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2139677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland%20Sage | Leland Sage | Retirement
Sage took what was then mandatory retirement at age 68 in 1967. But the pace of his career never slackened. He continued to offer a course, usually in Iowa history, on campus during the many semesters until 1981, and directed students via correspondence study until 1986. He was honored by his colleagues in t... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2139684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casket%20%28decorative%20box%29 | Casket (decorative box) | A casket is a decorative box or container that is usually smaller than a chest and is typically decorated. In recent centuries they are often used as boxes for jewelry, but in earlier periods they were also used for keeping important documents and many other purposes. Many ancient caskets are reliquaries, for both Budd... | 2.90625 | 0 |
2139688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobermann | Dobermann | The Dobermann is a German breed of medium-large working dog of pinscher type. It was originally bred in Thuringia in about 1890 by Louis Dobermann, a tax collector. It has a long muzzle and – ideally – an even and graceful gait. The ears were traditionally cropped and the tail docked, practices which are now illegal in... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2139688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobermann | Dobermann | The practice of docking has been around for centuries and is older than the Dobermann as a breed. The historical reason for docking is to ensure that the tail does not get in the way of the dog's work. Docking and cropping (see below) have been written out of the Breed Standard by FCI and the International Dobermann Cl... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2139688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobermann | Dobermann | There is some evidence that Doberman Pinschers in North America have a calmer and more even temperament than their European counterparts because of the breeding strategies employed by American breeders. Despite this, the American breed standard states that, for purposes of determining of conformation fault, aggression ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2139688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobermann | Dobermann | In addition to the studies of canine personality, there has been some research to determine whether there are breed differences in aggression. In a study published in 2008, aggression was divided into four categories: aggression directed at strangers, owner, strange dogs, and rivalry with other household dogs. This stu... | 2.859375 | 0 |
2139688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobermann | Dobermann | Cardiac health
Cardiomyopathies are a common problem for the breed. and cardiac issues are a common cause of death in the breed with 15% of deaths being cardiac related according to a UK survey. Data from the University of Purdue Medical Veterinary Database found the breed to be predisposed to dilated cardiomyopathy (D... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2139688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobermann | Dobermann | Dermatology
The Dobermann is predisposed to the following dermatological conditions: acral lick dermatitis; chin pyoderma, acne, or folliculitis; cutaneous drug eruptions; colour dilution alopecia; demodicosis; follicular dysplasia; , pedal furunculosis or cyst; pemphigus foliaceus; and vitiligo.
Other conditions
Othe... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2139753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisses | Cuisses | Cuisses (; ; ) are a form of medieval armour worn to protect the thigh. The word is the plural of the French word cuisse meaning 'thigh'. While the skirt of a maille shirt or tassets of a cuirass could protect the upper legs from above, a thrust from below could avoid these defenses. Thus, cuisses were worn on the thig... | 2.90625 | 0 |
2139778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordination%20%28statistics%29 | Ordination (statistics) | Ordination or gradient analysis, in multivariate analysis, is a method complementary to data clustering, and used mainly in exploratory data analysis (rather than in hypothesis testing). In contrast to cluster analysis, ordination orders quantities in a (usually lower-dimensional) latent space. In the ordination space... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2139794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratrooper%20%28ride%29 | Paratrooper (ride) | The Paratrooper, also known as the "Parachute Ride" or "Umbrella Ride", is a type of fairground ride. It is a ride where seats suspended below a wheel rotate at an angle. The seats are free to rock sideways and swing out under centrifugal force as the wheel rotates. Invariably, the seats on the Paratrooper ride have a ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2139831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav%20Sutnar | Ladislav Sutnar | Ladislav Sutnar (9 November 1897 – 13 November 1976) was a Czech graphic designer. He was a pioneer of information design and information architecture. Although he is uncredited, his contributions to business organization benefited society, which included creating a user-friendly telephone directory by implementing par... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2139831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav%20Sutnar | Ladislav Sutnar | In 1927, Sutnar became the head of publication design for a large publisher in Prague. Then in 1928 he went to the Pressa international exhibition, taking responsibility for the Czech pavilion there. He was accompanied by Augustin Tschinkel. He was made director of the State School of Graphic Arts beginning in 1932. Su... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2139831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav%20Sutnar | Ladislav Sutnar | Styles and design
Borrowing from the principles of De Stijl, Sutnar's work had a reduction to primary colors, straight lines, and an overall harmony of irregular text alignment. His strong use of diagonal elements, typography and imagery more strongly conveys his design style to be classified as Constructivism. Space i... | 2.75 | 0 |
2139849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20ratio | Mass ratio | In aerospace engineering, mass ratio is a measure of the efficiency of a rocket. It describes how much more massive the vehicle is with propellant than without; that is, the ratio of the rocket's wet mass (vehicle plus contents plus propellant) to its dry mass (vehicle plus contents). A more efficient rocket design re... | 2.859375 | 0 |
2139870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%20Committee%20of%20National%20Liberation | Polish Committee of National Liberation | The Polish Committee of National Liberation (Polish: Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego, PKWN), also known as the Lublin Committee, was an executive governing authority established by the Soviet-backed communists in Poland at the later stage of World War II. It was officially proclaimed on 22 July 1944 in Chełm, inst... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2139870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%20Committee%20of%20National%20Liberation | Polish Committee of National Liberation | Among the members of the PKWN were politicians of various communist and leftist parties accepted by Stalin. Its chairman was Edward Osóbka-Morawski of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS). His deputies were Wanda Wasilewska and Andrzej Witos of the Union of Polish Patriots (ZPP); Witos was a younger brother of Wincenty Wit... | 1.945313 | 0 |
2139875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettelheim | Bettelheim | Bettelheim is a surname and Jewish family.
History
The first bearer of the Bettelheim name is said to have lived toward the second half of the 18th century, in Pressburg (Pozsony, today Bratislava). To account for its origin, the following episode is related in the family records:
There was a Jewish merchant in Brat... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2139882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20Communion | Water Communion | The Water Communion (Water Ritual) is a ritual service common in Unitarian Universalist congregations. It is usually held in the fall, during September, as it is the beginning of the Liturgical year.
Some congregations of other religions have also adopted the ritual. For example, a United Methodist service on Earth Da... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2139884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sijilmasa | Sijilmasa | Sijilmasa (; also transliterated Sijilmassa, Sidjilmasa, Sidjilmassa and Sigilmassa) was a medieval Moroccan city and trade entrepôt at the northern edge of the Sahara in Morocco. The ruins of the town extend for five miles along the River Ziz in the Tafilalt oasis near the town of Rissani. The town's history was marke... | 2.796875 | 0 |
2139884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sijilmasa | Sijilmasa | On account of its wealth, the city was able to assert its independence under the Midrarid dynasty, freeing itself from the Abbasid Caliphate as early as 771. Shifting alliances with the Caliphate of Córdoba and the Fatimids of Ifriqiya destabilized the city during the 10th century, beginning with Abd Allah al-Mahdi Bil... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2139884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sijilmasa | Sijilmasa | Later Medieval Ages and Early Modernity
Under the Maghrawa, who later declared independence from the Cordoban caliphate, the city retained its role as a trade centre. It also became a center for the Maghrawan leadership and its campaign against other tribes in Morocco proper. After 60 years of Maghrawa rule, the elders... | 3.0625 | 0 |
2139884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sijilmasa | Sijilmasa | The Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta stayed in Sijilmasa on his journey to visit the Mali Empire in 1352–1353. He wrote: "I reached the city of Sijilmasa, a very beautiful city. It has abundant dates of good quality. The city of al-Basra is like it in the abundance of dates, but those of Sijilmasa are superior." Ibn Batt... | 2.84375 | 0 |
2139889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nociceptive%20trigeminal%20inhibition%20tension%20suppression%20system | Nociceptive trigeminal inhibition tension suppression system | The Nociceptive trigeminal inhibition tension suppression system (abbreviated to NTI-TSS, or NTI-tension suppression system), is a type of occlusal splint that is claimed to prevent headache and migraine by reducing sleep bruxism (night-time tooth clenching and grinding). Sleep bruxism is purported to lead to a hyperac... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2139889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nociceptive%20trigeminal%20inhibition%20tension%20suppression%20system | Nociceptive trigeminal inhibition tension suppression system | Evidence and safety
As the NTI-TSS does not cover all of the teeth, it is classed as a partial coverage occlusal splint. Partial coverage splints are recommended by some experts, but they have the potential to cause unwanted tooth movements if worn 24 hours a day 7 days a week with no tooth contact (which is never reco... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2139891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janelle%20Commissiong | Janelle Commissiong | Janelle "Penny" Commissiong, TC (born June 15, 1953) is a Trinidadian politician, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1977.
Biography
She studied at Bishop Anstey High School. migrated to the United States at the age of 13, and returned to Trinidad and Tobago ten years later. After winning the Miss T... | 2.125 | 0 |
2139900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20accumulation%20of%20capital | Primitive accumulation of capital | In Marxian economics and preceding theories, the problem of primitive accumulation (also called previous accumulation, prior accumulation, or original accumulation) of capital concerns the origin of capital and therefore how class distinctions between possessors and non-possessors came to be.
Concept
Adam Smith's acc... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2139900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20accumulation%20of%20capital | Primitive accumulation of capital | Naming and translations
The concept was initially referred to in various different ways, and the expression of an "accumulation" at the origin of capitalism began to appear with Adam Smith. Smith, writing The Wealth of Nations in English, spoke of a "previous" accumulation; Karl Marx, writing Das Kapital in German, rep... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2139900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20accumulation%20of%20capital | Primitive accumulation of capital | Schumpeter's critique of Marx's theory
The economist Joseph Schumpeter disagreed with the Marxian explanation of the origin of capital, because Schumpeter did not believe in exploitation. In liberal economic theory, the market returns to all people the exact value they have provided it; capitalists are just people who ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2139907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Philadelphia%20v.%20New%20Jersey | City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey | City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey, 437 U.S. 617 (1978), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that states could not discriminate against another state's articles of commerce.
Background
On account of its location wedged between New York City and Philadelphia (the two largest cities on the Ea... | 1.992188 | 0 |
2139922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiter%20%28ride%29 | Orbiter (ride) | The Orbiter is a fairground ride, which involves a number of cars spun by a rotating axis. The ride was first presented to the public in the summer of 1976, at Margate Dreamland's Amusement Park.
The ride was invented by Former Showman Richard Woolls in 1976, and was manufactured by Tivoli Manufacturing.
History
The ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2139927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda%20II%20Agreement | Bermuda II Agreement | Bermuda II was a bilateral air transport agreement between the governments of the United Kingdom and the United States signed on 23 July 1977 as a renegotiation of the original 1946 Bermuda air services agreement. A new open skies agreement was signed by the United States and the European Union (EU) (of which the Unite... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2139927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda%20II%20Agreement | Bermuda II Agreement | The extensive fifth freedom rights US carriers used to enjoy from the UK to other European countries were restricted to a few routes from London Heathrow to what used to be West Germany (including West Berlin) in the days prior to German reunification. In the early 1990s, United Airlines used to fly between Heathrow, B... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2139927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda%20II%20Agreement | Bermuda II Agreement | 1981 revision
Both sides agreed to automatically nominate Gatwick as the gateway airport for London for any London–US route that did not already exist under the original 1946 Bermuda agreement. When all available routes between London Heathrow/Gatwick and the US were taken, any carrier wishing to start a new route to a... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2139927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda%20II%20Agreement | Bermuda II Agreement | Virgin Atlantic's access rights to Heathrow under Bermuda II derived from the fact that the UK was not using its entitlement to nominate a second carrier to match the two US carriers' presence at London's premier airport. The UK Government therefore took advantage of the abolition of the London [Air] Traffic Distributi... | 1.945313 | 0 |
2139952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middletown%20and%20New%20Jersey%20Railroad | Middletown and New Jersey Railroad | Decline in traffic and revival
A substantial passenger service, often using railbuses, was offered with emphasis on carrying high school students from hamlets along the line to Middletown High School. Construction of a new high school far from the tracks resulted in cancellation of the school district's contract and t... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2139952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middletown%20and%20New%20Jersey%20Railroad | Middletown and New Jersey Railroad | Buildings
The M&NJ's offices are located in Middletown, New York in a converted train station originally built in 1872, with an engine shed located immediately behind the station. Nearby is the more-modern engine house that stores the railroad's sole operating GP9 diesel-electric locomotive.
Rolling stock
The line c... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2139956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi%20in%20rem%20jurisdiction | Quasi in rem jurisdiction | A quasi in rem legal action (Latin, "as if against a thing") is a legal action based on property rights of a person absent from the jurisdiction. In the American legal system the state can assert power over an individual simply based on the fact that this individual has property (bank account, debt, share of stock,... | 2.265625 | 0 |
15833521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyford%2C%20Oxfordshire | Lyford, Oxfordshire | Lyford is a small village and civil parish on the River Ock about north of Wantage. Historically it was part of the ecclesiastical parish of Hanney. Lyford was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire. The 2001 Census recorded the parish's population as 44. ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
15833521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyford%2C%20Oxfordshire | Lyford, Oxfordshire | Parish church
The Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin was built as a chapelry of Hanney in the first half of the 13th century. There is a Mass dial scratched on the south wall. The wooden bell-turret was added in the 15th century; it has a scissor-braced timber frame and three bells. The Perpendicular... | 2.25 | 0 |
15833528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaido%20Information%20University | Hokkaido Information University | is a private university in the city of Ebetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan, about 20 kilometers away from Sapporo.
The institution started with a focus on basic computer education. Currently, its curriculum has robustly expanded to include various aspects of information science, including data science, artificial intelligence, a... | 2.015625 | 0 |
15833549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ager%20Romanus | Ager Romanus | The Ager Romanus (literally, "the field of Rome"') is the geographical rural area (part plains, part hilly) that surrounds the city of Rome. Politically and historically, it has represented the area of influence of Rome's municipal government. It is limited to the south by the Monti Prenestini range, Alban Hills and Po... | 2.8125 | 0 |
15833573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Andreas%20Schwarz | Walter Andreas Schwarz | Walter Andreas Schwarz (2 June 1913 – 1 April 1992) was a German singer, songwriter, writer, Kabarettist, translator, author and narrator of audiobooks and radio dramas. In 1956, he became the first German participant at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Biography
Early life and education
Schwarz was born in Aschersleben... | 2.453125 | 0 |
15833575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Durras%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | South Durras, New South Wales | South Durras is a small village on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. South Durras is located approximately 280 kilometres south of Sydney and 15 kilometres north of Batemans Bay, in the local government area of Eurobodalla Shire. The village is surrounded by the Murramarang National Park.
History
Prior to... | 2.421875 | 0 |
15833579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khedive%27s%20Palace | Khedive's Palace | The Khedive's Palace (, "Khedive Palace"), also known as Çubuklu Palace (Çubuklu Sarayı), is located on the Asian side of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, and was once the residence of Khedive Abbas II of Egypt and Sudan. In English it is also known as the Khedive's Pavilion or the Khedive's Mansion.
The palace sta... | 2.09375 | 0 |
15833601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20Time%20%28autobiography%29 | Killing Time (autobiography) | Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend is an autobiography by philosopher Paul Feyerabend. The book details, amongst other things, Feyerabend's youth in Nazi-controlled Vienna, his military service, notorious academic career, and his multiple romantic conquests. The book's title, Killing Time is a play on t... | 2.265625 | 0 |
15833779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20Drum%20Digital%20Differential%20Analyzer | Magnetic Drum Digital Differential Analyzer | The MADDIDA (Magnetic Drum Digital Differential Analyzer) was a special-purpose digital computer used for solving systems of ordinary differential equations. It was the first computer to represent bits using voltage levels and whose entire logic was specified in Boolean algebra.
Invented by Floyd Steele, MADDIDA was ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
15833779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20Drum%20Digital%20Differential%20Analyzer | Magnetic Drum Digital Differential Analyzer | In his design for MADDIDA, Steele was influenced by the analog computer invented in 1927 by Vannevar Bush, which had digital components. Another influence was Lord Kelvin's tide-predicting machine, an analog computer completed in 1873.
Steele hired Donald Eckdahl, Hrant (Harold) Sarkinssian, and Richard Sprague to wor... | 2.65625 | 0 |
15833779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20Drum%20Digital%20Differential%20Analyzer | Magnetic Drum Digital Differential Analyzer | Aftermath
While developing the MADDIDA, the design team came to realize that a digital differential analyzer could be run on a general-purpose digital computer through the use of an appropriate problem-oriented language (POL), such as Dynamo. A year after the first MADDIDA was demonstrated, Steele and the MADDIDA desi... | 2.046875 | 0 |
15833827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Faunthorpe | John Faunthorpe | Life and work
Faunthorpe was born in Battersea, son of Reverend John Pincher Faunthorpe, Principal at the Whitelands Training College, grew up at Bromley, and went to Rossall School and Balliol College, Oxford. He qualified for the Indian Civil Service, arriving in India in 1892 in the United Provinces. He was distri... | 2.609375 | 0 |
15833846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto%20Rico%20Highway%2066 | Puerto Rico Highway 66 | Puerto Rico Highway 66 (PR-66) is a main tollway which parallels Puerto Rico Highway 3 going from the city of Carolina, Puerto Rico via a 3 loops cloverleaf interchange with PR-26 and PR-3, a major exit in the form of a Trumpet interchange in Canóvanas, Puerto Rico and ending in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
15833883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaichi%20Watanabe | Kaichi Watanabe | was a Japanese engineer who studied and worked in Scotland, United Kingdom during the 1880s. He was one of the first Japanese engineers who came to study in the UK. He is best known for his work with Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker in cantilever bridge construction, notably on the Forth Bridge.
Watanabe studied... | 2.46875 | 0 |
15833885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20Prato | Operação Prato | Operation Saucer (; literally, Operation Plate) was an investigation carried out between 1977 and 1978 by the Brazilian Air Force following alleged UFO sightings in the city of Colares. The investigation was closed after finding no unusual phenomena.
History
Precedent events
In 1977, numerous UFOs were reported in th... | 2.078125 | 0 |
15833888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mansur%20Abu%20Bakr | Al-Mansur Abu Bakr | Al-Malik al-Mansur Sayf ad-Din Abu Bakr (), better known as al-Mansur Abu Bakr (), (ca. 1321 – November 1341) was a Bahri Mamluk Sultan of Egypt in 1341. From an early age, Abu Bakr received military training in the desert town of al-Karak. His father, Sultan an-Nasir Muhammad (r. 1310–41), groomed him as a potential s... | 2.296875 | 0 |
15833942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Diocese%20of%20Deventer | Roman Catholic Diocese of Deventer | The Diocese of Deventer is a suppressed former diocese of the Catholic Church in what is now the Netherlands. It was erected in 1559 as a suffragan see to the Diocese of Utrecht, which was raised to an Archdiocese at the same time, at the request of King Philip II of Spain. The Diocese of Deventer covered Overijssel, a... | 2.0625 | 0 |
15833970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip%20Video | Flip Video | FlipShare TV
FlipShare TV was an accessory for the third-generation Flip UltraHD camera, allowing users to connect the TV base to their TV, plug in a USB transmitter key to their computer, and view their Flipshare library.
Acquisition and shutdown by Cisco
On May 21, 2009, Cisco Systems acquired Pure Digital Techno... | 2.109375 | 0 |
15834026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto%20Rico%20Highway%2010 | Puerto Rico Highway 10 | Puerto Rico Highway 10 (PR-10) is a major highway in Puerto Rico. The primary state road connects the city of Ponce in the south coast to Arecibo in the north; it is also the shortest route between the two cities.
Construction on the modern PR-10, a new highway, began in 1974. The highway is being built parallel to ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
15834026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto%20Rico%20Highway%2010 | Puerto Rico Highway 10 | The history of PR-10 is closely linked to PR-123 (the old Ponce-to-Adjuntas Road) which predates it.
PR-123 dates to the late 19th century when it was built under the colonial government of Spain to connect the coffee-growing town of Adjuntas to the port city of Ponce as a farm-to-market road.
When the PR-10 road sta... | 2.265625 | 0 |
15834026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto%20Rico%20Highway%2010 | Puerto Rico Highway 10 | The remaining segment, from Adjuntas to Utuado, is partly complete. Due to the complexities of road-building in the remaining segment, this last segment is being built in nine phases. The first phase, consisting of 1.24 km of roadway, was completed at a cost of $7.9 million and opened to the public on 21 August 2009.... | 2.234375 | 0 |
15834026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto%20Rico%20Highway%2010 | Puerto Rico Highway 10 | Possible addition of metal nets
On 8 November 2010, large rocks fell on a section of the new PR-10 in barrio Tibes leading to a 24-hour closure of the highway. It was the second time that heavy rains had caused rocks to fall onto the highway in a period of a few months. Meanwhile, northbound traffic was detoured to PR-... | 2.59375 | 0 |
15834185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar%20Berg%20%28painter%29 | Gunnar Berg (painter) | Gunnar Berg (21 May 1863 – 23 December 1893) was a Norwegian painter, known for his paintings of his native Lofoten. He principally painted memorable scenes of the everyday life of the local fishermen.
Background
Gunnar Berg was born on Svinøya in Svolvær on Lofoten, Nordland County, Norway. He was the oldest of 12 s... | 2.296875 | 0 |
15834206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%20Cilaurren | Leonardo Cilaurren | Leonardo Cilaurren Uriarte ( 5 November 1912 – 9 December 1969) was a Spanish international footballer who played professionally as a midfielder in Spain, Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico between 1929 and 1945.
Career
Club career
Born in Bilbao in the Basque Country, Cilaurren played club football in Spain for Arenas Cl... | 2.140625 | 0 |
15834273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo%20text%20O | Rongorongo text O | Text O of the rongorongo corpus, the Berlin tablet, is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts.
Other names
O is the standard designation, from Barthel (1958). Fischer (1997) refers to it as RR22.
It is also known as the Boomerang because of its bent shape.
Location
Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin. Catalog # VI 4... | 1.90625 | 0 |
15834335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesit%C3%BCkimaa | Vesitükimaa | Vesitükimaa (alternately: Vesitükk and Vesitüki. ) is a small, uninhabited Estonian islet located in Saaremaa Parish, at the tip of Sõrve Peninsula of Saaremaa island. It is a site of European Community importance for the Boreal Biogeographical Region, its coordinates are and its territory is 12,6 km2.
Vesitükimaa is... | 2.09375 | 0 |
15834561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey%20trapping | Honey trapping | Honey trapping is a practice involving the use of romantic or sexual relationships for interpersonal, political (including state espionage), or monetary purpose. The honey pot or trap involves making contact with an individual who has information or resources required by a group or individual; the trapper will then see... | 2.015625 | 0 |
15834649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings%20County%20Museum | Kings County Museum | Museum
The Kings Historical Society was founded in 1978. The Kings Historical Society is a non-profit organization which owns and operates the Kings County Museum. When the courthouse closed in 1980, the society successfully campaigned to save it from demolition and restore it to serve as a county museum. raising $64,0... | 2.578125 | 0 |
15834812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Peter%20Lesley%20House | J. Peter Lesley House | The J. Peter Lesley House is a historic row house at 1008 Clinton Street in the Washington Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. A National Historic Landmark, it was for 27 years the home of John Peter Lesley (1819-1903), one of the leading geologists of the second half of the 19th century. The hous... | 2.125 | 0 |
15834915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino%20Zappa | Gino Zappa | Gino Zappa (Milan, 1879 – Venice, 1960) was an Italian economist and one of the most important figures in the fields of economics and accounting in the twentieth century.
Biography
He was a professor at Bocconi University in Milan and University Ca'Foscari of Venice, where he was also Rector. Zappa dedicated his life ... | 2.375 | 0 |
15835000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants%27%20Exchange%20Building%20%28Philadelphia%29 | Merchants' Exchange Building (Philadelphia) | The Greek Revival movement became particularly attractive for American architects in the late eighteenth century on account of the rising popularity of ancient Greece's democratic principles and the strong desire to recast the nation's image and further distance it from Great Britain. Greek Revival architecture began t... | 2.9375 | 0 |
15835051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Ireland | Samuel Ireland | Samuel Ireland (21 May 1744 – July 1800), English author and engraver, is best remembered today as the chief victim of the Ireland Shakespeare forgeries created by his son, William Henry Ireland.
Early life
He began life as a weaver in Spitalfields, London, but soon took to dealing in prints and drawings and devoted ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
15835051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Ireland | Samuel Ireland | In 1790 Ireland published A Picturesque Tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France made in the Autumn of 1789, London (2 vols. Roy. 8vo and in large-paper 4to). It was dedicated to Francis Grose and contained etchings on copper in aquatint from drawings made by the author "on the spot." He paid at least one visi... | 2.296875 | 0 |
15835051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Ireland | Samuel Ireland | Enthusiasm for Shakespeare
Ireland was a fervent admirer of William Shakespeare, and in 1793, when preparing his "Picturesque Views of the Avon," he took his son with him to Stratford-upon-Avon, to examine carefully all the sights associated with the dramatist. The father recorded many local traditions, which he accept... | 2.703125 | 0 |
15835051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Ireland | Samuel Ireland | These were soon on display at Ireland's house, where notable literary men such as James Boswell, Samuel Parr, Joseph Warton, and Henry James Pye, the poet laureate, pronounced them genuine. The chief Shakespearean scholars of the day, Edmond Malone and George Steevens, however, unhesitatingly denounced them as forgerie... | 1.992188 | 0 |
15835072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV%20Wolfe%20Islander%20III | MV Wolfe Islander III | Wolfe Islander III is the ferry currently serving between Kingston, Ontario and Wolfe Island. She can hold approximately 55 cars, and is end-loading. The length of the car deck is 61 metres (200 feet). The vehicle height restriction is 4.4 m (14 feet, 5 inches). As it is the only public access to Wolfe Island, the ves... | 2.078125 | 0 |
15835109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Douglas%20Jr. | James H. Douglas Jr. | James Henderson Douglas Jr. (March 11, 1899 – February 24, 1988) was a lawyer and senior-level official in the United States Government. He was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, serving under both President Herbert Hoover and President Franklin Roosevelt. During the Eisenhower Administration, he served in the United... | 1.992188 | 0 |
15835109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Douglas%20Jr. | James H. Douglas Jr. | Douglas also emphasized the importance role of the Air Force during the Second Indochina War which later became known as The Vietnam War. Douglas also suggested that strengthening the air power and the buildup of South Vietnam Air Force would eventually could help the South Vietnam push back the North Vietnamese commun... | 1.9375 | 0 |
15835118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Aunt%20Hagar%27s%20Children | All Aunt Hagar's Children | All Aunt Hagar's Children (2006) is a collection of short stories by African-American author Edward P. Jones; it was his first book after winning the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for The Known World. The collection of 14 stories centers on African Americans in Washington D.C. during the 20th century. The stories can be broken d... | 2.34375 | 0 |
15835126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Canadian%20Military%20Institute | Royal Canadian Military Institute | The Royal Canadian Military Institute (RCMI) is a private members' organization with a focus on military history, defence studies and international affairs. Located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, it was founded as the Canadian Military Institute on January 14, 1890. General Sir William Dillon Otter set the founding princ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
15835126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Canadian%20Military%20Institute | Royal Canadian Military Institute | As 1914 approached, the institute was operating at a financial loss, and the executive considered closure. With the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, there was a large number of potential membership candidates. From 1919–1930 the financial position of the institute and membership were healthy. After 1930, the membersh... | 2.03125 | 0 |
15835126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Canadian%20Military%20Institute | Royal Canadian Military Institute | In 1940, membership was limited to male army, navy and air officers and ex-officers of Her Majesty’s forces. In 1948, membership was denied to women. In 1958, although many members live in the Toronto area, there was a non-resident membership fee for members who lived in various parts of Canada but visit Toronto from t... | 2.28125 | 0 |
15835126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Canadian%20Military%20Institute | Royal Canadian Military Institute | Royal Canadian Military Institute Library
The Militia Institute, which was organized in 1878, presented 200 military volumes on the founding of the Institute. Dating back to the eighteenth century, the library has military manuals, service journals, periodicals, and rare books. William Craven Vaux Chadwick, architect, ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
15835247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinzie%20Street%20railroad%20bridge | Kinzie Street railroad bridge | The Chicago and North Western Railway's Kinzie Street railroad bridge (also known as the Carroll Avenue bridge or the Chicago and North Western Railroad Bridge) is a single leaf bascule bridge across the north branch of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois. At the time of its opening in 1908 it was the world... | 2.25 | 0 |
15835247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinzie%20Street%20railroad%20bridge | Kinzie Street railroad bridge | River traffic and railroad traffic were increasingly in competition with each other. In October 1879 a disaster was narrowly avoided when a seven-coach passenger train with 800 people on board approached the open swing bridge too fast and was barely able to stop in time, ending up with its front wheels hanging off the ... | 2.96875 | 0 |
15835247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinzie%20Street%20railroad%20bridge | Kinzie Street railroad bridge | Usage
The Chicago and North Western Railway originally planned for two bridges side-by-side that could carry four railroad tracks into the Wells Street Station. However, by the time that the first bridge opened on September 19, 1908 an alternative scheme was already underway that led to the closure of Wells Street Stat... | 2.453125 | 0 |
15835259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa%20Hall%20%28Leigh%2C%20Texas%29 | Mimosa Hall (Leigh, Texas) | Mimosa Hall is the name of a plantation house in Leigh, Texas. John J. Webster built Mimosa Hall in 1844. Webster, born in Alabama in 1796, the son of a revolutionary soldier, was an architect. Webster moved to Texas in 1839 with his wife, Miriam Webster, and their children.
History
Mimosa Hall was the first brick hou... | 2.390625 | 0 |
15835350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20I.%20Gordon | Jeffrey I. Gordon | Jeffrey Ivan Gordon (born 1947) is a biologist and the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is internationally known for his research on gastrointestinal development and how gut microbial co... | 1.960938 | 0 |
15835350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20I.%20Gordon | Jeffrey I. Gordon | Present research
Gordon and his laboratory are currently focused on understanding the mutualistic interactions that occur between humans and the 10–100 trillion commensal microbes that colonize each person's gastrointestinal tract. To tease apart the complex relationships that exist within this gut microbiota, Dr. Go... | 2.109375 | 0 |
15835392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooster%20Morris | Rooster Morris | Musical background
Rooster's musical skills are self-taught as well. He began learning to play the fiddle when he was a teenager. By the time he graduated from high school, he was playing fiddle for the historic Western Cowpunchers Association that was established in the 1880s in Amarillo, Texas. He has since been ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
15835437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Radical%20Therapist | The Radical Therapist | The Radical Therapist was a journal that emerged in the early 1970s in the context of the counter-culture and the radical U.S. antiwar movement. It was an "alternative journal" in the mental health field that published 12 issues between 1970 and 1972, and "voiced pointed criticisms of psychiatrists during this period".... | 2.046875 | 0 |
15835437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Radical%20Therapist | The Radical Therapist | Beginnings: Minot, North Dakota
The Radical Therapist took shape in the winter of 1969, in Minot, North Dakota, the product of three officers in the U.S. Air Force Regional Hospital. The idea for the journal came from Michael Glenn, a psychiatrist who had recently arrived as Chief of Neurology and Psychiatry. He was jo... | 2.1875 | 0 |
15835437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Radical%20Therapist | The Radical Therapist | During its time in Minot, the journal was typeset and published locally, and mailed out via a collective effort. The journal printed articles critiquing the therapy "establishment" and its practice and outlining a "radical" approach to the ways therapy could be used instead. It enthusiastically promoted women's liberat... | 2.0625 | 0 |
15835437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Radical%20Therapist | The Radical Therapist | By the winter of 1971, sharp political struggle had broken out in the collective over issues of elitism and professionalism. Some members raised questions as to whether therapists really had any skills at all, and whether the field had simply mystified its practices. There were also questions as to the journal's real a... | 1.953125 | 0 |
15835542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Dohrn%20Seamount | Anton Dohrn Seamount | The Anton Dohrn Seamount is a guyot in the Rockall Trough in the northeast Atlantic. It is high and is topped with pinnacles, one of which reaches a depth of . Away from the flat top upon which the pinnacles rest, the slopes fall off steeply into the Rockall Trough and a moat in the sediment that surrounds the seamoun... | 2.65625 | 0 |
15835542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Dohrn%20Seamount | Anton Dohrn Seamount | Anton Dohrn Seamount is a high and about wide circular guyot with a flat top at depth. Flat-topped seamounts are unusual in the North Atlantic. The shallowest point of the seamount lies at about depth and is formed by a pinnacle that protrudes from the deep summit platform. A thick layer of sediment covers the f... | 2.59375 | 0 |
15835542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Dohrn%20Seamount | Anton Dohrn Seamount | Anton Dohrn Seamount is probably formed mostly by basaltic lava and tuffs which define a transitional to alkaline suite. The rocks contain feldspar and olivine phenocrysts as well as plagioclase. They are covered with ferromanganese crusts and vesicles contain carbonates, clay and zeolites which formed through alterati... | 2.65625 | 0 |
15835542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Dohrn%20Seamount | Anton Dohrn Seamount | During the Cretaceous the seamount was about higher than present, perhaps even reaching height above sea level; presumably it was then eroded during the Paleocene when a wave of erosion took place in western Britain and stripped much of the volcanic centres of northwest Scotland. An episode of crustal subsidence in t... | 2.828125 | 0 |
15835542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Dohrn%20Seamount | Anton Dohrn Seamount | Dropframe camera surveys have seen anemones, anthozoans, ascidians, the asteroid (starfish) Henricia sp., bamboo corals, caryophyllids, cerianthids, antipatharian corals with various shapes, the corals Desmophyllum dianthus, Lophelia pertusa and Solenosmilia variabilis, echinoderms including brisingids and crinoids, gl... | 2.796875 | 0 |
15835556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne%20Drioton | Étienne Drioton | Étienne Marie Felix Drioton (21 November 1889 – 17 January 1961) was a French Egyptologist, archaeologist, and Catholic canon. He was born in Nancy and died in Montgeron.
Biography
Etienne Drioton, his father, was originally from Burgundy where the family founded a business in Dijon in 1742 which developed along three... | 2.40625 | 0 |
15835606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Levy%20%28psychologist%29 | David Levy (psychologist) | David Levy is an American psychologist, professor, author, stage director, and actor. He is a professor of psychology at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology of Pepperdine University, near Malibu, California. He has co-authored a textbook on cross-cultural psychology and critical thinking, and has appeared o... | 2.296875 | 0 |
15835611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Northumberland%20Secondary%20School | East Northumberland Secondary School | East Northumberland Secondary School (ENSS) is a secondary school in Brighton, Ontario, Canada.
The school was the topic of a song performed by Miley Cyrus called "East Northumberland High", written by ENSS graduate Samantha Moore.
Sports
The school offers the following sports; Curling, Soccer, Basketball, Volleyball... | 2.359375 | 0 |
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