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1402490	Arrival and Departure	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arrival%20and%20Departure	Arrival and Departure most shocking descriptions of Nazi terrorism that have ever been written." # Plot. Written during the middle of World War II, "Arrival and Departure" reflects Koestler's own plight as a Hungarian refugee. Like Koestler, the main character is a former member of the Communist party. He escapes to ...	17,500
1402490	Arrival and Departure	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arrival%20and%20Departure	Arrival and Departure arture" reflects Koestler's own plight as a Hungarian refugee. Like Koestler, the main character is a former member of the Communist party. He escapes to 'Neutralia', a neutral country based on Portugal, where Koestler himself had gone, and flees from there. (Stephen Spender had supposedly said of...	17,501
1402476	George Boardman (missionary)	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Boardman%20(missionary)	George Boardman (missionary) George Boardman (missionary) George Dana Boardman (February 8, 1801 – February 11, 1831) was an American missionary. # Life. He was born in Livermore, Maine, the son of the Rev. Sylvanus Boardman. He attended Colby College, and was the school's first graduate in 1822. He served as tutor ...	17,502
1402476	George Boardman (missionary)	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Boardman%20(missionary)	George Boardman (missionary) entered upon his labors at Maulmain in May 1827, and founded a mission which became the central point of all the Baptist missions in Burma. In April 1828, he established a mission at Tavoy, where he soon afterward baptized Ko-mah-byn, a Karen convert, whose labors were very successful among...	17,503
1402476	George Boardman (missionary)	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Boardman%20(missionary)	George Boardman (missionary) s early death by consumption. His widow married the Rev. Adoniram Judson, also a missionary. He and Sarah had a son also named George Dana Boardman, often referred to as "the Younger". A residence and dining hall at his alma mater, Colby College, is named "Dana" in his honor. # References...	17,504
1402256	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir%20Anthony%20Meyer,%203rd%20Baronet	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet Sir Anthony John Charles Meyer, 3rd Baronet (27 October 1920 – 24 December 2004) was a British soldier, diplomat, and Conservative and later Liberal Democrat politician, best known for standing against Margaret Thatcher for the party leadership in 1989. In ...	17,505
1402256	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir%20Anthony%20Meyer,%203rd%20Baronet	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet Party. After that disbanded in 2001, he became a member of the Liberal Democrats. # Early life. Meyer was the son of Marjorie Amy Georgina (née Seeley) and Sir Frank Cecil Meyer. His father was vice-chairman of the De Beers diamond company, and from 1924 to 1929 he was Conservative Memb...	17,506
1402256	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir%20Anthony%20Meyer,%203rd%20Baronet	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet in Britain. ## Education and war service. Meyer was educated at Eton College, like his father, and he inherited the baronetcy at the age of 15 when his father died in a hunting accident. Like his father, he also attended New College, Oxford, but after one year he joined the Scots Guards...	17,507
1402256	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir%20Anthony%20Meyer,%203rd%20Baronet	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet to university. Instead, he joined HM Treasury where he mostly worked on winding up the affairs of the Polish government-in-exile. ## Diplomatic career. In 1946 Meyer passed the Foreign Service examinations, and from 1951 to 1956 he was appointed to the British Embassy in Paris, where he...	17,508
1402256	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir%20Anthony%20Meyer,%203rd%20Baronet	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet the ambassador, who put Meyer and his family on the next plane home. Between 1958 and 1962, he worked at the Foreign Office on European political problems, at a time when the Office was changing its policy from being against the "Common Market" to in favour of Britain's joining it. # Pol...	17,509
1402256	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir%20Anthony%20Meyer,%203rd%20Baronet	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet or the Liberals, but his admiration for the Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan swung his choice. In 1963, Meyer was selected to fight the constituency of Eton and Slough, then held by Labour's leftwing internationalist Fenner Brockway. In the 1964 General Election, Meyer won th...	17,510
1402256	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir%20Anthony%20Meyer,%203rd%20Baronet	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet the United Nations. He also established himself on the liberal wing of the party: voting to abolish capital punishment and for sanctions against Rhodesia. In the 1966 General Election he lost his seat to Labour's Joan Lestor by 4,663 votes. His liberalism made him almost untouchable in t...	17,511
1402256	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir%20Anthony%20Meyer,%203rd%20Baronet	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet a reputation for putting the interests of his constituency ahead of Conservative government policy, for example by voting against the closure of the Shotton steelworks, supporting the Airbus A300B whose wings some of his constituents built, against its all-British rival the BAC 3-11, whil...	17,512
1402256	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir%20Anthony%20Meyer,%203rd%20Baronet	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet of the bulk of the party. When his Flintshire West constituency's boundaries were expanded and redrawn to form the Clwyd North West constituency in 1983, there was an attempt by local party activists to replace him with the more Thatcherite MEP, Beata Brookes, whom Meyer managed to defeat...	17,513
1402256	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir%20Anthony%20Meyer,%203rd%20Baronet	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet would take over the role; in the event, none of them did so, and Meyer had no illusions that he had any chance of success. He was derided as "Sir Anthony Whats'isname" by the pro-Thatcher "Sun" newspaper, who reported that he was the only Conservative MP to oppose the use of force to win ...	17,514
1402256	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir%20Anthony%20Meyer,%203rd%20Baronet	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet MPs out of 374 had failed to support Thatcher. Meyer said that "people started to think the unthinkable", and Thatcher was ousted in November 1990 to be succeeded by John Major. On 19 January 1990, Meyer was deselected as a candidate for the 1992 general election by the Clwyd North West ...	17,515
1402256	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir%20Anthony%20Meyer,%203rd%20Baronet	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet Party before becoming a member of the Liberal Democrats. In 1999 he stood unsuccessfully, during the European Parliament elections, for the London seat. After 1999 he became a lecturer on European affairs until his death. # Death. Meyer died of cancer, aged 84, in Kensington and Chelsea...	17,516
1402256	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir%20Anthony%20Meyer,%203rd%20Baronet	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet In 1999 he stood unsuccessfully, during the European Parliament elections, for the London seat. After 1999 he became a lecturer on European affairs until his death. # Death. Meyer died of cancer, aged 84, in Kensington and Chelsea, London, in December 2004. His son, Anthony Ashley Fran...	17,517
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season 1942 Atlantic hurricane season The 1942 Atlantic hurricane season was one of seven seasons to feature multiple hurricane landfalls in Texas. The season officially lasted from June 16, 1942, to October 31, 1942. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical...	17,518
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season the season remained dormant until the next system developed two months later. In mid-August, a hurricane struck Texas, causing about $790,000 (1942 USD) in damage. The most significant tropical cyclone of the season, known as the Matagorda hurricane, developed on August 23. After strikin...	17,519
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season remnants of the ninth tropical storm contributed to severe flooding in Virginia. In November, a hurricane caused extensive impact in several coastal communities of Belize (then known as British Honduras). The hurricane left nine deaths and about $4 million in damage. # Systems. ## Tropi...	17,520
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season estimated to have intensified into a tropical storm based on barometric readings from Tela, Honduras, and Belize City. Shortly after, the tropical storm made landfall in British Honduras with winds of 40 mph (65 km/h). The tropical cyclone weakened to a tropical depression during its trek...	17,521
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season landfall near Tampico, a station in the city recorded a minimum barometric pressure of 1,004 mbar (hPa; 29.65 inHg), the lowest pressure measured in association with the storm. Due to a lack of available weather ships in the region because of World War II, no ships documented the tropical...	17,522
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season and entered the Gulf of Mexico. While nearing the coast of Louisiana on August 19, the storm slowed down, turned westward, and intensified into a Category 1 hurricane. Late on August 19, the hurricane attained its maximum sustained wind speed of 80 mph (130 km/h). The cyclone curved west-...	17,523
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season intensity early on August 22. The system then curved northeastward and became extratropical over the Arkansas–Missouri state line, shortly before the remnants dissipated. In Texas, tides reached above mean low water at High Island. The abnormally high tides damaged piers and small crafts...	17,524
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season unroofed a number of homes and destroyed a few others. The hurricane dropped up to of rainfall. Near Hallsville, about of the Texas and Pacific Railway was washed out. Precipitation destroyed about 15% of rice crops in Jefferson County. Overall, damage reached approximately $790,000. ## ...	17,525
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season hurricane on August 27. Early the following day, the cyclone made landfall near Cancún, Quintana Roo, with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h). The storm weakened to a Category 1 during its brief transit across the Yucatán Peninsula, before re-intensifying into a Category 2 hurricane over the Gul...	17,526
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season a remnant low over New Mexico on August 31. At the hurricane's first landfall near the northeastern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula, little information was documented on the storm's impacts. However, as the storm approached the Texas coast, widespread evacuations took place, including the e...	17,527
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season Crops in the areas affected saw large losses, particularly the rice crop. Rainfall associated with the storm was relatively light, due to the hurricane's rapid forward motion once inland, peaking at 9.3 in (0.24 mm) in Woodsboro. Overall, the storm caused $26.5 million in damages and eigh...	17,528
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season and intensified into a Category 2 hurricane early on August 26. The storm then made its closest approach to Bermuda, passing about east of island, which observed a sustained wind speed of . At 06:00 UTC on August 26, the cyclone peaked with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (175 km/h). T...	17,529
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season Tropical Storm Five. The fifth tropical storm of the season formed on September 15 about 60 mi (95 km) southeast of Barbados. The system moved west-northwestward and passed between Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent early the next day. After entering the Caribbean, the cyclone slowly intensif...	17,530
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season with the cyclone. Thereafter, the storm began to slowly weaken. Just after 12:00 UTC on September 22, the system made landfall in Stann Creek District in Belize as a minimal tropical storm. The cyclone soon weakened to a tropical depression and dissipated near the Guatemala–Mexico border ...	17,531
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season and a minimum barometric pressure of on September 20. Early the next day, the cyclone curved northeastward and began losing tropical characteristics. By 00:00 UTC on September 22, the system had already completed its transition to an extratropical cyclone while located about 275 mi (445 k...	17,532
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season with the system. Moving west-northwestward, the cyclone produced winds of on Bermuda on September 28. Several hours later, the system began to move north-northwestward. Early on September 29, the storm attained its maximum sustained wind speed of 50 mph (85 km/h). However, by 12:00 UTC, t...	17,533
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season continued northeastward and reached maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 km/h) by October 2. On the following day, the system passed to the southeast of Bermuda, which observed sustained winds up to . Due to lack of data, it is possible the storm intensified into a hurricane before comp...	17,534
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season reached maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 km/h). Only six hours later, the system lost tropical characteristics while located about , after the vortex became elongated while a frontal system approached the area. The remnants continued northwestward and moved ashore in North Carolina e...	17,535
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season National Park observed of precipitation, while rainfall totals above were common. Madison County recorded of precipitation in only 24 hours. Numerous highways were washed out and many bridges were swept away, interrupting traffic for three to four days. Severe damage to crops occurred. Ab...	17,536
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season the flood. ## Tropical Storm Ten. A tropical depression developed just offshore modern-day Granma Province in Cuba on October 13, moving ashore within six hours. After emerging into the Atlantic near Gibara early on October 14, the depression turned northward and soon intensified into a...	17,537
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h) on October 16. By late on October 18, the cyclone merged with a cold front while situated about 305 mi (490 km) southeast of Massachusetts. ## Hurricane Eleven. A tropical wave developed into a tropical depression over the Turks and Caicos Islands on ...	17,538
1402182	1942 Atlantic hurricane season	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1942%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season	1942 Atlantic hurricane season the system weakened to a tropical storm early on November 7, shortly before emerging into the Caribbean Sea. The storm re-strengthened into a hurricane later that day and headed southwestward. Late on November 8, the hurricane curved westward and intensified into a Category 2 hurricane. ...	17,539