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958066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro%20Cataldi | Pietro Cataldi | Pietro Antonio Cataldi (15 April 1548, Bologna – 11 February 1626, Bologna) was an Italian mathematician. A citizen of Bologna, he taught mathematics and astronomy and also worked on military problems. His work included the development of simple continued fractions and a method for their representation. He was one of m... | 2.75 | 0 |
958115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterobacterales | Enterobacterales | Enterobacterales is an order of Gram-negative, non-spore forming, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria with the class Gammaproteobacteria. The type genus of this order is Enterobacter.
The name Enterobacterales is derived from the Latin term Enterobacter, referring the type genus of the order and the suffix "-... | 2.21875 | 0 |
958117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen%20assimilation | Nitrogen assimilation | Nitrogen assimilation is the formation of organic nitrogen compounds like amino acids from inorganic nitrogen compounds present in the environment. Organisms like plants, fungi and certain bacteria that can fix nitrogen gas (N2) depend on the ability to assimilate nitrate or ammonia for their needs. Other organisms, l... | 3.328125 | 0 |
958117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen%20assimilation | Nitrogen assimilation | Nitrate reduction is carried out in two steps. Nitrate is first reduced to nitrite (NO2−) in the cytosol by nitrate reductase using NADH or NADPH. Nitrite is then reduced to ammonia in the chloroplasts (plastids in roots) by a ferredoxin dependent nitrite reductase. In photosynthesizing tissues, it uses an isoform of f... | 2.90625 | 0 |
958117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen%20assimilation | Nitrogen assimilation | Plants that reduce nitrates in the shoots and excrete alkali from their roots need to transport the alkali in an inert form from the shoots to the roots. To achieve this they synthesize malic acid in the leaves from neutral precursors like carbohydrates. The potassium ions brought to the leaves along with the nitrate i... | 3.15625 | 0 |
958118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepomuk | Nepomuk | Nepomuk (; ) is a town in Plzeň-South District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,500 inhabitants. It is known as the birthplace of Saint John of Nepomuk, who was born here around 1340.
Administrative parts
The town is made up of two administrative parts: Nepomuk and Dvorec.
Etymology
The town ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
958129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20Arthur%20Burrows | Theodore Arthur Burrows | Theodore Arthur Burrows (August 15, 1857 – January 18, 1929) was a politician and office-holder in Manitoba, Canada. He served as the tenth Lieutenant Governor of the province from October 6, 1926 until his death.
Burrows was born in Ottawa, Canada West (now Ontario), where his grandfather had been a pioneer settler.... | 2.34375 | 0 |
958133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kladruby%20%28Tachov%20District%29 | Kladruby (Tachov District) | Kladruby () is a town in Tachov District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,700 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The villages of Brod u Stříbra, Láz, Milevo, Pozorka, Tuněchody and Vrbice u Stříbra are administrative parts of Kladruby.
Etymology
The name Kladruby is a common Czech name of sett... | 2.046875 | 0 |
958139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS%20Laconia%20%281911%29 | RMS Laconia (1911) | On 25 February 1917, she was torpedoed by northwest by west of Fastnet while returning from the United States to England with 75 passengers (34 first class and 41 second class) and a crew of 217 commanded by Captain Irvine. The first torpedo struck the liner on the starboard side just abaft the engine room, but did n... | 2.5625 | 0 |
958151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS%20Laconia%20%281921%29 | RMS Laconia (1921) | Collisions
On 8 September 1925, Laconia collided with the British schooner Lucia P. Dow in the Atlantic Ocean east of Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. Laconia towed the schooner for before handing the tow over to the American tug Resolute. By 1930 her call sign was GJCD, and in 1934 this superseded her code l... | 2.640625 | 0 |
958151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS%20Laconia%20%281921%29 | RMS Laconia (1921) | During the period June–August 1941 Laconia returned to Saint John, New Brunswick and was refitted, then returned to Liverpool to be used as a troop transport for the rest of the war. On 12 September 1941, she arrived at Bidston Dock, Birkenhead and was taken over by Cammell Laird and Company to be converted. By early 1... | 2.703125 | 0 |
958151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS%20Laconia%20%281921%29 | RMS Laconia (1921) | At 9:11 pm Laconia sank, bow first, her stern rising to be vertical, with Sharp himself and many of the Italian prisoners still on board. The prospects for those who escaped the ship were only slightly better; sharks were common in the area and the lifeboats were adrift in the mid-Atlantic with little hope of rescue.
... | 2.40625 | 0 |
958154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villarreal%20CF | Villarreal CF | Villarreal Club de Fútbol, S.A.D., usually abbreviated to Villarreal CF, is a Spanish professional football club based in Villarreal, in the Castellón province of eastern Spain, that plays in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.
Founded in 1923, the club spent much time of its history in the lower divisions of... | 2.09375 | 0 |
958154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villarreal%20CF | Villarreal CF | There were back-to-back promotions as the club returned to Segunda B and finished second, earning promotion to Segunda A for the first time. From 1992 to 1997, Villarreal were often in low or mid-table positions, but reached the play-offs in 1997–98 by finishing fourth. The two-legged play-off was against Compostela. V... | 1.984375 | 0 |
958156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape%20fantasy | Rape fantasy | A rape fantasy (sometimes referred to as rapeplay) or a ravishment is a sexual fantasy involving imagining or pretending being coerced or forcefully coercing another into sexual activity. In sexual roleplay, it involves acting out roles of coercive sex. Rape pornography is literature, images or video associated with ra... | 1.953125 | 0 |
958157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aitken%20%28crater%29 | Aitken (crater) | Aitken is a large lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, named for Robert Grant Aitken, an American astronomer specializing in binary stellar systems. It is located to the southeast of the crater Heaviside, and north of the unusual formation Van de Graaff. Attached to the southwest rim is Vertregt.... | 2.484375 | 0 |
958162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrosomonadales | Nitrosomonadales | The Nitrosomonadales are an order of the class Betaproteobacteria in the phylum Pseudomonadota. Like all members of their class, they are Gram-negative.
The order is divided into six families:
Nitrosomonadaceae (type family) comprises the genera Nitrosomonas (type genus), Nitrosolobus and Nitrosospira.
Methylophil... | 2.34375 | 0 |
958169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Duncan%20McGregor | James Duncan McGregor | James Duncan McGregor (August 29, 1860 – March 15, 1935) was a Canadian agricultural pioneer and officeholder. He served as the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba between 1929 and 1934.
McGregor was born in Amherstburg, Canada West (now Ontario), and was educated at public schools in Windsor but did not attend colle... | 2.40625 | 0 |
958171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalet | Chalet | A chalet (pronounced in British English; in American English usually ), also called Swiss chalet, is a type of building or house, typical of the Alpine region in Europe. It is made of wood, with a heavy, gently sloping roof and wide, well-supported eaves set at right angles to the front of the house.
Definition and... | 2.40625 | 0 |
958171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalet | Chalet | Nowadays, in North America and elsewhere in the world, the use of the word chalet can refer to more than just a mountain location. The term chalet is even used to describe resort-like homes or residential properties located by the beach. For example, in Lebanon a chalet usually refers to holiday homes at one of the six... | 2.296875 | 0 |
958174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriente%20Province | Oriente Province | Oriente (, "East") was the easternmost province of Cuba until 1976. The term "Oriente" is still used to refer to the eastern part of the country, which currently is divided into five different provinces.
The origins of Oriente lie in the 1607 division of Cuba into a western and eastern administration. The eastern part... | 2.578125 | 0 |
958174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriente%20Province | Oriente Province | History
Diego Velazquez founded the capital of Oriente province in 1514 and named it Santiago de Cuba. The province comprises 22 municipalities and is Cuba's largest province containing about one third of the country's population. Oriente Province is in the most eastern region of Cuba with a population of 1,797,606. It... | 3.046875 | 0 |
958177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra%20T.%20Benson | Ezra T. Benson | Ezra Taft Benson (February 22, 1811 – September 3, 1869) (commonly referred to as Ezra T. Benson to distinguish him from his great-grandson of the same name) was an apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Early life
Benson was born in M... | 2.34375 | 0 |
958177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra%20T.%20Benson | Ezra T. Benson | Missionary service
Benson served as a church missionary in the United States, Europe, and the Sandwich Islands. His first mission in the 1840s took him to his birthplace of Mendon, Massachusetts. On this journey he also preached in Chambersburg, Illinois. During his second mission, Benson was in New Jersey, serving wit... | 2.25 | 0 |
958182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi%20%28crater%29 | Al-Khwarizmi (crater) | Al-Khwarizmi is a lunar impact crater located on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the southeast of the crater Moiseev, and northeast of Saenger.
The western inner wall of Al-Khwarizmi is much wider than along the eastern side. The eastern rim overlays a pair of craters, including Al-Khwarizmi J. The outer wall is ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
958198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1diz%20CF | Cádiz CF | Cádiz Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. is a Spanish professional football club based in Cádiz, Andalusia.
Founded in 1910, the club competes in Segunda División, holding home games at Nuevo Mirandilla, with a seating capacity of 20,724.
Salvadoran legend Mágico González played for the club during the 1980s and the early 1990s, ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
958198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1diz%20CF | Cádiz CF | Cádiz played the first complete season 1939–40 in Segunda División after the Spanish Civil War. The club finished 1st in the Group 5 with 11 wins in 14 games. That season the coach position was occupied by Santiago Núñez, who was also a player, and the key roles were played by Roldán, Díaz, Mateo, the goalkeeper Bueno,... | 2.078125 | 0 |
958209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Dato | Eduardo Dato | Eduardo Dato e Iradier (12 August 1856 – 8 March 1921) was a Spanish political leader during the Spanish Restoration period. He served three times as Spanish prime minister: from 27 October 1913 to 9 December 1915, from 11 June 1917 to 3 November 1917, and from 28 April 1920 until his assassination by Catalan anarchist... | 2.234375 | 0 |
958211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20beaked%20gecko | Western beaked gecko | The western beaked gecko (Rhynchoedura ornata) is a species of gecko found throughout the interior of Australia.
Taxonomy
The species was first described by Albert Günther in 1867.
It is placed in the Rhynchoedura genus, which are found throughout Australasia. This group shares characteristics with several species of ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
958226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative%20divisions%20of%20Ukraine | Administrative divisions of Ukraine | On 16 March 2014, after the occupation of Crimea by the Russian military, a referendum on joining the Russian Federation was held. A majority of votes supported the measure. On 21 March 2014, the Russian Duma voted to annex Crimea as a subject into the Russian Federation. The Ukrainian government does not recognize the... | 2.3125 | 0 |
958230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamellophone | Lamellophone | A lamellophone (also lamellaphone or linguaphone) is a member of the family of musical instruments that makes its sound by a thin vibrating plate called a lamella or tongue, which is fixed at one end and has the other end free. When the musician depresses the free end of a plate with a finger or fingernail, and then al... | 3.328125 | 0 |
958233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Johnston%20Tupper | William Johnston Tupper | William Johnston Tupper (29 June 1862 – 17 December 1947) was a politician and office holder in Manitoba, Canada. He served as the province's 12th Lieutenant Governor from 1934 to 1940.
Tupper was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of Charles Tupper (who later served as Premier of Nova Scotia from 1863 to 1867, an... | 2.046875 | 0 |
958239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADmbula | Marímbula | The marímbula () is a plucked box musical instrument of the Caribbean. In Cuba it is common in the changüí genre, as well as old styles of son. In Mexico, where it is known as marimbol is played in son jarocho; in the Dominican Republic, where it is known as marimba, it is played in merengue típico, and in Jamaica it i... | 2.921875 | 0 |
958239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADmbula | Marímbula | African slaves of the Caribbean made musical instruments from whatever stray material they could lay their hands on. Early marimbulas were made from discarded wooden packing crates, with tongues (keys) made of springy wood, bamboo, old hack-saw blades, all kinds of discarded springs, etc. The musician sits on top of th... | 3.046875 | 0 |
958249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liard%20River | Liard River | The Liard River of the North American boreal forest flows through Yukon, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, Canada. Rising in the Saint Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains in southeastern Yukon, it flows southeast through British Columbia, marking the northern end of the Rocky Mountains and then curving nor... | 2.828125 | 0 |
958249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liard%20River | Liard River | The first European to traverse most of the river was John McLeod of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Leaving Fort Simpson on June 28, 1831, McLeod and eight others ascended the river, reaching and naming the Dease River in just over six weeks. Four days later, they reached the Frances River, and mistakenly ascended it... | 2.625 | 0 |
958249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liard%20River | Liard River | The Liard River originates in south-eastern part of the Yukon, on the slopes of Mount Lewis, at , at an elevation of . It flows south and east, between the ranges of Pelly Mountains, then south through the Yukon Plateau, where it receives the waters of Prospect Creek. It turns east after it receives the waters of the C... | 2.359375 | 0 |
958249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liard%20River | Liard River | It enters the Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park, where the Trout River empties into the Liard. Alaska Highway runs south along the Trout River, while the Liard flows east through the Liard River Corridor Provincial Park and Protected Area, south of the Sentinel Range of the Muskwa Ranges, receiving the waters of ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
958249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liard%20River | Liard River | The Liard River continues north, receiving the waters of Big Island Creek, Kotaneelee River and Petitot River. It turns around Mount Coty of the Franklin Mountains near Fort Liard Airfield, where it meets the Liard Highway. It receives the waters of the Muskeg River, Rabbit Creek and Flett Creek as it flows east of the... | 2.046875 | 0 |
958260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liard%20River%2C%20British%20Columbia | Liard River, British Columbia | Liard River is a small community in northern British Columbia, Canada. It has a population of about 100 people. It is located at Kilometre 799 (Mile 496) of the Alaska Highway, near the border of British Columbia and the Yukon Territory.
History
Liard River received its name from the Liard River, the large river on wh... | 2.46875 | 0 |
958276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Hayes | Denis Hayes | Denis Allen Hayes (born August 29, 1944) is an environmental advocate and an advocate for solar power. He rose to prominence in 1970 as the coordinator for the first Earth Day.
Hayes founded the Earth Day Network and expanded it to more than 180 nations. During the Carter administration, Hayes became head of the Solar... | 2.390625 | 0 |
958276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Hayes | Denis Hayes | Earth Day
He left Harvard after being selected by Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day. The first Earth Day (April 22, 1970) had participants and celebrants in two thousand colleges and universities, about ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities. It is believed that som... | 2.453125 | 0 |
958277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daric | Daric | The daric was a gold coin which, along with a similar silver coin, the siglos, represented the bimetallic monetary standard of the Achaemenid Empire.
Cyrus the Great (550–530 BC) introduced coins to the Persian Empire after 546 BC, following his conquest of Lydia and the defeat of its king Croesus, who had put in plac... | 3.109375 | 0 |
958277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daric | Daric | The coin is mentioned twice in the Hebrew Bible, where it is called the "adarkonim", as the Israelites came into contact with it when their Babylonian conquerors were conquered by Persia. The first Book of Chronicles describes King David as asking an assembly of people to donate for the construction of the Temple. The ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
958281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland%20Fairbairn%20McWilliams | Roland Fairbairn McWilliams | Roland Fairbairn McWilliams (October 10, 1874 – December 10, 1957) was a Canadian politician and office-holder. He served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba from 1940 to 1953.
Life
McWilliams was born in Peterborough, Ontario. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1896, and ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
958301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta%20Lake | Shasta Lake | The lake has four major arms, each created by an approaching river: the Sacramento River, the McCloud River, Sulanharas Creek, and the Pit River. The Sacramento River's source is the Klamath Mountains. The McCloud River's source is Mount Shasta. The Pit River flows from Alturas, and the waterfall Potem Falls is located... | 2.484375 | 0 |
958305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoregions%20in%20the%20Philippines | Ecoregions in the Philippines | The Philippine archipelago is one of the world's great reservoirs of biodiversity and endemism. The archipelago includes over 7000 islands, and a total land area of 300,780 km2.
The Philippines was never connected to mainland Asia via land bridges, so the flora and fauna of the islands had to cross ocean straits to re... | 3.171875 | 0 |
958311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment%20in%20Peking | Moment in Peking | Moment in Peking is a novel originally written in English by Chinese author Lin Yutang. The novel, Lin's first, covers the turbulent events in China from 1900 to 1938, including the Boxer Uprising, the Republican Revolution of 1911, the Warlord Era, the rise of nationalism and communism, and the start of the Sino-Japa... | 2.640625 | 0 |
958311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment%20in%20Peking | Moment in Peking | While Lin does not display hatred toward the Japanese, he does let events and situations affect the novel's characters to let the reader clearly see the reason the Chinese are still bitter about Japan's military past. The novel ends with a cliffhanger, letting readers hope that the major characters who fled from the c... | 2.21875 | 0 |
958311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment%20in%20Peking | Moment in Peking | The New York Times reviewer wrote that "Mr. Lin has filled some 800 pages with a picturesque and leisurely account of how contemporary China grew and learned to live and adjusted itself to the fact, as he says in a preface, that 'men strive but the gods rule.'" The old has given way to the new, the review goes on, but ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
958313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Cork | West Cork | West Cork () is a tourist region and municipal district in County Cork, Ireland. As a municipal district, West Cork falls within the administrative area of Cork County Council, and includes the towns of Bantry, Castletownbere, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Schull and Skibbereen, and the 'key villages' of Baltimore, Ballydehob... | 2.359375 | 0 |
958313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Cork | West Cork | Within the Catholic Church in Ireland and the Church of Ireland (Anglican) traditions, the coastal area from Ballydehob to Timoleague was formerly contained within the Dioceses of Ross. These dioceses no longer exist separately, and now form part of the larger Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross and the Church of I... | 2.453125 | 0 |
958327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwoodisaurus%20milii | Underwoodisaurus milii | Underwoodisaurus milii is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Carphodactylidae. The species is commonly known as the thick-tailed or barking gecko, referring to its distinctive plump tail and sharp, barking defensive call. The genus is also often called thick-tailed geckos as a group, along with the species Uvid... | 2.46875 | 0 |
958349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Brown%20%28offensive%20lineman%29 | Bob Brown (offensive lineman) | Robert Stanford Brown (December 8, 1941 – June 16, 2023), nicknamed "the Boomer", was an American professional football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1964 through 1973. He played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, earning unanimous All-American honors. Brown was sele... | 2.140625 | 0 |
958349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Brown%20%28offensive%20lineman%29 | Bob Brown (offensive lineman) | After asking for a trade from the Eagles, Brown was sent to the Los Angeles Rams in a five-player exchange on May 12, 1969. The Eagles traded Brown, along with cornerback Jim Nettles, to the Rams in exchange for offensive tackle Joe Carollo, guard Don Chuy, and defensive back Irv Cross.
Brown was traded by the Rams to... | 1.90625 | 0 |
958383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic%20policy%20of%20the%20George%20W.%20Bush%20administration | Domestic policy of the George W. Bush administration | On January 14, 2004, Bush announced a Vision for Space Exploration, calling for the completion of the International Space Station by 2010 and the retirement of the Space Shuttle while developing a new spacecraft called the Crew Exploration Vehicle under the title Project Constellation. The CEV would be used to return A... | 2.28125 | 0 |
958383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic%20policy%20of%20the%20George%20W.%20Bush%20administration | Domestic policy of the George W. Bush administration | Bush declared a state of emergency in Louisiana on August 27 and in Mississippi and Alabama the following day. He authorized the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to manage the disaster, but his announcement failed to spur these agencies to action. The eye of the hurri... | 2.203125 | 0 |
958383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic%20policy%20of%20the%20George%20W.%20Bush%20administration | Domestic policy of the George W. Bush administration | Upon arriving in office in 2001, President Bush withdrew United States support of the then-pending Kyoto Protocol, a UN Convention seeking to impose mandatory targets for reducing "greenhouse gas" emissions. Bush stated that human activity had not been proven to be the cause and cited concerns about the treaty's impact... | 2.09375 | 0 |
958383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic%20policy%20of%20the%20George%20W.%20Bush%20administration | Domestic policy of the George W. Bush administration | In his 2007 State of the Union Address, Bush renewed his pledge to work toward diminished reliance on foreign oil by reducing fossil fuel consumption and increasing alternative fuel production. Amid high gasoline prices in 2008, Bush lifted a ban on offshore drilling. However, the move was largely symbolic because ther... | 2.0625 | 0 |
958383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic%20policy%20of%20the%20George%20W.%20Bush%20administration | Domestic policy of the George W. Bush administration | National preserves
On June 15, 2006, Bush created the seventy-fifth, and largest, National Monument in U.S. history and the largest Marine Protected Area in the world with the formation of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument.
Economy
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the economy... | 2.515625 | 0 |
958383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic%20policy%20of%20the%20George%20W.%20Bush%20administration | Domestic policy of the George W. Bush administration | Trade
President Bush signed a large number of free trade agreements into law during his presidency: Jordan (2001), Singapore and Chile (2004), Australia (2005), Dominican Republic, CAFTA, Morocco, Oman, and Bahrain (2006), and Oman and Peru (2009).
The Bush administration also launched trade negotiations with New Zea... | 2.296875 | 0 |
958383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic%20policy%20of%20the%20George%20W.%20Bush%20administration | Domestic policy of the George W. Bush administration | The Current Population Survey (aka Household Survey) measures the percentage of the population that is employed and unemployed. The result can be multiplied by population estimates to get total employment estimates. This survey has the advantage over the payroll survey in that it includes self-employed. The Household S... | 2.25 | 0 |
958383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic%20policy%20of%20the%20George%20W.%20Bush%20administration | Domestic policy of the George W. Bush administration | In January 2002, Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act, with Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy as chief sponsor, which aims to close the achievement gap, measures student performance, provides options to parents with children in low-performing schools, and targets more federal funding to low-income schools. Critics, in... | 2.234375 | 0 |
958383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic%20policy%20of%20the%20George%20W.%20Bush%20administration | Domestic policy of the George W. Bush administration | Minorities, civil rights and affirmative action
Bush endorsed civil rights and appointed blacks, women and gays to high positions. The premier cabinet position, Secretary of State, went to Colin Powell (2001–2005), the first Black at that high a level. He was followed by Condoleezza Rice (2005–2009), the first Black w... | 2.46875 | 0 |
958383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic%20policy%20of%20the%20George%20W.%20Bush%20administration | Domestic policy of the George W. Bush administration | Health care
In July 2002, Bush cut off U.S. funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Bush stated that the UNFPA supported forced abortions and sterilizations in the People's Republic of China.
Bush sought to expand Medicare so it would also cover the cost of prescription drugs, a program that became kno... | 2.1875 | 0 |
958385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campylobacterales | Campylobacterales | The Campylobacterales are an order of Campylobacterota which make up the epsilon subdivision, together with the small family Nautiliaceae. They are Gram-negative. Most of the species are microaerophilic.
Molecular signatures
Comparative genomic analysis has led to the identification of 49 proteins which are uniquely f... | 2.0625 | 0 |
958401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic%20short%20stature | Idiopathic short stature | Idiopathic short stature (ISS) refers to extreme short stature that does not have a diagnostic explanation (idiopathic designates a condition that is unexplained or not understood) after an ordinary growth evaluation. The term has been in use since at least 1975 without a precise percentile or statistical definition of... | 2.40625 | 0 |
958406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermezzo | Intermezzo | In some cases the intermezzo repertory spread more quickly than did the opera seria itself; the singers were often renowned, the comic effects were popular, and intermezzi were relatively easy to produce and stage. In the 1730s the style spread around Europe, and some cities—for example Moscow—recorded visits and perfo... | 2.1875 | 0 |
958406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermezzo | Intermezzo | Instrumental intermezzo
In the 19th century, the intermezzo acquired another meaning: an instrumental piece which was either a movement between two others in a larger work or a character piece that could stand on its own. These intermezzi show a wide variation in the style and function: in Mendelssohn's incidental musi... | 2.875 | 0 |
958417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban%20Torres | Esteban Torres | Esteban Edward Torres (January 27, 1930 – January 25, 2022) was an American politician who served as member of the United States House of Representatives for California's 34th congressional district from 1983 to 1999.
Early life and education
Torres was born in Miami, Arizona, to parents from Mexico. He was raised in ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
958449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20orthogonality | Hyperbolic orthogonality | In geometry, the relation of hyperbolic orthogonality between two lines separated by the asymptotes of a hyperbola is a concept used in special relativity to define simultaneous events. Two events will be simultaneous when they are on a line hyperbolically orthogonal to a particular timeline. This dependence on a certa... | 2.984375 | 0 |
958449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20orthogonality | Hyperbolic orthogonality | The notion of hyperbolic orthogonality arose in analytic geometry in consideration of conjugate diameters of ellipses and hyperbolas. If g and g′ represent the slopes of the conjugate diameters, then in the case of an ellipse and in the case of a hyperbola. When a = b the ellipse is a circle and the conjugate diamete... | 2.421875 | 0 |
958457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga%20Empire | Shunga Empire | The Shunga dynasty (IAST: ) was the fifth ruling dynasty of Magadha and controlled most of the northern Indian subcontinent from around 187 to 75 BCE. The dynasty was established by Pushyamitra, after taking the throne of Magadha from the Mauryas. The Shunga empire's capital was Pataliputra, but later emperors such as ... | 2.96875 | 0 |
958457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga%20Empire | Shunga Empire | Name
The name "Shunga" has only been used for convenience to designate the historical polity now generally described as "Shunga empire", or the historical period known as the "Shunga period", which follows the fall of the Maurya empire. The term appears in a single epigraphic inscription in Bharhut, in which a dedicati... | 2.0625 | 0 |
958457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga%20Empire | Shunga Empire | Shungas were originally from Vidisha.
According to historical reconstructions, the Shunga dynasty was established in 184 BCE, about 50 years after Ashoka's death, when the emperor Brihadratha Maurya, the last ruler of the Maurya empire, was assassinated by his Senānī or commander-in-chief, Pushyamitra, while he was re... | 2.796875 | 0 |
958457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga%20Empire | Shunga Empire | Great Stupa (No 1)
During the later rule of the Shunga, the stupa was expanded with stone slabs to almost twice its original size. The dome was flattened near the top and crowned by three superimposed parasols within a square railing. With its many tiers it was a symbol of the dharma, the Wheel of the Law. The dome was... | 2.4375 | 0 |
958457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga%20Empire | Shunga Empire | The Shunga empire's wars with the Indo-Greek kingdom figure greatly in the history of this period. From around 180 BCE the Greco-Bactrian ruler Demetrius conquered the Kabul Valley and is theorised to have advanced into the trans-Indus to confront the Shungas. The Indo-Greek Menander I is credited with either joining ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
958457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga%20Empire | Shunga Empire | Battle on the Sindhu river
An account of a direct battle between the Greeks and the Shunga is also found in the Mālavikāgnimitram, a play by Kālidāsa which describes a battle between a squadron of Greek cavalrymen and Vasumitra, the grandson of Pushyamitra, accompanied by a hundred soldiers on the "Sindhu river", in wh... | 2.21875 | 0 |
958469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi%20%28video%20game%29 | Hoi (video game) | Hoi was developed by Team Hoi (previously Soft Eyes), a group of three young Dutch game developers: programmer Reinier van Vliet, artist Metin Seven and composer Ramon Braumuller, who worked on the shoot 'em up Venom Wing for the Amiga and recounted its creation process and history through various publications. The pro... | 2.09375 | 0 |
958470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20corsets | History of corsets | The corset is a supportive undergarment for women, dating, in Europe, back several centuries, evolving as fashion trends have changed and being known, depending on era and geography, as a pair of bodies, stays and corsets. The appearance of the garment represented a change from people wearing clothes which fit their bo... | 2.78125 | 0 |
958470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20corsets | History of corsets | Corsets have been used for centuries among the Circassians and Abkhaz tribes of the Caucasus region. They were used to "beautify" women and also to ensure modesty. Corsets were laced tightly with as many as fifty laces, and had to be worn from childhood until the wedding night. When the marriage was consummated, a groo... | 3 | 0 |
958470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20corsets | History of corsets | 18th century
The most common type of corset in the 1700s was an inverted conical shape, often worn to create a contrast between a rigid quasi-cylindrical torso above the waist and heavy full skirts below. The primary purpose of 18th-century stays was to shape the torso into a fashionable 'V' or cone shape, slightly tap... | 2.78125 | 0 |
958470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20corsets | History of corsets | Late 18th and early 19th century
During and shortly following the French Revolution, rationalists and classicists criticized the glorification of an artificial body shape, created by stays, as more beautiful than the natural human form. Fashion trended towards loose, thin dresses which resembled the shift dresses worn... | 2.84375 | 0 |
958470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20corsets | History of corsets | Late Regency and early Victorian period
By the 1820s, the high waisted gown fell out of fashion and what we now think of as corsets returned, along with the elaborate, structured gowns associated with the Victorian era. Along with the change in trends, industrialization of the garment industry meant that by the 1830s, ... | 3.0625 | 0 |
958470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20corsets | History of corsets | The dress reform movement of the 1850s and 1860s opposed corsets and advocated against their use, particularly the high-fashion trend of tightlacing to achieve ever-smaller waistlines. While support for fashionable dress contested that corsets maintained an upright, ‘good figure’, as a necessary physical structure for ... | 2.984375 | 0 |
958470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20corsets | History of corsets | Both corsets and girdles remained popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s, especially with the creation of Christian Dior's "New Look" in 1947. The "New Look" silhouette featured full skirts and nipped-in waists which appealed to the nostalgia of post-World War II America. The style contrasted sharply from the more util... | 2.375 | 0 |
958472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulachon | Eulachon | The eulachon ( (Thaleichthys pacificus), also spelled oolichan , ooligan , hooligan ), or the candlefish, is a small anadromous species of smelt that spawns in some of the major river systems along the Pacific coast of North America from northern California to Alaska.
Etymology
The name "candlefish" derives from it b... | 2.46875 | 0 |
958472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulachon | Eulachon | Indigenous communities of the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska made eulachon an important part of their diet, as well as a valuable trade item with peoples whose territories did not include spawning rivers. The species was caught using traps, rakes, and nets. The harvest continues today, with other residents tak... | 3 | 0 |
958472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulachon | Eulachon | Conservation status
In November 2008, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) received a petition from the Cowlitz Tribe to list a distinct population segment (DPS) of eulachon from Washington, Oregon, and California, (the so-called Southern DPS) as an endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
958480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus%20Savage | Gus Savage | Augustus Alexander "Gus" Savage (October 30, 1925 – October 31, 2015) was an American entrepreneur, publisher and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois. He served six terms from 1981 to 1993.
Early life and career
Savage was born in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Roosev... | 2.21875 | 0 |
958497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Flying%20Circus%20of%20Physics | The Flying Circus of Physics | History
As is discussed in the preface of the book, the idea for the collection of real-world physics phenomena started when Jearl was a graduate student teaching assistant, and was asked by a student to give an example of how physics had anything to do with her life. The collection grew steadily over time, and he gav... | 2.6875 | 0 |
958502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga | Shunga | is a type of Japanese erotic art typically executed as a kind of ukiyo-e, often in woodblock print format. While rare, there are also extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate ukiyo-e. Translated literally, the Japanese word shunga means picture of spring; "spring" is a common euphemism for sex.
Shunga, as a su... | 2.390625 | 0 |
958502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga | Shunga | The introduction of Western culture and technologies at the beginning of the Meiji era (1868–1912), particularly the importation of photo-reproduction techniques, had serious consequences for shunga. For a time, woodblock printing continued to be used, but figures began to appear in prints wearing Western clothing and ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
958502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga | Shunga | Shunga varied greatly in quality and price. Some were highly elaborate, commissioned by wealthy merchants and daimyōs, while some were limited in colour, widely available, and cheap. Empon were available through the lending libraries, or kashi-honya, that travelled in rural areas. This tells us that shunga reached a... | 2.6875 | 0 |
958508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20North | Science North | Science North is an interactive science museum in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
The science centre, which is Northern Ontario's most popular tourist attraction, consists of two snowflake-shaped buildings on the southwestern shore of Ramsey Lake, just south of the downtown core, and a former ice hockey arena which includes... | 2.90625 | 0 |
958508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20North | Science North | Third level
The exhibits on the third floor are divided into four main areas:
Northern Forests - This area focuses on animals who live in northern forests. Some of the animals ambassadors for the Northern Forest include Maple the porcupine and Saunders the skunk. Other notable animals include the Northern Flying Squir... | 3.015625 | 0 |
958509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jearl%20Walker | Jearl Walker | Jearl Dalton Walker (born 1945 in Pensacola, Florida) is a physicist noted for his book The Flying Circus of Physics, first published in 1975; the second edition was published in June 2006. He teaches physics at Cleveland State University.
Walker has also revised and edited the textbook Fundamentals of Physics with Da... | 2.71875 | 0 |
958510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20State%20Route%20890 | New York State Route 890 | As the roadway crosses over a ramp leading from NY 890 westbound to NY 5S, it makes a turn to the southeast, bringing the highway closer to the banks of the river. NY 890 also widens to six lanes at this point to accommodate the road's upcoming junction with the New York State Thruway. The connection between the Thruwa... | 2.078125 | 0 |
958510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20State%20Route%20890 | New York State Route 890 | Most of the groundwork for the northern extension was put in place around this time. The connection with NY 5S utilized the right-of-way of what was intended to be a ramp for the riverside exit with NY 5S. Graded roadbeds were laid out for both directions of the extension up to the south bank of the Mohawk River, and ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
958511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon%20EF-S%20lens%20mount | Canon EF-S lens mount | The Canon EF-S lens mount is a derivative of the EF lens mount created for some Canon digital single-lens reflex cameras with APS-C sized image sensors. It was released in 2003. Cameras with the EF-S mount are backward compatible with the EF lenses and, as such, have a flange focal distance of 44.0 mm. Such cameras, ho... | 2.140625 | 0 |
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