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958517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Wheat | Alan Wheat | Alan Dupree Wheat (born October 16, 1951) is an American economist, lobbyist, and politician who served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Missouri from 1983 to 1995.
Early life
His father was James Wheat, an officer and civil engineer in the U.S. Air Force. His mother Emogene (Jean) Whe... | 1.9375 | 0 |
958519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbellford | Campbellford | Campbellford is an unincorporated place and former town in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, in the township municipality of Trent Hills. It lies approximately midway between Toronto and Ottawa. It is situated on both the Trent-Severn Waterway and the Trans Canada Trail. It can be reached from Highway 401 by ex... | 1.929688 | 0 |
958520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20J.%20DeGioia | John J. DeGioia | John Joseph DeGioia (born 1957) is an American academic administrator and philosopher who served as the president of Georgetown University from 2001 to 2024. He was the first lay president of the school and its longest-serving president. Upon his appointment, he also became the first lay president of any Jesuit univers... | 1.960938 | 0 |
958520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20J.%20DeGioia | John J. DeGioia | Dean and vice president
Upon graduation, DeGioia became a hall director at one of Georgetown's freshman dormitories, New South Hall. In 1982, he became an assistant to university president Timothy S. Healy, where he oversaw the office of the president. Three years later he was named dean of student affairs, during whic... | 1.90625 | 0 |
958524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Earth%20%28Ontario%29 | Dynamic Earth (Ontario) | Dynamic Earth is an interactive earth sciences museum in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Owned-and-operated by Science North, Dynamic Earth builds on the city's mining heritage, focusing principally on geology and mining history exhibitions.
The centre, which opened in 2003, is home to the Big Nickel, one of the cit... | 2.546875 | 0 |
958525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary%20saga | Legendary saga | Description of the sagas
In terms of form, fornaldarsögur are similar to various other saga-genres, but tend towards fairly linear, episodic narratives. Like sagas in other genres, many quote verse, but in the fornaldarsögur that verse is almost invariably in the metre of Eddaic verse (unlike the skaldic verse found in... | 2.5625 | 0 |
958525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary%20saga | Legendary saga | Some of the sagas are based on distant historic characters, and this is evident in cases where there are corroborating sources, such as Ragnars saga loðbrókar, Yngvars saga víðförla and Völsunga saga. In the case of Hervarar saga, it conveys names of historical places in present Ukraine during the period c. 150-450, an... | 2.359375 | 0 |
958551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%20Reynolds | Mel Reynolds | Melvin Reynolds (born January 8, 1952) is an American politician from Illinois. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995. He resigned in October 1995 after a jury convicted him of sexual assault charges related to sex with an underage campaign worker.
... | 2.140625 | 0 |
958561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okurigana | Okurigana | are kana suffixes following kanji stems in Japanese written words. They serve two purposes: to inflect adjectives and verbs, and to force a particular kanji to have a specific meaning and be read a certain way. For example, the plain verb form (miru, "see") inflects to past tense (mita, "saw"), where is the kanji st... | 2.9375 | 0 |
958561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okurigana | Okurigana | Ambiguity may be introduced in inflection – even if okurigana specify the reading in the base (dictionary) form of a verb, the inflected form may obscure it. For example, i-ku "go" and okona-u "perform, carry out" are distinct in dictionary form, but in past ("perfective") form become i-tta "went" and okona-tta "pe... | 2.109375 | 0 |
958561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okurigana | Okurigana | Okurigana can also occur in the middle of a compound, such as ochiba "fallen leaves" and rakuyō "fallen leaves, defoliation" – note that the reading of the terminal changes between ba and yō despite it occurring after the okurigana.
Historical suffixes
For a few categories of words, okurigana correspond to histor... | 2.609375 | 0 |
958561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okurigana | Okurigana | Okurigana are avoided in compounds where the reading cannot easily be analyzed into readings of the individual characters, as these are confusing – the reading simply must be learnt separately. These include especially ateji and gikun, as well as cases where a compound word has changed pronunciation over the years, and... | 2.4375 | 0 |
958561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okurigana | Okurigana | Confusion with compounds
There is a risk of confusion of okurigana with compounds: some Japanese words are traditionally written with kanji, but today some of these kanji are hyōgaiji (uncommon characters), and hence are often written as a mixture of kanji and kana, the uncommon characters being replaced by kana; this... | 2.40625 | 0 |
958562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20Day | Alaska Day | Alaska Day is a legal holiday in the U.S. state of Alaska, observed on October 18. It is the anniversary of the formal transfer of territories in present-day Alaska from the Russian Empire to the United States, which occurred on Friday, October 18, 1867.
Background
On March 30, 1867, the United States purchased Alaska... | 3 | 0 |
958566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Patrol%20%281962%20TV%20series%29 | Space Patrol (1962 TV series) | Space Patrol is a British science fiction television series featuring marionettes that was produced in 1962 and broadcast from the beginning of April 1963. It was written and produced by Roberta Leigh in association with ABC Weekend TV.
Summary
The series features the vocal talents of Dick Vosburgh, Ronnie Stevens, Li... | 2.203125 | 0 |
958566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Patrol%20%281962%20TV%20series%29 | Space Patrol (1962 TV series) | Providing technical support on Earth is the brilliant and inventive Irishman Professor Aloysius O’Brien O’Rourke Haggarty, called "Pop" by his daughter Cassiopeia, to his perpetual dismay. Haggarty's garrulous pet Martian "parrot" (a Gabblerdictum bird), taught to talk in "The Slaves of Neptune" episode, accompanies th... | 1.960938 | 0 |
958566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Patrol%20%281962%20TV%20series%29 | Space Patrol (1962 TV series) | The science
Whereas Gerry Anderson had a rocket ship in Fireball XL5 that could travel light-years to planets around other stars as though they were just a few million miles away, Space Patrol took a more realistic approach. Because of limited speed, trips to other planets in our solar system could take weeks or months... | 2.6875 | 0 |
958566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Patrol%20%281962%20TV%20series%29 | Space Patrol (1962 TV series) | The Galasphere had a top speed of about 800,000 mph, using "meson power". In "The Talking Bell", they use "Boost Speed", which is dangerous, but allows them to travel at almost one million miles per hour for a long period. Meson power is dangerous to use in atmosphere. The engine also used gamma rays and 'Yobba rays'. ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
958566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Patrol%20%281962%20TV%20series%29 | Space Patrol (1962 TV series) | Style of the series
Although compared (and often confused) with the Gerry Anderson productions (due to the similar use of voice-synchronised marionettes), Space Patrol is distinguished by some of its creative choices. The only music involved is avant-garde, the theme being made by Roberta Leigh herself using electronic... | 2.078125 | 0 |
958621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%2C%20Juneau%2C%20Alaska | Douglas, Juneau, Alaska | Douglas is a community on Douglas Island in southeastern Alaska, directly across the Gastineau Channel from downtown Juneau.
History
Douglas Island was originally a border of the Auke people’s and Taku people’s territory. It was not usually used for year-round settlement, but rather as a place to spend the summer, or ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
958621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%2C%20Juneau%2C%20Alaska | Douglas, Juneau, Alaska | In 1910, Douglas was the 3rd largest city in Alaska with 1,722 residents (exceeding neighboring Juneau, which was in 4th place with 1,644 residents and 6th placed Treadwell on the south border of Douglas with 1,222 residents). It reported 1,344 Whites, 346 Natives and 32 others. Had all three locales been unified as th... | 2.453125 | 0 |
958625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel%20Anderson | Ethel Anderson | Ethel Campbell Louise Anderson (née Mason; 16 March 1883 – 4 August 1958) was an early twentieth century Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter. She considered herself to be mainly a poet, but is now best appreciated for her witty and ironic stories. Anderson has been described as "a high-profile author, artis... | 2.578125 | 0 |
958627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persuasive%20definition | Persuasive definition | A persuasive definition is a form of stipulative definition which purports to describe the true or commonly accepted meaning of a term, while in reality stipulating an uncommon or altered use, usually to support an argument for some view, or to create or alter rights, duties or crimes.
The terms thus defined will often... | 2.6875 | 0 |
958627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persuasive%20definition | Persuasive definition | Overview
Language can simultaneously communicate information (informative) and feelings (expressive). Unlike other common types of definitions in logic, persuasive definitions focus on the expressive use of language to affect the feelings of readers and listeners ultimately with an aim to change their behavior. With th... | 2.96875 | 0 |
958627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persuasive%20definition | Persuasive definition | In persuasive definitions the evaluative component associated with a concept is left unaltered while the descriptive meaning is modified. In this fashion, imprisonment can become "true freedom", and massacres "pacification". Persuasive definitions can change or distort the meaning while keeping the original evaluations... | 2.734375 | 0 |
958639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thane%2C%20Juneau | Thane, Juneau | Thane is a neighborhood in the City and Borough of Juneau in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located along Gastineau Channel, it begins one mile (1.6 km) south of downtown Juneau and consists of approximately five dozen houses spread over five miles (8 km). All the houses are located on Thane Road, which comes to a dead end ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
958641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastineau%20Channel | Gastineau Channel | Gastineau Channel (Lingít: Séet Ká) is a channel between the mainland of the U.S. state of Alaska and Douglas Island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska. It separates Juneau on the mainland side from Douglas (now part of Juneau), on Douglas Island. The first European to sight the channel was Joseph Whid... | 2.8125 | 0 |
958661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Tautog%20%28SSN-639%29 | USS Tautog (SSN-639) | On 20 June 1970, Tautog was patrolling the North Pacific Ocean near the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on the Soviet Union's Kamchatka Peninsula, which was a major base for missile-armed submarines of the Soviet Navy. Tautog was attempting to trail the K-108, a Soviet Navy guided-missile submarine nicknamed "Black... | 2.40625 | 0 |
958661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Tautog%20%28SSN-639%29 | USS Tautog (SSN-639) | On 15 January 1973, Tautog entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for her first regular overhaul. It was completed on 15 April 1974, when she resumed local operations out of Pearl Harbor which – except for a voyage to the Pacific Northwest which lasted from late July to early September 1974 – occupied her time until t... | 1.929688 | 0 |
958661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Tautog%20%28SSN-639%29 | USS Tautog (SSN-639) | During summer 1983, Tautog once again found herself operating under the Arctic ice pack. To celebrate her arrival at the Pole, the crew had a picnic, a tug-of-war, and dog-sled races "around the world".
In 1984, following a two-month shipyard availability, Tautog entered an operational crew training period. In the spr... | 2.0625 | 0 |
958661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Tautog%20%28SSN-639%29 | USS Tautog (SSN-639) | Tautog departed on her eighth Western Pacific deployment in May 1990, visiting Singapore, Hong Kong, Subic Bay (Philippines), and Yokosuka, Japan. The ship experienced a massive typhoon, which prevented her from entering Subic Bay for almost a week. Back in Pearl Harbor in November 1990, Tautog enjoyed the holidays and... | 2 | 0 |
958677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko%20Tawada | Yoko Tawada | Tawada took a bilingual approach to her 2004 novel Das nackte Auge, writing first in German, then in Japanese, and finally producing separate German and Japanese manuscripts. The novel follows a Vietnamese girl who was kidnapped at a young age while in Germany for a youth conference. An English version, translated from... | 2.15625 | 0 |
958677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko%20Tawada | Yoko Tawada | In 2016 she received the Kleist Prize, and in 2018 she was awarded the Carl Zuckmayer Medal for services to the German language. Also in 2018, she received the National Book Award for Translated Literature (the inaugural year of that award) for her novel The Emissary, translated by Margaret Mitsutani. In 2022, her nove... | 2.078125 | 0 |
958686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Auchterlonie%20Green | Dorothy Auchterlonie Green | Dorothy Auchterlonie (also known as Dorothy Green; 28 May 1915 – 21 February 1991) was an English-born Australian academic, literary critic and poet.
Life
Auchterlonie was born in Sunderland, County Durham in England. In 1927 when she was 12 years old, her family moved to Australia.
Educated in both England and Aust... | 2.28125 | 0 |
958691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe%20Norman | Moe Norman | Murray Irwin "Moe" Norman (July 10, 1929 – September 4, 2004) was a Canadian professional golfer whose accuracy and ability to hit shot after shot perfectly straight gave him the nickname "Pipeline Moe". During his career Norman won 54 tournaments in Canada and set 33 course records. He has total 55 professional wins i... | 2.1875 | 0 |
958703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Englund | Peter Englund | Peter Mikael Englund (born 4 April 1957) is a Swedish author and historian. He focuses on writing non-fiction books and essays, mostly about the Swedish Empire and other historical events. Englund is known for his accessible writing style, which includes narrative details that are often left out in traditional history ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
958722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Guitarro%20%28SSN-665%29 | USS Guitarro (SSN-665) | At 20:30, both the nuclear group, still aboard, and the non-nuclear group, returning from their break, noticed Guitarro taking a sudden down angle which put the forward hatches underwater. Massive flooding took place through several large open hatches. Efforts between 20:30 and 20:45 to close watertight doors and hatch... | 2.359375 | 0 |
958752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid%20raft | Lipid raft | The plasma membranes of cells contain combinations of glycosphingolipids, cholesterol and protein receptors organized in glycolipoprotein lipid microdomains termed lipid rafts. Their existence in cellular membranes remains controversial. Indeed, Kervin and Overduin imply that lipid rafts are misconstrued protein island... | 2.28125 | 0 |
958752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid%20raft | Lipid raft | T cell antigen receptor (TCR) is a molecule found on the surface of T lymphocytes (T cells). It is composed of αβ-heterodimers, CD3 (γδε) complex and ξ-homodimer. The α- and β- subunits contain extracellular binding sites for peptides that are presented by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and class II... | 2.09375 | 0 |
958752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid%20raft | Lipid raft | SARS-Cov-2
The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 was shown to enter through endocytosis using lipid rafts. The omicron variant predominantly enters through endocytosis, presumably through lipid rafts. Hydroxychloroquine blocks the entry of SARS-CoV-2 by blocking ACE2 association with enodocytic lipids.
Visualizati... | 1.929688 | 0 |
958752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid%20raft | Lipid raft | Also used are dual polarisation interferometry, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) although fluorescence microscopy remains the dominant technique. In the future it is hoped that super-resolution microscopy such as Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) or various forms of structured illumination microscopy may overcome th... | 1.945313 | 0 |
958806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto%20Monterroso | Augusto Monterroso | Although Monterroso limited himself almost exclusively to the short story form, he is widely considered a central figure in the Latin American "Boom" generation, which was best known for its novelists. As such he is recognized alongside such canonical authors as Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo and Gabriel Ga... | 2.328125 | 0 |
958838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20G.%20Konsalik | Heinz G. Konsalik | Heinz G. Konsalik, pseudonym of Heinz Günther (28 May 1921 – 2 October 1999) was a German novelist. Konsalik was his mother's maiden name.
During the Second World War he was a war correspondent, which provided many experiences for his novels.
Many of his books deal with war and showed the German human side of things ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
958847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFCF-DT | CFCF-DT | Multiple Access (1972–1979)
In 1968, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) required that all broadcasting outlets be 80% Canadian owned. Canadian Marconi was a subsidiary of the UK-based General Electric Company plc, and was forced to put its entire broadcasting division—CFCF-TV, CFCF (... | 2.09375 | 0 |
958851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast%20Corridor%20Line | Northeast Corridor Line | In March 1882, the PRR completed the four tracking of the line between Houtenville and South Elizabeth with the completion of a four-track bridge over the Rahway River in Rahway. On April 1, 1882, Uniontown station was renamed Iselin. On November 5, 1882, the new PX interlocking tower was placed into service at Perth A... | 2.28125 | 0 |
958851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast%20Corridor%20Line | Northeast Corridor Line | On April 15, 1930, the section of eastbound track 1 between Colonia station and St. George Street in Rahway was relocated to ground level. The jump over track completed in 1914 and 1915 was abandoned. On July 3, 1930, the PRR notified officials in Elizabeth that it would abandon plans to widen the line to six tracks be... | 2.375 | 0 |
958851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast%20Corridor%20Line | Northeast Corridor Line | In 1968, NJDOT funded construction of the new Metropark station. The following year, in 1969, they funded 35 new stainless steel "Jersey Arrow" MU cars.
After 1968, the service was taken over by the merged Penn Central railroad and following the Penn Central's bankruptcy the commuter service was taken over by Conrail... | 2.015625 | 0 |
958851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast%20Corridor%20Line | Northeast Corridor Line | All service on the Northeast Corridor Line is electric via overhead lines and uses either Budd/GE Arrow III multiple unit cars during rush hours and normally one to two sets on the weekends, and push-pull locomotive trains hauled by ALP-46, an electric or ALP-45DP dual-mode locomotive, at all times. These trains are ma... | 2.4375 | 0 |
958851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast%20Corridor%20Line | Northeast Corridor Line | The Metropark rail station project was initiated by NJDOT in 1968 as part of a plan to accommodate businesses and commuters that were fleeing the old urban cores. The station opened in 1971 next to the Garden State Parkway for easy access by automobile; nearby stations at Iselin and Colonia closed soon after. The new ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
958868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny%20Wong | Penny Wong | Penelope Ying-Yen Wong (born 5 November 1968) is an Australian politician who is serving as the minister for Foreign Affairs and leader of the Government in the Senate in the Albanese government since 2022. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), she has been a senator for South Australia since 2002. Wong previou... | 1.945313 | 0 |
958868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny%20Wong | Penny Wong | In 2008, she became the first Asian-Australian in an Australian Cabinet. She was also the first female openly-LGBTI Australian federal parliamentarian, and was an instrumental figure in the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia in 2017, reversing her previous endorsement of Labor Party policy that had opposed ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
958872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Holmes%20%28historian%29 | George Holmes (historian) | George Arthur Holmes, FBA (born 22 April 1927 in Aberystwyth–died 29 January 2009) was Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1989-94.
Family, early life, and education
Holmes was born at Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales, son of English watchmake... | 2.1875 | 0 |
958883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head%20shaving | Head shaving | Head shaving is a form of body modification which involves shaving the hair from a person's head. People throughout history have shaved all or part of their heads for diverse reasons including aesthetics, convenience, culture, fashion, practicality, punishment, a rite of passage, religion, or style.
Early history
The ... | 3.078125 | 0 |
958884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle%20drug | Lifestyle drug | Lifestyle drug is an imprecise term commonly applied to medications which treat non–life-threatening and non-painful conditions such as baldness, wrinkles, erectile dysfunction, or acne, which the speaker perceives as either not medical problems at all or as minor medical conditions relative to others. It is sometimes ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
958896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20analysis | Cultural analysis | As a discipline, cultural analysis is based on using qualitative research methods of the arts, humanities, social sciences, in particular ethnography and anthropology, to collect data on cultural phenomena and to interpret cultural representations and practices; in an effort to gain new knowledge or understanding throu... | 2.828125 | 0 |
958896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20analysis | Cultural analysis | Cultural analysis is also a method for rethinking our relation to history because it makes visible the position of researcher, writer or student. The social and cultural present from which we look at past cultural practices—history— shapes the interpretations that are made of the past, while cultural analysis also rev... | 2.859375 | 0 |
958916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dytiscidae | Dytiscidae | The Dytiscidae – based on the Greek dytikos (δυτικός), "able to dive" – are the predaceous diving beetles, a family of water beetles. They occur in virtually any freshwater habitat around the world, but a few species live among leaf litter. The adults of most are between long, though much variation is seen between spe... | 3.078125 | 0 |
958916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dytiscidae | Dytiscidae | When still in larval form, the beetles vary in size from about . The larval bodies are shaped like crescents, with the tail long and covered with thin hairs. Six legs protrude from along the thorax, which also sports the same thin hairs. The head is flat and square, with a pair of long, large pincers. When hunting, the... | 2.8125 | 0 |
958916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dytiscidae | Dytiscidae | Diving beetle conservation
The greatest threat to diving beetles is the degradation and disappearance of their habitats due to anthropogenic activities. For example, urbanisation has led to the decreasing quantity and quality of dytiscid habitats, which consequentially has increased the distance between habitats.; thus... | 3.25 | 0 |
958928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20B.%20Gonz%C3%A1lez | Henry B. González | Henry Barbosa González (born Enrique Barbosa González; May 3, 1916 – November 28, 2000) was an American Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Texas, who represented Texas's 20th congressional district from 1961 to 1999. He is the longest serving Hispanic in Congress and a founding member of the Congressional His... | 2.203125 | 0 |
958941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Greenwood | Walter Greenwood | Walter Greenwood (17 December 1903 – 13 September 1974) was an English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel Love on the Dole (1933).
Early life
Greenwood was born at 56 Ellor Street, his father's house and hairdresser's shop in "Hanky Park", Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire. His father, Tom, died whe... | 2.171875 | 0 |
958941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Greenwood | Walter Greenwood | While unemployed, during 1932, Greenwood wrote his first novel, Love on the Dole, about the destructive social effects of poverty in his home town. After several rejections, it was published during 1933. It was a critical and commercial success, and a great influence on the British public's opinion of unemployment. The... | 2.375 | 0 |
958941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Greenwood | Walter Greenwood | During the Second World War, Greenwood served with the Royal Army Service Corps. Just before the war, in 1938, he had set up Greenpark Productions Ltd, a documentary film production company that made government information films for the Ministry of Information (which became the Central Office of Information from 1946).... | 2.09375 | 0 |
958942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinbeitou%20branch%20line | Xinbeitou branch line | The Taipei Metro Xinbeitou branch line (formerly transliterated as Hsin Peitou branch line until 2003) is an elevated, light rail branch line of the Tamsui–Xinyi line. It first opened for service on 28 March 1997. The line is long and consists of two stations.
History
Heavy rail line
The Xinbeitou branch line trace... | 2.484375 | 0 |
958942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinbeitou%20branch%20line | Xinbeitou branch line | Metro line
Originally, the Xinbeitou branch line was to close permanently after the Tamsui line was converted into a rapid transit line. Xinbeitou residents successfully petitioned to the government for a branch line, arguing that it was an important transportation link for commuters. The branch line's groundbreaking ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
958970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Saltus%20Lubbock | Thomas Saltus Lubbock | Lubbock was a strong secessionist, characterized as a "very worthy and zealous" Knight of the Golden Circle. At the beginning of the American Civil War, he accompanied Benjamin Franklin Terry, John A. Wharton, Thomas J. Goree, and James Longstreet (who was to become the commander of I Corps of Robert E. Lee's Army of N... | 2.578125 | 0 |
958971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restitution%20and%20unjust%20enrichment | Restitution and unjust enrichment | Restitution and unjust enrichment is the field of law relating to gains-based recovery. In contrast with damages (the law of compensation), restitution is a claim or remedy requiring a defendant to give up benefits wrongfully obtained. Liability for restitution is primarily governed by the "principle of unjust enrichme... | 2.5625 | 0 |
958971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restitution%20and%20unjust%20enrichment | Restitution and unjust enrichment | Unjust enrichment is not to be confused with illicit enrichment, which is a legal concept referring to the enjoyment of an amount of wealth by a person that is not justified by reference to their lawful income.
History
Roman law
In civil law systems, unjust enrichment is often referred to as unjustified enrichment. ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
958971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restitution%20and%20unjust%20enrichment | Restitution and unjust enrichment | For the School of Salamanca members, like Tomás de Mercado, the prohibition of unjustified enrichment finds directly his source in natural law, which doesn't allow a privileged party, and in the principle of commutative justice. Thus it manages apply to the entire law on propriety and contract. It had, for example, a s... | 2.125 | 0 |
958980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%20tailfin | Car tailfin | The tailfin era of automobile styling encompassed the 1950s and 1960s, peaking between 1955 and 1961. It was a style that spread worldwide, as car designers picked up styling trends from the US automobile industry, where it was regarded as the "golden age" of American auto design and American exceptionalism.
General M... | 2.75 | 0 |
958980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%20tailfin | Car tailfin | The most extreme tailfins appeared in the late 1950s, such as on the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado and the 1959 Imperial Crown sedan. The 1959 Cadillac fins looked like jet airplane vertical stabilizers with sharp points and twin bullet-shaped taillights. Many of automotive press and much of the public were getting weary of ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
958982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirCare | AirCare | Testing sites
Testing sites were provided by Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) and other insurance offices, as well as private licensed mechanics and auto-shops. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) goal was to make testing sites accessible to all residents, and many Greater Vancouver areas ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
958982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirCare | AirCare | The AirCare program lost its necessity as emission levels in newer cars fell and the number of older vehicles in use decreased. Criticism of the program as an unnecessary "tax-grab" did exist, even though no tax dollars were actually sent into the program. Other factors in the decision of its closure include the rising... | 2.1875 | 0 |
958982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirCare | AirCare | Ever since the cancellation of AirCare, the government of British Columbia has been working on ways to make heavy-duty vehicles cleaner. They have come up with nine ways. First, the government retrofitted their heavy-duty vehicles and actively promote and use of biodiesel. Second, older models of transit buses were als... | 2.4375 | 0 |
958984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Doria%20%281775%20brig%29 | Andrew Doria (1775 brig) | On 17 February 1776, Hopkins decided to take advantage of the discretion offered him and skip his missions in the Chesapeake Bay and along the coasts of the Carolinas. Instead, he took the fleet to the Bahamas for a raid on the island of New Providence to seize a large supply of gunpowder reportedly stored in the two f... | 2.703125 | 0 |
958984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Doria%20%281775%20brig%29 | Andrew Doria (1775 brig) | After conferring with his officers, Hopkins decided to land his troops two miles (3 km) down the coast from Fort Montagu, which protected the eastern approaches to Nassau. The marines and sailors went ashore on 3 March and marched to Fort Montagu whose garrison surrendered without offering any real resistance. On 4 Mar... | 2.640625 | 0 |
958986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo%20Andr%C3%A9%2C%20S%C3%A3o%20Paulo | Santo André, São Paulo | Santo André (, Saint Andrew) is a Brazilian municipality located in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. It is part of a group of municipalities known as the ABC Region. According to the most recent census in 2022, the population is estimated at 748,919 in an area of 175.8 km². or about 43,441 Acres of landmass.
It i... | 2.59375 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | By the 16th century BC the extensive employment of omen-based astrology can be evidenced in the compilation of a comprehensive reference work known as Enuma Anu Enlil. Its contents consisted of 70 cuneiform tablets comprising 7,000 celestial omens. Texts from this time also refer to an oral tradition – the origin and c... | 2.8125 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | The gods were also believed to present themselves in the celestial images of the planets or stars with whom they were associated. Evil celestial omens attached to any particular planet were therefore seen as indications of dissatisfaction or disturbance of the god that planet represented. Such indications were met with... | 2.234375 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | In 525 BC Egypt was conquered by the Persians so there is likely to have been some Mesopotamian influence on Egyptian astrology. Arguing in favour of this, historian Tamsyn Barton gives an example of what appears to be Mesopotamian influence on the Egyptian zodiac, which shared two signs – the Balance and the Scorpion,... | 2.921875 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | Particularly important in the development of horoscopic astrology was the Greco-Roman astrologer and astronomer Ptolemy, who lived in Alexandria during Roman Egypt. Ptolemy's work the Tetrabiblos laid the basis of the Western astrological tradition, and as a source of later reference is said to have "enjoyed almost the... | 2.484375 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | Greece and Rome
The conquest of Asia by Alexander the Great exposed the Greeks to the cultures and cosmological ideas of Syria, Babylon, Persia and central Asia. Greek overtook cuneiform script as the international language of intellectual communication and part of this process was the transmission of astrology from cu... | 2.6875 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | The first definite reference to astrology comes from the work of the orator Cato, who in 160 BC composed a treatise warning farm overseers against consulting with Chaldeans. The 2nd-century Roman poet Juvenal, in his satirical attack on the habits of Roman women, also complains about the pervasive influence of Chaldean... | 2.71875 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | Cicero's De divinatione (44 BC), which rejects astrology and other allegedly divinatory techniques, is a fruitful historical source for the conception of scientificity in Roman classical Antiquity. The Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus compiled the ancient arguments against astrology in his book Against the Astro... | 2.21875 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | In the 9th century, Persian astrologer Albumasar was thought to be one of the greatest astrologer at that time. His practical manuals for training astrologers profoundly influenced Muslim intellectual history and, through translations, that of western Europe and Byzantium In the 10th century. Albumasar's Introductorium... | 2.265625 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | For example, Avicenna's 'Refutation against astrology' Resāla fī ebṭāl aḥkām al-nojūm, argues against the practice of astrology while supporting the principle of planets acting as the agents of divine causation which express God's absolute power over creation. Avicenna considered that the movement of the planets influe... | 2.21875 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | Influential works of the 13th century include those of the British monk Johannes de Sacrobosco ( 1195–1256) and the Italian astrologer Guido Bonatti from Forlì (Italy). Bonatti served the communal governments of Florence, Siena and Forlì and acted as advisor to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor. His astrological text-bo... | 2.5 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | Chaucer's astrological passages are particularly frequent and knowledge of astrological basics is often assumed through his work. He knew enough of his period's astrology and astronomy to write a Treatise on the Astrolabe for his son. He pinpoints the early spring season of the Canterbury Tales in the opening verses of... | 2.640625 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | At the end of the Renaissance the confidence placed in astrology diminished, with the breakdown of Aristotelian Physics and rejection of the distinction between the celestial and sublunar realms, which had historically acted as the foundation of astrological theory. Keith Thomas writes that although heliocentrism is co... | 2.5625 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | The documented history of Jyotisha in the subsequent newer sense of modern horoscopic astrology is associated with the interaction of Indian and Hellenistic cultures through the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Kingdoms. The oldest surviving treatises, such as the Yavanajataka or the Brihat-Samhita, date to the early cent... | 2.21875 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | Astrology was traditionally regarded highly in China, and Confucius is said to have treated astrology with respect saying: "Heaven sends down its good or evil symbols and wise men act accordingly". The 60-year cycle combining the five elements with the twelve animal signs of the zodiac has been documented in China sinc... | 2.640625 | 0 |
958988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20astrology | History of astrology | The distinctive Mayan calendar used two main systems, one plotting the solar year of 360 days, which governed the planting of crops and other domestic matters; the other called the Tzolkin of 260 days, which governed ritual use. Each was linked to an elaborate astrological system to cover every facet of life. On the fi... | 3.078125 | 0 |
959000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden%20Green%20Diamond | Dresden Green Diamond | The Dresden Green Diamond, also known as the Dresden Green, is a natural green diamond which originated in the mines of India.
The Dresden Green is a rare Type IIa, with a clarity of VS1 and is said to be potentially internally flawless, if slightly recut.
It is named after Dresden, the capital of the German state of... | 2.40625 | 0 |
959007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Broch | Hermann Broch | Hermann Broch (; 1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945).
Life
Broch was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for som... | 2.25 | 0 |
959007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Broch | Hermann Broch | After the annexation of Austria by the Nazis on 12 March 1938, Broch was arrested in the small Alpine town of Bad Aussee for possession of a socialist magazine and detained in the district jail from the 13th to the 31st of March. Shortly thereafter, a movement organized by friends – including James Joyce, Thornton Wild... | 2.15625 | 0 |
959009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson%20EDS-1275 | Gibson EDS-1275 | The Gibson EDS-1275 is a double neck Gibson electric guitar introduced in 1963 and still in production. Popularized and raised to iconic status by musicians such as John McLaughlin and Jimmy Page, it was called "the coolest guitar in rock".
History
Gibson's first doubleneck guitars were produced from 1958 to 1961 wit... | 2.390625 | 0 |
959018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%20Nebula | Omega Nebula | The Omega Nebula is an H II region in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1745. Charles Messier catalogued it in 1764. It is by some of the richest starfields of the Milky Way, figuring in the northern two-thirds of Sagittarius. This feature is also known as the Swan Nebula,... | 2.8125 | 0 |
959022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janine%20Shepherd | Janine Shepherd | Janine Shepherd, is an Australian author, aerobatics pilot and former cross-country skier. Shepherd's career as an athlete ended when she sustained life-threatening injuries when hit by a truck during a training bike ride, while in contention to win Australia's first ever medal at the Winter Olympics. She survived and... | 1.914063 | 0 |
959038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20Gilbert | Lewis Gilbert | It was Daisy Gilbert, who helped him to get the role in The Divorce of Lady X, with the intention that Gilbert would be credited for it.
Later Alexander Korda offered to send him to RADA, but Gilbert chose to study direction instead, assisting Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939).
When the Second World War started, ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
959045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei%20Main%20Station | Taipei Main Station | Taipei Main Station () is a major metro and railway station in the capital Taipei, Taiwan. It is served by Taipei Metro, the Taiwan High Speed Rail, and Taiwan Railway. It is also connected through underground passageways to the terminal station of Taoyuan Airport MRT and the Taipei Bus Station. It is the busiest stati... | 2.015625 | 0 |
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