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962490	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%20lizard	Sand lizard	General activity Sand lizards spend extended periods of the day after emerging on long basking sessions. They occasionally take breaks to forage for resources. They also spend a considerable amount of time simply doing normal activity in areas under concealed vegetation. Under poor weather conditions, sand lizards eme...	2.890625
962490	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%20lizard	Sand lizard	Reproduction Generally, males reach sexual maturity at a smaller size compared with females. Vitellogenesis happens when females are 45 days for the whole population. Both sexes tend to lose body fat during mating period, since their main energy resources come from body fat and from the liver and proximal at the tail. ...	3
962490	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%20lizard	Sand lizard	Reproductive success with age Sand lizards have demonstrated that as their age increases, so does their reproductive success. However, a study showed that this relationship is most likely due to the increase in body size as sand lizards mature rather than increased experience they acquire as they live longer. This may...	2.578125
962490	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%20lizard	Sand lizard	Sand lizard locomotor performance, agility, and speed is related to their ability to avoid predators (as well as foraging efficiency). Like many lizards, sand lizards are able to separate their tail from the rest of their body in order to escape predators. Sand lizards with autotomy were able to run faster and as a res...	3
962490	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%20lizard	Sand lizard	If male sand lizards engage in a fight with another multiple times, they will consider them a rival. However, subsequent aggressive interactions beyond the first one tend to be much shorter on average than the first encounter between the two. This is most likely because they are able to individually recognize others an...	2.828125
962490	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%20lizard	Sand lizard	The sand lizard is facing multiple threats throughout its range, including habitat destruction, habitat degradation, habitat fragmentation, lack of habitat management, climate change and inappropriate habitat management. Although the sand lizard is under strict protection in the UK, there are still actions needed to be...	3.171875
962502	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55%20Days%20at%20Peking	55 Days at Peking	55 Days at Peking is a 1963 American epic historical war film dramatizing the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Beijing (then still Peking, in English) during the Boxer Uprising, which took place in China in the summer of 1900. It was produced by Samuel Bronston for Allied Artists, with a screenplay by Phili...	2.078125
962502	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55%20Days%20at%20Peking	55 Days at Peking	Development On September 8, 1959, producer Jerry Wald announced he would be producing a film on the Boxer Rebellion tentatively titled The Hell Raisers for 20th Century Fox. He had hoped to star David Niven as a British officer and Stephen Boyd as a United States Marine commander while Hope Lange and France Nuyen were ...	2.5
962506	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Gruyters	Hans Gruyters	Hans Gruyters (28 April 1925, Boekel – 24 October 1980) was a Dutch criminal. In the 1950s, he was a car salesman in the Dutch province of North Brabant. His nickname was The Black Rider, because he once appeared completely dressed in black at a party. On 15 November 1954, he fatally shot Jan van Dieten, a post office...	1.914063
962508	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime%20Sin	Jaime Sin	Sin was appointed Archbishop of Manila on January 21, 1974. Initially, he was reluctant to take on the role of leading the Church in the Philippines. He was enthroned as Archbishop at Manila Cathedral on March 19, 1974, making him only the third native Filipino in the office after centuries of Spanish, American, and Ir...	2.40625
962508	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime%20Sin	Jaime Sin	1986 People Power Revolution Events in the Philippines under President Ferdinand Marcos forced Sin, the spiritual leader of Filipino Catholics, to become involved in politics. He became witness to corruption, fraud, and even murder by the regime and rising popular discontent with the dictatorial rule of Marcos and his ...	2.203125
962509	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitude	Solitude	Solitude does not necessarily entail feelings of loneliness, and it may in fact be one's sole source of genuine pleasure for those who choose it with deliberate intent. Some individuals seek solitude for discovering a more meaningful and vital existence. For example, in religious contexts, some saints preferred silence...	2.296875
962515	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joby%20Talbot	Joby Talbot	Early career and concert works Though classically trained, Talbot's early career centred on film and television scores and pop arrangements. His work as arranger and keyboardist with Neil Hannon's band The Divine Comedy continued from 1993 until 2002. He also played saxophone on the song "Time of Legends" for gothic ro...	2.015625
962515	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joby%20Talbot	Joby Talbot	Collaborations with Christopher Wheeldon Subsequent to Chroma, Talbot became increasingly involved in projects for dance, adapting his 2002 score for Evgenii Bauer's silent film The Dying Swan to score Fool's Paradise, a short 2007 work devised by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon for his company Morphoses and later i...	1.9375
962515	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joby%20Talbot	Joby Talbot	In London in April 2014, the pair premiered a second full-length narrative work for The Royal Ballet and National Ballet of Canada, an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Talbot commented that he spent two years thinking about 'nothing else.' The project proved especially challenging as he was composing musi...	1.976563
962520	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piton%20de%20la%20Fournaise	Piton de la Fournaise	Piton de la Fournaise (; ) is a shield volcano on the eastern side of Réunion island, a French overseas department and region, in the Indian Ocean. It is currently one of the most active volcanoes in the world, along with Kīlauea in the Hawaiian Islands, Stromboli and Etna in Italy and Mount Erebus in Antarctica. A pre...	2.828125
962520	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piton%20de%20la%20Fournaise	Piton de la Fournaise	Eruptions within the caldera do not cause much devastation, because the caldera is uninhabited, but little infrastructure exists apart from the highway. Lava flows are generally confined to the caldera. However, lava flows have been known to cross the N2 highway; areas where the road was destroyed by the eruption are s...	2.640625
962522	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Shore%20of%20Virginia	Eastern Shore of Virginia	The Eastern Shore of Virginia is the easternmost region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It consists of two counties (Accomack and Northampton) on the Atlantic coast. It is detached from the mainland of Virginia by the Chesapeake Bay. The region is part of the Delmarva Peninsula. Its population wa...	2.796875
962522	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Shore%20of%20Virginia	Eastern Shore of Virginia	The region has more than 78,000 acres of preserved parks, refuges, preserves and a national seashore and is a popular outdoor recreation destination for fishing, boating, hiking and kayaking. It is also an important birding hotspot along the Atlantic Flyway at the southernmost tip of the Delmarva Peninsula. There are p...	2.53125
962527	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviparous%20lizard	Viviparous lizard	The viviparous lizard, or common lizard, (Zootoca vivipara, formerly Lacerta vivipara) is a Eurasian lizard. It lives farther north than any other species of non-marine reptile, and is named for the fact that it is viviparous, meaning it gives birth to live young (although they will sometimes lay eggs normally). Both "...	2.984375
962527	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviparous%20lizard	Viviparous lizard	Zootoca vivipara is a small lizard, with an average length between {150-200 mm} . They exhibit no particular colour, but can be brown, red, grey, green, or black. The species exhibits some sexual dimorphisms. Female Z. vivipara undergo colour polymorphism more commonly than males. A female lizard's display differs in v...	2.546875
962527	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviparous%20lizard	Viviparous lizard	Habitat Z. vivipara is terrestrial, so they spend most of their time on the ground, though they do occasionally visit sites of higher elevation. The lizard thermoregulates by basking in the sun for much of the time. In colder weather, they have been known to hibernate to maintain proper body temperatures. They hiberna...	2.953125
962527	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviparous%20lizard	Viviparous lizard	Mate searching behavior Head size is a sexually dimorphic trait, with males having larger heads than females. The average head width and length of the males measured were found to be , respectively. The average head width and length of the females measured were found to be , respectively. During the first state of cou...	2.921875
962527	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviparous%20lizard	Viviparous lizard	Thermoregulation This lizard has an exceptionally large range that includes subarctic geography. As a result, thermoregulation is necessary for the thermal homeostasis of the species. Typically, in temperature extremes, a species will adopt the behavioral strategy of thermoconformity, where they do not actively thermo...	2.96875
962527	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviparous%20lizard	Viviparous lizard	The colour polymorphism of female Z. vivipara has not been thoroughly studied in past years, regardless of the extensive research done on the species itself. Females exhibit three types of body colouration within a population: yellow, orange, and mixture of the two. These discrete traits are inherited maternally and ex...	2.96875
962527	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviparous%20lizard	Viviparous lizard	Orange females are more sensitive to intraspecific and colour-specific competition. They have smaller clutch sizes when the density of the population is high, or when the number of yellow females in the population is high. This could be due to their need to conserve energy for survival and reproductive events. Their co...	2.9375
962554	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth%20snake	Smooth snake	The smooth snake (Coronella austriaca) is a species of non-venomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is found in northern and central Europe, but also as far east as northern Iran. The Reptile Database recognizes two subspecies as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies described here. Descripti...	2.328125
962554	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth%20snake	Smooth snake	On the top of the head is a dark marking which is often in the shape of a crown, giving rise to the generic name Coronella (which means coronet). A relatively thick dark stripe extends from each nostril, through the eye, and along the side of the head to a little beyond the neck. The upper labials are whitish, greyish-...	2.765625
962558	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elstead	Elstead	During the 18th and 19th centuries, Elstead was known for the quality and quantity of carrots grown there, with daily shipments by train from nearby Milford Station up to London's Covent Garden market during the growing season. This is attributed to the light sandy soils in the village which are excellent for carrot gr...	2.296875
962581	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintigraphy	Scintigraphy	Scintigraphy (from Latin scintilla, "spark"), also known as a gamma scan, is a diagnostic test in nuclear medicine, where radioisotopes attached to drugs that travel to a specific organ or tissue (radiopharmaceuticals) are taken internally and the emitted gamma radiation is captured by gamma cameras, which are external...	2.9375
962581	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintigraphy	Scintigraphy	Another extensive use of scintillography is in medical imaging techniques which use gamma ray detectors called gamma cameras. Detectors coated with materials which scintillate when subjected to gamma rays are scanned with optical photon detectors and scintillation counters. The subjects are injected with special radion...	2.5
962581	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintigraphy	Scintigraphy	In the ventilation phase of a ventilation/perfusion scan, a gaseous radionuclide xenon or technetium DTPA in an aerosol form (or ideally using Technegas, a radioaerosol invented in Australia by Dr Bill Burch and Dr Richard Fawdry) is inhaled by the patient through a mouthpiece or mask that covers the nose and mouth. Th...	2
558393	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu%20Gowon	Yakubu Gowon	Yakubu Dan-Yumma "Jack" Gowon (born 19 October 1934) is a Nigerian former Head of State and statesman who led the Federal military government war efforts during the Nigerian Civil War. Gowon delivered the famous "no victor, no vanquished" speech at the war's end to promote healing and reconciliation. The Nigerian Civ...	2.4375
558393	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu%20Gowon	Yakubu Gowon	Then came Aguyi Ironsi's Decree Number 34, which proposed the abolition of the federal system of government in favor of a unitary state, a position which had long been championed by some Southerners-especially by a major section of the Igbo-dominated National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroon (NCNC) This was perhaps ...	2.125
558393	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu%20Gowon	Yakubu Gowon	Gowon promoted himself twice as Nigerian Head of State. Gowon was a Lt. Colonel upon his ascendancy to the top of the new Federal military government of Nigeria on 1 August 1966, however other senior military officers such as Commodore Joseph Wey, Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe, and Colonel Robert Adebayo were a part of t...	2.4375
558393	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu%20Gowon	Yakubu Gowon	In a move to check the influence of Ojukwu's government in the East, Gowon announced on 5 May 1967 the division of the three Nigerian regions into 12 states: North-Western State, North-Eastern state, Kano State, North-Central State, Benue-Plateau State, Kwara State, Western State, Lagos State, Mid-Western State, and, f...	2.421875
558393	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu%20Gowon	Yakubu Gowon	Minority ethnicities of the Eastern Region were rather not sanguine about the prospect of secession, as it would mean living in what they felt would be an Igbo-dominated nation. Some non-Igbos living in the Eastern Region either refrained from offering active support to the Biafran struggle, or actively aided the feder...	2.34375
558393	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu%20Gowon	Yakubu Gowon	"No victor, no vanquished" The end of the war came about on 13 January 1970, with Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo's acceptance of the surrender of Biafran forces. The next day, Obasanjo announced the situation on the former rebel radio station Radio Biafra Enugu. Gowon subsequently made his famous "no victor, no vanquished"...	2.359375
558393	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu%20Gowon	Yakubu Gowon	The post-civil-war years saw Nigeria enjoying a meteoric, oil-fuelled, economic upturn in the course of which the scope of activity of the Nigerian federal government grew to an unprecedented degree, with increased earnings from oil revenues. However, this period also saw a rapid increase in corruption, mostly bribery,...	2.015625
558393	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu%20Gowon	Yakubu Gowon	In February 1976, Murtala Mohammed was assassinated in an unsuccessful coup d'état led by Lt. Col Buka Suka Dimka, who implicated Gowon. According to Dimka's "confession", he met with Gowon in London and obtained support from him for the coup. In addition, Dimka mentioned before his execution that the purpose of the co...	1.984375
558397	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%20planet	Rogue planet	A rogue planet, also termed a free-floating planet (FFP) or an isolated planetary-mass object (iPMO), is an interstellar object of planetary mass which is not gravitationally bound to any star or brown dwarf. Rogue planets may originate from planetary systems in which they are formed and later ejected, or they can als...	2.765625
558397	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%20planet	Rogue planet	There are two techniques to discover free-floating planets: direct imaging and microlensing. Microlensing Astrophysicist Takahiro Sumi of Osaka University in Japan and colleagues, who form the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment collaborations, published their st...	2.578125
558397	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%20planet	Rogue planet	Microlensing planets can only be studied by the microlensing event, which makes the characterization of the planet difficult. Astronomers therefore turn to isolated planetary-mass objects (iPMO) that were found via the direct imaging method. To determine a mass of a brown dwarf or iPMO one needs for example the luminos...	2.453125
558397	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%20planet	Rogue planet	The first iPMOs were discovered in the early 2000s via direct imaging inside young star-forming regions. These iPMOs found via direct imaging formed probably like stars (sometimes called sub-brown dwarf). There might be iPMOs that form like a planet, which are then ejected. These objects will however be kinematically d...	2.46875
558397	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%20planet	Rogue planet	In the Orion Nebula a population of 40 wide binaries and 2 triple systems were discovered. This was surprising for two reasons: The trend of binaries of brown dwarfs predicted a decrease of distance between low mass objects with decreasing mass. It was also predicted that the binary fraction decreases with mass. These ...	2.71875
558397	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%20planet	Rogue planet	As of December 2021, the largest-ever group of rogue planets was discovered, numbering at least 70 and up to 170 depending on the assumed age. They are found in the OB association between Upper Scorpius and Ophiuchus with masses between 4 and 13 and age around 3 to 10 million years, and were most likely formed by eith...	2.65625
558397	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%20planet	Rogue planet	Objects with a mass of at least one Jupiter mass were thought to be able to form via collapse and fragmentation of molecular clouds from models in 2001. Pre-JWST observations have shown that objects below 3-5 are unlikely to form on their own. Observations in 2023 in the Trapezium Cluster with JWST have shown that obj...	2.359375
558397	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%20planet	Rogue planet	Some iPMOs will have a close encounter with a planetary system. This rare encounter can have three outcomes: The iPMO will remain unbound, it could be weakly bound to the star, or it could "kick out" the exoplanet, replacing it. Simulations have shown that the vast majority of these encounters result in a capture event...	2.34375
558426	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20boundary%20dispute	Alaska boundary dispute	The Alaska boundary dispute was a territorial dispute between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which then controlled Canada's foreign relations. It was resolved by arbitration in 1903. The dispute had existed between the Russian Empire and Britain since 1821, and was inherited by t...	2.90625
558426	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20boundary%20dispute	Alaska boundary dispute	The United States bought Alaska in 1867 from Russia in the Alaska Purchase, but the boundary terms were ambiguous. In 1871, British Columbia united with the new Dominion of Canada. The Canadian government requested a survey of the boundary, but the United States rejected it as too costly; the border area was very remot...	3.125
558426	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20boundary%20dispute	Alaska boundary dispute	The head of Lynn Canal was the main gateway to the Yukon, and the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) sent a detachment to secure the location for Canada. This was based on Canada's assertion that that location was more than ten marine leagues from the sea, which was part of the 1825 boundary definition. A massive influx ...	2.78125
558426	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20boundary%20dispute	Alaska boundary dispute	Finally, in 1903, the Hay–Herbert Treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom entrusted the decision to an arbitration by a mixed tribunal of six members: three Americans (Elihu Root, Secretary of War; Henry Cabot Lodge, senator from Massachusetts; and George Turner, ex-senator from Washington), two Canadia...	2.296875
558426	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20boundary%20dispute	Alaska boundary dispute	This was one of several concessions that Britain offered to the United States (the others being on fisheries and the Panama Canal). It was part of a general policy of ending the chill in Britain–U.S. relations, achieving rapprochement, winning American favor, and resolving outstanding issues (the Great Rapprochement). ...	2.109375
558430	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Somerset%2C%201st%20Marquess%20of%20Worcester	Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester	Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester (1577 – 18 December 1646) was an English aristocrat, who was a prominent and financially important Royalist during the early years of the English Civil War. Life He was the son of Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Hastings. On 3 March 1628, he succeeded his ...	2.40625
558440	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nida%2C%20Lithuania	Nida, Lithuania	From the late 19th century, the dune landscape became popular with landscape and animal painters from the Kunstakademie Königsberg arts school. The local inn of Herman Blode was the nucleus of the expressionist artists' colony (Künstlerkolonie Nidden). Lovis Corinth sojourned there, as did Max Pechstein, Alfred Lichtwa...	2.234375
558453	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugurthine%20War	Jugurthine War	Numidia was a kingdom located in North Africa (roughly corresponding to northern modern day Algeria) adjacent to what had been Rome's arch enemy, Carthage. King Masinissa, who was a steadfast ally of Rome in the Third Punic War, died in 149 BC, and was succeeded by his son Micipsa, who ruled 149–118 BC. At the time of ...	2.515625
558453	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugurthine%20War	Jugurthine War	Rome, seeing this as a threat to stability in the region, sided with Adherbal. With Roman help, Adherbal held out for some months, aided by a large number of Roman Equites who had settled in Africa for commercial purposes. From inside his siege lines, Adherbal appealed again to Rome, and the Senate granted his request....	2.5
558453	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugurthine%20War	Jugurthine War	Spurius, Aulus Postumius The consul Spurius Postumius Albinus took command of the Roman army in Africa (110 BC), but failed to carry out energetic action, due to incompetence, indiscipline in his army, and – it was alleged – bribery by Jugurtha. Later in the year Albinus returned to Italy, leaving the command to his br...	2.8125
558453	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugurthine%20War	Jugurthine War	Metellus handled the situation by sending one force directly south to the river under Rufus while the rest under Metellus and Marius marched obliquely south-west to dislodge Jugurtha from his position, preventing him from hindering the march of the first body to the river. Jugurtha, however, displaying excellent genera...	2.71875
558453	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugurthine%20War	Jugurthine War	A fresh round of negotiations came to nothing, with Metellus rejecting Jugurtha's heavy concessions and demanding that the king surrender himself into Roman custody. To resist the Romans more effectually, Jugurtha dismissed most of his low-quality recruits, keeping only the most active troops of infantry and light cava...	2.828125
558453	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugurthine%20War	Jugurthine War	At this point Jugurtha retired to the court of his father-in-law, king Bocchus I of Mauretania, who though previously professing friendship for the Romans, now received Jugurtha hospitably, and, without positively declaring war (on Rome), advanced with his troops into Numidia as far as Cirta, the capital. Metellus, who...	2.453125
558453	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugurthine%20War	Jugurthine War	When Gaius Marius arrived in Numidia as consul in 107 BC, he immediately ceased negotiation and resumed the war. Marius marched west plundering the Numidian countryside, seizing minor Numidian towns and fortresses trying to provoke Jugurtha into a set piece battle, but the Numidian king refused to engage. Marius' strat...	2.78125
558453	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugurthine%20War	Jugurthine War	. The combined African army then tried to finish off Marius, but when Sulla returned from his pursuit the Romans routed both Jugurtha's and Bocchus's army. Marius had won the Second Battle of Cirta and could now put his army into winter quarters. Marius's army thus finished the year's campaigns in safety at Cirta, but ...	2.75
558453	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugurthine%20War	Jugurthine War	Revelations The Jugurthine War clearly revealed the issues with political corruption at that time and to come. The fact that a man such as Jugurtha could have his treachery, conquests, and defiances ignored simply by buying Roman military and civil officials reflected Rome's moral and ethical decline. Romans now sough...	2.609375
558454	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard%20Flesch	Gerhard Flesch	Gerhard Friedrich Ernst Flesch (8 October 1909 – 28 February 1948) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. After World War II, he was tried, found guilty and executed for his crimes, specifically the torture and murder of members of the Norwegian resistance movement. Background Flesch was an Oberregierungsrat...	2.21875
558454	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard%20Flesch	Gerhard Flesch	In 1940, Flesch joined the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf in their march into France. He had a position as Regierungsrat (Executive Council, government advisor), and was an SS-Sturmbannführer (major) in April 1940, when he was assigned to Norway. His first job in Norway was Kommandeur der Sipo und des SD in Bergen (the Sich...	2.15625
558454	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard%20Flesch	Gerhard Flesch	Trial and execution Flesch was known for being a notorious torturer, and ordered the execution of many members of the Norwegian resistance movement without any trial. After World War II, in 1946, he was tried for the many cases of torture and murder. He was charged with a series of war crimes committed in Norway; seven...	2.390625
558456	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s%20Sea	Devil's Sea	The , also known as the Devil's triangle, the Dragon's Triangle, the Formosa Triangle and the Pacific Bermuda Triangle, is a region of the Pacific, south of Tokyo. The Devil's Sea is sometimes considered a paranormal location, though the veracity of these claims has been questioned. Description The Japanese word ma ...	2.5
558456	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s%20Sea	Devil's Sea	In 1974, American paranormal writer Charles Berlitz introduced the Devil's Sea in his book The Bermuda Triangle. Berlitz claimed that "nine modern ships and several hundred crews were lost without traces between 1950 and 1954; in 1955, the Japanese government sent Kaiyo Maru No 5 to the sea for investigating unexplaine...	2.34375
558456	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s%20Sea	Devil's Sea	In Daniel Cohen's 1974 book Curses, Hexes & Spells, it's reported that legends of the danger of the Dragon's Triangle go back for centuries in Japan. Its most famous casualty was the No. 5 Kaiyō-Maru, a scientific research vessel, which disappeared with the loss of all hands on 24 September 1952. With such a dramatic h...	2.390625
558467	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21%20Lutetia	21 Lutetia	21 Lutetia is a large M-type asteroid in the main asteroid belt. It measures about 100 kilometers in diameter (120 km along its major axis). It was discovered in 1852 by Hermann Goldschmidt, and is named after Lutetia, the Latin name of Paris. Lutetia has an irregular shape and is heavily cratered, with the largest im...	2.90625
558467	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21%20Lutetia	21 Lutetia	Orbit Lutetia orbits the Sun at the distance of approximately 2.4 AU in the inner asteroid belt. Its orbit lies almost in the plane of ecliptic and is moderately eccentric. The orbital period of Lutetia is 3.8 years. Mass and density The Rosetta flyby demonstrated that the mass of Lutetia is (1.700 ± 0.017) kg, smalle...	2.703125
558467	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21%20Lutetia	21 Lutetia	Rosetta observations revealed that the surface of Lutetia is covered with a regolith made of loosely aggregated dust particles 50–100 μm in size. It is estimated to be 3 km thick and may be responsible for the softened outlines of many of the larger craters. Shape and axial tilt The Rosetta probe's photographs confir...	3.03125
558467	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21%20Lutetia	21 Lutetia	The surface of Lutetia has been divided into seven regions based on their geology. They are Baetica (Bt), Achaia (AC), Etruria (Et), Narbonensis (Nb), Noricum (Nr), Pannonia (Pa), and Raetia (Ra). The Baetica region is situated around the north pole (in the center of the image) and includes a cluster of impact craters ...	3.109375
558467	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21%20Lutetia	21 Lutetia	Suspicio Crater Studies of patterns of fractures on Lutetia lead astronomers to think that there is a ~45 kilometer impact crater on the southern side of Lutetia, named Suspicio Crater, but because Rosetta'' only observed Lutetia's northern part, it is not known for certain what it looks like, or if it exists at all. ...	2.78125
558473	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beni%20%E1%B8%A4ass%C4%81n	Beni Ḥassān	Beni Ḥassan ( "sons of Ḥassān") is a Bedouin Arab tribe which inhabits Western Sahara, Mauritania, Morocco and Algeria. It is one of the four sub-tribes of the Banu Maqil who emigrated in the 11th century from South Arabia to the Maghreb with the Banu Hilal and Banu Sulaym Arab tribes. In the 13th century, they took th...	3.015625
558473	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beni%20%E1%B8%A4ass%C4%81n	Beni Ḥassān	The tradition of Beni Hassan states that they were descendants of Hasan ibn Ali, son of Ali ibn Abi Talib, Muhammad's son-in-law and a leading figure in Shia Islam, although the Beni Hassan were Sunni Muslims. The Sahrawi nation includes the Beni Hassan as part of its founding peoples and Hassaniya Arabic as part of it...	3.09375
558473	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beni%20%E1%B8%A4ass%C4%81n	Beni Ḥassān	Char Bouba War Historical accounts report that these Hassani communities enriched themselves by collecting tolls from trade caravans and extorting farming and herding villages settled in the oases. They were accused of subjecting these territories to two centuries of looting and intermittent wars, but at the same time...	2.671875
558480	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hoban	James Hoban	James Hoban (1755 – December 8, 1831) was an Irish-American architect, best known for designing the White House. Early life and education Hoban was a Roman Catholic raised on the Desart Court estate belonging to the Earl of Desart in County Kilkenny, Ireland. He worked there as a wheelwright and carpenter until in 1...	2.640625
558480	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hoban	James Hoban	Hoban was also one of the supervising architects who worked on the U.S. Capitol, which was designed by William Thornton, and oversaw the architecture of The Octagon House. Hoban lived the rest of his life in Washington, D.C., where he worked on public buildings and government projects, including roads and bridges. Hob...	2.21875
558481	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassaniya%20Arabic	Hassaniya Arabic	Hassaniya Arabic (; also known as , , , , and Maure) is a variety of Maghrebi Arabic spoken by Mauritanian and Malian Arabs and the Sahrawi people. It was spoken by the Beni Ḥassān Bedouin tribes of Yemeni origin who extended their authority over most of Mauritania and Western Sahara between the 15th and 17th centuries...	2.84375
558490	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatman%20John	Scatman John	John Paul Larkin (March 13, 1942 – December 3, 1999), known professionally under the alias Scatman John, was an American musician. A prolific jazz pianist and vocalist for several decades, he rose to prominence during the 1990s through his fusion of scat singing and dance music. He recorded five albums, which were rele...	2.171875
558492	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval%20studies	Medieval studies	Medieval studies is the academic interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages. A historian who studies medieval studies is called a medievalist. Institutional development The term 'medieval studies' began to be adopted by academics in the opening decades of the twentieth century, initially in the titles of books like G....	2.234375
558492	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval%20studies	Medieval studies	These institutions were preceded in the United Kingdom, in 1927, by the establishment of the idiosyncratic Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, at the University of Cambridge. Although Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic was limited geographically (to the British Isles and Scandinavia) and chronologically (mostly the...	2.078125
558492	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval%20studies	Medieval studies	Medieval studies is buoyed by a number of annual international conferences which bring together thousands of professional medievalists, including the International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Kalamazoo MI, U.S., and the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds. There are a number of journals devo...	2.484375
558492	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval%20studies	Medieval studies	European study of the medieval past was characterised in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by romantic nationalism, as emergent nation-states sought to legitimise new political formations by claiming that they were rooted in the distant past. The most important example of this use of the Middle Ages was the ...	2.4375
558493	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabali	Mahabali	Mahabali is described in early Hindu texts as a benevolent and generous king. He ruled without discrimination, and his people were honest, healthy, and happy under his rule. Mahabali also temporarily possessed the amrita (nectar of eternal life) obtained by the asuras. The amrita allowed his subjects to bring him back ...	2.359375
558493	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabali	Mahabali	Buddhism Bali appears in several Buddhist sutras, such as the Dānapāramitā Sūtra, the Ratnamegha Sūtra, and the Lotus Sutra; where he is seen among the audience who listens to the Buddha's discourses. The Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra features an extensive dialogue between Bali and the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara that occurred du...	2.421875
558498	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton%20Broadcast%20System	Baton Broadcast System	The Baton Broadcast System ( ), also known as BBS, was a Canadian system of television stations located in Ontario and Saskatchewan, owned by Baton Broadcasting. BBS was the successor to two provincial systems also owned by Baton, the Saskatchewan Television Network (STN) and Ontario Network Television (ONT). During t...	2.234375
558512	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Paul%20Blood	Benjamin Paul Blood	Benjamin Paul Blood (November 21, 1832 – January 15, 1919) was an American philosopher, mystic and poet. His idiosyncratic work explored his development of his pluralist philosophy, culminating in the posthumously published book Pluriverse. Biography He was born in Amsterdam, New York. His father, John Blood, was a pr...	2.390625
558516	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20J.%20Stevenson	David J. Stevenson	David John Stevenson (born 2 September 1948) is a professor of planetary science at Caltech. Originally from New Zealand, he received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in physics, where he proposed a model for the interior of Jupiter. He is well known for applying fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics to understand ...	2.453125
558522	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikeja	Ikeja	Ikeja is the capital city of Lagos State in southwestern Nigeria. Its population, as of the 2006 census, is . Prior to the emergence of military rule in the early 1980s, Ikeja was a well planned, clean and quiet residential and commercial town with shopping malls, pharmacies and government reservation areas. It lies 17...	2.15625
558528	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20McCready	Mike McCready	Michael David McCready (born April 5, 1966) is an American musician known for being a founding member and lead guitarist of Pearl Jam. McCready was also a member of the side project bands Flight to Mars, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season, and The Rockfords. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a part of P...	1.9375
558528	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20McCready	Mike McCready	A Fender Stratocaster has been used constantly and most often throughout his career. McCready has used many types of Stratocasters, vintage and modern, even including left-handed Stratocasters with reversed strings, so that the slanted bridge pickup would have more treble on the lower strings, as opposed to the intende...	1.984375
558544	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rave%20Master	Rave Master	Hiro Mashima created Rave Master with the idea of travelling around the world. Composed of thirty-five volumes, Mashima comments that although it was sometimes difficult to think of how to develop the storyline, he still remembers enjoying the making of Rave Master. Additionally, he regards that the series' end was "a ...	2
558545	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydroxyacetone	Dihydroxyacetone	It is recommended to shave, wash, or exfoliate the skin before application in order to produce a more even tan. The skin should not be moisturized before application except very dry areas. Application should be done evenly with a circular motion. Bronzers contain DHA in concentrations from 1 to 15% allowing to adjust...	2.046875
558545	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydroxyacetone	Dihydroxyacetone	Frequent use of DHA containing products may to be problematic due to a number of side effects. A FDA report concluded that 11 percent of the applied DHA may penetrate into the living cells of the epidermis and dermis. A previous study linked DHA to DNA damage, cell-cycle block, and apoptosis in living cells. Skin col...	2.25
558545	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydroxyacetone	Dihydroxyacetone	In the 1950s, Eva Wittgenstein at the University of Cincinnati did further research with dihydroxyacetone. Her studies involved using DHA as an oral drug for assisting children with glycogen storage disease. The children received large doses of DHA by mouth, and sometimes spat or spilled the substance onto their skin. ...	2.484375
558550	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wylie%20transliteration	Wylie transliteration	Wylie transliteration is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English-language typewriter. The system is named for the American scholar Turrell V. Wylie, who created the system and published it in a 1959 Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies article. It has subsequently...	2.15625
558550	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wylie%20transliteration	Wylie transliteration	Capitalization Many previous systems of Tibetan transliteration included internal capitalisation schemes—essentially, capitalising the root letter rather than the first letter of a word, when the first letter is a prefix consonant. Tibetan dictionaries are organized by root letter, and prefixes are often silent, so kno...	2.34375

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