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960279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Beltway | Capital Beltway | The beltway (where I-95 and I-495 together) enters Maryland during its Potomac River crossing over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, west of Forest Heights and National Harbor as a 10-lane highway with a local–express lane configuration including three local lanes and two express lanes in each direction. After crossing the Po... | 1.914063 | 0 |
960279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Beltway | Capital Beltway | Continuing east, the two routes encounter US 1, a major north–south highway providing access to Alexandria, Arlington, and Downtown, as well as various points south in Fairfax County. Finally, beyond this complex interchange, I-95 and I-495 together cross Alexandria's Jones Point Park and exit Virginia via the Woodrow ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
960279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Beltway | Capital Beltway | The beltway was originally envisioned as primarily a bypass for long-distance eastern seaboard traffic to avoid driving directly through Washington, D.C. However, the explosive growth both of housing and business in the Washington, D.C., suburbs following the beltway's completion quickly made the beltway the area's "ma... | 2.03125 | 0 |
960279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Beltway | Capital Beltway | The College Park Interchange is the informal name for the northern interchange between I-95 and I-495 in College Park, Maryland. The interchange was partially opened, along with the connecting segment of I-95, in 1971, completing I-95 between the Baltimore and Capital beltways. As originally planned, it was designed wi... | 2.109375 | 0 |
960279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Beltway | Capital Beltway | Traffic congestion
Despite and because of numerous widening projects during its history (particularly in Virginia), heavy traffic on the beltway is a continuing problem. The Woodrow Wilson Bridge—where eight lanes were squeezed into six—was particularly onerous, with miles-long backups daily during commuter rush hours ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
960279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Beltway | Capital Beltway | The beltway has been continuously modified since it opened. The American Legion Bridge was expanded by two lanes. HOV lanes were added between River Road and the I-270 Spur in Montgomery County. The interchange between I-95 and the beltway in Prince George's County was originally designed to be a cloverleaf to allow I-... | 2.171875 | 0 |
960279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Beltway | Capital Beltway | The Woodrow Wilson Bridge underwent reconstruction in a major project that began in 1999; it now provides express and local lanes for both the Inner and Outer loops. The new Woodrow Wilson Bridge is higher and wider than the original 1961 span, which was demolished in 2006. The Outer Loop span opened in June 2006, and ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
960288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20J.%20Grayson | Andrew J. Grayson | Andrew Jackson Grayson (1819–1869) was an American ornithologist and artist.
Grayson was the author of Birds of the Pacific Slope (1853–69), which he considered to be a completion of John James Audubon's Birds of America.
Early life and education
Grayson was born August 20, 1819, in the northwest corner of Louisiana,... | 2.5625 | 0 |
960288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20J.%20Grayson | Andrew J. Grayson | Early California days
Once Grayson settled in San Francisco, he instantly joined a military group led by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. During this given period of time, he became a colonel. After he came back from the war, he took no breaks in settling down. He invested in several San Franciscan business ventures, and est... | 2.84375 | 0 |
960305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socorro%20dove | Socorro dove | The Socorro dove or Grayson's dove (Zenaida graysoni) is a dove species which is extinct in the wild. It was endemic to Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands off the west coast of Mexico. The last sighting in its natural habitat was in 1972 and it survives only in captivity. A reintroduction program is being prep... | 2.8125 | 0 |
960305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socorro%20dove | Socorro dove | The arid and fairly barren Clarión Island, some west of Socorro, has an endemic subspecies of the mourning dove, Zenaida macroura clarionensis. These birds are roughly intermediate in appearance between the Socorro dove and the mainland mourning doves. It is highly likely that they represent a later colonization by mo... | 3.046875 | 0 |
960305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socorro%20dove | Socorro dove | The last habitat in which this dove was found is the low seasonally humid forest above 500 m ASL. Before the introduction of cats, it seasonally descended into the lowlands where it was "common" in March 1953 for example. It may be that this coincided with the peak of the breeding season, when many birds had dependent ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
960305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socorro%20dove | Socorro dove | Extinction in the wild
The primary reason for the extirpation of the Socorro dove is predation by feral cats, but other pressures may have also contributed. In 1856, sheep were introduced, which resulted in a major alteration to the vegetation of the island, turning most areas below into open vegetation. This may hav... | 3.34375 | 0 |
960305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socorro%20dove | Socorro dove | Reintroduction efforts
In order to protect these birds and eventually reintroduce them into the wild, various reintroduction and conservation efforts have germinated. In 1994, the birds' native island of Socorro was declared a biosphere preserve. In addition, as the number of birds in captivity is only slightly above ... | 3.140625 | 0 |
960310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Peel%20%28huntsman%29 | John Peel (huntsman) | John Peel (13th November 1776? – 13 November 1854) was an English huntsman who is the subject of the nineteenth century song "D'ye ken John Peel" - "ken" meaning 'to be aware of' or 'to know' in some dialects of the North of England and Scotland.
Peel's life
Peel was born at Park End, near Caldbeck, Cumberland; his f... | 2.59375 | 0 |
960324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer%20of%20Azariah%20and%20Song%20of%20the%20Three%20Holy%20Children | Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children | The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children, abbreviated Pr Azar, is a passage which appears after Daniel 3:23 in some translations of the Bible, including the ancient Greek Septuagint translation.
The passage is accepted by some Christian denominations as canonical.
The passage includes three main comp... | 2.171875 | 0 |
960328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socorro%20mockingbird | Socorro mockingbird | The Socorro mockingbird (Mimus graysoni) is an endangered mockingbird endemic to Socorro Island in Mexico's Revillagigedo Islands. The specific epithet commemorates the American ornithologist Andrew Jackson Grayson.
Mimus graysoni shows its close relationship to the northern and tropical mockingbirds rather subtly. It... | 2.796875 | 0 |
960328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socorro%20mockingbird | Socorro mockingbird | Ecology and status
The Socorro mockingbird today lives mainly in unmodified low forest above 600 m (2000 ft), where it prefers groves of Oreopanax xalapensis and the endemic Guettarda insularis, with an understorey dominated by Triumfetta socorrensis and the endemic Eupatorium pacificum. As late as March 1953 it was st... | 2.90625 | 0 |
960328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socorro%20mockingbird | Socorro mockingbird | The call is two medium followed by one lower whistle. Less often, a full song is given, consisting of a variable warbling tune, repeated several times as in many mockingbirds. It is not clear whether this species imitates other birds like its relatives do; in any case only the Socorro tropical parula, Socorro towhee an... | 2.84375 | 0 |
960361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transduction%20%28machine%20learning%29 | Transduction (machine learning) | In logic, statistical inference, and supervised learning,
transduction or transductive inference is reasoning from
observed, specific (training) cases to specific (test) cases. In contrast,
induction is reasoning from observed training cases
to general rules, which are then applied to the test cases. The distinction is... | 2.15625 | 0 |
960364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20King%20%28American%20politician%29 | Peter King (American politician) | Political career
King first sought public office in 1977, running for an at-large seat on the Hempstead, New York town council and winning with the backing of the then-powerful Nassau County Republican Party machine led by Joseph Margiotta. In 1981, he successfully ran for Nassau county comptroller, again with Margiott... | 1.953125 | 0 |
960381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy%20Award%20for%20Best%20Traditional%20Pop%20Vocal%20Album | Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album is an award presented to recording artists at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sc... | 2.40625 | 0 |
960392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacKinlay%20Kantor | MacKinlay Kantor | MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel, Andersonville. He also wrote ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
960392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacKinlay%20Kantor | MacKinlay Kantor | Stories, journalism, and novels
From 1928 to 1934, Kantor wrote numerous stories for pulp fiction magazines, to earn a living and support his family; these works included crime stories and mysteries. He sold his first pulp stories, "Delivery Not Received" and "A Bad Night for Benny", to Edwin Baird, editor of Real Dete... | 2.46875 | 0 |
960392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacKinlay%20Kantor | MacKinlay Kantor | When Kantor interviewed U.S. troops, many told him the only goal was to get home alive. He was reminded of the Protestant hymn: "When all my labors and trials are o'er / And I am safe on that beautiful shore [Heaven], O that will be / Glory for me!" Kantor returned from the European theater of war on military air tran... | 2.09375 | 0 |
960392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacKinlay%20Kantor | MacKinlay Kantor | Also in 1950 Kantor took up research into the post-war life of a war widow. In discussions with the chaplain at Mitchel Field, Kantor was referred to Margaret Stavish of Bellmore, New York, who had lost her B-24 pilot husband, Edward Dobson, killed in action on November 18, 1943, and in 1947 married John Stavish, a ve... | 2.71875 | 0 |
960395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Stenholm | Charles Stenholm | Charles Walter Stenholm (October 26, 1938 – May 17, 2023) was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician from a rural district of the state of Texas. After establishing himself as owner-operator of a large cotton farm, he entered politics and was elected to Congress in his first run for office. Stenholm wa... | 1.9375 | 0 |
960395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Stenholm | Charles Stenholm | He began a career in agricultural politics when he was appointed to be member of the Texas State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service during the administration of President Jimmy Carter. He also served as an executive of the Rolling Plains Cotton Growers Association before being elected to Congress.
Con... | 1.992188 | 0 |
960395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Stenholm | Charles Stenholm | Agriculture policy
As a large farmer, Stenholm was chiefly interested in agriculture and also in budget matters. In 1992 he supported a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution requiring the federal government to keep to such budgets. He is considered one of the leading architects of federal farm and agricultural... | 2.046875 | 0 |
960395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Stenholm | Charles Stenholm | Electoral success and demographic changes
Although the 17th's voters had begun splitting their tickets and voting Republican in presidential and U. S. Senate elections from the 1970s onward, the Republican Party had little support at the local level at the time. Conservative Democrats continued to hold most local offic... | 2.203125 | 0 |
960403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax%20exemption | Tax exemption | Tax exemption is the reduction or removal of a liability to make a compulsory payment that would otherwise be imposed by a ruling power upon persons, property, income, or transactions. Tax-exempt status may provide complete relief from taxes, reduced rates, or tax on only a portion of items. Examples include exemption ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
960403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax%20exemption | Tax exemption | Exempt organizations
Some governments grant broad exclusions from all taxation for certain types of organization. The exclusions may be restricted to entities having various characteristics. The exclusions may be inherent in definitions or restrictions outside the tax law itself.
Approaches for exemption
There are se... | 2.28125 | 0 |
960403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax%20exemption | Tax exemption | In the Ottoman Empire, tax breaks for descendants of Muhammad encouraged many people to buy certificates of descent or forge genealogies; the phenomenon of teseyyüd – falsely claiming noble ancestry – spread across ethnic, class, and religious boundaries. In the 17th century, an Ottoman bureaucrat estimated that there ... | 2.625 | 0 |
960406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%20Ann%20Grau | Shirley Ann Grau | Shirley Ann Grau (July 8, 1929August 3, 2020) was an American writer. Born in New Orleans, she lived part of her childhood in Montgomery, Alabama. Her novels are set primarily in the Deep South and explore issues of race and gender. In 1965 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for her novel The Keepers of the Hous... | 2.515625 | 0 |
960407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20of%20Austria | Eleanor of Austria | Eleanor of Austria (15 November 1498 – 25 February 1558), also called Eleanor of Castile, was born an Archduchess of Austria and Infanta of Castile from the House of Habsburg, and subsequently became Queen consort of Portugal (1518–1521) and of France (1530–1547). She also held the Duchy of Touraine (1547–1558) in dowe... | 2.703125 | 0 |
960407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20of%20Austria | Eleanor of Austria | Eleanor left Spain in the company of her future stepsons, who had been held hostage by her brother. The group met Francis at the border, and then departed for an official entrance to Bordeaux. She was married to Francis on 4 July 1530. Eleanor was crowned Queen of France at the Basilica of Saint-Denis on 31 May 1531. S... | 2.609375 | 0 |
960429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20French%20dukedoms | List of French dukedoms | Modern Duchies
The duchies of the Ancien régime were more complex than those of the medieval period. Essentially, the new duchies were not independent principalities and the ducal status was not definitively attached to the fiefs erected into duchies. The letters patent of creation contain clauses of succession which r... | 2.78125 | 0 |
960431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Sarajevo | Demographics of Sarajevo | The Yugoslav wars and the resulting siege of Sarajevo radically disrupted this order of things. The city itself was completely surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, and it has been estimated that some 12,000 people were killed, with another 50,000 wounded. Combined with horrific living conditions forced upon by the besieg... | 2.75 | 0 |
960444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver%20South%20%28federal%20electoral%20district%29 | Vancouver South (federal electoral district) | Vancouver South () is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1997, and since 2004. It covers the southern portion of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. The district will be replaced by Vancouver Fraserview—South Burnaby fo... | 2.34375 | 0 |
960447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patel | Patel | Patel is an Indian surname or title, predominantly found in the state of Gujarat, representing the community of land-owning farmers and later (with the British East India Company) businessmen, agriculturalists and merchants. Traditionally the title is a status name referring to the village chieftains during medieval ti... | 2.765625 | 0 |
960448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrsinoideae | Myrsinoideae | Myrsinoideae is a subfamily of the family Primulaceae in the order Ericales. It was formerly recognized as the family Myrsinaceae, or the myrsine family, consisting of 35 genera and about 1000 species. It is widespread in temperate to tropical climates extending north to Europe, Siberia, Japan, Mexico, and Florida, an... | 2.828125 | 0 |
960453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoplopomatidae | Anoplopomatidae | Anoplopomatidae, the sablefishes, are a small family of ray-finned fishes classified within the order Perciformes. These fishes are found in the North Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomy
Anoplopomatidae was first proposed as a family in 1883 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert. In 1965 Jay ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
960455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub%20%28Nation%20of%20Islam%29 | Yakub (Nation of Islam) | Yakub (also spelled Yacub or Yaqub) is a figure in the mythology of the Nation of Islam (NOI) and its offshoots. According to the NOI's doctrine, Yakub was a black Meccan scientist who lived 6,600 years ago and created the white race. According to the story, following his discovery of the law of attraction and repulsio... | 2.53125 | 0 |
960455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub%20%28Nation%20of%20Islam%29 | Yakub (Nation of Islam) | Ernest Allen argues that "the Yakub myth may have been created out of whole cloth by Prophet Fard". Allen says the Yakub story could conceivably have been influenced by a real historical event during the struggle between Muslims and Christians for control of Spain. Muslim leader Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur defeated the F... | 2.46875 | 0 |
960455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub%20%28Nation%20of%20Islam%29 | Yakub (Nation of Islam) | Commentary
Harold Bloom in his book The American Religion argues that Yakub combines elements of the biblical God and the Gnostic concept of the Demiurge, saying that "Yakub has an irksome memorability as a crude but pungent Gnostic Demiurge". Nathaniel Deutsch also notes that Fard and Muhammad draw on the concept of ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
960460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis%20elbow | Tennis elbow | Terminology
The term "tennis elbow" is widely used (although informal), but the condition affects non-tennis players. More recently, with the explosive growth of pickleball, the term "pickleball elbow" is frequently used. Historically, the medical term "lateral epicondylitis" was most commonly used for the condition, ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
960460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis%20elbow | Tennis elbow | Lateral epicondylitis was initially considered an inflammatory process, however there is no evidence of inflammation or repair. Therefore, the disorder is more appropriately referred to as tendinosis or tendinopopathy. Tendinosis, a degenerative condition with fibroblasts, abnormal collagen, and increased blood vessels... | 2.234375 | 0 |
960460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis%20elbow | Tennis elbow | Physical examination
Diagnosis is based on symptoms and clinical signs that are discrete and characteristic. For example, the extension of the elbow and flexion of the wrist causes outer elbow pain. The physical examination usually reveals marked tenderness at the origin of the extensor carpi radialis brevis muscle fro... | 2.3125 | 0 |
960460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis%20elbow | Tennis elbow | Longitudinal sonogram of the lateral elbow displays thickening and heterogeneity of the common extensor tendon that is consistent with tendinosis, as the ultrasound reveals calcifications, intrasubstance tears, and marked irregularity of the lateral epicondyle. Although the term “epicondylitis” is frequently used to de... | 2.171875 | 0 |
960460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis%20elbow | Tennis elbow | Non-Operative Treatment
Non operative treatment resolves 90% of symptomatic lateral epicondylitis. Nonoperative care usually includes activity modification, physical therapy, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications, bracing, extracorporeal shock-wave therapy, and acupuncture. Modifying activity and avoiding overus... | 2.0625 | 0 |
960460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis%20elbow | Tennis elbow | Arthroscopic Surgery
Arthroscopic surgery is a minimally invasive option for treating lateral epicondylitis. This technique fully visualizes the elbow joint, and leads to a quicker return to work. In the past, studies have shown good long term effects and fewer complications with arthroscopic surgery compared to open ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
960473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimeti%C3%A8re%20des%20Rois | Cimetière des Rois | The Cimetière des Rois (French: Cemetery of Kings) (officially Cimetière de Plainpalais) is a cemetery in Geneva, Switzerland. The cemetery is commonly named after la rue des Rois (French: Kings' Street) near which it is situated. The graveyard was established in 1482 for people who died from plague in the Middle Ages,... | 2.28125 | 0 |
960475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy%20Wasserstein | Wendy Wasserstein | Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play The Heidi Chronicles.
Biography
Early years
Wasserstein was born... | 1.90625 | 0 |
960485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kujarg%C3%A9%20language | Kujargé language | The Kujargé language is spoken in seven villages in eastern Chad near Jebel Mirra (), and in villages scattered along the lower Wadi Salih and Wadi Azum in Darfur, Sudan. It is estimated to have about 1,000 speakers ().
Background
The name Kujargé (also spelled Kujarke) is derived from the Sudanese Arabic word (, "so... | 2.5625 | 0 |
960485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kujarg%C3%A9%20language | Kujargé language | Blažek (2013) purports to show that Kujarge is an East Chadic language.
Documentation and status
In 1981, Dutch anthropologist Paul Doornbos had spent 4–5 hours eliciting a basic vocabulary list of Kujarke from a father and son (Arbab Yahia Basi, born Ndundra, who was 35 years old in 1981) in Ro Fatá, near Foro Boran... | 2.40625 | 0 |
960485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kujarg%C3%A9%20language | Kujargé language | Due to the war in Darfur, most Kujarke may now be living in refugee camps in the Goz Beïda and Dar Sila regions of eastern Chad. However, the Kujarke have not been recorded as a separate group by any government or foreign aid organization. As a result, Kujarke may have been passing themselves off as Daju or Fur. The fi... | 2.03125 | 0 |
960487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Sadler | Ralph Sadler | Sir Ralph Sadler or Sadleir PC, Knight banneret (1507 – 30 March 1587) was an English statesman, who served Henry VIII as Privy Councillor, Secretary of State and ambassador to Scotland. Sadler went on to serve Edward VI. Having signed the device settling the crown on Jane Grey in 1553, he was obliged to retire to his ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
960487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Sadler | Ralph Sadler | Sadler survived the fall from power and subsequent execution of his friend and mentor in 1540; however, during the power struggle following Cromwell's demise, he was arrested and sent to the Tower. On the evening of 17 January 1541, the Imperial ambassador, Eustace Chapuys, and the French ambassador, Charles de Marill... | 2.15625 | 0 |
960487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Sadler | Ralph Sadler | From courtier to career diplomat: mission to Scotland
Sadler was sent to Scotland several times. In 1540 he tried to embarrass and undermine the authority of Cardinal Beaton, an ally of France, with letters captured from his messenger Alexander Crichton of Brunstane whose ship had been forced by a storm to put into En... | 2.65625 | 0 |
960487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Sadler | Ralph Sadler | Sadler was present when Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, was arrested, and he also accompanied the force that put down Robert Kett's Norfolk Rebellion. When Henry VIII was preparing his will on Boxing Day 1546, he had already appointed Sadler onto the Council of Regency that was to rule England during Edward VI'... | 1.9375 | 0 |
960487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Sadler | Ralph Sadler | An investigation found that Ellen's first marriage was valid, and Sadler was therefore obliged to have his children legitimised by a private act of Parliament. In 1546, this act of Parliament, (37 Hen. 8. c. 30 ) was passed on his behalf. The act set aside Ellen's marriage to Matthew Barre and made her marriage to Ral... | 2.25 | 0 |
960492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garagoa | Garagoa | Garagoa () is a town and municipality in Colombia, located in the Boyacá Department. It covers an area of 191.75 km2 and the urban centre is located at an altitude of above sea level. Parts of the municipality reach altitudes of . It is the capital of the province of Neira. It is also the seat of the Diocese of Garago... | 2.3125 | 0 |
960522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier%2019 | Messier 19 | Messier 19 or M19 (also designated NGC 6273) is a globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764 and added to his catalogue of comet-like objects that same year. It was resolved into individual stars by William Herschel in 1784. His son, John Herschel, described it... | 2.421875 | 0 |
960530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobie%20Billingsley | Hobie Billingsley | Hobart Sherwood Billingsley (December 2, 1926 – July 16, 2022) was an American diver and coach. Billingsly started diving in the local YMCA, where he taught himself how to dive. Reaching state championships as a senior in high school, Billingsley was recruited to Ohio State University, where he won the NCAA title in bo... | 2.421875 | 0 |
960530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobie%20Billingsley | Hobie Billingsley | Career
Billingsley first worked as a high school teacher and coach. He was the swimming and diving coach at Allen Park High School in Wayne County, Michigan from 1955 to 1957, where he molded the beginnings of a swimming program that led to Allen Park eventually capturing the Michigan High School Boys State Championshi... | 2.65625 | 0 |
960559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromal%20cell-derived%20factor%201 | Stromal cell-derived factor 1 | The stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF-1), also known as C-X-C motif chemokine 12 (CXCL12), is a chemokine protein that in humans is encoded by the CXCL12 gene on chromosome 10. It is ubiquitously expressed in many tissues and cell types. Stromal cell-derived factors 1-alpha and 1-beta are small cytokines that belong t... | 1.945313 | 0 |
960559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromal%20cell-derived%20factor%201 | Stromal cell-derived factor 1 | CNS
During embryonic development, CXCL12 plays a role in cerebellar formation through the migration of neurons. Within the CNS, CXCL12 contributes to cell proliferation, neurogenesis (nervous tissue development and growth), as well as neuroinflammation. Neural progenitor cells (NPCs) are stem cells that differentiate ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
960561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock%20Ticker | Stock Ticker | Stock Ticker is a stock holding board game that was first released in 1937 by Copp-Clark Publishing.
Game play
The game has six stocks, which in fact are commodities. These six are gold, silver, Bonds, oil, industrials, and grain. During gameplay all the stocks are identical. Each stock begins costing a dollar apie... | 2.421875 | 0 |
960562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocharis%20sara | Anthocharis sara | Anthocharis sara, the Sara orangetip, is one of three species in the Sara orangetip complex. It has a population extending from Baja California into extreme southwest Oregon and another extending from the east slope of the Sierra Nevada into far western Nevada. The common name Pacific orangetip is obsolete since it imp... | 2.59375 | 0 |
960562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocharis%20sara | Anthocharis sara | Reproductive behavior
During the mating season, the males patrol, flying up and down a linear path as a way to increase the likelihood of sexual encounters with females. Males usually patrol by the sides of streams and roads in the canyon bottoms. There seems to be a hierarchy between the males in which the best sites... | 2.84375 | 0 |
960566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh-O-Gram%20Studio | Laugh-O-Gram Studio | The Laugh-O-Gram Studio (also called Laugh-O-Gram Studios) was an animation studio located on the second floor of the McConahay Building at 1127 East 31st in Kansas City, Missouri, that operated from June 28, 1921, to October 16, 1923.
In the early years of animation, the studio was home to many of the pioneers of ani... | 2.359375 | 0 |
960566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh-O-Gram%20Studio | Laugh-O-Gram Studio | During the studio's sales manager Leslie Mace's stay in New York, where he was looking for distributors, he ended up signing a contract for six animated shorts with Pictorial Clubs, Inc. of Tennessee on Sunday, September 16, 1922. Pictorial agreed to pay for the cartoons, which were supposed to be shown at schools and... | 2.5 | 0 |
960566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh-O-Gram%20Studio | Laugh-O-Gram Studio | After finishing the raw edits of Alice's Wonderland, the studio filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July 1923. Disney finally made some money by shooting a film of a 6-month-old girl named Kathalee Viley and selling his movie camera, earning enough for a one-way train ticket, moving to Hollywood, California; he brought ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
960574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokak%20Atoll | Bokak Atoll | Bokak Atoll (Marshallese: or , ) or Taongi Atoll is an uninhabited coral atoll in the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands, in the North Pacific Ocean. Due to its relative isolation from the main islands in the group, Bokak's flora and fauna has been able to exist in a pristine condition.
Geography
It is located nor... | 2.609375 | 0 |
960574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokak%20Atoll | Bokak Atoll | High boulder and sand ridges indicate a history of severe storms and are a feature of the islets. Inland on the wider islets are sand and rubble flats, while back from the lagoon sides are low sand and gravel ridges. Soils are mostly very immature, a mixture of coarser coral sand and gravel of various textures with ver... | 2.8125 | 0 |
960574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokak%20Atoll | Bokak Atoll | Vegetation
Bokak supports just nine plant species. All are native to the Marshall Islands and entirely undisturbed by introduced species. A combination of insufficient rainfall, excellent drainage, and high temperatures lead to an arid environment in which a freshwater Ghyben-Herzberg lens cannot form, and coconut pal... | 2.734375 | 0 |
960574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokak%20Atoll | Bokak Atoll | Terrestrial species includes the Polynesian rat on Sibylla. The more aggressive black rat appears to be absent, despite wrecked fishing vessels on the eastern and north eastern reefs. The snake-eyed skink and large hermit crabs are common.
In general, the aquatic fauna population is healthy, but of low diversity, pos... | 3.09375 | 0 |
960579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff%20court | Sheriff court | A sheriff court () is the principal local civil and criminal court in Scotland, with exclusive jurisdiction over all civil cases with a monetary value up to , and with the jurisdiction to hear any criminal case except treason, murder, and rape, which are in the exclusive jurisdiction of the High Court of Justiciary. Th... | 2.171875 | 0 |
960579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff%20court | Sheriff court | The office of sheriff dates from the early days of the Scottish monarchy. Generally, one of the more powerful local lords in each county was appointed and the office became hereditary in his family. The original purpose of the sheriff was to exercise and preserve the King's authority against the rival powers of the loc... | 3.125 | 0 |
960579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff%20court | Sheriff court | Remit and jurisdiction
The legal cases which are heard within the courts are dealt with by a sheriff. A sheriff is a judge who is usually assigned to work in a specific court, although some work as "floating sheriffs", who may work anywhere in Scotland. There are about 140 full-time sheriffs in the various courts and a... | 2.65625 | 0 |
960579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff%20court | Sheriff court | Sheriffdoms
There are six sheriffdoms in Scotland, each with a sheriff principal. Within each sheriffdom are sheriff court districts, each with a court presided over by one or more sheriffs. The most senior civil servant in each Court is the sheriff clerk and he or she is charged directly with the management of the Cou... | 2.609375 | 0 |
960581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-bearing%20wall | Load-bearing wall | A load-bearing wall or bearing wall is a wall that is an active structural element of a building, which holds the weight of the elements above it, by conducting its weight to a foundation structure below it.
Load-bearing walls are one of the earliest forms of construction. The development of the flying buttress in... | 2.8125 | 0 |
960593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Barris%20%28auto%20customizer%29 | George Barris (auto customizer) | The brothers worked at the Greek restaurant owned by their family and were given a dilapidated 1925 Buick for their help. They swiftly restored it to running condition and experimented with changing its appearance. This became the first Barris Brothers custom car. They sold it at a profit to buy another project vehicle... | 2.125 | 0 |
960596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier%2022 | Messier 22 | Messier 22 or M22, also known as NGC 6656 or the Great Sagittarius Cluster, is an elliptical globular cluster of stars in the constellation Sagittarius, near the Galactic bulge region. It is one of the brightest globulars visible in the night sky. The brightest stars are 11th magnitude, with hundreds of stars bright en... | 2.671875 | 0 |
960596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier%2022 | Messier 22 | Despite its relative proximity to us, this metal-poor cluster's light is limited by dust extinction, giving it an apparent magnitude of 5.5; even so, it is the brightest globular cluster visible from mid-northern latitudes (such as Japan, Korea, Europe and most of North America). From those latitudes due to its declina... | 2.78125 | 0 |
960620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20de%20Sacrobosco | Johannes de Sacrobosco | Johannes de Sacrobosco, also written Ioannes de Sacro Bosco, later called John of Holywood or John of Holybush ( 1195 – 1256), was a scholar, Catholic monk, and astronomer who taught at the University of Paris.
He wrote a short introduction to the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. Judging from the number of manuscript cop... | 2.34375 | 0 |
960657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Life%20and%20Death%20of%20Colonel%20Blimp | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 British romantic-war film written, produced and directed by the British film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David Low, but the s... | 2.109375 | 0 |
960657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Life%20and%20Death%20of%20Colonel%20Blimp | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | In 1902, Clive is on leave from the Second Boer War, where his service has earned him the Victoria Cross. He receives a letter from Edith Hunter, who is working in Berlin. Edith complains that a German man named Kaunitz is spreading anti-British propaganda regarding Britain's role in the conflict, and wants the British... | 2.078125 | 0 |
960658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi%20Prince%20series | Jedi Prince series | Jedi Prince is a series of science fiction young-reader novels set in the Star Wars universe, written by Paul and Hollace Davids. They were published by Bantam Skylark between 1992 and 1993.
The series takes place about a year after Return of the Jedi, between the events of the books The Truce at Bakura (1993) and Luke... | 2.109375 | 0 |
960659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Trick%20of%20the%20Tail | A Trick of the Tail | Recording began in Trident Studios in October 1975 with producer David Hentschel. On previous Genesis albums Hentschel had served as tape op and (later) as engineer; Collins had become a fan of his album Startling Music, a re-recording of Ringo Starr's album Ringo on an ARP 2500 synthesizer. Collins thought the group c... | 2 | 0 |
960659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Trick%20of%20the%20Tail | A Trick of the Tail | Songs
The opening track, "Dance on a Volcano", was the first song written for the album. Rutherford felt that, in contrast to the material on The Lamb..., it was easy to write, and was intended to show how Genesis would move forward.
"Entangled" originated from a piece by Hackett that Banks particularly liked, and th... | 2.03125 | 0 |
960664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine%20tango | Argentine tango | Argentine tango is a musical genre and accompanying social dance originating at the end of the 19th century in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. It typically has a or rhythmic time signature, and two or three parts repeating in patterns such as ABAB or ABCAC. Its lyrics are marked by nostalgia, sadness, and laments for lo... | 3.078125 | 0 |
960664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine%20tango | Argentine tango | Argentine elites viewed tango as dangerous association and gathering place for lower-class people. However, as famous tango stars such as Alberto Castillo gained popularity in Argentina, the positive image of blackness related to tango started to widely share in Argentina's mass culture during the 1930s to 1950s. Tango... | 2.765625 | 0 |
960664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine%20tango | Argentine tango | Daniel Trenner has been credited with bringing improvisational social Argentine tango to the United States. Like the Garveys, he first went to Buenos Aires in 1987, where he went to a milonga in Palermo and saw the traditional improvisational style being danced. Trenner was introduced to Miguel and Nelly Balmacera, a c... | 2.453125 | 0 |
960678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Devonian%20Controversy | The Great Devonian Controversy | The Great Devonian Controversy began in 1834 when Roderick Murchison disagreed with Henry De la Beche as to the dating of certain petrified plants found in coals in the Greywacke stratum in North Devon, England. De La Beche was claiming that since Carboniferous fossils were found deep in the Greywacke stratum, which i... | 2.390625 | 0 |
960705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marple%2C%20Greater%20Manchester | Marple, Greater Manchester | Marple is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is on the River Goyt, south-east of Manchester, north of Macclesfield and south-east of Stockport. In 2021, it had a population of 12,980.
Within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire, the town lies along the Peak... | 2.078125 | 0 |
960705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marple%2C%20Greater%20Manchester | Marple, Greater Manchester | Samuel Oldknow also played a large role in the development of the town in addition to his mills; there is still a street named Oldknow Road in Marple today. He built workers' cottages and churches, introduced aspen trees to the area, and assisted in the constructions of the Macclesfield and Peak Forest Canals. Marple A... | 2.609375 | 0 |
960709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakita%20Garth | Lakita Garth | Lakita Garth is an American sexual abstinence activist, public speaker, and rapper. Born in Los Angeles, Garth was a beauty queen, winning the title of Miss Black California in 1994. In the 1990s, she was a frequent guest on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, as well as being interviewed by outlets including Vogue ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
960710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lissa%20%281866%29 | Battle of Lissa (1866) | Background
In order to seize the last areas of the Apennine Peninsula that were still in the hands of the Habsburg Empire, the then Kingdom of Italy entered into an alliance with Prussia. War broke out between Prussia and Austria in mid-June 1866. Italy also declared war on Austria and had its troops march into Veneto.... | 2.578125 | 0 |
960710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lissa%20%281866%29 | Battle of Lissa (1866) | Attack
Admiral Persano set sail on the afternoon of July 16. The fleet initially took a north-easterly course in order to conceal the target. During the night of July 16-17, the Messaggero, sailing under a (false) British flag with Chief of Staff d'Amico on board, approached the coast to reconnoitre the positions of th... | 1.976563 | 0 |
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