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15828704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jou%C3%A9-du-Plain | Joué-du-Plain | Joué-du-Plain () is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. The commune was mentioned in 1216 by the name of "Jeum". There are 248 people living there. The community festival is 29 June.
Geography
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Le Ménil Martel,La Rivière,... | 2.515625 | 0 |
15828705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%20Aspera%20Ad%20Astra%20%28film%29 | Per Aspera Ad Astra (film) | Per Aspera Ad Astra (, USA screen name - Through the Thorns to the Stars; Humanoid Woman) is a 1981 Soviet science fiction film directed by Richard Viktorov and based on a novel by Kir Bulychov.
Plot
In the 23rd century, the starship Pushkin discovers a derelict alien spaceship of unknown origin. The alien craft's cre... | 2.046875 | 0 |
15828733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward%20Pinkett | Ward Pinkett | William Ward Pinkett, Jr. (April 29, 1906 – March 15, 1937) was an American jazz trumpeter and scat vocalist during the Harlem Renaissance. A respected sideman recognized as a "hot" trumpet and with a versatile ear, he played and recorded with some of the greatest jazzmen of the era, including King Oliver, Jimmy Johnso... | 2.546875 | 0 |
15828733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward%20Pinkett | Ward Pinkett | Career
In January 1926, 19-year-old Pinkett joined Charlie Johnson's Original Paradise Band at Smalls Paradise in Harlem, Manhattan. In the summer of 1926 he switched to the 10-piece Willie Gant's Paradise Ramblers, who took over from Johnson as Smalls' house band from May 1926 to 1927. Jazz writer Albert McCarthy repo... | 2.40625 | 0 |
15828771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20theory | Stable theory | In the mathematical field of model theory, a theory is called stable if it satisfies certain combinatorial restrictions on its complexity. Stable theories are rooted in the proof of Morley's categoricity theorem and were extensively studied as part of Saharon Shelah's classification theory, which showed a dichotomy t... | 2 | 0 |
15828788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20William%20Boyle | Robert William Boyle | Robert William Boyle (October 2, 1883 – April 18, 1955) was a physicist and one of the most important early pioneers in the development of sonar.
Boyle was born in 1883 at Carbonear in the Dominion of Newfoundland. Boyle left Newfoundland for Montreal, Quebec in Canada where he trained at McGill University under Nobe... | 2.46875 | 0 |
15828802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eesh%20Safari | Eesh Safari | Eesh Safari's social, cultural, and physical help
Eesh Safari is a helper method to the native parts of the regions that the show uses for the contests. Participants of Eesh Safari usually clean up their left-overs and help themselves with problems that occur to their habitats or own property, such as a flood that occu... | 2.921875 | 0 |
15828864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick-firing%20gun | Quick-firing gun | A quick-firing or rapid-firing gun is an artillery piece, typically a gun or howitzer, that has several characteristics which taken together mean the weapon can fire at a fast rate. Quick-firing was introduced worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s and had a marked impact on war both on land and at sea.
Characteristics
The ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
15828894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah%20Aviation%20Hall%20of%20Fame | Utah Aviation Hall of Fame | The Utah Aviation Hall of Fame was established in 1996 to honor and recognize individuals in the State of Utah who have contributed significantly to Utah aviation. These people have distinguished themselves through major contributions in advancing aviation or heroic accomplishments as civil or military aviators in and ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
15828988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid%20butterflyfish | Pyramid butterflyfish | The pyramid butterflyfish (Hemitaurichthys polylepis) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish belonging to the family Chaetodontidae, native from central Indo-Pacific.
Description
The pyramid butterflyfish is a small-sized fish that can reach a maximum length of 18 cm.
Its body is compressed laterally... | 2.609375 | 0 |
15829026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-Naphthol | 2-Naphthol | 2-Naphthol, or β-naphthol, is a fluorescent colorless (or occasionally yellow) crystalline solid with the formula C10H7OH. It is an isomer of 1-naphthol, differing by the location of the hydroxyl group on the naphthalene ring. The naphthols are naphthalene homologues of phenol, but more reactive. Both isomers are solub... | 2.28125 | 0 |
15829115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Clark%20%28designer%29 | Jeff Clark (designer) | Jeff Clark (born 1971) is an American poet and book designer.
Biography
Clark grew up in southern California. He studied at UC Davis and completed a Master of Fine Arts in poetry at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. At Davis, Clark drummed for the band Buick, whose album Sweatertongue was released by Lather Records in 1992... | 2.078125 | 0 |
15829359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%20farming | Hill farming | Hill farming or terrace farming is an extensive farming in upland areas, primarily rearing sheep, although historically cattle were often reared extensively in upland areas. Fell farming is the farming of fells, a fell being an area of uncultivated high ground used as common grazing. It is a term commonly used in North... | 2.84375 | 0 |
15829359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%20farming | Hill farming | Upland areas are not traditionally favourable for agricultural practices. The majority of Hill farming land in England is classified as Less Favoured Area (LFA), and the LFA constitutes 17% of land farmed in England. The LFA is further divided into Severely Disadvantaged Areas (SDAs) and Disadvantaged Areas (DAs), whi... | 3.203125 | 0 |
15829359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%20farming | Hill farming | Over the past century, Hill farming and the upland environment have undergone a number of changes.
Since 1900 there has been:
An approximately 500% increase in the number of sheep livestock.
A decrease in medium-sized farms, due to increase in large farms businesses and the emergence of small-scale hobby farmers.
... | 3.234375 | 0 |
15829359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%20farming | Hill farming | During winter farmers will usually keep the animals indoors, supplementing the livestock's diet with hay or silage. The land used to grow winter feed that are not mowed are able to provide protection for a variety of birds including skylarks, partridge, and corncrakes who build on their nests on the ground.
Agricultura... | 3.109375 | 0 |
15829359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%20farming | Hill farming | Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Hill farming has been supported by both the British government and EU policies, one of the most influential EU scheme being The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The CAP provided production-based direct (headage) which gave incentive to stock beef cattle and sheep at high densities. T... | 2.328125 | 0 |
15829359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%20farming | Hill farming | Hill farmer income is subject to large fluctuation above the influence of the farmers. The harsh terrain and climate of hill farms are hard on the animals, causing them to be relatively very unproductive. Because of this, hill farming can have economic strains on the farmers who generally have low income. Wet weather,... | 2.640625 | 0 |
15829359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%20farming | Hill farming | Many farmers rely on a Single Farm Payment as a source of income. These payments are expected to arrive in November or December, but sometimes farmers do not receive the money until June. Due to this farmers are often unable to pay their bills or fix their machinery. Some farmers have to cut back on the feed given t... | 2.40625 | 0 |
15829365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiesville | Hiesville | Hiesville () is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy, north-western France. A small commune, Hiesville covers an area of just . It is bounded by Boutteville to the north, Blosville to the west, Sainte-Marie-du-Mont to the east, and Vierville to the south, and lies several kilometres from the Normandy coast.
... | 2.25 | 0 |
15829589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Garland | Joe Garland | Joseph Copeland Garland (August 15, 1903, Norfolk, Virginia – April 21, 1977, Teaneck, New Jersey) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger, best known for writing "In the Mood".
Garland studied music at Shaw University and the Aeolian Conservatory. He started by playing classical music but joined a ja... | 2.203125 | 0 |
15829771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo%E2%80%93United%20States%20relations | Kosovo–United States relations | The United States officially recognized Kosovo as a country on February 18, 2008, one day after the Kosovar declaration of independence from Serbia. Since then, the two countries have maintained relations, with Kosovo considering the United States one of its most important allies. Kosovo has dedicated several monuments... | 2.46875 | 0 |
15829771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo%E2%80%93United%20States%20relations | Kosovo–United States relations | During the European Commission-hosted international Donors' Conference on July 11, 2008 the United States pledged $400 million for 2008–2009 to support, among many other things, helping relieve debt Kosovo may inherit. U.S. assistance in Kosovo continues to support governance through strengthening civil society and pol... | 2.1875 | 0 |
15829771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo%E2%80%93United%20States%20relations | Kosovo–United States relations | Widespread sentiments of gratitude are held by people in Kosovo to the US for playing a major role in ending Serb control of the area. These sentiments increased, including support toward the US, especially after it recognised Kosovan independence. The Kosovo population also support the US engagement with the Balkans, ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
15829815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste%20Taveau | Auguste Taveau | Auguste Taveau (Louis Augustin Onésiphore Taveau) was a French dentist born in Le Havre, the 28th of August 1792. Date and place of his death are still unknown. In 1826, he was among the first to use amalgam as a dental restorative material, although he had originally developed it as early as 1816. He went on trying t... | 2.5625 | 0 |
15829841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Gaskin | Leonard Gaskin | Leonard Gaskin (August 25, 1920 – January 24, 2009) was an American jazz bassist born in New York City.
Gaskin played on the early bebop scene at Minton's and Monroe's in New York in the early 1940s. In 1944 he took over Oscar Pettiford's spot in Dizzy Gillespie's band, and followed it with stints in bands led by Coot... | 2.015625 | 0 |
15829845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Reyntiens | Patrick Reyntiens | Nicholas Patrick Reyntiens OBE (; 11 December 1925 – 25 October 2021) was a British stained-glass artist, described as "the leading practitioner of stained glass in this country."
Personal life
Reyntiens was born in December 1925 at 68 Cadogan Square, Knightsbridge, London SW1, of Belgian extraction. He was sent to sc... | 2.15625 | 0 |
15830159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente%20Nicolau%20de%20Mesquita | Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita | Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita (July 9, 1818, in São Lourenço, Portuguese Macau – March 20, 1880, in São Lourenço, Portuguese Macau) was an officer of the Portuguese Army in Macau. He is widely remembered for his role at the Portuguese attack of Baishaling, in 1849. He was the oldest of the five children of noted Macanese... | 1.945313 | 0 |
15830247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Babe | My Babe | Releases and charts
Ray Charles had famously, and controversially, pioneered the gospel-song-to-secular-song approach with his reworking of the gospel hymn "It Must Be Jesus" into "I Got a Woman," which hit the Billboard R&B charts on January 22, 1955, later climbing to the number one position for one week. Within days... | 2.21875 | 0 |
15830332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Whitley%20%28prison%20warden%29 | John Whitley (prison warden) | Philosophy
Like several Louisiana wardens before him, Whitley was committed to an open door policy with the media. He told editors of the inmate-produced newsmagazine, The Angolite, that he would continue the decades-long policy of lack of censorship. This had enabled the inmates to produce reporting on difficult issue... | 1.945313 | 0 |
15830409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passale%C3%A3o%20incident | Passaleão incident | The Passaleão incident (), also known as the Battle of Passaleão (or Pak Shan Lan) or Baishaling incident, was a conflict between Portugal and China over Macau in August 1849. The Chinese were defeated in the only military confrontation, but the Portuguese called off further punitive measures after a naval explosion ki... | 2.78125 | 0 |
15830409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passale%C3%A3o%20incident | Passaleão incident | Matters came to a head on 22 August, when Amaral and his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Jerónimo Pereira Leite, left the town through the Portas do Cerco (Barrier Gate) to give alms to an elderly Chinese woman whom Amaral was supporting. The two were only a few hundred yards within the gate when a Chinese coolie frightened A... | 1.921875 | 0 |
15830409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passale%C3%A3o%20incident | Passaleão incident | In the aftermath of the assassination, sensing Portuguese weakness, the Chinese moved troops closer to the city. On 25 August, the guns of the imperial fort of Latashi (拉塔石), known to the Portuguese as Passaleão, about one mile north of the city, opened fire on the walls of Macau. The field artillery and naval guns of ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
15830409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passale%C3%A3o%20incident | Passaleão incident | Aftermath
After their initial victory, the Portuguese received support from Britain, France and the United States. They brought in reinforcements from Portuguese India (Goa) and metropolitan Portugal (Lisbon). Following negotiations, the Chinese agreed to return Amaral's head and arm in January 1850, and the governor's... | 2.59375 | 0 |
15830436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20literacy | Balanced literacy | Balanced literacy is a theory of teaching reading and writing the English language that arose in the 1990s and has a variety of interpretations. For some, balanced literacy strikes a balance between whole language and phonics and puts an end to the so called "reading wars". Others say balanced literacy, in practice, us... | 3.5 | 0 |
15830436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20literacy | Balanced literacy | During balanced literacy reading workshops, skills are explicitly modeled during mini-lessons. The mini-lesson has four parts: the connection, the teach (demonstration), the active engagement and the link. The teacher chooses a skill and strategy that the class needs to be taught based on assessments conducted in the c... | 3.734375 | 0 |
15830436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20literacy | Balanced literacy | Guided reading is a small group activity where more of the responsibility belongs to the student. Students read from a leveled text. They use the skills directly taught during mini-lessons, interactive read aloud and shared reading to increase their comprehension and fluency. The teacher is there to provide prompting a... | 4.03125 | 0 |
15830436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20literacy | Balanced literacy | The mini-lesson is a whole class activity. The teacher introduces a skill or strategy they want students to be able to apply during the independent writing time. Examples of skills or strategies could include: using strong verbs; how to transition from one idea to another; the importance of adding vivid details; how to... | 3.5 | 0 |
15830436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20literacy | Balanced literacy | Balanced literacy is implemented through the Reading and Writing Workshop Model. The teacher begins by modeling the reading/writing strategy that is the focus of the workshop during a mini-lesson (see above description) Then, students read leveled texts independently or write independently for an extended period of ti... | 3.546875 | 0 |
15830436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20literacy | Balanced literacy | Children are taught to use comprehension strategies including: sequencing, relating background knowledge, making inferences, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, synthesizing, problem-solving, distinguishing between fact and opinion, finding the main idea, and supporting details.
During the Reading and Writing Work... | 3.453125 | 0 |
15830636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara%20Gee | Tamara Gee | Tamara Gee is of Polish descent. She was born in Seattle, Washington, in the United States as Tamara Diane Wimer. At 8 years old she began singing the National Anthem as a soloist for major Seattle sporting events at the Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Mariners and Seattle SuperSonics games in arenas of 65,000+ people and wa... | 2.34375 | 0 |
15830659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Hall%20%28Australian%20politician%29 | Edmund Hall (Australian politician) | Edmund Henry Hartley Hall (13 August 1878 – 28 July 1965) was an Australian politician who represented the Western Australian Legislative Council district of Central Province from 1928 until 1947, and the Legislative Assembly seat of Geraldton from 1947 until 1950. He was a member of the Country Party.
Biography
Born ... | 1.960938 | 0 |
15830683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Quincy%20%281628%E2%80%931698%29 | Edmund Quincy (1628–1698) | Edmund Quincy II (; 1628–1698) was an English colonist soldier, planter, politician, and merchant in the American colonies. He emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633 with his father, Edmund Quincy I.
Early life
Edmund Quincy II was born in England in 1628. He was the son of Edmund Quincy I. In 1633, at arou... | 2.796875 | 0 |
15830750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%20Public%20School | Foundation Public School | Foundation Public School (FPS) are a group of private schools based in Karachi, Hyderabad and Islamabad Pakistan, educating children from the ages of three and a half to eighteen, including O and A Levels. The school has nine campuses, one in Hyderabad offering Intermediate diplomas, and was founded in 1981.
House sys... | 2.5625 | 0 |
15830777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutu%20District | Gutu District | Gutu is the third largest district in Masvingo Province, southern Zimbabwe, after Chiredzi and Mwenezi. It is the northernmost district in the province. The name "Gutu" is historically reported to have emerged from "Chinomukutu wemiseve" – meaning, "the one with a load of arrows". This is according to oral historical f... | 2.125 | 0 |
15830777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutu%20District | Gutu District | Geography
Climatically, the area falls under Natural Region III. Natural Regions (NRs) in Zimbabwe's context are areas delineated on the basis of soil type, rainfall and other climatic factors. It is one of a few districts in the country that suffers from over-population. Its population density of 22.08 per square kilo... | 2.296875 | 0 |
15831083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Murchison | Carl Murchison | Carl Allanmore Murchison (1887–1961) was an American psychologist and an early promoter of the discipline of psychology. Unlike most psychologists who became prominent in the history books, Murchison was not an influential theorist or researcher. Instead, he was an extremely active organizer, publisher, and editor.
Mu... | 2.6875 | 0 |
15831125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha%20Belt%20Line | Omaha Belt Line | The Omaha Belt Line was a long railroad that circumnavigated Omaha, Nebraska, starting in 1885. The organization behind the line, called the Omaha Belt Railway, was incorporated two years earlier, in 1883. Carrying passengers and cargo, the original line was operated by the Missouri Pacific Railroad, with the first li... | 2.46875 | 0 |
15831125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha%20Belt%20Line | Omaha Belt Line | The line was abandoned and removed piecemeal throughout the 1980s and 1990s as freight customers moved to bigger facilities away from the rail line and public transportation service in Omaha became less popular and dominated by an inefficient bus system. Today a portion of the Belt Line has been turned into the MoPac T... | 2.140625 | 0 |
15831283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah%20Gates | Elijah Gates | Elijah Gates (December 17, 1827 – March 4, 1915) was an American politician, and colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Early and personal life
Gates moved to Platte County, Missouri, sometime around 1846, and subsequently settled on a farm in Buchanan County. In 1852, he married Maria S... | 2.390625 | 0 |
15831300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellegen%27s%20theorem | Tellegen's theorem | Tellegen's theorem is one of the most powerful theorems in network theory. Most of the energy distribution theorems and extremum principles in network theory can be derived from it. It was published in 1952 by Bernard Tellegen. Fundamentally, Tellegen's theorem gives a simple relation between magnitudes that satisfy ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
15831300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellegen%27s%20theorem | Tellegen's theorem | Network analogs have been constructed for a wide variety of physical systems, and have proven extremely useful in analyzing their dynamic behavior. The classical application area for network theory and Tellegen's theorem is electrical circuit theory. It is mainly in use to design filters in signal processing applicatio... | 2.203125 | 0 |
15831358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Brooke | Heather Brooke | Describing herself as "burnt out" from covering over 300 murders, Brooke took a break from journalism. When her mother died in a car accident in 1996, and her father moved back to England, she no longer had family in America and decided to relocate to the United Kingdom. She enrolled for a master's in English literatur... | 1.945313 | 0 |
15831619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Response%20Framework | National Response Framework | Historical context
The NRF represents the American state of the art in the blueprint application of strategic staff planning that has at its roots the model of the Prussian General Staff in 1870, after which the United States Army adopted that form of staff organizational structure and function. This model includes ded... | 1.914063 | 0 |
15831721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%2Agger%20Wetb%2Ack%20Ch%2Ank%3A%20The%20Race%20Play | N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk: The Race Play | N*GGER WETB*CK CH*NK, also known as "N*W*C", is a comedy stage production co-written by Rafael Agustin, Allan Axibal, Miles Gregley, Liesel Reinhart, and Steven T. Seagle. The production was originally performed by Rafael Agustin, Miles Gregley, and Allan Axibal.
The play uses a combination of theater, stand-up comedy... | 2.0625 | 0 |
15831806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto%20Rico%20Highway%205 | Puerto Rico Highway 5 | Puerto Rico Highway 5 (PR-5) is a main highway in the San Juan Metropolitan area which connects the cities of Cataño to Bayamón and is being extended and converted to a tollway (it has a toll plaza in Bayamón near PR-2 and PR-174) to access the municipalities of Naranjito and Comerío. It is a short freeway from south C... | 2.125 | 0 |
15831872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell%20Harrison | Wendell Harrison | Wendell Harrison (born October 1, 1942) is an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist.
Early life and career
Wendell Harrison was born in Detroit, Michigan. In Detroit, Harrison began formal jazz studies with pianist Barry Harris. He began playing clarinet at age seven. He switched to tenor saxophone whil... | 2.453125 | 0 |
15831872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell%20Harrison | Wendell Harrison | Harrison and his first wife, Patricia, also published Tribe magazine, a publication dedicated to local and national social and political issues, as well as featuring artistic contributions such as poetry and visual pieces. The magazine proved popular, eventually switching from quarterly to monthly publication. Harris... | 2.25 | 0 |
15831914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Fehlis | Heinrich Fehlis | It has been suggested that Fehlis took a milder approach towards the end of the war, possibly fearing reprisals in the case of a German defeat. Despite already having a family in Germany, he entered a relationship with a Norwegian woman named Else Johanne Schaug, who gave birth to his daughter Venke Fehlis in January 1... | 2.03125 | 0 |
15832065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20A.%20O%27Neil | James A. O'Neil | James A. O’Neil (January 26, 1800 – September 1, 1874) was an American businessman and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory. A New York native, he took part in the Champoeg Meetings and helped form the Provisional Government of Oregon. Prior to the formation of a government he participated in the... | 2.25 | 0 |
15832087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Defensor%20Sr. | Arthur Defensor Sr. | Arthur "Art" Doligosa Defensor Sr. (born December 25, 1941) is a Filipino politician and a statesman who served as the governor of Iloilo from 1992 until 2001, and again from 2010 until 2019. He also served as Representative of the 3rd District of Iloilo from 2001 to 2010. He was the Majority Leader of the 14th Congre... | 2.046875 | 0 |
15832122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Barnett%20%28politician%29 | Richard Barnett (politician) | Major Sir Richard Whieldon Barnett (6 December 1863 – 17 October 1930) was an Irish barrister, sportsman, volunteer officer and freemason who sat as a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons. He also competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Early life and education
Barnett was the eldest son of Richar... | 2.421875 | 0 |
15832128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggins%20Mountains | Muggins Mountains | The Muggins Mountains is a mountain range in southwest Arizona east of Yuma, Arizona, northeast of the Gila Mountains, and east of the Laguna Mountains. The Castle Dome Mountains lie to the northeast across the broad Castle Dome Plain. The Muggins Mountains Wilderness occupies the southwest portion of the range.
The M... | 2.265625 | 0 |
15832233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Sheffield%2C%201st%20Baron%20Sheffield | Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield | Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, of Butterwick (22 November 1521 – 1 August 1549) was an English nobleman who died in Kett's Rebellion.
Early life
Edmund Sheffield was born on 22 November 1521 in Butterwick, Lincolnshire to Sir Robert Sheffield (died 15 November 1531, son of Sir Robert Sheffield and Helen Delve... | 1.976563 | 0 |
15832233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Sheffield%2C%201st%20Baron%20Sheffield | Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield | Death
In 1549, Sheffield accompanied William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton on an expedition to quell Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk. On 1 August 1549, during a pitched battle at Pockthorpe Gate for control of Norwich, Sheffield fell from his horse and was captured by an armed mob. The rebels refused the lord's reques... | 2.21875 | 0 |
15832486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Morrison | David Morrison | Upon promotion to colonel in October 1999, Morrison was appointed as colonel of Operations, Headquarters International Force for East Timor (INTERFET). On his return to Australia, he was posted to the Deployable Joint Force Headquarters (DJFHQ) as chief of staff. He left that position at the end of 2001 to attend the C... | 1.9375 | 0 |
15832486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Morrison | David Morrison | Women in the military
In June 2013, Civilian Authorities were going to announce the mishandling of serious investigations by the ADF. As a result, Morrison ordered an investigation into several emails sent from Army accounts over a three-year period that were highly demeaning to women, which became known as the "Jedi C... | 1.921875 | 0 |
15832486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Morrison | David Morrison | In June 2014 Morrison formed part of the Australian delegation to the Global Summit To End Sexual Violence in Conflict in London, to which he delivered a speech arguing that armies that separate themselves from civil society, value men over women and celebrate violence "do nothing to distinguish the soldier from the br... | 1.976563 | 0 |
15832491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20the%20Imperial%20Collections | Museum of the Imperial Collections | The Museum of the Imperial Collections is located on the grounds of the East Garden of Tokyo Imperial Palace. It showcases a changing exhibition of a part of the imperial household treasures.
History
The Museum of the Imperial Collections was conceived during the change from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989) to the Heis... | 2.875 | 0 |
15832610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebufo | Beelzebufo | Beelzebufo ( or ) is an extinct genus of hyloid frog from the Late Cretaceous Berivotra and Maevarano Formations of Madagascar. The type species is B. ampinga, and common names assigned by the popular media to B. ampinga include devil frog, devil toad, and the frog from hell.
Discovery and naming
The first fossil bo... | 2.375 | 0 |
15832610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebufo | Beelzebufo | Classification
Within the superfamily Hyloidea, the definitive phylogenetic position of Beelzebufo is uncertain. While initially placed as a member of the family Ceratophryidae, a 2018 study suggested that Beelzebufo, and other extinct frogs with ceratophryid-like traits such as Baurubatrachus, were instead part of a ... | 2.625 | 0 |
15832717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20statistics | Computational statistics | Computational statistics, or statistical computing, is the study which is the intersection of statistics and computer science, and refers to the statistical methods that are enabled by using computational methods. It is the area of computational science (or scientific computing) specific to the mathematical science of ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
15832717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20statistics | Computational statistics | In 1908, William Sealy Gosset performed his now well-known Monte Carlo method simulation which led to the discovery of the Student’s t-distribution. With the help of computational methods, he also has plots of the empirical distributions overlaid on the corresponding theoretical distributions. The computer has revoluti... | 2.375 | 0 |
15832752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian%20Gardens | Victorian Gardens | Victorian Gardens was a seasonal traditional-style amusement park that set up at Wollman Rink in Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, from spring through fall each year.
Description
The facility, which started operating in spring 2003, accommodated up to 3,000 guests and featured about a dozen rides geared primari... | 2.0625 | 0 |
15832758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velepromet%20camp | Velepromet camp | The Velepromet camp was a detention facility established in the final days of the Battle of Vukovar during the Croatian War of Independence. The camp was set up by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), which shared control of the facility with Croatian Serb rebels. The facility, originally an industrial storage site, was l... | 2.15625 | 0 |
15832758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velepromet%20camp | Velepromet camp | After a bloodless skirmish between Serb insurgents and Croatian special police in March, the JNA itself, supported by Serbia and its supporters, asked the Presidency to give it wartime powers and declare a state of emergency. The request was denied on 15 March, and the JNA came under the control of Serbian President Sl... | 2.46875 | 0 |
15832758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velepromet%20camp | Velepromet camp | Detainees were generally kept in the Velepromet camp for three to four days before being transferred to Sremska Mitrovica. It is estimated that up to 10,000 civilians and prisoners of war passed through the Velepromet camp before the camp was closed down in March 1992, when the United Nations Protection Force deployed ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
15832772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osu%21 | Osu! | Osu! (stylized as osu!) is a free-to-play rhythm game originally created and self-published by Australian developer Dean Herbert. It was released for Microsoft Windows on 16 September 2007, with later ports to macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
Osu!s gameplay, based on the Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan series of rhythm games, pri... | 2.265625 | 0 |
15832772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osu%21 | Osu! | Community and popularity
Osu! has continued to gain popularity since its release, being widely shared on video and live streaming platforms like YouTube and TikTok. The game works on a model of community-generated beatmaps, which has been cited as a significant factor in its popularity and longevity. A large portion o... | 2.09375 | 0 |
15832789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20True%20Meaning%20of%20Smekday | The True Meaning of Smekday | The True Meaning of Smekday is a 2007 children's book by Adam Rex. It was adapted by DreamWorks Animation into the 2015 feature film Home.
Rex's second volume in the series, Smek for President!, was published in 2015, prior to the release of Home. The film version, which departed significantly from the books' continu... | 2.9375 | 0 |
15832802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymulin | Thymulin | Thymulin (also known as thymic factor or its old name facteur thymique serique) is a nonapeptide produced by two distinct epithelial populations in the thymus first described by Bach in 1977. It requires zinc for biological activity. Its peptide sequence is H-Pyr-Ala-Lys-Ser-Gln-Gly-Gly-Ser-Asn-OH.
The hormone is beli... | 2.0625 | 0 |
15832946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo%20Borghese%20%281904%E2%80%931985%29 | Paolo Borghese (1904–1985) | Don Paolo Borghese, Duke of Bomarzo, Prince of Sant Angelo of San Paolo (20 October 1904 – 24 April 1985) was an Italian nobleman of the Borghese family. He was born in Cafaggiolo. His father and mother were Marco Borghese, Duca di Bomarzo, and Isabel Fanny Louise Porges.
His first wife was Anne dei Conti Scheibler, w... | 2.203125 | 0 |
15832996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20H%C4%81naiali%CA%BBi%20Gilliom | Amy Hānaialiʻi Gilliom | Amy Hānaialiʻi Gilliom is an American vocalist and songwriter.
Hanaialiʻi is a six-time Grammy Award Nominee. She is best known for reinvigorating the Hawaiian tradition of female falsetto singing.
Her album Generation Hawaii won four Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards in 2007 for Album of the Year, Hawaiian Album of the Year,... | 2.015625 | 0 |
15833059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccus%20mac%20Arailt | Maccus mac Arailt | Maccus mac Arailt (fl. 971–974), or Maccus Haraldsson, was a tenth-century King of the Isles. Although his parentage is uncertain, surviving evidence suggests that he was the son of Harald Sigtryggson, also known as Aralt mac Sitriuc, the Hiberno-Norse King of Limerick. Maccus' family is known as the Meic Arailt kindre... | 2.609375 | 0 |
15833059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccus%20mac%20Arailt | Maccus mac Arailt | Maccus appears to have been an elder brother of Gofraid mac Arailt. A sister of Maccus and Gofraid, or perhaps a daughter of the latter, may have been Máel Muire, wife of Gilla Pátraic mac Donnchada, King of Osraige. Specific evidence of a familial relationship between Máel Muire and the Meic Arailt may be preserved by... | 2.53125 | 0 |
15833059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccus%20mac%20Arailt | Maccus mac Arailt | The Meic Arailt first appear on record in the Irish Sea in the 970s. The power of the family seems to have been centred in the Isles, and may have been based upon control of the important trade routes through the Irish Sea region. If the Meic Arailt were indeed centred in the Hebrides, the family's apparent ambition t... | 2.71875 | 0 |
15833059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccus%20mac%20Arailt | Maccus mac Arailt | There is evidence indicating that Maccus was amongst the assembled kings who are recorded to have met with Edgar, King of the English at Chester in 973. According to the "D", "E", and "F" versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, after having been consecrated king that year, this English monarch assembled a massive naval ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
15833059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccus%20mac%20Arailt | Maccus mac Arailt | The precise reasons for Edgar's assembly are uncertain. It came on the heels of a royal crowning ceremony at Bath, and could have been orchestrated as a way to project imperial authority over Edgar's neighbours. With a grand show of force, Edgar may have sought to demonstrate this authority, and thereby resolve certain... | 1.914063 | 0 |
15833059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccus%20mac%20Arailt | Maccus mac Arailt | The fact that Brenhinedd y Saesson reports that Gofraid subdued Anglesey and placed it under tribute could indicate that the Meic Arailt were attempting to establish themselves in Britain, and could indicate that the Meic Arailt participated in the assembly in this context. If Maccus was in possession of Mann in the 97... | 1.90625 | 0 |
15833059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccus%20mac%20Arailt | Maccus mac Arailt | It is possible that Ímar was in control of Limerick in 969, and may have controlled the town in 972, when the Munstermen are recorded to have expelled the Viking ruling elite. If correct, Ímar's return to power could explain the Meic Arailt kindred's actions against him. Maccus may have ransomed Ímar to the Limerickmen... | 2.46875 | 0 |
15833069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilling%20Group | Tilling Group | The Tilling Group was one of two conglomerates that controlled almost all of the major bus operators in the United Kingdom between World Wars I and II and until nationalisation in 1948.
Tilling, together with the other conglomerate, British Electric Traction (BET), became the main constituents of the country's nationa... | 2.15625 | 0 |
15833069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilling%20Group | Tilling Group | Tilling's horse buses stopped at predetermined points and ran to a fixed timetable, making them more punctual and orderly than the other operators' buses. This was one of the reasons for his success with customers. Because his buses operated on time, they earned the nickname of "Times" buses, and this became the fleet ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
15833069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilling%20Group | Tilling Group | In 1909, Tilling entered into an agreement with the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC), which pooled their resources (and allowed Tilling to remain independent when LGOC led an amalgamation of most of London's bus companies), but which restricted their expansion in the capital. Then, LGOC and Tilling co-operated on ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
15833069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilling%20Group | Tilling Group | BET had entered into a similar agreement with LGOC in London, and was also expanding outside London. Instead of destructive rivalry, the two companies agreed to work in close co-operation. By 1928, a BET subsidiary, British Automobile Traction Company (BAT), had interests in nineteen bus companies, with Tilling being ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
15833224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20B.%20Duncan | George B. Duncan | Major General George Brand Duncan (October 10, 1861 – March 15, 1950) was a United States Army officer who served in numerous conflicts, most notably World War I, where he commanded the 82nd Division, now the 82nd Airborne Division.
Military career
The son of Henry Timberlake Duncan Jr., mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
15833413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%2C%20Baltimore | Brooklyn, Baltimore | Brooklyn is one of the southernmost neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland. It is located near Anne Arundel County along Governor Ritchie Highway which is also Maryland Route 2. Its main roads are South Hanover Street, (formerly First Street - before 1919), Potee Street, and East Patapsco Avenue, Sixth Street, Tenth Stre... | 1.960938 | 0 |
15833413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%2C%20Baltimore | Brooklyn, Baltimore | To the northeast, along the shoreline of the Patapsco River is the former residential communities of Fairfield and Wagner's Point (also known as East Brooklyn), which were "islands of houses" surrounded by the belt of river-front heavy industry. During the construction of the 1955-1957 Baltimore Harbor Tunnel of Inters... | 2.09375 | 0 |
15833433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%E1%BB%87t%20Kh%C3%AA | Việt Khê | Việt Khê is an archaeological site in the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam. Excavations there yielded a number of coffins containing relics of the Dong Son culture in Bronze Age. The Việt Khê construction site is located on the southern base of a hill which overlooks the Hàn River near Thủy Nguyên District, Haiphong... | 2.671875 | 0 |
15833433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%E1%BB%87t%20Kh%C3%AA | Việt Khê | The chisels found at the burial site were divided into three varieties of classifications, these being wide, pointed and small-gauge working ended chisels. The pediform axes found at Viet Khe differ from most other specimens of Dong Son culture, because they were plain in appearance and had very sparse ornamental decor... | 2.515625 | 0 |
15833433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%E1%BB%87t%20Kh%C3%AA | Việt Khê | One example of the au (âu), a basin with a handle, supported by a pedestal, was found at Viet Khe. A dinh, a basin supported by three legs was found, which resembled the li of China. The khay is an artefact not similar to modern implements, consistings of a low tray wide large handles, decorated with triangular figures... | 2.359375 | 0 |
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