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959741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Doctor%20Who | History of Doctor Who | Hartnell's Doctor would initially be accompanied by his granddaughter Susan Foreman (played by Carole Ann Ford), originally to have been merely a travelling companion, but with a family tie added by Coburn, who was uncomfortable with the possible undertones the relationship could carry were they to be unrelated. They w... | 2.03125 | 0 |
959741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Doctor%20Who | History of Doctor Who | It was not until the second serial, The Daleks, that the programme caught the imaginations of viewers and began to ingrain itself in the popular consciousness. This was primarily due to the Dalek creatures introduced in this story. Devised by scriptwriter Terry Nation and designer Raymond Cusick, they were completely u... | 2.1875 | 0 |
959741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Doctor%20Who | History of Doctor Who | The seventh season, at twenty-five episodes, was shorter than any before and established a pattern of Doctor Who seasons being between twenty and twenty-eight 25-minute episodes in length, one that would last until the middle of the 1980s. However, although the new format of the Doctor being stuck on Earth had proved p... | 1.9375 | 0 |
959741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Doctor%20Who | History of Doctor Who | After the series was taken off the air in 1989, various Doctor Who projects were produced under license from the BBC. Doctor Who Magazine continued its long-running comic strip and published original fiction, initially continuing the run of stories with the Seventh Doctor and Ace and featuring other companions and Doct... | 2.296875 | 0 |
959741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Doctor%20Who | History of Doctor Who | Eighth Doctor
Although in-house production had ceased, the BBC were hopeful of finding an independent production company to re-launch the show and had been approached for such a venture as early as July 1989 (while the 26th series was still in production) by Philip Segal, a British expatriate who worked for Columbia Pi... | 2.09375 | 0 |
959741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Doctor%20Who | History of Doctor Who | 2020s
Thirteenth Doctor
It was announced on 16 July 2017 that Jodie Whittaker would portray the Thirteenth Doctor in the eleventh series. She is the first woman to be cast in the role. The series introduced a new set of companions, including Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, and Mandip Gill as Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair an... | 2.015625 | 0 |
959759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larix%20laricina | Larix laricina | Larix laricina, commonly known as the tamarack, hackmatack, eastern larch, black larch, red larch, or American larch, is a species of larch native to Canada, from eastern Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland, and also south into the upper northeastern United States from Minnesota to Cranesville ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
959759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larix%20laricina | Larix laricina | Tamarack is generally the first forest tree to grow on filled-lake bogs. In the lake states, tamarack may appear first in the sedge mat, sphagnum moss, or not until the bog shrub stage. Farther north, it is the pioneer tree in the bog shrub stage. Tamarack is fairly well adapted to reproduce successfully on burns, so i... | 2.734375 | 0 |
959759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larix%20laricina | Larix laricina | There are some other insects that can harm Tamaracks, including spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana); the larch-bud moth (Zeiraphera improbana); the spruce spider mite (Oligonychus ununguis); the larch-shoot moth (Argyresthia laricella); and the eastern larch beetle (Dendroctonus simplex). Healthy trees are left m... | 2.515625 | 0 |
959759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larix%20laricina | Larix laricina | The wood is tough and durable, but also flexible in thin strips, and was used by the Algonquian people for making snowshoes and other products where toughness was required. The natural crooks located in the stumps and roots are also preferred for creating knees in wooden boats. Currently, the wood is used principally f... | 2.765625 | 0 |
959759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larix%20laricina | Larix laricina | Tamarack is very intolerant of shade. Although it can tolerate some shade during the first several years, it must become dominant to survive. When mixed with other species, it must be in the over story. The tree is a good self-pruner, and boles of 25- to 30-year-old trees may be clear for one-half or two-thirds their l... | 2.765625 | 0 |
959782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20May%20%28skier%29 | Mike May (skier) | Michael G. May (born 1953) is an American business executive, skier and enthusiast of other sports who was blinded by a chemical explosion at the age of three, but regained partial vision in 2000, at the age of 46, after cornea transplants and a pioneering stem cell procedure by San Francisco ophthalmologist Daniel Goo... | 1.914063 | 0 |
959782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20May%20%28skier%29 | Mike May (skier) | May lost his eyesight at the age of three when his vision was not fully developed; he was unable yet to distinguish shapes, drawings, or images clearly. Consequently, it was anticipated that he would experience difficulty describing the outside world in comparison to a normal-sighted person, for example, it would be di... | 2.625 | 0 |
959784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honourable%20Corps%20of%20Gentlemen%20at%20Arms | Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms | His Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms is a bodyguard to the British Monarch. Until 17 March 1834, they were known as The Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners.
Formation
The corps was formed as the Troop of Gentlemen in 1509 by King Henry VIII to act as a mounted escort, armed with s... | 2.71875 | 0 |
959784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honourable%20Corps%20of%20Gentlemen%20at%20Arms | Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms | Today, the duties are purely ceremonial: the Gentlemen accompany and attend the sovereign at various events and occasions, including state visits by heads of state, the opening of parliament, and ceremonies involving the various orders of chivalry, including the Order of the Garter. The Gentlemen now parade for the Sta... | 2.15625 | 0 |
959789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASA%20C-212%20Aviocar | CASA C-212 Aviocar | By December 2012, there were 92 operators of the C-212 around the world. These operators included numerous charter and short-haul aviation companies as well as various national air services, which commonly used as a transport, surveillance aircraft, and for search and rescue. The C-212 has been a popular aircraft among... | 2.640625 | 0 |
959795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Company%20of%20Archers | Royal Company of Archers | The Royal Company of Archers, The King's Bodyguard for Scotland, is a ceremonial unit that serves as the Sovereign's bodyguard in Scotland—a role it has performed since 1822 during the reign of King George IV when the company provided a personal bodyguard to the King on his visit to Scotland. It is currently known as t... | 2.734375 | 0 |
959795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Company%20of%20Archers | Royal Company of Archers | Having chosen a new leader, the society obtained from Queen Anne a charter under the Great Seal of Scotland, establishing it as a corporation by Letters Patent, dated 31 December 1713 into a Royal Company. These letters of patent: revived and ratified, on their behalf, the old laws and acts of Parliament that favored a... | 2.34375 | 0 |
959795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Company%20of%20Archers | Royal Company of Archers | Organisation
The Royal Company of Archers has its base in Buccleuch Street, Edinburgh at Archers' Hall. Building commenced on 15 August 1776, and was completed by Alexander Laing in 1777. The Hall was extended in 1900 by A.F. Balfour Paul, and recently refurbished. The Hall consists of a hall, forty feet by twenty-four... | 2.515625 | 0 |
959795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Company%20of%20Archers | Royal Company of Archers | Members of the Royal Company must be Scots or have strong Scottish connections. Membership is by election; the present membership totals around 530, with an active list of some 400. Members pay an annual subscription, and are also expected to cover the cost of their uniforms and equipment, as well as of travel and othe... | 2.25 | 0 |
959806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Lehman | Ernest Lehman | Ernest Paul Lehman (December 8, 1915 – July 2, 2005) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He was nominated six times for Academy Awards for his screenplays during his career, but did not win. At the 73rd Academy Awards in 2001, he received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his achievements and his ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
959813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20de%20la%20Cosa | Juan de la Cosa | Juan de la Cosa (c. 1450 – 28 February 1510) was a Castilian navigator and cartographer, known for designing the earliest European world map which incorporated the territories of the Americas discovered in the 15th century.
De la Cosa was the owner and master of the Santa María, and thus played an important role in the... | 2.65625 | 0 |
959813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20de%20la%20Cosa | Juan de la Cosa | In 1509 Juan de la Cosa set out for the seventh and last time for the New World. He carried two hundred colonists on three ships, and on reaching Haiti placed himself under the command of Alonso de Ojeda, who added another ship with one hundred settlers to the expedition. After having settled an old border dispute betw... | 2.59375 | 0 |
959823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs%20Dale%27s%20Diary | Mrs Dale's Diary | Mrs Dale's Diary was the first significant BBC radio serial drama. It was first broadcast on 5 January 1948 on the BBC Light Programme, later BBC Radio 2; it ran until 25 April 1969. A new episode was broadcast each weekday afternoon, with a repeat the following morning. A few days after the final episode, a new se... | 1.976563 | 0 |
959823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs%20Dale%27s%20Diary | Mrs Dale's Diary | Mrs Dale's mother was Mrs Rosemary Freeman, whom Jim always called, rather gravely, "mother-in-law". Dr and Mrs Dale had a daughter, Gwen, and a son, Bob, who worked in the motor trade. He was married to Jenny; they had twins. Gwen was widowed after her husband David was killed in a water-skiing accident in the Bahamas... | 2.203125 | 0 |
959859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajgir | Rajgir | Rajgir, old name Rajagriha, meaning "The City of Kings," is an ancient city and university town in the district of Nalanda in Bihar, India. It was the capital of the Haryanka dynasty, the Pradyota dynasty, the Brihadratha dynasty and the Mauryan Empire, as well as the dwelling ground of historical figures such as Buddh... | 2.375 | 0 |
959859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajgir | Rajgir | Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara spent fourteen years of his life at Rajgir and Nalanda, spending Chaturmas (i.e. 4 months of the rainy season) at a single place in Rajgir (Rajgruhi) and the rest in the places in the vicinity. It was the capital of one of his Shravaks (follower) King Shrenik. Thus Rajgir is also of relig... | 2.234375 | 0 |
959859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajgir | Rajgir | Gupta and Pala periods
Rajgir appears to have declined in importance somewhat after the 1st or 2nd century CE. Xuanzang visited the site in the 7th century, but the only contemporary activity he mentioned was two old Buddhist monasteries that still had active monastic communities; other than that, he only wrote about ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
959859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajgir | Rajgir | Rajgir was hardly abandoned, though – in fact, the first clear evidence of Hindu activity dates from this period, during the 5th century. The Maniyar maṭha, variously identified as a Shiva temple or a Naga shrine, dates from this period, although it appears to have been built on the site of an older structure dating ba... | 2.421875 | 0 |
959859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajgir | Rajgir | Geography and climate
The modern town of Rajgir lies just to the north of the Rajgir Hills, an isolated pair of parallel ridges that rise sharply up from the flat surrounding plains. The ancient site of Rajgir was located in the narrow valley between the two sets of hills. Historically, Rajgir was thought of as lying b... | 2.953125 | 0 |
959859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajgir | Rajgir | It is home to a number of wild animals including: mammals – blue bull (Boselaphus tragocamelus), chital or spotted deer (Axis axis), Indian crested porcupine (Hystrix indica), small Indian civet (Viverricula indica), jungle cat (Felis chaus); birds – painted spurfowl (Galloperdix lunulata), Eurasian thick knee (Burhinu... | 2.875 | 0 |
959859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajgir | Rajgir | The main tourist attractions include the ancient city walls from Ajatashatru's period, Bimbisar's Jail, Jarasandh's Akhara, Gridhra-kuta, ('Hill of the Vultures'), Son Bhandar Caves and the Jain temples on the five peaks.
Another major attraction is the peace pagoda, Vishwa Shanti Stupa, built-in 1969, one of the 80 pe... | 2.34375 | 0 |
959887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Lagan | River Lagan | The River Lagan (; Ulster Scots: Lagan Wattèr) is a major river in Northern Ireland which runs from the Slieve Croob mountain in County Down to Belfast where it enters Belfast Lough, an inlet of the Irish Sea. The Lagan forms much of the border between County Antrim and County Down in the east of Ulster. It rises as a... | 2.359375 | 0 |
959887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Lagan | River Lagan | In the late 19th century the Lagan Canal was built from Lough Neagh to Belfast, using some of the river as a navigable waterway and diverting water from other areas to supply separate canal sections. However, by the mid-20th century the route had fallen into disuse and was largely derelict. The M1 motorway (Northern Ir... | 2.75 | 0 |
959916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20tram%20route%2096 | Melbourne tram route 96 | After the merger of the M>Tram network with Yarra Trams in 2004, most D2 class trams were transferred from Malvern depot to Southbank depot to help alleviate the congestion on the route. After the introduction of these low floor Siemens Combino trams on the route, accessible stops were built on Bourke Street, Fitzroy S... | 2.03125 | 0 |
959918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu%20Jen%20Catholic%20University | Fu Jen Catholic University | After the Communists assumed power in China in 1949, religious organisations, including the Catholic Church, began to be systematically repressed. In 1952 this intensified and the government merged Fu Jen with the Beijing Normal University, Peking University, Renmin University, China University of Political Science and... | 2.1875 | 0 |
959928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting%20Things%20Done | Getting Things Done | Getting Things Done (GTD) is a personal productivity system developed by David Allen and published in a book of the same name. GTD is described as a time management system. Allen states "there is an inverse relationship between things on your mind and those things getting done".
The GTD method rests on the idea of mov... | 2.515625 | 0 |
959928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting%20Things%20Done | Getting Things Done | Next, reflection (termed planning in the first edition) occurs. Multi-step projects identified above are assigned a desired outcome and a single "next action". Finally, a task from one's task list is worked on ("engage" in the 2nd edition, "do" in the 1st edition) unless the calendar dictates otherwise. One selects whi... | 2.21875 | 0 |
959928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting%20Things%20Done | Getting Things Done | Unlike some theories, which focus on top-down goal-setting, GTD works in the opposite direction. Allen argues that it is often difficult for individuals to focus on big picture goals if they cannot sufficiently control the day-to-day tasks that they frequently must face. By developing and using the trusted system that ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
959930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Curse%20of%20Peladon | The Curse of Peladon | The Curse of Peladon is the second serial of the ninth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 29 January to 19 February 1972.
The serial is set on the superstitious and mineral-rich planet Peladon. In the serial, the alien time tr... | 2.03125 | 0 |
959930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Curse%20of%20Peladon | The Curse of Peladon | Themes and analysis
The story can be seen as a political allegory about the real-world issue of whether Britain should join the European Economic Community, with the alien delegates representing Europeans, King Peladon representing a younger generation of hope in agreement with joining the Federation, and Hepesh, who w... | 1.90625 | 0 |
959943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20Switched%20Data | Circuit Switched Data | In communications, Circuit Switched Data (CSD) (also named GSM data) is the original form of data transmission developed for the time-division multiple access (TDMA)-based mobile phone systems like Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). After 2010 many telecommunication carriers dropped support for CSD, and CSD... | 2.703125 | 0 |
959943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20Switched%20Data | Circuit Switched Data | A CSD call functions in a very similar way to a normal voice call in a GSM network. A single dedicated radio time slot is allocated between the phone and the base station. A dedicated "sub-time slot" (16 kbit/s) is allocated from the base station to the transcoder, and finally, another time slot (64 kbit/s) is allocate... | 2.375 | 0 |
959943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20Switched%20Data | Circuit Switched Data | An innovation in HSCSD is to allow different error correction methods to be used for data transfer. The original error correction used in GSM was designed to work at the limits of coverage and in the worst case that GSM will handle. This means that a large part of the GSM transmission capacity is taken up with error co... | 2.3125 | 0 |
959954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta%20Barnett | Henrietta Barnett | Dame Henrietta Octavia Weston Barnett, DBE (née Rowland; 4 May 1851 – 10 June 1936) was an English social reformer, educationist, and author. She and her husband, Samuel Augustus Barnett, founded the first "University Settlement" at Toynbee Hall (in the East End of London) in 1884. They also worked to establish the mod... | 2.390625 | 0 |
959954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta%20Barnett | Henrietta Barnett | Marriage and activism
Through Hill, Henrietta met Canon Samuel Barnett, then the curate of St Mary's, Bryanston Square. They married in 1873. The newlyweds soon moved to the impoverished Whitechapel parish of St Jude's, intent on improving social conditions. Henrietta continued her parish visiting activities, with a fo... | 2.640625 | 0 |
959954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta%20Barnett | Henrietta Barnett | In 1884, the Barnetts established (and began living at) Toynbee Hall, a pioneering university settlement named after the recently deceased distinguished historian Arnold Toynbee, who had advocated education of the working classes and reduction of the division between social classes. In 1897 annual loan exhibitions of f... | 2.4375 | 0 |
959954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta%20Barnett | Henrietta Barnett | Although the suburb was never completely developed according to Lutyens's plan (and soon became a middle class enclave rather than a mixture of classes), it did include Grade I listed St Jude's Church, as well as a clubhouse and a tea house (for non-alcoholic social focus), a Quaker meeting house, children's homes, a n... | 2.125 | 0 |
959956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor%20escapement | Anchor escapement | In horology, the anchor escapement is a type of escapement used in pendulum clocks. The escapement is a mechanism in a mechanical clock that maintains the swing of the pendulum by giving it a small push each swing, and allows the clock's wheels to advance a fixed amount with each swing, moving the clock's hands forwar... | 2.875 | 0 |
959956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor%20escapement | Anchor escapement | Crutch and fork
The shaft of the anchor, called the crutch ends in a fork which embraces the shaft of the pendulum, giving it transverse impulses. The pendulum rod is hung from a short straight suspension spring attached to a sturdy support directly behind the anchor. The pivot of the anchor is aligned with the bendi... | 2.859375 | 0 |
959956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor%20escapement | Anchor escapement | History
The anchor was the second widely used escapement in Europe, replacing the primitive 400-year-old verge escapement in pendulum clocks. The pendulums in verge escapement clocks had very wide swings of 80° to 100°. In 1673, seventeen years after he invented the pendulum clock, Christiaan Huygens published his mat... | 2.984375 | 0 |
959956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor%20escapement | Anchor escapement | The anchor escapement replaced the verge in pendulum clocks within about fifty years, although French clockmakers continued to use verges until about 1800. Many verge clocks were rebuilt with anchors. In the 18th century the more accurate deadbeat form of the escapement replaced the anchor in precision regulators, but... | 2.5 | 0 |
959956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor%20escapement | Anchor escapement | Deadbeat escapement
The above two disadvantages were removed with the invention of an improved version of the anchor escapement: the deadbeat or Graham escapement. This is often erroneously credited to English clockmaker George Graham who introduced it around 1715 in his precision regulator clocks. However it was a... | 2.8125 | 0 |
959956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor%20escapement | Anchor escapement | In contrast to the backward slant of the anchor escape wheel teeth, the deadbeat escape wheel teeth are radial or slant forward to ensure that the tooth makes contact with the "dead" face of the pallet, preventing recoil.
The Airy condition
Clockmakers discovered in the 1700s that for accuracy, the best place to apply... | 2.65625 | 0 |
959956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor%20escapement | Anchor escapement | Comparison of motion in anchor and deadbeat
A major cause of error in clocks is changes in the drive force applied to the escapement, caused by small changes in the friction of the gears or the pallets, or the diminishing force of the mainspring as it unwinds. An escapement in which changes in drive force do not affec... | 2.515625 | 0 |
959959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry%20v.%20Sindermann | Perry v. Sindermann | Perry v. Sindermann, 408 U.S. 593 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court decision affecting educational case law involving tenure and due process.
Facts
Sindermann was a teacher at several schools in the state college system of the State of Texas under a system of one-year contracts from 1959 to 1969. In 1965, he b... | 1.945313 | 0 |
959963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Plunkett%2C%2020th%20Baron%20of%20Dunsany | Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany | Edward John Carlos Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany (10 September 1939 – 24 May 2011), was the grandson of the author Lord Dunsany, and a modern artist (painter and sculptor) and landowner. He succeeded to the title in 1999 on the death of his father, Randal Plunkett, 19th Baron of Dunsany.
Life
Early life and educati... | 2.109375 | 0 |
959976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Knight%20%28bishop%29 | William Knight (bishop) | William Knight (1475/76 – 1547) was the Secretary of State to Henry VIII of England, and Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Knight was sent to Rome in 1527 to try to get Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled. He rebuilt Horton Court in Gloucestershire using ideas from Italian architecture.
Life
Born in London, he ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
959981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavius%20%28crater%29 | Clavius (crater) | Clavius is one of the largest crater formations on the Moon and the second largest crater on the visible near side (very close in size to Deslandres). It is located in the rugged southern highlands of the Moon, to the south of the prominent ray crater Tycho. It is named for the Jesuit priest Christopher Clavius.
Clavi... | 2.765625 | 0 |
959981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavius%20%28crater%29 | Clavius (crater) | Presence of water
In October 2020, NASA confirmed the existence of molecular water near Clavius, at concentrations of up to 412 parts per million. The water could be trapped into tiny beadlike structures in the soil that form out of the high heat created by micrometeorite impacts. The water might also be sheltered be... | 2.703125 | 0 |
959985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kili%20Island | Kili Island | Kili Island or Kili Atoll (Marshallese: , ) is a small, () island located in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. As of 2021, 415 people lived on the island, many of whom were descended from islanders who originally lived on Bikini Atoll. They were relocated when they agreed to let the U.S. government temporaril... | 2.9375 | 0 |
959985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kili%20Island | Kili Island | On Kwajalein Atoll, the islanders were living in tents on a strip of grass alongside the airport runway. In June 1948 the Bikini residents chose Kili Island as a long-term home. The small island was uninhabited and was not ruled by a paramount king, or iroij. In June the Bikini community chose two dozen men to accompa... | 2.734375 | 0 |
959985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kili%20Island | Kili Island | Beginning in 2011 the resettled residents of Kili Island began to experience periods of ocean flooding they attribute to global warming. The highest point of Kili Island is only above sea level. Ocean waves have covered portions of the island at least five times from 2011 to 2015, contaminating all of the wells on the... | 2.765625 | 0 |
959993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Smiley | Jane Smiley | Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).
Biography
Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from Community School and from John Burroughs... | 2.28125 | 0 |
959995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deslandres%20%28crater%29 | Deslandres (crater) | Deslandres is the heavily worn and distorted remains of a lunar impact crater. It is located to the southeast of the Mare Nubium, in the rugged southern highlands of the Moon. In dimension it is the third-largest crater formation on the visible Moon, being beaten only by Clavius (231 km) and by the 303-kilometer-diamet... | 2.75 | 0 |
960004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimaldi%20%28crater%29 | Grimaldi (crater) | Grimaldi is a large basin located near the western limb of the Moon. It lies to the southwest of the Oceanus Procellarum, and southeast of the crater Riccioli. Between Oceanus Procellarum is Damoiseau, and to the north is Lohrmann.
The inner wall of Grimaldi has been so heavily worn and eroded by subsequent impacts th... | 2.6875 | 0 |
960012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornfelder | Dornfelder | Dornfelder () is a dark-skinned variety of grape of German origin used for red wine. It was created by August Herold (1902–1973) at the grape breeding institute in Weinsberg in the Württemberg region in 1955. Herold crossed the grape varieties Helfensteiner and Heroldrebe, the latter which bears his name, to create Dor... | 2.46875 | 0 |
960012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornfelder | Dornfelder | Dornfelder is the second most grown red wine grape variety in Germany. Steadily increased plantings throughout the 1980s and 1990s allowed it to overtake Blauer Portugieser in 2001. It has established itself in most German regions, and been particularly successful in Rheinhessen and the Palatinate. In 2006, Dornfelder ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
960012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornfelder | Dornfelder | Viticulture
Dornfelder was bred to be a vigorous and high yielding grape variety, easily capable of producing up to 120 hl/ha (≈ 6 tons/acre), with a high concentration of color phenolics that can contribute to producing a darker colored red wine than what was typically found in German wine regions. The variety tends t... | 2.4375 | 0 |
960017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20Richter | Conrad Richter | Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. His novel The Town (1950), the last story of his trilogy The Awakening Land about the Ohio frontier, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fictio... | 2.15625 | 0 |
960017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20Richter | Conrad Richter | He persisted with his work, gradually writing and publishing full-length novels. Richter set his novels in different periods of American history on its changing frontier. He may be best known for The Sea of Grass (1936), set in late nineteenth-century New Mexico, and featuring conflict between ranchers and farmers. It ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
960020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Maritime%20Administration | United States Maritime Administration | The United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) is an agency of the United States Department of Transportation. MARAD administers financial programs to develop, promote, and operate the U.S. Maritime Service and the U.S. Merchant Marine. In addition, it conducts research and development activities in the maritime fie... | 2.484375 | 0 |
960020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Maritime%20Administration | United States Maritime Administration | Leadership
Ann C. Phillips, Administrator
Lucinda Lessley, Deputy Maritime Administrator
Kevin Tokarski, Associate Administrator, Strategic Sealift
Vice Admiral Jack Buono, USMS, Superintendent, United States Merchant Marine Academy
Delia Davis, Associate Administrator, Administration
Corey Beckett, Associate Administ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
960034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20La%20Salle%20High%20School%20%28Concord%2C%20California%29 | De La Salle High School (Concord, California) | De La Salle High School is a private Lasallian Catholic school for boys run by the De La Salle Christian Brothers of the San Francisco New Orleans District within the Diocese of Oakland. It is located in Concord, California. The school was founded in 1965.
De La Salle currently enrolls 1,036 students, and roughly 99% ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
960034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20La%20Salle%20High%20School%20%28Concord%2C%20California%29 | De La Salle High School (Concord, California) | Football
De La Salle High School holds the national record 151-game winning streak spanning from 1992 to 2004. The streak occurred under the leadership of Bob Ladouceur, who began coaching at the school in 1979. It ended when they were defeated on September 4, 2004, by Bellevue High School (Washington), outside Seattle... | 2.03125 | 0 |
960034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20La%20Salle%20High%20School%20%28Concord%2C%20California%29 | De La Salle High School (Concord, California) | In somewhat recent years, the team has won the California Open Division State Championships six times (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2015). They have appeared in the Open Division state title game every year from the founding of the division in 2008 until 2019. Prior, they had competed in Division I, where they wer... | 2.15625 | 0 |
960035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verge%20escapement | Verge escapement | The verge (or crown wheel) escapement is the earliest known type of mechanical escapement, the mechanism in a mechanical clock that controls its rate by allowing the gear train to advance at regular intervals or 'ticks'. Verge escapements were used from the late 13th century until the mid 19th century in clocks and poc... | 2.875 | 0 |
960035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verge%20escapement | Verge escapement | It is believed that sometime in the late 13th century the verge escapement mechanism was applied to tower clocks, creating the first mechanical escapement clock. In spite of the fact that these clocks were celebrated objects of civic pride which were written about at the time, it may never be known when the new escape... | 2.59375 | 0 |
960035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verge%20escapement | Verge escapement | In a verge pendulum clock (see picture) which appeared after the pendulum was invented in 1656, the escapement was turned 90° so the verge rod was horizontal, while the escape wheel's axis was vertical, located under the verge rod. In the first pendulum clocks the pendulum was attached to the end of the verge rod inst... | 2.75 | 0 |
960062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield%20Wicker%20railway%20station | Sheffield Wicker railway station | Wicker railway station (later Wicker Goods railway station) was the first railway station to be built in Sheffield, England. It was to the north of the city centre, at the northern end of the Wicker, in the fork formed by Spital Hill and Savile Street. It was opened on 31 October 1838 as the southern terminus of the Sh... | 2.25 | 0 |
960078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay%20News | Gay News | Gay News was a fortnightly newspaper in the United Kingdom founded in June 1972 in a collaboration between former members of the Gay Liberation Front and members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE). At the newspaper's height, circulation was 18,000 to 19,000 copies.
History of Gay News
The original editorial... | 2.140625 | 0 |
960086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac%20de%20Paladru | Lac de Paladru | Lake Paladru (Lac de Paladru, nicknamed "Lac Bleu" by local residents) is a small lake located in the Isère département of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, near Charavines, in France.
The lake was formed by the glacier of the Rhône. It is 5.3 kilometres long and 1.2 kilometres wide when full, the maximum depth is 36 metres. The ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
960086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac%20de%20Paladru | Lac de Paladru | the Courbon, a 3.7 kilometre long stream which originates at Montferrat and joins the lake at Paladru.
the Surand, also known as Chantabot or Marais stream. This is an outlet from the Vivier pond, a body of water located in the municipality of Valencogne.
The source of La Fure
La Fure enters the lake at Charavines. ... | 2.828125 | 0 |
960220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20William%20Beechey | Frederick William Beechey | In 1826, he visited a Catholic mission in California. He wrote, "...with whips, canes and goads or sharp, pointed sticks to preserve silence and maintain order, and what seemed more difficult than either, to keep the congregation in their kneeling posture. The goads would reach a long way and inflict a sharp puncture w... | 2.5 | 0 |
960224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Breck | Peter Breck | Joseph Peter Breck (March 13, 1929 – February 6, 2012) was an American character actor. The rugged, dark-haired Breck played the gambler and gunfighter Doc Holliday on the ABC/Warner Bros. Television series Maverick as well as Victoria Barkley's (Barbara Stanwyck) hot-tempered middle son Nick in the 1960s ABC/Four Star... | 2 | 0 |
960232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemous%20libel | Blasphemous libel | Blasphemous libel was originally an offence under the common law of England. Today, it is an offence under the common law of Northern Ireland, but has been abolished in England and Wales, and repealed in Canada and New Zealand. It is a form of criminal libel that consists of the publication of material which exposes t... | 2.328125 | 0 |
960235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia%20Severa | Claudia Severa | There are several aspects of Severa's letters that should be regarded as literary, even though they were not written for a wide readership. In particular, they share several thematic and stylistic features with other surviving writings in Latin by women from Greek and Roman antiquity. Although Severa's name reveals tha... | 2.046875 | 0 |
960240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen%20Type%202%20%28T3%29 | Volkswagen Type 2 (T3) | The Volkswagen Type 2 (T3) was the third generation of the Volkswagen Transporter. It was marketed under various nameplates worldwide – including the Transporter or Caravelle in Europe, Type 25 (T25) in the UK, Microbus and Kombi in South Africa/Brazil/Australia, Kampeerauto in Netherlands, Combi in France and Vanagon... | 1.976563 | 0 |
960242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morava%20%28river%29 | Morava (river) | The Morava () is a river in Central Europe, a left tributary of the Danube. It is the main river of Moravia historical region in the Czech Republic, which derives its name from the river. The Morava originates on the Králický Sněžník mountain in the north-eastern corner of Pardubice Region, near the border between the ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
960242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morava%20%28river%29 | Morava (river) | The total length of the Morava is , of which is in the Czech Republic (including the Czech-Slovak border), making it the third longest river in the Czech Republic. The Morava feeds the Danube with an average discharge rate of , collected from a drainage area of , of which is in the Czech Republic.
The Morava is a lo... | 3.03125 | 0 |
960256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underpainting | Underpainting | In art, an underpainting is an initial layer of paint applied to a ground, which serves as a base for subsequent layers of paint. Underpaintings are often monochromatic and help to define color values for later painting. Underpainting gets its name because it is painting that is intended to be painted over (see overpai... | 3.0625 | 0 |
960265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan%20language | Shan language | Influence from Burmese
By the same token, Shan has been significantly influenced by Burmese, mediated by centuries of historical and ongoing contact and exchange between Burmese and Shan speakers, especially between the Burmese royal court and Shan principalities. For instance, the lack of a sound in most Shan dialec... | 2.625 | 0 |
960265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan%20language | Shan language | Names
The Shan language has a number of names in different Tai languages and Burmese.
In Shan, the spoken language is commonly called kwam tai (, , ). The written language is called lik tai (, ).
In Burmese, it is called hram: bhasa (, ), whence the English word "Shan". The term "Shan," which was formerly spelt hsy... | 2.3125 | 0 |
960265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan%20language | Shan language | J. Marvin Brown divides the three dialects of Shan State as follows:
Northern — Lashio, Burma; contains more Chinese influences
Southern — Taunggyi, Burma (capital of Shan State); contains more Burmese influences
Eastern — Kengtung, Burma (in the Golden Triangle); closer to Northern Thai and Lao
Prominent divergent di... | 2.78125 | 0 |
960277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty%20oath | Loyalty oath | On March 21, 1947, concerned with Soviet subversive penetration and infiltration into the United States government by American citizens who held oaths of allegiance to a foreign power during wartime, President Harry S Truman instituted a Loyalty Program by signing Executive Order 9835, also known as the "Loyalty Order.... | 2.671875 | 0 |
960278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Kusche | Larry Kusche | Lawrence David Kusche (November 1, 1940 — July 22, 2024) was an American author, research librarian, and pilot. He investigated unexplained disappearances and other unusual events related to the Bermuda Triangle to answer queries he was getting as a research librarian. He eventually wrote a book debunking most of the m... | 2.3125 | 0 |
960278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Kusche | Larry Kusche | Bermuda Triangle
As a research librarian at Arizona State University, Kusche got queries for all types of information from students writing term papers.
In the early 1970s, he became interested in the Bermuda Triangle mystery, as he was confronted by numerous queries related to the Triangle. This prompted Kusche and f... | 2.6875 | 0 |
960278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Kusche | Larry Kusche | The Disappearance of Flight 19
Kusche originally included a long chapter in his Bermuda Triangle book about Flight 19, five Navy Avenger torpedo airplanes on a training mission out of Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station that disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean on December 5, 1945. Kusche later expanded this chapter into a ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
960279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Beltway | Capital Beltway | The Capital Beltway is a auxiliary Interstate Highway in the Washington metropolitan area that surrounds Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and its inner suburbs in adjacent Maryland and Virginia. It is the basis of the phrase "inside the Beltway", used when referring to issues dealing with US federal... | 2.125 | 0 |
960279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Beltway | Capital Beltway | Most beltway interchanges provide access to Washington, with I-95 and I-295 from the south, I-66 from the west, and U.S. Route 50 (US 50) from the west and the east are among the most frequently used. More scenic routes from the beltway into DC are offered by the George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Virginia si... | 2.203125 | 0 |
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