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2134978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet%20agencies | Alphabet agencies | The alphabet agencies, or New Deal agencies, were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The earliest agencies were created to combat the Great Depression in the United States and were established during Roosevelt's first 100 days in office in 1933. In ... | 2.75 | 0 |
2135016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20D.%20Shourie | H. D. Shourie | Hari Dev Shourie (1911–2005) was a well-known consumer activist in India. He was an IAS officer and served as an officer in many departments including Deputy Commissioner of Rohtak.
Biography
Hari Dev Shourie was born in Lahore in British India in 1911. He has also served in the Indian Civil Services. He served as Dir... | 1.976563 | 0 |
2135021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Adelaide | Radio Adelaide | Organizational structure
Radio Adelaide is highly autonomous despite technically being owned by the University of Adelaide until 2016, when the university sold the radio station premises and transferred the broadcast licence to Educational Broadcasters Adelaide Inc (EBA). The station is run by over five hundred volunt... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2135021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Adelaide | Radio Adelaide | History
In 1970, Kenneth Stirling, an accountant who worked for a mining company, anonymously donated $100,000 to the University of Adelaide to establish an educational community radio station. It was an idea being developed by key people at the University interested in broadening access to education, but it was also a... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2135051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lengshuijiang | Lengshuijiang | Climate
Lengshuijiang is in the subtropical monsoon climate zone, with an average annual temperature of , total annual rainfall of , a frost-free period of 269 days and annual average sunshine hours in 1401.8 hours. It exhibits four distinct seasons.
Economy
As of 2016, Lengshuijiang's GDP is CN¥ 28,880,000,000. The c... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2135075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%20Anderson | Murphy Anderson | Murphy C. Anderson Jr. (July 9, 1926 – October 22, 2015) was an American comics artist, known as one of the premier inkers of his era, who worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years, starting in the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s. He worked on such characters as Hawkman, Batgirl, Zatanna, the S... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2135075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%20Anderson | Murphy Anderson | Anderson succeeded artist and co-creator Carmine Infantino on the superhero feature "Captain Comet" beginning with the story "The Girl from the Diamond Planet" in Strange Adventures #12 (cover-dated Sept. 1951). Years later, Anderson and writer John Broome created the feature "Atomic Knights" in Strange Adventures #11... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2135111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTech%20CreatiVision | VTech CreatiVision | The VTech CreatiVision is a hybrid computer and home video game console introduced by VTech in 1981 and released in 1982 during the second generation of video game consoles. It cost $295 Australian Dollars in Australia. The hybrid unit was similar in concept to computers such as the APF Imagination Machine, the older ... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2135127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Biro | Charles Biro | Charles Biro (; May 12, 1911 – March 4, 1972) was an American comic book creator and cartoonist. He created the comic book characters Airboy and Steel Sterling, and worked on Daredevil Comics and Crime Does Not Pay at Lev Gleason Publications.
Biography
A New York native, Charles Biro graduated from Stuyvesant High Sc... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2135133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaoyang | Shaoyang | Shaoyang (), formerly named Baoqing (Paoking) (), is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Hunan province, China, bordering Guangxi to the south. It has a history of 2500 years and remains an important commercial and transportation city in Hunan. As of the 2020 Chinese census, its total population was 6,563,520 inhab... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2135133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaoyang | Shaoyang | Climate
Shaoyang has a monsoon-influenced, four-season humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with cool, damp winters, and hot, humid summers. Winter begins relatively dry but not sunny and becomes progressively damper and cloudier; spring brings both the most frequent and heaviest rain of the year. Summer is comparat... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2135139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After%20Virtue | After Virtue | After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory is a book on moral philosophy by the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. MacIntyre provides a bleak view of the state of modern moral discourse, regarding it as failing to be rational, and failing to admit to being irrational. He claims that older forms of moral discourse we... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2135139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After%20Virtue | After Virtue | He claims that the new sciences, though superficially similar to the old, would in fact be devoid of real scientific content, because the key suppositions and attitudes would not be present. "The hypothesis which I wish to advance", he continues, "is that in the actual world which we inhabit the language of morality is... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2135139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After%20Virtue | After Virtue | MacIntyre illustrates this point through an example of a people who, he argues, experienced a similar incoherence in their own moral and ethical tradition: the Polynesian people of the South Pacific and their taboos. King Kamehameha II removed the taboos of the people in order to modernize their society and met little ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2135175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marple%20Aqueduct | Marple Aqueduct | Marple Aqueduct (also known as Goyt Aqueduct) at Marple, Greater Manchester, in north-west England was built to carry the lower level of the Peak Forest Canal across the River Goyt (treated as part of the River Mersey until 1896).
The company's engineer, Benjamin Outram, was responsible for the design and Thomas Brown... | 2.625 | 0 |
2135175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marple%20Aqueduct | Marple Aqueduct | In 1860, damage caused by repeated frost heave after water leaked through the puddling of the trough had to be urgently repaired by Charles Sacré, chief engineer of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, which then owned the canal. He tied together the two faces above the central arch by 2-inch bolts throu... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2135205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karren%20Brady | Karren Brady | Championing women in business
Brady has long been renowned for championing the cause of women in business. She has repeatedly called upon her fellow female professionals to help those trying to make their way in the business world. She explained in this Guardian column: “Any board executive can forget just how many pe... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2135210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire%20of%20Ngaanyatjarraku | Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku | The Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku is a remote local government area in Western Australia near the Northern Territory/South Australian border. It is from Perth.
It was formed on 1 July 1993 following a report of the Local Government Boundaries Commission in 1992. The Shire of Wiluna was divided with the eastern area becomi... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2135215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Larkin | Ryan Larkin | Ryan Larkin (July 31, 1943 – February 14, 2007) was a Canadian animator, artist, and sculptor who rose to fame with the psychedelic Oscar-nominated short Walking (1968) and the acclaimed Street Musique (1972). He was the subject of the Oscar-winning film Ryan.
Born in Durval, a small suburb city in Montreal, the middl... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2135215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Larkin | Ryan Larkin | NFB years
At the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Larkin learned animation techniques from the ground-breaking and award-winning animator Norman McLaren. He made two acclaimed short animated films, Syrinx (1965) and Cityscape (1966), before going on to create Walking (1969). Walking was nominated for an Academy Awa... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2135222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangqiu | Shangqiu | Shangqiu (), alternately romanized as Shangkiu, is a city in eastern Henan province, Central China. It borders Kaifeng to the northwest, Zhoukou to the southwest, and the provinces of Shandong and Anhui to the northeast and southeast respectively. Its population was 7,816,831 inhabitants as of the 2020 Chinese census w... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2135222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangqiu | Shangqiu | Before he ascended to the imperial throne as the Emperor Taizu of Song, Zhao Kuangyin was the jiedushi (military governor) of Guidejun (歸德軍), a region centered in Songzhou. Thus, he chose "Song" as the name of the new dynasty he founded in 960. The city was the southern capital of the Northern Song dynasty under the na... | 2.625 | 0 |
2135222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangqiu | Shangqiu | Under the Republic, Shangqiu was considered a key city in eastern Henan owing to its position along the Lunghai Railway between the port of Haizhou on the East China Sea and Lanzhou in central China. It was known at the time as Kweiteh, , or () and had both a Catholic diocese and an Anglican mission, the later of whic... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2135222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangqiu | Shangqiu | The average annual precipitation in the urban area of Shangqiu City has been 711.9 mm, and the corresponding total precipitation is 59.13 million cubic meters. The average annual runoff depth is 76.8 mm and the total runoff is 6.405 million cubic meters.
Government
The government of Shangqiu is responsible for the mak... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2135222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangqiu | Shangqiu | Agriculture
Situated on the North China Plain, Shangqiu is part of a traditionally agricultural region. The fertile soil and convenient irrigation facilities greatly help the production of crops and other plants. As of 2005, there are about 719,864 hectare planted. The most important agricultural products are wheat, ma... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2135232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20dynasty | Sports dynasty | Volleyball
The Concordia University (Saint Paul) women's volleyball team have captured NCAA Division II Championships in seven consecutive seasons – the only NCAA volleyball program to accomplish the feat at the Division I or II levels. Their seven total volleyball titles is more than any program as well, with the spo... | 1.953125 | 0 |
2135243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%20Forest%20Tramway | Peak Forest Tramway | The Peak Forest Tramway was an early horse- and gravity-powered industrial railway (or tramway) system in Derbyshire, England. Opened for trade on 31 August 1796, it remained in operation until the 1920s. Much of the route and the structures associated with the line remain. The western section of the line is now the ro... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2135243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%20Forest%20Tramway | Peak Forest Tramway | To aid acceleration from the top, and braking at the foot, the inclined plane varied from 1 in 6 at the top to 1 in 12 at the base. It was intended to be, at least partly, self-acting with descending wagons counterbalanced to some extent by partly loaded wagons being drawn up. Initially rope was tried, followed by a pa... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2135249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteridium%20aquilinum | Pteridium aquilinum | Pteridium aquilinum, commonly called bracken, brake, pasture brake, common bracken, and also known as eagle fern, is a species of fern occurring in temperate and subtropical regions in both hemispheres. Originally native to Eurasia and North America, the extreme lightness of its spores has led to it achieving a cosmopo... | 2.96875 | 0 |
2135249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteridium%20aquilinum | Pteridium aquilinum | Taxonomy
It was traditionally treated as the sole species in the genus Pteridium (brackens); however, authorities have split and recognised up to 11 species in the genus. It was placed in the genus Pteridium by Friedrich Adalbert Maximilian Kuhn in 1879. Genetic analysis of Pteridium from 100 different locations world... | 3.140625 | 0 |
2135249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteridium%20aquilinum | Pteridium aquilinum | Despite its established toxicity, P. aquilinums global distribution—it is the fifth most widely distributed common weed species in the world—means that it has a long history of being consumed in many parts of the world. The toxicity and wide distribution has led to variation in cultural attitudes towards the consumptio... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2135296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex%20Morton | Tex Morton | Tex Morton (born Robert William Lane in Nelson, New Zealand, also credited as Robert Tex Morton; 30 August 1916 – 23 July 1983 Sydney, Australia) was a pioneer of New Zealand and Australian country and western music, vaudevillian, actor, television host, and circus performer.
Early life
Born in 1916, Morton was the el... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2135305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Hood%2C%202nd%20Baron%20Bridport | Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport | Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport (7 September 1788 – 6 January 1868), of Redlynch House in Wiltshire, of Cricket House at Cricket St Thomas in Somerset, and of 12 Wimpole Street in Westminster, was a British politician and peer.
Early life
He was born in 1788, the second son of Henry Hood, 2nd Viscount Hood (1753–1836... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2135342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Williams%20%28cartoonist%29 | Thomas Williams (cartoonist) | Thomas Watson Williams (17 October 1940 – 8 May 2002), was an English cartoonist.
Born in Stockton-on-Tees, Tom Williams attended art college in Newcastle in the early 1960s. He became an animator for leading British animation studio Halas and Batchelor shortly after leaving college.
In the early 1970s he left the wo... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2135344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Arkwright%20junior | Richard Arkwright junior | Richard Arkwright junior (19 December 1755 – 23 April 1843), the son of Sir Richard Arkwright of Cromford, Derbyshire, was a mills owner, turned banker, investor and financier (creditor) of many successful state and private entreprises of the British Industrial Revolution which his father had helped to catalyse. Among ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2135365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashurst%2C%20Hampshire | Ashurst, Hampshire | Education
There are two schools in Ashurst, Foxhills Infant School and Foxhills Junior School. Foxhills Infant School teaches pupils between the ages of four and seven and as of May 2011 had in total 210 pupils on roll. It shares its grounds with Foxhills Junior School, where many of the Infant School pupils progress o... | 2.5 | 0 |
2135372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20Education%20Initiative | Business Education Initiative | The Business Education Initiative (BEI) is a British study-abroad programme for students from Northern Ireland. It was run initially by the Department for Employment and Learning but, since 2006, is delivered by the British Council in association with the Department for Employment and Learning in Northern Ireland.
Act... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2135443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suining | Suining | Suining (; Sichuanese Pinyin: Xu4nin2; Sichuanese pronunciation: ; ) is a prefecture-level city of eastern Sichuan province in Southwest China. According to the 2020 census, Suining had a population of 2,814,196, with 1,612,641 living in built up(or metro) areas.
Geography and climate
Suining is located in the center... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2135445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20E.%20M.%20de%20Ste.%20Croix | G. E. M. de Ste. Croix | Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix, (; 8 February 1910 – 5 February 2000), known informally as Croicks, was a British historian who specialised in examining Ancient Greece from a Marxist perspective. He was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College, Oxford, from 1953 to 1977, where he taught scholars inclu... | 2.5 | 0 |
2135445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20E.%20M.%20de%20Ste.%20Croix | G. E. M. de Ste. Croix | In 1950, Ste. Croix was appointed assistant lecturer in ancient economic history at the London School of Economics. He also taught at Birkbeck College and UCL. He struggled to attract students to his courses and was embarrassed to be a lecturer in "a subject which no one was required or wished to study". In 1953, he wa... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2135445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20E.%20M.%20de%20Ste.%20Croix | G. E. M. de Ste. Croix | Within the circles of classical scholarship, Ste. Croix—as an exponent of a Marxist epistemological approach—was frequently involved in debate with Sir Moses Finley, an advocate of Weberian societal analysis. The two often exchanged letters and their disagreements were always civil.
Ste. Croix is best known for his bo... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2135445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20E.%20M.%20de%20Ste.%20Croix | G. E. M. de Ste. Croix | The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (1972)
The Origins of the Peloponnesian War made several major contributions to scholarship on the subject of the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens, the major one being a reinterpretation of the Megarian Decree, passed by the Athenian Ekklesia in 432 BC. Most scholarship ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2135445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20E.%20M.%20de%20Ste.%20Croix | G. E. M. de Ste. Croix | The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World was an attempt to establish the validity of a historical materialist analysis of the ancient Greek and Roman world. It covers the period roughly from Greek pre-classical times to the Arab conquest. Part one addresses fundamental topics. After an expository plan chapter II (... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2135466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Oldknow | Samuel Oldknow | Oldknow used the putting-out system of production in Anderton near Rivington, whereby raw cotton was distributed to spinners and yarn to weavers who worked in their homes and workshops. The finished cloth was then returned to Oldknow's warehouse for checking and payment. This system was not suited to muslin manufacturi... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2135466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Oldknow | Samuel Oldknow | Oldknow was one of the sponsors of the Peak Forest Canal, which opened in 1804. He also invested in a turnpike road which went to Stockport. Oldknow's farming activities allowed him to supply his workers with milk, meat, vegetables and coal and he also built housing for the workforce. Oldknow used his own system of pap... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2135473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20JVP%20insurrection | 1971 JVP insurrection | The 1971 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurrection (also known as the 1971 Revolt) was the first of two unsuccessful armed revolts conducted by the communist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) against the socialist United Front Government of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) under Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike. The revolt... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2135473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20JVP%20insurrection | 1971 JVP insurrection | The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) movement was founded during the late 1960s by Rohana Wijeweera, a former Lumumba University medical student and Ceylon Communist Party functionary. At odds with party leaders and impatient with its lack of revolutionary purpose, Wijeweera formed the movement in 1965 with other like-m... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2135473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20JVP%20insurrection | 1971 JVP insurrection | The JVP expanded its membership and influence rapidly between 1967 and 1970, gaining control of the student socialist movement on a number of major university campuses (including the Socialist Students Union) and receiving recruits and sympathizers from the armed forces; some provided sketches of police stations, airpo... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2135473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20JVP%20insurrection | 1971 JVP insurrection | The group had its first public meeting in 1969 and by early 1970, Wijeweera's group began to take a more public role; its cadres campaigned openly for the socialist United Front (UF) for the 1970 General Election. They also distributed posters and pamphlets promising violent rebellion if Bandaranaike did not address pr... | 2 | 0 |
2135473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20JVP%20insurrection | 1971 JVP insurrection | Preparations of the revolution
By 1970, the movement had begun recruiting and training cadres at camps in rural areas of Kurunegala, Akmeemana, Tissamaharama, Elpitiya and Anuradhapura. Classes delivering the "Five Lectures" were held throughout the island, primarily in secluded locations such as cemeteries. After rais... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2135473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20JVP%20insurrection | 1971 JVP insurrection | Since its formation in 1949, Ceylon's armed forces were an internal security force assisting the Ceylon Police during strikes and riots. After the attempted coup in 1962, the armed forces had major cuts in funding, recruitment and joint operations, and were unprepared for a large-scale insurrection. In 1970, the armed ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2135473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20JVP%20insurrection | 1971 JVP insurrection | Initial government response
The government received multiple warnings of preparations undertaken by the JVP, but failed to comprehend the scale of the insurrection and was unprepared to counter it. Early warnings came from the Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which had been tasked with internal security... | 1.90625 | 0 |
2135473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20JVP%20insurrection | 1971 JVP insurrection | First wave of attacks
With a curfew imposed and suspects being arrested, some JVP leaders went into hiding. The attack began as planned. Ninety-two police stations across the country were attacked simultaneously by JVP groups armed with shotguns, bombs, and Molotov cocktails; five (in Deniyaya, Uragaha, Rajangane, Kat... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2135473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20JVP%20insurrection | 1971 JVP insurrection | Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) S. A. Dissanayake was appointed Additional Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs and Defence, and coordinated the government's defense from the situation room at Temple Trees. Local military coordinating officers, appointed from the three branches of the armed ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2135473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20JVP%20insurrection | 1971 JVP insurrection | Legacy
The insurgency caused Rs 2.7 million in damage to public and private property; other institutions lost Rs 3 million. Over Rs 450 million earmarked for capital development was not spent as intended due to the insurgency. Ceylon severed diplomatic ties with North Korea based on information that the country suppor... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2135548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generosity | Generosity | Generosity (also called largesse) is the virtue of being liberal in giving, often as gifts. Generosity is regarded as a virtue by various world religions and philosophies and is often celebrated in cultural and religious ceremonies.
Scientific investigation into generosity has examined the effect of a number of scenar... | 2.953125 | 0 |
2135548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generosity | Generosity | Most recorded English uses of the word generous up to and during the sixteenth century reflect an aristocratic sense of being of noble lineage or high birth. Being generous was literally a way of complying with nobility.
During the 17th century, the meaning and use of the word began to change. Generosity came increasi... | 3.015625 | 0 |
2135548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generosity | Generosity | In Christianity, in the Acts of the Apostles, Paul reports that Jesus said that giving is better than receiving, although the gospels do not record this as a saying of Jesus. In his first letter to Timothy, Paul tells rich Christians that they must be "generous and willing to share", and in his second letter to the Cor... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2135548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generosity | Generosity | The science of generosity initiative at the University of Notre Dame investigates the sources, origins, and causes of generosity; manifestations and expressions of generosity; and consequences of generosity for givers and receivers. Generosity for the purposes of this project is defined as the virtue of giving good thi... | 2.890625 | 0 |
2135621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy%20Bolton%20Series | Judy Bolton Series | The Judy Bolton Mystery Series, written by Margaret Sutton, follows a realistic young woman who solves mysteries. Although the series was not quite as popular as Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton has been called a more complex and believable role model for girls. Judy was also unique in that halfway through the series, she marri... | 1.945313 | 0 |
2135673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Miliband | Ralph Miliband | Ralph Miliband (born Adolphe Miliband; 7 January 1924 – 21 May 1994) was a British sociologist. He has been described as "one of the best known academic Marxists of his generation", in this manner being compared with E. P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm and Perry Anderson.
Miliband was born in Belgium to working-class Polish... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2135673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Miliband | Ralph Miliband | In 1922, Miliband's parents were among the Polish Jews who migrated westward, to Brussels in Belgium, after the First World War. It was here that Miliband's parents first met, and they married in 1923. His father, was a skilled craftsman who made leather goods, and his mother, Renia (or Renée, née Steinlauf 1901–1975),... | 2.5 | 0 |
2135711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Eugene%20Davis | Roy Eugene Davis | Roy Eugene Davis (March 9, 1931 – March 27, 2019) was an American spiritual teacher and author who "established the Georgia-based Center for Spiritual Awareness in 1972". Previously he had founded New Life Worldwide Inc. In 1967, he began publishing Truth Journal Magazine which has now been in continuous publication fo... | 1.984375 | 0 |
2135738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%20of%20Laos | President of Laos | The president of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is the head of state of Laos. The current president is Thongloun Sisoulith, since 22 March 2021. He was previously elected as the General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, Laos' most powerful position in January 2021, ranking him first in the Politb... | 2.828125 | 0 |
2135752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Bayda%20Governorate | Al Bayda Governorate | Al Bayda Governorate ( ), also spelt Al-Baidhah or Beida, is one of the governorates (muhafazat) of Yemen. It is located near the centre of the country, around the town of Al Bayda. Its population, according to the 2004 Yemeni census, was 571,778. In 2011, the population was estimated to be 895,000.
Geography
Adjacen... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2135756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield%2C%20Queensland | Fairfield, Queensland | Fairfield is a suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Fairfield had a population of 3,106 people.
Geography
Fairfield is located south of the Brisbane CBD on the Brisbane River. The suburb is mainly residential with house and unit accommodation.
Fairfield is bounded to the north by the Sout... | 2 | 0 |
2135798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20William%20Pulteney%2C%205th%20Baronet | Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet | Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet (born William Johnstone; October 1729 – 30 May 1805) was a Scottish lawyer, Whig politician and landowner who sat in the British House of Commons between 1768 and 1805. One of the wealthiest Britons during his lifetime, he invested in the construction of several prominent buildings in ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2135798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20William%20Pulteney%2C%205th%20Baronet | Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet | Marriage and name change
On 10 November 1760, he married heiress Frances Pulteney. Frances was the third daughter of MP and government official Daniel Pulteney and first cousin once removed of William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath. She inherited William’s substantial fortune and estates close to Bath in Somerset after his... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2135801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrgus%20malvae | Pyrgus malvae | Pyrgus malvae, the grizzled skipper, is a butterfly species from the family Hesperiidae. It is a small skipper (butterfly) with a chequered pattern on its wings that appears to be black and white. This butterfly can be found throughout Europe and is common in central and southern regions of England. The butterfly prefe... | 3.21875 | 0 |
2135801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrgus%20malvae | Pyrgus malvae | Predators
Grizzled skippers belong in family Hesperiidae, but another group of butterflies (family Lycaenidae) uses the mechanism of wing expansion to produce vibrations and communicate with ants. Similar to this behavior, grizzled skippers also produce vibrations upon expanding their wings. This resembles the ‘ant-at... | 3.015625 | 0 |
2135801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrgus%20malvae | Pyrgus malvae | Courting
There are two main mating strategies that are used by grizzled skippers, which ultimately illustrate mechanisms of sexual selection by this species. In both, males demonstrate territorial behaviours. In the case of perching, males wait on taller plants for females to come to them in order to begin courting. I... | 3 | 0 |
2135816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden%20of%20Remembrance%20%28Dublin%29 | Garden of Remembrance (Dublin) | The Garden of Remembrance () is a memorial garden in Dublin dedicated to the memory of "all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom". It is located in the northern fifth of the former Rotunda Gardens in Parnell Square, a Georgian square at the northern end of O'Connell Street. The garden was opened by ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2135817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardamom%20Mountains | Cardamom Mountains | The Cardamom Mountains (, ; , ), or the Krâvanh Mountains, is a mountain range in the southwest part of Cambodia and Eastern Thailand. The majority of the range is within Cambodia.
The silhouette of the Cardamom Mountains appears in the provincial seal of Trat Province in Thailand.
Location and description
The mou... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2135817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardamom%20Mountains | Cardamom Mountains | The jar burials are a unique feature of this region, and form a previously unrecorded burial practice in Khmer cultural history. Local legends suggest the bones are the remains of Cambodian royalty. Along with these jar burials archeologists have discovered various material evidence associated with the remains, such as... | 3.046875 | 0 |
2135817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardamom%20Mountains | Cardamom Mountains | The large representation of deer may relate to the massive deerskin trade to Japan in the 15th - 17th centuries. Taiwan's deer populations had been almost annihilated due to insatiable demands for Samurai armor and Japanese accessories made of deerskin. Deerskin sourcing shifted to Cambodia and Thailand. As deer popula... | 2.953125 | 0 |
2135817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardamom%20Mountains | Cardamom Mountains | Khmer Rouge
This largely inaccessible mountain range formed one of the last strongholds of the Khmer Rouge, driven out by Vietnamese forces during the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. The Thai border to the west acted as a conduit for Chinese support and, eventually, a sanctuary for fleeing Khmer fighters and refugees.
Mode... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2135817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardamom%20Mountains | Cardamom Mountains | Ecology
These relatively isolated mountains are part of the Cardamom Mountains rain forests ecoregion, an important ecoregion of mostly tropical moist broadleaf forest. Being one of the largest and still mostly unexplored forests in Southeast Asia, it is separated from other rainforests in the region by the large Khora... | 2.828125 | 0 |
2135817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardamom%20Mountains | Cardamom Mountains | The moist climate and undisturbed nature of the rocky mountainsides appear to have allowed a rich variety of wildlife to thrive, although the Cardamom and Elephant Mountains are poorly researched and the wildlife that is assumed to be here remains to be catalogued. They are thought to be home to over 100 mammals, such ... | 2.9375 | 0 |
2135830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu%27i%20Nayau | Tu'i Nayau | Tu’i Nayau is the title held by the paramount chief of the Lau Islands in Fiji and is synonymous with the title holders over lordship of these islands. When translated, Tu’i Nayau means "Lord of Nayau", an island north of Lakeba, the latter accepted by many to be the chief island in the Lauan archipelago. Prior to bein... | 2.25 | 0 |
2135830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu%27i%20Nayau | Tu'i Nayau | It was during this exile on Nayau when Rasolo, Niumataiwalu's son set up his foundations near a rewa (Cerbera manghas) tree. The name Vuanirewa comes into existence. With the passing of Vukinavanua, an ensuing dispute among the nobles over who should succeed him arose. According to oral history, the high priest interve... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2135841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit%20fraud%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Benefit fraud in the United Kingdom | Benefit fraud is a form of welfare fraud as found within the system of government benefits paid to individuals by the welfare state in the United Kingdom.
Definition of benefit fraud
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) define benefit fraud as when someone obtains state benefit they are not entitled to or delib... | 2.71875 | 0 |
2135841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit%20fraud%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Benefit fraud in the United Kingdom | Latest figures
For 2019-20 the government's benefit fraud figure was £2.3bn (1.2%) for benefits administered by the Department for Work and Pensions. The tax credit system, administered by HMRC, has combined error and fraud figures (net over-payment) for 2015-16 of £1.35 billion or 4.8% of finalised tax credit entitlem... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2135844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Kerins | Charlie Kerins | Background and IRA Activities
At the time, the Fianna Fáil Government of Éamon de Valera was determined to preserve Irish neutrality during World War II. The IRA's ongoing bombing/sabotage campaign in England (the S-Plan), its attacks against targets in Northern Ireland and its ties to the intelligence services of Nazi... | 2.84375 | 0 |
2135844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Kerins | Charlie Kerins | Arrest
Following the arrest of Hugh McAteer in October 1942, Kerins was named Chief of Staff of the IRA. Despite a massive manhunt by Gardaí, Kerins remained at large for just under two years.
On 1 July 1943, Charlie Kerins, alongside fellow militants Archie Doyle and Jackie Griffith arrived on bikes at the gates of P... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2135844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Kerins | Charlie Kerins | Trial
At a trial before the Special Criminal Court in Collins Barracks, Dublin, Kerins was formally charged on 2 October 1944 for the "shooting at Rathfarnham of Detective Dinny O’Brien". Kerins refused to recognize the authority of the court and in doing so lost the right to challenge evidence and to present any defen... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2135847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Transnistria | Flag of Transnistria | Transnistria has two co-official national flags. The first co-official national flag consists of three horizontal bands of red, green, and red, of vertical width 3:2:3, and in the upper canton, is the main element of the coat of arms of Transnistria; a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star. The hammer a... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2135869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischbach%20%28Taunus%29 | Fischbach (Taunus) | Structure of the town
The old town centre is situated at the intersection of the main roads from Kelkheim to the suburb of Ruppertshain and from Königstein to Eppstein. The first road, Langstraße, is the main road of the old part of the village.
In the 19th century Fischbach grew along both streets, especially Kelkhei... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2135876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Grigson | Sophie Grigson | Hester Sophia Frances Grigson (born 19 June 1959) is an English cookery writer and celebrity cook. She has followed the same path and career as her mother, Jane Grigson. Her father was the poet and writer Geoffrey Grigson, and her half-brother was musician and educator Lionel Grigson.
Life
Grigson was born in the vill... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2135880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katholieke%20Studentenvereniging%20Sanctus%20Virgilius%20Delft | Katholieke Studentenvereniging Sanctus Virgilius Delft | KSV (, ) Sanctus Virgilius (also known as Virgiel) is the largest student fraternity/sorority in Delft, named after the Irish born astronomer, geometer and bishop Saint Virgil. There are about 2000 student members (mostly students at TU Delft) who gather together on a daily or weekly basis at an old monastery named Alc... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2135882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cri%C8%99ul%20Alb | Crișul Alb | The Crișul Alb (Romanian), (Hungarian: Fehér-Körös) is a river in western Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania, and in south-eastern Hungary (Békés County).
Its source is in the southern Apuseni Mountains (Romanian: Munții Apuseni) of Romania. It flows through the towns of Brad, Ineu, Chișineu-Criș in Rom... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2135890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrosomonas | Nitrosomonas | Nitrosomonas is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria, belonging to the Betaproteobacteria. It is one of the five genera of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and, as an obligate chemolithoautotroph, uses ammonia (NH3) as an energy source and carbon dioxide (CO2) as a carbon source in the presence of oxygen. Nitrosomonas are impor... | 2.859375 | 0 |
2135890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrosomonas | Nitrosomonas | N. europaea cells appear as short rods with pointed ends, with a size of 0.8–1.1 x 1.0–1.7 μm; motility has not been observed.
N. eutropha cells present as rod to pear shaped cells with one or both ends pointed, with a size of 1.0–1.3 x 1.6–2.3 μm. They show motility.
N. halophila cells have a coccoid shape and a size ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2135890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrosomonas | Nitrosomonas | The second enzyme involved in the ammonia oxidation is hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (HAO), encoded by the hao operon. This enzyme catalyzes the oxidation from NH2OH to NO, a highly reactive radical intermediate that can be partitioned into both of the main AOB products: N2O, a potent greenhouse gas, and NO2-, a form of... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2135890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrosomonas | Nitrosomonas | Carbon fixation genes
Nitrosomonas uses the Calvin-Benson cycle as a pathway for Carbon fixation. For this reason, all of the species have an operon that encodes for the RuBisCO enzyme. A peculiarity is found in N. sp Is79 in which the two copies of the operon encode for two different forms of the RuBisCO enzyme: the I... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2135890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrosomonas | Nitrosomonas | Since an ammonia molecule only releases two electrons when oxidized, it has been assumed that the other two necessary electrons come from the oxidation of hydroxylamine to nitrite, which occurs in the periplasm and it is catalyzed by hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (HAO), a periplasm associated enzymes.
NH2OH + H2O → NO2... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2135893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalism | Totalism | Totalism is a style of art music that arose in the 1980s and 1990s as a response to minimalism. It paralleled postminimalism but involved a younger generation of creators, born in the 1950s. This term, invented by writer and composer Kyle Gann, has not been adopted by contemporary musicology and generally still refers ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2135896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia%20Group | Arcadia Group | Early history and pre-WW2 era
The Arcadia Group has its origins in the firm founded by 18-year-old Lithuanian immigrant Montague Burton in Chesterfield in 1903 as The Cross-Tailoring Company. Burton's initial operation, a men's clothing manufacture, tailoring and retailing operation, became the genesis for the current ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2135896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia%20Group | Arcadia Group | In 1964, the Peter Robinson chain began what became a relaunch as Topshop. This was in response to the development of a new young fashion culture around Britain in the 1960s; Topshop became the company's home of young, modern, on-trend ladieswear, a role it continues to hold. The Topshop launch began with Topshop-brand... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2135958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik%20ibn%20Nuwayra | Malik ibn Nuwayra | Malik ibn Nuwayra (: died 632), was the chief of the Banu Yarbu, a clan of the Banu Hanzala, which was a large section of the powerful tribe of Bani Tamim.
Muhammad had appointed Malik as an officer over the Banu Yarbu clan to collect and send them to Medina. However, after the death of Muhammad, Malik stopped distr... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2135958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik%20ibn%20Nuwayra | Malik ibn Nuwayra | Other reasons for Malik execution include committing apostasy by refusing to acknowledge Muhammad as a prophet during his encounter with Khalid. According to the 8th-century historian Sayf ibn Umar, Malik had been cooperating with the prophetess Sajah, his kinswoman from the Yarbu. However, after they were defeated by ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
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