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2138922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Jose%2C%20Camarines%20Sur | San Jose, Camarines Sur | Landforms
The many landforms found in the municipality have been the natural production of the different geographical pressures of the different structural land forms such as alluvial lowland, alluvial fans, sedimentary plateau or masses of residual slopes and thick sedimentary landscapes. Most of its territorial areas... | 2.796875 | 0 |
2138922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Jose%2C%20Camarines%20Sur | San Jose, Camarines Sur | Soil classifications
The soil map reveals that the municipality is composed of 9 soil types, namely:
Dolo Sandy clay loam and sandy loam
Minoro Loam
Venagre Clay loam and sandy loam
Huyon-huyon Sandy loam
Kinalansan Silty clay loam and Clay
Magsaysay Sandy Loam
San Miguel Silty Loam
Porous rocks & clay load
Sa... | 2.875 | 0 |
2138922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Jose%2C%20Camarines%20Sur | San Jose, Camarines Sur | Flooding hazard
It has been noted that most of the municipal area or 92.14% is free from the hazards of flooding. However, there is a slight seasonal flooding or about 1.67% that usually occur in barangay Minoro and in the northern part of Dolo which covers about 78.54 hectares. The flood reaches a depth of less than 0... | 2.5 | 0 |
2138922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Jose%2C%20Camarines%20Sur | San Jose, Camarines Sur | There is noted also a considerable amount of deposit of "guano" inside the Adiangao Caves. On the other hand, high quality sand, gravels and boulders are abundantly found along the Rangas River traversing barangays Bagacay, Mampirao, Pugay, Calalahan, Tambangan and Calawit.
Volcanoes, Faults, and Earthquake Belt
The p... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2138922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Jose%2C%20Camarines%20Sur | San Jose, Camarines Sur | In the 2020 census, the population of San Jose, Camarines Sur, was 43,973 people, with a density of .
The population projection was computed based on Geometric formula resulting to an average annual increase of 2.62%. Based on projections, the ten most populated barangays will be composed of Calalahan, Sabang, Salogon... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2138922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Jose%2C%20Camarines%20Sur | San Jose, Camarines Sur | San Jose is endowed with natural tourism spots that, when fully developed, could possibly generate additional income for the municipality. This includes the numerous beaches with crystalline clear water along the coastline of Lagonoy Gulf and the Adiangao Cave at barangay Adiangao.
Heritage sites and buildings
The mu... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2138926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipocot | Sipocot | Sipocot, officially the Municipality of Sipocot (; ), is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 68,169 people.
Sipocot is from Pili and from Manila.
History
In the early decades of 20th century, archaeological studies conducted between the... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2138926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipocot | Sipocot | However, because of the need for regular spiritual service and access to colonial institution, church and local government, the local residents clamored for Sipocot to be accorded township. At that time, the distant town of Lupi was the nearest seat of government and church, which can be reached solely by trekking rug... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2138926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipocot | Sipocot | The Japanese occupation of Sipocot happened on December 19, 1941, when a battalion of Japanese soldiers from Legazpi reached the municipality. They established weapons depot in Impig, a garrison in Malubago, and a main garrison consisting of several houses in the Poblacion which served as lodging for their troops.
Be... | 2.8125 | 0 |
2138926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipocot | Sipocot | As the American economy grew before World War II, the need for timber to sustain its growth placed the forest resources of Camarines Sur and Camarines Norte at the fore front of American investment in the region. Sipocot, which had an abundant forest resources whose potentials have been long ignored, became haven for ... | 2.375 | 0 |
2138927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budge%20Patty | Budge Patty | Edward John Patty (February 11, 1924 – October 4, 2021), better known as Budge Patty, was an American world no. 1 tennis player whose career spanned a period of 15 years after World War II. He won two Grand Slam singles titles in 1950. He was the second American male player to win the Channel Slam (winning the French ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2138927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budge%20Patty | Budge Patty | Career
After his return from military service, Patty partnered with Betz to win the mixed doubles title at the 1946 French Championships. Three years later, he reached the final of the singles event, where he lost to fellow American Frank Parker. He then won his first major singles title at the 1950 French Championsh... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2138931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigaon%2C%20Camarines%20Sur | Tigaon, Camarines Sur | Tigaon, officially the Municipality of Tigaon (; ), is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 60,524 people.
Tigaon's economy is based on agricultural products like rice, corn, sugar cane, abaca fiber, fish, and pork. It is also known for its ... | 2.5 | 0 |
2138935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ket%20%28river%29 | Ket (river) | The Ket (), also known in its upper reaches as the Bolshaya Ket () is a west-flowing river in the Krasnoyarsk Krai and Tomsk Oblast in Russia, a right tributary of the Ob. The Ket has a length of and a drainage basin of . It freezes up in late October or early November and stays under the ice until late April or early... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2138971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banaue | Banaue | Sometimes called by locals as the "Eighth Wonder of the World", the Ifugao Rice Terraces begin at the base of the mountain range and extend several thousand feet upwards. Two of the terrace clusters in Banaue, namely Bangaan and Batad, are part of the UNESCO World Heritage inscription. It is said that their length, if ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2138971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banaue | Banaue | All located in the Ifugao region, the Rice Terraces also feature as one of the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems or GIAHS. They are supported by indigenous knowledge management of muyong, a private forest that caps each terrace cluster. The muyong is managed through a collective effort and under traditio... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2138972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hingyon | Hingyon | Based on accounts of American anthropologists like Samuel Kane, Harold Conklin, and Otley Beyer after Spain seceded the Philippines to the Americans in the early 1900’s, the early people of Hingyon (who were then included in Banaue and Lagawe) were pagans. They adored idols and practiced many rituals. Almost all occasi... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2138972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hingyon | Hingyon | Respect shifted from the “kadangyan” or “muntonah” (who owned the widest terraces in the village) to people considered “educated”, and those who had much money. Fortunately, some of the favorable cultural practices still persist up to the present and arduous efforts were made by the municipality to revive, preserve and... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2138972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hingyon | Hingyon | The majority of the municipality features slopes ranging from 30% to 50%, indicating a notably steep terrain. Additionally, there are areas within the municipality with slopes classified as severely steep, measuring 50% and above, as depicted on the map. Furthermore, the map reveals sections characterized by a more mod... | 2.859375 | 0 |
2138972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hingyon | Hingyon | The age distribution in Hingyon, categorizing the population into School-going Individuals, the Labor Force, and those in Dependent Age Groups. The majority of school-goers, totaling, 1,265, are at the elementary level, with kinder having the lowest count at 193. Females constitute a higher number of school-goers, with... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2138987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annika%20Reeder | Annika Reeder | Annika Louise Reeder (born September 28, 1979 in Harlow, Essex, Great Britain) is a retired British artistic gymnast. She was the first gymnast from Great Britain to compete in two Olympic Games, in 1996 and 2000.
Reeder began gymnastics at the age of three in 1982, following in the footsteps of her sister Kirsty. She... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2138987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annika%20Reeder | Annika Reeder | Great Britain did not qualify to send a full team to the 1996 Olympics, but were permitted to send two gymnasts to compete as individuals. Reeder was the higher-ranked of the two British gymnasts, placing 66th in the prelims. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney Australia, Reeder captained the British women's team. The squad... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2138989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut%20Mare | Chestnut Mare | "Chestnut Mare" is a song by the American rock band the Byrds, written by Roger McGuinn and Jacques Levy during 1969 for a planned country rock musical named Gene Tryp. The musical was never staged and the song was instead released in September 1970 as part of the Byrds' (Untitled) album. It was later issued as a singl... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2138989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut%20Mare | Chestnut Mare | Musically, "Chestnut Mare" echoes the sound of the Byrds' mid-1960s recordings, with McGuinn's chiming 12-string Rickenbacker guitar sitting alongside guitarist Clarence White's country-style acoustic and electric guitar picking. Lyrically, the song's spoken verses recount the story of one man's quest to tame a wild ho... | 2.25 | 0 |
2139023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic%20Seixas | Vic Seixas | Elias Victor Seixas Jr. ( ; August 30, 1923 – July 5, 2024) was an American tennis player.
Seixas was ranked in the top ten in the U.S. on 13 occasions from 1942 to 1956. In 1951, Seixas was ranked No. 4 amateur in the world, two spots below Dick Savitt, while he was No. 1 in the U.S. ranking, one spot ahead of Savitt... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2139023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic%20Seixas | Vic Seixas | Tennis career
During the course of his lengthy career, Seixas won scores of singles, doubles, and mixed doubles titles. He entered the US Championships men's singles a record 28 times from 1940 to 1969.
Seixas was ranked in the top ten in the US 13 times from 1942 to 1956. In 1951, Seixas was ranked No. 4 in the world... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2139030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS%20Isondiga | CSS Isondiga | Deck planking was to be of yellow pine, fastened down with spikes. The Maury gunboats were to be equipped with two ship's boats and the requisite davits, two anchors, a windlass, pumps, and other equipment. Isondiga had no masts and had a nominal crew strength of 60. Her draft as completed was . For much of her servic... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2139030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS%20Isondiga | CSS Isondiga | It is not known when Isondiga was launched, but Krenson and Hawkes received their final payment for her construction on January 17, 1863; the vessel was to have been completed over seven months earlier. At this time, the Confederate Navy took possession of the boat and began the fitting out process. Isondiga was comman... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2139030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS%20Isondiga | CSS Isondiga | With Webb a prisoner of war, Kennard took command of the Confederate vessels around Savannah until Captain William Wallace Hunter took command on June 28, returning Kennard to command of Isondiga. In August, Kennard and over 50 of Isondigas officers and men were transferred to Charleston, South Carolina, which was the ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2139030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS%20Isondiga | CSS Isondiga | In January 1864, the Confederate States Army was concerned that Union forces might strike inland towards Savannah from Port Royal, South Carolina, and asked for naval support of land defenses. Isondigas crew had been returned from Charleston by this time, and Isondiga and the ironclad CSS Savannah were positioned near ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2139030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS%20Isondiga | CSS Isondiga | On June 2, Kennard was reassigned to command the gunboat CSS Macon. Since Macon required more time to complete fitting out, and needed more officers before she could enter active service, Kennard also held the command of Isondiga for the rest of the month, although much of the day-to-day supervision was done by McAdam.... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2139040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20%28book%29 | The World (book) | The World, also called Treatise on the Light (French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy, from method, to metaphysics, to physics and biology.
Descartes espoused mechanical philosophy, ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2139040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20%28book%29 | The World (book) | Based on his observations of how resistant nature is to a vacuum, Descartes deduced that all particles in nature are packed together such that there is no void or empty space between them.
Descartes describes substances as consisting only of three elementary elements: fire, air and earth, from which the properties of ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2139040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20%28book%29 | The World (book) | Descartes elaborates on how the universe could have started from utter chaos and with these basic laws could have had its particles arranged so as to resemble the universe we observe today. Once the particles in the chaotic universe began to move, the overall motion would have been circular because there is no void in... | 2.84375 | 0 |
2139063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharajkumar%20of%20Vizianagram | Maharajkumar of Vizianagram | The organisation of the 1930–31 tour gave Vizzy a standing in Indian cricket that was second only to the Maharaja of Patiala. About this time, Patiala fell out with Lord Willingdon, the viceroy of India, and Vizzy got close with the viceroy. He donated a pavilion named after the viceroy in the newly constructed Feroz S... | 1.9375 | 0 |
2139078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea%20railway%20station | Swansea railway station | Swansea railway station serves the city of Swansea, Wales. It is sited from London Paddington, via , on the National Rail network. In 2021/22, it was the third-busiest station in Wales, after Cardiff Central and Newport.
History
The station opened in 1850. It was built by the South Wales Railway, which amalgamated w... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2139078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea%20railway%20station | Swansea railway station | On the east side of the station there was a connecting line which bypassed the platforms and ran at one time to coal tips on the North Dock (closed in 1929 and subsequently infilled) and on to a junction with the high-level line from Eastern Depot to Victoria station (closed in 1965). Part of the route of this line, al... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2139078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea%20railway%20station | Swansea railway station | 21st century redevelopment
Swansea station received an upgrade in the form of redevelopment work that was completed in 2012, with new facilities including new waiting rooms, bicycle racks and digital information boards. Work was completed in June 2012 and was officially opened by the Welsh Government Minister with resp... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2139132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LunaCorp | LunaCorp | LunaCorp, was a small but ambitious private company headed by its former president David Gump, established in 1989. It was designed around a privately funded mission, using Russian technology, to put a rover on the Moon. The aim for the company was to fund the mission by the entertainment value of having customers dri... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2139138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite%20buggy | Kite buggy | All possible safety precautions should be taken: protective clothing and an adequate helmet are a must. Helmets to be considered are downhill mountain bike helmets with chin guard (light, well ventilated, good field of vision) or paragliding helmets (light, relatively well ventilated, good field of vision). True motorb... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2139145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippa%20the%20Skeptic | Agrippa the Skeptic | Agrippa () was a Pyrrhonist philosopher who probably lived towards the end of the 1st century CE. He is regarded as the author of "The Five Tropes (or Modes, in ) of Agrippa", which are purported to establish the necessity of suspending judgment (epoché). Agrippa's arguments form the basis of the Agrippan trilemma.
T... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2139162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APEC%20Partylist | APEC Partylist | The Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives, also known as the APEC Partylist is a party list in the Philippines representing cooperatives in the electricity sector, mainly urban and suburban areas. Sunny Rose Madamba, Ernesto Pablo, and Edgar Valdez are the party's three representatives in the House of Represe... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2139179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevin%20Smith | Stevin Smith | Stevin L. "Hedake" Smith (born January 24, 1972) is an American former professional basketball player, who is also known for his involvement in the 1994 Arizona State point-shaving scandal.
Early life
Smith was born in Dallas, Texas, the only son of Eunice Smith. He was an outstanding high school basketball player. H... | 1.953125 | 0 |
2139185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-wire%20circuit | Two-wire circuit | To communicate in both directions in the same wire pair, conversion between four-wire and two-wire was necessary, both at the telephone and at the central office. A hybrid coil accomplishes the conversion for both. At the central office, it is part of a four-wire terminating set, more often as part of a line card. A mo... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2139191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast%20pain | Breast pain | Breast pain is the symptom of discomfort in either one or both breasts. Pain in both breasts is often described as breast tenderness, is usually associated with the menstrual period and is not serious. Pain that involves only one part of a breast is more concerning, particularly if a hard mass or nipple discharge is a... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2139191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast%20pain | Breast pain | Breast pain that is not linked to a menstrual cycle is called noncyclic breast pain. Noncyclical breast pain has various causes and is harder to diagnose and frequently the root cause is outside the breast. Some degree of non-cyclical breast tenderness can normally be present due to hormonal changes in puberty (both in... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2139203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biography%20of%20the%20Life%20of%20Manuel | Biography of the Life of Manuel | Biography of the Life of Manuel is a series of novels, essays and poetry by James Branch Cabell. It purports to trace the life, illusions and disillusions of Dom Manuel, Count of Poictesme (a fictional province of France), and of his physical and spiritual descendants through many generations.
Theme
The conceit of th... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2139204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido%20Demokratiko%20Pilipino | Partido Demokratiko Pilipino | Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP)
Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP) was founded on February 6, 1982, in Cebu City by Aquilino "Nene" Pimentel Jr. and a group of protesters against the authoritarian government of Ferdinand Marcos, the 10th president of the Philippines, and his ruling party, the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2139210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%20L.%20Herring | Clyde L. Herring | Clyde LaVerne Herring (May 3, 1879September 15, 1945), an American Democratic politician who served as the 26th governor of Iowa, and then one of its U.S. senators, during the last part of the Great Depression and the first part of World War II.
Early life
He was born in 1879 and raised in Jackson County, Michigan, wh... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2139210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%20L.%20Herring | Clyde L. Herring | governor of Iowa 1933-1937
In 1932, Herring ran again for governor of Iowa, now against incumbent Republican Daniel Webster Turner. Herring and other Democratic candidates in Iowa won an unprecedented number of races that year, and Herring became only the second Democrat to serve as governor of Iowa since the founding... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2139214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal%20intrauterine%20device | Hormonal intrauterine device | A hormonal intrauterine device (IUD), also known as an intrauterine system (IUS) with progestogen and sold under the brand name Mirena among others, is an intrauterine device that releases a progestogenic hormonal agent such as levonorgestrel into the uterus. It is used for birth control, heavy menstrual periods, and t... | 2.125 | 0 |
2139214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal%20intrauterine%20device | Hormonal intrauterine device | In a 10-year study, the levonorgestrel coil was found to be as effective as oral medicines (tranexamic acid, mefenamic acid, combined oestrogen–progestogen or progesterone alone) for heavy periods; the same proportion of women had not had surgery for heavy bleeding and had similar improvements in their quality of life.... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2139214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal%20intrauterine%20device | Hormonal intrauterine device | There are conflicting recommendations about use of Mirena while breastfeeding. The U.S. CDC does not recommend any hormonal method as a first choice of contraceptive for nursing mothers, although progestin-only methods, such as Mirena, may be used with close follow-up or when the benefits outweigh the risks. The World ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2139214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal%20intrauterine%20device | Hormonal intrauterine device | Perforation: Very rarely, the IUD can be pushed through the wall of the uterus during insertion. Risk of perforation is mostly determined by the skill of the practitioner performing the insertion. For experienced medical practitioners, the risk of perforation is one per 1,000 insertions or less. With postpartum inserti... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2139214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal%20intrauterine%20device | Hormonal intrauterine device | Cancer
According to a 1999 evaluation of the studies performed on progestin-only birth control by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, there is some evidence that progestin-only birth control reduces the risk of endometrial cancer. The IARC in 1999 concluded that there is no evidence progestin-only birth co... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2139214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal%20intrauterine%20device | Hormonal intrauterine device | Insertion
During the insertion, the vagina is held open with a speculum, the same device used during a pap smear. A grasping instrument is used to steady the cervix, the length of the uterus is measured for proper insertion with a uterine sound for decreasing chance of uterine perforation with the IUD, and the IUD is p... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2139214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal%20intrauterine%20device | Hormonal intrauterine device | Hormonal IUDs were developed in the 1970s following the development of the copper IUD in the 1960s and 1970s. Dr. Antonio Scommenga, working at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, discovered that administering progesterone inside the uterus could have contraceptive benefits. With knowledge of Scommegna's work, a Fin... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2139226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal%20arithmetic | Ordinal arithmetic | The natural sum is associative and commutative. It is always greater or equal to the usual sum, but it may be strictly greater. For example, the natural sum of and 1 is (the usual sum), but this is also the natural sum of 1 and . The natural product is associative and commutative and distributes over the natural s... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2139251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii%20Housing%20Authority%20v.%20Midkiff | Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff | Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229 (1984), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a state could use eminent domain to take land that was overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of private landowners and redistribute it to the wider population of private residents.
Background
Onl... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2139251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii%20Housing%20Authority%20v.%20Midkiff | Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff | The Court decided that the United States Congress had the power to determine what was for the public good over the judiciary. The decision equated police power with the eminent domain of the sovereign's public use requirement.
In an 8-0 decision, the Court voted that the Hawaii law was constitutional. Hawaii's act to ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2139262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambela%20%28city%29 | Gambela (city) | According to Bahru Zewde, British interest in the concession was due, in part, to the attraction of "tapping the allegedly fabulous commercial potential of Western Ethiopia and drawing the whole region into the economic orbit of the Sudan", but also intended "to be a brilliant British countermove to avert the virtual c... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2139262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambela%20%28city%29 | Gambela (city) | Recent history
The port was closed during the Derg era, and it remains closed due to tension between the Sudan People's Liberation Army and the Ethiopian government, though there are hopes to reopen the port.
The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front announced on 27 May 1991 that they had gained control ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2139335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcinous%20%28philosopher%29 | Alcinous (philosopher) | Alcinous (Greek: Alkinoos) was a Middle Platonist philosopher. He probably lived in the 2nd century AD, although nothing is known about his life. He is the author of The Handbook of Platonism, an epitome of Middle Platonism intended as a manual for teachers. He has, at times, been identified by some scholars with the... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2139335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcinous%20%28philosopher%29 | Alcinous (philosopher) | Alcinous held the world and its animating soul to be eternal. This soul of the universe was not created by God, but, to use the image of Alcinous, it was awakened by him as from a profound sleep, and turned towards himself, "that it might look out upon intellectual things and receive forms and ideas from the divine min... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2139349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rooms | The Rooms | The Rooms is a cultural facility in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The facility opened on June 29, 2005 and houses the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Provincial Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The facility was constructed on a... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2139357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20morphism | Finite morphism | In algebraic geometry, a finite morphism between two affine varieties is a dense regular map which induces isomorphic inclusion between their coordinate rings, such that is integral over . This definition can be extended to the quasi-projective varieties, such that a regular map between quasiprojective varieties is... | 2 | 0 |
2139357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20morphism | Finite morphism | Properties of finite morphisms
The composition of two finite morphisms is finite.
Any base change of a finite morphism f: X → Y is finite. That is, if g: Z → Y is any morphism of schemes, then the resulting morphism X ×Y Z → Z is finite. This corresponds to the following algebraic statement: if A and C are (commutat... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2139359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Maria%20Josepha%20of%20Saxony%20%281867%E2%80%931944%29 | Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867–1944) | Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (31 May 1867 – 28 May 1944) was the mother of Emperor Charles I of Austria and the fifth child of George of Saxony and Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal.
Early life
Maria Josepha Louise Philippina Elisabeth Pia Angelica Margaretha was the daughter of the future King George of Saxony (1832... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2139390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota/Save%20Mart%20350 | Toyota/Save Mart 350 | The Toyota/Save Mart 350 is a stock car racing event in the NASCAR Cup Series that has been held annually at Sonoma Raceway at Sears Point in Sonoma, California since 1989. The race has been known as the Toyota/Save Mart 350 since 2007.
The race joined the NASCAR circuit in 1989. It was added as a replacement for the... | 1.9375 | 0 |
2139396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimma | Jimma | Following the death of Abba Jifar II of Jimma in 1932, the Kingdom of Jimma was formally absorbed into Ethiopia. During the reorganization of the provinces in 1942, Jimma vanished into Kaffa Province. Herbert S. Lewis states that in the early 1960s it was "the greatest market in all of south-western Ethiopia. On a good... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2139398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirsium%20arvense | Cirsium arvense | Cirsium arvense is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native throughout Europe and western Asia, northern Africa and widely introduced elsewhere. The standard English name in its native area is creeping thistle. It is also commonly known as Canada thistle and field thistle.
The plant is b... | 3.015625 | 0 |
2139398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirsium%20arvense | Cirsium arvense | Every plant species has a unique floral fragrance. The fragrance that C. arvense emits attracts both pollinators and florivores containing compounds that attract each respectively. Honeybees are shown to have the highest visitation rate, followed by other bee species in the genera Halictus and Lasioglossum. Hover flies... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2139398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirsium%20arvense | Cirsium arvense | The seeds are an important food for the goldfinch and the linnet, and to a lesser extent for other finches. Creeping thistle foliage is used as a food by over 20 species of Lepidoptera, including the painted lady butterfly and the engrailed moth, and several species of aphids. The C. arvense species is also noted to be... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2139411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotrupidae | Geotrupidae | Geotrupidae (from Greek γῆ (gē), earth, and τρῡπητής (trȳpētēs), borer) is a family of beetles in the order Coleoptera. They are commonly called earth-boring dung beetles or dor beetles. Most excavate burrows in which to lay their eggs. They are typically detritivores, provisioning their nests with leaf litter (often m... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2139436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow%20chains | Snow chains | Snow chains, or tire chains, are devices fitted to the tires of vehicles to provide increased traction when driving through snow and ice.
Snow chains attach to the drive wheels of a vehicle or special systems deploy chains which swing under the tires automatically. Although named after steel chain, snow chains may be ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2139456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Highlands%20Regional%20High%20School | Northern Highlands Regional High School | Northern Highlands Regional High School (NHRHS) is a regional public high school and school district in Allendale, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The school serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Allendale, Ho-Ho-Kus, Saddle River, and Upper Saddle River. Students from Saddle River hav... | 1.945313 | 0 |
2139456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Highlands%20Regional%20High%20School | Northern Highlands Regional High School | Curriculum
Northern Highlands has a four-day rotating schedule; days are lettered with A through D. Students are scheduled for eight courses, six of which meet daily. This schedule provides longer segments of time (57-minute periods) to engage in higher-order thinking and performance-based learning. To receive a Northe... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2139456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Highlands%20Regional%20High%20School | Northern Highlands Regional High School | The Northern Highlands Regional High School Highlanders compete in the Big North Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Bergen and Passaic counties, and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Asso... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2139509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Beasant | Dave Beasant | Wimbledon
Beasant entered the Football League in 1979 at the age of 20 when Wimbledon, newly promoted to the Third Division, signed him from his local non-league club Edgware Town. He made his debut for Wimbledon against Blackpool on 12 January 1980 and played once again that season, in which Wimbledon were relegated. ... | 2 | 0 |
2139512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcmaeon%20of%20Croton | Alcmaeon of Croton | Alcmaeon of Croton (; , Alkmaiōn, gen.: Ἀλκμαίωνος; fl. 5th century BC) was an early Greek medical writer and philosopher-scientist. He has been described as one of the most eminent natural philosophers and medical theorists of antiquity and he has also been referred to as "a thinker of considerable originality and one... | 2.78125 | 0 |
2139512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcmaeon%20of%20Croton | Alcmaeon of Croton | Study of the senses
Theophrastus in his De Sensu offers a summary of the physiological science of Alcmaeon, where his positions regarding the ability to understand being what separates man from animals, the way in which each individual sense operates and the brain being the center of activity for thought and senses, ar... | 3 | 0 |
2139512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcmaeon%20of%20Croton | Alcmaeon of Croton | Other studies
Alcmaeon said that sleep occurs by the withdrawal of blood, away from the surface of the body, to larger blood-flowing vessels, and that one becomes awake again once the blood returns. And if the blood withdraws entirely, death occurs. It has been suggested that Hippocratic authors, and Aristotle, adopted... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2139512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcmaeon%20of%20Croton | Alcmaeon of Croton | One of Alcmaeon's most significant contributions to medicine was his understanding of the brain and the role that it played in human physiology. He was one of the first people to recognize the importance of the brain as the point of intelligence and consciousness (or soul). Alcmaeon believed that the brain was the most... | 3.015625 | 0 |
2139624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20D.%20Ray | Robert D. Ray | Robert Dolph Ray (September 26, 1928 – July 8, 2018) was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He served as the 38th governor of Iowa from January 16, 1969 to January 14, 1983.
During his tenure as governor, Ray served as chair of the National Governors Association from 1975 to 1976; led to the passage of the ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2139624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20D.%20Ray | Robert D. Ray | In 1969, Ray became the governor of Iowa. During Ray's time in office, the Iowa Constitution was modified, increasing the governor's term of office from two years to four years. Ray served as chair of the National Governors Association from 1975 to 1976. He also served as chairman of the Republican Governors Associatio... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2139624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20D.%20Ray | Robert D. Ray | One of the defining moments in Ray's governorship was in April 1972, when as Commander in Chief of the Iowa National Guard, he ordered the grounding of more than a thousand vehicles and ninety planes, until the federal government paid for the damages to the McCarville and Tjernagel families, whose houses had been destr... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2139624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20D.%20Ray | Robert D. Ray | Ray also enacted the first laws in the U.S. that protected American Indian graves. In the early 1970s, Maria Pearson was appalled that the skeletal remains of Native Americans were treated differently from those of caucasians. Pearson protested to Ray, finally gaining an audience with him after sitting outside his offi... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2139633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrin | Netrin | Netrins are a class of proteins involved in axon guidance. They are named after the Sanskrit word "netr", which means "one who guides". Netrins are genetically conserved across nematode worms, fruit flies, frogs, mice, and humans. Structurally, netrin resembles the extracellular matrix protein laminin.
Netrins are ch... | 2.9375 | 0 |
2139633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrin | Netrin | Overview of netrins
The netrin family is composed mostly of secreted proteins which serve as bifunctional signals: attracting some neurons while repelling others during the development of the brain. Expressed in the midline of all animals possessing bilateral symmetry, they can act as long or short range signals during... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2139633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrin | Netrin | Netrins-G are secreted but remain bound to the extracellular surface of the cell membrane through Glycophosphatidylinositol (GPI). They are expressed predominantly in the central nervous system in places such as the thalamus and mitral cells of the olfactory bulb. They do not bind to DCC or UNC-5 and instead bind to li... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2139633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrin | Netrin | Attraction
Studies of central nervous system (CNS) development in chick and rodent models have identified the netrin-1 protein as a particularly important vertebrate axonal guidance cue. Most significantly, it was observed that the specialized cells of the floor plate located at the ventral midline of the embryonic bra... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2139633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrin | Netrin | Repulsion
Both DCC in vertebrates and UNC-40 in C. elegans have been shown to initiate a repulsive rather than attractive response when associated with the netrin receptor Unc5. In the same ventral midline gradient discussed above, netrin-1 acts as a chemorepellant for axons of the trochlear motor neurons, thus directi... | 1.90625 | 0 |
2139633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrin | Netrin | During the morphogenesis of the embryonic lung, epithelial cells express netrin 1 and netrin 4. These netrins surround endoderm buds in the basement membrane, preventing distal tip cells from expressing DCC and UNC5B. This allows for normal development of the lung and halts potentially dangerous over-branching and budd... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2139633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrin | Netrin | In adults, netrin has been implicated in the regulation of stem cell movement and inflammation. Netrin 1 has been found to inhibit leukocyte migration to inflamed areas in the body. This provides evidence that the up regulation of netrin protects injured tissue from excess inflammation. Also, the migration of adult neu... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2139633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrin | Netrin | Because netrin-1 has been found to be upregulated in tumors, recent research has attempted to identify netrin-1 as a biomarker for the onset of cancer in the human body. It was found that netrin can be found at above-normal levels in the blood plasma of patients who are positive for renal, liver, prostate, meningioma o... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2139647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb%20Hake | Herb Hake | Herb Hake (1903–1980) was an American writer, cartoonist, radio, and television personality; associated with the University of Northern Iowa. He was awarded an honorary doctoral degree.
Biography
Herbert V. Hake, son of Henry and Louisa Hake, was born August 10, 1903, in Hoyleton, Illinois. His father was a painting ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2139647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb%20Hake | Herb Hake | During World War II, the number of students at the college fell drastically. In 1942, the drama department was cut back by one, and Hake was asked to take over the radio business at the college or lose his job altogether. With very little experience or equipment, and a technical manual in hand, he started his new car... | 2.5 | 0 |
2139659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anett%20P%C3%B6tzsch | Anett Pötzsch | Anett Pötzsch (later Witt, now Rauschenbach; born 3 September 1960) is a German former figure skater. She is the 1980 Olympic champion, two-time World champion (1978, 1980), four-time European champion (1977–1980), and five-time East German champion (1976–1980).
Career
Pötzsch represented the GDR (East Germany) in the... | 2.125 | 0 |
2139673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo%20nickel | Hobo nickel | This resulted in some new artists entering the field, most of whom simply copied Bo's nickel artwork from the illustrations in Romines's book. The two major Bo-style copycats were John Dorusa and Frank Brazzell. Together, they produced 20,000 or more modern carved nickels, most of which were copies of Bo's designs. Dor... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2139677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland%20Sage | Leland Sage | Leland Livingston Sage (April 23, 1899 – February 16, 1989) was an American professor emeritus of history at the University of Northern Iowa. He was deeply interested in Iowa history, and wrote two books on it, both of which won national recognition from the American Association for State and Local History. In 1983, Sa... | 2.0625 | 0 |
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