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1489706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20J.%20Brennan | Peter J. Brennan | American labor leaders were initially happy with Brennan's appointment. He was an outspoken advocate for a higher minimum wage, expanding the minimum wage to cover more workers, significant improvement in unemployment benefits, enhanced workplace safety, and worker training programs. But once in office, Brennan promote... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1489724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndrum | Tyndrum | Tyndrum (; ) is a small village in Scotland. Its Gaelic name translates as "the house on the ridge". It lies in Strath Fillan, at the southern edge of Rannoch Moor.
Location and facilities
Tyndrum is a popular tourist village, and a noted stop on the A82 for road travellers to refresh at the Green Welly Stop or one of... | 2.21875 | 0 |
1489724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndrum | Tyndrum | Mines
Tyndrum is a former mining centre. The hamlet of Clifton (the row of cottages across the A82 from the Green Welly) is made up of the former mining cottages, and up the hillside beyond them the tailings of a former lead mine can be seen. Historical records indicate that the mine was exploited in several different ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1489747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%20Highway | Cunningham Highway | History
The highway is named in honour of the explorer and botanist Allan Cunningham who followed a route close to where the modern-day highway runs. In 1828 after discovering the route Cunningham sent a report to Governor Ralph Darling emphasising the economic benefits that a link between the coast and pastoral lands ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
1489761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster%20Aircraft%20Company | Gloster Aircraft Company | 1947 – Gloster's heyday
During Gloster's heyday, in 1947, S/L Janusz Zurakowski was employed as an experimental pilot. In the following years, he became one of the world's most famous experimental and aerobatics pilots. He developed a new aerobatic manoeuvre, the "Zurabatic Cartwheel", which held the audience captivate... | 2.53125 | 0 |
1489764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20head%20of%20state%20from%201922%20to%201949 | Irish head of state from 1922 to 1949 | The state known today as Ireland is the successor state to the Irish Free State, which existed from December 1922 to December 1937. At its foundation, the Irish Free State was, in accordance with its constitution and the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, governed as a constitutional monarchy, in personal union with the ... | 3.109375 | 0 |
1489764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20head%20of%20state%20from%201922%20to%201949 | Irish head of state from 1922 to 1949 | The Anglo-Irish Treaty was agreed upon to end the 1919–1921 Irish War of Independence fought between Irish revolutionaries who favored an Irish Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The treaty provided for the Irish Free State, which excluded Northern Ireland, as an autonomous and self-governing... | 2.765625 | 0 |
1489764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20head%20of%20state%20from%201922%20to%201949 | Irish head of state from 1922 to 1949 | Irish Free State
The new Irish Free State thus established was a form of constitutional monarchy, a Dominion with the same monarch as the United Kingdom and other states within the British Commonwealth. Under its constitution, the King had functions that included the exercise of executive authority of the state, the ap... | 3.046875 | 0 |
1489764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20head%20of%20state%20from%201922%20to%201949 | Irish head of state from 1922 to 1949 | Executive authority: The executive authority of the state was formally vested in the monarch but exercised by the governor-general. Under Article 51, executive authority was to be exercised in accordance with Canadian practice. Thus, with few exceptions, the governor-general was bound to act on the advice of the Execut... | 2.78125 | 0 |
1489764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20head%20of%20state%20from%201922%20to%201949 | Irish head of state from 1922 to 1949 | The Balfour Declaration, issued at the 1926 Imperial Conference, formally recognized the equality of the Dominions with the United Kingdom and with one another, and established that the various governors-general would henceforth only take advice from their Dominion governments. This equality was codified in legislative... | 2.40625 | 0 |
1489764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20head%20of%20state%20from%201922%20to%201949 | Irish head of state from 1922 to 1949 | The 1932 Irish general election was won by Fianna Fáil, led by de Valera, on a republican platform. Over the next several years, the Irish government began reducing the visibility and formal role of the monarch and governor-general. Domhnall Ua Buachalla, a republican and former Fianna Fáil TD, was appointed governor-g... | 2.96875 | 0 |
1489764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20head%20of%20state%20from%201922%20to%201949 | Irish head of state from 1922 to 1949 | The new constitution filled the gap left by the abolition of the Governor-General by creating the post of a directly elected president of Ireland, who would
"take precedence over all other persons in the State", but was not explicitly described as head of state. The president was henceforth responsible for the ceremon... | 2.828125 | 0 |
1489764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20head%20of%20state%20from%201922%20to%201949 | Irish head of state from 1922 to 1949 | The Republic of Ireland Act 1948
At any rate, the Republic of Ireland Bill was soon introduced into the Oireachtas. In the debate in the Seanad Éireann in December 1948 on the law, Costello argued that the bill would make the President of Ireland the Irish head of state. De Valera's party, the main opposition in the D... | 2.546875 | 0 |
1489764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20head%20of%20state%20from%201922%20to%201949 | Irish head of state from 1922 to 1949 | Irish law did not provide any alternate royal style or title during this period. The original text of the Constitution of the Irish Free State simply referred to the monarch as the "King" without further elaboration. The opening words of Ireland's superseding constitution of 1937 were "In the Name of the Most Holy Trin... | 2.15625 | 0 |
1489795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mind%20Fixers | The Mind Fixers | The Mind Fixers was a seven-part series of newspaper stories by Jon Franklin which won the award for Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1985, first appearing in the Baltimore Evening Sun in July 1984.
The series explores the science of molecular psychiatry as an alternative to psychoanalysis since Freud, dis... | 2.203125 | 0 |
1489819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20economy | Transition economy | The transition process is usually characterized by the changing and creating of institutions, particularly private enterprises; changes in the role of the state, thereby, the creation of fundamentally different governmental institutions and the promotion of private-owned enterprises, markets and independent financial i... | 2.25 | 0 |
1489819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20economy | Transition economy | The economic malaise affecting the Comecon countries – low growth rates and diminishing returns on investment – led many domestic and Western economists to advocate market-based solutions and a sequenced programme of economic reform. It was recognized that micro-economic reform and macro-economic stabilization had to b... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1489819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20economy | Transition economy | The impacts of the conventional transition strategies proved to be de-stabilizing in the short-term and left the population impoverished in the long-term. Economic output declined much more than expected. The decline in output lasted until 1992-96 for all transition economies. By 1994, economic output had declined acro... | 2.09375 | 0 |
1489819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20economy | Transition economy | In time domestic producers were able to upgrade their production capacity and foreign direct investment was attracted to the transition economies. Local-manufactured higher quality consumer goods became available and won market share back from imports. Stabilization of the exchange rate was made more difficult by large... | 2.265625 | 0 |
1489819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20economy | Transition economy | According to the World Bank's 10 Years of Transition report "... the wide dispersion in the productivity of labour and capital across types of enterprises at the onset of transition and the erosion of those differences between old and new sectors during the reform provide a natural definition of the end of transition."... | 2.015625 | 0 |
1489819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20economy | Transition economy | To spur further economic reform and break out of a vicious circle, the EBRD Transition Report 2013 proposed that the transition economies should:
Open up trade and finance, which made reform more resilient to popular pressure ("market aversion") and meant that countries could access the EU single market either as memb... | 2.421875 | 0 |
1489828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeropostal%20Alas%20de%20Venezuela | Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela | In 1951, LAV began service to Lima, Peru, and Bogotá, Colombia. LAV acquired the Bogotá route after they purchased 88% of TACA de Venezuela. Previously, TACA de Venezuela had a joint route agreement with the Colombian airline, LANSA. Until TACA de Venezuela was completely absorbed by LAV in 1958, the route to Bogotá wa... | 1.914063 | 0 |
1489858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainas%20missions | Mainas missions | The Mainas (or Maynas) missions refers to a large number of small missions the Jesuits established in the western Amazon region of South America from 1638 until 1767, when the Jesuits were expelled from Latin America. Following the Jesuit expulsion, mission activity continued under Franciscan auspices.
Roughly 60 miss... | 2.890625 | 0 |
1489858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainas%20missions | Mainas missions | Overview
Christian missions by the Jesuits were one element of the broader Spanish colonial project in the Americas. Historian Ann Taylor characterizes the objective of the missions as "pav[ing] the way for the spread of colonial institutions through cultural means" by using religious and other ideological tools to ind... | 3.109375 | 0 |
1489858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainas%20missions | Mainas missions | Mission activity began in the area around Borja, Peru on the Marañon River and in the valley of the Huallaga River (a tributary of the Marañón). The Jesuits sought to 'induc[e]' indigenous peoples to settle in reductions, as opposed to their traditional modes of habitation and forms of government. This would have been ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
1489869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Quiet%20Place%20%28opera%29 | A Quiet Place (opera) | Act 1
Friends and family gather at Dinah's funeral. Among the guests are Dinah's brother (Bill), her best friend (Susie), her psychoanalyst, her family doctor and his wife (Doc and Mrs. Doc), and eventually her children (Dede and Junior). Sam, Dinah's widowed husband, stands immobile and isolated in a corner. People ar... | 1.96875 | 0 |
1489871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian%20Exarchate | Bulgarian Exarchate | The Bulgarian Exarchate (; ) was the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and the Bulgarian Patriarchate was restored in 1953.
The Exarchate (a de facto autocephaly) was unilaterally (without the blessing of the Ecumenical Patriarch) decreed... | 2.234375 | 0 |
1489871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian%20Exarchate | Bulgarian Exarchate | In seeking to calm down the disturbances, the Ottoman government of the Sultan Abdülaziz granted the right to establish an autonomous Bulgarian Exarchate for the dioceses of Bulgaria as well as those, wherein at least two-thirds of Orthodox Christians were willing to join it, by issuing the Sultan's firman promulgated ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
1489871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian%20Exarchate | Bulgarian Exarchate | Exarch Antim I was discharged by the Ottoman government immediately after the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) on April 24, 1877, and was sent into exile in Ankara. Under the guidance of his successor, Joseph I, the Exarchate managed to develop and considerably extend its church and school network in the B... | 2.640625 | 0 |
1489881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelarbon | Yelarbon | Yelarbon is a rural town and locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia. It is on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. In the , the locality of Yelarbon had a population of 313 people.
Geography
Yelarbon is in south-central Queensland on the Dumaresq River, near the New South Wales border. It ... | 2.5 | 0 |
1489887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalothorax | Cephalothorax | The cephalothorax, also called prosoma in some groups, is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind. (The terms prosoma and opisthosoma are equivalent to cephalothorax and abdomen in some groups. The terms prosoma and opisthosoma may be preferr... | 2.703125 | 0 |
1489911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphoria | Dysphoria | Dysphoria (; ) is a profound state of unease or dissatisfaction. It is the semantic opposite of euphoria. In a psychiatric context, dysphoria may accompany depression, anxiety, or agitation.
In psychiatry
Intense states of distress and unease increase the risk of suicide, as well as being unpleasant in themselves. Rel... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2134118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger%20Lights | Danger Lights | Danger Lights is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film, directed by George B. Seitz, from a screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman. It stars Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, and Jean Arthur.
The plot concerns railroading on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road), and the movie was largely ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
2134119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A6nberht | Jænberht | Jænberht (died 12 August 792) was a medieval monk, and later the abbot, of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, who was named Archbishop of Canterbury in 765. As archbishop, he had a difficult relationship with King Offa of Mercia, who at one point confiscated lands from the archbishopric. By 787, some of the bishoprics u... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2134119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A6nberht | Jænberht | Elevation of Lichfield
During Jænberht's term of office, a dispute arose between the see of Canterbury and Offa which led in 787 to the creation of the rival Archdiocese of Lichfield under Hygberht. Originally, Offa attempted to bring the southern archbishopric of Canterbury to London, but when the papacy refused permi... | 1.914063 | 0 |
2134128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Economics%20Foundation | New Economics Foundation | The organisation has launched a range of new organisations to promote its ideas, including the Ethical Trading Initiative, AccountAbility, Time Banking UK, London Rebuilding Society, the Community Development Finance Association, and others.
The organisation's current projects include work on community-based housing, ... | 2.125 | 0 |
2134155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian%20High%20School%20%28Virginia%29 | Meridian High School (Virginia) | Meridian High School (MHS), formerly George Mason High School, is a comprehensive public high school that serves the independent City of Falls Church. The school, which serves some 850 students in grades 9–12, is the sole high school in the Falls Church City Public Schools system. Opened in 1952, it is a hub of city ac... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2134159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Pomerance | Carl Pomerance | Carl Bernard Pomerance (born 1944 in Joplin, Missouri) is an American number theorist. He attended college at Brown University and later received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 with a dissertation proving that any odd perfect number has at least seven distinct prime factors. He joined the faculty at the Uni... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2134171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siti%20Wan%20Kembang | Siti Wan Kembang | Che Siti Wan Kembang (Jawi: ) was a legendary queen who reigned over a region on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, now located within the Malaysian state of Kelantan. She ruled in 1610–1667.
Che Siti was famous for her wisdom and descended from the royalty of Champa, Kelantan and Pattani.
She was known as a warr... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2134175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Holmes | Ray Holmes | Raymond Towers Holmes (20 August 1914 – 27 June 2005) was a British Royal Air Force fighter pilot during the Second World War who is best known for an event that occurred during the Battle of Britain. He became famous when he reportedly saved Buckingham Palace from being hit by German bombing by ramming his Hawker Hurr... | 2 | 0 |
2134175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Holmes | Ray Holmes | Holmes' plane began to dive to the left, and was no longer responding to the controls. As the Hurricane went into a vertical dive, he bailed out. As he climbed out, the air-stream caught him and smacked him down onto the roof of his Hurricane. Then, as he was thrown backward, his shoulder hit his own tail fin. When he ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2134175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Holmes | Ray Holmes | Personal life
After the war, he was a King's Messenger, personally delivering mail for Winston Churchill. After leaving the RAF in late 1945, he returned to journalism, joining his father's news agency covering Liverpool Crown Court for local and national newspapers.
He had two daughters with Elizabeth before she died... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2134195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingeborg%20Hallstein | Ingeborg Hallstein | She also devoted herself to the lied, giving recitals in Germany and abroad.
Teaching
In 1979, Hallstein was appointed professor at the Musikhochschule Würzburg where she taught until 2006. After initial doubts, teaching became her new passion and she decided to retire from stage and concentrate on the young talents. ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2134239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s%20University%20Faculty%20of%20Arts%20and%20Sciences | Queen's University Faculty of Arts and Sciences | The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is the largest of all faculties at Queen's University at Kingston, and one of the original three faculties that founded the school in 1841.
History
The Faculty of Arts and Science stands at the core of the history of Queen's University. The royal charter issued by Queen Victoria in 184... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2134239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s%20University%20Faculty%20of%20Arts%20and%20Sciences | Queen's University Faculty of Arts and Sciences | Student Government
The faculty's undergraduate student government is the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (A.S.U.S.). A.S.U.S. sends representatives and its executive to the university-wide undergraduate student government, the AMS. It also has its own assembly and manages its own set of events, organizations, ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2134244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%202%20%28Hong%20Kong%29 | Route 2 (Hong Kong) | Route 2 (Chinese: 二號幹綫) of Hong Kong is a series of expressways that runs from Quarry Bay of Hong Kong Island to Ma Liu Shui of the New Territories East, formerly known as route 6, and renamed as route 2 in 2004 under the route numbering scheme proposed in the same year.
Route 2 consists of 4 parts, from South to North... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2134260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano%20%C3%81lvarez | Mariano Álvarez | Mariano Malia Álvarez (: March 15, 1818 – August 25, 1924) was a Filipino revolutionary and statesman.
Pre-war life
Álvarez was born in Tierra Alta, Cavite to Severino Álvarez and María Malia. He received formal schooling at the San José College in Manila, and obtained a teacher's diploma. He returned to Cavite and wo... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2134260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano%20%C3%81lvarez | Mariano Álvarez | Rivalry and tension existed between the Magdiwang and Magdalo factions over jurisdiction and authority, and Álvarez, as Magdiwang head, invited Bonifacio, as Presidente Supremo ("Supreme President") of the Katipunan, to mediate over them. Bonifacio was seen as partial to the Magdiwang probably due to his kinship ties w... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2134287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20%28linguistics%29 | Feature (linguistics) | In linguistics, a feature is any characteristic used to classify a phoneme or word. These are often binary or unary conditions which act as constraints in various forms of linguistic analysis.
In phonology
In phonology, segments are categorized into natural classes on the basis of their distinctive features. Each fea... | 3.484375 | 0 |
2134287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20%28linguistics%29 | Feature (linguistics) | There is often a correspondence between morphological and syntactic features, in that certain features, such as person, are relevant to both morphology and syntax; these are known as morphosyntactic features. Other types of grammatical features, by contrast, may be relevant to semantics (morphosemantic features), such ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
2134303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdwing | Birdwing | Description
Ova
After mating, females immediately begin to seek appropriate host plants; climbing vines of the genera Aristolochia and Pararistolochia (both in the family Aristolochiaceae) are sought exclusively. The female lays her spherical eggs under the tips of the vine's leaves, one egg per leaf.
Larva
The c... | 2.8125 | 0 |
2134303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdwing | Birdwing | Breeding behaviour varies little between species; the female's role is relatively passive, slowly fluttering from perch to perch while the male performs an elaborate, quivering yet stationary dance 20–50 cm above her.
Birdwings are typified by large size (up to a maximum body length of 7.6 cm or 3 inches and a wingspa... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2134303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdwing | Birdwing | The colours of most species are pigmentary (via papiliochrome); but two species, Troides magellanus and the much rarer T. prattorum, are noted for their use of limited-view iridescence: the yellow of the dorsal hindwings is modified by bright blue-green iridescence which is only seen when the butterfly is viewed at a n... | 2.84375 | 0 |
2134303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdwing | Birdwing | Richmond birdwings (O. richmondia) depend on the plant Aristolochia praevenosa which they need for their caterpillars. However, the very similar Aristolochia elegans (Dutchman's pipe) which can be found in many Australian backyards, kills the caterpillars.
Reproduction
Ornithoptera, or the genus of birdwing butterfli... | 2.96875 | 0 |
2134303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdwing | Birdwing | Some male Ornithoptera species demonstrate courtship behaviour. Ornithoptera priamus posedion males will approach a female carefully, and examine the female for several minutes. After consideration, the male may choose to hover twenty to thirty centimeters above the female, displaying the bright yellow marking on its h... | 2.984375 | 0 |
2134310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithoptera | Ornithoptera | Ornithoptera is a genus of birdwing butterflies found in the northern portion of the Australasian realm, east of Weber's line; the Moluccas, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and northeastern Australia; except for Ornithoptera richmondia, which may be found in far northeastern New South Wales, Australia, therefore the s... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2134313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Zimmermann | Walter Zimmermann | Walter Zimmermann (born 15 April 1949) is a German composer associated with the Cologne School.
Born in Schwabach, Germany, Zimmermann studied composition in Germany with Werner Heider and Mauricio Kagel, the theory of musical intelligence at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht (now located in The Hague), and compute... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2134317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trogonoptera | Trogonoptera | Trogonoptera is a genus of birdwing butterflies from the rainforests of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Natuna, Sumatra, Palawan, and various small islands west of Sumatra. Their large size and stunning colors makes them highly prized by collectors. There are at least three theories as to why these butterflies have ... | 3.109375 | 0 |
2134321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Hill%20%28Australian%20communist%29 | Ted Hill (Australian communist) | Edward Fowler Hill (23 April 1915 – 1 February 1988) was an Australian barrister, lawyer and communist activist. He was chairman of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA M-L) from 1964 to 1986.
History
Hill was born on 23 April 1915 in Mildura, Victoria to James and Alice Hill. He attended school at Hamilton High Sch... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2134322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen%20Highlands | Aspen Highlands | Upper mountain terrain
What attracts most skiers to Highlands is the dramatic, just-above-timberline summit of the mountain. The upper mountain is primarily served by the Loge Peak high speed quad originating at the Merry-Go-Round. The ridge that extends down from Loge Peak (the lift-served summit) has only one interme... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2134328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttermilk%20%28ski%20area%29 | Buttermilk (ski area) | Buttermilk Ski Area refers to a ski hill and an unincorporated community surrounding it in Pitkin County, Colorado. Located about halfway between the cities of Aspen and Snowmass Village, it is frequently considered the easiest skiing mountain in the area. Buttermilk has also been the host to the ESPN Winter X Games mu... | 1.9375 | 0 |
2134338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20media%20in%20Sri%20Lanka | Mass media in Sri Lanka | Mass media of Sri Lanka consist of several different types of communications media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and Web sites. State and private media operators provide services in the main languages Sinhala, Tamil and English. The government owns two major TV stations, radio networks operated by the Sri ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2134340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinus%20terebinthifolia | Schinus terebinthifolia | Schinus terebinthifolia is a species of flowering plant in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae, that is native to subtropical and tropical South America. Common names include Brazilian peppertree, aroeira, rose pepper, broadleaved pepper tree, wilelaiki (or wililaiki), Christmasberry tree and Florida holly. The species na... | 2.5 | 0 |
2134340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinus%20terebinthifolia | Schinus terebinthifolia | Although it is not a true pepper (Piper), its dried drupes are often sold as pink peppercorns, as are the fruits from the related species Schinus molle (Peruvian peppertree). The seeds can be used as a spice, adding a pepper-like taste to food. They are usually sold in a dry state and have a bright pink color. They are... | 2.984375 | 0 |
2134340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinus%20terebinthifolia | Schinus terebinthifolia | In a paper on triterpenes, the ingested fruits are noted to have a “paralyzing effect” on birds. The narcotic and toxic effects on birds and other wildlife has also been noted by others, e.g., Bureau of Aquatic Plant Management. The AMA Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants reports that the triterpenes found in th... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2134340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinus%20terebinthifolia | Schinus terebinthifolia | As an invasive pest
The species, including the seed, is legally prohibited from sale, transport, or planting in Florida, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Noxious Weed List. It is classified as a Category I pest by The Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council (FL EPPC). To keep the plant... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2134346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Jefferson%20National%20Accelerator%20Facility | Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility | History
The facility was established in 1984 (first initial funding by the Department of Energy) as the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) by the Southeastern Universities Research Association; the name was changed to Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in 1996. The full funding for constr... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2134346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Jefferson%20National%20Accelerator%20Facility | Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility | The design of CEBAF allows the electron beam to be continuous rather than the pulsed beam typical of ring shaped accelerators. (There is some beam structure, but the pulses are very much shorter and closer together.) The electron beam is directed onto three potential targets (see below). One of the distinguishing featu... | 2.375 | 0 |
2134362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20pika | American pika | The American pika (Ochotona princeps), a diurnal species of pika, is found in the mountains of western North America, usually in boulder fields at or above the tree line. They are herbivorous, smaller relatives of rabbits and hares. Pikas have two different ways of foraging; they either directly consume food or they ca... | 3.109375 | 0 |
2134362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20pika | American pika | The American pika is intermediate in size among pikas. The hind legs of the pika do not seem to be much longer than its front legs and its hind feet are relatively short when compared to most other lagomorphs. It has densely furred soles on its feet except for black pads at the ends of the toes. The ears are moderately... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2134362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20pika | American pika | Pikas inhabit talus fields that are fringed by suitable vegetation in alpine areas. They also live in piles of broken rock. Sometimes, they live in man-made substrate such as mine tailings and piles of scrap lumber. Pikas usually have their den and nest sites below rock, around in diameter, but often sit on larger an... | 3.25 | 0 |
2134362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20pika | American pika | When haying, pikas harvest plants in a deliberate sequence, corresponding to their seasonal phenology. They seem to assess the nutritional value of available food and harvest accordingly. Pikas select plants that have the higher caloric, protein, lipid, and water content. Forbs and tall grass tend to be hayed more than... | 3.171875 | 0 |
2134362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20pika | American pika | Adult pikas of the opposite sex with territories adjacent form mated pairs. When more than one male is available, females exhibit mate choice. Pikas are reflex ovulators; ovulation only occurs after copulation, and they are also seasonally polyestrous. A female has two litters per year and these litters average three ... | 3.3125 | 0 |
2134362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20pika | American pika | As they live in the high and cooler mountain regions, they are very sensitive to high temperatures, and are considered to be one of the best early warning systems for detecting global warming in the western United States. Temperature increases are suspected to be one cause of American pikas moving higher in elevation ... | 3.1875 | 0 |
2134362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20pika | American pika | The Pikas in Peril Project, funded through the National Park Service Climate Change Response Program, began data collection in May 2010. A large team of academic researchers and National Park Service staff - from three universities and eight national parks - worked together to address questions regarding the vulnerabil... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2134377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Goings | Ralph Goings | Ralph Goings (May 9, 1928 – September 4, 2016) was an American painter closely associated with the Photorealism movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was best known for his highly detailed paintings of hamburger stands, pick-up trucks, and California banks, portrayed in a deliberately objective manner.
Biogra... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2134398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%20painting | Panel painting | A panel painting is a painting made on a flat panel of wood, either a single piece or a number of pieces joined together. Until canvas became the more popular support medium in the 16th century, panel painting was the normal method, when not painting directly onto a wall (fresco) or on vellum (used for miniatures in il... | 3.09375 | 0 |
2134398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%20painting | Panel painting | The first century BC to third century AD Fayum mummy portraits, preserved in the exceptionally dry conditions of Egypt, provide the bulk of surviving panel painting from the Imperial Roman period – about 900 face or bust portraits survive. The Severan Tondo, also from Roman Egypt (about 200 AD), is one of the handful o... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2134398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%20painting | Panel painting | The earliest forms of panel painting were dossals (altar backs), altar fronts and crucifixes. All were painted with religious images, commonly the Christ or the Virgin, with the saints appropriate to the dedication of the church, and the local town or diocese, or to the donor. Donor portraits including members of the d... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2134398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%20painting | Panel painting | By the 15th century with the increased wealth of Europe, and later the appearance of humanism, and a changing attitude about the function of art and patronage, panel painting went in new directions. Secular art opened the way to the creation of chests, painted beds, birth trays and other furniture. Many such works are ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2134398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%20painting | Panel painting | The technique is known to us through Cennino Cennini's "The Craftsman's Handbook" (Il libro dell' arte) published in 1390, and other sources. It changed little over the centuries. It was a laborious and painstaking process:
A carpenter would construct a solid wood piece the size of the panel needed. Usually a radial cu... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2134398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%20painting | Panel painting | By the beginning of the 15th century, oil painting was developed. This was more tolerant, and allowed the exceptional detail of Early Netherlandish art. This used a very painstaking multi-layered technique, where the painting, or a particular part of it, had to be left for a couple of days for one layer to dry before t... | 3 | 0 |
2134398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%20painting | Panel painting | Types of wood
Artists would typically use wood native to the region. Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), for example, painted on poplar when he was in Venice and on oak when in the Netherlands and southern Germany. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) used oak for his paintings in France; Hans Baldung Grien (1484/85–1545) and Hans Ho... | 2.8125 | 0 |
2134398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%20painting | Panel painting | The oak favored as a support by the painters of the northern school was, however, not always of local origin. In the seventeenth century about four thousand full-grown oak trees were needed to build a medium-sized merchant ship; thus, imported wood was necessary. Oak coming from Königsberg as well as Gdańsk is often fo... | 2.375 | 0 |
2134402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microeconomic%20reform | Microeconomic reform | The reforms created a very business-friendly regulatory framework. A 2008 study ranked New Zealand 99.9% in "business freedom", and 80% overall in "economic freedom", noting amongst other things that it only takes 12 days to establish a business in New Zealand on average, compared with a worldwide average of 43 days. O... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2134402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microeconomic%20reform | Microeconomic reform | North Korea is a communist country with the central economic planning system. With the ongoing nuclear issue, North Korea is politically and economically isolated from other countries. Therefore, several tries for economic reforms did not appear to be successful.
Its economy relied heavily on the defense industry and ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2134431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havre-Saint-Pierre | Havre-Saint-Pierre | Havre-Saint-Pierre () is a municipality located on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in Côte-Nord region, Minganie RCM, Quebec, Canada.
History
In 1857, a group of Acadian families arrived, in 1872, the Parish of Saint-Pierre-de-la-Pointe-aux-Esquimaux was officially established, the same year its post off... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2134437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Stone | Carl Stone | Carl Stone (born Carl Joseph Stone, February 10, 1953) is an American composer, primarily working in the field of live electronic music. His works have been performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, and the Near East.
Biography
From 1966 to 1969 he formed a band with Z'EV and Jam... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2134443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindalino | Lindalino | Lindalino is a fictional city from the 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Lindalino successfully revolted against the flying island of Laputa. The name Lindalino is a play on words of Dublin.
Laputa had several methods of enforcing obedience from its subject towns. The island could be made to... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2134453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Osborn%20Kreamer | Barbara Osborn Kreamer | Barbara Osborn Kreamer (born December 8, 1948) is an American politician from Aberdeen, Maryland and a former Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates. She was the first woman member of the Harford County Council and the first elected member of a county board in Maryland to give birth.
Early life
Barbara ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
2134463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Children%27s%20Hospital | Royal Children's Hospital | The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH), colloquially referred to as the Royal Children's, is a major children's hospital in Parkville, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Regarded as one of the great Children's hospitals globally, the hospital and its facilities are internationally recognised as a “leading centre ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2134474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Women%27s%20Hospital | Royal Women's Hospital | The Royal Women's Hospital, located in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville, is Australia's oldest specialist women's hospital. It offers a full range of services in maternity, gynaecology, neonatal care, women's cancers and women's health. It also offers complementary services such as social work, physiotherapy, dietetic... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2134477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicobar%20Islands%20rain%20forests | Nicobar Islands rain forests | Only Great Nicobar has perennial streams. The island has five perennial rivers – the Galathea, Jubilee, Amrit Kaur, Dak Aniang, and Dak Tayal – which all originate from Mount Thullier. The Galathea River is the longest, flowing southwards for about 30 km to empty into the sea at Galathea Bay near the southern tip of th... | 3.078125 | 0 |
2134477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicobar%20Islands%20rain%20forests | Nicobar Islands rain forests | Some of the northern and central islands, including Car Nicobar, Kamorta, Katchall, and Nancowry, have extensive areas of grassland in the interior. The grasslands may be anthropogenic in origin. Typical species include the grasses Imperata cylindrica, Saccharum spontaneum, Heteropogon contortus, Chloris barbata, Chrys... | 3 | 0 |
2134477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicobar%20Islands%20rain%20forests | Nicobar Islands rain forests | 82 species of birds are native to the islands. These include eight species of heron, seven hawk species, six kingfisher species, and six species of pigeon. Five species are endemic, including the Nicobar serpent-eagle (Spilornis minimus), Nicobar sparrowhawk (Accipiter butleri), Nicobar parakeet (Psittacula caniceps), ... | 3.34375 | 0 |
2134482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellie%27s%20Castle | Kellie's Castle | Kellie's Castle (sometimes also called Kellie's Folly) is a castle located in Batu Gajah, Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia. The unfinished, ruined mansion, was built by a Scottish planter named William Kellie-Smith. According to differing accounts, it was either a gift for his wife or a home for his son. Kellie's Castle... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2134482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellie%27s%20Castle | Kellie's Castle | During construction, a virulent strain of Spanish flu struck his workmen in 1918. When his workmen approached him to build a temple nearby, Kellie-Smith readily agreed. In return for his generosity, they built a statue of him beside the other deities on the lord murugan temple wall. It is believed that a tunnel was bu... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2134495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiomyosarcoma | Leiomyosarcoma | A leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a rare malignant (cancerous) smooth muscle tumor. The word is . The stomach, bladder, uterus, blood vessels, and intestines are examples of hollow organs made up of smooth muscles where LMS can be located; however, the uterus and abdomen are the most common sites.
Although leiomyosarcomas are... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2134500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Cochran | Steve Cochran | Personal life
Cochran was a notorious womanizer and attracted tabloid attention for his tumultuous private life, which included well-documented affairs with numerous starlets and actresses. Mamie Van Doren later wrote about their sex life in graphic detail in her tell-all autobiography Playing the Field: My Story (New ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
2134521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary%E2%80%93Edmonton%20Corridor | Calgary–Edmonton Corridor | The Calgary–Edmonton Corridor is a geographical region of the Canadian province of Alberta. It is the most urbanized area in Alberta and is one of Canada's four most populated urban regions. It consists of Statistics Canada Alberta census divisions No. 11, No. 8, and No. 6. Measured from north to south, the region cove... | 2.671875 | 0 |
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