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2135959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owo | Owo | Owo is a local government area in Ondo state, Nigeria. Between 1400 and 1600 CE, it was the capital of a Yoruba city-state. The local government area has a population of 222,262 based on 2006 population census.
History
In their oral tradition, Owo traces its origins back to the ancient city of Ile-Ife, the cradle of ... | 3.078125 | 0 |
2135959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owo | Owo | Culture
Owo has the largest palace (Aghofen) in Africa which was declared as a national monument by the federal government, and is also a cultural landmark in Nigeria Built by Olowo Rerengejen in the 14th century, the palace had as many as 100 courtyards (Ugha). Each courtyard had a specific function and was dedicated ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2135962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot%20%28computer%20storage%29 | Snapshot (computer storage) | In computer systems, a snapshot is the state of a system at a particular point in time. The term was coined as an analogy to that in photography.
Rationale
A full backup of a large data set may take a long time to complete. On multi-tasking or multi-user systems, there may be writes to that data while it is being bac... | 2.90625 | 0 |
2135963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot%20%28photography%29 | Snapshot (photography) | A snapshot is a photograph that is "shot" spontaneously and quickly, most often without artistic or journalistic intent and usually made with a relatively cheap and compact camera.
Common snapshot subjects include the events of everyday life, often portraying family members, friends, pets, children playing, birthday p... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2135963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot%20%28photography%29 | Snapshot (photography) | History
When photography was introduced in 1839, exposure times took several minutes. To obtain a reasonably clear image, the camera could not be handheld and the photographer looked through the back of the camera under a black cloth before loading a sensitive plate, while his subjects had to stay totally still. Specia... | 3.09375 | 0 |
2135963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot%20%28photography%29 | Snapshot (photography) | In the 1850s, more and more examples of "instantaneous photography" started to appear. Many of the early pioneers were not necessarily ambitious fine artists, but could also be amateurs, or commercial photographers catering to a public that mostly fancied affordable small formats, such as cabinet cards and stereo views... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2135963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot%20%28photography%29 | Snapshot (photography) | An early theorist of snapshot aesthetic was the Austrian architectural critic, Joseph August Lux, who in 1908 wrote a book called Künstlerische Kodakgeheimnisse (Artistic Secrets of the Kodak) in which he championed the use of Kodak cameras like the Brownie. Guided by a position that was influenced by the Catholic crit... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2135963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot%20%28photography%29 | Snapshot (photography) | The snapshot tendency was promoted by John Szarkowski, who was head of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art from 1962 to 1991, and it became especially fashionable from the late 1970s until the mid-1980s. Notable practitioners include Garry Winogrand, Nan Goldin, Wolfgang Tillmans, Martin Parr, Willia... | 1.992188 | 0 |
2135967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usama%20ibn%20Zayd | Usama ibn Zayd | Usaamah ibn Zayd ibn Haritha al-Kalbi () was an early Muslim and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
He was the son of Zayd ibn Haritha, Muhammad's adopted son, and Umm Ayman, a servant of Muhammad.
Muhammad appointed Usama ibn Zayd as the commander of an expeditionary force which was to invade the region of B... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2135967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usama%20ibn%20Zayd | Usama ibn Zayd | Usama's father, Zayd ibn Haritha, was a companion and adopted son of Muhammad. He is commonly regarded as the third person to have accepted Islam, after Muhammad's wife Khadija bint Khuwaylid, and Muhammad's cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib. He was an Arab of the Udhra branch of the Kalb tribe of Najd, central Arabia Zayd's mo... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2135983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey%20Delta%202 | Fairey Delta 2 | The Fairey Delta 2 or FD2 (internal designation Type V within Fairey) is a British supersonic research aircraft that was produced by the Fairey Aviation Company in response to a specification from the Ministry of Supply for a specialised aircraft for conducting investigations into flight and control at transonic and su... | 2.71875 | 0 |
2135983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey%20Delta%202 | Fairey Delta 2 | Background
During the late 1940s, Fairey Aviation, a British aircraft manufacturer, had become interested in delta wing technology and proceeded to submit multiple submissions based on the delta wing concept to the Ministry of Supply. The Ministry, being interested in these proposals, issued orders for models to test t... | 2.625 | 0 |
2135983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey%20Delta%202 | Fairey Delta 2 | In September 1952, technical drawings of the Fairey Delta 2 were issued and the development proper commenced. From the project's beginning, Fairey designed the parameters of the FD2 to intentionally exceed that which was necessary only to achieving Mach 1. In addition to seeking very high performance, the design adopte... | 2.625 | 0 |
2135983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey%20Delta%202 | Fairey Delta 2 | In addition to the Gyron engine of earlier proposals, the proposed fighter was to be equipped with a pair of de Havilland Spectre rocket engines that were mounted in fairings on the rear fuselage. The high-test peroxide (HTP) fuel for the rocket engines was stored in tanks held in underwing fairings and within the wing... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2135983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey%20Delta%202 | Fairey Delta 2 | Low-speed testing of the concept was already being provided by the Handley Page HP.115. Although high-speed performance appeared to be predictable, a dedicated testbed aircraft was desired, especially for drag measurements. As early as 1958, the RAE and Fairey began discussions about converting one of the Delta 2 proto... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2135993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshan | Leshan | Leshan, formerly known as Jiading and Jiazhou, is a prefecture-level city located at the confluence of the Dadu and Min rivers, on the southwestern fringe of the Sichuan Basin in southern Sichuan, about from the provincial capital of Chengdu. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,160,168, of whom 1,236,188 lived... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2135993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshan | Leshan | After the Sui unification of China, Leshan was part of Meishan Prefecture (jun). In the third year of the Kaihuang reign (583 AD) of the Sui dynasty, the prefecture system was changed to a two-tier system of state (zhou) and counties. During the Tang dynasty's Zhenguan reign, Leshan became part of Jiazhou. In the Nort... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2135999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline%20Betz | Pauline Betz | Pauline Betz Addie (née Pauline May Betz, August 6, 1919 – May 31, 2011) was an American professional tennis player. She won five Grand Slam singles titles and was the runner-up on three other occasions. Jack Kramer called her the second best female tennis player he ever saw, behind Helen Wills Moody.
Early life
Betz ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2136003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem%20of%20Tajikistan | Emblem of Tajikistan | The State Emblem of Tajikistan is a modified version of the original emblem of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic that was in use until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
History
Prior to the Russian Revolution, the territory of Turkestan, of which Tajikistan was part, used the device of a black unicorn on... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2136008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkenba%2C%20Queensland | Pinkenba, Queensland | Pinkenba ( ) is a town and eastern coastal suburb within the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Pinkenba had a population of 350 people.
Geography
Pinkenba is a long narrow strip of land on the northern side of the Brisbane River, facing Moreton Bay, from the Brisbane central business district. The ar... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2136008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkenba%2C%20Queensland | Pinkenba, Queensland | On 6 March 1963, Queen Elizabeth II unveiled a roadside memorial at 315 Tingara Street (corner of Kirra Street, ). It commemorates the discovery of commercial quantities of oil in Australia at Moonie. The location was chosen because it was close to the site of the oil refinery which was to be built to process the oil. ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2136021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20McAteer | Hugh McAteer | Hugh McAteer (; 13 August 1916 – 24 June 1970) was a volunteer in, and leader of, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during their Northern Campaign, and later in 1950 and 1964 unsuccessfully contested for a seat in the British Parliament.
Biography
Hugh McAteer's family came from northern Donegal, they suffered greatly ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2136021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20McAteer | Hugh McAteer | On Easter Saturday, 24 April 1943, he participated in the Broadway Cinema operation on the Falls Road, Belfast when armed IRA men took over the cinema, stopped the film, and went on stage and read a statement from the IRA Army Council and the Proclamation of the 1916 Easter Rising. The statement denounced the British m... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2136028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkenba%20railway%20station | Pinkenba railway station | Pinkenba railway station was a railway station on the Pinkenba railway line in the suburb of Pinkenba, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was originally the terminus station of the Pinkenba Line, just from the Brisbane central business district and from Central station by rail. It opened in 1897 and was rebu... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2136033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highgate%20School | Highgate School | Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, is a co-educational, fee-charging, private day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England. It educates over 1,400 pupils in three sections – Highgate Pre-Preparatory School (ages 4–8), Highgate junior school (ages 8–11) and the senior school ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2136033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highgate%20School | Highgate School | However, by the early nineteenth century a dispute arose because the charity was spending more money, and the curate more time, on the local chapel than on the pupils. A House of Commons commission visited in 1819 and found the master, Samuel Mence, was paying a sexton to teach the boys. In a long and bitter action bro... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2136033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highgate%20School | Highgate School | In the 1860s, land was acquired in Bishopswood Road, which provided extensive sports fields and on which several boarding houses and private residences were built. During this period the current chapel and main buildings were erected, designed by Reginald Blomfield (who had also designed Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford). A ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2136051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf%20Padgham | Alf Padgham | Alfred Harry Padgham (2 July 1906 – 4 March 1966) was one of the leading British professional golfers of the 1930s and 1940s. He won the 1936 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, Merseyside, England and played for Great Britain in the Ryder Cup in 1933, 1935 and 1937. He was captain of the Profess... | 1.9375 | 0 |
2136055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaji%20I | Yaji I | Ali Dan Tsamiya () known as Yaji I or Ali Yaji Dan Tsamiya () was a king and later the first Sultan of Kano, a state in what is now Northern Nigeria. Yaji I ruled from 1349 to 1385 CE. A prominent figure in the state's history, Yaji used a religious revolution to finally solidify his family's grasp on Kano and its sub-... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2136142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%20Head | Luther Head | Junior year
The junior year was marked by many changes. Head coach Bill Self left Illinois to take the vacant job at Kansas and Southern Illinois head coach Bruce Weber took over as coach of the Illini. Weber made Head a full-time starter which resulted in a significant increase in playing time. Head ranked fourth on t... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2136143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador%20Laurel | Salvador Laurel | Christmas 1945 was the bleakest one for the Laurel family; their Peñafrancia home was looted and emptied of its furniture, while the former president was placed in solitary confinement in Sugamo Prison in Japan. Salvador gifted his father a book entitled The World in 2030 A.D. by the Earl of Birkenhead. Lacked in writi... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2136143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador%20Laurel | Salvador Laurel | Of his studies and scholastic endeavors at Yale University, Myres S. McDougal, a Sterling Professor of Law, Emeritus of the Yale Law School, wrote:
Personal life
Laurel later married Celia Díaz (May 29, 1928 - July 12, 2021) in 1950, a society debutante. He was the grandfather of actress Denise Laurel. He had a daugh... | 2 | 0 |
2136173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turvey%2C%20Bedfordshire | Turvey, Bedfordshire | Turvey is a village and civil parish on the River Great Ouse in the Borough of Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, about west of Bedford town centre. The village is on the A428 road between Bedford and Northampton, close to the border with Buckinghamshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,225.
Histor... | 1.992188 | 0 |
2136176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan%20Pearce | Bryan Pearce | Artistic career
Pearce specialised in paintings of his home town, and the surrounding Penwith area, drawn in typically flat style, with areas of bright colour surrounded by heavy outlines, like stained glass. His learning disabilities gave his art, in the words of Peter Lanyon, an "awareness more direct" than pure obs... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2136177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton%20Canyon%20treasure | Skeleton Canyon treasure | The Skeleton Canyon treasure is said to be located in the Peloncillo Mountains within Skeleton Canyon. The canyon straddles the modern Arizona and New Mexico state line border and connects the Animas Valley of New Mexico, (the New Mexico Bootheel region), with the San Simon Valley of Arizona. The treasure was allegedly... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2136192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20Action | Social Action | Social Action (, AS), previously known as Freedom of Action (Libertà di Azione, LdA), was a national-conservative political party in Italy, founded and led by politician Alessandra Mussolini, who is the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini. The party became a faction within Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party.
H... | 2.125 | 0 |
2136267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Hildyard | Jack Hildyard | Denis John “Jack” Hildyard (17 March 1908, London – 5 September 1990, London) was a British cinematographer who worked on more than 80 films during his career.
Career
He made several films with David Lean including The Sound Barrier (1952) and Hobson's Choice (1954), as well as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), fo... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2136298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyin%20Temple | Lingyin Temple | Lingyin Temple () is a prominent Chan Buddhist temple near Hangzhou that is renowned for its many pagodas and grottos. Its name is commonly and literally translated into English as Temple of the Soul's Retreat.
The monastery is the largest of several temples in the Wulin Mountains (), which feature renowned grottos ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2136298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyin%20Temple | Lingyin Temple | The stone carvings on Feilai Feng are located in an area measuring 600 meters long and 200 meters wide. In total, there are 153 shrines and more than 470 pieces of carvings, among which 338 are relatively well-preserved, 96 carvings from the Yuan Dynasty as well as several from the Ming Dynasty.
Around 11 carvings da... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2136298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyin%20Temple | Lingyin Temple | The main statue enshrined within this hall is one of Sakyamuni, the historical Buddha, with his right hand forming the vitarka mudrā. The present statue was carved in 1956 from camphor wood in Tang dynasty style and coated with 60 taels of gold. At 24.6 meters high (including the throne on which the statue sits), it is... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2136298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyin%20Temple | Lingyin Temple | Hall of Bhaisajyaguru
Further uphill and behind the main hall is the Hall of Bhaisajyaguru (), housing a statue of the Bhaisajyaguru Buddha, commonly called the Medicine Buddha. Statues of the Bodhisattvas Sūryaprabha and Candraprabha, who are traditionally regarded as the attendants of Bhaisajyaguru, stand on the left... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2136298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyin%20Temple | Lingyin Temple | A 3 meter high bronze statue of the Japanese Buddhist monk Kūkai, who traveled to China during the Tang Dynasty to study Chinese Esoteric Buddhism and who visited Lingyin Temple during his travels, stands in a bamboo grove between the Dharma Hall and the Huayan Hall. The statue portrays Kūkai in monastic robes, holding... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2136311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helfer | Helfer | () was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party between the years of 1938 and 1945. The Nazi rank of Helfer was a junior position of the Political Leadership Corps, ranking only above Anwärter. A Helfer in the Nazi Party typically served as a junior assistant to a higher official. The rank was created at first to replac... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2136332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbice | Berbice | Berbice () is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1792 a colony of the Dutch West India Company and between 1792 and 1815 a colony of the Dutch state. After having been ceded to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the latter year, it was merged with Demerara-Essequibo t... | 2.71875 | 0 |
2136332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbice | Berbice | The colony had peace and trade treaties with the local Amerindians. This colony did not intervene in wars between the tribes, and no Amerindian was allowed to be taken into slavery unless they were sold by the Kalina or the Arawak and captured from the interior of the country.
Berbice was supposed to be guarded by 60 ... | 2.875 | 0 |
2136332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbice | Berbice | Capture by Britain and subsequent merging into British Guiana
On 27 February 1781, British forces occupied Berbice and neighbouring Demerara and Essequibo as part of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, because 34 out of 93 plantations in Berbice were under British ownership. In January 1782, the colonies were recaptured by the... | 3.09375 | 0 |
2136339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market%20participant | Market participant | The term market participant is another term for economic agent, an actor and more specifically a decision maker in a model of some aspect of the economy. For example, buyers and sellers are two common types of agents in partial equilibrium models of a single market. The term market participant is also used in United St... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2136343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restraining%20Acts%201775 | Restraining Acts 1775 | The Restraining Acts of early 1775 were two Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, which limited colonial trade in response to both increasing and spreading civil disobedience in Massachusetts and New England, and similar trade restrictions instituted by elected colonial representatives. With time the foment w... | 2.5 | 0 |
2136343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restraining%20Acts%201775 | Restraining Acts 1775 | The Restraining Acts were passed one year after the first of the Intolerable Acts had been imposed to show the potential of tighter British sovereignty over Boston, Massachusetts, and threatened the same treatment in other colonies generally. Instead of quieting the populace, these coercive laws had been met with incre... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2136347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathford | Bathford | Bathford (pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable) is a village and civil parish east of Bath, England. The parish, which includes Warleigh, has a population of 1,759 and extends over .
History
The ancient charter Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici describes a manor parish consisting of three tithings or q... | 2 | 0 |
2136347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathford | Bathford | The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neig... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2136358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkestok%20%28noble%20family%29 | Benkestok (noble family) | The Benkestok family (Benkestokk, Benchestoch et cetera) is one of the original noble families of Norway and one of the few to survive the Middle Ages. At the height of its power, the family ruled large estates in Båhuslen (today a part of Sweden), in Western Norway, in Northern Norway, in the Faroe Islands, and in She... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2136358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkestok%20%28noble%20family%29 | Benkestok (noble family) | Later members of the family lived in Ryfylke, where Talgøy in Sjørnarøyane and Haraldseid at Skjold were their seat farms, as well as at Jordanger in Sogn. A family member moved north to Meløya Farm in Meløya, Nordland, which marked the beginning of the expansion of the family in Northern Norway.
In July 1532, King Ch... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2136363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khadi | Khadi | Khadi (, ), derived from khaddar, is a hand-spun and woven natural fibre cloth promoted by Mahatma Gandhi as swadeshi (self-sufficiency) for the freedom struggle of the Indian subcontinent, and the term is used throughout India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The first piece of the hand-woven cloth was manufactured in the Sa... | 2.953125 | 0 |
2136363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khadi | Khadi | In 1922, Mahatma Gandhi requested the Indian National Congress (INC) to start a khadi department. In 1924, due to a large amount of work, a semi-independent body All India Khadi Board (AIKB) was formed which liaisoned with the INC's khadi department at the provincial and district levels. In 1925, the All India Spinner ... | 2.859375 | 0 |
2136385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethiscus | Lethiscus | Lethiscus is the earliest known representative of the Aistopoda, a group of very specialised snake-like tetrapodomorphs known from the early Carboniferous (Mississippian).
Lethiscus is known from only a single specimen from the Holkerian Stage (Middle Viséan) of the Early Carboniferous (Middle Mississippian) of Scotla... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2136397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skellow | Skellow | Skellow is a village in the Doncaster district, in the county of South Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village is roughly north-west of Doncaster. The village falls in the Askern Spa Ward of Doncaster MBC. To the north and south is mixed farmland, the A1 runs immediately alon... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2136398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khadi%20and%20Village%20Industries%20Commission | Khadi and Village Industries Commission | At present the developmental programmes of the commission are executed through, 5,600 registered institutions, 30,138 Cooperative societies and about ~95 lakh people.
Schemes and Programs of the Commission
Prime Ministers Employment Generation Program (PMEGP)
Launched on 14 August 2008
The Prime Minister's Employme... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2136417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghadar%20Movement | Ghadar Movement | The Ghadar Movement or Ghadar Party was an early 20th-century, international political movement founded by expatriate Indians to overthrow British rule in India. Many of the Ghadar Party founders and leaders, including Sohan Singh Bhakna, would go on and join the Babbar Akali Movement and would help it in logistics as ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2136417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghadar%20Movement | Ghadar Movement | Following the war's conclusion, the party in the United States fractured into a Communist and an Indian Socialist faction. The party was formally dissolved in 1948. Key participants in the Ghadar Movement included K. B. Menon, Sohan Singh Bhakna, Mewa Singh Lopoke, Kesar Singh(Vice-President), Baba Jawala Singh(Vice-ch... | 2.625 | 0 |
2136418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammad%20ibn%20Buluggin | Hammad ibn Buluggin | Hammad ibn Buluggin () (died 1028) was the first ruler of the Hammadid dynasty in what is now Algeria (1014–1028).
Life
After the death of his father Buluggin ibn Ziri, al-Mansur ibn Buluggin (984–995), Hammad's brother, became the head of the Zirid dynasty in Ifriqiya, and installed Hammad as governor of the central... | 2.25 | 0 |
2136433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Fernando%2C%20Pampanga | San Fernando, Pampanga | San Fernando, officially the City of San Fernando (; ), is a component city and capital of the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 354,666 people.
The city is named after King Ferdinand VI of Spain and placed under the patronage of Saint Ferdinand III of Castile and... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2136433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Fernando%2C%20Pampanga | San Fernando, Pampanga | In 1878, actions were made to create the town of Calulut. This new town would be composed of Calulut and the neighboring barrios of Bulaun, Malpitic, Sindalan, La Paz, Lara, Saguin, Telabastagan, Balete, Malinao, Pulung Bulu, Panipuan, Macabacle and the caserio of Pau in San Fernando, and Panipuan, Acle, Suclaban and t... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2136433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Fernando%2C%20Pampanga | San Fernando, Pampanga | On May 4, 1899, Philippine revolutionary troops led by General Antonio Luna burned the casa municipal, the town church and several houses to render them useless to the approaching American forces. On June 16, due to the strategic location of the town, Aguinaldo himself led Filipino forces in the Battle for San Fernando... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2136433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Fernando%2C%20Pampanga | San Fernando, Pampanga | On February 14, 1939, Philippine president Manuel L. Quezon proclaimed his social justice program before a gathering of farmers in front of the Municipal Government building.
In 1941, forces of the Imperial Japanese Army occupied the town and placed the municipal government under its supervision. The following year, t... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2136433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Fernando%2C%20Pampanga | San Fernando, Pampanga | San Fernando serves as one of the agricultural processing centers of Central Luzon. It is a major rice-producing region and an important sugar-producing area. The Pampanga Sugar Development Company (PASUDECO) was once the largest private employer in Pampanga. It is a major sugar-processing plant in the region. Other ma... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2136519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Karl%20von%20Winterfeldt | Hans Karl von Winterfeldt | Hans Karl von Winterfeldt (4 April 1707 – 8 September 1757), a Prussian general, served in the War of the Polish Succession, the War of Austrian Succession, Frederick the Great's Silesian wars and the Seven Years' War. One of Frederick's trusted confidantes and advisors, he attracted enmity from other courtiers. Fred... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2136519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Karl%20von%20Winterfeldt | Hans Karl von Winterfeldt | Winterfeldt was the King's confidente in reforming the army, recreating the general staff, and developing military intelligence. In the short peace, he was in constant attendance upon the king, who employed him again, when the war was resumed, in the same capacity as before, and, after he had been instrumental in winni... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2136520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20of%20Lorraine | Anna of Lorraine | Anna of Lorraine (25 July 1522 – 15 May 1568) was a princess of the House of Lorraine. She was Princess of Orange by her first marriage to René of Châlon, and Duchess of Aarschot by her second marriage to Philippe II of Croÿ.
Life
Anna was the daughter of Antoine the Good, Duke of Lorraine and Renée of Bourbon-Montpen... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2136526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20G.%20Jones | T. G. Jones | Thomas George Jones (12 October 1917 – 3 January 2004) was a Welsh footballer most notable for his career with Everton and Wales.
Biography
Born in Queensferry and raised in Connah's Quay, Tommy (T.G.) Jones started his professional career with Wrexham. He signed for Everton for £3,000 in 1936. He won a Football Leagu... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2136532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Leroy | Louis Leroy | Louis Leroy (1812 - 1885) was a French 19th-century printmaker, painter, and playwright.
Biography
He is remembered as the journalist and art critic for the French satirical newspaper Le Charivari, who coined the term "impressionists" to satirise the artists now known by the word.
Leroy's review was printed in Le Ch... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2136546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhymney%20River | Rhymney River | The Rhymney River () is a river in the Rhymney Valley, South Wales, flowing through Cardiff into the Severn Estuary. The river formed the boundary between the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire until in 1887, the parishes east of the river, Rumney and St Mellons, were transferred from the jurisdiction of ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2136586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor%20Emmanuel | Ivor Emmanuel | Ivor Lewis Emmanuel (7 November 1927 – 20 July 2007) was a Welsh musical theatre and television singer and actor. He is probably best remembered, however, for his appearance as "Private Owen" in the 1964 film Zulu, in which his character rallies outnumbered British soldiers by leading them in the stirring Welsh battle... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2136586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor%20Emmanuel | Ivor Emmanuel | Life and career
Emmanuel was born in Margam, near Port Talbot, Wales, and moved to the nearby village of Pontrhydyfen as a young child. He was 14 years old when his father, mother, sister and grandfather were killed by a stray bomb that hit their village during World War II. A 2001 documentary programme about the incid... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2136614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensacola%20Christian%20Academy | Pensacola Christian Academy | Pensacola Christian Academy (PCA) is a private Christian school serving elementary through high school grades. It is located in Pensacola, Florida, United States.
History
The school was founded as Pensacola Christian School in 1954 by Arlin and Beka Horton, who later established Pensacola Christian College.
PCS bega... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2136617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orefield%2C%20Pennsylvania | Orefield, Pennsylvania | Orefield is a small unincorporated community in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The community is split between North Whitehall and South Whitehall townships. Orefield is part of the Lehigh Valley, which has a population of 861,899 and is the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
Located ... | 2.125 | 0 |
2136620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20von%20Wildenbruch | Ernst von Wildenbruch | Ernst von Wildenbruch (3 February 184515 January 1909) was a German poet and dramatist.
Biography
Wildenbruch was born at Beirut in Lebanon, the son of the Prussian consul-general, Ludwig von Wildenbruch, who was himself an illegitimate son of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia. Having passed his early years at Athens ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2136625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Cove | Discovery Cove | Discovery Cove is a theme park owned and operated by United Parks & Resorts, and located in Orlando, Florida. It is the sister park of SeaWorld Orlando and Aquatica Orlando. Visitors to the park can interact with a range of marine animals including bottlenose dolphins.
Attractions
The main experience at Discovery Cov... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2136625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Cove | Discovery Cove | Admission
Three different admission options are offered by the park, including the dolphin-swim, non-dolphin-swim and "Trainer for a Day" packages. The park also sells multi-park tickets that include admission to SeaWorld Orlando, Aquatica Orlando, and Busch Gardens Tampa. Reservations for Discovery Cove are required ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2136640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Wheaton | Frank Wheaton | Frank Wheaton (May 8, 1833 – June 18, 1903) was a career military officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and Indian Wars. He also was military commander over south Texas during the Garza Revolution.
Early life and career
Wheaton was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to Dr. Francis Levison and ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2136640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Wheaton | Frank Wheaton | Wheaton remained in command of the brigade during Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign in 1864, as well as during the subsequent Siege of Petersburg. His men were hurried by train to Washington, D.C., in time to help repel Jubal Early's raid on the capital. During the ensuing operations in the Shenandoah Valle... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2136640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Wheaton | Frank Wheaton | After the retirement of Major General Thomas H. Ruger, Wheaton was promoted to major general in the Regular Army on April 3, 1897, and was mandatorily retired one month later on his 64th birthday on May 8.
Post-military life
After his retirement, Wheaton left to spend two years in Europe. He gave a speech at a Thanks... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2136659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Chaffey | John Chaffey | John Chaffey is an English osteopathic doctor and former child film actor.
Film career
Chaffey was featured in many television adverts as a child. He is best remembered for a role in the 1973 Peter Sellers movie The Optimists of Nine Elms.
Medical career
Chaffey studied at University of East London, receiving in 1991... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2136694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliyahu%20de%20Vidas | Eliyahu de Vidas | Eliyahu de Vidas (1518–1587, Hebron) was a 16th-century rabbi in Ottoman Palestine. He was primarily a disciple of Rabbis Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (known as the Ramak) and also Isaac Luria. De Vidas is known for his expertise in the Kabbalah. He wrote Reshit Chochmah, or "The Beginning of Wisdom," a pietistic work tha... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2136729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu%20Shifu | Liu Shifu | In 1902, he traveled to Japan to pursue western studies. In Japan, he investigated radical politics and joined Sun Yat-Sen's Revolutionary Alliance. As a teenager, he changed his name to Liu Sifu (Sifu literally means "thinking of restoration of the Han people") for the first time.
Later activities
Liu returned to Ch... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2136729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu%20Shifu | Liu Shifu | The Cock-Crow Society, also known as the "Guangzhou Group", is usually described as being "led" by Liu, and this is generally accurate insofar as we understand it as leadership by example since he was never granted any formal position or coercive authority by the group. Their most significant contributions at this stag... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2136733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Ruchrat%20von%20Wesel | Johann Ruchrat von Wesel | Johann Ruchrat von Wesel (died 1481) was a German Scholastic theologian. He objected to the system of indulgences, and has been called a "reformer before the Reformation".
He was born at Oberwesel early in the 15th century. He appears to have been one of the leaders of the humanist movement in Germany, and to have had... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2136740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasiq | Fasiq | Fasiq ( fāsiq) is an Arabic term referring to someone who violates Islamic law. As a fasiq is considered unreliable, his testimony is not accepted in Islamic courts. The terms fasiq and fisq are sometime rendered as "impious", "venial sinner", or "depraved".
Constant committing of minor sins or the major sins that do ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2136743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Whethamstede | John Whethamstede | John Whethamstede (died 20 January 1465) was an English abbot and one of the leading literary figures in fifteenth-century England.
Life
He was a son of Hugh and Margaret Bostock, and was born at Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire, owing his name, the Latin form of which is Frumentarius, to this circumstance.
After earl... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2136757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm%20signal | Alarm signal | In animal communication, an alarm signal is an antipredator adaptation in the form of signals emitted by social animals in response to danger. Many primates and birds have elaborate alarm calls for warning conspecifics of approaching predators. For example, the alarm call of the blackbird is a familiar sound in many ga... | 3.265625 | 0 |
2136757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm%20signal | Alarm signal | Some scientists have used the evidence of alarm-calling behaviour to challenge the theory that "evolution works only/primarily at the level of the gene and of the gene's 'interest' in passing itself along to future generations." If alarm-calling is truly an example of altruism, then human understanding of natural selec... | 2.75 | 0 |
2136757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm%20signal | Alarm signal | In an experiment conducted by Dr. Tabitha Price, they used custom software to gather the acoustic sounds of male and female Vervet monkeys from East Africa and male Vervet monkey from South Africa. The point of the experiment was to gather the acoustic sounds of these monkeys when stimulated by the presence of snakes (... | 2.875 | 0 |
2136757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm%20signal | Alarm signal | It is still debated whether or not Vervet monkeys are actually aware of what the alarm calls mean. One side of the argument is that the monkeys give alarm calls because they are simply excited. The other side of the argument is that the alarm calls create mental representation of predators in the listeners minds. The c... | 2.921875 | 0 |
2136757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm%20signal | Alarm signal | Diana monkeys
Diana monkeys also produce alarm signals. Adult males respond to each other's calls, showing that calling can be contagious. Their calls differ based on signaller sex, threat type, habitat, and caller ontogenetic or lifetime predator experience.
Diana monkeys emit different alarm calls as a result of th... | 3.328125 | 0 |
2136757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm%20signal | Alarm signal | The differences in alarm call responses are due to differences in habitat. In Taï National Park, there is a low predation risk from eagles, high primate abundance, strong intergroup competition, and a tendency for group encounters to result in high levels of aggression. Therefore, even familiar males are a threat to wh... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2136757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm%20signal | Alarm signal | Diana monkeys also display a predisposition for flexibility in acoustic variation of alarm call assembly related to caller ontogenetic or lifetime predator experience. In Taï National Park and on Tiwai Island, monkeys have a predisposition to threat-specific alarm signals. In Taï National Park, males produce three thre... | 2.71875 | 0 |
2136757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm%20signal | Alarm signal | Controversy over the semantic properties of alarm calls
Not all scholars of animal communication accept the interpretation of alarm signals in monkeys as having semantic properties or transmitting "information". Prominent spokespersons for this opposing view are Michael Owren and Drew Rendall, whose work on this topic... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2136757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm%20signal | Alarm signal | Receiver knowledge
Alarm signalling varies depending on the receiver's knowledge of a certain threat. Chimpanzees are significantly more likely to produce an alarm call when conspecifics are unaware of a potential threat or were not nearby when a previous alarm call was emitted. When judging if conspecifics are unawar... | 2.984375 | 0 |
2136757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm%20signal | Alarm signal | Other factors
Other factors, such as signaller arousal, receiver identity, or increased risk of predation from calling, do not have a significant effect on the frequency of alarm call production.
Receiver monitoring
However, while alarm signals can be coupled with receiver monitoring, there is a lack of consensus on... | 2.75 | 0 |
2136757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm%20signal | Alarm signal | Alarm pheromones
Alarm signals need not be communicated only by auditory means. For example, many animals may use chemosensory alarm signals, communicated by chemicals known as pheromones. Minnows and catfish release alarm pheromones (Schreckstoff) when injured, which cause nearby fish to hide in dense schools near the... | 3.140625 | 0 |
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