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558559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20%26%20Francis | Taylor & Francis | Activities
In 2018 Informa PLC reported that Taylor & Francis publishes more than 2,700 journals, and about 7,000 new books each year, with a backlist of over 140,000 titles available in print and digital formats. It uses the Routledge imprint for its publishing in humanities, social sciences, behavioural sciences, law... | 2.09375 | 0 |
558561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon%20Adventures | Pokémon Adventures | X & Y
The X & Y chapter focuses on a depressed boy named X, who won a major tournament as a child, and Y (full name Yvonne Gabena), a girl who dreams of becoming a Sky Trainer. X has been forced out of hiding when the two legendary Pokémon blow up his town. Soon, he meets up with a group called Team Flare who tries to ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
558566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kells%2C%20County%20Meath | Kells, County Meath | The present monastery at Kells is thought to have been founded around 804 AD by monks from St Colmcille's monastery in Iona who were fleeing Viking invasions.
In 1152, the Synod of Kells completed the transition of the Colmcille's establishment from a monastic church to a diocesan church. A later synod reduced the sta... | 2.78125 | 0 |
558566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kells%2C%20County%20Meath | Kells, County Meath | Close by the graveyard of St. Columba's church stands a small stone roofed oratory, known as St. Colmcille's House. This probably dates from the 11th century. Access to the monks' sleeping accommodation aloft is by ladder. This small rectangular building is positioned at one of the highest points in the town.
Just ou... | 2.28125 | 0 |
558569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%20Oakville | HMCS Oakville | HMCS Oakville was a Royal Canadian Navy which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. After the war she was sold to the Venezuelan Navy. She was named after Oakville, Ontario.
Background
Flower-class corvettes like Oakville serving with the R... | 2.03125 | 0 |
558569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%20Oakville | HMCS Oakville | On 28 August 1942, in the company of American warships and the corvettes and , Oakville was escorting a convoy off Haïti when she attacked the German submarine . The submarine, which had been on the point of attacking the convoy, was first spotted and bombarded by an American seaplane. Oakville dropped depth charges t... | 2.296875 | 0 |
558574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Kaspar%20Zeuss | Johann Kaspar Zeuss | Zeuss was a scholar of great erudition, combining a knowledge of philology with history and ethnology. His Germanic studies had taught him the necessity of knowing Celtic languages, and he went to work to investigate this neglected field. To get at the sources, the old manuscripts, particularly those in Old Irish, he j... | 2.390625 | 0 |
558593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petar%20%C5%BDivkovi%C4%87 | Petar Živković | Petar Živković (; 1 January 1879 – 3 February 1947) was a Serbian military officer and political figure in Yugoslavia. He was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 7 January 1929 until 4 April 1932.
Life
Petar Živković was born in Negotin, Principality of Serbia (present-day Bor District, Serbia) in 1879. ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
558596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh%20syndrome | Leigh syndrome | As the disease progresses, the muscular system is debilitated throughout the body, as the brain cannot control the contraction of muscles. Hypotonia (low muscle tone and strength), dystonia (involuntary, sustained muscle contraction), and ataxia (lack of control over movement) are often seen in people with Leigh diseas... | 2.75 | 0 |
558596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh%20syndrome | Leigh syndrome | Disorders of oxidative phosphorylation, the process by which cells produce their main energy source of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), may be caused by mutations in either mtDNA or in nuclear encoded genes. The latter account for the majority of Leigh disease, although it is not always possible to identify the specific m... | 2.90625 | 0 |
558596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh%20syndrome | Leigh syndrome | Between 20 and 25 percent of Leigh syndrome cases are caused by mutations in mitochondrial DNA. The most common of these mutations is found in 10 to 20 percent of Leigh syndrome and occurs in MT-ATP6, a gene that codes for a protein in the last complex of the oxidative phosphorylation chain, ATP synthase, an enzyme tha... | 2.84375 | 0 |
558596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh%20syndrome | Leigh syndrome | 75 to 80 percent of Leigh syndrome is caused by mutations in nuclear DNA; mutations affecting the function or assembly of the fourth complex involved in oxidative phosphorylation, cytochrome c oxidase (COX), cause most cases of Leigh disease. Mutations in a gene called SURF1 (surfeit1) are the most common cause of this... | 2.625 | 0 |
558596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh%20syndrome | Leigh syndrome | French Canadian Leigh syndrome has similar symptoms to other types of Leigh syndrome. The age of onset is, on average, 5 months and the median age of death is 1 year and 7 months. Children with the disease are developmentally delayed, have mildly dysmorphic facial features, including hypoplasia of the midface and wide ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
558624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daring-class%20destroyer%20%281949%29 | Daring-class destroyer (1949) | The Daring class was a class of eleven destroyers built for the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Constructed after World War II, and entering service during the 1950s, eight ships were constructed for the RN, and three ships for the RAN. Two of the RN destroyers were subsequently sold to and served in t... | 2.09375 | 0 |
558628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zibhebhu%20kaMaphitha | Zibhebhu kaMaphitha | Zibhebhu kaMaphitha Zulu (c. 1841–1904) (also called Usibepu/Ziphewu) was a Zulu chief. After the defeat of the Zulu Kingdom by the British, he attempted to create his own independent kingdom. From 1883 to 1884, he fought the Zulu king Cetshwayo, inflicting a series of defeats on him.
Life
Zibhebhu was a son of Maphit... | 2.453125 | 0 |
558631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Ziegler | Karl Ziegler | Karl Waldemar Ziegler (; 26 November 1898 – 12 August 1973) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work on organometallic compounds [which]...led to new polymerization reactions and ... paved the way for n... | 2.875 | 0 |
558631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Ziegler | Karl Ziegler | Karl Ziegler showed an eagerness for science at an early age. He progressed through schooling quickly receiving a doctorate from the University of Marburg in 1920. Soon after, he briefly lectured at the University of Marburg and the University of Frankfurt.
In 1926 he became a professor at the University of Heidelbe... | 2.265625 | 0 |
558631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Ziegler | Karl Ziegler | In 1922, Ziegler married Maria Kurtz. They had two children, Erhart and Marianna. His daughter, Dr. Marianna Ziegler Witte was a doctor of medicine and married a chief physical of a children's hospital (at that time) in the Ruhr. His son, Dr. Erhart Ziegler, became a physicist and patent attorney. In addition to his ch... | 2.09375 | 0 |
558631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Ziegler | Karl Ziegler | Karl Ziegler died in Mülheim, Germany on 12 August 1973; his wife died in 1980.
Scientific advancements
Throughout his life, Ziegler was a zealous advocate for the necessary indivisibility of all kinds of research. Because of this, his scientific achievements range from the fundamental to the most practical, and his r... | 2.328125 | 0 |
558631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Ziegler | Karl Ziegler | Since Ziegler was working at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, ethylene was readily available as a byproduct from coal gas. Because of this cheap feedstock of ethylene and the relevance to the coal industry, Ziegler began experimenting with ethylene, and made it a goal to synthesize polyethylene of high molec... | 2.078125 | 0 |
558642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Interpretation%20of%20Dreams | The Interpretation of Dreams | The Interpretation of Dreams () is an 1899 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex. Freud revised the book at least eight times and, in... | 2.53125 | 0 |
558642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Interpretation%20of%20Dreams | The Interpretation of Dreams | Dreams, in Freud's view, are formed as the result of two mental processes. The first process involves unconscious forces that construct a wish that is expressed by the dream, and the second is the process of censorship that forcibly distorts the expression of the wish. In Freud's view, all dreams are forms of "wish ful... | 2.484375 | 0 |
558642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Interpretation%20of%20Dreams | The Interpretation of Dreams | Freud claimed that every dream has a connection point with an experience of the previous day. Though, the connection may be minor, as the dream content can be selected from any part of the dreamer's life. He described four possible sources of dreams: a) mentally significant experiences represented directly, b) several ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
558642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Interpretation%20of%20Dreams | The Interpretation of Dreams | An abridged version called On Dreams was published in 1901 as part of Lowenfeld and Kurella's Grenzfragen des Nerven und Seelenlebens. It was re-published in 1911 in slightly larger form as a book. On Dreams is also included in the 1953 edition and the second part of Freud's work on dreams, Volume Five, The Interpretat... | 2.09375 | 0 |
558642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Interpretation%20of%20Dreams | The Interpretation of Dreams | The Interpretation of Dreams was first published in an edition of only 600 copies, and these took eight years to sell. The work subsequently gained popularity, and seven more editions were printed in Freud's lifetime, the last in 1929.
The classicist Norman O. Brown described The Interpretation of Dreams as one of the... | 2.375 | 0 |
558656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos%20Dumont%2C%20Minas%20Gerais | Santos Dumont, Minas Gerais | Santos Dumont (formerly known as Palmira) is a municipality in southern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The population (2020) is estimated to be 46,421 and the total area of the municipality is . It lies at an elevation of just off the main interstate highway, BR040, between the urban centers of Barbacena (north) and Jui... | 2.65625 | 0 |
558663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20de%20Zum%C3%A1rraga | Juan de Zumárraga | Although Zumárraga was appointed bishop on August 20, 1530, he was not consecrated until April 27, 1533. Zumárraga, as Protector of the Indians, endeavored to defend them. His position was a critical one; the Spanish monarchy had defined neither the extent of his jurisdiction nor his duties as Protector of the Indians.... | 2.15625 | 0 |
558663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20de%20Zum%C3%A1rraga | Juan de Zumárraga | Meantime the calumnies spread by the enemies of Zumárraga and the partisans of the first oidor had shaken the confidence of the Spanish Court, and he set sail in May 1532 under orders to return to Spain. On his arrival he met his implacable enemy Delgadillo, who, though still under indictment, continued his calumnies. ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
558663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20de%20Zum%C3%A1rraga | Juan de Zumárraga | Meanwhile, Fray Las Casas had gone to Spain and obtained from the Junta of Valladolid (1541–1542) the approbation of the celebrated "Nuevas Leyes". These laws conclusively and decisively prohibited the enslavement of the Indians, withdrew all grants from all corporations, ecclesiastical and secular, and from those who ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
558682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright | Wright | Wright is an occupational surname originating in England and Scotland. The term 'Wright' comes from the circa 700 AD Old English word 'wryhta' or 'wyrhta', meaning worker or shaper of wood. Later it became any occupational worker (for example, a shipwright is a person who builds ships), and is used as a British family ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
558685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20environment | Natural environment | The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial. The term is most often applied to Earth or some parts of Earth. This environment encompasses the interaction of all living species, climate, weather and natural resources that aff... | 3.21875 | 0 |
558685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20environment | Natural environment | The Earth's crust or lithosphere, is the outermost solid surface of the planet and is chemically, physically and mechanically different from underlying mantle. It has been generated greatly by igneous processes in which magma cools and solidifies to form solid rock. Beneath the lithosphere lies the mantle which is heat... | 3.34375 | 0 |
558685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20environment | Natural environment | A pond is a body of standing water, either natural or human-made, that is usually smaller than a lake. A wide variety of human-made bodies of water are classified as ponds, including water gardens designed for aesthetic ornamentation, fish ponds designed for commercial fish breeding and solar ponds designed to store th... | 3.234375 | 0 |
558685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20environment | Natural environment | The atmosphere of the Earth serves as a key factor in sustaining the planetary ecosystem. The thin layer of gases that envelops the Earth is held in place by the planet's gravity. Dry air consists of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon, inert gases and carbon dioxide. The remaining gases are often referred to as trace g... | 3.5625 | 0 |
558685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20environment | Natural environment | Principal layers
Earth's atmosphere can be divided into five main layers. These layers are mainly determined by whether temperature increases or decreases with altitude. From highest to lowest, these layers are:
Exosphere: The outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere extends from the exobase upward, mainly composed of hy... | 3.59375 | 0 |
558685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20environment | Natural environment | The dangers of global warming are being increasingly studied by a wide global consortium of scientists. These scientists are increasingly concerned about the potential long-term effects of global warming on our natural environment and on the planet. Of particular concern is how climate change and global warming caused ... | 3.28125 | 0 |
558685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20environment | Natural environment | The United Nations Framework Convention Treaty and convention on Climate Change, to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
The Kyoto Protocol, which is the protocol to the international Framework Convention o... | 2.546875 | 0 |
558685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20environment | Natural environment | Weather is a set of all the phenomena occurring in a given atmospheric area at a given time. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the average atmospheric conditions o... | 3.375 | 0 |
558685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20environment | Natural environment | Evidence suggests that life on Earth has existed for about 3.7 billion years. All known life forms share fundamental molecular mechanisms, and based on these observations, theories on the origin of life attempt to find a mechanism explaining the formation of a primordial single cell organism from which all life origina... | 3.15625 | 0 |
558685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20environment | Natural environment | Wilderness is generally defined as a natural environment on Earth that has not been significantly modified by human activity. The WILD Foundation goes into more detail, defining wilderness as: "The most intact, undisturbed wild natural areas left on our planet – those last truly wild places that humans do not control a... | 3.0625 | 0 |
558698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taslima%20Nasrin | Taslima Nasrin | Taslima Nasrin (born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and activist. She is known for her writing on women's oppression and criticism of religion; some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. She has also been blacklisted and banished from the Bengal region, both from Bangla... | 1.96875 | 0 |
558698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taslima%20Nasrin | Taslima Nasrin | Literary career
Early in her literary career, Nasrin wrote mainly poetry, and published half a dozen collections of poetry between 1982 and 1993, often with female oppression as a theme, and often containing very graphic language. She started publishing prose in the late 1980s, and produced three collections of essays ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
558698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taslima%20Nasrin | Taslima Nasrin | In 2015 Nasrin was threatened with death by Al Qaeda-linked extremists, and so the Center for Inquiry assisted her in travelling to the United States, where she now lives. The Center for Inquiry (CFI) that helped evacuate her to the U.S. on 27 May gave an official statement in June 2015 stating that her safety "is only... | 2.203125 | 0 |
558698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taslima%20Nasrin | Taslima Nasrin | Columns and essays
In 1989 Nasrin began to contribute to the weekly political magazine Khaborer Kagoj, edited by Nayeemul Islam Khan, and published from Dhaka. Her feminist views and anti-religion remarks articles succeeded in drawing broad attention, and she shocked the religious and conservative society of Bangladesh... | 2.25 | 0 |
558722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20environment | Social environment | The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops. It includes the culture that the individual was educated or lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact. The i... | 2.953125 | 0 |
558722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20environment | Social environment | The physical environment is the ever-changing natural world, including weather, land, and natural resources. Floods or earthquakes can alter the landscape, affecting how plants and animals live. Human interaction with nature can also have an impact. For example, logging can change the weather in that area, pollution ca... | 3.15625 | 0 |
558722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20environment | Social environment | Social relationships are the connections between people like family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers. When scientists study how relationships affect human health and behavior, they usually focus on these close connections, not just formal ones like with doctors or lawyers. They are interested in how people interact w... | 2.859375 | 0 |
558736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadwell%20Heath | Chadwell Heath | Chadwell Heath is an area in East London, England. It is split between the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and the London Borough of Redbridge, around west of Romford and east of Ilford, and north-east of Charing Cross.
History
Toponymy
The name 'Chadwell' was first recorded in 1254 as Chaudewell and means ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
558736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadwell%20Heath | Chadwell Heath | Demographics
In the 2011 census, the combined wards of Chadwell in Redbridge and Chadwell Heath in Barking and Dagenham had a total population of 24,278 people.
The two combined wards had no single ethnic majority, with the largest group being White British people comprising 44.3% of the population. The next largest g... | 2.359375 | 0 |
558743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zun | Zun | Symbolism
The zun comes in various shapes, notably as a round or square vase-like form. Through these forms they appear in unique shapes varying different animals. Often, these vessels are found with distinctive and defined decor with unique symbolism. The most noticeable symbol through the decor is the taotie, known a... | 2.71875 | 0 |
558743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zun | Zun | The square zun was excavated in 1938 from Yueshanpu, Ningxiang, Hunan Province. It has a generous mouth with a flared flat lip, a long neck, projecting shoulder, shallow belly and high ring foot. There are flanges on the four corners and in the middle of all four sides. The neck has a design of triangular one-legged dr... | 2.453125 | 0 |
558743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zun | Zun | Fu Hao owl-shaped Zun
Period: Late Shang dynasty
Overall Height: 46.3 cm
Mouth Wide: 16.1 cm
Location: National Museum of China, Beijing
It was excavated in 1976 from the tomb of Fu Hao, Anyang, Henan Province. This bronze wine vessel with the design of owl, a ferocious bird, belongs to those with bird and beast design... | 2.421875 | 0 |
558743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zun | Zun | Zun Pan Set
Period: Early Warring Period
Height of Zun: 33.1cm
Wide of Zun: 62cm
Height of Pan: 24cm
Wide of Pan: 57.6cm
Depth of Pan: 12cm
Weight: 28.2 kg
Location: Hubei Museum, Hubei
The bronze zun-pan set from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng (433 BC) unearthed in Suizhou, Hubei in 1978. This is the most exquisite a... | 2.421875 | 0 |
558750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers%20and%20splitters | Lumpers and splitters | Lumpers and splitters are opposing factions in any academic discipline that has to place individual examples into rigorously defined categories. The lumper–splitter problem occurs when there is the desire to create classifications and assign examples to them, for example, schools of literature, biological taxa, and so ... | 3.15625 | 0 |
558750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers%20and%20splitters | Lumpers and splitters | Reference to lumpers and splitters in the humanities appeared in a debate in 1975 between J. H. Hexter and Christopher Hill, in the Times Literary Supplement. It followed from Hexter's detailed review of Hill's book Change and Continuity in Seventeenth Century England, in which Hill developed Max Weber's argument that ... | 2.5 | 0 |
558750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers%20and%20splitters | Lumpers and splitters | For example, the number of genera used in Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (PPG) I has proved controversial. PPG I uses 18 lycophyte and 319 fern genera. The earlier system put forward by Smith et al. (2006) had suggested a range of 274 to 312 genera for ferns alone. By contrast, the system of Christenhusz & Chase (2014) ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
558750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers%20and%20splitters | Lumpers and splitters | In history, lumpers are those who tend to create broad definitions that cover large periods of time and many disciplines, whereas splitters want to assign names to tight groups of inter-relationships. Lumping tends to create a more and more unwieldy definition, with members having less and less mutually in common. This... | 2.59375 | 0 |
558750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers%20and%20splitters | Lumpers and splitters | Religious studies
Paul F. Bradshaw suggests that the same principles of lumping and splitting apply to the study of early Christian liturgy. Lumpers, who tend to predominate in this field, try to find a single line of successive texts from the apostolic age to the fourth century (and later). Splitters see many paralle... | 2.390625 | 0 |
558750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers%20and%20splitters | Lumpers and splitters | Psychiatry
In psychiatry, the
'splitters' and the 'lumpers' have fundamentally different approaches to psychiatric diagnosis and classification. First, 'splitters' emphasise the heterogeneity within the diagnostic categories and argue that this heterogeneity drives the 'splitting' process'. 'Lumpers', on the other han... | 2.421875 | 0 |
558751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Independent%20Parachute%20Brigade%20%28Poland%29 | 1st Independent Parachute Brigade (Poland) | On 26 September 1944, the members of the Brigade who were on the Allied side of the Rhine (now including the 1st Battalion and elements of the 3rd Battalion, who were parachuted near to Grave on 23 September) were ordered to march towards Nijmegen. The Brigade had lost 25% of its fighting strength, amounting to 590 cas... | 2.640625 | 0 |
558764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance%20of%20Frederick%20Valentich | Disappearance of Frederick Valentich | Valentich radioed Melbourne Flight Service at 7:06 pm to report that an unidentified aircraft was following him at . He was told there was no known traffic at that level. Valentich said he could see a large unknown aircraft which appeared to be illuminated by four bright landing lights. He was unable to confirm its typ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
558768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barat%20Daya%20Islands | Barat Daya Islands | The Barat Daya Islands () are a group of islands in the Maluku province of Indonesia. The Indonesian phrase barat daya means 'south-west'.
Geography
These islands are located off the eastern end of East Timor. Wetar is the largest island in the group. To the west, the Ombai Strait separates Wetar from Alor Island, par... | 2.6875 | 0 |
558768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barat%20Daya%20Islands | Barat Daya Islands | Geology
The islands are part of the Inner Banda Arc, a volcanic island arc created by the collision of the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. Romang and Damar are volcanic; Wetar consists mostly of oceanic crust that was pushed to the surface by the colliding plates. The Barat Daya and Banda islands constitu... | 2.75 | 0 |
558793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea%20Bridge | Lea Bridge | The area contains large amounts of open space, dominated by the Millfields recreation grounds, one of the largest parks in Hackney, which in 2023 was awarded the Green Flag Award to mark the high standard of the park environment and its maintenance. Along the southern border of the park sits the former coal-fired Millf... | 2.1875 | 0 |
558794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Lubbock | Francis Lubbock | Francis Richard Lubbock (October 16, 1815June 22, 1905) was a businessman, slaveholder, and politician from the American South who played a significant role in Texas history. A South Carolina native, he was a key player in Texas politics, serving as Lieutenant Governor and later the 9th Governor of Texas during the Civ... | 2.25 | 0 |
558794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Lubbock | Francis Lubbock | South Carolina
A year before his father died, Lubbock had started working with him "after school hours assisting him in his accounts and other things that I could attend to intelligently. Here was the beginning of my business education." Now, at age 14, decided to forgo further schooling to support his family. He parl... | 2.6875 | 0 |
558794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Lubbock | Francis Lubbock | Encouraged by the Allen brothers—Augustus Chapman and John Kirby, who had founded the town of Houston only a few months before, Lubbock decided to settle there and set up his business, arriving in January 1837. He established himself as a merchant, dealing in various goods, including the first barrel of flour and sack ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
558794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Lubbock | Francis Lubbock | During this time, Lubbock participated in Texas's defensive strategies against Mexican forces. He played a key role in a war meeting at the Texas capitol in December 1837, serving as secretary. This meeting, responding to reports of a Mexican advance, aimed to organize defense and support those at the frontline. He was... | 2.640625 | 0 |
558794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Lubbock | Francis Lubbock | In Houston, Lubbock partnered with James W. Scott to run a commission business, becoming the only auction and commission merchants in the city at the time. Their enterprise was diverse, dealing in a wide range of products such as French wines, hardware, groceries, footwear, lumber, sugar, salt, cigars, and coffee. They... | 2.21875 | 0 |
558794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Lubbock | Francis Lubbock | During his tenure as the district clerk of Harris County, Lubbock was dedicated to serving with integrity and fairness. He established a principle of not engaging in speculation related to his office and made a conscious effort to treat the public generously. Lubbock was known for his love of horses, which he financed ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
558794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Lubbock | Francis Lubbock | In 1857, Lubbock was elected lieutenant governor of Texas as a Democrat, but failed in his re-election bid in 1859. Following the Confederate secession in 1861, Lubbock won the governorship of Texas. During his tenure, he supported Confederate conscription, working to draft all able-bodied men, including resident alie... | 2.78125 | 0 |
558809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawtucket%20Red%20Sox | Pawtucket Red Sox | Louisville had spent the previous five years out of Organized Baseball. After the American Association and its Louisville Colonels franchise folded in 1962 and the American League owners voted down Charlie O. Finley's agreement to move the Kansas City A's to Louisville in 1964, Louisville was ready for the return of ba... | 2.359375 | 0 |
558809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawtucket%20Red%20Sox | Pawtucket Red Sox | While the parent club was on their way to the 1975 World Series, the 1975 PawSox finished with a 53–87 mark. The team changed its name to the Rhode Island Red Sox for the 1976 season, but little changed on the field with a third straight sub-.500 season and falling attendance. Anez threatened to move his club to Jersey... | 1.953125 | 0 |
558809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawtucket%20Red%20Sox | Pawtucket Red Sox | Perfect games
Tomo Ohka pitched a nine-inning perfect game for the Pawtucket Red Sox on June 1, 2000. Ohka retired all 27 batters he faced in a 2–0 win over the Charlotte Knights, and he needed just 76 pitches to toss the first nine-inning perfect game in the International League since 1952.
On August 10, 2003, Brons... | 2.03125 | 0 |
558812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial%20UFO%20hypothesis | Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis | The extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) proposes that some unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are best explained as being physical spacecraft occupied by extraterrestrial intelligence or non-human aliens, or non-occupied alien probes from other planets visiting Earth. In spite of ardent believers that various UFO sightin... | 2.265625 | 0 |
558812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial%20UFO%20hypothesis | Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis | Chronology
Although the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) as a phrase is a comparatively new concept, one which owes much to the flying saucer sightings of the 1940s–1960s, its origins can be traced back to a number of earlier events, such as the now-discredited Martian canals and ancient Martian civilization promoted ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
558812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial%20UFO%20hypothesis | Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis | Historical reports of extraterrestrial visits
An early example of speculation over extraterrestrial visitors can be found in the French newspaper Le Pays, which on June 17, 1864, published a story about two American geologists who had allegedly discovered an alien-like creature, a mummified three-foot-tall hairless hum... | 2.90625 | 0 |
558812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial%20UFO%20hypothesis | Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis | The 1947 flying saucer wave in America
On June 24, 1947, at about 3:00 p.m. local time, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine unidentified disk-shaped aircraft flying near Mount Rainier. When no aircraft emerged that seemed to account for what he had seen, Arnold quickly considered the possibility of the objects be... | 2.84375 | 0 |
558812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial%20UFO%20hypothesis | Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis | Even if people thought the saucers were real, most were generally unwilling to leap to the conclusion that they were extraterrestrial in origin. Various popular theories began to quickly proliferate in press articles, such as secret military projects, Russian spy devices, hoaxes, optical illusions, and mass hysteria. A... | 2.4375 | 0 |
558812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial%20UFO%20hypothesis | Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis | In 1952, Life Magazine published "Have We Visitors From Space?" which popularized the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis and is thought to have triggered the 1952 UFO flap. Immediately following the great UFO wave of 1952 and the military debunking of radar and visual sightings, plus jet interceptions over Washington, D.C. i... | 2.265625 | 0 |
558812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial%20UFO%20hypothesis | Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis | Evolution of public opinion
The early 1950s also saw a number of movies depicting flying saucers and aliens, including The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), and Forbidden Planet (1956). A poll published in Popular Science magazine in August 1951 reporte... | 2.875 | 0 |
558812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial%20UFO%20hypothesis | Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis | "The idea of benign or hostile space aliens from other planets visiting the Earth [is clearly] an emotional idea. There are two sorts of self-deception here: either accepting the idea of extraterrestrial visitation by space aliens in the face of very meager evidence because we want it to be true; or rejecting such an i... | 1.976563 | 0 |
558812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial%20UFO%20hypothesis | Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis | Extraterrestrial "believers" within Project Blue Book included Major Dewey Fournet, in charge of the engineering analysis of UFO motion, who later became a board member on the civilian UFO organization NICAP. Blue Book director Edward J. Ruppelt privately commented on other firm "pro-UFO" members in the USAF investiga... | 2.171875 | 0 |
558825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary%20corsairs | Barbary corsairs | The Barbary corsairs, Barbary pirates, Ottoman corsairs, or naval mujahideen (in Muslim sources) were mainly Muslim corsairs and privateers who operated from the largely independent Barbary states. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, in reference to the Berbers. Slaves in Barbary could be of many ethnic... | 2.875 | 0 |
558825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary%20corsairs | Barbary corsairs | The raids were such a problem that coastal settlements were seldom undertaken until the 19th century. Between 1580 and 1680, corsairs were said to have captured about 850,000 people as slaves and from 1530 to 1780 as many as 1.25 million people were enslaved. However, these numbers are estimated and provided by only on... | 3.125 | 0 |
558825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary%20corsairs | Barbary corsairs | Until the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, British treaties with the North African states protected American ships from the Barbary corsairs. During the American Revolutionary War, the Corsairs attacked American merchant vessels in the Mediterranean. However, on December 20, 1777, Sultan Mohammed III of Mo... | 3.109375 | 0 |
558825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary%20corsairs | Barbary corsairs | From bases on the Barbary Coast, North Africa, the Barbary corsairs raided ships travelling through the Mediterranean and along the northern and western coasts of Africa, plundering their cargo and enslaving the people they captured. From at least 1500, the corsairs also conducted raids along seaside towns of Italy, Fr... | 3.125 | 0 |
558825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary%20corsairs | Barbary corsairs | Number of people enslaved
The number of slaves captured by Barbary corsairs are difficult to quantify. According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary corsairs and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries. However, to extrapol... | 2.765625 | 0 |
558825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary%20corsairs | Barbary corsairs | As Dr. John Callow at University of Suffolk notes, the experience of enslavement by the Barbary corsairs preceded the Atlantic slave trade and "the memory of slavery, and the methodology of slaving, that was burned into the British consciousness was first and foremost rooted in a North African context, where Britons we... | 2.796875 | 0 |
558832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20O%27Neill | Steve O'Neill | Stephen Francis O'Neill (July 6, 1891 – January 26, 1962) was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played his first 13 seasons with the Cleveland Indians. As a manager, he led the Detroit Tigers to a World Series championship.
Early life
O'Neill was born in Minooka, Pennsylvania (now a part of Sc... | 1.929688 | 0 |
558847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20abduction | Alien abduction | Alien abduction (also called abduction phenomenon, alien abduction syndrome, or UFO abduction) refers to the phenomenon of people reporting what they believe to be the real experience of being kidnapped by extraterrestrial beings and subjected to physical and psychological experimentation. People claiming to have been ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
558847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20abduction | Alien abduction | With Hopkins, Jacobs and Mack, accounts of alien abduction became a prominent aspect of ufology. There had been earlier abduction reports (the Hills being the best known), but they were believed to be few and saw rather little attention from ufology (and even less attention from mainstream professionals or academics). ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
558847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20abduction | Alien abduction | John E. Mack
Harvard psychiatry professor John E. Mack believed in the credibility of alien abduction claims. Niall Boyce writing in The Lancet called him "a well-meaning man uncritically elaborating on tales of alien abduction, and potentially both cementing and constructing false memories". Boyce observed that Mack'... | 2.5625 | 0 |
558847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20abduction | Alien abduction | Mental health
As a category, some studies show that abductees have psychological characteristics that render their testimony suspect, while others show that "as a group, abduction experients are not different from the general population in term of psychopathology prevalence". Elizabeth Slater conducted a blind study o... | 2.15625 | 0 |
558847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20abduction | Alien abduction | Capture
Abduction claimants report unusual feelings preceding the onset of an abduction experience. These feelings manifest as a compulsive desire to be at a certain place at a certain time or as expectations that something "familiar yet unknown" will soon occur. Abductees also report feeling severe, undirected anxiet... | 1.984375 | 0 |
558847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20abduction | Alien abduction | Unlike Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs, folklorist Thomas E. Bullard could not identify a child presentation phase in the abduction narrative, even after undertaking a study of 300 abduction reports. Bullard says that the child presentation "seems to be an innovation in the story" and that "no clear antecedents" to descr... | 2.3125 | 0 |
558847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20abduction | Alien abduction | Realization event
Physician and abduction researcher John G. Miller sees significance in the reason a person would come to see themselves as being a victim of the abduction phenomenon. He terms the insight or development leading to this shift in identity from non-abductee to abductee the "realization event". The reali... | 2.34375 | 0 |
558847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20abduction | Alien abduction | Supportive arguments
Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack counters this argument, noting "It might be useful to restate that a large proportion of the material relating to abductions is recalled without the use of an altered state of consciousness, and that many abduction reporters appear to relive powerful experiences a... | 1.90625 | 0 |
558888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch%20Bevis | Arch Bevis | Archibald Ronald Bevis (born 10 April 1955) is an Australian Labor Party politician who served as the Member for Brisbane from 1990 to 2010. Bevis held a variety of ministerial, shadow ministerial, and parliamentary leadership positions.
Early life and education
Bevis was born in Brisbane and educated at Ithaca Creek ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
558895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Graves%2C%201st%20Baron%20Graves | Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves | Admiral Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves, KB (23 October 1725 – 9 February 1802) was a British officer of the Royal Navy and a colonial official. He served in the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence. He was also the Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland for a period of time.
Military career
Born in Engl... | 2.375 | 0 |
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