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15838488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall%20C.%20Berg%20Jr. | Randall C. Berg Jr. | Randall Challen Berg Jr. (January 17, 1949 – April 10, 2019) was an American attorney.
Biography
Berg was born to Randall Challen Berg and Margaret Baker Berg. He spent most of his childhood in Jacksonville, Florida, graduating from Robert E. Lee High School in 1967. He attended the University of North Carolina at Cha... | 2.078125 | 0 |
15838522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%20Spear | Sky Spear | The Sky Spear (天戟 Tien Chi) is a Taiwanese short-range ballistic missile (SRBM). Derived from the Sky Bow II (Tien Kung-2) surface-to-air missile, the Tien Chi has a two-stage booster that extends over the single-stage Tien Kung-2. The Sky Spear was developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST)... | 2.203125 | 0 |
15838584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde%20Park%20Obelisk | Hyde Park Obelisk | The Hyde Park Obelisk is a heritage-listed obelisk that served as a sewer vent and is now a monument located in Hyde Park at the intersection of Elizabeth Street and Bathurst Street, in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed and b... | 2.4375 | 0 |
15838584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde%20Park%20Obelisk | Hyde Park Obelisk | Initially, after the Obelisk, ventshafts were constructed using bricks, were ornate and fairly major features in the city landscape. This technology was replaced with smaller, steel tube vents, which were used at intervals of approximately every of sewer. The Oberlisk remains considerably intact apart from alterations... | 2.46875 | 0 |
15838584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde%20Park%20Obelisk | Hyde Park Obelisk | The Obelisk is a sandstone vent shaft which displays the classical architecture and technology of the late nineteenth century. It is a landmark feature within Hyde park and Sydney, which is visible as a major feature at the end of Bathurst Street.
The place has a strong or special association with a particular commun... | 2.78125 | 0 |
15838716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Zion%20Dinur | Ben-Zion Dinur | Ben-Zion Dinur () (January 1884 – 8 July 1973) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli historian, educator, and politician. He held the position of professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and represented Mapai in the first Knesset, serving as Minister of Education. Dinur was one of the founders of Yad Va... | 2.28125 | 0 |
15838716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Zion%20Dinur | Ben-Zion Dinur | Dinur advocated for a global historical approach to Jewish history and authored "The History of Israel from Its Early Days to Our Times". He also compiled the monumental work "Israel in the Exile" (1961–1966, originally Yisrael ba-gola), encompassing the history of the Jewish people up to the era of the Black Death. Hi... | 2.484375 | 0 |
15838820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20John%20Ambulance%20%28New%20South%20Wales%29 | St John Ambulance (New South Wales) | St John Ambulance New South Wales (St John NSW) is a charitable organisation dedicated to helping people in sickness, distress, suffering or danger. It provides first aid training and event and community health care services. It is part of an international organisation that consists of eight Priories that form the Orde... | 2.421875 | 0 |
15838830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem | Anathem | Anathem is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 2008. Major themes include the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the philosophical debate between Platonic realism and nominalism.
Plot summary
Anathem is set on the fictional planet of Arbre. Thousands of years befor... | 2.28125 | 0 |
15838830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem | Anathem | Erasmas travels to Saunt Tredegarh where he attends the Convox dedicated to dealing with the military, political, and technical issues raised by the existence of the alien ship in Arbre's orbit. Research is conducted on the samples from Orithena, and the aliens are found to come from planets in four parallel and disti... | 2.109375 | 0 |
15838830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem | Anathem | Erasmas attends a diplomatic summit where a funeral ceremony is held for those lost on both sides and a peace process begins between the aliens and the Arbrans. On Arbre itself, the Sæcular Power and the avout have agreed to cooperate as equal powers. The Arbrans inaugurate a second "Reconstitution", revising many of t... | 2.171875 | 0 |
15838830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem | Anathem | The main secondary aspect of the Discipline is that the avout are allowed to own only their "bolt, chord, and sphere". These objects are made with "newmatter" (matter made with a modified atomic structure to be more versatile), and can be made to alter their shape, texture and other physical properties without the use ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
15838830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem | Anathem | Stephenson cites the work of Roger Penrose as a major influence on the novel. Specific ideas from Penrose's work include: the idea that the human mind operates in certain fundamental ways as a quantum computer, espoused in Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind; Platonic realism as a philosophical basis for works of fiction,... | 2.234375 | 0 |
15838906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Fire%20Juniors | Chicago Fire Juniors | The Chicago Fire Juniors are the youth club affiliate of the Chicago Fire professional soccer club with branches in Chicago, NW Indiana, West Michigan, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. Established in 2004 as the official youth soccer club of Major League Soccer's Chicago Fire, the Chicago Fire Juniors are the only ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
15838906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Fire%20Juniors | Chicago Fire Juniors | The Chicago Fire Juniors have demonstrated results in the top state leagues, regional leagues and national leagues (NISL Premiership, MRL, US Club, Super Y, USYS National League, USSF Academy), as well as overseas. The players are recognized on Olympic Developmental Program, Regional and National Teams. The teams parti... | 2.171875 | 0 |
15838928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Sardis%20%28547%20BC%29 | Siege of Sardis (547 BC) | The siege of Sardis (547/546 BC) was the last decisive conflict after the Battle of Thymbra, which was fought between the forces of Croesus of Lydia and Cyrus the Great, when Cyrus followed Croesus to his city, laid siege to it for 14 days and captured it.
Background
The previous year Croesus, the king of Lydia, impe... | 2.46875 | 0 |
15838928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Sardis%20%28547%20BC%29 | Siege of Sardis (547 BC) | Croesus was still confident in his chances because Sardis was a well-fortified city consecrated by ancient prophecies to never be captured. Additionally, he had sent for immediate aid from Sparta, the strongest state in Greece and his firm ally, and hoped to enlist the Egyptians, the Babylonians and others in his coali... | 2.640625 | 0 |
15839194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte%20Vecchio%2C%20Bassano | Ponte Vecchio, Bassano | The (Old bridge) or (bridge of the Alpini, who rebuilt it in 1948) is the covered wooden designed by the architect Andrea Palladio in 1569. The bridge is located in Bassano del Grappa and was destroyed many times, the last time in World War II. The bridge spans the river Brenta.
The Brenta was an important means of ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
15839194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte%20Vecchio%2C%20Bassano | Ponte Vecchio, Bassano | In the summer of 1569, Palladio then presented a second final project of a wooden bridge that practically recalled the previous structure, although radically renewed in terms of technical and structural solutions and of great visual impact. The only reference to an architectural language is the use of Tuscan columns as... | 2.703125 | 0 |
15839194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte%20Vecchio%2C%20Bassano | Ponte Vecchio, Bassano | The bridge was then razed to the ground for the third time on 17 February 1945: just after 7pm, when the curfew began, it was torn by a strong explosion. The sabotage action, which was part of a larger plan wanted by the Allies against the bridges of Pedemontana, was carried out by a group of 15 partisans all armed and... | 2.015625 | 0 |
15839278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Ehlers | Hans Ehlers | Hans Ehlers (15 July 1914 – 27 December 1944) was a German military aviator who served in the Luftwaffe during World War II. As a fighter ace, he was credited with 55—that is, 55 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft—claimed in an unknown number of combat missions. He claimed eleve... | 2.234375 | 0 |
15839278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Ehlers | Hans Ehlers | Early life and career
Ehlers was born on 15 July 1914 in a Hennstedt, at the time in the Province of Schleswig-Holstein of the German Empire. He volunteered for service with the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War. There, Ehlers was a member of the groundstaff of 3. Staffel (3rd squadron) of Jagdgruppe 88 (J/88–... | 2.3125 | 0 |
15839353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Synagogue%20%28Sydney%29 | Great Synagogue (Sydney) | The Great Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation located in a large heritage-listed synagogue at 187a Elizabeth Street in the Sydney central business district in the City of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.
The congregation is the oldest in the Sydney Jewish community, and comprises around 550 families. The... | 2.078125 | 0 |
15839353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Synagogue%20%28Sydney%29 | Great Synagogue (Sydney) | In 1871 a meeting was held at York Street to discuss buying land available in Elizabeth Street. It was suggested a meeting be held with the Macquarie Street Synagogue to unite in purchasing the land for a synagogue to serve the whole community. John Solomon, a builder, purchased the land at auction for in 1871 and hel... | 2.65625 | 0 |
15839353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Synagogue%20%28Sydney%29 | Great Synagogue (Sydney) | The Great Synagogue consists of two main sections: the original synagogue (house of worship) with a ladies' gallery, at the Elizabeth Street end, and a five-storey addition at the Castlereagh Street end behind the facade of the original Beadle's residence. The Elizabeth Street frontage and towers are of Pyrmont stone, ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
15839366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae%20T%C4%83t%C4%83ranu | Nicolae Tătăranu | Nicolae Tătăranu (3 October 1890 – 13 May 1953) was a Romanian Major General during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
Tătăranu was born in Măicănești, a village în Râmnicu Sărat County, now in Vrancea County. In 1908 he enrolled in the School for Infantry Officers in Buchar... | 2.109375 | 0 |
15839405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth%20Brethren%20Christian%20Church | Plymouth Brethren Christian Church | Services on Sunday start with the Lord's Supper at 6 am and worship in small groups. At 10:30 the Bible Study meeting is held and other activities continue throughout the day. There are further meetings every night of the week. Two of their services are closed to those who are not members in good standing: the Lord's S... | 2.09375 | 0 |
15839405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth%20Brethren%20Christian%20Church | Plymouth Brethren Christian Church | Women are somewhat subservient to men; they sit behind the men in meetings and their service is to select hymns, not to pray out loud or teach. They wear a scarf or ribbon in their hair to signify that the man is head of the woman. Brethren businesses are generally run by men, but some women do run their own businesses... | 2.609375 | 0 |
15839405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth%20Brethren%20Christian%20Church | Plymouth Brethren Christian Church | In America, James Taylor of New York was beginning to be seen as Raven's future successor as early as 1897, and when Raven died in 1905, books of his sermons began to be reprinted around the world. By the time another letter from Melbourne was received in 1920, resulting in the departure of 40 assemblies mainly in Aust... | 2.15625 | 0 |
15839405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth%20Brethren%20Christian%20Church | Plymouth Brethren Christian Church | At the Central Hall conference in 1959, a decisive confrontation took place between Cowell and Taylor Jr. The latter proposed that more radical, immediate separation from 'the world' was necessary, while the former took a more moderate line. Taylor Jr won and excommunicated Cowell less than a year after the Conference,... | 2.125 | 0 |
15839405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth%20Brethren%20Christian%20Church | Plymouth Brethren Christian Church | Schools & Education
Brethren run private schools for their children between the ages of 8 and 18. Members are strongly discouraged from attending university because of the campus environment. However, many undertake tertiary studies through distance learning, completing diplomas or degrees, typically focusing on accou... | 2.484375 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | Illyrian religion refers to the religious beliefs and practices of the Illyrian peoples, a group of tribes who spoke the Illyrian languages and inhabited part of the western Balkan Peninsula from at least the 8th century BC until the 7th century AD. The available written sources are very tenuous. They consist largely o... | 2.8125 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | As pagans, Illyrians believed in supernatural powers and they attributed to the deities qualities that were reflected in everyday life, health and disease, natural abundance and natural disaster. A number of Illyrian toponyms and anthroponyms derived from animal names and reflected the beliefs in animals as mythologica... | 2.90625 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | Cults from the Neolithic tradition—especially those that were associated with the fertility of the earth and with agriculture in general—continued to be practised throughout the Bronze Age and at the beginning of the Iron Age in the Western Balkans. Those traditions included the cult of the Earth Mother, the cult of th... | 3.03125 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | Many of the symbols found throughout Illyria were associated with the Sun, suggesting that the Sun worship was a cult common to Illyrian tribes. Early figurative evidence of the celestial cult in Illyria is provided by 6th century BCE plaques from Lake Shkodra, which belonged to the Illyrian tribal area of what was ref... | 2.875 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | Waterfowl are among the most frequent solar symbols of the Illyrians, especially in the north. A great number of pendants with waterfowl shapes have been found in the Glasinac plateau, in the regions of the Japodes in Lika, in Liburnia and in the Illyrian regions of present-day Albania and North Macedonia. At Noricum w... | 2.75 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | The reliefs of the Thracian horseman spread from the eastern Balkans into Illyria during the Roman era, appearing in the typical image of a hunter on horseback, riding from left to right. The Thracian horseman was portrayed on both votive and funeral monuments. A less used type of monument depicting a Thracian horseman... | 2.703125 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | The Illyrian names of the gods were not different in grammatical structures from the personal names reserved for humans. The onomastic evidence demonstrates a general division between several cultural provinces, which can sometimes overlap: the southern region of Illyria, the middle Pannonian and Dalmatian provinces, a... | 2.734375 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | Prende, widely worshiped by Albanians as the goddess of dawn, love, beauty, fertility, and women protection, is considered to have been an Illyrian love-goddess. The name Perëndi found in Albanian to refer to "god, deity, sky" is considered by some scholars as a cognate of the Proto-Indo-European weather god *Perkwunos... | 2.34375 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | Dalmatia and Pannonia were ruled by the Roman Empire and grouped together within the province of Illyricum from the creation of the empire in 27 BC until the reign of Vespasian in 69–79 AD, during which they were separated into two different provinces. From the beginning of the reign of Septimius Severus in 193, Pannon... | 3.171875 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | Some scholars have interpreted those peculiarities from the point of the view that Silvanus was an indigenous deity resembling Pan, but recognized by Classical writers as 'Silvanus' through the eyes of interpretatio romana. They generally link the representations of Silvanus with an erect phallus to pre-Roman fertility... | 2.53125 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | Cult of Liber
In Dalmatia, the Roman deity of wine, fertility and freedom Liber was worshipped with the attributes of Silvanus and those of Terminus, the protector god of boundaries. His cult was more widespread in the Balkan provinces than in Italy, with prominent centres of cult in Salona and Narona. On the islands ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | Moesia Superior
The region of Moesia Superior showed a great variety of cultural beliefs, as it lay on the cultural frontier between the Latin West and the Greek East. The debated identity of tribes such as the Dardanians, interpreted as either Illyrian or Thracian, or the Paeonians, likewise dwelling between the Dard... | 2.71875 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | Indigenous Iapygian beliefs featured the curative powers of the waters at the herõon of the god Podalirius and the fulfilling of oracles for anyone who slept wrapped in the skin of a sacrificed ewe. Menzanas was a local Messapian deity whose name literally translates as "Lord of Horses". He was often worshipped under t... | 2.421875 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | The goddess Damatura (or Damatira) could be of Messapian origin rather than a borrowing from the Greek Demeter, with a form dā- ("earth", compare with ) attached to -matura ("mother") and akin to the Illyrian god Dei-pátrous (dei-, "sky", attached to -pátrous, "father"). This theory was supported by Pisani (1935) and G... | 2.578125 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | In his description of the site Strabo (1st century BCE – 1st century CE) reports that a fire arises from a stone, and underneath it exists a source of warm water and asphalt. Pliny the Elder (1st century CE), in his description based on the accounts of historian Theopompus (4th century BCE), reports that even if the fi... | 2.609375 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | Cosmology
The opinion according to which the Illyrians apparently did not develop a uniform cosmology on which to center their religious practices is incompatible with the discovery of a monument representing a round labyrinth that was dedicated to the "Dardanian Goddess" from Smira. This monument provides evidence for... | 2.09375 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | According to a tradition reported by Appian, the Illyrian king Epidamnos was the eponymous founder of the homonym city. His grandson Dyrrhachos, son of Epidamnos' daughter Melissa and Poseidon, founded a harbor that was called Dyrrhachion. According to this legend, when Dyrrhachus was attacked by his own brothers, the ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
15839412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian%20religion | Illyrian religion | Totemism
Illyrian totemism is known almost exclusively from Illyrian tribal names, toponyms and anthroponyms, which were taken from the animal and plant world, reflecting a close relation of Illyrian peoples to nature. Such cases include: Enchelei, "people of the eel" (cf. Albanian: ngjalë, Ancient Greek: ἔγχελυς, Lati... | 2.609375 | 0 |
15839432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracian%20horseman | Thracian horseman | The Thracian horseman (also "Thracian Rider" or "Thracian Heroes") is a recurring motif depicted in reliefs of the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the Balkans—mainly Thrace, Macedonia, Thessaly and Moesia—roughly from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD. Inscriptions found in Romania identify the horseman as Hero... | 2.8125 | 0 |
15839432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracian%20horseman | Thracian horseman | Interpretation
The horseman was a common Palaeo-Balkan hero.
The motif depicted on reliefs most likely represents a composite figure, a Thracian heroes possibly based on Rhesus, the Thracian king mentioned in the Iliad, to which Scythian, Hellenistic and possibly other elements had been added.
Late Roman syncretism
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15839432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracian%20horseman | Thracian horseman | Bulgarian linguist Vladimir I. Georgiev proposed the following interpretations to its epithets:
Ouetespios (Betespios) - related to Albanian vetë 'own, self' and Avestan aspa- 'horse', meaning 'der selbst Pferd ist'.
Outaspios - corresponds to Greek epihippios 'on a horse'.
Manimazos - related to Latin mani 'good' a... | 2.484375 | 0 |
15839473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%C3%A9%20engag%C3%A9 | Santé engagé | Santé engagé () is a genre of Mauritian music which consists of singing and rapping protest songs. It is a way to protest against political/social oppression and repression through music. The genre mixes traditional Mauritian sega with Indian, Chinese and Western influences.
History
Context
The 1960s and 1970s ("les ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
15839473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%C3%A9%20engag%C3%A9 | Santé engagé | Evolution of Santé engazé
Even though many people today consider sante angaze as a revolved musical style, the latter still exists and much appreciated. Santé engazé has simply evolved. The militantly oriented protests of its origins have gradually evolved and broaden to other subjects, not specially related to politic... | 2.234375 | 0 |
15839481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimera%20%28singer%29 | Kimera (singer) | Kim Hong Hee (born January 10, 1954), known as Kimera, is a South Korean-born singer. She developed the style of operatic pop, or popera performing and recording medleys of operatic arias set to a mid-1980s form of disco beat, singing in the soprano register.
Life and career
The third of five children, Kimera has love... | 2.53125 | 0 |
15839481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimera%20%28singer%29 | Kimera (singer) | In 1987, a personal tragedy occurred when her five-year-old daughter, Mélodie Nakachian, was kidnapped on November 9, and held for ransom for 11 days. Although her daughter was eventually recovered unharmed by the Spanish Grupo Especial de Operaciones, Kimera became reluctant to live a life of celebrity, as she blamed ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
15839511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B4tes%20de%20Gascogne | Côtes de Gascogne | Côtes de Gascogne is a wine-growing district in Gascony producing principally white wine. It is mainly located in the département of the Gers in the former Midi-Pyrénées region (now part of the Occitanie region), and it belongs to the wine region South West France. The designation Côtes de Gascogne is used for a Vin de... | 2.421875 | 0 |
15839578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Trautz | Max Trautz | Max Trautz (19 March 1880 – 19 August 1960) was a German chemist. He was very productive with over 190 scientific publications especially in the field of chemical kinetics. He was the first to investigate the activation energy of molecules by connecting Max Planck's new results concerning light with observations in che... | 2.40625 | 0 |
15839597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PixelJunk%20Eden | PixelJunk Eden | PixelJunk Eden is a video game developed and published by Q-Games for the PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows. The third game in the PixelJunk series, it was released on the PlayStation Store on July 31, 2008 worldwide by Sony Computer Entertainment. A demo of the game was released on July 25, 2008. The game features t... | 1.945313 | 0 |
15839687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory%20of%20Southeast%20Europe | Prehistory of Southeast Europe | The earliest evidence of human occupation discovered in the region, in Kozarnika cave (Bulgaria), date from at least 1.5 million years ago.
There is evidence of human presence in the Southeastern Europe from the Lower Paleolithic onwards, but the number of sites is limited. According to Douglass W. Bailey:
The Palaeo... | 2.828125 | 0 |
15839687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory%20of%20Southeast%20Europe | Prehistory of Southeast Europe | During the last interglacial period and the most recent glaciation of the Pleistocene (from 131,000 till 12,000 BP), Europe was very different from the regional glaciation. The glaciations did not affect southeastern Europe to the extent that they did in the northern and central regions. The evidence of forest and step... | 2.921875 | 0 |
15839687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory%20of%20Southeast%20Europe | Prehistory of Southeast Europe | These are some of Europe's oldest remains of Homo sapiens, so they are likely to represent the first such people to have entered the continent. According to some researchers, the particular interest of the discovery resides in the fact that it presents a mixture of archaic, early modern human and Neanderthal morphologi... | 3 | 0 |
15839687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory%20of%20Southeast%20Europe | Prehistory of Southeast Europe | There is lithic evidence of the Iron Gates mesolithic culture, which is notable for its early urbanization, at Lepenski Vir. Iron Gates mesolithic sites are found in modern Serbia, south-west Romania and Montenegro. At Ostrovul Banului, the Cuina Turcului rock shelter in the Danube gorges and in the nearby caves of Cli... | 2.515625 | 0 |
15839687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory%20of%20Southeast%20Europe | Prehistory of Southeast Europe | The aforementioned allows us to speculate whether or not there was a period which could be described as Mesolithic in Southeastern Europe, rather than an extended Upper Palaeolithic. On the other hand, lack of research in a number of regions, and the fact that many of the sites were close to seashores (It is evident th... | 2.703125 | 0 |
15839687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory%20of%20Southeast%20Europe | Prehistory of Southeast Europe | After the period that followed the arrival of the Dorians, known as the Greek Dark Ages or Submycenaean Period, the classical Greek culture began to develop in Southeastern Europe, the Aegean islands and the western Asia Minor Greek colonies starting around the 9–8th century (the Geometric Period) and peaking with the ... | 3 | 0 |
15839833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinemoa%20%281914%20film%29 | Hinemoa (1914 film) | Hinemoa was an early silent film produced in New Zealand in 1914 which is presumed to be lost now. It was claimed to be the first feature film produced in New Zealand, although it should not be confused with a film of the same name shot by French director Gaston Méliès a year earlier. It was billed as "The first big dr... | 1.984375 | 0 |
15839844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrid%20Svendsdatter | Estrid Svendsdatter | Estrid Svendsdatter of Denmark (Estrith, Astrith: 990/997 – 1057/1073), was a Danish princess and titular queen, a Russian princess and, possibly, duchess of Normandy by marriage. She was the daughter of Sweyn Forkbeard and perhaps Gunhild of Wenden and half-sister of Cnut the Great. By Ulf Jarl, she was the mother of ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
15839844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrid%20Svendsdatter | Estrid Svendsdatter | Her brother Cnut then arranged a marriage for her with Ulf Jarl. In 1026, Ulf was killed by the order of Cnut. It is possible that the murder took place with her consent. She did not lose her brother's trust, and was granted large lands by him. She gave her son an education by the church, made donations to the church a... | 2.46875 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | Pristina or Prishtina ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and district.
In antiquity, the area of Pristina was part of the Dardanian Kingdom. The heritage of the classical era is represented by the settlement of Ulpiana. After the Roman Empire... | 2.65625 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | Pristina is the capital and the economic, financial, political and trade center of Kosovo, due to its location in the center of the country. It is the seat of power of the Government of Kosovo, the residences for work of the President and Prime Minister of Kosovo, and the Parliament of Kosovo. Pristina is also the most... | 2 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | Early development
The area of Pristina has been inhabited since the Neolithic era by Early European Farmers after 7,000 BCE in the Balkans: Starčevo followed by its successors Vinča, Baden and lastly Bubanj-Hum. The earliest recognized references were discovered in Gračanica, Matiçan and Ulpiana.
By the early Iron Ag... | 2.671875 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | During the Austro-Turkish War in the late 17th century, citizens of Pristina under the leadership of the Catholic Albanian priest Pjetër Bogdani pledged loyalty to the Austrian army and supplied troops. He contributed a force of 6,000 Albanian soldiers to the Austrian army which had arrived in Pristina. According to No... | 2.765625 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | During the Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars, Pristina suffered many atrocities; the Serbian army entered Pristina on 22 October. Albanian and Turkish households were looted and destroyed, and women and children were killed. A Danish journalist based in Skopje reported that the Serbian campaign in Pristina "had... | 2.6875 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | This ended a long period when the institution had been run as an outpost of Belgrade University and gave a major boost to Albanian-language education and culture in Kosovo. The Albanians were also allowed to use the Albanian flag.
Kosovo War
Following the reduction of Kosovo's autonomy by former Serbian President Sl... | 2.5625 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | The majority Albanian population fled Pristina in large numbers to escape Serb policy and paramilitary units. The first NATO troops to enter the city in early June 1999 were Norwegian special forces from FSK Forsvarets Spesialkommando and soldiers from the British Special Air Service 22 S.A.S, although to NATO's diplom... | 2.484375 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | Pristina is situated on an alluvial plain in the regions of Llap and Kosovo across the Gollak Hills in central and eastern Kosovo. Bodies of water in Pristina municipality include Badovc and Batllava lakes as well as the Llapi, Prishtevka, and Vellusha rivers. The park of Germia lies in the east of Pristina and extends... | 2.71875 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | As per the 2024 census conducted by the Kosovo Agency of Statistics (KAS), Pristina is home to 227,466 residents, making it the most populous city and municipality in Kosovo. With a population density of 434 people per square kilometer, Pristina is the third most densely populated municipality of Kosovo. The population... | 2.5 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | Pristina is a municipality governed by a mayor–council system with the mayor of Pristina and the members of the Pristina municipal council responsible for the administration of Pristina municipality. The municipality is encompassed in Pristina district and consists of 43 adjacent settlements with Pristina as its seat. ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | There are many foreign cultural institutions in Pristina, including the Albanian Albanological Institute, the French Alliance Française, the British Council,
and the German Goethe-Institut and Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The Information Office of the Council of Europe was also established in Pristina.
Of 426 protected... | 2.734375 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | When highlighting the music creativity and its starts in Kosovo and the relation between it and the music creativity in Albania even though they have had their development in different circumstances, it is proved that they share some characteristics in a very natural way. This fact shows that they belong to one "Cultur... | 2.453125 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | The Prishtina International Film Festival screens prominent international cinema productions in the Balkan region and beyond, and draws attention to the Kosovar film industry. It was created after the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence. After its independence in 2008, Kosovo looked for ways to promote its cultural... | 2.28125 | 0 |
15839892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina | Pristina | Pristina is the center of sport in Kosovo, where activity is organized across amateur and professional levels, sport organizations and clubs, regulated by the Kosovo Olympic Committee and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport. Sport is organized in units called Municipal Leagues. There are seven Municipal Leagues in... | 2.234375 | 0 |
15839968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore%20railway%20line | Semaphore railway line | Semaphore railway line was a railway line in the Australian state of South Australia located in the north-west of Adelaide servicing the suburbs of Semaphore and Exeter. It had two stations: Semaphore and Exeter. The line opened in 1878 and closed in 1978.
History
The Semaphore line was extended from Port Adelaide by ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
15840319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20Queensland%20Darling%20Downs | Football Queensland Darling Downs | Football Queensland Darling Downs is a Football Queensland administrative zone encompassing the Darling Downs region and parts of South West Queensland. The zone administers major regional areas including Toowoomba, Dalby, Roma, Charleville, St George, Goondiwindi and Stanthorpe. The premier men's soccer competition is... | 2.5625 | 0 |
15840398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Giles%20%28colonial%20manager%29 | William Giles (colonial manager) | William Giles (27 December 1791 – 11 May 1862), occasionally referred to as William Giles, sen. to distinguish him from his eldest son, was the third colonial manager of the South Australian Company, and a South Australian politician, prominent in the founding of the state of South Australia.
Early life
Giles was bo... | 2.265625 | 0 |
15840417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclearelectrica | Nuclearelectrica | In the 4 steam generators, the heat in the primary circuit is taken over by the light water from the secondary circuit, by turning it into saturated steam. It expands in the turbine formed from a medium pressure body and 3 low pressure bodies, producing the mechanical energy required to actuate the electric generator.
... | 2.3125 | 0 |
15840417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclearelectrica | Nuclearelectrica | Following the termination of the previous round of negotiations, Romania and US have initialized the Intergovernmental Agreement for cooperation to develop the civil nuclear sector in Romania in October 2020, including Cernavodă NPP Unit 3 and 4 Project. Based on official governmental statements, the Project is to be d... | 2.359375 | 0 |
15840417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclearelectrica | Nuclearelectrica | 2. The ALARA principle, whose objectives must ensure the protection of the operating personnel, the population and the environment, by setting and maintaining adequate protection against radiological risks.
3. The grouping and separating principle. The grouping the systems with security functions into two grou... | 2.59375 | 0 |
15840417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclearelectrica | Nuclearelectrica | Measurements of the external gamma dose are also carried out. A network of 62 monitoring points with thermal-luminescent dosimeters for the measurement of the gamma dose has been established around the power plant and across an area with a radius of 30 km. Gamma spectrometry analyzes, global beta analyzes and specific ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
15840514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Opis | Battle of Opis | The Battle of Opis was the last major military engagement between the Achaemenid Empire and the Neo-Babylonian Empire, which took place in September 539 BC, during the Persian invasion of Mesopotamia. At the time, Babylonia was the last major power in Western Asia that was not yet under Persian control. The battle was ... | 3.0625 | 0 |
15840514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Opis | Battle of Opis | Sources
The main contemporary source of information on Cyrus's Mesopotamian campaign of 539 BC is the Nabonidus Chronicle, one of a series of clay tablets collectively known as the Babylonian Chronicles that record the history of ancient Babylonia. Some additional detail is provided by one of the few documents to have ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
15840514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Opis | Battle of Opis | At the time of the Battle of Opis, Persia was the leading power in the Near East. Its power had grown enormously under its king, Cyrus II, who had conquered a huge swathe of territory to create an empire that covered an area corresponding to the modern countries of Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan and Afgh... | 2.640625 | 0 |
15840514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Opis | Battle of Opis | The Nabonidus Chronicle records that prior to the battle, Nabonidus had ordered cult statues from outlying Babylonian cities to be brought into the capital, suggesting that the conflict had begun possibly in the winter of 540 BC. In a fragmentary section of the chronicle which is presumed to cover 540/39 BC, there is a... | 2.421875 | 0 |
15840514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Opis | Battle of Opis | In Pierre Briant's view, "This victory was followed by an immense haul of booty and the massacre of those who attempted to resist." Andrew Robert Burn comments: "Indeed on one reading of the text, Akkad broke out into open revolt, and Nabonidus' last military achievement was slaughter of rebels." Maria Brosius interpre... | 1.9375 | 0 |
15840514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Opis | Battle of Opis | Ancient Greek accounts of Cyrus's campaign and the fall of Babylon differ significantly from the cuneiform accounts preserved in the Nabonidus Chronicle and the Cyrus Cylinder, suggesting that the Greeks were drawing on—or perhaps inventing—different traditions about the conquest of Babylonia. The two ancient Greek sou... | 3.0625 | 0 |
15840514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Opis | Battle of Opis | These accounts, written long after the Persian conquest, contradict many aspects of the contemporary cuneiform evidence, which does not mention any sieges, engineering works or battles near Babylon. The cuneiform descriptions of a peaceful surrender of Babylon are corroborated by archaeological evidence from the city, ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
15840514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Opis | Battle of Opis | Historiography
The Babylonian defeat at Opis and the apparently unopposed Persian entry into Babylon ended the independence of Babylonia (although there were a number of unsuccessful revolts against later Persian rulers). That the Babylonian collapse was swift and apparently total is confirmed by the ancient accounts o... | 2.296875 | 0 |
15840694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine%20St%20John | Madeleine St John | Madeleine St John (12 November 194118 June 2006) was an Australian writer, the first Australian woman to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction (in 1997 for her novel The Essence of the Thing).
Biography
St John was born in 1941 in Castlecrag, a suburb of Sydney, and schooled at Queenwood School for Girls, Mo... | 1.953125 | 0 |
15840899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genko%20Forest%20Belt | Genko Forest Belt | Genko's Forest Belt () is a system of historic forest belts in Russia's Ulyanovsk Oblast. Planted over a century ago, it is now considered a "natural monument", and is legally protected as one of the protected areas of Ulyanovsk Oblast.
History
In 1886-1903, watershed protection forest belt planting was carried out in... | 1.9375 | 0 |
15840927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%20Jackson-class%20attack%20transport | President Jackson-class attack transport | The President Jackson-class attack transport was a class of seven US Navy attack transport that saw service in World War II.
Like all attack transports, the purpose of the President Jackson class was to transport troops and their equipment to hostile shores, and once there to execute amphibious invasions. To perform t... | 2.1875 | 0 |
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