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1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | The New York City Subway tried to keep its budget balanced between spending and revenue, so deferred maintenance became more common, which drew a slow but steady decline of the system and rolling stock. Furthermore, the workers were consolidated into the Transport Workers Union in 1968. A pension was set up, and worker... | 2.703125 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | In 1973, the city's graffiti epidemic surged so that nearly every subway car was tagged with graffiti. It was worsened by the budgetary restraints on New York City, which limited its ability to remove graffiti and perform transit maintenance. Mayor John Lindsay declared the first war on graffiti in 1972, but it would b... | 2.359375 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | An extensive car-washing program in the late 1980s ensured the elimination of graffiti throughout the system's rolling stock. In 1984 the NYCTA began a five-year program to eradicate graffiti. The years between 1985 and 1989 became known as the "die hard" era. A last shot for the graffiti artists of this time was in th... | 2.65625 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | On May 27, 1975, the NYCTA announced that in September of that year 94 daily IRT trips would be discontinued, accounting for 4 percent of then-existing service on the IRT. The trips were to be discontinued to cut operating deficits. Express service on the 7 train was to be discontinued between the hours of 9:30 a.m. an... | 2.1875 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | In April 1975 it was planned that all rush hour 1 trains would begin running to 242nd Street; these runs had previously terminated at 137th Street. During midday hours, trains on the 1 were to be shortened to five cars. In July, it was planned that the EE would be discontinued; N trains were to have been extended to Co... | 2.015625 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | The subway had been gradually neglected since the 1940s, and its situation had been exacerbated by the low fare. On May 20, 1970, two people died at the Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue station in the worst subway collision since the 1928 Times Square derailment. Following the 1970 accident, New York Magazine highlight... | 2.34375 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | In December 1978 a New York Daily News article highlighted the worst parts of the subway. The Grand Central–42nd Street station was the worst underground station and the Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue station was the worst elevated station. The subway cars in the worst condition were the R10s. The subway line with ... | 2.5 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | In 1986, the MTA and Regional Plan Association again considered closing of above-ground lines to follow population shifts. They included the Jerome Avenue, Dyre Avenue, Franklin Avenue, Crosstown, and Rockaway lines, as well as parts of the Myrtle and Jamaica lines. The south end of the Culver Line and the north ends ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | To attract passengers, in September 1978 the TA introduced the "Train to the Plane", a premium-fare service that provided limited stops along Sixth Avenue in Manhattan from 57th Street to Howard Beach, where passengers could transfer to a shuttle bus to JFK Airport. The service was staffed by a transit police officer, ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | Richard Ravitch, chairman of the MTA, said that even he was scared of going on the subway. Despite the MTA discussing methods to increase ridership, the 1982 figures fell to levels last seen in 1917. Within less than ten years, the MTA had lost around 300 million passengers, mainly because of fears of crime. In July 19... | 2.390625 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | At the 14th Street station, Goetz entered the car through the rearmost door, crossed the aisle, and took a seat on the long bench across from the door. After Canty asked Goetz how he was, Goetz replied affirmatively, at which point the four boys supposedly moved over to the left of Goetz, blocking Goetz off from the ot... | 2.0625 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | Ironically, the Program for Action forced the closure of a large number of subway lines. The Bronx remnant of the IRT Third Avenue Line closed in 1973, to be provisionally replaced by a new subway under the Metro-North Railroad tracks on Park Avenue, one block to the west. The single-tracked Culver Shuttle between Ditm... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | The dramatic decrease in evasion during this period coincided with a reinvigorated Transit Police, a 25% expansion of City police, and a general drop in crime in U.S. cities. In the city, crime rate decline begun in 1991 under Mayor David Dinkins and continued through next two decades under Mayors Rudolph Giuliani and ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | On January 1, 1982, the MTA implemented the first of its five-year Capital Improvement programs to repair the existing system. Scheduled Maintenance Services were formed to proactively replace components, and the MTA conducted general overhauls of the R26 through R46 fleets. Older equipment (any car classes with contra... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | In December 1988, three transfers were opened between existing stations, and three brand-new stations were opened. The transfer points were:
Lexington Avenue / 53rd Street and 51st Street stations
Long Island City – Court Square and 23rd Street – Ely Avenue stations (now known as Court Square and Court Square – 23rd ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | Generally, ridership kept rising as the subway system improved in its maintenance, cleanliness, frequency, and on-time ratio; ridership started to increase as graffiti and crime rates dropped heavily after 1989. From 1995 to 2005, ridership on city buses and subways grew by 36%, compared with a population gain in the c... | 2.53125 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | In 2003, money was allocated for the construction of a new station at South Ferry, and in 2005, construction commenced on the new station. Initially, the station's construction had been opposed because of the high cost and low perceived time savings. The South Ferry loop station only accommodates the first five cars of... | 1.945313 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | The 7 Subway Extension originally was expected to open in 2014, but did not open until September 13, 2015. According to The New York Times, the delay in the extension's opening was due to the installation of custom-made incline elevators that kept malfunctioning. The Fulton Center building opened to the public on Nove... | 2.203125 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | In October 2017, city comptroller Scott Stringer released an analysis of the effect of subway delays on the economy and on commuters. The study found that based on a normal wait time of 5 minutes and an average wage of $34 per hour in 2016, "worst-case" subway delays of more than 20 minutes could cost up to $389 millio... | 1.9375 | 0 |
1489099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20York%20City%20Subway | History of the New York City Subway | Planning of new lines
There are several lines under consideration. This includes a subway line under Utica Avenue in Brooklyn; an outer-borough circumferential line, the Triboro RX; a reuse of the northern part of the Rockaway Beach Branch; and a line to LaGuardia Airport.
In November 2016, the MTA requested that the... | 2 | 0 |
1489120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20of%20Melbourne | Port of Melbourne | The Port of Melbourne is the largest port for containerised and general cargo in Australia. It is located in Melbourne, Victoria, and covers an area at the mouth of the Yarra River, downstream of Bolte Bridge, which is at the head of Port Phillip, as well as several piers on the bay itself. Since 1 July 2003, the Port ... | 2.125 | 0 |
1489120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20of%20Melbourne | Port of Melbourne | History
In Melbourne's early days, large ships were unable to navigate the Yarra River, so cargo destined for Melbourne had to be unloaded at either Hobsons Bay (now Williamstown) or Sandridge (now Port Melbourne) and transferred either by rail or by cargo lighter to warehouses which were concentrated around King Stree... | 2.78125 | 0 |
1489120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20of%20Melbourne | Port of Melbourne | In 1991 a large fire at the Coode Island bulk liquid handling facility blanketed much of Melbourne in toxic fumes. The public outrage forced the government to investigate relocating the facility. Point Lillias near Geelong was considered. However, due to the high cost involved and local opposition the facility has rema... | 2.15625 | 0 |
1489122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20Museum | Russian Museum | The State Russian Museum (), formerly known as the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (), on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world's largest depository of Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest art museums in the world with a total area over 30 hectares. In 2022 it attracted 2,651,6... | 2.5625 | 0 |
1489133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrops%20norvegicus | Nephrops norvegicus | Nephrops norvegicus, known variously as the Norway lobster, Dublin Bay prawn, (compare langostino) or scampi, is a slim, coral colored lobster that grows up to long, and is "the most important commercial crustacean in Europe". It is now the only extant species in the genus Nephrops, after several other species were m... | 2.78125 | 0 |
1489133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrops%20norvegicus | Nephrops norvegicus | Nephrops norvegicus adults prefer to inhabit muddy seabed sediments, with more than 40 percent silt and clay. Their burrows are semi-permanent, and vary in structure and size. Typical burrows are deep, with a distance of between the front and back entrances. Norway lobsters spend most of their time either lying in th... | 3 | 0 |
1489133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrops%20norvegicus | Nephrops norvegicus | The most significant parasite of N. norvegicus is a dinoflagellate of the genus Hematodinium, which has caused epidemic infection in fished populations of N. norvegicus since the 1980s. Hematodinium is a genus that contains major pathogens of a wide variety of decapod crustaceans, although its internal taxonomy is poo... | 3.328125 | 0 |
1489133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrops%20norvegicus | Nephrops norvegicus | Adult male Nephrops norvegicus moult once or twice a year (usually in late winter or spring) and adult females moult up to once a year (in late winter or spring, after hatching of the eggs). In annual breeding cycles, mating takes place in the spring or winter, when the females are in the soft, post-moult state. The ov... | 3.046875 | 0 |
1489133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrops%20norvegicus | Nephrops norvegicus | The North East Atlantic individual biological stocks of Nephrops are identified as functional units. A number of functional units make up the sea areas over which a total allowable catch (TAC) is set annually by the EU Council of Ministers. For example, the TAC set for North Sea Nephrops is based on the aggregate tota... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1489133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrops%20norvegicus | Nephrops norvegicus | Nephrops norvegicus was one of the species included by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of , the starting point for zoological nomenclature. In that work, it was listed as , with a type locality of ("in the Norwegian sea"). In choosing a lectotype, Lipke Holthuis restricted the type locality to the Kattegat at t... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1489146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowen%20Bridge | Bowen Bridge | Design
The foundational design primarily aimed to ensure the river piers could withstand impacts from barges traveling at operating speeds () assisted by the current (). All piers were specifically engineered to endure an impact force of at an angle of up to 45 degrees from the pile cap centre line, while other direct... | 2.546875 | 0 |
1489149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lake%20Khasan | Battle of Lake Khasan | The confrontation was triggered in July 1938, when Far Eastern Front and Soviet State Security (NKVD) Border Guard troops reinforced the Khasan border with Manchuria. This was prompted in part by the defection one month before (13 June) of Soviet General G. S. Lyushkov, in charge of all NKVD forces in the Soviet Far Ea... | 2.46875 | 0 |
1489149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lake%20Khasan | Battle of Lake Khasan | On July 10, 1938, the deputy head of the Posyetsky border detachment, Major Alexander Alekseev, reported to the military headquarters in Khabarovsk that the height is engaged in a reserve outpost, in addition to the outposts Podgornaya and Pakshekori. The conflict started on 15 July, when the Japanese attaché in Moscow... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1489149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lake%20Khasan | Battle of Lake Khasan | On 31 July, Sato's regiment launched a night sortie on the fortified hill. In the Changkufeng sector, 1,114 Japanese engaged a Soviet garrison of 300, eliminating them and knocking out 10 tanks, with casualties of 34 killed and 99 wounded. In the Shachofeng sector, 379 Japanese surprised and routed another 300 Soviet t... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1489149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lake%20Khasan | Battle of Lake Khasan | On 31 July, People's Commissar for Defence Kliment Voroshilov ordered combat readiness for 1st Coastal Army and the Pacific Fleet. The Soviets gathered 354 tanks and assault guns at Lake Khasan, including 257 T-26 tanks (with 10 KhT-26 flame-throwing tanks), three ST-26 bridge-laying tanks, 81 BT-7 light tanks and 13 S... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1489149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lake%20Khasan | Battle of Lake Khasan | After the Japanese pushed the Soviet border security unit, later reinforced by the 40th Rifle Division, from the hill and other positions the Japanese dug in while the Soviets reinforced their troops. Unlike the Japanese the Soviets didn't have a railway close to the battlefield, but instead a single unpaved road so wh... | 2.046875 | 0 |
1489149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lake%20Khasan | Battle of Lake Khasan | On August 6 the Soviets renewed their attack. First multiple waves of bombers attacked the Japanese positions. This attack was delayed either because of fog or poor preparations. After the bombers an assault by tanks and infantry, including mechanized troops, supported by artillery was made. In the difficult terrain th... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1489149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lake%20Khasan | Battle of Lake Khasan | Soviet losses totaled 792 killed or missing and 3,279 wounded or sick, according to their records and the Japanese claimed to have destroyed or immobilized 96 enemy tanks and 30 guns. Soviet armoured losses were significant, with dozens of tanks being knocked out or destroyed and hundreds of "tank troops" becoming casu... | 2.25 | 0 |
1489163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogyen%20Trinley%20Dorje | Ogyen Trinley Dorje | There are four main websites – Dharma Treasure, Adarsha, Ketaka, and Dharma Ebooks – each one dealing with a different format, tool, or translation. Adarsha, for example, makes the Kangyur, Tengyur, and Tibetan masterpieces available in digital format and has been catalogued under the guidance of Ogyen Trinley Dorje.... | 2.59375 | 0 |
1489172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20Eberhardt | Isabelle Eberhardt | Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt (17 February 1877 – 21 October 1904) was a Swiss explorer and author. As a teenager, Eberhardt, educated in Switzerland by her father, published short stories under a male pseudonym. She became interested in North Africa, and was considered a proficient writer on the subject despite ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
1489172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20Eberhardt | Isabelle Eberhardt | Eberhardt was well educated; along with the other children in the family, she was home-schooled by Trophimowsky. She was fluent in French, spoke Russian, German and Italian, and was taught Latin, Greek, and classical Arabic. She studied philosophy, metaphysics, chemistry, history, and geography, though she was most pas... | 2.75 | 0 |
1489172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20Eberhardt | Isabelle Eberhardt | Move to North Africa
Sometime prior to 1894, Eberhardt began corresponding with Eugène Letord, a French officer stationed in the Sahara who had placed a newspaper advertisement for a pen pal. Eberhardt asked him for every detail he could give her about life in the Sahara, also informing him of her dreams of escaping Ge... | 2.75 | 0 |
1489172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20Eberhardt | Isabelle Eberhardt | Travels to Europe
Eberhardt spent her money recklessly in Algiers, and quickly exhausted the funds left to her by her mother; she would often spend several days at a time in kief dens. Augustin, ejected from the Foreign Legion due to his health, returned to Geneva alongside Eberhardt in early 1899. They found Trophimow... | 1.992188 | 0 |
1489172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20Eberhardt | Isabelle Eberhardt | Eberhardt made friends in the area and met Slimane Ehnni, a non-commissioned officer in the spahis. They fell in love, and eventually lived together openly. This alienated Eberhardt from the French authorities, who were already outraged by her lifestyle. During her travels she made contact with the Qadiriyya, a Sufi o... | 1.90625 | 0 |
1489172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20Eberhardt | Isabelle Eberhardt | Later life and death
After a short time living with Ehnni's family, the couple relocated to Algiers. Eberhardt became disappointed with Ehnni, whose only ambition after leaving the army appeared to be finding an unskilled job that would allow him to live relatively comfortably. She increased her own efforts as a writer... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1489172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20Eberhardt | Isabelle Eberhardt | At the marabout's zawiya, Eberhardt was weakened by fever. She returned to Aïn Séfra, and was treated at the military hospital. She left the hospital against medical advice and asked Ehnni, from whom she had been separated for several months, to join her. Reunited on 20October 1904, they rented a small mud house. The f... | 2.078125 | 0 |
1489172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20Eberhardt | Isabelle Eberhardt | Legacy
At the time of her death, Eberhardt's possessions included several of her unpublished manuscripts. Lyautey instructed his soldiers to search for all of her papers in the aftermath of the flood, and posted those that could be found to Barrucand. After reconstructing them, substituting his own words where the orig... | 2.46875 | 0 |
1489201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughborough%20Echo | Loughborough Echo | The Loughborough Echo is a paid-for weekly local newspaper owned by Reach plc.
History
Founded by Joseph Deakin in 1891, the Echo has had four editors in its history. It is based in the town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, and circulates in the town and the surrounding area. There is also a special edition, ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
1489218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcelain%20crab | Porcelain crab | Porcelain crabs are decapod crustaceans in the widespread family Porcellanidae, which superficially resemble true crabs. They have flattened bodies as an adaptation for living in rock crevices. They are delicate, readily losing limbs when attacked, and use their large claws for maintaining territories. They first appea... | 3.25 | 0 |
1489230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariq%20B%C3%B6ke | Ariq Böke | When Ögedei Khan died, a power struggle erupted, with leadership then passing to Ögedei's son Güyük in 1246, though Güyük died only two years later, in 1248. After another struggle, the sons of Tolui, Ögedei's brother, took power. The first of Tolui's sons to be Great Khan was Möngke, who proceeded with Kublai to conqu... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1489230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariq%20B%C3%B6ke | Ariq Böke | Surrender
Eventually, as the war continued between Ariq Böke and his brother Kublai, the former's forces weakened. Kublai had powerful Mongol cavalry troops, Mongolian, Manchurian, Han, Kipchak and numerous Chinese and Goryeo infantry units. Kublai's supporter Kadan, a son of Ögedei, crushed Ariq Böke's force under Gen... | 2.375 | 0 |
1489244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermanshah | Kermanshah | Kermanshah (Kurdish: کرماشان) (; ) is a city in the Central District of Kermanshah province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district.
The city is from Tehran in the western part of the country.
The 2016 National Census measured the population of the city as 946,651 (2021 estimate 1,0... | 2.34375 | 0 |
1489244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermanshah | Kermanshah | The carvings, some of the finest and best-preserved examples of Persian sculpture under the Sassanids, include representations of the investitures of Ardashir II (379–383) and Shapur III (383–388). Like other Sassanid symbols, Taghbostan and its relief patterns accentuate power, religious tendencies, glory, honor, the ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1489276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendon%20Brewery | Hendon Brewery | Hendon Brewery (originally Kingsbury and Hyde Brewery and not to be confused with the Darwin Brewery in Hendon, Sunderland) was started by James Robb for Mr William Field of Kingsbury House in Hendon, and seems originally to have been a domestic brewery for the house with Robb conducting a little business on the side b... | 1.960938 | 0 |
1489315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homodyne%20detection | Homodyne detection | In electrical engineering, homodyne detection is a method of extracting information encoded as modulation of the phase and/or frequency of an oscillating signal, by comparing that signal with a standard oscillation that would be identical to the signal if it carried null information. "Homodyne" signifies a single freq... | 2.59375 | 0 |
1489317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSNL | BSNL | Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (abbreviated as BSNL) () is an Indian central public sector undertaking, under the ownership of Department of Telecommunications, which is part of the Ministry of Communications, Government of India with its headquarters in New Delhi, India. The central public sector undertaking was establ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
1489317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSNL | BSNL | For 160 years, BSNL had operated the public telegram service. In 2010, the telex network between its 182 offices was replaced with the "Web-Based Telegram Messaging System" which relied on internet connections rather than telex lines (which are more reliable where power outages are more common). This led to a decline i... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1489317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSNL | BSNL | Horizontally, BSNL is divided into several administrative units, variously known as telecom circles, metro districts, project circles and specialized units. It has 24 telecom circles, two metro districts, six project circles, four maintenance regions, five telecom factories, three training institutions and four special... | 2 | 0 |
1489319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Palace%2C%20Oslo | Royal Palace, Oslo | Permanent royal residence
The Bernadotte dynasty abdicated their Norwegian throne in 1905 and were succeeded by Prince Carl of Denmark, who took the name of Haakon VII when he accepted his election as king of a completely independent Norway. Haakon became the first monarch to use the palace permanently and the palace ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1489341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Thailand | Eastern Thailand | Eastern Thailand is a region of Thailand bordering Cambodia on the east, Northeastern Thailand in the north, and central Thailand on the west.
Geography
Eastern Thailand lies between the Sankamphaeng Range, which forms a natural border with the Khorat Plateau to the north and the Gulf of Thailand to the south. The ge... | 2.796875 | 0 |
1489377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair%20catch%20kick | Fair catch kick | The fair catch kick is a rule at the professional and high school levels of American football that allows a team that has just made a fair catch to attempt a free kick from the spot of the catch. The kick must be either a place kick or a drop kick, and if it passes over the crossbar and between the goalposts of the opp... | 2.390625 | 0 |
1489377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair%20catch%20kick | Fair catch kick | History
The fair catch kick found in American football originated in rugby football. A similar rule in rugby, the goal from mark, allowed a player who had fair caught a ball to attempt an uncontested free kick from the spot of the fair catch. Both major codes of rugby have eliminated the rule: rugby league abolished th... | 2.40625 | 0 |
1489377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair%20catch%20kick | Fair catch kick | Furthermore, for a fair catch kick to be a viable option near the end of the fourth quarter, the team attempting the kick needs to be either tied or behind by three points or fewer; even if such a situation were to occur, a coach might still decline to attempt a fair catch kick. For example, New England Patriots head c... | 2.203125 | 0 |
1489377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair%20catch%20kick | Fair catch kick | Despite its drawbacks, there are several unique advantages to using the fair catch kick. Because the play does not start until the ball is kicked, the kicker can take a running start before kicking as opposed to the typical two steps taken on regular field goal attempts. Similarly, the kicker does not have to worry abo... | 2.125 | 0 |
1489421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Ludwig%20Willdenow | Carl Ludwig Willdenow | Carl Ludwig Willdenow (22 August 1765 – 10 July 1812) was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant taxonomist. He is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants. Willdenow was also a mentor of Alexander von Humboldt, one of the earliest and best known phytogeog... | 2.296875 | 0 |
1489428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Heart%20Foundation | British Heart Foundation | The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is a cardiovascular research charity in the United Kingdom. It funds medical research related to heart and circulatory diseases and their risk factors, and runs influencing work aimed at shaping public policy and raising awareness.
In 2021, a study conducted by YouGov ranked the Brit... | 2.5625 | 0 |
1489428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Heart%20Foundation | British Heart Foundation | Centres of Research Excellence
Since 2008 the BHF has been investing in Centres of Research Excellence. The six current centres bring together scientists from a number of disciplines to work on research projects to beat heart and circulatory disease.
The current Centres of Research are:
University of Cambridge
Univer... | 2.28125 | 0 |
1489428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Heart%20Foundation | British Heart Foundation | Other patients and public activities include:
Information – BHF provides information to help the public reduce their own heart health risk. It also provides numerous resources for patients to better manage their conditions, including the Heart Matters magazine and online hubs on risk factors such as blood pressure and... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1489428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Heart%20Foundation | British Heart Foundation | The Big Beat Challenge
In 2019, The British Heart Foundation launched the Big Beat Challenge, a global competition with a single award of £30m for the research team who proposed a transformational solution to any cardiovascular disease. The Big Beat Challenge was open to applications from any country globally, and acce... | 2.171875 | 0 |
1489428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Heart%20Foundation | British Heart Foundation | Facts and figures
Since the BHF was established, the annual number of deaths from heart and circulatory diseases in the UK has fallen by around half.
Heart and circulatory diseases cause a quarter of all deaths in the UK, totally around 160,000 deaths.
Around 1.4 million people alive in the UK today have survived a ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
1489460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%209%20%28play%29 | Cloud 9 (play) | Cloud Nine (sometimes stylized as Cloud 9) is a 1979 British two-act play written by British playwright Caryl Churchill. It was workshopped with the Joint Stock Theatre Company in late 1978 and premiered at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, on 14 February 1979.
The two acts of the play form a contrapuntal structure. ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1489460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%209%20%28play%29 | Cloud 9 (play) | Interpretations and observations
Act I
Act I of Cloud 9'' invites the audience to engage with Britain's colonial past, but does so by challenging "the preconceived notions held by the audience in terms of gender and sexuality". Churchill also subverts gender and racial stereotypes, using cross-gender and cross-racial ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
1489460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%209%20%28play%29 | Cloud 9 (play) | Act II
The second act is set in London 1979, but for the characters only twenty-five years have passed. Churchill explains her reason for this in the introduction: "The first act, like the society it shows, is male-dominated and firmly structured. In the second act, more energy comes from the women and the gays." In Ac... | 2.46875 | 0 |
1489464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20Medical%20Research | Action Medical Research | Action Medical Research, previously The National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases, is a major British medical research charity, founded in 1952, that funds research to prevent and treat disease and disability in babies and children.
Its aims include:
tackling premature birth and treating sick and vulnerable ... | 2.75 | 0 |
1489464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20Medical%20Research | Action Medical Research | Projects and breakthroughs
A major focus has been on pregnancy and conditions affecting babies, with involvement in projects including the rubella vaccine, ultrasound scanning in pregnancy, intrauterine blood typing, folic acid in the prevention of spina bifida, and the diagnosis of retinopathy in premature babies. Pro... | 2.75 | 0 |
1489466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Emmett%20Carter | Gerald Emmett Carter | Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter (March 1, 1912 – April 6, 2003) was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Toronto from 1978 to 1990, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979.
Biography
Youth and ordination
The youngest of eight children, Emmett Carter was born on March 1, 1912,... | 2.109375 | 0 |
1489468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-9%20Desna | R-9 Desna | The R-9 (; NATO reporting name: SS-8 Sasin) was a two-stage IRBM of the Soviet Union, in service from 1964 to 1976.
History
Designed in 1959 and first tested in 1961, the R-9 was a great improvement over previous Soviet missile designs. The missile, capable of delivering a payload about up to to an accuracy of , was... | 2.3125 | 0 |
1489477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-5%20Pobeda | R-5 Pobeda | The R-5 entered military service in 1955. The R-5M entered service in March 1956 with the designation "8K51". On 2 June 1956, the R-5M was introduced into the Strategic Rocket Forces. 48 missiles were deployed, primarily at sites close to the USSR's western borders, over the course of the next two years. They were put ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
1489496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanka%20Sama%20Samaja%20Party | Lanka Sama Samaja Party | The Lanka Sama Samaja Party, often abbreviated as LSSP (literally: Lanka Equal Society Party, Sinhala: ලංකා සම සමාජ පක්ෂය, Tamil: லங்கா சமசமாஜக் கட்சி), is a major Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. It was the first political party in Sri Lanka (then British Ceylon), having been founded in 1935 by Leslie Goonewar... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1489496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanka%20Sama%20Samaja%20Party | Lanka Sama Samaja Party | History
The Lanka Sama Samaja Party was founded on 18 December 1935, with the broad aims of Sri Lankan Independence and Socialism, by a group of young politicians. The group at the foundation numbered a bare half-dozen, and composed principally of students who had returned from study abroad, influenced deeply by the i... | 2.421875 | 0 |
1489517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-14%20Chusovaya | R-14 Chusovaya | The R-14 Chusovaya (, named for the Chusovaya river) was a single stage Intermediate-range ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was given the NATO reporting name SS-5 Skean and was known by GRAU index 8K65. It was designed by Mikhail Yangel. Chusovaya is the name of a river in Russi... | 2.25 | 0 |
1489519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential%20Palace%2C%20Helsinki | Presidential Palace, Helsinki | The palace was completed in 1845, though repairs had to be made from time to time as mostly it stood empty and was not regularly heated. It was visited for the first time by a member of the Imperial family nine years later, in February 1854, when Emperor Nicholas I's younger son, Grand Duke Constantine, stayed there fo... | 2.15625 | 0 |
1489568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaji%20N.%20Karun | Shaji N. Karun | Biography
Shaji N. Karun was born on New Year's Day, 1952, as the eldest son of Mr. N. Karunakaran and Mrs. Chandramati in present-day Kollam district in the former state of Travancore state (now Kerala), India. The family moved to Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the state in 1963. He did his schooling in Palkulanga... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1489625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20shrew%20mole | American shrew mole | The American shrew mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii) is the smallest species of mole. It is the only living member of the genus Neurotrichus and the tribe Neurotrichini. It is also known as Gibb's shrew mole and least shrew mole. It is not closely related to the Asian shrew mole (Uropsilus in Urotrichini). Its shrew-like fur... | 3.0625 | 0 |
1489625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20shrew%20mole | American shrew mole | In addition to the front paws, the rest of its morphological features allow it to be highly fossorial and subterranean. It has a streamlined body that allow it to move smoothly through tunnels and short appendages that are kept close to the body. It also has no ear pinnae, which is the external part of the ear. These f... | 3.15625 | 0 |
1489625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20shrew%20mole | American shrew mole | The shrew-mole makes permanent tunnels by digging with its forelimbs and using its forefeet to soften the soil that will be removed to make a hollow tunnel. The tunnels form complex networks that interconnect and lead to burrows. The tunnels are rarely ever deeper than 30 centimeters below the surface, so they are not ... | 3.5625 | 0 |
1489625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20shrew%20mole | American shrew mole | Diet and digestion
This mole is often active above ground, foraging in leaf litter for earthworms, insects, snails and slugs. It is also known to eat some vegetation such as mycorrhizal fungi and even salamanders, but earthworms are the most important food item in its diet. Its diet also depends on the type of availabl... | 3.203125 | 0 |
1489625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20shrew%20mole | American shrew mole | Economic status
Shrew-moles usually live in areas where it is difficult to cultivate so they are usually economically neutral, but there are some cases where they do damage people's homes. There are many different methods that people use for getting rid of these moles. The most common non-commercial method is trapping ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
1489628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20account | Capital account | Portfolio investment refers to the purchase of shares and bonds. It is sometimes grouped together with "other" as short-term investment. As with FDI, the income derived from these assets is recorded in the current account; the capital account entry will just be for any buying or selling of the portfolio assets in the i... | 2.53125 | 0 |
1489628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20account | Capital account | When a currency rises higher than monetary authorities might like (making exports less competitive internationally), it is usually considered relatively easy for an independent central bank to counter this. By buying foreign currency or foreign financial assets (usually other governments' bonds), the central bank has a... | 2.53125 | 0 |
1489628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20account | Capital account | International Monetary Fund
The above definition is the one most widely used in economic literature, in the financial press, by corporate and government analysts (except when they are reporting to the IMF), and by the World Bank. In contrast, what the rest of the world calls the capital account is labelled the "financi... | 2.296875 | 0 |
1489628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20account | Capital account | Capital controls
Capital controls are measures imposed by a state's government aimed at managing capital account transactions. They include outright prohibitions against some or all capital account transactions, transaction taxes on the international sale of specific financial assets, or caps on the size of internatio... | 2.671875 | 0 |
1489680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20Coronae%20Borealis | R Coronae Borealis | R Coronae Borealis is the prototype of the R Coronae Borealis class of variable stars. It is one of only two R Coronae Borealis variables bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, along with RY Sagittarii. Much of the time it shows variations of around a tenth of a magnitude with poorly defined periods that have be... | 2.734375 | 0 |
1489680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20Coronae%20Borealis | R Coronae Borealis | In August 2007, R Coronae Borealis began a fade to an unprecedented minimum. It fell to 14th magnitude in 33 days, then continued to fade slowly, dropping below 15th magnitude in June 2009. It then began an equally slow rise, not reaching 12th magnitude until late 2011. This was an unusually deep and exceptional lon... | 2.578125 | 0 |
1489680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20Coronae%20Borealis | R Coronae Borealis | R Coronae Borealis is about 90% helium and less than 1% hydrogen. The majority of the remainder is carbon. This classifies it as a carbon-enhanced extreme helium star. Modelling the pulsations suggests that the star's mass is . The temperature at maximum is reasonably well known at 6,900K and appears to decrease dur... | 2.25 | 0 |
1489689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa%20Engineering%20College | Goa Engineering College | Goa Engineering College or Goa College of Engineering (abbreviated and colloquially referred to as GEC) is a public college in Goa, India, offering courses in engineering disciplines and affiliated to Goa University. Founded in 1967 and situated at Farmagudi plateau, Ponda, it is the oldest engineering college in Goa, ... | 2.125 | 0 |
1489689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa%20Engineering%20College | Goa Engineering College | As part of the golden jubilee celebrations, it was announced that the college would soon house an incubation centre for boosting entrepreneurship on campus.
Campus
The college has one of the largest libraries in the state. It is home to over 86,000 books, journals, and magazines, catering to all the subjects taught ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
1489706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20J.%20Brennan | Peter J. Brennan | Peter Joseph Brennan (May 24, 1918 – October 2, 1996) was an American labor activist and politician who served as United States Secretary of Labor from February 2, 1973, until March 15, 1975, in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Ford. Brennan had previously been the president of both the Building and Construc... | 2.25 | 0 |
1489706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20J.%20Brennan | Peter J. Brennan | The Nixon Administration, under Labor Secretary George P. Shultz, announced the Philadelphia Plan in the summer of 1969 to increase minority membership of skilled building trades to twenty per cent within five years. Brennan and the skilled labor unions were determined to stop the introduction of such a system. They pe... | 1.976563 | 0 |
1489706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20J.%20Brennan | Peter J. Brennan | Brennan organized a rally of construction workers to show support for Nixon's Vietnam policies and American soldiers fighting in Vietnam. At 7:30 a.m. on May 8, several hundred anti-war protesters (most of them high school and college students) began holding a memorial at Broad and Wall Streets for the four dead studen... | 2.140625 | 0 |
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