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962174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node%20of%20Ranvier | Node of Ranvier | Paranode regulation via mitochondria accumulation
Mitochondria and other membranous organelles are normally enriched in the PNP region of peripheral myelinated axons, especially those large caliber axons. The actual physiological role of this accumulation and factors that regulate it are not understood; however, it is ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
962174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node%20of%20Ranvier | Node of Ranvier | Possible regulation via the recognition molecule OMgp
It has been shown previously that OMgp (oligodendrocyte myelin glycoprotein) clusters at nodes of Ranvier and may regulate paranodal architecture, node length and axonal sprouting at nodes. However, a follow-up study showed that the antibody used previously to iden... | 2.15625 | 0 |
962181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus%20of%20Brassempouy | Venus of Brassempouy | The Venus of Brassempouy (French: la Dame de Brassempouy, , meaning "Lady of Brassempouy", or Dame à la Capuche, "Lady with the Hood") is a fragmentary ivory figurine from the Upper Palaeolithic, apparently broken from a larger figure at some time unknown. It was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1894. Abo... | 2.5 | 0 |
962181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus%20of%20Brassempouy | Venus of Brassempouy | In 1894, one of those strata, recognized now as Gravettian, yielded several fragments of statuettes, including the "Lady with the Hood". Piette considered the figures as closely related to the representations of animals of the Magdalenian period. He developed a hypothetical chronology that was later refuted by Henri Br... | 2.390625 | 0 |
962197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Cole | Tom Cole | Thomas Jeffery Cole (born April 28, 1949) is the U.S. representative for , serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party and serves as the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Before serving in the House of Representatives, he was the 26th Secretary of State of Oklahoma from 1995 to 1999.
A mem... | 2.28125 | 0 |
962224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask%20of%20la%20Roche-Cotard | Mask of la Roche-Cotard | The Mask of la Roche-Cotard, also known as the "Mousterian Protofigurine", is an artifact dated to around 75,000 years ago, in the Mousterian period. It was found in 1975 in the entrance of a cave named La Roche-Cotard, territory of the commune of Langeais (Indre-et-Loire), on the banks of the river Loire.
The artifac... | 2.5 | 0 |
962258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenchless%20technology | Trenchless technology | Trenchless rehabilitation includes such construction methods as spiral wound lining, sliplining, thermoformed pipe, pipe bursting, shotcrete, gunite, cured-in-place pipe (CIPP), grout-in-place pipe, mechanical spot repair, and other methods for the repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of existing buried pipes and str... | 2.09375 | 0 |
962265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kob | Kob | The kob (Kobus kob) is an antelope found across Central Africa and parts of West Africa and East Africa. Together with the closely related reedbucks, waterbucks, lechwe, Nile lechwe, and puku, it forms the Reduncinae tribe. Found along the northern savanna, it is often seen in Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth Nation... | 2.875 | 0 |
962265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kob | Kob | Range
The kob is currently found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, Togo, and Uganda. It was formerly also found in Gambia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, M... | 3.109375 | 0 |
962265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kob | Kob | The social and reproductive organization of kob can vary. When in average or low population densities, males establish conventional territories and do not travel much. Adult males try to establish their territories in the best habitat available, which are inhabited by herds of females and their young. Herds are fluid a... | 3.015625 | 0 |
962265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kob | Kob | Conflicts between territorial Ugandan kob (K. k. thomasi) are usually settled with ritual and rarely actual fighting, whether in conventional territories or leks. A male usually needs only to walk in an erect posture towards the intruder to displace him. Neighboring males in leks do the same thing when they encounter t... | 2.84375 | 0 |
962265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kob | Kob | Females have their first ovulation at 13–14 months of age and have 20- to 26-day intervals between estrous cycles until they are fertilized. Males from traditional territories and leks have different courtship strategies. Males of traditional territories will herd females and keep them in their territories. Lek males t... | 2.859375 | 0 |
962268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%20Ann%20Davis | Jo Ann Davis | Jo Ann Davis (née Sides; June 29, 1950 – October 6, 2007) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party from Virginia, she represented the state's . She was the second woman and first Republican woman elected to Congre... | 2.015625 | 0 |
962275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral%20Zone | Spiral Zone | Spiral Zone is a 1987 American science-fiction animated series produced by Atlantic/Kushner-Locke. Spiral Zone was animated by Japanese studio Visual 80 as well as South Korean studio AKOM. Based in part from a toy line made by Japanese company Bandai, the series focused on an international group of soldiers fighting t... | 1.945313 | 0 |
962277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goods%20and%20services%20tax%20%28Australia%29 | Goods and services tax (Australia) | A GST-registered business must charge its customers GST on taxable goods and services it provides, but is entitled to a credit for any GST it has paid for its expenditures on these goods and services as well as capital purchases (called input tax credits). A registered business must periodically lodge Business Activity... | 2.125 | 0 |
962277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goods%20and%20services%20tax%20%28Australia%29 | Goods and services tax (Australia) | Economic and social effects
Critics have argued that the GST is a regressive tax, which has a more pronounced effect on lower income earners, meaning that the tax consumes a higher proportion of their income, compared to those earning large incomes. However, due to the corresponding reductions in personal income taxes,... | 2.421875 | 0 |
962300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell%20Telescope | Lovell Telescope | The Lovell Telescope ( ) is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire, in the north-west of England. When construction was finished in 1957, the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76.2 m (250 ft) in diameter;
it is now the third-largest, after the Green... | 2.328125 | 0 |
962300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell%20Telescope | Lovell Telescope | The telescope bowl was originally going to have a wire mesh surface to observe at wavelengths between 1 and 10 meters (3.2 and 32 feet), so frequencies between 30 and 300 MHz; this was changed to a steel surface so that the telescope could observe at the 21 cm (8 in) hydrogen line, which was discovered in 1951. Also, i... | 3.140625 | 0 |
962300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell%20Telescope | Lovell Telescope | Upgrade to Mark IA
Shortly after the telescope was originally completed, Lovell and Husband started contemplating an upgrade to the telescope so that it had a more accurate surface, and was controlled by a digital computer. Plans for this upgrade were created by Husband and Co., and were presented to Lovell in April 1... | 2.359375 | 0 |
962300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell%20Telescope | Lovell Telescope | The third phase saw the biggest changes; a new, more accurate bowl surface was constructed in front of the old surface, meaning that the telescope could be used on wavelengths as small as 6 cm (5 GHz), and the central "bicycle wheel" support was added. A new computer control system was also installed (reusing the Ferra... | 2.96875 | 0 |
962300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell%20Telescope | Lovell Telescope | The Lovell Telescope was used to track both Soviet and American probes aimed at the Moon in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The telescope tracked Pioneer 1 from 11 to 13 November 1958, Pioneer 3 in December 1958, and Pioneer 4 in March 1959. The telescope tracked Pioneer 5 between 11 March and 26 June 1960, and was als... | 2.921875 | 0 |
962300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell%20Telescope | Lovell Telescope | Solar system
In Autumn 1958, the telescope was used to bounce "Hellos" off the Moon for a demonstration in Lovell's third Reith Lecture. The telescope was also used to receive messages bounced off the Moon (a "moonbounce") as part of the 50th anniversary First Move festival. In April 1961, a radar echo from Venus was ... | 3.046875 | 0 |
962300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell%20Telescope | Lovell Telescope | In 1968, the telescope observed the coordinates of the recently discovered pulsar, confirming its existence and investigating the dispersion measure. It was also used to make the first detection of polarization of the pulsar's radiation. This marked the start of a substantial amount of work investigating pulsars at Jod... | 2.8125 | 0 |
962300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell%20Telescope | Lovell Telescope | The early investigation into the size and nature of quasars drove the development of interferometry techniques in the 1950s; the Lovell telescope had an advantage because of its large collecting area, meaning that it could make high-sensitivity interferometer measurements relatively quickly. As a result, the telescope ... | 2.90625 | 0 |
962300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell%20Telescope | Lovell Telescope | In 1980, it was used as part of the new MERLIN array with a series of smaller radio telescopes controlled from Jodrell Bank. With baselines of up to 217 km (135 mi), this gave a resolution around 0.05 arcminutes. An upgraded version of this became a national facility in 1992. It has also been used in Very Long Baseline... | 2.71875 | 0 |
962307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Barnes%20%28Texas%20politician%29 | Ben Barnes (Texas politician) | Benny Frank Barnes (born April 17, 1938) is an American real estate magnate, politician, and crisis manager, who formerly served as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 1965 to 1969 and the 36th Lieutenant Governor of Texas from January 21, 1969, to January 16, 1973, for two two-year terms. He was a vice-... | 2.125 | 0 |
962307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Barnes%20%28Texas%20politician%29 | Ben Barnes (Texas politician) | Lieutenant governor
In his 1968 race for Lieutenant Governor, Barnes carried all 254 counties in both the primary and the general elections; in the latter he won more votes than any candidate had polled up to that time in the history of Texas. Barnes served as Lieutenant Governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973, a post ofte... | 1.976563 | 0 |
962315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%20Saunders%20%28grocer%29 | Clarence Saunders (grocer) | Clarence Saunders (August 9, 1881 – October 14, 1953) was an American grocer who first developed the modern retail sales model of self service. His ideas have had a massive influence on the development of the modern supermarket. Saunders worked for most of his life trying to develop a truly automated store, developing ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
962315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%20Saunders%20%28grocer%29 | Clarence Saunders (grocer) | The store incorporated shopping baskets, self-service branded products, and checkouts at the front. Removing unnecessary clerks, creating elaborate aisle displays, and rearranging the store to force customers to view all of the merchandise in a continuous path, were just some of the characteristics of the early Piggly ... | 2.375 | 0 |
962330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Rihm | Wolfgang Rihm | Wolfgang Rihm (; 13 March 1952 – 27 July 2024) was a German composer of contemporary classical music and an academic teacher based in Karlsruhe. He was an influential post-war European composer, as "one of the most original and independent musical voices" there, composing over 500 works including several operas.
The p... | 2.25 | 0 |
962330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Rihm | Wolfgang Rihm | At the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, he studied music theory and composition with while still attending secondary school. He took his undergraduate final exams in 1972, when he graduated from secondary school. He attended the Darmstädter Ferienkurse from 1970 and studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne from 19... | 2.0625 | 0 |
962330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Rihm | Wolfgang Rihm | His opera Die Hamletmaschine, composed between 1983 and 1986 based on Heiner Müller's play, Hamletmachine, premiered at the Nationaltheater Mannheim in 1987. It was described as a "total theatre of sound" and a "non-narrative, ritualistic drama" reminiscent of Stockhausen. He based the libretto for his opera Oedipus, c... | 1.992188 | 0 |
962336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementi%2C%20Singapore | Clementi, Singapore | Geography
Clementi's arterial road, Clementi Road, runs for some 5 kilometres, from the vicinity around Bukit Timah, at Jalan Anak Bukit, to the West Coast Highway, but the geographical entity of Clementi is generally regarded as the area dominated by HDB flats around Commonwealth Avenue West and the Clementi MRT stati... | 2.390625 | 0 |
962336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementi%2C%20Singapore | Clementi, Singapore | Among the population, 28,940 residents, or 28.3% of the population, live in 4-Room Flats, making it the most common type of dwelling. A sizeable number of residents also reside in condominiums and other apartments (24,400 residents, 23.8%), while 5,680 (5.54%) live in landed properties.
The average household size in C... | 2.4375 | 0 |
962336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementi%2C%20Singapore | Clementi, Singapore | 28,038 residents (38.6% of the population) in Clementi have attained a university qualification, higher than the national average of 32.1%. In contrast, 8,450 residents, or 11.6% of the population, have no educational qualifications, slightly higher than the national average of 10.6%.
Language
In Clementi, the propor... | 2.296875 | 0 |
962336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementi%2C%20Singapore | Clementi, Singapore | Dover Forest, located just across the Ulu Pandan Rd, is a half-century old secondary regrowth forest embedded in the urban matrix of Ulu Pandan, Singapore. Bounded by three roads and a concrete canal, its 33 hectares consist of western and eastern halves separated by a mowed grass lawn. The forest contains more than 15... | 2.53125 | 0 |
962356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju%20uprising | Jeju uprising | The Jeju uprising, known in South Korea as the Jeju April 3 incident (), was an uprising on Jeju Island from April 1948 to May 1949. A year prior to its start, residents of Jeju had begun protesting elections scheduled by the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea (UNTCOK) to be held in the United States-occupied... | 2.796875 | 0 |
962356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju%20uprising | Jeju uprising | In October 2003, the National Committee for Investigation of the Truth about the Jeju April 3 Incident chaired by South Korean prime minister Goh Kun released a comprehensive report detailing the violence that occurred during the uprising, and South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun issued an official apology on behalf of ... | 2.375 | 0 |
962356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju%20uprising | Jeju uprising | Political situation on Jeju Island
Residents of Jeju island were some of the most active participants in the Korean independence movement against colonial Japanese occupation. Due to the island's relative isolation from the mainland peninsula, Jeju experienced relative peace after the Japanese surrender, contrasting wi... | 2.359375 | 0 |
962356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju%20uprising | Jeju uprising | Lieutenant General Kim Ik-ryeol, commander of police forces on the island, attempted to end the insurrection peacefully by negotiating with the rebels. He met several times with rebel leader Kim Dal-sam of the WPSK but neither side could agree on conditions. The government wanted a complete surrender and the rebels dem... | 2.015625 | 0 |
962356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju%20uprising | Jeju uprising | Fighting continued through the May 10 elections. A total of 214 people had been killed by then. During election week, the guerrillas "cut telephone lines, destroyed bridges, and blocked roads with piles of stones to disrupt communications." The WPSK Women's League campaigned for residents to hide in the mountainous reg... | 1.96875 | 0 |
962356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju%20uprising | Jeju uprising | August 1948 underground elections and Yeosu rebellion
Although guerrilla activities waned during the summer months of 1948, they picked up again in August after the Soviet Union held elections north of the 38th parallel to form the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). In conjunction with these elections, the ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
962356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju%20uprising | Jeju uprising | In 2003, the National Committee for Investigation of the Truth about the Jeju April 3 Incident chaired by South Korean prime minister Goh Kun described the event as a genocide. In October 2003, President Roh Moo-hyun apologized to the populace of Jeju for the brutal suppression of the uprising: "Due to wrongful decisio... | 2.09375 | 0 |
962356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju%20uprising | Jeju uprising | A Presbyterian minister, Lee Jong-yoon, said at a church in Seoul that "the Jeju rising was incurred by the leftist forces and they provoked the rebellion to disturb the May 10 general election." The statement was broadcast through the CTS channel.
On November 20, 2010, a chairman of an adjustment committee of past af... | 2.015625 | 0 |
962373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20separatism | Black separatism | Black separatism is a separatist political movement that seeks separate economic and cultural development for those of African descent in societies, particularly in the United States. Black separatism stems from the idea of racial solidarity, and it also implies that black people should organize themselves on the basis... | 2.96875 | 0 |
962373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20separatism | Black separatism | Scholars Talmadge Anderson and James Stewart further make a distinction between the "classical version of Black separatism advocated by Booker T. Washington" and "modern separatist ideology". They observe that "Washington's accommodationist advice" at the end of the nineteenth century "was for Blacks not to agitate for... | 2.796875 | 0 |
962374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Yunnan | History of Yunnan | The Sultanate's power declined after 1868. The Chinese Imperial Government had succeeded in reinvigorating itself. By 1871, it was directing a campaign for the annihilation of the obdurate Hui Muslims of Yunnan. Though largely forgotten, the bloody rebellion caused the deaths of up to a million people in Yunnan. Many a... | 3.078125 | 0 |
962374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Yunnan | History of Yunnan | In Second Sino-Japanese War, Yunnan served as, among other things, a home base for the Flying Tigers and a refuge for people, especially university faculty and students, from the east. These had originally retreated to Changsha, but as the Japanese forces were gaining more territory they eventually bombed Changsha in ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
962381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddle%20tennis | Paddle tennis | Paddle tennis (sometimes branded as POP Tennis since 2015) is a racket sport adapted from tennis and played for over a century. Compared to tennis, the court is smaller, has no doubles lanes, and the net is lower. Paddle tennis is played with a solid perforated paddle, as opposed to a strung racquet, and a lower pressu... | 2.859375 | 0 |
962384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsomer%20Murders | Midsomer Murders | Midsomer Murders is a British crime drama mystery television series, adapted by Anthony Horowitz and Douglas Watkinson from the novels in the Chief Inspector Barnaby book series created by Caroline Graham. It has been broadcast on the ITV network since its premiere on 23 March 1997. The series focuses on various murder... | 2 | 0 |
962392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20J.%20Cullen | Michael J. Cullen | Michael J. Cullen (1884–1936) was an American entrepreneur and salesman known as the founder of the King Kullen grocery store chain, widely considered to be the first supermarket founded in America. He is recognized by the Smithsonian Institution as the inventor of the modern supermarket.
History
Cullen was born in 18... | 2.4375 | 0 |
962392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20J.%20Cullen | Michael J. Cullen | The chain expanded rapidly in the price-conscious environment of the Great Depression. King Kullen stores reused large older buildings, including abandoned factories and warehouses, in low-rent locations on the borders of populated areas. Facilities were simple. Service was minimal. Shopping carts were used and nationa... | 2.609375 | 0 |
962393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byt%C4%8Da | Bytča | Bytča () is a town in northwestern Slovakia. It is located on the Váh River near the cities of Žilina and Považská Bystrica. It belongs to Upper Váh region of tourism.
Etymology
The name comes from a Slavic personal name Bytek, Bytko → Bytča.
History
The town arose in 1946 by a merger of the settlements Malá Bytča (i... | 2.125 | 0 |
962397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20gannet | Australasian gannet | The Australasian gannet (Morus serrator), also known as the Australian gannet or tākapu, is a large seabird of the booby and gannet family, Sulidae. Adults are mostly white, with black flight feathers at the wingtips and lining the trailing edge of the wing. The central tail feathers are also black. The head is tinged ... | 2.96875 | 0 |
962397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20gannet | Australasian gannet | Taxonomy
Sir Joseph Banks shot three Australasian gannets in New Zealand waters on 24 December 1769 off Three Kings Islands. The birds were cooked in a goose pie, which was enjoyed by the sailors, for Christmas the next day. Daniel Solander wrote a formal description, noting its differences from the familiar northern g... | 2.59375 | 0 |
962397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20gannet | Australasian gannet | An adult Australasian gannet is long, weighs , and has a wingspan. The two sexes are generally of a similar size and appearance, though a 2015 field study at Pope's Eye and Point Danger colonies found females to be 3.1% and 7.3% heavier respectively. Females also had a slightly larger ulna and smaller bill. The pluma... | 2.984375 | 0 |
962397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20gannet | Australasian gannet | This species is distinctive and only likely to be confused with species that do not generally share its range. The Cape gannet is a rare vagrant to Australasian waters and has an all-black tail, while the masked and red-footed boobies are generally restricted to tropical waters. Although both have mostly white plumage,... | 2.765625 | 0 |
962397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20gannet | Australasian gannet | Breeding colonies are mostly on offshore islands, though several mainland colonies exist in Australia and New Zealand. Numbers of Australasian gannet have been increasing since 1950, although some colonies have disappeared and others have decreased in size. Between 1980 and 2000, the population in Australian waters inc... | 3.0625 | 0 |
962397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20gannet | Australasian gannet | On the South Island, gannets began breeding at the end of Farewell Spit in 1983, in an area known as Shellbanks—a 2 m (7 ft) high area of shells and driftwood interspersed with low vegetation: marram (Ammophila arenaria), sea rocket (Cakile edentula), velvety nightshade (Solanum chenopodioides) and sowthistle (Sonchus ... | 2.90625 | 0 |
962397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20gannet | Australasian gannet | The breeding season is generally from July to February, with marked differences between locations. On Motukaramarama Island, the gannets return in mid-June, laying eggs between 20 July and 7 August. The chicks hatch from 10 October to 2 November and fledge from late December. At Cape Kidnappers, the gannets return in l... | 3.125 | 0 |
962397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20gannet | Australasian gannet | Feeding
These birds are plunge divers and spectacular fishers, plunging from heights of up to 20 m (65 ft) into the ocean at high speed. They may dive from as low as 1–2 m (3–7 ft) above the surface at an angle to forage in water less than 3 m (10 ft) deep or in rough weather. They mainly eat forage fish which school n... | 3.171875 | 0 |
962397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20gannet | Australasian gannet | Other fish species reported eaten include kahawai (Arripis trutta), yellow-eye mullet (Aldrichetta forsteri), western Australian salmon (Arripis truttaceus), cape bonnetmouth (Emmelichthys nitidus), greenback horse mackerel (Trachurus declivis), yellowtail horse mackerel (Trachurus novaezelandiae), striped trumpeter (L... | 2.96875 | 0 |
962409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pezinok | Pezinok | Pezinok (; in the local dialect Pezinek; ; ; ) is a town in southwestern Slovakia. It is roughly northeast of Bratislava and, as of December 2023, had a population of 24,443.
Pezinok lies near the Little Carpathians and thrives mainly on viticulture and agriculture, as well as on brick-making and ceramic(s) productio... | 2.125 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | Ancient warfare is war that was conducted from the beginning of recorded history to the end of the ancient period. The difference between prehistoric and ancient warfare is more organization oriented than technology oriented. The development of first city-states, and then empires, allowed warfare to change dramatically... | 2.984375 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | Early ancient armies continued to primarily use bows and spears, the same weapons that had been developed in prehistoric times for hunting. The findings at the site of Nataruk in Turkana, Kenya, have been interpreted as evidence of inter-group conflict and warfare in antiquity, but this interpretation has been challeng... | 2.828125 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | As states grew in size, the speed of mobilization became crucial because central power could not hold if rebellions could not be suppressed rapidly. The first solution to this was the chariot, which was initially used in the Middle East from around 1800 BC. First pulled by oxen and donkeys, they allowed rapid traversin... | 3.0625 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | Although chariots have been compared to modern-day tanks in the role they played on the battlefield, i.e. shock attacks, this is disputed, with scholars pointing out that chariots were vulnerable and fragile, and required a level terrain while tanks are all-terrain vehicles; thus chariots were unsuitable for use like m... | 2.890625 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | Naval warfare in the ancient world can be traced back to the Mediterranean in the third millennium BC, from evidence of paintings in the Cyclades and models of ships which were made across the Aegean. Ships were used for civilian transport and trade, as well as for military purposes. They were propelled by both rowing ... | 3.25 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | Before that victory of Ramses III, the state of Egypt had no access to the kind of timber needed to build seafaring vessels and warships on a large scale. Instead of importing large quantities of timber to build warships, Egyptian naval architects and early engineers began to convert the common Egyptian riverboats. The... | 3.140625 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | Manned crews for these massive warships would have been quite impressive, but accounts vary in actual numbers of men from source to source. Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian in the fourth century BC who, through his accounts, said that these triremes would consist of at least two hundred men manning all ... | 3.1875 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | The Greek trireme, soon after its appearance in the Aegean, would become the standard warship throughout the Mediterranean as sovereign states such as Egypt and the Persian Empire would adopt the design of these ships and apply them to their own military applications. One major attraction of the Greek design was not on... | 2.796875 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | A more personal goal in war was simple profit. This profit was often monetary, as was the case with the raiding culture of the Gallic tribes. But the profit could be political, as great leaders in war were often rewarded with government office after their success. These strategies often contradict modern common sense a... | 2.953125 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | Within India's long history there are several different regimes that produced unique weapons. The list of weapons primarily used in India are the battle axe, the bow and arrow, spears, spikes, the barbed dart, the sword, the iron club, the javelin, the iron arrow, and the scimitar. One sword type is the katar blade. Th... | 2.75 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | Throughout most of its history, ancient Egypt was unified under one government. The main military concern for the nation was to keep enemies out. The arid plains and deserts surrounding Egypt were inhabited by nomadic tribes who occasionally tried to raid or settle in the fertile Nile river valley. The Egyptians built ... | 3.34375 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | The major advance in weapons technology and warfare began around 1600 BC when the Egyptians fought and defeated the Hyksos people, who ruled Lower Egypt at the time. It was during this period the horse and chariot were introduced into Egypt. Other new technologies included the sickle sword, body armour and improved bro... | 2.96875 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | These soldiers were paid with a plot of land for the provision of their families. After fulfillment of their service, the veterans were allowed retirement to these estates. Generals could become quite influential at the court, but unlike other feudal states, the Egyptian military was completely controlled by the king. ... | 3.078125 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | Ancient Persia first emerged as a major military power under Cyrus the Great. Its form of warfare was based on massed infantry in light armor to pin the enemy force whilst cavalry dealt the killing blow. Cavalry was used in huge numbers but it is not known whether they were heavily armored or not. Most Greek sources cl... | 3.15625 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | The world's first recorded military application of war elephants is in the Mahabharatha. From India, war elephants were brought to the Persian Empire where they were used in several campaigns. The Persian king Darius III employed about 50 Indian elephants in the Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC) fought against Alexander the... | 3 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | Chandragupta Maurya conquered the Magadha Empire and expanded to all of northern India, establishing the Maurya Empire, which extended from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal. In 305 BC, Chandragupta defeated Seleucus I Nicator, who ruled the Seleucid Empire and controlled most of the territories conquered by Alexand... | 3.171875 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | Warfare became more intense, ruthless and much more decisive during the Warring States period, in which great social and political change was accompanied by the end of the system of chariot warfare and the adoption of mass infantry armies. Cavalry was also introduced from the northern frontier, despite the cultural cha... | 2.796875 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | The early Yamato period had seen a continual engagement in the Korean Peninsula until Japan finally withdrew, along with the remaining forces of the Baekje Kingdom. Several battles occurred in these periods as the Emperor's succession gained importance. By the Nara period, Honshū was completely under the control of the... | 2.921875 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | This pattern of warfare was broken during the Peloponnesian War, when Athens' command of the sea allowed the city to ignore the destruction of the Athenian crops by Sparta and her allies by shipping grain into the city from the Crimea. This led to a warfare style in which both sides were forced to engage in repeated ra... | 3.25 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | After the defeat of the Illyrians, Macedon's policy became increasingly aggressive. Paeonia was already forcefully integrated into Macedon under Philip's rule. In 357 BC Philip broke the treaty with Athens and attacked Amphipolis which promised to surrender to the Athenians in exchange for the fortified town of Pydna, ... | 2.828125 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | Having secured the bordering regions of Macedon, Philip assembled a large Macedonian army and marched deep into Thrace for a long conquering campaign. By 339 BC after defeating the Thracians in series of battles, most of Thrace was firmly in Macedonian hands save the most eastern Greek coastal cities of Byzantium and P... | 2.984375 | 0 |
962433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20warfare | Ancient warfare | Qin's wars of unification: a series of military campaigns launched in the late 3rd century BC by the Qin state against the other six major states – Han, Zhao, Yan, Wei, Chu and Qi – within the territories that formed modern China. By the end of the wars in 221 BC, Qin had unified most of the states and occupied some la... | 2.9375 | 0 |
962435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle%20registration%20plates%20of%20Slovakia | Vehicle registration plates of Slovakia | Vehicles registered in Slovakia were generally assigned to one of the districts (okres) and from 1997 until 2022, the license plate coding () generally consisted of seven characters and takes the form XX-NNNLL, where XX was a two letter code corresponding to the district, NNN was a three digit number and LL were two ad... | 2.28125 | 0 |
962436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding%20chapel | Wedding chapel | A wedding chapel is a building or room, other than a legal court, where marriages are regularly performed. Usually wedding chapels are for-profit venues to host weddings in resort areas to encourage hotel room stays, catering and gambling by the guests. The buildings are generally religiously themed and imitate church ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
962449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20%28gridiron%20football%29 | Down (gridiron football) | A down in gridiron football is an attempt by the offensive team to run a play to advance the ball, while the defending team simultaneously attempts to halt their advance. The down is a distinguishing characteristic of the game compared to other codes of football, but is synonymous with the 6 "tackle" rule in rugby leag... | 2.796875 | 0 |
962449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20%28gridiron%20football%29 | Down (gridiron football) | Downing the player with possession of the ball is one way to end a play (other ways include the player with the ball going out of bounds, an incomplete pass, or a score). Usually a player is made down when he is tackled by the defense. In the NFL, if the offensive player is touching the ground with some part of his bod... | 2.59375 | 0 |
962449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20%28gridiron%20football%29 | Down (gridiron football) | Other downs-related terminology is as follows:
First down: The term "first down" can be used both as the first down in a series of downs, and for the statistical achievement of gaining the required ten yards to be awarded a new first down. When a team begins a new possession, (for example following a kickoff by their ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
962449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20%28gridiron%20football%29 | Down (gridiron football) | Derivation
In modern rugby union football, teams have unlimited possession of the ball to score a try. After a tackle, a ruck will form where the defense can contest for possession of the ball.
In modern rugby league football, each team has six tackles to score a try, after a tackle the offensive team will “play the ... | 2.875 | 0 |
962449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20%28gridiron%20football%29 | Down (gridiron football) | The term comes from the standard practice that an offensive unit only has three "real" plays before they are expected to punt. While, in theory, a team is allowed a fourth running or passing play, using the fourth down to run or pass is a risky move under most circumstances. If they fail to gain a new first down on a f... | 2.578125 | 0 |
962452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune%20%28video%20game%29 | Dune (video game) | Dune is a 1992 adventure strategy game based on the 1965 science-fiction novel of the same name by Frank Herbert. It was developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Virgin Interactive.
Dune blends adventure with economic and military strategy. Loosely following the story of the novel, the game casts the player as P... | 2.21875 | 0 |
962452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune%20%28video%20game%29 | Dune (video game) | Early on in the scripted storyline, Paul will begin to have visions of events occurring far from his current location. As time passes and more plot events occur, Paul's telepathic ability will become more and more pronounced. At first, this ability will allow Paul to instantly know whenever a message has been received ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
962456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%2C%20Slovakia | Martin, Slovakia | Martin (; until 1951 Turčiansky Svätý Martin, , German: Turz-Sankt Martin, Latin: Sanctus Martinus / Martinopolis) is a city in northern Slovakia, situated on the Turiec river, between the Malá Fatra and Veľká Fatra mountains, near the city of Žilina. The population numbers approximately 54,000, which makes it the nint... | 2.15625 | 0 |
962466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denbies%20Wine%20Estate | Denbies Wine Estate | Denbies Wine Estate, near Dorking, Surrey, has the largest vineyard in England, with under vines, representing more than 10 per cent of the plantings in the whole of the United Kingdom. It has a visitors' centre that attracts around 300,000 visits a year.
History
The estate takes its name from John Denby, who owned... | 2.15625 | 0 |
962474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasencia | Plasencia | Plasencia () is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Cáceres, Extremadura. , it has a population of 41,047.
Plasencia is located in the Western-Central Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Sistema Central. Housing primarily lies on the right bank of the . Plasencia is part of the so-called Ruta de la... | 2.296875 | 0 |
962481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin%20Quasar | Twin Quasar | History
The quasars QSO 0957+561A/B were discovered in early 1979 by an Anglo-American team around Dennis Walsh, Robert Carswell and Ray Weyman, with the aid of the 2.1 m Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, United States. The team noticed that the two quasars were unusually close to each other, and ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
962481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin%20Quasar | Twin Quasar | In 1980, Peter J. Young and collaborators discovered that galaxy G1 is part of a galaxy cluster which increases the gravitational deflection and can explain the observed distance between the images.
Finally, a team led by Marc V. Gorenstein observed essentially identical relativistic jets on very small scales from both... | 2.46875 | 0 |
962490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%20lizard | Sand lizard | The sand lizard (Lacerta agilis) is a lacertid lizard. There are several subspecies, including L. a. agilis, L. a. argus, and L. a. exigua.
The sand lizard is distributed across most of Europe from the southern coast of Britain and across the continent to Lake Baikal in Russia. It does not occur in European Turkey. It... | 2.859375 | 0 |
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