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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Open%20Boat
The Open Boat
"The Open Boat" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). First published in 1898, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent. Crane was stranded at sea for thirty hours when his...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Open%20Boat
The Open Boat
Hired by the Bacheller newspaper syndicate to serve as a war correspondent during the Cuban insurrection against Spain, the 25-year-old Stephen Crane boarded the filibustering steamship SS Commodore on New Year's Eve, 1896. The ship sailed from Jacksonville, Florida, with 27 or 28 men and a cargo of supplies and ammuni...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Open%20Boat
The Open Boat
"The Open Boat" is divided into seven sections, each told mainly from the point of view of the correspondent, based upon Crane himself. The first part introduces the four characters—the correspondent, a condescending observer detached from the rest of the group; the captain, who is injured and morose at having lost his...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Open%20Boat
The Open Boat
The final chapter begins with the men's resolution to abandon the floundering dinghy they have occupied for thirty hours and to swim ashore. As they begin the long swim to the beach, Billie the oiler, the strongest of the four, swims ahead of the others; the captain advances towards the shore while still holding onto t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Open%20Boat
The Open Boat
Man vs. nature Similar to other Naturalist works, "The Open Boat" scrutinizes the position of man, who has been isolated not only from society, but also from God and nature. The struggle between man and the natural world is the most apparent theme in the work, and while the characters at first believe the turbulent sea...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Open%20Boat
The Open Boat
The metaphysical conflicts born from man's isolation are also important themes throughout the story, as the characters cannot rely on a higher cause or being for protection. The correspondent laments the lack of religious support, as well as his inability to blame God for his misfortunes, musing: "When it occurs to a m...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Open%20Boat
The Open Boat
Facing an ultimately detached nature, the characters find solace in human solidarity. They are often referred to collectively as "the men", rather than singularly by their professions, creating a silent understanding between them of their togetherness. The first few sentences of section three attest to this connection:...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Open%20Boat
The Open Boat
Sympathy In his 1990 book Sea-Brothers: The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present, author Bert Bender noted Crane's sympathetic portrayal of the oiler Billie, the most physically able of the four characters, and yet the only one to perish. The correspondent even notes with wonder Billie's exce...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye%20Dancer
Faye Dancer
Faye Katherine Dancer (April 24, 1925 – May 22, 2002) was a center fielder who played from through for three teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 145 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. Women in baseball The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League flourished in the 19...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye%20Dancer
Faye Dancer
After her graduation in 1941, Dancer started to play professional softball in a southern California league. In 1944, Dancer signed a contract for $75 a week, a sizeable sum in those days and also the top salary for any player in the AAGPBL. As an aside, when retired in 1950, she was earning $125 per week. Her greatest ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye%20Dancer
Faye Dancer
In 1945, Dancer dropped to .195 with 44 runs and 29 RBI, but posted a league-best three home runs. The next year she rebounded with a .250 average, 56 runs, and 43 RBI. In 1947, after 29 games with the Daisies, she was traded to the Peoria Redwings. Dancer finished the season with a combined average of .237, 51 runs an...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorted%20array
Sorted array
A sorted array is an array data structure in which each element is sorted in numerical, alphabetical, or some other order, and placed at equally spaced addresses in computer memory. It is typically used in computer science to implement static lookup tables to hold multiple values which have the same data type. Sorting ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Energy%20Commission
African Energy Commission
History In April 1980, the Assembly of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) adopted the Lagos Plan of Action (LPA) in Lagos (Nigeria). In this meeting, short-, medium- and long-term actions were proposed to remedy the main energy problems of Africa. The Assembly saw the urgent need to set up an institutional framew...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nangolo%20Mbumba
Nangolo Mbumba
Nangolo Mbumba (born 15 August 1941) is a Namibian politician who is the fourth president of Namibia. He became president after the death of Hage Geingob, under whom he had served as the second vice-president of Namibia from 2018 to 2024. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Mbumba has head...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge%20Callaghan
Marge Callaghan
Early years Callaghan is one of five children (three sisters and two brothers) into the family of Albert and Hazel (née Terryberry) Callaghan, of Irish ancestry. She grew up in a home where baseball was considered of vital importance, as her younger sister Helen teamed up with her in the AAGPBL and her nephew Casey Can...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Kurys
Sophie Kurys
Sophie Kurys (May 14, 1925 – February 17, 2013) was a former second basewoman who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , , Kurys batted and threw right-handed. Career A native of Flint, Michigan, Kurys was by far the greatest base stealer in the All-American Girls Pr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Kurys
Sophie Kurys
A founding member of the AAGPBL when it was organized in 1943, Kurys entered the league with the Racine Belles, playing for them for eight years. Her most productive season came in 1946, when she reached base 215 times and stole 201 bases in 203 attempts, while hitting a .286 batting average with league-leads in runs (...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRFC%20%28AM%29
WRFC (AM)
On February 20, 1971, NORAD broadcast a normal required weekly test of the Emergency Broadcast System. However, AT&T reported that the U.S. Air Force used the wrong tape by accident, initiating an Emergency Action Notification, normally issued by the president. It prompted all north Georgia radio stations by order of t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Coast%20Guard
China Coast Guard
The China Coast Guard (CCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the People's Armed Police of China. The Coast Guard is an armed gendarmerie force (of corps grade), and its cutters are armed. History The China Coast Guard was formed in 2013 by combining the maritime branch...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Coast%20Guard
China Coast Guard
The CCG also serves as an armed border guard, protecting China's claimed maritime borders, which often leads to conflict and controversy. As a constituent part of the Chinese Armed Forces (being subordinate to the PAP), on wartime it would be placed under the operational control of the People's Liberation Army Navy, in...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Coast%20Guard
China Coast Guard
International cooperation International cooperation and coordination is one of the official tasks of the CCG. Part of this is cooperation with friendly nations for mutually beneficial tasks (such as cooperating with Russia in fishery operations, as part of the plan for the opening and operation of an Arctic passage). ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Coast%20Guard
China Coast Guard
In March 2007, it was reported that the PLAN had transferred two repurposed Type 053 Frigates (renamed Type 728 cutter after the remodeling) (44102, ex-509 Changde; 46103, ex-510 Shaoxing) to the Coast Guard and re-numbered them as Haijing 1002 & Haijing 1003. At the time these ships were the largest vessels in the C...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theater%20Breaking%20Through%20Barriers
Theater Breaking Through Barriers
Theater Breaking Through Barriers (TBTB), formerly Theater By the Blind, is an inclusive theater company in New York City that strives develop the talents of individuals with disabilities for work onstage, backstage, in the office and in the audience. It was founded in 1979 by Ike Schambelan(who died of cancer in 2015...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithukuli%20Murugadas
Pithukuli Murugadas
Pithukuli Murugadas (25 January 1920 – 17 November 2015) was a devotional singer from Tamil Nadu, India. He was best known for his compositions on the Hindu deity Murugan. Life Pithukuli Murugadas was born as Balasubramanian in Coimbatore to Alamelu and Sundaram Iyer in a devout Tamil Brahmin family. At the age of se...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell%20Osteen
Darrell Osteen
Milton Darrell Osteen (February 14, 1943 – October 22, 2017) was an American professional baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds and the Oakland Athletics from 1965 to 1970. A right-handed pitcher, he was signed as an amateur free agent in 1962 by the Reds, and was traded to the Athletics on November 21, 1967. He was ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratory%20of%20the%20Good%20Shepherd
Oratory of the Good Shepherd
Each province of the oratory also includes "companions", who are part of the oratory family. Companions, after a period of probation, promise to keep a rule of life based on the rule observed by the professed brethren. They seek to attend the Eucharist on Sundays and some weekdays, to pray regularly, to spend time in r...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20George%27s%20Basilica%2C%20Prague
St. George's Basilica, Prague
In the years 1364–1378 the abbess Elisabetta completed the renovation of the chapel of Santa Ludmilla in the Gothic style, while the chapel's altar was consecrated in 1371 by Archbishop Jan Očko of Vlašim. During the 15th century, the monastery was devastated during the Hussite Wars and rebuilt after the return of the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%E2%80%93Maxwell%E2%80%93Poisson%20distribution
Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the Conway–Maxwell–Poisson (CMP or COM–Poisson) distribution is a discrete probability distribution named after Richard W. Conway, William L. Maxwell, and Siméon Denis Poisson that generalizes the Poisson distribution by adding a parameter to model overdispersion and underdispersio...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Odermatt
Arnold Odermatt
A colleague observed Odermatt as he took pictures for the force and was suspicious. He was ordered to report to his commander immediately. Odermatt managed to convince his superiors of the pioneering work he was doing. They allowed him to convert an old toilet in an observation post in Stans into a makeshift darkroom. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanized%20Infantry%20%28Ukraine%29
Mechanized Infantry (Ukraine)
Mechanized Infantry Forces of Ukraine () are the general basis and primary combat formations of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. They execute tasks of holding the occupied areas, lines and positions tasks of enemy's impacts repelling, of penetrating the enemy's defense lines, defeating the enemy forces, capturing the impor...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanized%20Infantry%20%28Ukraine%29
Mechanized Infantry (Ukraine)
Battalions armed with variants of the BTR family (BTR-70, BTR-80, BTR-3, BTR-4) notionally will have 600 personnel mounted in 45 vehicles. Battalions armed with variants of the BMP family of vehicles (BMP-1, BMP-2) notionally will have 520 personnel mounted in 40 vehicles. Motorized Infantry Battalion After the 2016...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal%20Torres
Wal Torres
Wal Torres (born March 30, 1950, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian gender therapist and sexologist. Biography A graduate of the University of São Paulo Polytechnic School (USP) in Engineering, Torres has a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the PUC (Pontifícia Universidade Católica), among other related qualifications. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey%20to%20the%20Center%20of%20the%20Earth%20%281989%20film%29
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1989 film)
Journey to the Center of the Earth is an American 1989 fantasy film directed by Rusty Lemorande and starring Nicola Cowper and Paul Carafotes. It was a nominal sequel to the 1988 film Alien from L.A., both of which are very loosely based on the 1864 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. Plot summary...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Clarkson
Steve Clarkson
Clarkson organizes various football camps and programs, such as the Super 7 program held in different cities. His training has been noted for involving significant classroom sessions in addition to on-field training. Controversy Clarkson was featured in a CBS "60 Minutes" segment by Morley Safer. The segment aired o...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demas%20T.%20Craw
Demas T. Craw
Demas Thurlow "Nick" Craw (April 9, 1900 – November 8, 1942) was a United States Army Air Forces officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II. Craw and Maj. Pierpont M. Hamilton were the first Army Air Forces recipients of the Medal in the...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demas%20T.%20Craw
Demas T. Craw
In September 1937, Craw was assigned as a student to the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, graduating June 20, 1938. His next billet was as Inspector General and Assistant Intelligence Officer, General Headquarters Air Force, at Langley Field, Virginia. On March 11, 1940, Craw was promoted to major. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demas%20T.%20Craw
Demas T. Craw
Medal of Honor action On November 8, 1942, French forces resisted Allied landing operations and Craw undertook the mission with Hamilton. The officers intended to land at a jetty on the Sebou River near French headquarters, but the alerted French defenders began shelling the landing force, and they instead came ashore ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demas%20T.%20Craw
Demas T. Craw
Medal of Honor citation Colonel Craw's official Medal of Honor citation reads: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action above and beyond the call of duty. On November 8, 1942, near Port Lyautey, French Morocco, Col. Craw volunteered to accompany the leading wave of assault boats to the shore and pass throug...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Rudolf
Anna Rudolf
Outside of her playing career, Rudolf is a regular chess commentator at high-profile tournaments, having worked with both Chess.com and chess24. She was the official commentator for the 2018 World Chess Championship together with her childhood idol Judit Polgár. She had started producing instructional videos for chess2...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Rudolf
Anna Rudolf
Rudolf primarily plays 1.e4 (the King's Pawn Game) compared to 1.d4 (the Queen's Pawn Game) or other first moves. When playing against 1.e4, she prefers to respond with the French Defence (1.e4 e6), which she often continues with the Tarrasch Morozevich variation (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Be7). When facing 1.d4, she commo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleofection
Nucleofection
Nucleofection is an electroporation-based transfection method which enables transfer of nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA into cells by applying a specific voltage and reagents. Nucleofection, also referred to as nucleofector technology, was invented by the biotechnology company Amaxa. "Nucleofector" and "nucleofection...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleofection
Nucleofection
Mechanism Based on the physical method of electroporation, nucleofection uses a combination of electrical parameters, generated by a device called Nucleofector, with cell-type specific reagents. The substrate is transferred directly into the cell nucleus and the cytoplasm. In contrast, other commonly used non-viral tr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumardagh
Drumardagh
Drumardagh () is a townland in the east of County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland. The townland is about 5 kilometres (around 3 miles) east of Letterkenny in the Laggan district of East Donegal. The townland is just outside the village of Manorcunningham. The Isle Burn flows along the eastern boundary of the townland. The I...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20politics
Scientific politics
Scientific politics was a late 19th-century political theory based on the positivist philosophy of Auguste Comte. Proponents of scientific politics advocated a society and political system that was to be organized in accordance with the laws of nature. Scientific politics was considered to be a sort of liberalism, mor...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Combat%20Communications%20Squadron
1st Combat Communications Squadron
The 1st Combat Communications Squadron is a military communications unit of the United States Air Force. It is part of the 435th Air Ground Operations Wing, United States Air Forces in Europe. It is located at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The squadron traces its history to the constitution of the 1st Airways and Air C...
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15847153
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer-Marsh%20House
Palmer-Marsh House
The Palmer-Marsh House is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark on Main Street south of Carteret Street in Bath, North Carolina. Built in 1744, it is one of the oldest residences in North Carolina, and is a well-preserved example of a large colonial town house with a commercial space built in. It was...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Carolina%20Highway%2092
North Carolina Highway 92
History NC 92 first appeared on the June 1, 1926 edition of the North Carolina State Transportation map. The western terminus of the highway was located at NC 91 northeast of Jessama. From that point, it ran to the southeast, ending in Bath. All of NC 92 was paved at the time of establishment. By 1933, the eastern term...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland%2C%20British%20Columbia
Falkland, British Columbia
Falkland is an unincorporated community located in the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. Recognized as being home to one of Canada's largest Canadian flags, and the annual Falkland Stampede, the Falkland area has a wide array of lakes, which are used for fishing and recreation. Town hist...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Edward%20County%20High%20School
Prince Edward County High School
Prince Edward County High School is a public high school located in the Farmville area of Prince Edward County, Virginia. The high school is part of the Prince Edward County School Division. The division consists of three Schools: Prince Edward County Elementary School, Prince Edward County Middle School and the Prince...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20Office%20for%20Disarmament%20Affairs
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
The UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) () is an Office of the United Nations Secretariat established in January 1998 as the Department for Disarmament Affairs, part of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's plan to reform the UN as presented in his report to the General Assembly in July 1997. Its goal is...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20Office%20for%20Disarmament%20Affairs
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs comprises five branches: Conference on Disarmament Secretariat and Conference Support Branch (Geneva), Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch (WMD), Conventional Arms (including Practical Disarmament) Branch (CAB), the Information and Outreach Branch (IOB) and, Regional Dis...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelmonops%20truncatus
Chelmonops truncatus
Chelmonops truncatus, the eastern talma or truncate coralfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish from the family Chaetodontidae. It is endemic to Australia. Description Chelmonops truncatus bears a close resemblance to the Western talma (C. curiosus), the main difference being that the dorsal fin...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Henry%20Emerson
William Henry Emerson
William Henry "Big Doc" Emerson (June 17, 1860 – November 13, 1924) was an American chemistry professor and dean at Georgia Tech. Life William Henry Emerson was born in Tunnel Hill, Georgia in 1860 to Matilda Caroline Austin, daughter of Clisbe Austin, and Caleb J. Emerson. He joined the United States Naval Academy at...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biak%20language
Biak language
Sociolinguistic situation Despite the comparatively high number of speakers compared to some other Austronesian languages, Biak is still in danger of extinction. Within the main towns, the generation of speakers aged between 20 and 50 have only passive knowledge of the language and rarely use the language actively, ins...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biak%20language
Biak language
The table above restricts person-SPC to 3SG marker for an explanation, but 3SG marker can be replaced (DU), (TR), and (PL.AN) or (PL.INAN). Also, it is important to note that the corpus contains no example of complex articles containing both a directional and a motion marker. Furthermore, and are used as allomor...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biak%20language
Biak language
Locative-existentials Locative-existentials is different from predicative pronouns because they do not possess a specificity marker, which is illustrated by '3SG.PRED-over.there'. In (13), the use of the demonstrative depends on the context. Semantics Demonstratives For the semantic characterization of demonstra...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20longnose%20butterflyfish
Yellow longnose butterflyfish
Territoriality Being territorial, yellow longnose butterflyfish patrol their patches of coral with a monogamous partner. However, instances of overt aggression among F. flavissimus have been observed between territory holders and individuals of the same sex. Chasing is rare, but when it does occur, males chase males...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Doughty%20Bartlett
Paul Doughty Bartlett
Paul Doughty Bartlett (August 14, 1907 – October 11, 1997) was an American chemist. Life and career Bartlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and grew up in Indianapolis. He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1928. After his graduation from Harvard with James Bryant Conant, Bartlett worked at the Rockefeller In...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dujail%20massacre
Dujail massacre
The Dujail massacre was a mass killing of Shiite rebels by the Ba'athist Iraqi government on 8 July 1982 in Dujail, Iraq. The massacre was committed in retaliation to an earlier assassination attempt by the Iranian-backed Islamic Dawa Party against the then President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. The town of Dujail had a la...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dujail%20massacre
Dujail massacre
After nearly two years in detention, around 400 detainees, primarily family members of the 148 who had confessed to involvement, were sent into internal exile in a remote part of southern Iraq. The remaining detainees were released and sent back to Dujail. Trial and execution of suspects Following the 1982 confessions...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonietta%20Meo
Antonietta Meo
Meo viewed the loss of her leg as a sacrifice to Jesus for the conversion of sinners. "I am very happy that Jesus gave me this problem so that I may be his dearest one," she told her father after her leg was amputated. She also remarked, "Pain is like fabric, the stronger it is, the more it's worth" to her father on a ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonietta%20Meo
Antonietta Meo
Canonization efforts Before 1981, the Vatican Congregation for Saints required that a candidate for sainthood reach some level of maturity. In 1981, it relaxed that rule, declaring that "it is possible to speak of a human being being precocious in their sense of good and evil". The Catholic Church commemorates the Ho...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Azure%20Dev%20Tools%20for%20Teaching
Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching
Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching or simply Azure Dev Tools for Teaching is a Microsoft program to provide students with Microsoft software design, Microsoft developer tools, Cloud Computing Access and learning resources. The program is available for university/college and K-12 students Azure for Student and Azure...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20G8
HMS G8
HMS G8 was a G-class submarine of the Royal Navy that saw service during World War I, costing an estimated £125,000. Description The G-class submarines were designed by the Admiralty in response to a rumour that the Germans were building double-hulled submarines for overseas duties. The submarines had a length of ove...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative%20prayer
Affirmative prayer
Affirmative prayer is a form of prayer or a metaphysical technique that is focused on a positive outcome rather than a negative situation. For instance, a person who is experiencing some form of illness would focus the prayer on the desired state of perfect health and affirm this desired intention "as if already happen...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%20E.%20Crain
Morris E. Crain
Morris E. Crain (October 7, 1924 – March 13, 1945) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II. Biography Crain joined the Army from Paducah, Kentucky in March 1943, and by March 13, 1945, was serving as a techni...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%20E.%20Crain
Morris E. Crain
He led his platoon against powerful German forces during the struggle to enlarge the bridgehead across the Moder River. With great daring and aggressiveness he spearheaded the platoon in killing 10 enemy soldiers, capturing 12 more and securing its objective near an important road junction. Although heavy concentration...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Park%20School%2C%20Yeovil
The Park School, Yeovil
The Park School (Yeovil) was an independent, co-educational day school, near Yeovil, Somerset, England. It had 250 students from Reception to sixth form and was the only independent school in Yeovil. Based in Yeovil since its foundation in 1851, the school moved to Chilton Cantelo in 2017–2018 where it maintained Junio...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazian%20railway
Abkhazian railway
On 15 May 2009, the President of Abkhazia, Sergei Bagapsh, announced, that Abkhazia's railway and airport would be transferred to Russia with management rights for ten years, a decision, which caused a negative outcry in Abkhazia. According to the Abkhaz tycoon and opposition party leader, Beslan Butba, this has led to...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karka%E1%B9%ADa
Karkaṭa
Karkaṭa, also referred to as Karka or Karkatha, is a month in the Indian solar calendar. It corresponds to the zodiacal sign of Cancer, and overlaps approximately with the later half of July and early half of August in the Gregorian calendar. In Vedic texts, the Karka month is called Suchi (IAST: Śuchi), but in these ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20L.%20Rasmussen
Robert L. Rasmussen
Post Navy career Due to his prowess as an artist, his knowledge of US Naval Aviation history, and his lengthy aviation career, he was asked to join the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation as vice president upon his retirement. In 1987, he fleeted up to director and oversaw the museum’s expansion in which its size and oper...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane%20Farm%20Animal%20Care
Humane Farm Animal Care
Humane Farm Animal Care is a nonprofit organization established to promote and administer its certification and labeling program, Certified Humane Raised & Handled, for meat, dairy, eggs and poultry raised under its animal care standards in the US. It is governed by a board of directors and retains a scientific committ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3l%20%C3%93%20Foighil
Pól Ó Foighil
Pól Ó Foighil (1 June 1928 – 21 March 2005) was an Irish politician and activist for Irish-speaking, coastal and island communities. A teacher turned co-operative manager, he was an active member of the Fine Gael party, and as a long-serving councillor he was the party's only elected representative in the Connemara Gae...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal%20Massey
Cal Massey
Career In the mid-1950s, Massey led an ensemble in Philadelphia with Jimmy Garrison, McCoy Tyner, and Tootie Heath. On occasion, guests including John Coltrane and Donald Byrd played with Massey's group. According to jazz researcher Fred Ho, after his move to Brooklyn, Massey put together a new group. Tenor saxophonis...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Queen%20%28Through%20the%20Looking-Glass%29
Red Queen (Through the Looking-Glass)
The Red Queen is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Lewis Carroll's fantasy 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass. She is often confused with the Queen of Hearts from the previous book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), although the two are very different. Overview With a motif of Through the Looki...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Ball%20%28American%20author%29
Edward Ball (American author)
Edward Ball (born 1958) is an American author who has written multiple works on topics such as history and biography. He is best known for works that explore the complex past of his family, whose members were major rice planters and slaveholders in South Carolina for nearly 300 years. One of his more well known works i...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Ball%20%28American%20author%29
Edward Ball (American author)
Early years and education Edward Ball was born in 1958 in Savannah, Georgia to parents with deep roots in the South. He is a son of Theodore Ball, an Episcopal priest, and Janet (Rowley) Ball, a bookkeeper. Ball grew up in Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, as his family moved following his father's churc...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Ball%20%28American%20author%29
Edward Ball (American author)
Edward Ball conducted research that went far beyond this work, as he traced numerous slaves named in records, including some who appeared in photographs held by the family. He has recounted the life of an enslaved African woman named Priscilla by his Ball ancestor. She was captured from the area of present-day Sierra L...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Ball%20%28American%20author%29
Edward Ball (American author)
In this book, Ball also explored the life of Louis Charles Roudanez, a prominent homme de couleur libre, or free man of color, a contemporary in New Orleans of the Lecorgne family. Creoles of color (who like other ethnic French still mostly spoke French), were often descendants of white French or ethnic French fathers ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Ball%20%28American%20author%29
Edward Ball (American author)
Selected works The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the South (Morrow, 2001) — The history of the Harlestons, a prosperous black family who were descendants of a white Southern slaveholder and his enslaved black cook. They struggled after the end of the Civil War to create a dynasty in art and m...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20C.%20T.%20Chao
Edward C. T. Chao
Scientific contributions Chao worked on a variety of topics over the course of his USGS career, including engineering geology, economic geology, and coal petrology. However, he was best known for his work on impact geology and tektites. Shortly after he began work on tektites in 1960, Chao was given a sample of sands...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rim%20joist
Rim joist
In the framing of a deck or floor system, a rim joist is attached perpendicular to the joists, and provides lateral support for the ends of the joists while capping off the end of the floor or deck system. Rim joists are not to be confused with end joists, which are the first and last joists at the ends of a row of joi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%20B.%20Craft
Clarence B. Craft
He was a rifleman when his platoon spearheaded an attack on Hen Hill, the tactical position on which the entire Naha-Shuri-Yonaburu line of Japanese defense on Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, was hinged. For 12 days our forces had been stalled, and repeated, heavy assaults by 1 battalion and then another had been thrown back ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Wyatt
Greg Wyatt
Greg Wyatt is an American representational sculptor who works primarily in cast bronze, and is the sculptor-in-residence at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City. Wyatt was born in Nyack, New York and raised in Grand View-on-Hudson, New York. His father was William Stanley Wyatt, a painter and ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%20Camp
Sykes Camp
Sykes Camp is located from the Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park trailhead along the Pine Ridge Trail. There were seven campsites along both sides of the Big Sur River upstream and downstream from where the trail intersects the river. There was a pit toilet downstream of this intersection. Description Sykes is accessible...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20World%20Stages
New World Stages
New World Stages is a five-theater, Off-Broadway performing arts complex in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is between 49th and 50th Streets beneath the plaza of the Worldwide Plaza complex at Eighth Avenue. History Constructed on the site of the third Madison Square Garden, New World...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.44%20Russian
.44 Russian
The .44 Russian / 10.9x24mmR, (commonly known as the .44 S&W Russian), is a black-powder center-fire metallic revolver cartridge developed and produced by Smith & Wesson in 1870. The .44 Russian design was the first use of an internally lubricated bullet in modern firearm ammunition. Development history In the early 1...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla%20%28Burney%20novel%29
Camilla (Burney novel)
Mrs Tyrold allowed Eugenia to join the festivities only on the promise that the party of young people would not leave the grounds of Cleves because the girl had not yet been inoculated against smallpox. Unfortunately, Lionel's mischievous and restless nature leads him to convince his uncle to allow the entire party of ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla%20%28Burney%20novel%29
Camilla (Burney novel)
Main characters Camilla is the seventeen-year-old protagonist of the novel. She is in love with Edgar Mandlebert but frequent misunderstandings prevent their union. Frances Burney decided on the name 'Camilla' for her heroine shortly before the novel's publication. At one time she was called Clarinda, but most frequent...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag%20XI-A
Stalag XI-A
Stalag XI-A (also known as Stalag 341) was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp (Stammlager), located just to the east of the village of Altengrabow and in the south of Dörnitz in Saxony-Anhalt, about south-west of Berlin. Camp history Pre-war The camp was located on Truppenübungsplatz Altengrabow ("Altengrabo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Underdogs%20%28novel%29
The Underdogs (novel)
The whole novel has various reading levels and the character names represent forces or ideals beyond the characters themselves. Some of them are prototypes of the kind of people that were dragged into the revolution, like Demetrio, whose name is associated with the goddess of farming and agriculture Demeter; La Pintada...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Underdogs%20%28novel%29
The Underdogs (novel)
Characters Demetrio Macías: He is a tall and well-built man with a sanguine face and beardless chin. He wears a shirt and trouser of white cloth, broad Mexican hat, and leather sandals. He leads a group of men fighting against the federal forces of Victoriano Huerta. He is famous for his marksmanship and his ability to...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Underdogs%20%28novel%29
The Underdogs (novel)
The first edition was an astounding success, receiving mostly positive critics from the Americans and even from the author himself, even if many questioned the name given as they think it didn't capture the true meaning of the expression Los de Abajo in Spanish, related more to the oppressed, the poor ones, those witho...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy%20II
Freddy II
Freddy (1969–1971) and Freddy II (1973–1976) were experimental robots built in the Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception (later Department of Artificial Intelligence, now part of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh). Technology Technical innovations involving Freddy were at the forefro...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy%20II
Freddy II
Freddy II (1973–1976) was a 5 degrees of freedom manipulator with a large vertical 'hand' that could move up and down, rotate about the vertical axis and rotate objects held in its gripper around one horizontal axis. Two remaining translational degrees of freedom were generated by a work surface that moved beneath the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ%20concerto
Organ concerto
An organ concerto is an orchestral piece of music in which a pipe organ soloist is accompanied by an an orchestra, although some works exist with the name "concerto" which are for organ alone. The orchestral form first evolved in the 18th century, when composers including Antonio Vivaldi and George Frideric Handel ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getafe%20CF
Getafe CF
Getafe Club de Fútbol S.A.D. () is a Spanish professional football club based in Getafe, a city in the Community of Madrid. They compete in La Liga, the top tier of the Spanish football. The team has played its home matches in the 16,500-capacity Estadio Coliseum since 1998. Founded in 1946 and refounded in 1983, the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getafe%20CF
Getafe CF
In 1978, the club advanced to play against Barcelona in the Copa del Rey round of 16. Playing at home in the first leg, Getafe drew with a star-studded Barcelona team 3–3, before traveling away for the second leg and being thrashed 8–0 at the Camp Nou. At the conclusion of the 1981–82 season, players having not been p...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getafe%20CF
Getafe CF
Consolidating their position after one year, Getafe had a fantastic season in Segunda. At the top of the table for most of the year, the side travelled to the Canary Islands on the final matchday needing a win to assure a historic promotion to La Liga, the top-flight. Amazingly, they defeated Tenerife 5–3 with five goa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20interface%20guidelines
Human interface guidelines
Human interface guidelines (HIG) are software development documents which offer application developers a set of recommendations. Their aim is to improve the experience for the users by making application interfaces more intuitive, learnable, and consistent. Most guides limit themselves to defining a common look and f...
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