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14330995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Mercia%20Search%20and%20Rescue | West Mercia Search and Rescue | West Mercia Search and Rescue, (formerly: West Midlands Search and Rescue) commonly abbreviated WMSAR, is a voluntary search and rescue organisation which operates in the counties of Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. The organisation responds to calls for assistance from any of the emergency services and op... | 1.945313 | 0 |
14331012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Teise | River Teise | The River Teise ( , ) is a tributary of the River Medway in Kent, England.
Course
The source of the Teise is in Dunorlan Park in Tunbridge Wells. From there the river flows eastwards past Bayham Abbey and then through Lamberhurst. downstream of Lamberhurst the small River Bewl, on which is the reservoir Bewl Water, ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
14331012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Teise | River Teise | The site of the Furnace floor is adjacent to the main farm Buildings at Furnace Farm. The Furnace lies just inside Cranbrook Parish. The only Furnace in the Parish, it was owned by Sir Alexander Culpeper in 1574 and let to Sir Richard Baker in the second half of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It was let to John Dunned... | 2.34375 | 0 |
14331064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth%20Airport%20%28Hampshire%29 | Portsmouth Airport (Hampshire) | Portsmouth Airport, also known as Portsmouth City Airport, PWA (Portsmouth Worldwide Airport) and Hilsea Airport, was situated at the northeast Hilsea corner of Portsea Island on the south coast of England and was one of the last remaining commercial grass runway airports in the United Kingdom.
Location
Sandwiched be... | 2.0625 | 0 |
14331064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth%20Airport%20%28Hampshire%29 | Portsmouth Airport (Hampshire) | Portsmouth Aviation
PSIOWA began to expand rapidly before the war and began to undertake aircraft maintenance and modification in their hangars at the airport, in addition to the successful ferry services. At the start of the Second World War PSIOWA were ordered to stop their flying services in order to concentrate on... | 2.34375 | 0 |
14331151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Vengeance%20%281824%29 | HMS Vengeance (1824) | HMS Vengeance was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 July 1824 at Pembroke Dockyard. The Canopus-class ships were all modelled on a captured French ship, the Franklin, which was renamed HMS Canopus in British service. Some of the copies were faster than others, though it was report... | 2.0625 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | Jack Hood Vaughn (August 18, 1920 – October 29, 2012) was the second director of the United States Peace Corps, succeeding Sargent Shriver. Vaughn was appointed Peace Corps director in 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson and was the first Republican to head the agency.
Early life and education
Vaughn was born in Columbus... | 2.328125 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | Vaughn began fighting professionally in 1942 under the name of "Johnny Hood." "I was bumming around Mexico one summer when I ran out of money," Vaughn said. "I decided I would take my boxing and turn pro, but I didn't know enough Spanish at the time to tell whether the agent said I would get 60 pesos for four rounds or... | 2.53125 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | After returning from World War II, Vaughn earned a Master of Arts in 1947 in Romance Languages from the University of Michigan and a master's in economics.
Vaughn taught Spanish, French and Latin American affairs while he was at the University of Michigan and was also the head boxing coach. "I wanted to be a professor ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | Peace Corps staff
Vaughn's connection with the Peace Corps began in 1961 when Peace Corps founding director Sargent Shriver came to Senegal where Vaughn was serving with USAID. "There were 4,000 volunteers signing up a day for the Peace Corps, and countries weren't asking for them. So Shriver came over to meet the Sene... | 2.34375 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | In the book The Negotiations Regarding the Panama Canal by Omar Jaen Suarez, Vaughn is given great credit for defusing the tensions between the two countries and starting the United States and Panama on the road to successfully negotiating the Panama Canal Treaty. "I lived here in a successful and comfortable way, dedi... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | Assistant Secretary of State
On February 12, 1965, President Johnson named Vaughn Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and the United States coordinator of the Alliance for Progress. The bureau was the single largest unit in the State Department with more than 600 employees in Washington and 2,000 m... | 2.328125 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | On September 4, 1965, the New York Times reported that Vaughn had just completed a two-week trip to Latin America and returned with an enthusiastic report for President Johnson on the Alliance for Progress. Vaughn expressed his conviction that a "new and bright chapter" was starting in the partnership between Latin Ame... | 2 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | Senate approval and swearing-in
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved Vaughn's appointment as Peace Corps director 12 to 1 with Wayne Morse, Democrat of Oregon opposing Vaughn. In the same committee meeting Morse was also the sole vote against Lincoln Gordon to succeed Vaughn as Assistant Secretary for Inter... | 1.96875 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | Vaughn said that his first task as Director would be to visit Peace Corps programs around the world, meet staff members and volunteers and explain his plans. Vaughn meant that literally and started at the top of the 12-story Peace Corps Headquarters building to personally meet and shake hands with every employee. "I wa... | 2.265625 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | Problems in Nigeria
The New York Times reported on October 6, 1966, that Vaughn had left for Africa to investigate an unusually large number of complaints by Peace Corps Volunteers regarding their living allowances and working conditions in Nigeria. Vaughn's itinerary included stops in Senegal, Nigeria, and Liberia to ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | Program improvements
The weaknesses in the Nigeria program confirmed Vaughn's worst suspicions about the need to improve the quality of Peace Corps programs. "We've got to do better on recruitment, in administration, orchestration, and approach," said Vaughn. Vaughn's biggest contribution to the Peace Corps was the e... | 2.5 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | However, dissent had its limits for Peace Corps volunteers. In 1967 Bruce Murray, a Peace Corps Volunteer serving in Chile, helped draw up a petition that called for a cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam and immediate negotiations for peace. Murray said his petition was for publication in the New York Times. T... | 1.984375 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | Peace Corps and the draft
Former US Marine Officer Vaughn took an active role in seeking deferments for Peace Corps Volunteers subject to the draft. "We have a serious situation," said Vaughn. "The problem of induction notices to overseas volunteers in becoming a major concern for us. Pulling a volunteer off a produ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
14331174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20H.%20Vaughn | Jack H. Vaughn | Ambassador to Colombia
When Richard Nixon became president in 1969, Vaughn found himself out of a job. One report says that Vaughn was asked by Nixon's Secretary of State William P. Rogers to stay on as Peace Corps director to emphasize the nonpolitical nature of the Peace Corps. Instead, Vaughn was informed in March, ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
14331249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Powerful%20%281826%29 | HMS Powerful (1826) | HMS Powerful was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 May 1825 at Chatham Dockyard.
From 1 January 1839 to the end of 1840 Powerful was commanded by Captain Charles Napier, mainly in the Mediterranean and for much of the time as lead ship of a detached squadron under Napier's orders... | 2.015625 | 0 |
14331272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20for%20juveniles%20in%20the%20United%20States | Capital punishment for juveniles in the United States | In the United States, capital punishment for juveniles existed until March 2, 2005, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in Roper v. Simmons. Prior to Roper, there were 71 people on death row in the United States for crimes committed as juveniles.
The death penalty for juveniles in the United States w... | 2.46875 | 0 |
14331272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20for%20juveniles%20in%20the%20United%20States | Capital punishment for juveniles in the United States | The youngest person to have been executed in the 20th century was likely Joe Persons, a boy executed by hanging in Georgia on September 24, 1915 for the rape of an 8-year-old girl that he committed in June 1915. Persons reportedly confessed to the crime while he was on the gallows. Persons' age has not been confirmed; ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
14331272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20for%20juveniles%20in%20the%20United%20States | Capital punishment for juveniles in the United States | Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 when the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty did not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, 22 people have been executed for crimes committed while they were under the age of 18. All of the 22 executed individuals were... | 2.3125 | 0 |
14331278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildebrand%20solubility%20parameter | Hildebrand solubility parameter | The Hildebrand solubility parameter (δ) provides a numerical estimate of the degree of interaction between materials and can be a good indication of solubility, particularly for nonpolar materials such as many polymers. Materials with similar values of δ are likely to be miscible.
Definition
The Hildebrand solubility... | 1.96875 | 0 |
14331334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Bombay%20%281828%29 | HMS Bombay (1828) | HMS Bombay was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 February 1828 at Bombay Dockyard.
She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1861 at Chatham Dockyard. This was a significant modification and involved cutting the ship in half and inserting a section to lengthen her, as well as fitti... | 2.59375 | 0 |
14331359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anangula%20Archeological%20District | Anangula Archeological District | The Anangula Site (also Anangula Archeological District and Ananiuliak Island Archeological District) is an archaeological site in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Located on a long island off the western coast of Umnak Island, it lies north-northwest of Nikolski Bay. The site documents one of the earliest known hum... | 2.890625 | 0 |
14331380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beshbarmak | Beshbarmak | Beshbarmak (; ; ) is a dish in Central Asian cuisine. It is also known as naryn in Xinjiang, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, as turama in Karakalpakstan and North Caucasus, as dograma in Turkmenistan, as kullama in Bashkortostan and Tatarstan. It is one of the main national dishes of both Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhs... | 2.375 | 0 |
14331441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birnirk%20site | Birnirk site | The Birnirk site (Iñupiaq: Piġniq) is an archaeological site near Utqiagvik, Alaska. It includes sixteen prehistoric mounds which have yielded evidence of very early Birnirk and Thule culture. It is the type site of the Birnirk culture, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962 for its archaeological im... | 2.421875 | 0 |
14331485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter%20counseling | Over-the-counter counseling | Over-the-counter counseling (or OTC counseling) refers to the counseling that a pharmacist may provide on the subject of initiating, modifying, or stopping an over-the-counter (OTC) drug product. OTC counseling requires an assessment of the patient's self-care concerns and drug-related needs. The types of drugs that ar... | 2.84375 | 0 |
14331485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter%20counseling | Over-the-counter counseling | Dietary supplements
Whether or not pharmacists should be involved with selling dietary supplements, which are not approved for the treatment or prevention of any disease or disorder, is the subject of much ethical debate. However, a 2009 review of the literature found that the common perception was that pharmacists sho... | 2.28125 | 0 |
14331485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter%20counseling | Over-the-counter counseling | Urinary incontinence
Pharmacists can offer non-pharmacological, behavioral counseling for patients with urinary incontinence. This includes teaching patients about the important behavioral interventions that can reduce their symptoms and improve quality of life. This can include recommending daily Kegel exercises, and ... | 2.25 | 0 |
14331523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Mahon | Barry Mahon | Barry Mahon, born Jackson Barrett Mahon (February 5, 1921 – December 4, 1999) was an American film director, cinematographer and producer.
Early years
Mahon was born in Bakersfield, California and attended the Page Military Academy (now Page Private School) in Los Angeles and graduated from Laguna Blanca Boys School ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
14331533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cern%C4%83u%C8%9Bi%20County | Cernăuți County | Cernăuți County was a county (județ) of Romania, in Bukovina, with the capital city at Cernăuți. The area was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940 (after the Soviet occupation of Northern Bukovina) and again in 1944 (after the Soviet occupation of Romania), and has been part of Ukraine since 1991.
History
Follow... | 2.375 | 0 |
14331624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstreet%20Theater | Mainstreet Theater | The Mainstreet Theater's name changed to the RKO Missouri Theater in April 1941. The RKO Missouri ran Cinerama three strip film.
The AMC era
AMC Theatres, then known as Durwood Theatres, bought the theater in the late 1950s and reopened it in December 1960 as the Empire. The first film shown at the theater under the n... | 2.03125 | 0 |
14331624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstreet%20Theater | Mainstreet Theater | Prominent downtown landowner Larry Bridges purchased the Empire Theater in 1986 from Stan Durwood, then CEO of AMC Theatres. Between 1985 and 2005, the Empire was often at risk for demolition. Numerous efforts took place to prevent each demolition attempt. In 1986, actor and comedian George Burns joined the effort and ... | 2.125 | 0 |
14331644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Beult | River Beult | The River Beult ( ) is a tributary of the River Medway in South East England.
Course
The Beult has several sources west of Ashford, including one at Woodchurch. It then flows through Headcorn. At Hunton, above Yalding, it is joined by the major stream of the River Teise. Town bridge lies from Allington, it is the lo... | 2.59375 | 0 |
14331659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed%20radiofrequency | Pulsed radiofrequency | While thermal radiofrequency ablation for tumors and cardiac arrhythmia has been used for over 25 years, non-thermal pulsed radio frequency is currently being developed for the ablation of cardiac arrhythmias and tumors. The technique uses pulsed radio frequency energy delivered via catheter at frequencies of 300–750 k... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14331724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul%20surfer | Soul surfer | A soul surfer (term invented during the 1960s) is a surfer who surfs for the sheer pleasure of surfing. Although they may still enter competitions, winning is not the soul surfer's main motive, since they scorn the commercialization of surfing. The term denotes a spirituality of surfing. As Brad Melekian stated in a 20... | 2.5 | 0 |
14331751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosta%20Kumanudi | Kosta Kumanudi | Still, the Arts Commission, formed by the city, decided in September 1927 to relocate the monument and place it "on the ridge of the Belgrade Town, at the mouth of the Sava and the Danube". As Kumanudi had other duties in the state government, this decision was confirmed by his deputy Kosta Jovanović, and Kumanudi was ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
14331751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosta%20Kumanudi | Kosta Kumanudi | Kumanudi was imprisoned in the Sremska Mitrovica Prison, from 2 March 1946 to 3 November 1947. A year later, he was arrested again and accused of "joining the foundation of an illegal board in August 1948 in Belgrade, with the goal of rounding up of the elements hostile to the state and social organization". Military c... | 1.992188 | 0 |
14331782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facility%20Registry%20System | Facility Registry System | The Facility Registry System (FRS) is a centrally managed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) database that identifies facilities, sites or places of environmental interest in the United States.
Overview
FRS creates facility identification records through verification and management procedures that incorporate infor... | 2.453125 | 0 |
14331782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facility%20Registry%20System | Facility Registry System | Criticisms of the FRS
The role the FRS plays in EPA is to provide an accurate, authoritative facility record. The European model of environmental regulation is for facilities to be assigned a number when the plant created, and all permits are linked to that number. The U.S. environmental regulatory system is based on ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
14331789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Market%20System | National Market System | The National Market System (NMS) is a regulatory mechanism that governs the operations of securities trading in the United States. Its primary focus is ensuring transparency and full disclosure regarding stock price quotations and trade executions. It was initiated in 1975, when, in the Securities Acts Amendments of 19... | 2.375 | 0 |
14331811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Transportation%20Specialist | Air Transportation Specialist | Air transportation specialists are members of the United States Air Force and responsible for inspecting, documenting, packaging, loading and unloading cargo on aircraft.
Job description
The duties of an Air transportation specialist include:
inspecting cargo and mail offered for airlift to verify eligibility and pro... | 2.046875 | 0 |
14331824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot | Elliot | Elliot (also spelled Eliot, Elliotte, Elliott, Eliott and Elyot) is a personal name which can serve as either a surname or a given name. Although the given name has historically been given to males, females have increasingly been given the name as well in the United States.
The main difference is the surname, which ha... | 2.65625 | 0 |
14331851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundedly%20generated%20group | Boundedly generated group | In mathematics, a group is called boundedly generated if it can be expressed as a finite product of cyclic subgroups. The property of bounded generation is also closely related with the congruence subgroup problem (see ).
Definitions
A group G is called boundedly generated if there exists a finite subset S of G an... | 2.515625 | 0 |
14331921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Eyre | Ivan Eyre | Ivan Kenneth Eyre (15 April 1935 – 5 November 2022) was a Canadian artist best known for his prairie landscapes and compositionally abstract, figurative paintings. In addition, Eyre was a Professor Emeritus of painting and drawing at the University of Manitoba where he taught for 33 years, from 1959 until his retireme... | 2.1875 | 0 |
14331921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Eyre | Ivan Eyre | In 1953, Eyre moved to Winnipeg where he attended the University of Manitoba School of Art, graduating in 1957 with a BA in fine arts. In his autobiography, Eyre reminisces about the tutelage of his professors and class trips to the Chicago Art Institute. He was a pupil of artists Wynona Mulcaster and George Swinton. D... | 2.0625 | 0 |
14331921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Eyre | Ivan Eyre | In 1966, the Canada Council provided Eyre with a Canada Council Senior Arts Grant which allowed him and his family to spend a year and four months in Europe. Upon his return, Eyre wrote a report for the Canada Council of his experiences, criticizing "what was, for the most part, being hailed in the major centres as 'br... | 2.21875 | 0 |
14331958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%20A%C4%87imovi%C4%87 | Milan Aćimović | In April 1941, Reinhard Heydrich came to Belgrade and gave instructions to find loyal collaborators among Serbs and to rely on high police officers Milan Aćimović and Dragi Jovanović, with whom Heydrich already worked with. Besides Aćimović and Jovanović, German politics was supported by Dimitrije Ljotić, leader of the... | 2.484375 | 0 |
14331958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%20A%C4%87imovi%C4%87 | Milan Aćimović | As both head of Commissioner Government and as Minister of Interior in Nedić's government, Aćimović maintained relations with Draža Mihailović's movement. Even though he knew about the Belgrade branch of Mihailović's movement, he did not take any actions against them. In December of 1941 he warned Mihailović about the... | 1.96875 | 0 |
14332147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20A.%20Weaver | Henry A. Weaver | Henry Augustus Weaver (April 1, 1820 – September 26, 1890) was the Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1857 to 1860. He was a member of the Republican Party, and was the first Republican mayor of Pittsburgh.
Formative years
Born in Freeport, Pennsylvania on April 1, 1820, Henry A. Weaver was one of the ten children of Benjamin W... | 2.046875 | 0 |
14332155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Shattuck | Roger Shattuck | Roger Whitney Shattuck (August 20, 1923 in Manhattan, New York – December 8, 2005 in Lincoln, Vermont) was an American writer best known for his books on French literature, art, and music of the twentieth century.
Background and education
Born in New York City to parents Howard Francis Shattuck, a physician, and Eliza... | 2.125 | 0 |
14332155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Shattuck | Roger Shattuck | In 1975, Shattuck received the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters for Marcel Proust (a split award).
Academic philosophy
Routinely described as "one of America's leading literary scholars," Shattuck was considered something of a traditionalist. He became well known for his 1994 speech "Nineteen Theses o... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14332179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20E.%20Wilson | Ian E. Wilson | Ian E. Wilson (born April 1943) is a former chief Librarian and Archivist of Canada. Appointed in 2004, he had previously (as of July 1999) been National Archivist of Canada. With Roch Carrier, the then National Librarian, he developed and led the process to link the National Archive and National Library as a unified ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
14332209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi%20folklore | Punjabi folklore | Punjabi folklore (more particularly its folksongs) are a core part of the Punjabi culture. Other important components of Punjabi folklore are farces, anecdotes, idioms, folktales, and sayings.
Research
Origin
Richard Carnac Temple argued in his 1884 work, The Legends of the Punjab, that the plot structure of Punjabi... | 2.78125 | 0 |
14332258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108th%20Cavalry%20Regiment | 108th Cavalry Regiment | The 108th Cavalry Regiment is a cavalry regiment of the Georgia and Louisiana Army National Guards of the United States Army.
Lineage
The 108th Cavalry Regiment was constituted in the National Guard on 1 June 1921, allotted to the states of Georgia and Louisiana, and assigned to the 22nd Cavalry Division. It was orga... | 2.359375 | 0 |
14332366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-computer%20tactics | Anti-computer tactics | Anti-computer tactics are methods used by humans to try to beat computer opponents at various games, most typically board games such as chess and Arimaa. They are most associated with competitions against computer AIs that are playing to their utmost to win, rather than AIs merely programmed to be an interesting chall... | 2.53125 | 0 |
14332366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-computer%20tactics | Anti-computer tactics | Common aspects
One aspect of designing a classic AI for games of perfect information is the horizon effect. Computer AIs examine a game tree of possible moves and counter-moves, but unless a forced win is in the tree, it needs to stop exploring new possibilities eventually. When it does, an evaluation function is cal... | 2.578125 | 0 |
14332375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Amilakhvari | Alexander Amilakhvari | Prince Alexander Amilakhvari (, Alek'sandre Amilakhvari; , Aleksandr Dmitrievich Amilakhorov) (20 October 1750 – 1802) was a Georgian nobleman and author who was a supporter of enlightened absolutism and also openly opposed King Erekle II’s rule.
A member of the Amilakhvari, one of the leading noble families of Georgi... | 2.21875 | 0 |
14332377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Greville%2C%205th%20Earl%20of%20Warwick | Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick | Francis Richard Charles Guy Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick (9 February 1853 – 15 January 1924), styled Lord Brooke until 1893, was a British Conservative politician.
Early life
Greville was the son of George Greville, 4th Earl of Warwick, and his wife, Lady Anne, daughter of Francis Wemyss-Charteris, 9th Earl of Wemyss... | 2.078125 | 0 |
14332426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica%20of%20St.%20John%20%28Des%20Moines%2C%20Iowa%29 | Basilica of St. John (Des Moines, Iowa) | In August 1913 the basement of the present church was completed and the parish used it for its church until the upper church was completed. It was part of the designs for a new church by the Des Moines architectural firm of Proudfoot, Bird & Rawson. The rest of that church design was not built. The architects who desig... | 2.046875 | 0 |
14332426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica%20of%20St.%20John%20%28Des%20Moines%2C%20Iowa%29 | Basilica of St. John (Des Moines, Iowa) | The first of the church's stained glass windows was installed in 1947, and the rest were installed by 1953. The widows were delayed because of the financial constraints related to the Great Depression and World War II. Conrad Pickel Studio of Waukesha, Wisconsin designed the church's 10 nave windows and the 36 cleresto... | 2.0625 | 0 |
14332426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica%20of%20St.%20John%20%28Des%20Moines%2C%20Iowa%29 | Basilica of St. John (Des Moines, Iowa) | Architecture
St. John's was designed in the basilica form of the Romanesque Revival style found in Northern Italy known as Lombardy Romanesque. The church is built of Indiana limestone that was probably acquired from Tri-Cities' Stone Company of Davenport, Iowa. The stone veneer is applied to the exterior in a random ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
14332614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Archdiocese%20of%20Ko%C5%A1ice | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Košice | The Archdiocese of Košice (, ) is a Latin archdiocese of the Catholic Church in eastern Slovakia, with its seat in Košice. It covers the central and eastern parts of the Prešov and Košice regions, with an area of 10,403 km2. The diocese's area has a total population of 1,153,505 people, of which around 61% were of Cath... | 2.3125 | 0 |
14332620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandhkot | Kandhkot | Kandhkot (; ) is a city and tehsil in Kashmore District in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is the 98th largest city of Pakistan with a population of 100,698 according to the 2017 census.
In the last quarter of 2022, Kandhkot along with other many cities in Sindh, was struck by major flooding. Many people died in th... | 2.375 | 0 |
14332653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20refereeing%20in%20England | Football refereeing in England | For levels 4 and 3, there are active retention criteria resulting in promotion and demotion each season. The primary method for ranking referees at levels 4 and 3 is through the use of club marks and assessor marks (minimum 5 matches), with referees ranked in both from A (best) to E (lowest). Referees who achieve "AA... | 2 | 0 |
14332721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratohyalin | Keratohyalin | Keratohyalin is a protein structure found in cytoplasmic granules of the keratinocytes in the stratum granulosum of the epidermis. Keratohyalin granules (KHG) mainly consist of keratin, profilaggrin, loricrin and trichohyalin proteins which contribute to cornification or keratinization, the process of the formation of ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
14332785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Wagner%20%28born%201938%29 | Josef Wagner (born 1938) | Josef Wagner Jr. (born 24 May 1938, in Prague) painter, graphic artist, architect, pedagogue, a representative of contemporary Czech painting. At least four of his works are housed at the National Library of the Czech Republic.
Life
Born in Prague on 24 May 1938, he comes from an old artistic family. His father, Jose... | 2.0625 | 0 |
14332785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Wagner%20%28born%201938%29 | Josef Wagner (born 1938) | Work
J. Wagner started painting in 1957 and permanently since 1963. In his works he was gradually concerned with the themes of Prague, particularly of Holešovice and its port. In the latter half of the sixties, the themes of World War Two often appeared. After the occupation in 1968 he turned his attention also to gen... | 2.109375 | 0 |
14332792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20F.%20Earle | Jonathan F. Earle | Jonathan F.K. Earle completed his Ph.D. at the University of Florida in 1985, and joined the faculty in the Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering in 1987. He was appointed Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at the University of Florida College of Engineering in 1992. This position was later upgraded to As... | 2.140625 | 0 |
14332822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactant%20protein%20A1 | Surfactant protein A1 | Surfactant protein A1 (SP-A1), also known as Pulmonary surfactant-associated protein A1 (PSP-A) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SFTPA1 gene.
Summary
SP-A1 is primarily synthesised in type II alveolar cells in the lung, as part of a complex of lipids and proteins known as pulmonary surfactant. The functi... | 2.234375 | 0 |
14332822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactant%20protein%20A1 | Surfactant protein A1 | Gene
SFTPA1 is located in the long arm q of chromosome 10, close to SFTPA2. The SFTPA1 gene is 4505 base pairs in length, and 94% similar to SFTPA2. The structure of SFTPA1 consists of four coding exons (I-IV), and several 5'UTR untranslated exons (A, B, B', C, C', D, D'). The expression of SFTPA1 is regulated by ce... | 2.40625 | 0 |
14332822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactant%20protein%20A1 | Surfactant protein A1 | SP-A1 monomers group with other SP-A1 or SP-A2 monomers in trimeric structural subunits of 105kDa. Six of these structures group in 630 kDa structures that resemble flower bouquets. These oligomers contain a total of eighteen SP-A1 and/or SP-A2 monomers.
Functions
Binding of pathogens, allergens, and other molecules... | 1.921875 | 0 |
14332822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactant%20protein%20A1 | Surfactant protein A1 | Gene regulation
Gene expression of SFTPA1 is regulated at different levels including gene transcription, post-transcriptional processing, stability and translation of mature mRNA. One of the important features of human surfactant protein A mRNAs is that they have a variable five prime untranslated region (5'UTR) gener... | 2.25 | 0 |
14332899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taw%20Phaya%20Galay | Taw Phaya Galay | Prince Taw Phaya Galay Aung Zay ( ; 30 July 1926 – 18 June 2006) was a Burmese prince, businessman and politician. He was one of the senior members of the Royal House of Konbaung and the grandson of King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat.
Taw Phaya Glay was also known as a historian for writing books about the descendants of... | 2.484375 | 0 |
14332899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taw%20Phaya%20Galay | Taw Phaya Galay | Business career
In 1948, he established and served as a director of the Thibaw Commercial Syndicate, one of the few at the time that were truly owned by the Myanmar, for most companies were owned by Indian entrepreneurs with Myanmar citizens as a front. By the late 1950s the Thibaw Commercial Syndicate Ltd was exportin... | 2.59375 | 0 |
14332904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka%20Classis | Eureka Classis | The Eureka Classis was part of the Reformed Church in the United States (RCUS). It existed from 1910 to 1985. From 1940 until in 1985 the Eureka Classis served as the continuing RCUS as the rest of the denomination had merged into the new denomination, the Evangelical and Reformed Church. On May 6, 1986, the Eureka ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
14332987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th%20Virginia%20Cavalry%20Battalion | 35th Virginia Cavalry Battalion | The 35th Virginia Cavalry Battalion, also known as White's Battalion, White's Rebels and the Comanches, was a Confederate cavalry unit during the American Civil War raised by Elijah V. White in Loudoun County, Virginia in the winter of 1861-62. The battalion was initially raised as border guards along the Potomac River... | 1.953125 | 0 |
14332987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th%20Virginia%20Cavalry%20Battalion | 35th Virginia Cavalry Battalion | When not serving with the main army, the 35th was highly involved in the bitter partisan warfare that divided the loyalty of the residents of the Loudoun County. When mustered into the regular army, the 35th were frequently granted extended leave to return to Loudoun to seek forage and new mounts, and while at home of... | 2.015625 | 0 |
14332987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th%20Virginia%20Cavalry%20Battalion | 35th Virginia Cavalry Battalion | Within a few days after Brandy Station, the 35th was attached to the Second Corps of Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell to screen the advance into Maryland and Pennsylvania, and to conduct a series of raids against Federal supply lines. White led a daring attack on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad depot at Point-of-Rocks, Maryland, i... | 2.109375 | 0 |
14332987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th%20Virginia%20Cavalry%20Battalion | 35th Virginia Cavalry Battalion | Later campaigns and actions
Later in 1863, the 35th was re-attached to the famed "Laurel Brigade", serving again directly under General Jones in the Mine Run and Bristoe campaigns. In 1864, the 35th was again active in the Loudoun Valley, as well as supporting the Army of Northern Virginia during the Overland Campaign ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
14333078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir%20Imran | Mir Imran | Mir A. Imran (born 1956, Hyderabad, India), is an Indian medical inventor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Imran has formed over 20 medical device companies since the early 1980s and holds over 400 patents. He is known for his role in developing the world's first implantable cardiac defibrillator.
In 2017, Imran ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
14333272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance-based%20rough%20set%20approach | Dominance-based rough set approach | The dominance-based rough set approach (DRSA) is an extension of rough set theory for multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), introduced by Greco, Matarazzo and Słowiński. The main change compared to the classical rough sets is the substitution for the indiscernibility relation by a dominance relation, which permits o... | 2 | 0 |
14333470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise%20Marie%20de%20Bourbon | Françoise Marie de Bourbon | Françoise Marie de Bourbon (Légitimée de France; 4 May 1677 1 February 1749) was the youngest illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan. At the age of 14, she married her first cousin Philippe d'Orléans, the future regent of ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
14333470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise%20Marie%20de%20Bourbon | Françoise Marie de Bourbon | Her older siblings Louis Auguste and Louise Françoise had been legitimised on 19 December 1673 by letters patent registered at the Parlement of Paris. Her younger brother, Louis Alexandre, was legitimised at the same time as she and received the title of comte de Toulouse. She remained close to him and their older brot... | 2.453125 | 0 |
14333470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise%20Marie%20de%20Bourbon | Françoise Marie de Bourbon | On the occasion of the marriage between their respective children, Louis XIV gave to his brother the Palais-Royal in which the Orléans had resided, but had not owned. It was the Palais Cardinal previously, but Cardinal Richelieu, its builder, bequeathed it to the crown upon his death in 1642. Louis XIV also promised a... | 2.03125 | 0 |
14333470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise%20Marie%20de%20Bourbon | Françoise Marie de Bourbon | While her husband led the debauched life of a womaniser, Françoise lived a quiet life without scandal, unlike her sisters, the Princess of Conti and the Duchess of Bourbon, and their older brother, the Duke of Maine. Though witty and charming, she preferred the company of Louise-Elvide, Duchess of Sforza, daughter of F... | 1.984375 | 0 |
14333470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise%20Marie%20de%20Bourbon | Françoise Marie de Bourbon | On the death of his great-grandfather Louis XIV, in 1715, the five-year-old Dauphin became the new king of France as Louis XV. Consequently, Françoise's older brother, the Duke of Maine, and her husband, the Duke of Orléans, experienced tension over who would be the regent during the minority of the new king. The Parle... | 2.4375 | 0 |
14333470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise%20Marie%20de%20Bourbon | Françoise Marie de Bourbon | In 1725, Françoise Marie saw the marriage of her cousin, the young King Louis XV, to the Polish princess Marie Leszczyńska, diminishing her precedence at court, as did the births of their daughters. Unlike the other princesses of the blood, The Dowager Duchess of Orleans respected and got along well with Queen Marie an... | 2.1875 | 0 |
14333502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Francesco%20Commendone | Giovanni Francesco Commendone | Giovanni Francesco Commendone (17 March 1523 – 26 December 1584) was an Italian cardinal and papal nuncio.
Life
Commendone was born at Venice. After an education in the humanities and in jurisprudence at the University of Padua, he came to Rome in 1550. The ambassador of Venice presented him to Pope Julius III, who a... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14333502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Francesco%20Commendone | Giovanni Francesco Commendone | In 1560, when Pope Pius IV determined to reopen the Council of Trent, Commendone was sent as legate to Germany to invite the Catholic and Protestant Estates to the council. He arrived in Vienna on 3 January 1561, and after consulting with Emperor Ferdinand, set out on 14 January for Naumburg, where the Protestant Estat... | 2.15625 | 0 |
14333502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Francesco%20Commendone | Giovanni Francesco Commendone | Leaving Berlin, Commendone visited Beeskow, Wolfenbüttel, Hanover, Hildesheim, Iburg, Paderborn, Cologne, Cleves, the Netherlands, and Aachen, inviting all the Estates he met in these places. From Aachen he turned to Lübeck with the intention of crossing the sea to invite Kings Frederick II of Denmark and Eric XIV of S... | 1.921875 | 0 |
14333502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Francesco%20Commendone | Giovanni Francesco Commendone | He remained in Poland until the death of Pius IV (9 December 1565), and before returning to Italy he went as legate of the new pope, Pope Pius V, to the Diet of Augsburg, which was opened by Emperor Maximilian II on 23 March 1566. He had previously warned the emperor under pain of excommunication not to discuss religio... | 2.46875 | 0 |
14333530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Edwin%20Elwell | Francis Edwin Elwell | Francis Edwin Elwell (also cited as Frank Edwin Elwell; June 15, 1858, in Concord, Massachusetts – January 23, 1922, in Darien, Massachusetts) was an American sculptor, teacher, and author.
He lectured on art at Harvard University, and taught modeling at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of Ne... | 2.703125 | 0 |
14333662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corumb%C3%A1%20International%20Airport | Corumbá International Airport | Corumbá International Airport is the airport serving Corumbá, in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. It is the second most important airport in the state, after Campo Grande International Airport. The airport is operated by AENA.
History
Corumbá International Airport is the second most important airport of Mato Grosso do Sul... | 2.1875 | 0 |
14333666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Erased | The Erased | The Erased () is the name used in the media for a group of people in Slovenia that remained without a legal status after the declaration of the country's independence in 1991.
Identity
The “erased” were mainly people from other former Yugoslav republics, who had been living in Slovenia. They are mostly of non-Slovene... | 2.375 | 0 |
14333666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Erased | The Erased | The majority of those who, contrary to legal provisions, did not register themselves as "foreigners" were removed from the registry of Permanent Residence in February 1992, losing all social, civil, and political rights. This action was of purely administrative nature (and thus excluded any possibility of appeal) and s... | 1.945313 | 0 |
14333672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20of%20Damascus | Joseph of Damascus | Joseph of Damascus (May 15, 1793 – July 10, 1860), born Joseph George Haddad Firzli (), was an Orthodox priest and educator who was glorified as a saint in 1993.
He is also known as "Father Joseph" in the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch.
Life
Joseph was born in Beirut on May 15, 1793. He was the son of George MeHann... | 2.09375 | 0 |
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