfall will decrease between -23% and -4% by 2090. Bringing Sydney's climate close to that of Beaudesert today (under a RCP 8.5 scenario). Different parts of Sydney will warm differently with the greatest impact expected in Western Sydney and Hawkesbury... | 2.40625 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | During these glacial maxima the climate was also much colder and windier than today. Minimum temperatures in winter in the centre of the continent were as much as lower than they are today. Hydrological evidence for dryness during glacial maxima can also be seen at major lakes in Victoria's Western District, which dri... | 2.734375 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | Elsewhere, data for most of the Holocene are deficient, largely because methods used elsewhere to determine past climates (like tree-ring data) cannot be used in Australia owing to the character of its soils and climate. Recently, however, coral cores have been used to examine rainfall over those areas of Queensland dr... | 2.5625 | 0 |
14329297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Australia | Climate change in Australia | In eastern Australia, where the continent's first large-scale agriculture began, a large number of rain gauges were installed during the 1860s and by 1875 a comprehensive network had been developed in the "settled" areas of that state. With the spread of the pastoral industry to the north of the continent during this p... | 2.796875 | 0 |
14329328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama%20Buddha%20in%20world%20religions | Gautama Buddha in world religions | Islam
The Islamic prophet Dhu al-Kifl () has been identified by some with Gautama Buddha. The meaning of Dhu al-Kifl is still debated, but, according to this theory, it means "the man from Kifl", Kifl being the Arabic rendering of Kapilavastu, the city where the Buddha spent thirty years of his life. Another argument... | 2.4375 | 0 |
14329423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepalaya | Deepalaya | Deepalaya is an Indian non-governmental organization that aids the development of the urban and rural poor in India, with a focus on children. Founded in 1979, it is headquartered in Delhi. Deepalaya primarily serves the urban slums of Delhi, but also works on rural development in the states of Haryana and Uttarakhand.... | 2.5 | 0 |
14329423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepalaya | Deepalaya | By 1985, the number of students had increased to 133 with seven staff members. As the annual budget grew, Deepalaya started focusing on to primary education. During this time, the organization gained access to both national and international funding, increasing its resource base.
Deepalaya started reaching out to a la... | 2.375 | 0 |
14329457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Spooner | Kenneth Spooner | Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Gerald Spooner, GC (24 April 1922 – 14 May 1943) was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the self-sacrifice he showed in saving the lives of three comrades on 14 May 1943.
Spooner, a British Commonwealth Air Training Program student navigator who had no pilot training or experience, t... | 2.328125 | 0 |
14329469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaleuca%20viminalis | Melaleuca viminalis | Melaleuca viminalis, also referred to as Callistemon viminalis in Australia and commonly known as weeping bottlebrush or creek bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is native to New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. It is a multi-trunked, large shrub or tree with hard bark, often pend... | 2.328125 | 0 |
14329469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaleuca%20viminalis | Melaleuca viminalis | In 2009, Lyndley Craven described Melaleuca viminalis subsp. rhodendron in the journal
Novon, and the name, and that of the autonym are accepted by Plants of the World Online:
Melaleuca viminalis subsp. rhododendron Craven, a single-stemmed tree growing to high, that flowers mostly in September and October, and occu... | 2.53125 | 0 |
14329504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Whitaker | Richard Whitaker | Richard Northcroft "Dick" Whitaker (born 15 July 1947) is an Australian meteorologist and author. Whitaker is the chief meteorologist on The Weather Channel, following his thirty-year career as a meteorologist with the Bureau of Meteorology.
Bureau of Meteorology
Whitaker began working with the Bureau of Meteorology i... | 2.21875 | 0 |
14329612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kysuce%20Protected%20Landscape%20Area | Kysuce Protected Landscape Area | Kysuce Protected Landscape Area () is one of the 14 protected landscape areas in Slovakia. It is made of two separate parts, the Javorníky mountains in the west, and Kysucké Beskydy mountains in the east, in north-western Slovakia. It is situated in the Čadca and Kysucké Nové Mesto districts, within the Kysuce region. ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
14329615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred%20Stumpf | Manfred Stumpf | Manfred Stumpf (born November 25, 1957, in Alsfeld, Hesse) is a German draftsman, conceptual artist, and digital artist. He started to study 1976 with Thomas Bayrle at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, since 1978 with Hans Haake at the Cooper Union in New York, and since 1979 with Bazon Brock at the University of ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
14329640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Linn | Mount Linn | Mount Linn, at , is the easternmost summit of South Yolla Bolly Mountain, and is located in the Yolla Bolly Mountains of the Northern Coast Ranges and sibling Klamath Mountains System, in Tehama County, northwestern California. Mt. Linn is the highest peak in the northern California Coast Ranges south of the Trinity Al... | 2.578125 | 0 |
14329743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmile%20D%20motor%20torpedo%20boat | Fairmile D motor torpedo boat | Unlike the Fairmile B designs (many of which were built overseas), the "Dog Boats" were only produced in component form in Britain. Some were built for the RAF Marine Branch for use in the long range air-sea rescue role for downed airmen. Altogether, 229 boats were ordered (and 228 built) between 1942 and 1945.
Many v... | 2.25 | 0 |
14329824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th%20Canadian%20Infantry%20Division | 6th Canadian Infantry Division | The 6th Canadian Infantry Division was an infantry division of the Canadian Army, formed in 1942 during the Second World War. It was attached to Pacific Command. The division had a brigade sent to the Aleutian Islands Campaign, particularly at Kiska, but never saw action. The 6th Division was to have been part of a pro... | 2.453125 | 0 |
14329892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn%C3%A1%20Orava%20Protected%20Landscape%20Area | Horná Orava Protected Landscape Area | Horná Orava Protected Landscape Area () is one of the 14 protected landscape areas in Slovakia. It is situated in the Námestovo and Tvrdošín districts, within the Orava region.
History
The park was created on 24 September 1979 and the law creating it was amended on 29 September 2003.
Geography, geology and biology
It... | 2.375 | 0 |
14329965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9coms%20Sans%20Fronti%C3%A8res | Télécoms Sans Frontières | Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) is an emergency technology non-governmental organization, which intervenes in the context of humanitarian crises, conflict zones and areas hit by natural disasters to set up satellite communication for the affected populations and humanitarian organisations.
History
During different hu... | 2.03125 | 0 |
14329965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9coms%20Sans%20Fronti%C3%A8res | Télécoms Sans Frontières | The governance of the organisation is ensured by a board of directors, which defines and approves the strategic direction and the financial budgets. It ensures that TSF's actions are in line with the mission and the values of TSF. The members of the Board are:
Jean-François Cazenave - President
Robert Chassagnieux -... | 2.109375 | 0 |
14330111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Place%20in%20the%20World%20%28film%29 | A Place in the World (film) | A Place in the World () is a 1992 Argentine drama film co-written, co-produced and directed by Adolfo Aristarain, and starring Federico Luppi. It stars José Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Leonor Benedetto and Cecilia Roth.
The movie won numerous awards and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Fe... | 2.328125 | 0 |
14330135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetrical%20double-sided%20two-way%20ranging | Symmetrical double-sided two-way ranging | In radio technology, symmetrical double-sided two-way ranging (SDS-TWR) is a ranging method that uses two delays that naturally occur in signal transmission to determine the range between two stations:
Signal propagation delay between two wireless devices
Processing delay of acknowledgements within a wireless device... | 2.546875 | 0 |
14330165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel%20Macklin | Noel Macklin | Sir (Albert) Noel Campbell Macklin (28 October 1886 – 1946) was an innovative British car maker and boat designer. He founded Eric-Campbell in 1919, Silver Hawk in 1920, Invicta in 1925 and Railton in 1933. In 1939 he founded Fairmile Marine and supplied boats to the Royal Navy throughout World War II, for which effort... | 2.390625 | 0 |
14330165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel%20Macklin | Noel Macklin | Boat manufacture
After achieving some fame as a designer of sporty motor cars he turned his attention to motor boats. The Fairmile Engineering Company took its name from Macklin's country estate, Cobham Fairmile in Surrey, where he used the garage for manufacturing and assembly.
In 1939, inspired by an article on the ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
14330198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg%20Bishop | Reg Bishop | Reginald Bishop AO (4 February 1913 – 3 July 1999) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for South Australia from 1962 to 1981. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), and held office in the Whitlam government as Minister for Repatriation (1972–1974) and Postmaster-General (1974–1975).
Earl... | 2.015625 | 0 |
14330206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Gannon%20%28historian%29 | Michael Gannon (historian) | Michael V. Gannon (April 28, 1927 – April 11, 2017) was a historian, educator, priest, and war correspondent.
Early life and education
Michael Valentine Gannon was born into a military family in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. His family moved to Florida from Washington, D.C. after the death of his father in 1939.
Gannon atten... | 1.953125 | 0 |
14330239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdab | Serdab | A serdab () which became a loanword in Arabic for 'cellar' is an ancient Egyptian tomb structure that served as a chamber for the ka statue of a deceased individual. Used during the Old Kingdom, the serdab was a sealed chamber with a small slit or hole to allow the soul of the deceased to move about freely. These holes... | 2.59375 | 0 |
14330244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Poppe | Edward Poppe | He was an energetic child and an excellent student. His mischievousness saw him often knock things over even putting himself at risk of being harmed. He was also quite stubborn and never left his sisters alone though his sisters would often get back at him and would muss up his hair when he was caught combing in front ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
14330244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Poppe | Edward Poppe | He began his studies in Thomism on 13 March 1912 at the Catholic University of Leuven where he became influenced by the works of Louis de Montfort which made him a fervent devotee of the Blessed Mother of God. It was also around this time that he learnt about Thérèse of Lisieux but he also had a love for Francis of Ass... | 2.515625 | 0 |
14330244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Poppe | Edward Poppe | His manner of living weakened him. In July 1917, he was transferred to a convent in Moerzeke. He was ordered to rest for a month though when he returned the pastor was concerned for him so discharged him from league meetings and catechetical lessons; he obeyed, albeit relucantly. He was often confined to his bed but fr... | 2.140625 | 0 |
14330262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corregidor%20%28position%29 | Corregidor (position) | A corregidor () was a local administrative and judicial official in Spanish Empire. They were the representatives of the royal jurisdiction over a town and its district. The name comes from the word corregir, meaning "to correct".
He was the highest authority of a corregimiento. In the Spanish Americas and the Spanis... | 3.4375 | 0 |
14330262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corregidor%20%28position%29 | Corregidor (position) | The first monarch to make extensive use of corregidores was Alfonso X, who ascended to the throne at the age of eleven. In order to consolidate royal authority and reward the newer nobility and certain great magnates who supported him he greatly expanded the use of the office. Some bishops and local lords were given th... | 3 | 0 |
14330262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corregidor%20%28position%29 | Corregidor (position) | The institution was established also in Spanish America during the conquest and the Spanish Philippines, where it was also known by the names justicia mayor and alcalde mayor (not to be confused with the alcaldes ordinarios of the cabildo). In Indian areas the office was known as the corregidor de indios. Corregidore... | 2.953125 | 0 |
14330262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corregidor%20%28position%29 | Corregidor (position) | By law neither corregidores nor governors (nor viceroys, for that matter) could be persons who resided in the district in which they ruled, so that they should not develop ties to the locality, such that they remain disinterested administrators and judges. For this reason, they were also forbidden to marry in their dis... | 2.90625 | 0 |
14330332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0tiavnick%C3%A9%20vrchy%20Protected%20Landscape%20Area | Štiavnické vrchy Protected Landscape Area | Štiavnické vrchy Protected Landscape Area () is one of the 14 protected landscape areas in Slovakia. It is situated in the Banská Štiavnica, Zvolen, Žiar nad Hronom, Žarnovica, Levice and Krupina districts.
History
The park was created on 22 September 1979. Protected areas declared before include Banskoštiavnická bota... | 2.25 | 0 |
14330362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Mathematical%20Modeling | Center for Mathematical Modeling | The Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) was created in 2000 to encompass research and training activities that were being conducted by members of the Department of Mathematical Engineering at Universidad de Chile. Today, it features a range of activities from fundamental research in applied mathematics to industry-o... | 2.484375 | 0 |
14330368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figura%20serpentinata | Figura serpentinata | () is a style in painting and sculpture, intended to make the figure seem more dynamic, that is typical of Mannerism. It is similar, but not identical, to contrapposto, and features figures often in a spiral pose. Early examples can be seen in the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo.
Emil Maurer writes... | 2.734375 | 0 |
14330368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figura%20serpentinata | Figura serpentinata | As Maurer writes, painters are freer than sculptors and less closely tied-down to nature. Thus, they can play around with their figures, reshaping, overstretching, geometricising, dissolving, caricaturing, colouring, or meandering according to the painting's goal and intended effect. With the loosening of the norms of ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
14330384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Way%20to%20Paradise | The Way to Paradise | The Way to Paradise () is a novel published by Mario Vargas Llosa in 2003.
The novel is a historical double biography of Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin and his grandmother Flora Tristan, one of the founders of feminism. The book is divided into 22 chapters, each alternating narratives of Flora Tristan and Pau... | 1.90625 | 0 |
14330399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1846%20Grand%20National | 1846 Grand National | The 1846 Grand Liverpool Steeplechase, later to become known as the Grand National Steeplechase, was the eighth official annual running of a handicap steeplechase. It took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool on 4 March 1846 and attracted a then-record field of 22 entrants. It was won by the unconsidered outsider... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14330497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%2C%20Indiana | Lewis, Indiana | Lewis, also known as Lewisburg or Centerville, is an unincorporated community and census designated place (CDP) in Vigo County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Originally platted entirely within Vigo County, it has now expanded into adjacent Sullivan County.
It is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area.
... | 1.914063 | 0 |
14330517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria%20v%20West%20Germany%20%281978%20FIFA%20World%20Cup%29 | Austria v West Germany (1978 FIFA World Cup) | The 1978 Austria v West Germany (known in Austria as Das Wunder von Córdoba (The Miracle of Córdoba) and in Germany as Die Schmach von Córdoba (The Disgrace of Córdoba)), describes the game of football between Austria and defending World Champions West Germany that occurred on 21 June 1978 at the conclusion of the seco... | 2.109375 | 0 |
14330542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Imrie | Thomas Imrie | Thomas "Red" Imrie (15 July 1937 – 24 August 2020) was a British ice hockey defender who played in the United Kingdom during the 1950s and 1960s. He also played for the Great Britain national team between 1961 and 1966. He was inducted into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987.
Career
Born in Falkirk, (Scotland... | 1.90625 | 0 |
14330683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Energy%20%28Norway%29 | Ministry of Energy (Norway) | The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Energy () is a Norwegian ministry responsible for energy, including petroleum and natural gas production in the North Sea. It is led by Minister of Energy Terje Aasland of the Labour Party since 2022. The department must report to the legislature, the Storting.
History
The ministry was... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14330722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon%20H%C3%ADrmond%C3%B3 | Telefon Hírmondó | The Telefon Hírmondó (also Telefonhírmondó, generally translated as "Telephone Herald") was a "telephone newspaper" located in Budapest, Hungary, which, beginning in 1893, provided news and entertainment to subscribers over telephone lines. It was both the first and the longest surviving telephone newspaper system, al... | 2.265625 | 0 |
14330722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon%20H%C3%ADrmond%C3%B3 | Telefon Hírmondó | At this time newspapers published in the Austro-Hungarian Empire had to be authorized by the government. The contemporary press laws did not apply to a telephone newspaper, and government officials were wary that the Telefon Hírmondó could develop into an "important tool of power", as it could potentially be used to qu... | 2.265625 | 0 |
14330722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon%20H%C3%ADrmond%C3%B3 | Telefon Hírmondó | Initially the Telefon Hírmondó used telephone lines provided by the local telephone company to distribute its programmes. It later received permission to string its own lines, and, under the guidance of its technical director, Nándor Szmazsenka, constructed a network that divided Budapest into twenty-seven districts. S... | 2.96875 | 0 |
14330722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon%20H%C3%ADrmond%C3%B3 | Telefon Hírmondó | Manley M. Gillam, a former advertising manager of the New York Herald, encountered the Telefon Hírmondó while touring Hungary, and obtained the American rights. In 1909 he established the United States Telephone Herald Company, which supported associate companies established throughout the United States. Two of these b... | 2.234375 | 0 |
14330758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led%20Zeppelin%20North%20American%20Tour%201968%E2%80%931969 | Led Zeppelin North American Tour 1968–1969 | Led Zeppelin's 1968/1969 tour of North America was the first concert tour of the United States and Canada by the English rock band. The tour commenced on 26 December 1968 and concluded on 16 February 1969. It was important for the band, as their popularity grew substantially because of the concerts and helped them reac... | 2.390625 | 0 |
14330773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Mantalingajan | Mount Mantalingajan | Mount Mantalingajan (or Mantalingahan or Mantaling) is the highest mountain in the island province of Palawan in the Philippines, with an elevation of above sea level, its ranked 68th-highest peak of an island on Earth and 10th-most prominent mountain in the Philippines. Located in the southern part of Palawan Island... | 2.3125 | 0 |
14330793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabahan | Cabahan | Cabahan (also known as Cabangahan or Puro Island) is an island in the province of Romblon in the Philippines. It has one sitio named Cabangahan, which is a part of barangay Guinbirayan, Santa Fe, Romblon. The local name of the island is Puro, which means "Island" in the Onhan language; which is the native language of t... | 2.234375 | 0 |
14330808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla%20%28Congress%20of%20Deputies%20constituency%29 | Melilla (Congress of Deputies constituency) | Melilla is one of the 52 constituencies () represented in the Congress of Deputies, the lower chamber of the Spanish parliament, the Cortes Generales. The constituency currently elects one deputy using plurality voting. Its boundaries correspond to those of the autonomous city of Melilla.
Electoral system
The constitu... | 2.4375 | 0 |
14330822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choroidal%20neovascularization | Choroidal neovascularization | Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is the creation of new blood vessels in the choroid layer of the eye. Choroidal neovascularization is a common cause of neovascular degenerative maculopathy (i.e. 'wet' macular degeneration) commonly exacerbated by extreme myopia, malignant myopic degeneration, or age-related developm... | 2.203125 | 0 |
14330822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choroidal%20neovascularization | Choroidal neovascularization | Treatment
CNV is conventionally treated with intravitreal injections of angiogenesis inhibitors (also known as "anti-VEGF" drugs) to control neovascularization and reduce the area of fluid below the retinal pigment epithelium. Angiogenesis inhibitors include pegaptanib, ranibizumab and bevacizumab (known by a variety ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14330833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Kerr%20%28mayor%29 | William Kerr (mayor) | William Kerr (1809 – August 11, 1853) was a physician and politician from Pennsylvania. He served as Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1846 to 1847.
Early life
William Kerr was born on September 15, 1809 or November 15, 1809, sources differ, to Agnes (née Reynolds) and Joseph Kerr in St. Clair Township in Allegheny County, Pen... | 1.914063 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric linguistic homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). From this region, its speakers migrated east and west, and formed the proto-communities of the different branches of the Indo-European language family.
The most widely accepted proposal about the locatio... | 2.6875 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | A notable second possibility, which has gained renewed attention since the 2010s, is the "Near Eastern model", also known as the Armenian hypothesis. It was proposed by linguists Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze and Vyacheslav Ivanov in the early 1980s, postulating relationships between Indo-European and Caucasian languages based ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | Apart from DNA evidence (see below), Anthony and Ringe (2015) give a number of arguments against the Anatolian hypothesis. First, cognate words for "axle", "wheel", "wagon-pole", and "convey by vehicle" can be found in a number of Indo-European languages ranging from Irish to Tocharian, but not Anatolian. This suggests... | 2.25 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | The most recent DNA findings from ancient bones as well as modern people show that farmers whose ancestors originated in Anatolia did indeed spread across Europe from 6500 BCE onwards, eventually mixing with the existing hunter-gatherer population. However, about 2500 BCE, a massive influx of pastoralists from the step... | 2.9375 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | Reconstructed vocabulary
Using comparative linguistics it is possible to reconstruct the vocabulary found in the proto-language, and in this way achieve some knowledge of the cultural, technological and ecological context that the speakers inhabited. Such a context can then be compared with archaeological evidence. Thi... | 2.5 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | Gamkrelidze and Ivanov, using the now largely unsupported glottalic theory of Indo-European phonology, also proposed Semitic borrowings into Proto-Indo-European, suggesting a more southern homeland to explain these borrowings. According to Mallory and Adams, some of these borrowings may be too speculative or from a lat... | 1.945313 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | Anthony (2019) suggests a derivation of the proto-Indo-European language mainly from a base of languages spoken by Eastern European Hunter-Gatherers living in the Volga steppes, with influences from languages spoken by northern Caucasus hunter-gatherers who migrated from the Caucasus to the lower Volga basin, in additi... | 2.625 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | The steppe hypothesis seeks to identify the source of the Indo-European language expansion as a succession of migrations from the Pontic–Caspian steppe between the 5th and 3rd millennia BCE. During the early 1980s, a mainstream consensus had emerged among Indo-Europeanists in favour of the "Kurgan hypothesis" (named af... | 2.203125 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | Anthony describes the spread of cattle-raising from early farmers in the Danube Valley into the Ukrainian steppes in the 6th–5th millennium BCE, forming a cultural border with the hunter-gatherers whose languages may have included archaic PIE. Anthony notes that domesticated cattle and sheep probably didn't enter the s... | 2.625 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | Vocabulary
The core element of the steppe hypothesis is the identification of the proto-Indo-European culture as a nomadic pastoralist society that did not practice intensive agriculture. This identification rests on the fact that vocabulary related to cows, to horses and horsemanship, and to wheeled vehicles can be re... | 2.5 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | Another source of evidence for the steppe hypothesis is the presence of what appears to be many shared loanwords between Uralic languages and proto-Indo-European, suggesting that these languages were spoken in adjacent areas. This would have had to occur much further north than the Anatolian or Near Eastern scenarios w... | 2.5 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | In 2015, a large-scale ancient DNA study by Haak et al. published in Nature found evidence of a "massive migration" from the Pontic-Caspian steppe to central Europe that occurred about 4,500 years ago. It found that individuals from the central European Corded Ware culture (3rd millennium BCE) were closely related gene... | 2.296875 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | However, the folk-migration model cannot be the only diffusion theory for all linguistic families, as the Yamnaya ancestry component is particularly concentrated in Europe in the northwestern parts of the continent. Other models for languages like Proto-Greek are still debated. The steppe genetic component is more diff... | 2.25 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | An analysis by David Anthony (2019) suggested a genetic origin of Proto-Indo-Europeans (associated with the Yamnaya culture) in the Eastern European steppe north of the Caucasus, deriving from a mixture of Eastern European hunter-gatherers (EHG) and hunter-gatherers from the Caucasus (CHG). Anthony also suggested that ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | According to , the spread of Indo-European proceeded in the following phases:
About 6500 BC: Pre-Proto-Indo-European, located in Anatolia, divides into Anatolian and Archaic Proto-Indo-European, the language of those Pre-Proto-Indo-European farmers who migrate to Europe in the initial farming dispersal. Archaic Proto-I... | 2.65625 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | Dating
The main objection to this theory is that it requires an unrealistically early date. According to linguistic analysis, the Proto-Indo-European lexicon seems to include words for a range of inventions and practices related to the Secondary Products Revolution, which post-dates the early spread of farming. On lexi... | 2.4375 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | South Caucasus/Iranian Homeland Suggestions
Recent DNA research which shows that the steppe-people derived from a mix of Eastern Hunter-Gatherers (EHG) and Caucasus Hunter-Gatherers, has resulted in renewed suggestions of the possibility of a Caucasian, or even Iranian, homeland for an archaic proto-Indo-European, the... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14330846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20homeland | Proto-Indo-European homeland | Anthony proposes that the Yamnaya derived mainly from Eastern European hunter-gatherers (EHG) from the steppes, and undiluted Caucasus hunter-gatherers (CHG) from northwestern Iran or Azerbaijan, similar to the Hotu cave population, who mixed in the Eastern European steppe north of the Caucasus. According to Anthony, h... | 2.203125 | 0 |
14330849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Satterwhite | John Satterwhite | John had many interests and accomplishments related to shooting and the outdoors. His shooting accomplishments are legendary. He was an Air Force Marksmanship Instructor and trained thousands of servicemen in rifle and pistol marksmanship including many B-52 and KC-135 crews during the Vietnam War. He served as a con... | 2.109375 | 0 |
14330852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965%20NCAA%20University%20Division%20football%20season | 1965 NCAA University Division football season | During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the major college football teams in the University Division, later known as Division I-A. The NCAA did recognize a national champion based upon the final results of "wire service" (AP and UPI) polls. The "writers' poll" by Associated Press (AP) was the most popular,... | 2.25 | 0 |
14330852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965%20NCAA%20University%20Division%20football%20season | 1965 NCAA University Division football season | In addition to 1964 and 1965, the UPI national champions in 1970 and 1973 also lost their respective bowl games. Beginning with the 1974 season, the UPI released its final poll after the bowls.
Rule changes
Free substitution is now permitted only on changes of possession, which brought back the two-platoon system to ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
14330966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radko%20Dimitriev | Radko Dimitriev | Radko Ruskov Dimitriev (; ; 24 September 1859 – 18 October 1918) was a Bulgarian general who served as the head of the General Staff of the Bulgarian Army from 1 January 1904 to 28 March 1907, as well as a general in the Russian Army during World War I.
Biography
He was born in the village of Gradets (Sliven Province)... | 2.265625 | 0 |
14330966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radko%20Dimitriev | Radko Dimitriev | During the Second Balkan War in 1913, he replaced general Mihail Savov as deputy commander-in-chief. Later that year after the end of the war he was sent as a Minister Plenipotentiary to Saint Petersburg, Russia.
First World War
During the First World War (1914–1918) he served in the Russian Army as a commander of a c... | 2.390625 | 0 |
14330966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radko%20Dimitriev | Radko Dimitriev | Sir Bernard Pares, who met Radko Dimitriev several times when he was covering the war on the Eastern Front, and knew him well, described him thus:
"General Radko Dimitriev is a short and sturdily built man with quick brown eyes and a profile reminiscent of Napoleon. He talks quickly and shortly, sometimes drums on the... | 1.953125 | 0 |
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