wikipedia_id stringlengths 2 8 | wikipedia_title stringlengths 1 243 | url stringlengths 44 370 | contents stringlengths 53 2.22k | id int64 0 6.14M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
and depict her heroic actions to save her people. Part I, although at times tedious in its description of the military developments, develops important themes by alternating battles with reflections and rousing action with rest. In contrast, the second half is devoted mainly to Judith's strength of char... | 20,300 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
Introduction of Judith (8:1–8)
A'. Conclusion about Judith (16.1–25)
## Literary genre.
Most contemporary exegetes, such as Biblical scholar Gianfranco Ravasi, generally tend to ascribe Judith to one of several contemporaneous literary genres, reading it as an extended parable in the form of a histori... | 20,301 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
commander Sisera before hammering a tent-peg into his forehead.
There are also thematic connections to the revenge of Simeon and Levi on Shechem after the rape of Dinah in Gen. 34.
In the Christian West from the patristic period on, Judith was invoked in a wide variety of texts as a multi-faceted alleg... | 20,302 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
in weakness"; she is thus paired with David and her beheading of Holofernes paralleled with that of Goliath – both deeds saved the Covenant People from a militarily superior enemy.
## Main characters.
Judith, the heroine of the book. She is the daughter of Merari, a Simeonite, and widow of a certain Ma... | 20,303 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
Media, until Israel also becomes a target of his military campaign. Judith's charm occasions his death.
Nebuchadnezzar, claimed here to be the king of Nineveh and Assyria. He is so proud that he wants to affirm his strength as a sort of divine power. Holofernes, his Turtan (commanding general), is order... | 20,304 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
and also the first one to praise God.
Oziah, governor of Bethulia; together with Cabri and Carmi, he rules over Judith's city.
# Historicity of Judith.
It is generally accepted that the Book of Judith is ahistorical. The fictional nature "is evident from its blending of history and fiction, beginning ... | 20,305 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
reconciled with the historical record. Judith's village, Bethulia (literally "virginity") is unknown and otherwise unattested to in any ancient writing.
Nevertheless, there have been various attempts by both scholars and clergy to understand the characters and events in the Book as allegorical represent... | 20,306 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
of Nebuchadnezzar with Artaxerxes III Ochus.
The identity of Nebuchadnezzar was unknown to the Church Fathers, but some of them attempted an improbable identification with Artaxerxes III Ochus (425–338 BC), not on the basis of the character of the two rulers, but due to the presence of a "Holofernes" an... | 20,307 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
his rival Arphaxad king of the Medes with Phraortes (665–653 BC), the son of Deioces, founder of Ecbatana.
As argued by Vigouroux, the two battles mentioned in the Septuagint version of the Book of Judith are a reference to the clash of the two empires in 658–657 and to Phraortes' death in battle in 653... | 20,308 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
mentioned in the Book of Judith as victims of Ashurbanipal's Western campaign.
During that period, as in the Book of Judith, there was no king in Judah since the legitimate sovereign, Manasseh of Judah, was being held captive in Nineveh at this time. As a typical policy of the time, all leadership was t... | 20,309 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
never been recorded in official history. Also, the reasons for the name changes are difficult to understand, unless the text was transmitted without character names before they were added by the Greek translator, who lived centuries later. Moreover, Ashurbanipal is never referenced by name in the Bible, ... | 20,310 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
à clef, i.e. a literary fiction whose characters stand for some real historical figure, generally contemporary to the author. In the case of the Book of Judith, Biblical scholar Gabriele Boccaccini, identified Nebuchadnezzar with Tigranes the Great (140–56 BCE), a powerful King of Armenia who, according ... | 20,311 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
Both women were widows whose strategical and diplomatic skills helped in the defeat of the invader. Both stories seem to be set at a time when the temple had recently been rededicated, which is the case after Judas Maccabee killed Nicanor and defeated the Seleucids. The territory of Judean occupation inc... | 20,312 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
has won a place in Jewish and Christian lore, art, poetry and drama. Her name, which means "she will be praised" or "woman of Judea", suggests that she represents the heroic spirit of the Jewish people, and that same spirit, as well as her chastity, have endeared her to Christianity.
Owing to her unwave... | 20,313 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
by Hrabanus Maurus (9th century). Thenceforth her presence in medieval European literature is robust: in homilies, biblical paraphrases, histories and poetry. An Old English poetic version is found together with Beowulf (their epics appear both in the Nowell Codex). "The opening of the poem is lost (scho... | 20,314 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
warrior, forceful and active; in the homily she is an exemplar of pious chastity for cloistered nuns. In both cases, her narrative gained relevance from the Viking invasions of the period. Within the next three centuries Judith would be treated by such major figures as Heinrich Frauenlob, Dante, and Geof... | 20,315 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
in Paris (1240s).
In Renaissance literature and visual arts, all of these trends were continued, often in updated forms, and developed. The already well established notion of Judith as an "exemplum" of the courage of local people against tyrannical rule from afar was given new urgency by the Assyrian na... | 20,316 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
mantle of Judith and cast their "heretical" enemies as Holofernes.
In 16th-century France, writers such as Guillaume Du Bartas, Gabrielle de Coignard and Anne de Marquets composed poems on Judith's triumph over Holofernes. Croatian poet and humanist Marko Marulić also wrote an epic on Judith's story in ... | 20,317 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
served as the grounds for the death sentence passed on printer William Carter who had printed Martin's tract and who was executed in 1584.
## In painting and sculpture.
The subject is one of the most commonly shown in the Power of Women "topos". The account of Judith's beheading Holofernes has been tre... | 20,318 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
or four spandrels on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Judy Chicago included Judith with a place setting in "The Dinner Party".
## In music and theatre.
The famous 40-voice motet "Spem in alium" by English composer Thomas Tallis, is a setting of a text from the Book of Judith. The story also inspired... | 20,319 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
Honegger composed an oratorio, "Judith", in 1925 to a libretto by René Morax. Operatic treatments exist by Russian composer Alexander Serov, "Judith", and by German composer Siegfried Matthus. The French composer Jean Guillou wrote his Judith-Symphonie for Mezzo and Orchestra in 1970, premiered in Paris ... | 20,320 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
worthy of her success [...]. My Judith is paralyzed by her deed, frozen by the thought that she might give birth to Holofernes' son; she knows that she has passed her boundaries, that she has, at the very least, done the right thing for the wrong reasons.
The story of Judith has been a favourite of latt... | 20,321 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
writer Arnold Bennett in 1919 tried his hand at dramaturgy with "Judith", a faithful reproduction in three acts; it premiered in spring 1919 at Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne. In 1981, the play "Judith among the Lepers" by the Israeli (Hebrew) playwright Moshe Shamir was performed in Israel. Shamir ... | 20,322 |
420456 | Book of Judith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith
uestion why the story of Judith was excluded from the Jewish (Hebrew) Bible and thus banned from Jewish history. In putting her story on stage he tries to reintegrate Judith's story into Jewish history. English playwright Howard Barker examined the Judith story and its aftermath, first in the scene "The ... | 20,323 |
420514 | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Amherst,%201st%20Earl%20Amherst | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, GCH, PC (14 January 1773 – 13 March 1857) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was Governor-General of India between 1823 and 1828.
# Background and education.
Born at Bath, Somerset, Amherst ... | 20,324 |
420514 | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Amherst,%201st%20Earl%20Amherst | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
with a view of establishing more satisfactory commercial relations between China and Great Britain. On arriving at Pei Ho (Baihe, today's Haihe), he was given to understand that he could only be admitted to the Jiaqing Emperor's presence on condition of performing the kowtow, a ceremon... | 20,325 |
420514 | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Amherst,%201st%20Earl%20Amherst | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
made that his sovereign was entitled to the same show of reverence from a mandarin of his rank. In consequence of this, he was not allowed to enter Peking (Beijing), and the object of his mission was frustrated.
His ship, the "Alceste", after a cruise along the coast of Korea and to t... | 20,326 |
420514 | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Amherst,%201st%20Earl%20Amherst | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
to China", 1817; McLeod's Narrative of a Voyage in H.M.S. "Alceste", 1817). During one of the interviews, it was attributed to Napoleon that he said, "China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep. For when she wakes, she will shake the world."
# Governor-General of India.
Amherst was Gov... | 20,327 |
420514 | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Amherst,%201st%20Earl%20Amherst | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
in the Bengal Army, a measure that he was able to avoid through successive wars against Nepal and the Marathas. However, his refusal in the early 1820s during peacetime to lower field pay, resulted in the appointment of Amherst, who was expected to carry out the demands from London.
H... | 20,328 |
420514 | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Amherst,%201st%20Earl%20Amherst | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
to lose face in a time of Burmese territorial aggression, Amherst ordered the troops in.
The war was to last two years, with 15,000 killed on the British side and it cost 13 million pounds, contributing to an economic crisis in India. It was only due to the efforts of powerful friends... | 20,329 |
420514 | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Amherst,%201st%20Earl%20Amherst | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
of Kent, in 1826. On his return to England he lived in retirement till his death in March 1857.
# Family.
Lord Amherst married twice, and remarkably, both his wives were dowager countesses of Plymouth. His first wife was Sarah, Dowager Countess of Plymouth (1762–1838), daughter of An... | 20,330 |
420514 | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Amherst,%201st%20Earl%20Amherst | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
that the species was introduced from Asia to Bedfordshire. The genus "Amherstia", a Burmese flowering tree, is also named after her.
In 1839, an year after the death of his first wife, Lord Amherst, aged 66, married the widowed daughter-in-law of his first wife. This was Mary, Dowager... | 20,331 |
420514 | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Amherst,%201st%20Earl%20Amherst | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
e, it was not forbidden by either Church law or civil law. His second wife had no children by either marriage.
Lord Amherst died in March 1857, aged 84 at Knole House in Kent, the seat of the Dukes of Dorset, a property which his second wife had inherited. He was survived by his secon... | 20,332 |
420527 | Javier Sánchez | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Javier%20Sánchez | Javier Sánchez
Javier Sánchez
Javier Sánchez Vicario (; born 1 February 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Spain.
Sánchez won the US Open junior title in 1986, and then turned professional. He won his first professional doubles titles in 1987. His first top-level singles title came in 1988 at Buenos Ai... | 20,333 |
420527 | Javier Sánchez | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Javier%20Sánchez | Javier Sánchez
have a weapon of a shot that won him easy points. In addition, he had a one-handed backhand that he usually hit with a slice rather than up-and-through.
Sánchez is a member of one of the world's most successful tennis families. His younger sister Arantxa Sánchez Vicario became the youngest-ever winner o... | 20,334 |
420527 | Javier Sánchez | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Javier%20Sánchez | Javier Sánchez
r winner of the women's singles title at the French Open at age 17 in 1989, and went on to win several more Grand Slam titles. His older brother Emilio Sánchez was also a very successful player who won several Grand Slam doubles titles. In Javier's first career singles final in 1987 in Madrid, he faced E... | 20,335 |
420524 | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bottleneck%20traveling%20salesman%20problem | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem
Bottleneck traveling salesman problem
The Bottleneck traveling salesman problem (bottleneck TSP) is a problem in discrete or combinatorial optimization. The problem is to find the Hamiltonian cycle in a weighted graph which minimizes the weight of the most weighty edge of the cycl... | 20,336 |
420524 | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bottleneck%20traveling%20salesman%20problem | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem
from the bottleneck TSP to the usual TSP (where the goal is to minimize the sum of edge lengths), allows any algorithm for the usual TSP to also be used to solve the bottleneck TSP.
If the edge weights of the bottleneck TSP are replaced by any other numbers that have the same rela... | 20,337 |
420524 | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bottleneck%20traveling%20salesman%20problem | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem
For instance, following this transformation, the Held–Karp algorithm could be used to solve the bottleneck TSP in time .
Alternatively, the problem can be solved by performing a binary search or sequential search for the smallest such that the subgraph of edges of weight at most h... | 20,338 |
420524 | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bottleneck%20traveling%20salesman%20problem | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem
TSP, is the bottleneck TSP with the distance being the ordinary Euclidean distance. The problem still remains NP-hard. However, many heuristics work better for it than for other distance functions.
The maximum scatter traveling salesman problem is another variation of the travelin... | 20,339 |
420524 | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bottleneck%20traveling%20salesman%20problem | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem
all edge lengths (or, to keep the results positive, subtracting them all from a large enough constant). However, although this transformation preserves the optimal solution, it does not preserve the quality of approximations to that solution.
# Metric approximation algorithm.
If ... | 20,340 |
420524 | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bottleneck%20traveling%20salesman%20problem | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem
provides a valid lower bound on the bottleneck TSP weight, for the bottleneck TSP is itself a 2-connected graph and necessarily contains an edge of weight at least . However, the square of the subgraph of edges of weight at most is Hamiltonian. By the triangle inequality for metric... | 20,341 |
420524 | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bottleneck%20traveling%20salesman%20problem | Bottleneck traveling salesman problem
wever, the square of the subgraph of edges of weight at most is Hamiltonian. By the triangle inequality for metric spaces, its Hamiltonian cycle has edges of weight at most .
This approximation ratio is best possible. For, any unweighted graph can be transformed into a metric spac... | 20,342 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
Frontage road
A frontage road (also known as an access road, service road or parallel road) is a local road running parallel to a higher-speed, limited-access road. A frontage road is often used to provide access to private driveways, shops, houses, industries or farms. Where parallel high-speed roads ar... | 20,343 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
one road to another, and due to the architectural standards that they are not as wide as a standard road, or used as commonly as a standard road, street, or avenue.
# Overview.
Frontage roads provide access to homes and businesses which would otherwise be cut off by a limited-access road and connect the... | 20,344 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
maintenance.
However, the benefits of developing nearby real estate can more than offset the cost of building the frontage roads. Furthermore, a frontage road may be a part of an older highway, so the expense of building a frontage road may be slight. And finally, the cost to purchase access rights from ... | 20,345 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
Like the frontage road, it serves mainly to provide access to those parcels as an alternative to a frontage road.
# Advantages.
There are several advantages to using frontage roads. One advantage is to separate local traffic from through traffic. When frontage roads are lacking in an urban area, the hig... | 20,346 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
since there is no formal (frontage road) alternative.
# Disadvantages.
There are also some disadvantages to using frontage roads. When frontage roads are used without controlling the access to the primary road, at every intersection where an intersecting road runs across the primary, the number of confl... | 20,347 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
US 190 in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana;
- LA 1 in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana;
- Palatine Road in Cook County, Illinois;
- The northeast edge of Spur 503 in Denison, Texas;
- The Southeast edge of U.S. Route 69 in McAlester, Oklahoma.
A complex example is US 77/Commerce () in Ardmore, Ok... | 20,348 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
freeways is the collector-express system, which is designed to handle closely spaced interchange ramps without disrupting through traffic. Unlike service roads, the collector lanes are typically high-speed full controlled-access lanes, conforming to freeway requirements.
The collector lanes may also be k... | 20,349 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
coming into Buenos Aires.
## Canada.
Ontario:
A freeway with a significant remaining network of service roads is the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW). However, most of the slip ramps between St. Catharines and Mississauga were removed during major reconstruction in the 1970s and 1990s. Service roads are no lo... | 20,350 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
ramps connecting to service roads are on the QEW running through St. Catharines. These dangerous low-standard ramps (due to lack of acceleration/deceleration lanes) are due to be replaced in a planned extensive reconstruction of the QEW that is currently underway. Similar service roads and slip ramps exis... | 20,351 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
Roads on the QEW:
- series of broken sections from Cawthra Road in Mississauga to the Garden City Skyway in St. Catharines.
List of Service Roads on the 403:
- North Service Road at QEW/407 junction to Waterdown Rd, Burlington
- Service Road at Guelph Line, Burlington
List of RIRO on the 427:
- Gibb... | 20,352 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
the López Mateos, Vallarta and Mariano Otero avenues (the latter in the stretch between López Mateos to Niños Héroes) are 2-lane avenues surrounded by two one-way frontage roads. Lázaro Cárdenas Expressway is similar, but with three lanes in both the central road and the frontage roads. Because these fron... | 20,353 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
in the Dutch national Design manual for bicycle traffic as per pages 121 and 127 where they are referred to as parallel roads. In the Netherlands, engineers have used frontage roads to benefit cyclists as well as automobiles. Because frontage roads only carry local traffic, the speed on these roads is low... | 20,354 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
Since service roads serve a dual purpose, they are an inexpensive way to create routes in cycling network, compared to cycletracks or stand-alone bike paths. Extensive amounts of information on frontage roads can be found on Northeastern's webpage.
## People's Republic of China.
In the People's Republic... | 20,355 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
as a split-direction frontage road. Many newer urban highways are entirely elevated, with parallel access roads running beneath the entire length.
## Philippines.
The South Luzon Expressway's Metro Manila Skyway and Pres. Sergio Osmeña Sr. Highway segments (both are apparently local and express roads) h... | 20,356 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
Road has frontage road running parallel of it from east to west. Cheung Tung Road serves as the frontage road for North Lantau Highway, Hiram's Highway for New Hiram's Highway, and Tai Wo Service Road West and Tai Wo Service Road East for Fanling Highway. Castle Peak Road serves the purpose as a frontage ... | 20,357 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
non-access controlled roads, such as most National Highways, only have service lanes on stretches where fly-overs (overpasses) are built over junctions or through towns.
## United States.
Alaska
Though Alaska has very few roads that are built to freeway standard, a couple of the highways that are do ha... | 20,358 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
from the Trunk Road exit to the Seward Meridian Parkway exit (Fireweed Road on the south side and Blue Lupine Drive on the north side) in Wasilla.
### Arizona.
Frontage roads are not very common in Arizona but do exist along certain freeways. I-17 Black Canyon Hwy./Maricopa Fwy. is the oldest freeway in... | 20,359 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
These roads now exist a two lane one way frontage road for the 101. In Tucson, I-10 has a two lane one way frontage road and in between Casa Grande and Tucson a two-lane two-way frontage road.
### Illinois.
Frontage roads are common in Chicago, where they usually have the name the street in its place ha... | 20,360 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
to resistance to expressway construction, which necessitated scaled-back rights of way. Still, some unique examples of the type exist in the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Surface Road, Cross street, and Atlantic Avenue in downtown Boston. As a result of the Big Dig, the carriageways of these streets we... | 20,361 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
includes a short section at-grade frontage road between exits 16 in South Boston and the I-90 interchange south of Chinatown, in a more typical arrangement of the concept.
### Michigan.
Frontage roads are also common in Metro Detroit, where they are usually referred to as "service drives." As in Texas, ... | 20,362 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
many locales in urban Texas, where an exit ramp may actually precede the entrance ramp for the previous interchange to facilitate access to businesses situated directly on the frontage road (in effect, the two interchanges overlap along the frontage road), Michigan slip ramps to and from frontage roads ar... | 20,363 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
at surface street-frontage road intersections, with dedicated turnaround lanes (similar to the Texas U-turn) built over the freeway on separate bridges approximately 100 meters from the main intersection and bridging.
With the exceptions of Interstate 275 and the freeway portion of M-53, every Metro Detr... | 20,364 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
Flint. Outside the cities, US-23 has them from Ann Arbor to Fenton, while US-127 has them from Leslie to Mason. New freeway construction in Michigan has not included frontage roads since the completion of Interstate 696, most of which was constructed along the rights of way of major surface arteries, in 1... | 20,365 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
relatively common in New York City. Due to the high urban density, this design allows rapid access on and off the highway while also providing a viable alternate route in the case of accidents and traffic. In the borough of Queens, the Van Wyck Expressway has this system implemented for most of its length... | 20,366 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
2019}}] design), they do exist. In northern New Jersey, Route 3 has several service roads throughout much of its length, due in part to the heavy commercial development in the area. Notably, commuters will often use these service roads to get ahead of regular traffic back ups, often causing accidents whic... | 20,367 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
congestion or shutdown, the frontage road provides an instant detour but delayed by each stop sign or stoplight at cross streets.
Over 80% of Houston freeways have service roads, which locals typically call feeders. Many service roads in urban and suburban areas of Texas have the convenience of Texas U-t... | 20,368 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
as a major thoroughfare for local activity, such as with the Katy Freeway project (I-10) in Greater Houston. In several cases, a long-range plan has called for a future freeway, but the design has either changed or the project was canceled before completion.
Nicknames for frontage roads vary within the s... | 20,369 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
Tollway is composed of frontage roads.
In 2002, the Texas Department of Transportation proposed to discontinue building frontage roads on new freeways, citing studies that suggest frontage roads increase congestion. However, this proposal was widely ridiculed and criticized and was dropped later the same... | 20,370 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
was able to reduce its costs (largely the cost of land acquisition) of building the freeway, and didn't need to acquire and demolish developed property; the developer profited from development along the freeway. San Antonio developer Charles Martin Wender used the same tactic for his Westover Hills develo... | 20,371 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
highways which they parallel. They may also have highway services, as most of them are located near interchanges. Most frontage roads in the Carolinas do not have ramps leading to and from their respective highways; rather, as mentioned before, most are located near interchanges, which allows people to ex... | 20,372 |
420502 | Frontage road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontage%20road | Frontage road
n California near Pasadena and Arcadia has frontage roads which include Corson St. in Pasadena (parallel to Interstate 210 West) and Maple St. (parallel to Interstate 210 East) in Pasadena, while Central Ave (parallel to Interstate 210 West) and Evergreen Ave (parallel to Interstate 210 East) are in Arcad... | 20,373 |
420532 | Sex and Lucia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sex%20and%20Lucia | Sex and Lucia
Sex and Lucia
Sex and Lucía () is a 2001 Spanish drama film written and directed by Julio Medem, and starring Paz Vega and Tristán Ulloa. The film was shot on two separate locations along the Mediterranean coast in Spain and France.
# Plot.
Lucía (Paz Vega), a waitress, is talking on the phone with her... | 20,374 |
420532 | Sex and Lucia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sex%20and%20Lucia | Sex and Lucia
call back, but she ignores the ringing phone, packs a bag, and flees. Looking for a new beginning, Lucía travels to the mysterious Balearic Islands that Lorenzo had always talked of, but had recently been very negative about.
Six years earlier: Lorenzo is having casual sex in the ocean, on a bright moon-... | 20,375 |
420532 | Sex and Lucia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sex%20and%20Lucia | Sex and Lucia
to get cigarettes. She asks to speak to him and he joins her. She brazenly tells him that ever since she read his latest book, she has been following him and has fallen passionately in love with him. A smitten Lorenzo immediately engages the sexy, passionate Lucía and she moves into Lorenzo's apartment.
... | 20,376 |
420532 | Sex and Lucia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sex%20and%20Lucia | Sex and Lucia
tells Lorenzo her mother is a recently retired porn actress with a new hot boyfriend, and virtually seduces Lorenzo with chatter of sexual context and banter about her fantasies. Lorenzo uses these encounters and his fantasies about Belén and her mother as content for his book, and Lucía reads about it, t... | 20,377 |
420532 | Sex and Lucia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sex%20and%20Lucia | Sex and Lucia
they watch in horror as the family dog, a large Rotweiler in 'protect mode' kills Luna. Belén is stunned. Lorenzo runs away and falls into a deep depression.
Lorenzo's writing turns dark, towards depraved sex and death. He anonymously contacts Elena, who has moved to the island to find solace and recall ... | 20,378 |
420532 | Sex and Lucia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sex%20and%20Lucia | Sex and Lucia
their intimate connection. But when Lucía mentions Lorenzo by name, and his past visit to the island long ago, Elena deduces the connection. Lucía sees a picture of Luna (looking remarkably like her father and remembering the name from Lorenzo's novel) and she makes the connection too.
Lorenzo's editor v... | 20,379 |
420532 | Sex and Lucia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sex%20and%20Lucia | Sex and Lucia
of their interwoven relationships.
# Cast.
- Paz Vega as Lucía
- Tristán Ulloa as Lorenzo
- Najwa Nimri as Elena
- Daniel Freire as Carlos / Antonio
- Elena Anaya as Belén
- Silvia Llanos as Luna
# Reception.
"Sex and Lucia" soon became an international success, winning Vega a Goya Award for Best... | 20,380 |
420532 | Sex and Lucia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sex%20and%20Lucia | Sex and Lucia
én
- Silvia Llanos as Luna
# Reception.
"Sex and Lucia" soon became an international success, winning Vega a Goya Award for Best Female Newcomer. The cinematography is by Kiko de la Rica, and the score by Alberto Iglesias, who also won a Goya Award for his work.
## Critical response.
Review aggregati... | 20,381 |
420528 | Duke of Richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duke%20of%20Richmond | Duke of Richmond
Duke of Richmond
Duke of Richmond is a title in the Peerage of England that has been created four times in British history. It has been held by members of the royal Tudor and Stuart families.
The current dukedom of Richmond was created in 1675 for Charles Lennox, the illegitimate son of King Charles ... | 20,382 |
420528 | Duke of Richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duke%20of%20Richmond | Duke of Richmond
of the Dukedom.
Prior to the creation of the Dukedom the early nobles of England associated with Richmondshire were Lords and Earls of Richmond. At times the honour of Richmond was held without a title. The Dukedom of Richmond emerged under King Henry VIII.
The first creation of a dukedom of Richmond... | 20,383 |
420528 | Duke of Richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duke%20of%20Richmond | Duke of Richmond
Earl of Richmond and Baron Settrington in 1613 and Duke of Richmond in the peerage of England in 1623 as a member of the Lennox line (not unlike King James himself) in the House of Stuart. These became extinct at his death in 1624, but his Scottish honours devolved on his brother Esmé, Earl of March, w... | 20,384 |
420528 | Duke of Richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duke%20of%20Richmond | Duke of Richmond
Richmond was in August 1675, when Charles II granted the title to Charles Lennox, his illegitimate son by Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth. Charles Lennox was further created Duke of Lennox a month later. Charles' son, also Charles, succeeded to the French title Duke of Aubigny (of Aubigny-su... | 20,385 |
420528 | Duke of Richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duke%20of%20Richmond | Duke of Richmond
(1876), "Baron Settrington", of Settrington in the County of York (1675), and "Lord Torbolton" (1675).
The Dukes of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon are normally styled "Duke of Richmond and Gordon". Before the creation of the Dukedom of Gordon they were styled "Duke of Richmond and Lennox". The titles "Ea... | 20,386 |
420528 | Duke of Richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duke%20of%20Richmond | Duke of Richmond
"Earl of March and Kinrara". Before the creation of the Dukedom of Gordon, the courtesy title used was "Earl of March".
The family seat is Goodwood House near Chichester, West Sussex.
## Dukes of Richmond (1675).
The heir apparent is Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara (b. 1994), ... | 20,387 |
420528 | Duke of Richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duke%20of%20Richmond | Duke of Richmond
5. Henry Charles Gordon-Lennox (b. 1976), great-great grandson of the 7th Duke
- 6. Charles William Gordon-Lennox (b. 2005), great-great-great grandson of the 7th Duke
- 7. Thomas Edward Charles Gordon-Lennox (b. 2009), great-great-great grandson of the 7th Duke
- 8. Edward Charles Gordon-Lennox (b.... | 20,388 |
420528 | Duke of Richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duke%20of%20Richmond | Duke of Richmond
13. Archie Clement Gordon-Lennox (b. 2014), great-great-great grandson of the 7th Duke
- 14. Col. David Henry Charles Gordon-Lennox (b. 1935), great-grandson of the 7th Duke
- 15. Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox (b. 1934), great-grandson of the 6th Duke
- 16. Ian Charles Gordon-Lennox (b. 1958), ... | 20,389 |
420528 | Duke of Richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duke%20of%20Richmond | Duke of Richmond
1 and 4 azure three fleurs-de-lis and a bordure engrailed Or; 2 and 3 Or a fess chequy azure and argent, a bordure gules semy of buckles Or (Stewart of Bonkyl); overall an inescutcheon of Lennox.
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset (creation of 1525), bore the Tudor royal arms (quarterly Fran... | 20,390 |
420528 | Duke of Richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duke%20of%20Richmond | Duke of Richmond
ss chequy azure and argent, a bordure gules semy of buckles Or (Stewart of Bonkyl); overall an inescutcheon of Lennox.
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset (creation of 1525), bore the Tudor royal arms (quarterly France and England) with a border quarterly ermine (for Brittany) and compony azu... | 20,391 |
420548 | ACCT | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ACCT | ACCT
ACCT
ACCT may refer to:
- Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television
- African College of Commerce and Technology, a private tertiary educational institution in Uganda
- Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique, the precursor to what is now the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
- Association fo... | 20,392 |
420546 | Professional American football championship games | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Professional%20American%20football%20championship%20games | Professional American football championship games
Professional American football championship games
Below is a list of professional football championship games in the United States, involving:
- the informal western Pennsylvania professional football circuit (WPC, 1890 to c.1910);
- the 1902 "National" Football Leag... | 20,393 |
420546 | Professional American football championship games | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Professional%20American%20football%20championship%20games | Professional American football championship games
the United States Football League (USFL, 1983–85);
- the XFL (2001);
- the United Football League (2009–2011);
- and any interleague challenge games that included at least one champion of a major or borderline-major league.
Prior to 1920, no national professional fo... | 20,394 |
420546 | Professional American football championship games | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Professional%20American%20football%20championship%20games | Professional American football championship games
Football League were two prominent regional associations in the 1910s (the NYPFL held an actual championship game in 1919). In 1920, teams from the Ohio League and New York Pro Football League, along with other midwestern teams, formalized into the American Professional... | 20,395 |
420546 | Professional American football championship games | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Professional%20American%20football%20championship%20games | Professional American football championship games
against college or semi-pro teams; some played "after" the season was over, some stopped play "before" a season was over. For example, in 1921, the Buffalo All-Americans disputed the Chicago Staleys' title, and in 1925, the Pottsville Maroons claimed the championship wa... | 20,396 |
420546 | Professional American football championship games | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Professional%20American%20football%20championship%20games | Professional American football championship games
football championship game in the United States. See National Football League championships.
Game scores marked with a † (1921 and 1932) were not official championship games, but were the deciding games in determining a championship and also the last games played in a ... | 20,397 |
420546 | Professional American football championship games | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Professional%20American%20football%20championship%20games | Professional American football championship games
1891 (WPC) - Pittsburgh Athletic Club (7-0-0)
- 1892 (WPC) - Allegheny Athletic Association 4, Pittsburgh Athletic Club 0
- 1894 (WPC) - Allegheny Athletic Association 30, Pittsburgh Athletic Club 0
- 1895 (WPC) - Duquesne Country and Athletic Club 10, Pittsburgh Ath... | 20,398 |
420546 | Professional American football championship games | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Professional%20American%20football%20championship%20games | Professional American football championship games
0
- 1902 (WSF) – All-Syracuse 36, Orange AC 0
- 1902 (OIC) – Akron East Ends
- 1903 (OIC) – Massillon Tigers (8-1-0) 11, Akron East Ends 0
- 1903 (WPC) - Latrobe Athletic Association 6, Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA 0
- 1903 (WSF) – Franklin Athletic Club 12, Watertow... | 20,399 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.