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959045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei%20Main%20Station | Taipei Main Station | To alleviate traffic congestion caused by railroad crossings in downtown Taipei, an underground railway tunnel between Huashan and Wanhua was built along with the present station building as part of the Taipei Railway Underground Project. When the underground system was completed on 2 September 1989, railway service wa... | 2.109375 | 0 |
959060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might%20and%20Magic%20Book%20One%3A%20The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Inner%20Sanctum | Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum | Might and Magic Book One: Secret of the Inner Sanctum (also known as simply Might and Magic) is an early role-playing video game, first in the popular and influential Might and Magic franchise. It was released in 1986 as New World Computing's debut, ported to numerous platforms and re-released continuously through the ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
959060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might%20and%20Magic%20Book%20One%3A%20The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Inner%20Sanctum | Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum | Clerical spells are usually more defensive, focusing on healing, defense and removal of poison and other undesirable effects.
Exploration
The world presented using a first person perspective. It is divided into a maze-like grid and the player's movement options are to move forward or backward, or turn ninety degrees ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
959060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might%20and%20Magic%20Book%20One%3A%20The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Inner%20Sanctum | Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum | Development
The original Apple II version of the game was written almost single-handedly by Jon Van Caneghem over three years. Van Caneghem had difficulty finding a publisher to distribute Might and Magic, so he self-published as New World Computing, handling the distribution himself from his own apartment until he was... | 2.453125 | 0 |
959066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukuba%20Express | Tsukuba Express | The , or TX, is a Japanese railway line operated by the third-sector company Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company, which links Akihabara Station in Chiyoda, Tokyo and Tsukuba Station in Tsukuba, Ibaraki. The route was inaugurated on 24 August 2005.
History
The was founded on 15 March 1991 to construct the Tsukuba ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
959066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukuba%20Express | Tsukuba Express | Future plans
In September 2013, a number of municipalities along the Tsukuba Express line in Ibaraki Prefecture submitted a proposal to complete the extension of the line to Tokyo Station at the same time as a new airport-to-airport line proposed as part of infrastructure improvements for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
On... | 2.5 | 0 |
959078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt%20Disney%20Television | Walt Disney Television | The first and original incarnation of Walt Disney Television was an American production company and the original/former television production division of the Walt Disney Company, which was active from 1983 to 2003.
Productions from this division were broadcast mostly on Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD and AB... | 1.984375 | 0 |
959078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt%20Disney%20Television | Walt Disney Television | Background
While initially not interest in television back in the 1930s, Walt Disney changed his mind seeing television at least as a promotional tool. Most studios were generating revenue by selling off their permanent television rights to their films made before 1948, while Disney held on to the company's film rights... | 2.515625 | 0 |
959094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt%20Disney%20Records | Walt Disney Records | Walt Disney Records is an American record label owned by the Disney Music Group. The label releases soundtrack albums from The Walt Disney Company's motion picture studios, television shows, theme parks and traditional studio albums produced by its roster of pop, teen pop and country artists.
The music label was found... | 2.171875 | 0 |
959094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt%20Disney%20Records | Walt Disney Records | The label was founded as Disneyland Records on February 4, 1956, with Jimmy Johnson as president, serving as the record unit of Walt Disney Productions. Johnson brought in musician Tutti Camarata to head the Artists and Repertoire department of this new enterprise. One ten-inch LP with the "Disneyland" imprint had been... | 2.203125 | 0 |
959136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20F.%20Robinson | Tommy F. Robinson | When his request for more money for his office was denied, he arrested County Judge Bill Beaumont and Comptroller Jo Growcock on charges of obstructing governmental operations. He released Beaumont and Growcock only when threatened with another contempt of court citation. As a result of the constant conflict, Beaumont ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
959147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Blumenthal | Richard Blumenthal | Interstate air pollution
In 1997, Blumenthal and Governor John G. Rowland petitioned the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address interstate air pollution problems created from Midwest and southeastern sources. The petition was filed in accordance with Section 126 of the Clean Air Act, which allow... | 2.421875 | 0 |
959147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Blumenthal | Richard Blumenthal | Microsoft lawsuit
In May 1998, Blumenthal and the attorneys general of 19 other states and the District of Columbia filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of abusing its monopoly power to stifle competition. The suit, which centered on Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system and its contractual rest... | 1.960938 | 0 |
959149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majid%20bin%20Said%20of%20Zanzibar | Majid bin Said of Zanzibar | Sayyid Majid bin Saïd al-Busaidi () ( – ) was the first Sultan of Zanzibar. He ruled Zanzibar from 19 October 1856 to 7 October 1870.
He succeeded his father Said bin Sultan as ruler of Zanzibar and East Africa, and briefly (claimed) Oman following Said’s death. During his reign his brother Bargash would prove consta... | 2.015625 | 0 |
959166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley%20Earl | Harley Earl | Harley Jarvis Earl (November 22, 1893 – April 10, 1969) was an American automotive designer and business executive. He was the initial designated head of design at General Motors, later becoming vice president, the first top executive ever appointed in design of a major corporation in American history. He was an indust... | 2.5625 | 0 |
959166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley%20Earl | Harley Earl | Lawrence P. Fisher, general manager of the Cadillac division who was one of the brothers who started Fisher Body, was visiting Cadillac dealers and distributors around the country, including Lee. Fisher met Earl at Lee's dealership and observed him at work. Fisher, whose automotive career began with coachbuilder Fishe... | 2.390625 | 0 |
959166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley%20Earl | Harley Earl | Influenced by the English and European sports cars being raced on road racing circuits after World War II, Earl decided that General Motors needed to make a sports car. Design work on "Project Opel" began as a secret project. He first offered the project to Chevrolet general manager Ed Cole. Cole accepted the project... | 2.40625 | 0 |
959172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Babinski | Joseph Babinski | Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (; 17 November 1857 – 29 October 1932) was a French-Polish professor of neurology. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage.
Life
Born in Paris, Babinski was the son of a Polish military o... | 2.421875 | 0 |
959183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yundi | Yundi | Yundi Li (; born 7 October 1982), also known mononymously as Yundi (stylized as YUNDI), is a Chinese classical concert pianist. Yundi is especially known for his interpretation of Chopin, Liszt and Prokofiev. He is considered one of the greatest contemporary interpreters of Chopin.
Yundi rose to fame for being the you... | 2.53125 | 0 |
959183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yundi | Yundi | Competitions
Yundi has received top awards at various competitions. He won the Children's Piano Competition in Beijing in 1994. In 1995, he was awarded third place at the Stravinsky International Youth Competition. In 1996, he won the third prize in the tenth Hong Kong - Asia Piano Open Competition. In 1998, he was awa... | 1.914063 | 0 |
959183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yundi | Yundi | The same year, in recognition to his contribution to Chopin pieces, the Polish government presented Yundi with the world's first Chopin passport (Chopinowskie paszporty).
In 2015, at the age of 33, Yundi served as the juror of XVII International Chopin Piano Competition, making him the youngest-ever juror of Internati... | 2.3125 | 0 |
959183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yundi | Yundi | Yundi enjoys cuisine across the globe, as he believes that music styles of places can be found from food. He particularly likes crabs. He is also good at cooking, especially Sichuan cuisine twice-cooked pork.
Philanthropy
In 2001, Yundi donated a portion of the sales revenue of his first CD “Yundi Li: Chopin” to Unit... | 2.015625 | 0 |
959186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20of%20Austria%2C%20Duchess%20of%20Savoy | Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy | Margaret of Austria (; ; ; ; 10 January 1480 – 1 December 1530) was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 until her death in 1530. She was the first of many female regents in the Netherlands. She was variously the Princess of Asturias, Duchess of Savoy, and was born an Archduchess ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
959186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20of%20Austria%2C%20Duchess%20of%20Savoy | Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy | To achieve an alliance with Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, Maximilian started negotiating the marriage of their only son and heir, John, Prince of Asturias, to Margaret, as well as the marriage of their daughter Juana to Philip. Margaret left the Netherlands for Spain late in 1496. Her eng... | 2.46875 | 0 |
959186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20of%20Austria%2C%20Duchess%20of%20Savoy | Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy | In September 1504 Philibert died of pleurisy. Grief-stricken, Margaret threw herself out of a window, but was saved. After being persuaded to bury her husband, she had his heart embalmed so she could keep it with her forever. Her court historian and poet Jean Lemaire de Belges gave her the title "Dame de deuil" (Lady o... | 2.34375 | 0 |
959186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20of%20Austria%2C%20Duchess%20of%20Savoy | Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy | Margaret soon found herself at war with France over the question of Charles's requirement to pay homage to the French king for the County of Flanders (which was outside the Empire; and while a long-standing portion of the inherited Burgundian titles & provinces, legally still within France). In response, she persuaded ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
959186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20of%20Austria%2C%20Duchess%20of%20Savoy | Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy | According to James D. Tracy, Maximilian and Margaret were reasonable in demanding more stern measures against Guelders, but their critics in the Estates General (that had continuously voted against providing funds for wars against Guelders) and among the nobles naively thought that Charles of Egmont could be controlled... | 2.34375 | 0 |
959186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20of%20Austria%2C%20Duchess%20of%20Savoy | Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy | Once again, Margaret proved a remarkably capable ruler of the Netherlands, holding off the forces of the League of Cognac – i.e. the French (1526–29) and then negotiating the "Paix de Dames/ Ladies Peace". Journeying to Cambrai again, Margaret reunited with Louise of Savoy, her sister-in-law and mother of Francis I. Th... | 2.546875 | 0 |
959186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20of%20Austria%2C%20Duchess%20of%20Savoy | Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy | Patronage of the arts
Margaret owned or controlled a very significant art collection, which she expanded considerably; the ownership of works inherited by her or Charles V from their Burgundian ancestors is not always clear. Most of this was left to Charles and her niece and successor as governor, Mary of Hungary, and... | 2.21875 | 0 |
959186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20of%20Austria%2C%20Duchess%20of%20Savoy | Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy | The collection was carefully laid out as a "proto-museum", and it appears Margaret often gave notable visitors guided tours herself. There was a large number of portraits of Margaret's Burgundian ancestors, her Habsburg contemporaries, and her two husbands and their relatives. There were also seven portraits of member... | 2.265625 | 0 |
959186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20of%20Austria%2C%20Duchess%20of%20Savoy | Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy | Although she lived during the less distinguished end of the period of Early Netherlandish painting, she had several painters at her court, including the Master of the Legend of the Magdalen and Pieter van Coninxloo, mainly portrait painters (it is possible they were the same person). Seven versions survive of her port... | 2.578125 | 0 |
959207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongerik%20Atoll | Rongerik Atoll | Rongerik Atoll or Rongdrik Atoll (Marshallese: , ) is an unpopulated coral atoll of 17 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and is located in the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands, approximately east of Bikini Atoll. Its total land area is only , but it encloses a lagoon of .
In 1946, Rongerik was briefly inhabited by Bik... | 2.390625 | 0 |
959209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses%20Austin | Moses Austin | Austin sought to start his own mining business in southwestern Virginia, and in 1789 he traveled there to look at a lead mine. Moses saw potential in the site and by 1791 his family had joined him in what is now Wythe County. Moses and his brother Stephen and several other partners and individuals industrialized the ar... | 2.578125 | 0 |
959209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses%20Austin | Moses Austin | In 1798, the Spanish colonial government granted to Moses one league of land (4,428 acres) to undertake lead mining operations. In return he swore allegiance to the Spanish Crown and stated he would settle some families in Missouri. Travelling to Missouri, Austin worked with Francois Valle to identify his claims and to... | 3.09375 | 0 |
959209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses%20Austin | Moses Austin | In 1885, the legality of Austin's Spanish property claims were settled posthumously by the U.S. Supreme Court in Bryan v. Kennett.
Family
Moses Austin had many relatives who helped settle Texas, including Stephen F. Austin and Emily Austin Perry (daughter), Moses Austin Bryan (grandson), and others. Moses Austin shoul... | 2.671875 | 0 |
959209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses%20Austin | Moses Austin | Austin's primary intention was to create a trading venture on the coast of Texas to allow the United States to trade with New Spain. On December 23, 1820, Austin arrived in San Antonio to begin negotiations with the Spanish government to establish a trading post. After some difficulty on his own, Austin paired with a S... | 2.859375 | 0 |
959237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Kelly%20%28baseball%29 | Tom Kelly (baseball) | Jay Thomas Kelly (born August 15, 1950) is an American former professional baseball player, coach and manager. As the manager of the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball over 16 seasons from mid-September through , he won two World Series championships. Currently, he serves as a special assistant to the general ma... | 1.9375 | 0 |
959237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Kelly%20%28baseball%29 | Tom Kelly (baseball) | 1987 World Series
A year after taking over the reins of the Twins from Miller, Kelly took the team that he had helped build through his role as one of the top people in the Twins' minor league organization and led it to a World Series championship. Though the '87 Twins were criticized for being the top team in a weak d... | 2.109375 | 0 |
959246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton%20%26%20Paul%20Ltd | Boulton & Paul Ltd | Other building types
Boulton & Paul was one of the first manufacturers of prefabricated "Residences, Bungalows and Cottages", which they sent to destinations all over the British Empire and South America. Its 1920 catalogue contained a choice of twenty-two designs with several varieties of bungalow illustrated, ranging... | 2.296875 | 0 |
959252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20Native%20Fishes%20Association | North American Native Fishes Association | The North American Native Fishes Association (NANFA) is a non-profit, tax-exempt U.S. corporation that serves to bring together professional and amateur aquarists, anglers, fisheries biologists, ichthyologists, fish and wildlife officials, educators and naturalists who share an interest in the conservation, study, and ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
959261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual%20stew | Perpetual stew | A perpetual stew, also known as forever soup, hunter's pot, or hunter's stew, is a pot into which foodstuffs are placed and cooked, continuously. The pot is never or rarely emptied all the way, and ingredients and liquid are replenished as necessary. Such foods can continue cooking for decades or longer if properly mai... | 2.390625 | 0 |
959272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20effects%20of%20rock%20music | Social effects of rock music | The popularity and worldwide scope of rock music resulted in a powerful impact on society in the 20th century, particularly among the baby boomer generation. Rock and roll influenced daily life, fashion, social attitudes, and language in a way few other social developments have equated to. As the original generation of... | 2.96875 | 0 |
959272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20effects%20of%20rock%20music | Social effects of rock music | The rock and roll lifestyle was popularly associated with sex and drugs. Many of rock and roll's early stars (as well as their jazz and blues counterparts) were known as hard-drinking, hard-living characters. During the 1960s the lifestyles of many stars became more publicly known, aided by the growth of the undergroun... | 2.390625 | 0 |
959272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20effects%20of%20rock%20music | Social effects of rock music | Many rock musicians, including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Stevie Nicks, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Bon Scott, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Steven Tyler, Scott Weiland, Sly Stone, Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Layne Staley, Kurt Cobain, Le... | 2.09375 | 0 |
959272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20effects%20of%20rock%20music | Social effects of rock music | Rock musicians were also early adopters of hippie fashion and popularised such styles as long hair and the Nehru jacket. As rock music genres became more segmented, what an artist wore became as important as the music itself in defining the artist's intent and relationship to the audience. In the early 1970s, glam rock... | 2.546875 | 0 |
959272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20effects%20of%20rock%20music | Social effects of rock music | Social activism
Love and peace were very common themes in rock music during the 1960s and 1970s. Rock musicians have often attempted to address social issues directly as commentary or as calls to action. During the Vietnam War the first rock protest songs were heard, inspired by the songs of folk musicians such as Wood... | 2.703125 | 0 |
959272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20effects%20of%20rock%20music | Social effects of rock music | Rock and roll as social activism reached a milestone in the Live Aid concerts, held July 13, 1985, which were an outgrowth of the 1984 charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and became the largest musical concert in history with performers on two main stages, one in London, England and the other in Philadelphia,... | 2.609375 | 0 |
959282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Aerostar | Ford Aerostar | For Ford Motor Company, the development of the minivan began life in the early 1970s as a companion model to the third-generation Ford Econoline/Club Wagon, under development for the 1975 model year. As the full-size van was slated to grow in size, Ford explored the concept of a "garageable van", designed with a roofl... | 1.96875 | 0 |
959282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Aerostar | Ford Aerostar | The new van project adopted a rear-wheel drive layout for two primary reasons. While the new van was to given a carlike ride (its 119-inch wheelbase largely placed the wheels at all four corners), another key objective for the design to tow 5000 pounds (matching the Ford Ranger, then also in design). To lower product... | 2.03125 | 0 |
959282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Aerostar | Ford Aerostar | The Ford Aerostar (developed under Ford model code VN1, the first Ford chassis given an alphanumeric designation) uses a rear-wheel drive chassis configuration. Developed specifically for the model line, the chassis combines unibody chassis construction with full-length frame rails. While using unibody chassis const... | 2.109375 | 0 |
959282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Aerostar | Ford Aerostar | Powertrain details
For its 1986 launch, the Aerostar was introduced with two engines shared with the Ranger/Bronco II. A 100 hp 2.3 L inline-4 (also shared with the Mustang) was standard with a 115 hp 2.8 L V6 (from Ford of Europe) offered as an option; as a running change during 1986, the 2.8 L engine was replaced by... | 1.992188 | 0 |
959282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Aerostar | Ford Aerostar | Although the Ford Aerostar sold well, the minivan market segment was dominated by Chrysler minivans in the late 1980s. In 1988, Ford commenced design work on a successor to the Aerostar for a planned 1993 introduction. To compete more directly against Chrysler, what was to become the Ford Windstar adopted the form fa... | 2.09375 | 0 |
959314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton%20Paul%20Sidestrand | Boulton Paul Sidestrand | The Boulton Paul P.29 Sidestrand was a twin-engine biplane medium bomber of the Royal Air Force. Designed for daylight operations, it was manoeuvrable and provided with three defensive gun positions. Named after a village on the Norfolk coast near Boulton & Paul's factory in Norwich, the Sidestrand first flew in 1926 a... | 2.078125 | 0 |
959341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%20Humphreys | Christmas Humphreys | Buddhism and Theosophy
In the early decades of the twentieth century, Humphreys had begun a broad reading in the available English-language literature on Eastern thought and Buddhism in particular. He was further influenced in this direction by public lectures presented by J.R. Pain (founder of the short-lived Buddhis... | 2.171875 | 0 |
959360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocharis%20cethura | Anthocharis cethura | Anthocharis cethura, the desert orangetip or Felder's orangetip, is a species of butterfly in the subfamily Pierinae. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it lives on hills and ridges in rocky desert habitat.
The male and female look similar. The wingspan is between . The wings are... | 2.75 | 0 |
959366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holes%20%28novel%29 | Holes (novel) | Holes is a 1998 young adult novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book centers on Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a correctional boot camp in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft. The plot explores the history of the area and how the acti... | 2.609375 | 0 |
959366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holes%20%28novel%29 | Holes (novel) | Background
Holes is one of 42 books written by Louis Sachar, most of which are classified as children's literature. The novel is categorized as young adult literature but has also been labeled as realistic fiction, a tall tale, a folk tale, a fairy tale, a children's story, a postmodern novel, detective fiction, and a... | 2.46875 | 0 |
959366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holes%20%28novel%29 | Holes (novel) | Elya Yelnats
Elya Yelnats is 15 years old and lives in Latvia. He is in love with Myra Menke, the most beautiful girl in the village. Myra's father has decided she should marry when she turns fifteen in two months. 57-year-old Igor Barkov offers his fattest pig to Myra's father in exchange for her hand so Elya asks hi... | 2.046875 | 0 |
959366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holes%20%28novel%29 | Holes (novel) | Kissin' Kate Barlow
In the year 1888, Green Lake is a flourishing Texas lakeside village. Katherine Barlow, a local schoolteacher famous for her spiced peaches, falls in love with Sam, an African-American onion farmer. She rejects the advances of Charles Walker, the richest man in town, who is nicknamed "Trout" becaus... | 1.929688 | 0 |
959366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holes%20%28novel%29 | Holes (novel) | Camp Green Lake
Stanley Yelnats IV's family is cursed, jokingly blaming Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather" Elya for their constant misfortunes. Stanley, who is in middle school, is convicted of stealing a pair of athletic shoes that baseball player Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston had d... | 2.109375 | 0 |
959366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holes%20%28novel%29 | Holes (novel) | Setting
The majority of the book takes place in Camp Green Lake, a dried-up lake located in the US state of Texas. Camp Green Lake is a correctional boot camp, where "campers" spend most of their time digging holes. The name is a misnomer, as the area is a parched, barren desert. The only weather is the scorching sun. ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
959366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holes%20%28novel%29 | Holes (novel) | Names
Throughout the novel, names act as a theme that allows the characters to disassociate their lives at Camp Green Lake from their lives back in the real world. Names also demonstrate irony—Camp Green Lake is not actually a camp, it is located in a desert, and there is no lake. The "campers" all label themselves di... | 2.515625 | 0 |
959366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holes%20%28novel%29 | Holes (novel) | Racism
Holes portrays various forms of racism and institutional discrimination. The book depicts the lynching of a southern black man by a mob of white people, echoing the overt acts of violence committed by white people against communities of color during the 19th century. The curse Green Lake inherits after Sam's de... | 2.5 | 0 |
959369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianzhen | Jianzhen | Jianzhen (688–763), also known by his Japanese name Ganjin, was a Tang Chinese monk or Silla Korean of Yanju who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. In the eleven years from 743 to 754, Jianzhen attempted to visit Japan some six times, arriving in the year 753 and founding Tōshōdai-ji in Nara. When he finally succe... | 2.078125 | 0 |
959369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianzhen | Jianzhen | In summer 748, Jianzhen made his fifth attempt to reach Japan. Leaving from Yangzhou, he made it to the Zhoushan Archipelago off the coast of modern Zhejiang. But the ship was blown off course and ended up in the Yande (延德) commandery on Hainan Island. Jianzhen was then forced to make his way back to Yangzhou by land, ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
959376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20French%20Angas | George French Angas | George French Angas (25 April 1822 – 4 October 1886), also known as G.F.A., was an English explorer, naturalist, painter and poet who emigrated to Australia. His paintings are held in a number of important Australian public art collections. He was the eldest son of George Fife Angas, who was prominent in the early days... | 2.53125 | 0 |
959376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20French%20Angas | George French Angas | Many of Angas's original watercolours are held in National Library of Australia, as well as in a number of South Australian institutions: Art Gallery of South Australia; University of Adelaide; South Australian Museum; and Royal Geographical Society of South Australia. The State Library of New South Wales has four lett... | 2.34375 | 0 |
959391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama%20Hattie | Panama Hattie | Panama Hattie is a 1940 American musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Herbert Fields and B. G. DeSylva. The musical is about a nightclub owner, Hattie Maloney, who lives in the Panama Canal Zone and ends up dealing with both romantic and military intrigue. The title is a play on words, referring to ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
959398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou | Yangzhou | Yangzhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, East China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou to the east, and Zhenjiang across the river to the south. Its population was 4,559,7... | 2.34375 | 0 |
959398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou | Yangzhou | In 1280, during the Yuan, Yangzhou was the site of a massive gunpowder explosion when the bomb warehouse of the Weiyang arsenal accidentally caught fire. The blast killed over a hundred guards, hurled debris from buildings into the air that landed 10 li away, and could be felt 100 li. Marco Polo claimed to have served ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
959398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou | Yangzhou | After the fall of Beijing and northern China to the Manchus in 1644, Yangzhou remained under the control of the short-lived Southern Ming based in Nanjing. Qing forces led by Prince Dodo reached Yangzhou in the spring of 1645, and despite the heroic efforts of its chief defender, Shi Kefa, the city fell on May 20, 1645... | 2.765625 | 0 |
959398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou | Yangzhou | The Yangzhou riot in 1868 was a pivotal moment of Anglo-Chinese relations during late Qing China that almost led to war. The crisis was fomented by the scholar-officials of the city, who opposed the presence of foreign Christian missionaries there. The riot that resulted was an angry crowd estimated at eight to ten tho... | 2.859375 | 0 |
959398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou | Yangzhou | Among early plans for railways in the late Qing was one for a line that would connect Yangzhou to the north but this was jettisoned in favor of an alternative route. The city's status as a leading economic center in China was never to be restored. Not until the 1990s did it begin to regain some semblance of prosperity,... | 2.328125 | 0 |
959398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou | Yangzhou | Climate
Yangzhou has a subtropical monsoon climate with humid changeable wind; longer winters for about 4 months, summers 4 months and shorter springs and autumns, 2 months respectively; frost-free period of around 240 days and annual average sunshine of around 1,912 hours.
The mean annual temperature is annually, wi... | 2.6875 | 0 |
959398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou | Yangzhou | Rail
Until 2004, Yangzhou was not served by passenger rail. Yangzhou Railway Station began construction in 2003 and was completed a year later. It is located on the western outskirts of the city, and is a major station on the Nanjing–Qidong railway, and provides direct passenger service to the provincial capital as wel... | 2.171875 | 0 |
959398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou | Yangzhou | River transport
Yangzhou harbor, south from the city center, is located at the junction of the Beijing–Hangzhou Canal and the Yangtze River. The average water depth is 15–20 meters. In 1992, the State Council approved it to become a first-grade open state harbor, and General Secretary Jiang Zemin inscribed its name. ... | 2.25 | 0 |
959398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou | Yangzhou | Industries and shipyards
Yangzhou is the site of Chengxi shipyard, large shipyard where bulk carriers and other types of large ships are built. Owned partly by the state owned CSSC holdings, through Jiangsu Xinrong shipyard, Chengxi Yangzhou shipyard builds ships from 25,000 dwt to 170,000 dwt in size.
Culture
The Ya... | 2.453125 | 0 |
959398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou | Yangzhou | Some of China's most creative and eye catching dishes come from the Yangzhou school of cuisine called Huaiyang (also commonly known as the Weiyang school). Along with Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, and Shandong cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine () is a distinctive and masterful skill that locals are quite proud of.
The c... | 2.328125 | 0 |
959398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou | Yangzhou | Located on Shugang Hill, in the city's northwest, is Fajing Temple, formerly known as DaMing Temple. The original temple was built in Liu Song dynasty (420–479). A nine-story pagoda, the Qilingta, was built on the temple grounds in the year of Sui dynasty (589–618) . A recent addition to the temple complex is the Jianz... | 2.4375 | 0 |
959401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Treybig | Jimmy Treybig | James G. Treybig is the founder of Tandem Computers, which designed and manufactured the first fault tolerant computers, in 1974. These pioneering computers were marketed to transaction processing customers, who used them for ATMs, banks, stock exchanges, phone companies, 911 and military applications.
Early life and ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
959412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20Newark | AirTrain Newark | The contract to build the system was awarded to Von Roll, but the project was finished by Adtranz, which acquired Von Roll's monorail division while the system was being built. Adtranz was later acquired by Bombardier Transportation, which was itself purchased by Alstom, which continues to operate the AirTrain under co... | 1.992188 | 0 |
959412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20Newark | AirTrain Newark | The AirTrain has three major stations within the airport: one for each terminal (A, B, and C). Two stations – Terminal B and Terminal C – sit on top of their respective terminal buildings. There are two other stations (P3 and P4) for the parking lots and rental car facilities, plus a sixth (the RailLink station) at the... | 2.234375 | 0 |
959417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolyn%20MacEwen | Gwendolyn MacEwen | Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen (1 September 1941 – 29 November 1987) was a Canadian poet and novelist. A "sophisticated, wide-ranging and thoughtful writer," she published more than 20 books in her life. "A sense of magic and mystery from her own interests in the Gnostics, Ancient Egypt and magic itself, and from her wonde... | 2.0625 | 0 |
959417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolyn%20MacEwen | Gwendolyn MacEwen | She taught herself to read Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and French, and translated writers from each of those languages. In 1978 her translation of Euripides' drama The Trojan Women was first performed in Toronto.
She served as writer in residence at the University of Western Ontario in 1985, and the University of Toronto i... | 2.21875 | 0 |
959417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolyn%20MacEwen | Gwendolyn MacEwen | Fictional tributes to MacEwen have been published by Margaret Atwood (the short story "Isis in Darkness"), and Lorne S. Jones (the novel Mighty Oaks).
A one-woman play by Linda Griffiths, Alien Creature: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen, won the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Chalmers Award in 2000.
Her book of po... | 2.03125 | 0 |
959418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styles%20Bridges | Styles Bridges | Henry Styles Bridges (September 9, 1898November 26, 1961) was an American teacher, editor, and Republican Party politician from Concord, New Hampshire. He served one term as the 63rd governor of New Hampshire before a twenty-four-year career in the United States Senate.
Early life and career
Bridges was born in West P... | 2.09375 | 0 |
959418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styles%20Bridges | Styles Bridges | Republican presidential nominee Alf Landon considered Bridges as his running mate for the 1936 United States presidential election, but aides pointed out that Democrats could use "Landon Bridges falling down" as a campaign slogan. Bridges was elected to the United States Senate in 1936, and would serve until his death ... | 2.125 | 0 |
959422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20JFK | AirTrain JFK | AirTrain JFK is an elevated people mover system and airport rail link serving John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK Airport) in New York City. The driverless system operates 24/7 and consists of three lines and nine stations within the New York City borough of Queens. It connects the airport's terminals with the ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
959422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20JFK | AirTrain JFK | Early plans
The first proposal for a direct rail link to JFK Airport was made in the mid-1940s, when a rail line was proposed for the median of the Van Wyck Expressway, connecting Midtown Manhattan with the airport. New York City parks commissioner Robert Moses, at the time an influential urban planner in the New York... | 2.71875 | 0 |
959422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20JFK | AirTrain JFK | 1990s plans
By the 1990s, there was demand for a direct link between Midtown Manhattan and JFK Airport, which are apart by road. At the time, the airport was only served by two highways: the Belt Parkway and Van Wyck Expressway. During rush hour, the travel time from JFK to Manhattan could average up to 80 minutes by... | 2.40625 | 0 |
959422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20JFK | AirTrain JFK | The Port Authority started reviewing blueprints for the JFK rail link in 1992. At the time, it was thought that the link could be partially open within six years. In 1994, the Port Authority set aside $40 million for engineering and marketing of the new line, and created an environmental impact statement (EIS). The pr... | 2.296875 | 0 |
959422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20JFK | AirTrain JFK | Curtailment of plan
The direct rail connection between Manhattan, LaGuardia Airport, and JFK Airport was canceled outright in mid-1995. The plan had failed to become popular politically, as it would have involved increasing road tolls and PATH train fares to pay for the new link. In addition, the 1990s economic recess... | 2.21875 | 0 |
959422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20JFK | AirTrain JFK | The Port Authority voted to proceed with the scaled-down system in May 1996, and it simultaneously set aside $25 million for planning and engineering. The FAA had already given the Port Authority permission to collect PFC funds for the Howard Beach branch and the terminal section, but not for the branch to Jamaica. The... | 2.203125 | 0 |
959422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20JFK | AirTrain JFK | The Port Authority could use the funds from the Passenger Facility Charge only to make improvements that exclusively benefited airport passengers. As a result, only the sections linking Jamaica and Howard Beach to JFK Airport were approved and built, since it was expected that airport travelers would be the sole users ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
959422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20JFK | AirTrain JFK | The route was to run mostly along existing rights-of-way, but three commercial properties were seized and demolished to make way for the route. Members of the New York City Planning Commission approved the condemnation of several buildings along the route in May 1999 but voiced concerns about the projected high price o... | 2.546875 | 0 |
959422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20JFK | AirTrain JFK | The project also included $80 million of tunnels within the airport, which was built using a cut-and-cover method; the tunnels had been among the first contracts to be awarded. Two shifts of workers excavated a trench measuring deep, wide, and long. The water table was as shallow as beneath the surface, so contract... | 2.25 | 0 |
959422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20JFK | AirTrain JFK | Testing, delays, and completion
A website for the project was launched in April 2000. Pile-driving for elevated columns was nearly completed in late 2000, when two-thirds of the system's columns had been installed. The United States Congress provided almost $2 million in November 2000 for wayfinding, marketing, and ac... | 2.34375 | 0 |
959422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20JFK | AirTrain JFK | Southeast Queens residents feared the project could become a boondoggle, as the construction cost of the system had increased to $1.9 billion. This figure was $400 million over what had been budgeted for the system in 1999. Like other Port Authority properties, the AirTrain did not receive subsidies from the state or c... | 2.1875 | 0 |
959422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20JFK | AirTrain JFK | Several projects were developed in Jamaica in anticipation of the system's opening, and local civic leaders hoped the system would help revitalize downtown Jamaica. The Jamaica Center Mall, Joseph P. Addabbo Federal Building, the Civil Court, and a Food and Drug Administration laboratory and offices were all built in t... | 2.5 | 0 |
959422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain%20JFK | AirTrain JFK | Renovation of JFK Airport
On January 4, 2017, the office of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a $7–10 billion plan to renovate JFK Airport. As part of the project, the AirTrain JFK would either see lengthened trainsets or a direct track connection to the rest of New York City's transportation system, and a dire... | 2.15625 | 0 |
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