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961255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Taylor | Tommy Taylor | Thomas Taylor (29 January 1932 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer, who played as a centre-forward and was known for his aerial ability. He was one of the eight Manchester United players who died in the Munich air disaster.
Career
Taylor was born in Smithies, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, on 29 January 1932, one... | 2.078125 | 0 |
961260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier%2018 | Messier 18 | Messier 18 or M18, also designated NGC 6613 and sometimes known as the Black Swan Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764 and included in his list of comet-like objects. From the perspective of Earth, M18 is situated between the Omega Nebula (M... | 2.640625 | 0 |
961263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equifax | Equifax | Retail Credit Company's information holdings and willingness to sell its information attracted criticism in the 1960s and 1970s. These included that it collected "...facts, statistics, inaccuracies and rumors ... about virtually every phase of a person's life; his marital troubles, jobs, school history, childhood, sex ... | 2.125 | 0 |
961263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equifax | Equifax | Between May and July 2017, currently unidentified hackers were able to use a known exploit on one of Equifax' web servers that had yet to be updated to access the credit records of more than 140 million Americans as well as some British and Canadian citizens before the breach was detected and shut down. Equifax disclos... | 2.109375 | 0 |
961263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equifax | Equifax | 2017 exposure of American salary data
On October 8, 2017, Krebs reported that The Work Number, a website operated by Equifax's TALX division, exposed the salary histories for employees of tens of thousands of US companies to anyone in possession of the employee's Social Security Number and date of birth. For roughly ha... | 2.046875 | 0 |
961273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankill%20Road | Shankill Road | The Shankill Road () is one of the main roads leading through West Belfast, in Northern Ireland. It runs through the working-class, predominantly loyalist, area known as the Shankill.
The road stretches westwards for about from central Belfast and is lined, to an extent, by shops. The residents live in the many stree... | 2.296875 | 0 |
961273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankill%20Road | Shankill Road | As a paved road the Shankill dates back to around the sixteenth century as at the time it was part of the main road to Antrim, a role now filled by the A6. The lower sections of the Shankill Road were in former times the edge of Belfast with both Boundary Street on the lower Shankill and Townsend Street in the middle S... | 2.265625 | 0 |
961273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankill%20Road | Shankill Road | The West Belfast Division of the original Ulster Volunteer Force organised on the Shankill and drilled in Glencairn and some of its members saw service in the First World War with the 36th (Ulster) Division. A garden of remembrance beside the Shankill Graveyard and a mural on Conway Street commemorate those who fought ... | 2 | 0 |
961273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankill%20Road | Shankill Road | Woodvale
The Woodvale area begins after Lanark Way, when the road changes from Shankill Road to Woodvale Road. As well as extensive housing the Woodvale area contains the Woodvale Presbyterian Church, which building on the corner of the Woodvale and Ballygomartin Roads dates back to 1899. The area takes its name from W... | 2.21875 | 0 |
961291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycocalyx | Glycocalyx | The glycocalyx (: glycocalyces or glycocalyxes), also known as the pericellular matrix and cell coat, is a layer of glycoproteins and glycolipids which surround the cell membranes of bacteria, epithelial cells, and other cells.
Animal epithelial cells have a fuzz-like coating on the external surface of their plasma me... | 2.796875 | 0 |
961291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycocalyx | Glycocalyx | The enzymes and proteins listed above serve to reinforce the glycocalyx barrier against vascular and other diseases. Another main function of the glycocalyx within the vascular endothelium is that it shields the vascular walls from direct exposure to blood flow, while serving as a vascular permeability barrier. Its p... | 2.46875 | 0 |
961291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycocalyx | Glycocalyx | Experiments have been performed to test precisely how the glycocalyx can be altered or damaged. One particular study used an isolated perfused heart model designed to facilitate detection of the state of the vascular barrier portion, and sought to cause insult-induced shedding of the glycocalyx to ascertain the cause-... | 2.171875 | 0 |
961291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycocalyx | Glycocalyx | Some key components of the glycocalyx such as syndecans, heparan sulphate, chondroitin sulphate and hyaluronan can be shed of the endothelial layer by enzymes. Hyaluronidase, hepararanse/heparinase, matrix and membrane-type matrix metalloproteases, thrombin, plasmin and elastase are some examples of enzymes that can in... | 2.140625 | 0 |
961291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycocalyx | Glycocalyx | A glycocalyx, literally meaning "sugar coat" (glykys = sweet, kalyx = husk), is a network of polysaccharides that project from cellular surfaces of bacteria, which classifies it as a universal surface component of a bacterial cell, found just outside the bacterial cell wall. A distinct, gelatinous glycocalyx is called... | 2.75 | 0 |
961303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier%2034 | Messier 34 | Messier 34 (also known as M34, NGC 1039, or the Spiral Cluster) is a large and relatively near open cluster in Perseus. It was probably discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and included by Charles Messier in his catalog of comet-like objects in 1764. Messier described it as, "A cluster of small stars a l... | 2.828125 | 0 |
961313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese%20cross | Maltese cross | The Maltese cross is a cross symbol, consisting of four "V" or arrowhead shaped concave quadrilaterals converging at a central vertex at right angles, two tips pointing outward symmetrically.
It is a heraldic cross variant which developed from earlier forms of eight-pointed crosses in the 16th century. Although chief... | 2.515625 | 0 |
961313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese%20cross | Maltese cross | Emergence of the sharp vertex of the modern "four-arrowhead" design is gradual, and takes place during the 15th to 16th century. The "Rhodian cross" of the early 16th century had almost, but not quite, achieved the "sharp arrowhead appearance".
The fully modern design is found on a copper coin dated 1567, minted by G... | 2.46875 | 0 |
961313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese%20cross | Maltese cross | The flag, badge, and coat of arms of the state of Queensland feature an eight-pointed cross, and as such, many public services incorporate the cross, including the Queensland police and ambulance services, then it was also incorporated into the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and the Queen's Personal Flag. The eight-pointed ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
961313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese%20cross | Maltese cross | Other crosses with spreading limbs are often mistakenly called "Maltese", especially the cross pattée. The royal warrant which created the Victoria Cross prescribed a Maltese cross, but the medal has always in fact been a cross pattée. The official symbol of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity is the cross pattée, though th... | 2.578125 | 0 |
961330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-layer | S-layer | An S-layer (surface layer) is a part of the cell envelope found in almost all archaea, as well as in many types of bacteria.
The S-layers of both archaea and bacteria consists of a monomolecular layer composed of only one (or, in a few cases, two) identical proteins or glycoproteins. This structure is built via self-as... | 2.6875 | 0 |
961330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-layer | S-layer | S-layer structure
While ubiquitous among Archaea, and common in bacteria, the S-layers of diverse organisms have unique structural properties, including symmetry and unit cell dimensions, due to fundamental differences in their constituent building blocks. Sequence analyses of S-layer proteins have predicted that S-la... | 2.125 | 0 |
961344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia%20University%20of%20Education | Indonesia University of Education | Indonesia University of Education (Indonesian: Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, UPI) is a public university in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. It was established in 1954 as Teachers Education College (PTPG).
Indonesia University of Education is a multi-campus university, with one main campus and several others. The m... | 2.125 | 0 |
961346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ivan | Hurricane Ivan | Hurricane Ivan was a large, long-lived, and devastating tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in the Caribbean and United States. The ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane, and the fourth major hurricane of the active 2004 Atlantic hurricane season, Ivan formed in early September and reached Category 5 streng... | 2.59375 | 0 |
961346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ivan | Hurricane Ivan | On September 2, 2004, Tropical Depression Nine formed from a large tropical wave southwest of Cape Verde. As the system moved to the west, it strengthened gradually, becoming Tropical Storm Ivan on September 3, and reaching hurricane strength on September 5, to the east of Tobago. Later that day, the storm intensified... | 2.625 | 0 |
961346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ivan | Hurricane Ivan | After passing Cuba, Ivan resumed a more northerly track and regained Category 5 strength. Ivan's strength continued to fluctuate as it moved west on September 11, and the storm attained its highest 1-minute maximum sustained winds of as it passed within of Grand Cayman. Ivan reached its peak strength with a minimum c... | 2.34375 | 0 |
961346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ivan | Hurricane Ivan | On September 20, Ivan's remnant surface low completed an anticyclonic loop and moved across the Florida peninsula. As it continued westward across the northern Gulf of Mexico, the system reorganized and again took on tropical characteristics on September 22. On September 22, the National Weather Service, "after conside... | 2.578125 | 0 |
961346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ivan | Hurricane Ivan | United States
In Louisiana, mandatory evacuations of vulnerable areas in Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, and Tangipahoa parishes took place, with voluntary evacuations ordered in six other parishes. More than one-third of the population of Greater New Orleans evacuated ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
961346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ivan | Hurricane Ivan | In the several days prior to Ivan making its first United States landfall, forecasters predicted Ivan to move ashore between Alabama and the western Florida panhandle. On September 13, in response to Hurricane Ivan, a state of emergency was issued for Alabama by Governor Bob Riley. This led to a law against price gougi... | 2.453125 | 0 |
961346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ivan | Hurricane Ivan | Ivan killed 64 people in the Caribbean—mainly in Grenada and Jamaica—three in Venezuela, and 25 in the United States, including fourteen in Florida. Thirty-two more deaths in the United States were indirectly attributed to Ivan. While traversing the eastern United States, Ivan spawned 120 tornadoes, striking communitie... | 2.109375 | 0 |
961346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ivan | Hurricane Ivan | Florida
As Ivan made landfall on the U.S. coastline in eastern Alabama, the outer rainbands of Ivan produced a wind gust of on Key West; the winds downed some tree limbs across the Florida Keys, though the number of downed trees was limited by the passage of previous hurricanes Charley and Frances. While passing west ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
961346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ivan | Hurricane Ivan | As the storm moved through the region, an important Major League Baseball series between the Florida Marlins and Montreal Expos was moved to U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago. In addition, the season opener between the Tennessee Titans and Miami Dolphins was moved forward a day due to the storm.
On September 26, 2006, ov... | 1.96875 | 0 |
961346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ivan | Hurricane Ivan | Further inland, Ivan caused major flooding, bringing the Chattahoochee River near Atlanta and many other rivers and streams to levels at or near 100-year records. The Delaware River and its tributaries crested just below their all-time records set by Hurricane Diane in 1955. Locations in southern New Hampshire and Mass... | 2.21875 | 0 |
961346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ivan | Hurricane Ivan | United States
On September 27, 2004, President of the United States George W. Bush submitted a budget to the United States Congress which requested over $7 billion (2004 USD) in aid to victims of Hurricane Ivan and Jeanne in the following states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
961346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ivan | Hurricane Ivan | Following the storm in Alabama, more than 167,700 people applied for assistance in 65 counties in the state. Over 51 counties in the state became eligible for public assistance. As a result, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Alabama Emergency Management Agency... | 2.421875 | 0 |
961346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ivan | Hurricane Ivan | Ivan is suspected of bringing spores of soybean rust from Venezuela into the United States, the first ever occurrences of soybean rust found in North America. Since the Florida soybean crop had already been mostly harvested, economic damage was limited. Some of the most severe outbreaks in South America have been known... | 2 | 0 |
961349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Jupiter | Hot Jupiter | Though there is diversity among hot Jupiters, they do share some common properties.
Their defining characteristics are their large masses and short orbital periods, spanning 0.36–11.8 Jupiter masses and 1.3–111 Earth days. The mass cannot be greater than approximately 13.6 Jupiter masses because then the pressure and ... | 2.984375 | 0 |
961349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Jupiter | Hot Jupiter | Formation and evolution
There are three schools of thought regarding the possible origin of hot Jupiters. One possibility is that they were formed in situ at the distances at which they are currently observed. Another possibility is that they were formed at a distance but later migrated inward. Such a shift in positio... | 2.984375 | 0 |
961349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Jupiter | Hot Jupiter | In situ
Instead of being gas giants that migrated inward, in an alternate hypothesis the cores of the hot Jupiters began as more common super-Earths which accreted their gas envelopes at their current locations, becoming gas giants in situ. The super-Earths providing the cores in this hypothesis could have formed eith... | 2.71875 | 0 |
961349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Jupiter | Hot Jupiter | Atmospheric loss
If the atmosphere of a hot Jupiter is stripped away via hydrodynamic escape, its core may become a chthonian planet. The amount of gas removed from the outermost layers depends on the planet's size, the gases forming the envelope, the orbital distance from the star, and the star's luminosity. In a typi... | 3.109375 | 0 |
961349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Jupiter | Hot Jupiter | One example of these sorts of systems is that of WASP-47. There are three inner planets and an outer gas giant in the habitable zone. The innermost planet, WASP-47e, is a large terrestrial planet of 6.83 Earth masses and 1.8 Earth radii; the hot Jupiter, b, is little heavier than Jupiter, but about 12.63 Earth radii; a... | 3 | 0 |
961349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Jupiter | Hot Jupiter | Ultra-short period planets (USP) are a class of planets with orbital periods below one day and occur only around stars of less than about 1.25 solar masses.
Confirmed transiting hot Jupiters that have orbital periods of less than one day include WASP-18b, Banksia, Astrolábos and WASP-103b.
Puffy planets
Gas giants wi... | 2.734375 | 0 |
961349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Jupiter | Hot Jupiter | Star–planet interactions
Theoretical research since 2000 suggested that "hot Jupiters" may cause increased flaring due to the interaction of the magnetic fields of the star and its orbiting exoplanet, or because of tidal forces between them. These effects are called "star–planet interactions" or SPIs. The HD 189733 sys... | 2.640625 | 0 |
961356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20Bernice%20Johnson | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Eddie Bernice Johnson (December 3, 1934 – December 31, 2023) was an American politician who represented Texas's in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2023. Johnson was a member of the Democratic Party.
Johnson was elected to the House in 1992, becoming the first registered nurse in Congress. At t... | 2.359375 | 0 |
961356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20Bernice%20Johnson | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Early political career
After passage of civil-rights legislation and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which enabled African Americans in the South to register and vote, more African Americans began to run for office and be elected. Johnson first became known in Dallas as a civil-rights activist in the 1960s.
In 1972, as... | 2.53125 | 0 |
961356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20Bernice%20Johnson | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Johnson worked against racism while dealing with discrimination in the legislature. "Being a woman and being black is perhaps a double handicap," she told the Chicago Tribune. "When you see who's in the important huddles, who's making the important decisions, it's men." Johnson sponsored several bills aimed at equity, ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
961356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20Bernice%20Johnson | Eddie Bernice Johnson | In 2007, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Jim Oberstar appointed Johnson chair of its Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment during the 110th and 111th Congresses. She was the first African American and first woman in Congress to chair this subcommittee. As Subcommittee Chair, Johnson sp... | 2.015625 | 0 |
961381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade%20cabinet | Arcade cabinet | The sides of the arcade cabinet are usually decorated with brightly colored stickers or paint, representing the gameplay of their particular game.
Types of cabinets
There are many types of arcade cabinets, some being custom-made for a particular game; however, the most common are the upright, the cocktail or table, an... | 2.203125 | 0 |
961381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade%20cabinet | Arcade cabinet | In Computer Space, Pong and other early arcade games, the CRT was mounted 90 degrees from the ground, facing directly outward. Arcade game manufacturers began incorporating design principles from older electro-mechanical games by using CRTs mounted at a 45-degree angle, facing upward and away from the player but toward... | 2.703125 | 0 |
961381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade%20cabinet | Arcade cabinet | Large-scale satellite machines
Usually found in Japan, these machines have multiple screens interconnected to one system, sometimes with one big screen in the middle. These also often feature the dispensation of different types of cards, either a smartcard in order to save stats and progress or trading cards used in t... | 2.3125 | 0 |
961381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade%20cabinet | Arcade cabinet | Monitors
While both use the same basic type of tube, raster monitors are easier to service than vector monitors, as the support circuitry is very similar to that which is used in CRT televisions and computer monitors, and is typically easy to adjust for color and brightness. On the other hand, vector monitors can be ch... | 1.9375 | 0 |
961384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endolymph | Endolymph | Endolymph is the fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear. The major cation in endolymph is potassium, with the values of sodium and potassium concentration in the endolymph being 0.91 mM and 154 mM, respectively. It is also called Scarpa's fluid, after Antonio Scarpa.
Structure
The inner ear has t... | 3.03125 | 0 |
961405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markgr%C3%A4flerland | Markgräflerland | Markgräflerland () is a region in the southwest of Germany, in the south of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg, located between the Breisgau in the north and the Black Forest in the east; adjacent to west with France and in the south with Switzerland.
History and geography
The name translates to Margraves'... | 2.203125 | 0 |
961424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%20475%20%28Michigan%29 | Interstate 475 (Michigan) | Interstate 475 (I-475) is a north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway in the US state of Michigan. I-475 is a bypass route that serves the downtown area of Flint while its parent, I-75, passes through the west side of the city. I-475 starts southwest of Grand Blanc and runs through suburbs of Flint before passing throu... | 1.953125 | 0 |
961424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%20475%20%28Michigan%29 | Interstate 475 (Michigan) | South of the four-level stack interchange with I-69, I-475 crosses over a line of the Canadian National Railway. North of this interchange, the freeway runs more northwesterly as it skirts the eastern edge of downtown Flint. Near the campus of the University of Michigan–Flint, I-475 curves to run parallel to the Flint ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
961436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burk%27s%20Falls | Burk's Falls | Burk's Falls is an incorporated village in the Almaguin Highlands region of Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada, located north of Toronto and south of North Bay, Ontario. The village, and the waterfall on the site, were named (for himself) by David Francis Burk of Oshawa, after he selected the land surrounding the ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
961437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo%20%28film%29 | Congo (film) | Congo is a 1995 American science fiction action-adventure film based on the 1980 novel by Michael Crichton. It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker and Tim Curry. The film was released on June 9, 1995, by Paramount Pictures and tells the story of ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
961450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/196%20%28number%29 | 196 (number) | 196 (one hundred [and] ninety-six) is the natural number following 195 and preceding 197.
In mathematics
196 is a square number, the square of 14. As the square of a Catalan number, it counts the number of walks of length 8 in the positive quadrant of the integer grid that start and end at the origin, moving diagonall... | 2.53125 | 0 |
961463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/151%20%28number%29 | 151 (number) | 151 (one hundred [and] fifty-one) is a natural number. It follows 150 and precedes 152.
In mathematics
151 is the 36th prime number, the previous is 149, with which it comprises a twin prime. 151 is also a palindromic prime, a centered decagonal number, and a lucky number.
151 appears in the Padovan sequence, precede... | 2.625 | 0 |
961466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Piccard | Jacques Piccard | With his Trieste able to reach depths of 24,000 feet, Piccard and his colleagues planned an even greater challenge:—a voyage to the bottom of the sea. On 23 January 1960, Piccard and Lt. Don Walsh reached the floor of the Mariana Trench located in the western North Pacific Ocean. The depth of the descent was measured a... | 3.015625 | 0 |
961466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Piccard | Jacques Piccard | Ben Franklin mission
On 14 July 1969, just two days before the Apollo 11 launch, the Ben Franklin, also known as the Grumman/Piccard PX-15 mesoscaphe, was towed to the high-velocity center of the Gulf Stream off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida. Once on site, the Ben Franklin with its six-man, international crew descen... | 2.71875 | 0 |
961468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graciliano%20Ramos | Graciliano Ramos | Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira () (October 27, 1892 – March 20, 1953) was a Brazilian modernist writer, politician and journalist. He is known worldwide for his portrayal of the precarious situation of the poor inhabitants of the Brazilian sertão in his novel Vidas secas. His characters are complex, nuanced, and tend to ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
961487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Granger | Kay Granger | Norvell Kay Granger (; born January 18, 1943) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 12th congressional district from 1997 to 2025. She is a member of the Republican Party, and was chair of the United States House Committee on Appropriations from 2023 to 2024. She did not seek re-el... | 2.078125 | 0 |
961505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20Winter%20Olympics | 2018 Winter Olympics | After a state-sponsored doping program was exposed following the 2014 Winter Olympics, the Russian Olympic Committee was suspended, but selected athletes were allowed to compete neutrally under the special IOC designation of "Olympic Athletes from Russia" (OAR), provided they could meet certain anti-doping requirements... | 2.40625 | 0 |
961506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarendon%2C%20Virginia | Clarendon, Virginia | Clarendon is an urbanized, developed neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia, located between the Rosslyn area and the Ballston area. It was named after Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, a leading statesman and historian of the English Civil War. The main thoroughfares are Wilson Boulevard (one-way westbound) an... | 2.609375 | 0 |
961506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarendon%2C%20Virginia | Clarendon, Virginia | History
First platted in 1900 at the top of a hill on the Georgetown-Falls Church Road (now Wilson Boulevard), Clarendon evolved into Arlington County's original "downtown" after the arrival of electric trolleys in 1896. During the early 20th century, two interurban trolley lines converged in Clarendon a short distanc... | 2.4375 | 0 |
961506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarendon%2C%20Virginia | Clarendon, Virginia | Built in 1937, the Arlington Post Office is the first known federal building constructed in the county after the American Civil War that is not within a larger federally-owned property. Previously Arlington's mail was handled in Washington, D.C. Lobby murals depicting scenes about Arlington history were painted by Aur... | 2.265625 | 0 |
961519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake%20Island%20Device | Wake Island Device | The Wake Island Device is an award device of the United States military which is presented as a campaign clasp to both the Navy and Marine Corps Expeditionary Medals.
The Wake Island Device is authorized for any sailor or Marine who was awarded the Navy or Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal due to service during the def... | 2.109375 | 0 |
961520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirlington%2C%20Virginia | Shirlington, Virginia | Shirlington began when Joseph Cherner, automobile dealer and banker, established the Shirlington Corporation to build a shopping center for nearby Fairlington and Parkfairfax. He began with a site on which the first store opened in June 1944. In 1959, the Lansburgh's department store opened a , $2.5 million store, i... | 1.96875 | 0 |
961520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirlington%2C%20Virginia | Shirlington, Virginia | The center of Shirlington is occupied by the extensive Village at Shirlington retail, service, and residential complex which includes a series of buildings along Campbell Avenue (formerly South 28th Street). It was originally opened in 1944, as Shirlington Shopping Center, one of the earliest suburban shopping centers... | 1.96875 | 0 |
961522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20Summer%20Olympics | 2016 Summer Olympics | The bidding process for the 2016 Summer Olympics was officially launched on 16 May 2007. The first step for each city was to submit an initial application to the International Olympic Committee by 13 September 2007, confirming their intention to bid. Completed official bid files containing answers to a 25-question IOC ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
961522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20Summer%20Olympics | 2016 Summer Olympics | Development and preparations
On 26 June 2011, it was reported on Around The Rings that Roderlei Generali, the COO of the Rio de Janeiro Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, resigned just one year after taking the job at ROOC. This came just five months after CCO Flávio Pestana quit for personal reasons. Pestana ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
961522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20Summer%20Olympics | 2016 Summer Olympics | The lead-up to the Rio Games was marked by several controversies, including: Brazil's political and economic crisis; the Zika virus epidemic; the significant pollution in the Guanabara Bay; and an ongoing doping scandal involving Russia, which affected the participation of Russian athletes in the Games. However, the Zi... | 2.21875 | 0 |
961522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20Summer%20Olympics | 2016 Summer Olympics | In May 2016, a group of 150 physicians and scientists sent an open letter to the World Health Organization (WHO), calling upon them to, according to co-author Arthur Caplan, have "an open, transparent discussion of the risks of holding the Olympics as planned in Brazil". The WHO dismissed the request, stating that "can... | 2.390625 | 0 |
961522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20Summer%20Olympics | 2016 Summer Olympics | The governor of Rio de Janeiro also highlighted the fact that London faced security problems, with a terrorist attack occurring just a day after it was awarded the 2012 Summer Olympics. The estimate was that 5,000 men of the National Public Security Force and 22,000 military officers (14,800 Army; 5,900 Navy and 1,300 ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
961529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tararua%20District | Tararua District | The Tararua District is a district near the south-east corner of New Zealand's North Island that is administered by the Tararua District Council. It has a population of and an area of 4,364.62 km². The Tararua District Council was created by the amalgamation of the Dannevirke Borough, Eketahuna County Council, Pahiatu... | 2.421875 | 0 |
961537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfaus | Serfaus | Serfaus is a municipality in the district of Landeck in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is well known as part of the ski-region "Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis", which was formed when Serfaus teamed up with the two nearby municipalities of Fiss and Ladis in 1999. Serfaus is also known for its small hovertrain subway system, the U-... | 2.375 | 0 |
961537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfaus | Serfaus | As Serfaus is close to the Via Claudia Augusta and the Reschen Pass people are thought to have traveled through the area for hundreds of years. Moreover, the marian pilgrimage, which has been taking place since the Middle Ages, has caused some travel to and from the mountain village. The Theresian Cadasdre of 1776 list... | 2.4375 | 0 |
961542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Incredibly%20Strange%20Creatures%20Who%20Stopped%20Living%20and%20Became%20Mixed-Up%20Zombies | The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies | The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (sometimes "!!?" is appended to the title and shortened to The Incredibly Strange Creatures) is a 1964 American monster movie produced and directed by Ray Dennis Steckler. Steckler also starred in the film, billed under the pseudonym "Cash ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
961543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20Five%20Elders | Council of Five Elders | Even before the creation of the council, Hideyoshi treated the five differently from other daimyō. One reason for this was the absence of a Toritsugi (Japanese: 取次). Toritsugi acted as mediators that went between the daimyō to help with the communication of orders. This allowed each daimyō to talk directly to Hideyoshi... | 2.765625 | 0 |
961543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20Five%20Elders | Council of Five Elders | Maeda Toshiie
Maeda Toshiie (Japanese: 前田 利家) was one of the leading generals of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period of the 16th century extending to the Azuchi–Momoyama period. Referred to as Chikuzen in the letters by Hideyoshi. He became one of the Five Elders at the age of 53. Hideyoshi entrusted the provinc... | 2.046875 | 0 |
961543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20Five%20Elders | Council of Five Elders | Withdrawal from Korea
After Hideyoshi's death the Council of Five Elders issued an order for the Japanese army at the Korean Peninsula to return. The Council feared disorder among Hideyoshi's troops in Korea if they were to be told of his death and so, his death was not told to the armies in order to preserve their mo... | 2.609375 | 0 |
961543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20Five%20Elders | Council of Five Elders | Tokugawa hegemony
Ieyasu engaged his sons and daughters into political marriages which became a cause of disagreement between the Elders and Commissioners. Ieyasu married his son Tadateru to Date Masamune's daughter Irohahime. The cause for disagreement in these matters were due to statements in ”The wall writings of ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
961545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Smith%20%28Canadian%20politician%29 | Scott Smith (Canadian politician) | In May 2002, Smith introduced legislation giving investors the right to seek financial compensation from advisers who mismanage funds through violations of the Manitoba Securities Act. Maximum compensation was set at $100,000. This legislation was the first of its kind in Canada. Smith also introduced legislation to p... | 2.03125 | 0 |
961545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Smith%20%28Canadian%20politician%29 | Scott Smith (Canadian politician) | Smith was also in charge of the provincial government's efforts to maintain economic viability for the financially troubled port city of Churchill in northern Manitoba. The government pledged one million dollars to find new markets and new products for the city in early 2003.
Smith presided over a memorial ceremony f... | 1.90625 | 0 |
961547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Freeman%20Jr. | Al Freeman Jr. | Albert Cornelius Freeman Jr. (March 21, 1934 – August 9, 2012) was an American actor, director, and educator. A life member of The Actors Studio, Freeman appeared in a wide variety of plays, ranging from Leroi Jones' Slave/Toilet to Joe Papp's revivals of Long Day's Journey Into Night and Troilus and Cressida, and film... | 2.140625 | 0 |
961557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholicos | Catholicos | A catholicos (plural: catholicoi) is the head of certain churches in some Eastern Christian traditions. The title implies autocephaly and, in some cases, it is the title of the head of an autonomous church. The word comes from ancient Greek ( ), derived from (, "generally") from (, "down") and (, "whole"), meaning ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
961557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholicos | Catholicos | Sometime later, it was adopted by the Grand metropolitans of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in Persia, who became the designated heads of the Church of the East. The first claim that the bishop of Selucia-Ctesiphon was superior to the other bishoprics and had (using a later term) patriarchal rights was made by Patriarch Papa bar A... | 2.65625 | 0 |
961558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Creek%20Lake%20State%20Park | Deep Creek Lake State Park | Deep Creek Lake State Park is a public recreation area occupying more than on the northeast side of Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County, Maryland, in the United States. The park features water activities, camping facilities, and recreational trails and is located about south of Interstate 68 on U.S. Route 219.
History... | 2.3125 | 0 |
961577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector%20general | Inspector general | In the French Civil Service, an inspector general (inspecteur général) is a member of a body of civil servants known as inspection générale, generally of a high level, charged with a nationwide mission to inspect some specific services and provide government officials with advice regarding that service. Most ministries... | 2.46875 | 0 |
961578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Lines | United States Lines | With a government subsidy for her construction, entered service in 1952. She holds the record as the largest ocean liner built in the United States and the fastest ocean liner ever built. She immediately set transatlantic speed records, capturing the Blue Riband from . But competition from airliners brought the glory ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
961586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawa%2C%20New%20Zealand | Tawa, New Zealand | Tawa is the northernmost suburb within the Wellington city boundary, located roughly 15 km north of Wellington's CBD between Churton Park and Porirua in the North Island of New Zealand. It takes its name from the broadleaf tree, which was once prolific throughout the area, although its most famous tree is the Bucket Tr... | 1.945313 | 0 |
961586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawa%2C%20New%20Zealand | Tawa, New Zealand | In 1939, northern Tawa valley residents seeking to give a separate name to the northern part of the Tawa district met. They chose "Linden", from "Linden Vale", the name of the home of Mr Stuart Duncan, but originally named by Mr. Charles Duncan, a nurseryman. The name "Linden" was adopted in 1940 and the first Linden r... | 2.234375 | 0 |
961586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawa%2C%20New%20Zealand | Tawa, New Zealand | As with the rest of Wellington, Tawa was colonised by the New Zealand Company in the mid-19th century under the direction of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. The Company claimed to have purchased the land from local Māori - this claim "did not take into account of Maori existing land use, and was further undermined by the New ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
961586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawa%2C%20New%20Zealand | Tawa, New Zealand | A much improved, faster, and more frequent, rail service resulted from the Tawa Flat deviation in the late 1930s, electrification of the railway line with an automatic signalling system in 1940, and the arrival of additional electric multiple units in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The first multiple units operated on... | 2.359375 | 0 |
961586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawa%2C%20New%20Zealand | Tawa, New Zealand | Whilst greenfield residential growth has slowed, there has been significant infill housing as property owners, particularly owners of older quarter acre sections, subdivide their properties. Along with infill housing, the turn of the 21st century has seen the redevelopment of some of Tawa's previously industrial areas ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
961599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%20Jones%20%28baseball%29 | Randy Jones (baseball) | Randall Leo Jones (born January 12, 1950), nicknamed "Junkman", is an American former professional baseball left-handed pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and New York Mets. Jones won the Cy Young Award with San Diego in 1976. The Padres retired his 35.
Jones attended Brea-Oli... | 1.992188 | 0 |
961607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Biddle%20%28naval%20officer%29 | Nicholas Biddle (naval officer) | Biddle participated in the expedition against New Providence and fought in the Continental Navy's action with on April 6, 1776. Biddle was highly critical of the action, noting that the lack of signaling by his superior, Commodore Esek Hopkins, led to a "helter skelter" action. Biddle quickly developed a reputation as... | 2.8125 | 0 |
961608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20E.%20Lawes | Lewis E. Lawes | Lewis Edward Lawes (September 13, 1883 – April 23, 1947) was a prison warden and a proponent of prison reform. During his 21-year tenure at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, he supervised the executions of 303 prisoners.
Biography
Lawes was born on September 13, 1883, in Elmira, New York. He was the only child of Henry... | 1.921875 | 0 |
961608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20E.%20Lawes | Lewis E. Lawes | Writings
Lawes wrote several books. Several of his works were made into films. His most famous book, Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing, was made into a 1932 movie under the same title, starring Spencer Tracy, and again in 1940 as Castle on the Hudson, featuring John Garfield. Over the Wall was produced in 1938 based o... | 2.265625 | 0 |
961609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Koshetz | Alexander Koshetz | Alexander Koshetz (12 September 1875 – 21 September 1944) was a Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer, ethnographer, writer, musicologist, and lecturer. He helped popularize Ukrainian music around the world. His name is sometimes transliterated as Oleksandr Koshyts ().
At one time, a performance of Koshetz's... | 2.15625 | 0 |
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