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1487543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | Zion (Latter Day Saints) | Within the Latter Day Saint movement, Zion is often used to connote an association of the righteous. This association would practice a form of communitarian economics, called the United Order, which were meant to ensure that all members maintained an acceptable quality of life, class distinctions were minimized, and gr... | 2.59375 | 0 |
1487543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | Zion (Latter Day Saints) | Zion retains its Biblical meaning and refers to Jerusalem. (See Zion)
Zion is the name of a physical city founded by the prophet Enoch, also known as the City of Enoch.
Zion refers to the New Jerusalem, a physical, Millennial city expected to be located in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri.
Zion metaphorically ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
1487543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | Zion (Latter Day Saints) | In its broadest sense, Zion is regarded by Latter Day Saints as an association of the "pure in heart". Central to Zion's philosophical underpinnings was a sense of community cohesiveness and unity, a concept which seemed to be unraveling in the world of Jacksonian Democracy. Smith taught that the people of Zion would ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
1487543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | Zion (Latter Day Saints) | Esoterically considered, "Zion" as used in this context is a dualistic term connoting a sanctified group of people living according to the commandments and ordinances as revealed to them. Latter Day Saints use the name to signify a group of God's followers, or any location pertaining to where they live. As well as sign... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1487543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | Zion (Latter Day Saints) | In the Mormon fundamentalism movement, a more literal interpretation of Zion as a specific geographical location is held to more strongly and a more stringent emphasis is placed upon individual and community lifestyle requirements that are considered, to be necessary prerequisites to establishing such a community. Thes... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1487543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | Zion (Latter Day Saints) | Teachings about Zion, the New Jerusalem and the accompanying destruction of unrepentant Gentiles to build the New Jerusalem added to the existing conflict between Latter Day Saints and their non-Latter Day Saint neighbors. This made it difficult for the Latter Day Saints to build Zion. By July 1833, Smith said he recei... | 2.671875 | 0 |
1487543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | Zion (Latter Day Saints) | A comprehensive plat was devised by Smith in 1833, describing the planned city as an organized grid system of blocks and streets, with blocks house lots that alternated in direction by columns of blocks between north-south streets. Designed around Latter Day Saint principles of agrarianism order and community, the plan... | 2.59375 | 0 |
1487548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Rail%20Class%20444 | British Rail Class 444 | Each unit is formed of five cars; a driving motor car at each end and three intermediate trailers. One trailer in each unit is provided with two wheelchair spaces and a universally-accessible toilet.
The units have end-gangways, allowing passengers to move between units when used in multiple. Trains are limited to a te... | 1.992188 | 0 |
1487550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20Grammar%20School | Melbourne Grammar School | Melbourne Grammar School is an Australian private Anglican day and boarding school. It comprises a co-educational preparatory school from Prep to Year 6 and a middle school and senior school for boys from Years 7 to 12. The three campuses are Grimwade House (Prep to Year 6) in Caulfield, Wadhurst (Years 7 and 8) and Se... | 2.171875 | 0 |
1487550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20Grammar%20School | Melbourne Grammar School | The first board of governors was elected in 1854 to take over from the committee, and it set about drawing up a constitution, finding a headmaster and a new site. Locations considered included Carlton, Prahran and St Kilda.
Perry's dream of building a permanent, centrally located grammar school, based on the principle... | 2.078125 | 0 |
1487550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20Grammar%20School | Melbourne Grammar School | Two significant developments of the late 19th century were, firstly, the recognition that with a limited site, one storey buildings were not a wise use of space. A move began, continued now, of adding second stories or replacing buildings with two- or three-level structures. The second was the dedication of the Chapel ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
1487556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neighborhoods%20in%20San%20Francisco | List of neighborhoods in San Francisco | San Francisco, in the US state of California, has both major, well-known neighborhoods and districts as well as smaller, specific subsections and developments. While there is considerable fluidity among the sources, one guidebook identifies five major districts, corresponding to the four quadrants plus a south central ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
1487556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neighborhoods%20in%20San%20Francisco | List of neighborhoods in San Francisco | The Bayview stretches along Third Street south of Evans Avenue, west of the Hunters Point neighborhood. The neighborhood library was recently renamed the Linda Brooks-Burton Branch Library after a new and larger building was constructed at the same location on Third Street and Revere. Within a block or two of the libra... | 1.945313 | 0 |
1487556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neighborhoods%20in%20San%20Francisco | List of neighborhoods in San Francisco | Midtown Terrace
Midtown Terrace is a neighborhood in central San Francisco, on the western slope of Twin Peaks. Created as a single housing development in the late 1950s. Clarendon Avenue where it joins Twin Peaks Boulevard borders the neighborhood on the north and west. Panorama Drive winds through the neighborhood. P... | 1.960938 | 0 |
1487556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neighborhoods%20in%20San%20Francisco | List of neighborhoods in San Francisco | Mission Dolores
Mission Dolores, bounded by Market Street, the Central Freeway, Valencia Street, Twentieth Street, and Church/Sanchez streets (transitioning at Eighteenth Street), is the oldest neighborhood in San Francisco and therefore its birthplace. It is named after the Spanish Mission Dolores settlement of 1776, ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
1487556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neighborhoods%20in%20San%20Francisco | List of neighborhoods in San Francisco | The Oceanview neighborhood is located in southern San Francisco, south of the Ingleside neighborhood and the Ocean Avenue campus of City College. It is bordered by Interstate 280 to the south and east, Lakeview Avenue to the north and Orizaba Avenue to the west. Oceanview Playground and Minnie and Lovie Ward Recreation... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1487556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neighborhoods%20in%20San%20Francisco | List of neighborhoods in San Francisco | Fueled by vacant land in Merced Heights and Oceanview, the post-war housing boom, the desire to own their own homes, and the already significant presence of African-Americans in the neighborhoods, the black population exploded from 1950 to 1960. By 1960, African-Americans made up 40% of Merced Heights, 32% of Ingleside... | 2.765625 | 0 |
1487556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neighborhoods%20in%20San%20Francisco | List of neighborhoods in San Francisco | Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School (formerly Wilson High School) is located on Mansell Street, and the Portola Library is at Bacon and Goettingen streets (380 Bacon Street), between Edward Robeson Taylor Elementary School and Martin Luther King Middle School (which replaced the former Portola Junior High Scho... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1487556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neighborhoods%20in%20San%20Francisco | List of neighborhoods in San Francisco | Rincon Hill
Rincon Hill, one of the hills of San Francisco, was a former industrial, and now a developing highrise neighborhood located south of the Financial District, in the South of Market area, as it also serves as an anchor to the Bay Bridge. Due to its proximity to downtown, following the Gold Rush this was San F... | 2 | 0 |
1487556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neighborhoods%20in%20San%20Francisco | List of neighborhoods in San Francisco | The neighborhood was developed in 1891 as land lots for single-family houses and sold through the Sunnyside Land Development Company. This company installed an electric streetcar line to access the new neighborhood from downtown San Francisco. This allowed expansion and created "suburbs" of the day. Houses were built a... | 2.328125 | 0 |
1487567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Catch-22%20characters | List of Catch-22 characters | The following is a list of characters in the 1961 novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
Significant characters
Yossarian
Captain John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 and its sequel Closing Time, and the protagonist of both books. In Catch-22, Yossarian is a 28-year-old Captain (later ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
1487569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orihuela | Orihuela | Orihuela (; ) is a city and municipality located at the foot of the Sierra de Orihuela mountains in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain. The city is in one of the only Spanish-speaking areas of the Valencian Community.
The city of Orihuela had a population of 33,943 inhabitants at the beginning of 201... | 2.171875 | 0 |
1487569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orihuela | Orihuela | In 1437, it was declared a city and in 1507, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor made Orihuela capital of the province of Orihuela. In 1737 Alicante, Elche, Monforte, Jijona, Villajoyosa, Agost, Busot, San Juan or Mutxamel became independent from the province of Orihuela, forming the one of Alicante.
In the Middle Ages, a J... | 2.375 | 0 |
1487578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20Lowenthal | Jerome Lowenthal | Jerome Lowenthal (born February 11, 1932) is an American classical pianist. He has served as chair of the piano department at the Juilliard School in New York. Additionally, Lowenthal is on the faculty at Music Academy of the West in Montecito, California.
Lowenthal was born in Philadelphia. He made his debut as a sol... | 2.078125 | 0 |
1487601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Krieger | Eduardo Krieger | Eduardo Moacyr Krieger (born June 27, 1928, Cerro Largo, Rio Grande do Sul) is a Brazilian physician, physiologist and scientific leader, current president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
Life
Krieger was born to a family of German origins, in the small city of Cerro Largo, in the southernmost state of Brazil, R... | 2.4375 | 0 |
1487601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Krieger | Eduardo Krieger | Research
Dr. Krieger's main research field is the study of experimental hypertension in animal models and the physiological mechanisms of blood pressure regulation, mainly its neurogenic mechanisms. He described a method for performing the denervation of the sino-aortic baroceptor in the Norwegian rat which is widely u... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1487601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Krieger | Eduardo Krieger | Scientific leadership
Along with his activities as a professor and researcher, Dr. Krieger has also made great contributions to the development of science and higher education in Brazil. He participated in the university reform at USP from 1968 to 1969, and cooperated with many research grants committees of CNPq (Brazi... | 2.109375 | 0 |
1487605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariposa%20Folk%20Festival | Mariposa Folk Festival | Mariposa Folk Festival is a Canadian music festival founded in 1961 in Orillia, Ontario. It was held in Orillia for three years before being banned because of disturbances by festival-goers. After being held in various places in Ontario for a few decades, it returned to Orillia in 2000. Ruth Jones, her husband Dr. Fred... | 2.375 | 0 |
1487634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hlinka%20Guard | Hlinka Guard | Membership
Until March 14, 1939, when Slovakia declared its independence, the Hlinka Guard attracted recruits from all walks of life. On the following day, March 15, Alexander Mach became its commander, retaining the post up to the collapse of the pro-Nazi regime in Slovakia in 1945. Its functions were laid down in a s... | 2.78125 | 0 |
1487671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20San%20Francisco | Culture of San Francisco | The culture of San Francisco is major and diverse in terms of arts, music, cuisine, festivals, museums, and architecture but also is influenced heavily by Mexican culture due to its large Hispanic population, and its history as part of Spanish America and Mexico. San Francisco's diversity of cultures along with its ecc... | 2.765625 | 0 |
1487671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20San%20Francisco | Culture of San Francisco | Popular music
San Francisco has often hosted influential rock music trends, starting with the San Francisco Sound during the 1960s. Two of the most influential bands from that era, the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, started out in San Francisco in 1965. Other groups include rockers Creedence Clearwater Revival, ... | 1.960938 | 0 |
1487671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20San%20Francisco | Culture of San Francisco | San Francisco is home to many different and unique street festivals, parties and parades. Most famous are its gay pride parade, held every June; the Folsom Street Fair held every September; Chinese New Year Parade held in February; Carnaval, held during the spring; Litquake and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in October. It ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
1487672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocryphon%20of%20John | Apocryphon of John | The Apocryphon of John, also called the Secret Book of John or the Secret Revelation of John, is a 2nd-century Sethian Gnostic Christian pseudepigraphical text attributed to John the Apostle. It is one of the texts addressed by Irenaeus in his Christian polemic Against Heresies, placing its composition before 180 AD. I... | 2.53125 | 0 |
1487672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocryphon%20of%20John | Apocryphon of John | History
A book called the Apocryphon of John was referred to by Irenaeus in Adversus Haereses, written about 185, among "an indescribable number of secret and illegitimate writings, which they themselves have forged, to bewilder the minds of foolish people, who are ignorant of the true scriptures"—scriptures which Iren... | 2.484375 | 0 |
1487672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocryphon%20of%20John | Apocryphon of John | Influence
The Apocryphon, set in the framing device of a revelation delivered by the resurrected Christ to John the son of Zebedee, contains some of the most extensive detailing of classic dualistic Gnostic mythology that has survived; as one of the principal texts of the Nag Hammadi library, it is an essential text of... | 2.015625 | 0 |
1487672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocryphon%20of%20John | Apocryphon of John | The text begins with John describing his own state of grief and bewilderment after Christ's crucifixion. The Savior then appears, takes various forms, and after banishing John's fears, provides the following cosmological narrative.
The highest divine principle is the Monad. The Monad is described as a "monarchy with n... | 2.125 | 0 |
1487707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Jacob%20Rhodes | John Jacob Rhodes | John Jacob Rhodes Jr. (September 18, 1916 – August 24, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Rhodes served as a U.S. Representative from Arizona for thirty years from 1953 to 1983. He was the minority leader in the House of Representatives from 1973 to 1981 and pressed a conserv... | 2.078125 | 0 |
1487707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Jacob%20Rhodes | John Jacob Rhodes | Political career
In 1950, Rhodes ran for Attorney General of Arizona as a Republican. His friend, Barry Goldwater, correctly predicted that Rhodes would lose; at that time, Arizona was over seventy-five percent Democratic. In 1952, Rhodes ran again, this time for , which then had all of Phoenix and surrounding Maricopa... | 2.03125 | 0 |
1487777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-Truth | R-Truth | Early life
Ronnie Aaron Killings was born on January 19, 1972, in Charlotte, North Carolina. To make extra money in his early 20s, Killings would sell cocaine on the streets for extra income. From a young age, Killings had developed a love for hip hop and breakdancing and attended Harding University High School where ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1487780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemoreceptor%20trigger%20zone | Chemoreceptor trigger zone | Evolutionary significance
The CTZ is in the medulla oblongata, which is phylogenetically the oldest part of the central nervous system. Early lifeforms developed a brainstem, or inner brain, and nothing more. This part of the brain is responsible for basic survival instincts and reactions, for example to make an organi... | 3.09375 | 0 |
1487780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemoreceptor%20trigger%20zone | Chemoreceptor trigger zone | The CTZ has many different types of receptors, which are specific to different types of toxins or drugs that might be present in the bloodstream and thus that can affect the CTZ. Types of CTZ receptors include dopamine, serotonin, histamine, substance P, opioid, and acetylcholine receptors. It has been discovered that ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
1487780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemoreceptor%20trigger%20zone | Chemoreceptor trigger zone | Most of the neurons located in the CTZ express hyperpolarization-activated cation channels (H-channels). Since the neurons in the CTZ convey information relating to emesis to the other parts of the vomiting center, it was thought that these H-channels might play a role in nausea and the emetic response. Recently, evide... | 2.140625 | 0 |
1487780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemoreceptor%20trigger%20zone | Chemoreceptor trigger zone | Damage to the CTZ
Damage to the CTZ can come via stroke, physical injury, or over-excitation resulting in neuron death. Once the damage has occurred, the effects can cause the emetic response to disappear, or cause the emetic response to heighten, in some cases causing intractable vomiting that leave patients in severe... | 2.296875 | 0 |
1487820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania%20Chronicles | Castlevania Chronicles | Castlevania Chronicles is an action-platform game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo for the PlayStation. Released in 2001, it includes two distinct game modes: Original Mode and Arrange Mode. Original Mode is a direct port of the 1993 game for the X68000 home computer. This version of Akumajō Dracula is... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1487820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania%20Chronicles | Castlevania Chronicles | The development process for Akumajō Dracula involved a collaborative and iterative approach, where individual team members would present their ideas and receive feedback from the rest of the team. This method allowed for continuous refinement and incorporation of only the best ideas into the final product. Ueda emphasi... | 2 | 0 |
1487827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Makin%20Island%20%28LHD-8%29 | USS Makin Island (LHD-8) | USS Makin Island (LHD-8), a , is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Makin Island, target of the Marine Raiders' Makin Island raid early on in the United States' involvement in World War II.
Makin Islands task is to embark, deploy, and land elements of a Marine Corps landing force in an amphibiou... | 2.296875 | 0 |
1487827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Makin%20Island%20%28LHD-8%29 | USS Makin Island (LHD-8) | Makin Island is the eighth Wasp-class amphibious assault ships to be ordered for the U.S. Navy, but differs from her older sister ships in her propulsion system. The previous Wasp-class vessels used steam boilers and steam turbines to drive the propellers, while Makin Island is the first U.S. Navy vessel to use a hybri... | 2.40625 | 0 |
1487827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Makin%20Island%20%28LHD-8%29 | USS Makin Island (LHD-8) | 2010
Damage to a turning gear delayed the ship's final check-out trials from August to September 2010.
Makin Island visited San Francisco in October 2010 as part of the city's 2010 Fleet Week festivities. She returned to Fleet Week in 2012 after her maiden deployment to the 5th and 7th Fleet area of operations.
2014
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1487827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Makin%20Island%20%28LHD-8%29 | USS Makin Island (LHD-8) | Hybrid diesel electric propulsion
Makin Island departed on her maiden deployment as the US Navy's first hybrid-drive warship: part gas-turbine and part diesel-electric. About 70% of the time Makin Island can use diesel-electric propulsion, saving on fuel as diesel engines are optimized for cruising, and consume much le... | 2.453125 | 0 |
1487828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solentiname%20Islands | Solentiname Islands | The Solentiname Islands () are an archipelago towards the southern end of Lake Nicaragua (also known as Lake Cocibolca) in the Nicaraguan department of Río San Juan.
They are made up of four larger islands, each a few kilometres across, named, from west to east, Mancarroncito, Mancarrón, San Fernando and La Venada, al... | 2.875 | 0 |
1487828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solentiname%20Islands | Solentiname Islands | Mancarrón is Solentiname's largest island. It is here that the priest and poet Ernesto Cardenal’s historical parish is to be found. Father Cardenal arrived in the islands in 1966 and is known for establishing a communal society for artists in the early 1970s which persists to this day. The community developed its own n... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1487830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrin-releasing%20peptide | Gastrin-releasing peptide | Gastrin-releasing peptide GRP, is a neuropeptide, a regulatory molecule encoded in the human by the GRP gene. GRP has been implicated in a number of physiological and pathophysiological processes. Most notably, GRP stimulates the release of gastrin from the G cells of the stomach.
GRP encodes a number of bombesin-lik... | 2.15625 | 0 |
1487859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra%20Nova%20National%20Park | Terra Nova National Park | Terra Nova National Park is located on the northeast coast of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, along several inlets of Bonavista Bay. The park takes its name from the Latin name for Newfoundland; it is also the original Portuguese name given to the region.
Terra Nova's landscape is t... | 2.59375 | 0 |
1487859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra%20Nova%20National%20Park | Terra Nova National Park | During the summer there are a number of interpretive programs offered at Terra Nova. Almost every night there is a show at the Evening Theatre about the themes of the Park. Current shows include "Go With the Flo" and "Forest Idol." Previous shows include "Forest Feud" and "The Broad Cove Bachelor". Once a week there is... | 2.71875 | 0 |
1487868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%20metric | Poincaré metric | In mathematics, the Poincaré metric, named after Henri Poincaré, is the metric tensor describing a two-dimensional surface of constant negative curvature. It is the natural metric commonly used in a variety of calculations in hyperbolic geometry or Riemann surfaces.
There are three equivalent representations commonly ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
1487880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolecithal | Isolecithal | Isolecithal (Greek iso = equal, lekithos = yolk) refers to the even distribution of yolk in the cytoplasm of ova of mammals and other vertebrates, notably fishes of the families Petromyzontidae, Amiidae, and Lepisosteidae. Isolecithal cells have two equal hemispheres of yolk. However, during cellular development, norma... | 3 | 0 |
1487881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi%20Sigma%20Pi | Phi Sigma Pi | Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity () is a gender-inclusive/mixed-sex national honor fraternity based in the United States. The fraternity is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania to foster scholarship, leadership, and fellowship. Phi Sigma Pi chapters are at more than 14... | 2.640625 | 0 |
1487881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi%20Sigma%20Pi | Phi Sigma Pi | Several chapters closed throughout the 1930s during the Great Depression. In 1934, the Phi Sigma Pi began negotiating a merger with Kappa Phi Kappa, a larger educational fraternity. At the time, Phi Sigma Pi had 18 chapters and 500 members, and Kappa Phi Kappa had more than 40 chapters. In June 1934, the Northwestern O... | 2.0625 | 0 |
1487881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi%20Sigma%20Pi | Phi Sigma Pi | Two of the fraternity's most dedicated national officers from this era were Joseph Torchia (Sigma) and Richard C. Todd (Sigma). Torchia was employed at his alma mater as an associate professor of education from 1946 to 1975. The Outstanding Chapter Award was created in 1957 and was renamed the Joseph Torchia Outstandin... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1487881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi%20Sigma%20Pi | Phi Sigma Pi | Thus, the fraternity evolved from being an honorary professional fraternity to a professional education fraternity, and then, in 1966, into an honor fraternity for all disciplines. Formerly all-male, Phi Sigma Pi first admitted women in 1977. Since 1996, the fraternity's national office is located in Lancaster, Pennsyl... | 2.171875 | 0 |
1487891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDK | GDK | GDK (GIMP Drawing Kit) is a library that acts as a wrapper around the low-level functions provided by the underlying windowing and graphics systems. GDK lies between the display server and the GTK library, handling basic rendering such as drawing primitives, raster graphics (bitmaps), cursors, fonts, as well as window ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
1487895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace%20of%20Ardashir | Palace of Ardashir | The Palace of Ardashir Pāpakan (in , Kākh-e Ardashir-e Pāpakān), also known as the Atash-kadeh آتشکده, is a castle located on the slopes of the mountain on which Dezh Dokhtar is situated. Built in AD 224 by King Ardashir I of the Sassanian Empire, it is located two kilometers (1.2 miles) north of the ancient city of Go... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1487896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasoactive%20intestinal%20peptide | Vasoactive intestinal peptide | Vasoactive intestinal peptide, also known as vasoactive intestinal polypeptide or VIP, is a peptide hormone that is vasoactive in the intestine. VIP is a peptide of 28 amino acid residues that belongs to a glucagon/secretin superfamily, the ligand of class II G protein–coupled receptors.
VIP is produced in many tissues... | 2.203125 | 0 |
1487896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasoactive%20intestinal%20peptide | Vasoactive intestinal peptide | In the brain
VIP is also found in the brain and some autonomic nerves:
One region includes a specific area of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN), the location of the 'master circadian pacemaker'. See SCN and circadian rhythm below. VIP in the pituitary helps to regulate prolactin secretion; it stimulates prolactin rel... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1487896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasoactive%20intestinal%20peptide | Vasoactive intestinal peptide | The SCN coordinates daily timekeeping in the body and VIP plays a key role in communication between individual brain cells within this region. At a cellular level, the SCN expresses different electrical activity in circadian time. Higher activity is observed during the day, while during night there is lower activity. T... | 2.46875 | 0 |
1487896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasoactive%20intestinal%20peptide | Vasoactive intestinal peptide | The leading hypothesis of VIP function points to the neurons using VIP to communicate with specific postsynaptic targets to regulate circadian rhythm. The depolarization of the VIP-expressing neurons by light appears to cause the release of VIP and co-transmitters (including GABA) that can in turn, alter the properties... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1487896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasoactive%20intestinal%20peptide | Vasoactive intestinal peptide | VIP neurons located in the hypothalamus, specifically the dorsal anterior hypothalamus and ventromedial hypothalamus, have an effect on social behaviors in many species of vertebrates. Studies suggest that VIP cascades can be activated in the brain in response to a social situation that stimulates the areas of the brai... | 2.75 | 0 |
1487897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Drums | Ludwig Drums | Ludwig Drums is a United States musical instrument manufacturer, focused on percussion. It is a subsidiary of Conn-Selmer.
Products manufactured by Ludwig include timpani, drum kits, and drum hardware. The company also makes keyboard percussion instruments, such as marimbas, vibraphones, and xylophones, through the Lu... | 2.328125 | 0 |
1487897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Drums | Ludwig Drums | In 1937, William bought a factory building and started The WFL Drum Company (his initials). The company continued producing drums at a small scale for the duration of World War II, but William got back to the idea of making the company a large drum manufacturer after the war ended. WFL was a competitor with Ludwig and ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
1487939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losar | Losar | Practice
Losar is celebrated for 15 days, with the main celebrations on the first three days. On the first day of Losar, a beverage called changkol is made from chhaang (a Tibetan-Nepali equivalent of beer). The second day of Losar is known as King's Losar (gyalpo losar). Losar is traditionally preceded by the five-d... | 2.640625 | 0 |
1487971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto%20%28film%29 | Balto (film) | Balto is a 1995 live-action/animated adventure film directed by Simon Wells, produced by Amblin Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is loosely based on the true story of the eponymous dog who helped save children infected with diphtheria in the 1925 serum run to Nome. The film stars the voices of Ke... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1487971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto%20%28film%29 | Balto (film) | Production
Development
Screenwriter Elana Lesser first recalled being told the story of Balto by her grandfather as a child, and as an adult, felt that it would make an excellent animated film. She and screenwriter Cliff Ruby, pitched a screenplay to Amblin Entertainment in Universal City, California, and executives D... | 2.296875 | 0 |
1487971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto%20%28film%29 | Balto (film) | Animation
Balto was officially put into production in March 1993, under the working title Snowballs. To have a source for the dogs' character animation to be based on, the filmmakers set up special drawing classes, in which they brought in about seven Siberian Huskies and videotaped them walking around in the studio, w... | 2.453125 | 0 |
1487971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto%20%28film%29 | Balto (film) | The tight budget necessitated many difficult decisions; for instance, it was calculated that in most shots, the effects animators could not afford to include both footprints and shadows, and had to figure out what they could get away with omitting. Another principal difficulty that the crew faced was that in order to a... | 2.53125 | 0 |
1487971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto%20%28film%29 | Balto (film) | Historical differences
The film has many historical inaccuracies:
The film portrays Balto (1919 – March 14, 1933) as a brown-and-gray wolfdog. In reality, Balto was a purebred Siberian Husky and was black and white in color. Balto's colors changed to brown due to light exposure while on display in the Cleveland Museu... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1487971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto%20%28film%29 | Balto (film) | Release
The film was theatrically released in the United States on December 22, 1995, and then international theatres on January 13, 1996, when it first premiered in Brazil. Its release was vastly overshadowed by that of Pixar Animation Studios' first feature film, Toy Story, which had premiered a month earlier.
Box ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
1487987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20on%20Drug%20Abuse | National Institute on Drug Abuse | The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is a United States federal government research institute whose mission is to "advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health."
The institute has conducted an in-depth study of addic... | 2.84375 | 0 |
1487987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20on%20Drug%20Abuse | National Institute on Drug Abuse | Publications
NIDA Notes is a bimonthly newsletter that has been published since 1985. Its scope covers drug abuse research in the areas of treatment and prevention, epidemiology, neuroscience, behavioral science, health services, and AIDS. NIDA-supported studies are also published in other journals. NIDA publishes educ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
1487987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20on%20Drug%20Abuse | National Institute on Drug Abuse | NIDA literature and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) research frequently contradict each other. For instance, in the 1980s and 1990s, NIMH researchers found that dopamine plays only a marginal role in marijuana's psychoactive effects. Years later, however, NIDA educational materials continued to warn of the... | 2.0625 | 0 |
1488025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinebrigade%20Ehrhardt | Marinebrigade Ehrhardt | Deployments
The brigade's first deployment took it to Braunschweig on 17 April 1919, where it joined units of the Maercker Free Corps in preventing the attempt to establish a soviet republic there. After the defeat of the northern communist forces, the brigade marched to the industrial cities of central Germany to fig... | 2.453125 | 0 |
1488025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinebrigade%20Ehrhardt | Marinebrigade Ehrhardt | In November the brigade was transferred a camp near Berlin, and in March 1920 the German government issued orders for it to be disbanded. The order was consistent with the Treaty of Versailles, which limited the size of the Republic's army, the Reichswehr, to 100,000 soldiers. The brigade's leaders were determined to r... | 2.359375 | 0 |
1488026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conn-Selmer | Conn-Selmer | Conn-Selmer, Inc. is an American manufacturer of musical instruments for concert bands, marching bands and orchestras. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments and was formed in 2003 by combining the Steinway properties, The Selmer Company and United Musical Instruments.
Conn-Selmer is the large... | 2.109375 | 0 |
1488043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg%20recording | Bootleg recording | A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. Making and distributing such recordings is known as bootlegging. Recordings may be copied and traded among fans without financial exchange, but some bootleggers have sold recordings... | 2.6875 | 0 |
1488043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg%20recording | Bootleg recording | Definitions
The word bootleg originates from the practice of smuggling illicit items in the legs of tall boots, particularly the smuggling of alcohol during the American Prohibition era. The word, over time, has come to refer to any illegal or illicit product. This term has become an umbrella term for illicit, unoffici... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1488043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg%20recording | Bootleg recording | The most common type is the live bootleg, often an audience recording, which is created with sound recording equipment smuggled into a live concert. Many artists and live venues prohibit this form of recording, but from the 1970s onwards the increased availability of portable technology made such bootlegging easier, an... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1488043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg%20recording | Bootleg recording | Some bootlegs consist of private or professional studio recordings distributed without the artist's involvement, including demos, works-in-progress or discarded material. These might be made from private recordings not meant to be widely shared, or from master recordings stolen or copied from an artist's home, a record... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1488043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg%20recording | Bootleg recording | The first popular rock music bootleg resulted from Bob Dylan's activities between largely disappearing from the public eye after his motorcycle accident in 1966, and the release of John Wesley Harding at the end of 1967. After a number of artists had hits with Dylan songs that he had not officially released himself, de... | 2.125 | 0 |
1488043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg%20recording | Bootleg recording | The 1980s saw the increased use of audio cassettes and videotapes for the dissemination of bootleg recordings, as the affordability of private dubbing equipment made the production of multiple copies significantly easier. Cassettes were also smaller, easier to ship, and could be sold or traded more affordably than viny... | 2.359375 | 0 |
1488043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg%20recording | Bootleg recording | 1990s–present
Following the success of Ultra Rare Trax, the 1990s saw an increased production of bootleg CDs, including reissues of shows that had been recorded decades previously. In particular, companies in Germany and Italy exploited the more relaxed copyright laws in those countries by pressing large numbers of CDs... | 2.015625 | 0 |
1488043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg%20recording | Bootleg recording | The late 1990s saw an increase in the free trading of digital bootlegs, sharply decreasing the demand for and profitability of physical bootlegs. The rise of audio file formats such as MP3 and Real Audio, combined with the ability to share files between computers via the internet, made it simpler for collectors to exch... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1488043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg%20recording | Bootleg recording | The video sharing website YouTube became a major carrier of bootleg recordings. YouTube's owner, Google, believes that under the "safe-harbor" provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), it cannot be held responsible for content, allowing bootleg media to be hosted on it without fear of a lawsuit. As the ... | 2.375 | 0 |
1488043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg%20recording | Bootleg recording | In the US, bootlegs had been a grey area in legality, but the 1976 Copyright Act extended copyright protection to all recordings, including "all misappropriated recordings, both counterfeit and pirate". This meant bootleggers would take a much greater risk, and several were arrested. Bootlegs have been prohibited by fe... | 1.96875 | 0 |
1488047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Eugene%20Flandrau | Charles Eugene Flandrau | Flandrau was educated in Georgetown, then a separate community in the District of Columbia, until the age of 13, when he tried to enlist in the Navy. Too young to obtain an appointment, he spent three years as a common sailor under other services. In 1844, tiring of the sea, he worked for three years in the mahogany tr... | 2.4375 | 0 |
1488056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toubon%20Law | Toubon Law | Provisions of the law
One broad provision of the law applying to workplaces is that "any document that contains obligations for the employee or provisions whose knowledge is necessary for the performance of one's work must be written in French." Among other things, this means that computer software developed outside Fr... | 2 | 0 |
1488062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg%20play | Bootleg play | In American football, a bootleg play is a play in which the quarterback runs with the ball in the direction of either sideline behind the line of scrimmage. This can be accompanied by a play action, or fake hand off of the ball to a running back running the opposite direction.
Overview
The quarterback can be accompani... | 2 | 0 |
1488075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20error | Logic error | In computer programming, a logic error is a bug in a program that causes it to operate incorrectly, but not to terminate abnormally (or crash). A logic error produces unintended or undesired output or other behaviour, although it may not immediately be recognized as such.
Logic errors occur in both compiled and inter... | 3.390625 | 0 |
1488104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilikon%20Doron | Basilikon Doron | The Basilikon Doron is a treatise on government written by King James VI of Scotland (who would later also become James I of England), in 1599.
Background
Basilikon Doron (Βασιλικὸν Δῶρον) means "royal gift" in Ancient Greek and was written in the form of a private letter to James's eldest son, Henry, Duke of Rothesay... | 2.703125 | 0 |
1488104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilikon%20Doron | Basilikon Doron | All of these guidelines composed an underlying code of conduct to be followed by all monarchs and heads of state to rule and govern efficiently. James assembled these directions as a result of his own experience and upbringing. He, therefore, offered the Basilikon Doron to his son with the hope of rendering him a capab... | 2.46875 | 0 |
1488111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory%20of%20the%20second%20best | Theory of the second best | In welfare economics, the theory of the second best concerns the situation when one or more optimality conditions cannot be satisfied. The economists Richard Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster showed in 1956 that if one optimality condition in an economic model cannot be satisfied, it is possible that the next-best solution i... | 1.921875 | 0 |
1488118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishichiro%20Okura | Kishichiro Okura | Baron was a Japanese entrepreneur and hotelier.
Biography
Baron Kishichiro Okura was the son of Okura Kihachiro (1837–1928), an entrepreneur who built up the Okura-gumi and founded the giant Okura Zaibatsu (family owned conglomerate) and the Okura Shogyo Gakko, which later became Tokyo Keizai University (Tokyo Unive... | 2.421875 | 0 |
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