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9,749,219 | Bible Tower | The Bible Tower is situated in Thrissur city of Kerala, India. It was inaugurated on 7 January 2007. The tower is the tallest church tower in India and Asia. It is also the tallest structure in whole of Kerala. The 79 metre (260 ft) tower stands behind two towers of 42.5 metres (140 ft) height. | [
"Religion"
] | 2007-02-27T08:16:19Z | 2007-02-27T08:22:02Z |
40,658,291 | Houdina Radio Control | The Houdina Radio Control Company was an American a radio equipment firm of the 1920s, remembered for demonstrating a radio-operated automobile in several cities. | [
"Engineering"
] | 2013-09-29T01:39:24Z | 2013-09-30T07:41:46Z |
1,213,887 | Richard Schwartz (mathematician) | Richard Evan Schwartz (born August 11, 1966) is an American mathematician notable for his contributions to geometric group theory and to an area of mathematics known as billiards. Geometric group theory is a relatively new area of mathematics beginning around the late 1980s which explores finitely generated groups, and seeks connections between their algebraic properties and the geometric spaces on which these groups act. He has worked on what mathematicians refer to as billiards, which are dynamical systems based on a convex shape in a plane. He has explored geometric iterations involving polygons, and he has been credited for developing the mathematical concept known as the pentagram map. In addition, he is author of a mathematics picture book for young children. | [
"Mathematics"
] | 2004-11-27T04:10:59Z | 2004-11-27T04:15:09Z |
256,791 | Accent (sociolinguistics) | In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical accent), the socioeconomic status of its speakers, their ethnicity (an ethnolect), their caste or social class (a social accent), or influence from their first language (a foreign accent). Accents typically differ in quality of voice, pronunciation and distinction of vowels and consonants, stress, and prosody. Although grammar, semantics, vocabulary, and other language characteristics often vary concurrently with accent, the word "accent" may refer specifically to the differences in pronunciation, whereas the word "dialect" encompasses the broader set of linguistic differences. "Accent" is often a subset of "dialect". | [
"Science"
] | 2003-07-02T18:46:33Z | 2003-10-17T04:56:04Z |
51,633,961 | Guru (2017 film) | Guru (transl. Mentor) is a 2017 Indian Telugu-language sports drama film written and directed by Sudha Kongara and produced by S. Shashikanth on YNOT Studios banner. The film stars Venkatesh and Ritika Singh with the music composed by Santhosh Narayanan. The film is remake of Kongara's own film Irudhi Suttru/Saala Khadoos (2016). | [
"Sports"
] | 2016-09-17T12:33:13Z | 2016-09-18T11:17:41Z |
26,691,443 | Gongyang Zhuan | The Gongyang Zhuan, also known as the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals or the Commentary of Gongyang, is a commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, and is thus one of the Chinese classics. Along with the Zuo Zhuan and the Guliang Zhuan, the work is one of the Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals. In particular, Gongyang Zhuan is a central work to New Text Confucianism (今文經學), which advocates Confucius as an institutional reformer instead of a respected scholar, and Chunqiu as an embodiment of Confucius' holistic vision on political, social, and moral issues instead of a merely chronicle. Gongyang Zhuan significantly influenced the political institution in Han dynasty. It fell out of favor among elites and was eventually replaced by the Zuo Zhuan. | [
"Philosophy"
] | 2010-03-25T03:25:39Z | 2010-03-25T03:57:43Z |
67,921,281 | Fighting Against War: Peace Activism in the Twentieth Century | Fighting Against War: Peace Activism in the Twentieth Century is an edited collection from the 14th biennial conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. The conference brought together scholars to reflect the centenary of the First World War. Edited by Phillip Deery and Julie Kimber, contributors include Karen Agutter, Anne Beggs Sunter, Robert Bollard, Verity Burgmann, Liam Byrne, Lachlan Clohesy, Rhys Cooper, Carolyn Holbrook, Nick Irving, Chris McConville, Douglas Newton, Bobbie Oliver, Carolyn Rasmussen, Phil Roberts, and Kim Thoday. Edward Eastwood noted that the book is 'Meticulously edited and covering a broad spectrum of peace movements and those involved with them in both Britain and Australia, Fighting Against War-Peace Activism in the Twentieth Century is an important work in documenting the history of peace movements in Australia and the labour/women’s organisations that propelled them throughout the conflicts of the twentieth century." Artwork for the book was provided by Victor Gordon and Sauce Design. | [
"Ethics"
] | 2021-06-11T14:12:25Z | 2021-06-11T14:17:20Z |
42,096,799 | Kepler-30 | Kepler-30 is a star in the northern constellation of Lyra. It is located at the celestial coordinates:
Right Ascension 19h 01m 08.0746s Declination +38° 56′ 50.218″. With an apparent visual magnitude of 15.5, this star is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Kepler-30 is exhibiting a strong starspot activity. | [
"Universe"
] | 2014-03-03T03:46:51Z | 2014-03-03T03:47:16Z |
774,551 | Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program | The Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program (SCAP) was an astronomical survey to search for near-Earth objects. It was conducted during the 1990s, at the Xinglong Station in Xinglong County, Chengde, Hebei province, China and resulted in the discovery of more than a thousand numbered minor planets. Funded by the Chinese Academy of Science, the survey is sometimes also called BAO Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program and NAOC Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program, referring to the Beijing Astronomical Observatory (BAO) and National Astronomical Observatory of China (NAOC), respectively. The instrument that SCAP used to detect near-Earth objects was a 60/90 cm Schmidt telescope. Equipped with a 2048×2048 CCD camera, this telescope was installed at the BAO Xinglong station in Hebei province, China. | [
"Knowledge"
] | 2004-07-03T12:57:52Z | 2004-09-26T04:40:22Z |
14,516,293 | Wang Yang (politician) | Wang Yang (Chinese: 汪洋; born 5 March 1955) is a Chinese retired politician who served as the chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 2018 to 2023. He was also the fourth-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from 2017 to 2022. Wang was born in Anhui, where he began his initial political career. He joined the central government in 1999, serving in various posts at the State Council until 2005. He was appointed as the Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing in 2005, and later became the Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong and a member of the Politburo in 2007. | [
"Knowledge"
] | 2007-12-01T21:56:29Z | 2007-12-01T21:56:59Z |
47,348,219 | Kensington Town Hall, London | Kensington Town Hall is a municipal building in Hornton Street, Kensington, London. Opened in May 1977, it is the headquarters of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council. | [
"Government"
] | 2015-07-26T23:04:57Z | 2015-07-26T23:05:28Z |
21,467,414 | List of castles in Cheshire | There are 20 castles in the county of Cheshire in North West England. | [
"Lists"
] | 2009-02-09T21:10:05Z | 2009-02-09T21:18:31Z |
74,951,663 | Germaine Djuidjé Kenmoé | Germaine Djuidjé Kenmoé (born 1973) is a Cameroonian physicist. | [
"People"
] | 2023-10-01T08:12:43Z | 2023-10-01T08:13:05Z |
57,352,830 | Siraj al-Din al-Sajawandi | Sirāj ud-Dīn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd ur-Rashīd Sajāwandī (Persian: محمد ابن محمد ابن عبدالرشید سجاوندی) also known as Abū Tāhir Muhammad al-Sajāwandī al-Hanafī (Arabic: ابی طاهر محمد السجاوندي الحنفي) and the honorific Sirāj ud-Dīn (سراج الدین, "lamp of the faith") (died c. 1203 CE or 600 AH) was a 12th-century Hanafi scholar of Islamic inheritance jurisprudence, mathematics astrology and geography. He is primarily known for his work Kitāb al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah (Arabic:کتاب الفرائض السراجیه), commonly known simply as "the Sirājīyah", which is a principal work on Hanafi inheritance law. The work was translated into English by Sir William Jones in 1792 for subsequent use in the courts of British India. He was the grand-nephew of qari Muhammad ibn Tayfour Sajawandi. He lies buried in the Ziārat-e Hazrat-o 'Āshiqān wa Ārifān in Sajawand. | [
"Mathematics"
] | 2018-05-06T23:04:54Z | 2018-05-06T23:06:24Z |
17,972,134 | Ian Buckett | Ian Martin Buckett (23 December 1967 – 9 July 2024) was a Welsh international rugby union front row forward, who played for Swansea and London Welsh. He also played county rugby for North Wales. He was a championship winning player, an international and an academic. Buckett was a member of the 1992 Oxford University team and attained three full caps for Wales. He was selected for more televised rugby football games from 1992 to 1995 than any other UK player. | [
"Government"
] | 2008-06-16T16:14:23Z | 2008-06-16T16:24:00Z |
66,921,949 | Naji Al 'Awnali | Naji Al 'Awnali (Arabic: ناجي العونلي) is a Tunisian translator and researcher who specializes in philosophy. He was born in 1968. He currently teaches Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at Tunis University. He speaks four languages in addition to Arabic. He translated a number of philosophical texts from German and French, he also received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for ‘Translation’ in 2018. | [
"Philosophy"
] | 2021-02-27T16:22:40Z | 2021-03-01T14:19:48Z |
21,172,701 | Sosu Seowon | Sosu Seowon is the oldest seowon, private Neo-Confucian academy in Korea which was established during the Joseon period. It was found at the entrance of Suksusa Temple, in Sunheung-myeon, Yeongju City, North Gyeongsang Province South Korea. Sosu Seowon was founded by Ju Sebung (주세붕; 周世鵬 1495–1554), who was serving as magistrate of Pungseong county. Sosu Seowon was one of 47 seowons that survived from the Seowon Abolishment by Heungseon Daewongun Regent in 1871. It has been well preserved retaining most of its old structures and is designated as National Treasure of South Korea No.55 | [
"Philosophy"
] | 2009-01-20T03:38:51Z | 2009-01-20T03:42:22Z |
74,070,993 | Boshof ǃUi | Boshof ǃUi is an extinct ǃKwi language or dialect of South Africa. It was recorded at the town of Boshof, between Kimberley and the Vaal River, by Maingard some time after 1930, and labeled simply "ǃUi" (that is, ǃKwi), the word for 'person' in Boshof and related languages. It is closely related to Seroa, but analysis of the recorded data has not been enough to determine the boundary between language and dialect. == References == | [
"Language"
] | 2023-06-18T23:12:31Z | 2023-06-18T23:13:19Z |
6,083,500 | New York Hippodrome | The Hippodrome Theatre, also called the New York Hippodrome, was a theater located on Sixth Avenue between West 43rd and West 44th Streets in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The theater operated from 1905 to 1939 and was called the world's largest theater by its builders, with a seating capacity of 5,300 and a stage measuring 100 by 200 feet (30 m × 61 m). It had state-of-the-art theatrical technology, including a tank built into the stage apron that could be filled with water for aquatic performances. The Hippodrome was built by Frederic Thompson and Elmer "Skip" Dundy, creators of the Luna Park amusement park on Coney Island, with the backing of Harry S. Black's U.S. Realty, a dominant real estate and construction company of the time, and was acquired by The Shubert Organization in 1909. It became the stage for Billy Rose's Jumbo in 1935. | [
"Entities"
] | 2006-07-23T17:35:12Z | 2006-07-23T17:36:33Z |
48,048,612 | Kunduz hospital airstrike | On 3 October 2015, a United States Air Force AC-130U gunship attacked the Kunduz Trauma Centre operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders) in the city of Kunduz, in the province of the same name in northern Afghanistan. 42 people were killed and over 30 were injured. Médecins Sans Frontières condemned the incident, calling it a deliberate breach of international humanitarian law and a war crime. It further stated that all warring parties had been notified about the hospital and its operations well in advance. The United States military initially said the airstrike was carried out to defend U.S. forces on the ground. | [
"Military"
] | 2015-10-04T20:17:32Z | 2015-10-04T20:33:33Z |
40,688,834 | A (cuneiform) | The cuneiform sign 𒀀 (DIŠ, DIŠ OVER DIŠ) for a, and in the Epic of Gilgamesh the sumerogram A, Akkadian for mû, "water", which is used in the Gilgamesh flood myth, Chapter XI of the Epic, or other passages. The sign is also used extensively in the Amarna letters. Cuneiform a is the most common of the four vowels in the Akkadian language, a, e, i, and u. All vowels can be interchangeable, depending on the scribe, though spellings of Akkadian words in dictionaries, will be formalized, and typically: unstressed, a 'long-vowel', or thirdly, a 'combined' vowel (often spelled with two signs (same vowel, ending the first sign, and starting the next sign), thus combined into the single vowel, â, ê, î, or û.). Cuneiform a is the most common of the four vowels, as can be shown by usage in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the usage numbers being (ú (u, no. | [
"Language"
] | 2013-10-02T17:32:13Z | 2013-10-02T18:06:43Z |
70,076,804 | Shimon Moyal | Shimon Moyal (1866–1915) was a Zionist activist and physician. He worked for several newspapers and started a short-lived newspaper with his wife, Esther Moyal. He was the translator of the Talmud into Arabic language. | [
"Language"
] | 2022-02-15T04:50:52Z | 2022-02-15T04:54:32Z |
32,272,640 | Alan Jacobs (filmmaker) | Alan Jacobs is an American independent film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for his films Nina Takes a Lover (1994) and Down for Life (2009). Born in Tappan, New York, Jacobs' career began at Apple Inc., where he was the in-house filmmaker. Jacobs is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Stanford Business School. In 1994, his first feature, Nina Takes a Lover (1994), was accepted at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival, where it was purchased and distributed by Columbia Pictures. His follow-up films included Just One Night (2000), Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists (2000), and American Gun (2002). | [
"Entertainment"
] | 2011-07-01T13:52:53Z | 2011-07-01T13:55:26Z |
19,045,168 | Gina Bianchini | Gina Bianchini (born 1972) is an American entrepreneur and investor. She is the Founder & CEO of Mighty Networks. | [
"Economy"
] | 2008-08-13T23:45:06Z | 2008-08-26T16:10:08Z |
6,451,602 | Frogger: Ancient Shadow | Frogger: Ancient Shadow is a platforming video game developed by Hudson Soft and released in 2005 by Konami as a sequel to Frogger's Adventures: The Rescue. It is based on the original 1981 Frogger arcade game, and contains similar hop-and-dodge style gameplay. | [
"Technology"
] | 2006-08-14T11:28:48Z | 2007-02-17T23:52:20Z |
40,903,801 | Natasha Mitchell | Natasha Mitchell is an Australian science journalist. She currently hosts the Radio National program Big Ideas, which presents lectures, panels and podcast episodes on ideas or issues and was initially presented by Australian journalist Paul Barclay. Mitchell was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow in 2005/2006. Mitchell was vice-president of the[World Federation of Science Journalists from 2011-2013. She was elected to the Federation's executive board in 2009. | [
"Mass_media"
] | 2013-10-27T12:39:24Z | 2013-10-27T12:39:59Z |
3,096,917 | Final Lap Twin | Final Lap Twin (ファイナルラップツイン, Fainaru Rappu Tsuin) is a hybrid racing/role-playing game developed by Nova and published by Namco. Released for the Japanese PC Engine in 1989 and the North American TurboGrafx-16 in 1990, it is a spin-off to the 1987 arcade game Final Lap. | [
"Technology"
] | 2005-11-06T23:15:35Z | 2005-11-06T23:18:37Z |
11,878,112 | Bat house | A nest box, also spelled nestbox, is a man-made enclosure provided for animals to nest in. Nest boxes are most frequently utilized for birds, in which case they are also called birdhouses or a birdbox/bird box, but some mammals such as bats may also use them. Placing nestboxes or roosting boxes may also be used to help maintain populations of particular species in an area. Nest boxes were used since Roman times to capture birds for meat. The use of nest boxes for other purposes began in the mid-18th century, and naturalist August von Berlepsch was the first to produce nest boxes on a commercial scale. | [
"Communication"
] | 2007-06-21T06:01:29Z | 2007-06-21T06:02:56Z |
37,997,280 | Anomaly XB-6783746 | "Anomaly XB-6783746" is the tenth episode of the fifth season of the Fox science-fiction/drama television series Fringe, and the show's 97th episode overall. The episode was written by David Fury and directed by Jeffrey Hunt. | [
"Information"
] | 2012-12-22T02:50:24Z | 2012-12-22T03:00:32Z |
75,679,149 | Majid Vahid | Majid Vahid Barimanlou (Persian: مجید وحید بریمانلو; born 2 July 2000) is an Iranian kurash and judoka. He participated at the 2023 World Kurash Championships winning a silver medal. He won a silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou.. He won a silver medal at the World c'ship. | [
"Sports"
] | 2023-12-30T12:38:02Z | 2023-12-30T13:02:26Z |
23,270,014 | List of Carnegie libraries in Oceania | This is a list of Carnegie libraries in Oceania. Although most of Carnegie's philanthropic efforts were aimed at North America and Europe, a handful of libraries are scattered in other English-speaking areas of the world. New Zealand, with 18 Carnegie libraries, received the fourth-most libraries of any country. | [
"Lists"
] | 2009-06-18T20:44:01Z | 2009-06-18T20:58:53Z |
48,201,900 | Topten | Topten (Korean: 탑텐)is a South Korean clothing brand operated by Shinsung Tongsang. In February 2020, Topten launched Topten Balance, which specializes in yoga & pilates and sportswear. | [
"Concepts"
] | 2015-10-13T03:01:55Z | 2019-11-06T22:46:31Z |
10,581,795 | Chilled beam | A chilled beam is a type of radiation/convection HVAC system designed to heat and cool large buildings through the use of water. This method removes most of the zone sensible local heat gains and allows the flow rate of pre-conditioned air from the air handling unit to be reduced, lowering by 60% to 80% the ducted design airflow rate and the equipment capacity requirements. There are two types of chilled beams, a Passive Chilled Beam (PCB) and an Active Chilled Beam (ACB). They both consist of pipes of water (fin-and-tube) that pass through a heat exchanger contained in a case suspended from, or recessed in, the ceiling. As the beam cools the air around it, the air becomes denser and falls to the floor. | [
"Engineering"
] | 2007-04-10T20:39:40Z | 2007-04-10T20:42:12Z |
31,801,115 | Royal Automobile Club of Tasmania | The Royal Automobile Club of Tasmania normally abbreviated to RACT is a motoring club in Tasmania, Australia. The organisation was established in 1923 and now has over 200,000 members. It is a member of the Australian Automobile Association. It provides services such as roadside assistance, vehicle, home and contents insurance, personal and car loans, driver's education and tourism. In addition to consumer services, the club also engages in consumer advocacy, particularly in regard to petrol prices, which are both historically and recently higher than prices in other parts of Australia. | [
"Ethics"
] | 2011-05-17T03:20:18Z | 2011-05-24T07:56:03Z |
64,716 | Noricum | Noricum () is the Latin name for the kingdom or federation of tribes that included most of modern Austria and part of Slovenia. In the first century AD, it became a province of the Roman Empire. Its borders were the Danube to the north, Raetia and Vindelici to the west, Pannonia to the east and south-east, and Italia (Venetia et Histria) to the south. The kingdom was founded around 400 BC, and had its capital at the royal residence at Virunum on the Magdalensberg. | [
"History"
] | 2002-07-26T07:33:21Z | 2002-09-29T22:46:51Z |
53,137,251 | List of named minor planets: L | This is a partial list of named minor planets, containing all those starting with the letter L, as of 1 July 2024. It is ordered in a case-insensitive, alphabetical manner and contains a total of 1,141 entries. Grey minor planets have no article and redirect to the list of minor planets instead (see List of minor planets § Main index). | [
"Science"
] | 2017-02-09T17:10:37Z | 2017-02-14T06:24:41Z |
632,438 | Robert Kerr (writer) | Robert Kerr (20 October 1757 – 11 October 1813) was a Scottish surgeon, writer on scientific and other subjects, and translator. | [
"Academic_disciplines"
] | 2004-05-03T08:58:05Z | 2004-07-12T10:06:25Z |
32,546,325 | Makani (company) | Makani Technologies LLC was an Alameda, California-based company that developed airborne wind turbines. Founded in 2006, Makani was acquired by Google in May 2013. In February 2020, Makani was shut down by Alphabet, Google's parent company. | [
"Energy"
] | 2011-07-27T01:41:36Z | 2011-07-27T01:49:15Z |
96,432 | Owari Province | Owari Province (尾張国, Owari no Kuni) was a province of Japan in the area that today forms the western half of Aichi Prefecture, including the modern city of Nagoya. The province was created in 646. Owari bordered on Mikawa, Mino, and Ise Provinces. Owari and Mino provinces were separated by the Sakai River, which means "border river." The province's abbreviated name was Bishū (尾州). | [
"Time"
] | 2002-09-30T05:27:06Z | 2002-10-02T06:11:11Z |
13,471,519 | TransGrid | Transgrid is the manager and operator of the high voltage electricity transmission network in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, and is part of the National Electricity Market (NEM). The company's offices are located in Sydney, Newcastle, Orange, Tamworth, Wagga, and Yass. | [
"Energy"
] | 2007-09-28T03:41:24Z | 2007-09-28T03:42:09Z |
46,696,303 | Flight MH370: The Mystery | Flight MH370: The Mystery is a 2014 book by the American-born-British author Nigel Cawthorne concerning the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. | [
"Business"
] | 2015-05-13T17:27:21Z | 2015-05-13T17:27:39Z |
77,660,922 | Carthaginian slaughterhouse inscription | The Carthaginian slaughterhouse inscription is a notable Punic inscription from Carthage published in 1871, currently held in the British Museum (ID number BM 125263. One of 10 inscriptions collected by Anglican clergyman William Fenner, based in La Goulette, Tunis, and given to Julius Euting for publication. Euting had numbered it Carthage 195, having numbered his collection beginning at 120, picking up after the numbering published two years previously in 1869 by Paul Schröder in his Die Phönizische Sprache. It is known as CIS I 175, NSI 46, KAI 80 and KI 68. | [
"Language"
] | 2024-08-19T16:51:58Z | 2024-10-09T07:15:55Z |
20,670,843 | Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation | Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia. The film was written and directed by Charles Burnett and stars Carl Lumbly and Danny Glover. The government of Namibia financed the production. Music composed by Stephen James Taylor won the award for Best African Film at the Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival. The film also won for Best Music Score and Best Director. | [
"Nature"
] | 2008-12-12T23:04:14Z | 2009-06-25T07:22:36Z |
14,048,955 | Brisbane Festival Hall | Brisbane Festival Hall was an indoor arena located on the southern corner of Albert Street and Charlotte Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It operated from 1910 to 2003, before being demolished to make the Oak Festival Towers apartment building and hotel. | [
"Entities"
] | 2007-11-03T07:10:08Z | 2007-11-03T07:11:59Z |
1,277,287 | Death Is Forever | Death Is Forever, first published in 1992, was the twelfth novel by John Gardner to feature Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including Gardner's novelization of Licence to Kill). Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam. Death Is Forever is significant as the first James Bond novel to be published after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, two elements that were part and parcel of Bond's creation 40 years earlier. More than most other Gardner novels, Death Is Forever is grounded in contemporary events, with the fallout from the end of the Cold War and the failed 1991 Russian coup being important backdrops to the story. The Eurotunnel connecting England and France, which was still under construction at the time the book was written, also serves as a major setting. | [
"Information"
] | 2004-12-14T18:23:26Z | 2004-12-14T18:26:05Z |
76,585,058 | Henrietta Lange | This is an overview of regular and recurring characters on the TV series NCIS: Los Angeles. | [
"Academic_disciplines",
"Government"
] | 2024-04-11T10:20:45Z | 2024-07-24T01:54:05Z |
26,379,561 | MV British Motorist (1924) | MV British Motorist was a 6,891 ton tanker, built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1924 for the British Tanker Company. While under charter to the merchant navy, she was in port in Darwin, Australia when on 19 February 1942, she was hit by two bombs during the Japanese air raid on Darwin and was sunk, resting in 18–20 metres (59–66 ft) of water. She had been carrying oil, aviation fuel and petrol and was refuelling USS Peary when the raid commenced. Two of her crew were killed out of 61 in the initial attack: the master Gilbert C. Bates and 2nd Radio Operator James H. Webster. In 1959–1960, she was salvaged by Fujita Salvage Company, with the fore and aft sections of the hull welded together while the engine room was left, as it was too heavy to refloat. | [
"Military"
] | 2010-03-01T03:08:06Z | 2010-03-02T07:13:11Z |
57,094,314 | Msugh Moses Kembe | Msugh Moses Kembe (born Binev Ward, Tombo Mbalagh, Buruku, Local Government Area, Benue State, Nigeria) is an academic and the 5th substantive Vice chancellor of Benue State University. He was appointed by Benue state governor Dr. Samuel Ortom and assumed office on November 3, 2015. | [
"People"
] | 2018-04-11T11:17:28Z | 2018-04-11T11:40:46Z |
30,735,320 | Copernicium-281 | Copernicium (112Cn) is a synthetic element, and thus a standard atomic weight cannot be given. Like all synthetic elements, it has no stable isotopes. The first isotope to be synthesized was 277Cn in 1996. There are 6 known radioisotopes (with one more unconfirmed); the longest-lived isotope is 285Cn with a half-life of 30 seconds. | [
"Universe"
] | 2011-02-03T11:36:24Z | 2020-03-30T08:31:41Z |
22,781 | Omniscience | Omniscience () is the capacity to know everything. In Hinduism, Sikhism and the Abrahamic religions, this is an attribute of God. In Jainism, omniscience is an attribute that any individual can eventually attain. In Buddhism, there are differing beliefs about omniscience among different schools. | [
"Knowledge"
] | 2002-02-25T15:43:11Z | 2002-10-24T00:54:51Z |
4,332,512 | Marshall Brickman | Marshall Brickman (born August 25, 1939) is an American screenwriter and director, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen, with whom he shared the 1977 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Annie Hall. He was previously the head writer for Johnny Carson, writing scripts for recurring characters such as Carnac the Magnificent. He is also known for playing the banjo with Eric Weissberg in the 1960s, and for a series of comical parodies published in The New Yorker. | [
"Entertainment"
] | 2006-03-09T17:26:17Z | 2006-03-09T17:27:13Z |
44,141,038 | Roger Wilbraham (MP) | Roger Wilbraham FRS (1743 – January 1829) was a British Member of Parliament (MP), bibliophile, antiquary, local historian and a patron of science and the arts. He had an extensive library and he published work on the Cheshire dialect. | [
"Human_behavior"
] | 2014-10-17T23:37:50Z | 2014-10-18T05:20:41Z |
69,969,961 | 1997 Yasar Dogu Tournament | The Yasar Dogu Tournament 1997, was a wrestling event held in Ankara, Turkey between 14 and 16 February 1997. This tournament was held as 25th. This international tournament includes competition includes competition in men's freestyle wrestling. This ranking tournament was held in honor of the two time Olympic Champion, Yaşar Doğu. | [
"Sports"
] | 2022-02-02T15:12:57Z | 2022-02-02T16:56:59Z |
77,783,864 | Austin J. Tobin Plaza | The Austin J. Tobin Plaza, also known as the World Trade Center Plaza, was a large public square that was located on the World Trade Center site from 1966 until its destruction during the September 11 attacks in 2001. It covered 5 acres (220,000 sq ft; 2.0 ha), making it the largest plaza in New York City by acreage at the time. The plaza opened as part of the original World Trade Center on April 4, 1973, and was renamed after Austin J. Tobin in 1982. Several sculptures were located there, including The Sphere and Ideogram. The plaza was damaged by a car bomb in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and it was destroyed eight years later in the September 11 attacks. | [
"Entities"
] | 2024-09-03T17:47:32Z | 2024-09-03T17:47:47Z |
30,509,025 | Saeta (brand) | Saeta International Sport Wear is a Colombian company that operates its business in the textile sector, in the manufacture, import and export of sportswear and accessories. | [
"Concepts"
] | 2011-01-17T19:42:15Z | 2011-02-23T02:27:10Z |
58,001,053 | February 1985 Paris bombing | On 23 February 1985, a bomb detonated inside a British-owned Marks & Spencer department store on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, France, killing one person and wounding 15. The fatal victim was an employee at the store, Léonard Rochas, who died on his way to hospital. It occurred just as the store was opening its doors for business amid many customers waiting to enter. The blast caused heavy material damage. Two Britons were also among the injured. | [
"Military"
] | 2018-07-26T13:50:27Z | 2018-07-26T13:50:56Z |
386,571 | Erhard Milch | Erhard Milch (30 March 1892 – 25 January 1972) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who oversaw the development of the German air force (Luftwaffe) as part of the re-armament of Nazi Germany (1933-1945) following World War I (1914-1918). He served as State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Aviation from May 1933 until June 1944 and as Inspector General of the air force from February 1939 to January 1945. During most of World War II he was in charge of German aircraft production and supply. In the Milch Trial of 1947, a U.S. military court convicted Milch of war crimes and of crimes against humanity, sentencing him to life imprisonment. However, in 1951 John J. McCloy, the U. S. High Commissioner for Germany, commuted Milch's sentence to 15 years. | [
"Engineering"
] | 2003-12-03T22:38:10Z | 2003-12-03T22:45:27Z |
62,008,969 | Synthetic media | Synthetic media (also known as AI-generated media, media produced by generative AI, personalized media, personalized content, and colloquially as deepfakes) is a catch-all term for the artificial production, manipulation, and modification of data and media by automated means, especially through the use of artificial intelligence algorithms, such as for the purpose of misleading people or changing an original meaning. Synthetic media as a field has grown rapidly since the creation of generative adversarial networks, primarily through the rise of deepfakes as well as music synthesis, text generation, human image synthesis, speech synthesis, and more. Though experts use the term "synthetic media," individual methods such as deepfakes and text synthesis are sometimes not referred to as such by the media but instead by their respective terminology (and often use "deepfakes" as a euphemism, e.g. "deepfakes for text" for natural-language generation; "deepfakes for voices" for neural voice cloning, etc.) Significant attention arose towards the field of synthetic media starting in 2017 when Motherboard reported on the emergence of AI altered pornographic videos to insert the faces of famous actresses. | [
"Mass_media"
] | 2019-10-08T17:11:25Z | 2019-10-08T17:30:46Z |
34,652,023 | Fritz Vahrenholt | Fritz Vahrenholt (born 8 May 1949) is a German politician (SPD), industrialist, and climate change denier. | [
"Energy"
] | 2012-02-08T14:46:35Z | 2012-02-11T13:22:46Z |
66,533,456 | Crystal Kung Minkoff | Crystal Kung Minkoff (Chinese: 孔令华; born February 4, 1983) is a Chinese-American television personality, podcaster and entrepreneur. She is best known for appearing as a main cast member for three seasons on the reality television show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (2021–2024). | [
"Philosophy"
] | 2021-01-28T19:54:10Z | 2021-01-28T19:54:14Z |
39,547,876 | Engine Company 12 | Engine Company 12 is a former fire station and a historic structure located in the Bloomingdale neighborhood and on North Capitol Street in Washington, D.C. The engine company was established on July 1, 1897, with an 1884 Clapp & Jones 450 GPM steam fire engine and an 1887 E. B. Preston hose reel carriage. The three-story brick building was designed by Washington architect Snowden Ashford in the Colonial Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. The building was damaged by a three-alarm fire in December, 2023. | [
"Government"
] | 2013-06-01T14:23:25Z | 2014-01-14T09:16:31Z |
53,923,679 | Charles Uwakwe | Charles Ukakwe is a Nigerian professor of Counselling/Health Psychology, educational administrator and former Registrar of the National Examination Council (Nigeria). He was appointed in 2016 by Muhammadu Buhari. and had his appointment terminated on Wednesday May 21st, 2020. == References == | [
"People"
] | 2017-04-30T20:00:28Z | 2017-04-30T20:01:58Z |
342,665 | Fei Xiaotong | Fei Xiaotong or Fei Hsiao-tung (November 2, 1910 – April 24, 2005) was a Chinese anthropologist and sociologist. He was a pioneering researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist. Starting in the late 1930s, he and his colleagues established Chinese sociology and his works were instrumental in laying a foundation for the development of sociological and anthropological studies in China, as well as in introducing social and cultural phenomena of China to the international community. His last post before his death in 2005 was as Professor of Sociology at Peking University. | [
"Humanities"
] | 2003-10-17T03:48:22Z | 2003-10-17T03:55:13Z |
19,808,275 | Walter Bishop (Fringe) | Walter Harold Bishop, Ph.D. is a fictional character on the Fox television series Fringe. He is portrayed by John Noble. Noble also plays Walter's counterpart in the show's parallel universe, who is referred to in the show as Walternate. | [
"Information"
] | 2008-10-16T20:52:52Z | 2008-10-22T14:10:09Z |
30,711,941 | Benjamin Donn | Benjamin Donn or Donne (1729–1798) was an English mathematician. | [
"Mathematics"
] | 2011-02-01T11:05:50Z | 2011-02-01T11:06:25Z |
3,138,994 | Caritas Medical Centre | Caritas Medical Centre (Chinese: 明愛醫院; Cantonese Yale: Mìhng'oi Yīyún) is a Roman Catholic founded district general hospital in So Uk, Cheung Sha Wan, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is the largest hospital in Sham Shui Po District and co-managed by the Hospital Authority and Caritas Hong Kong. | [
"Life"
] | 2005-11-12T02:18:02Z | 2005-11-12T02:20:06Z |
37,995,412 | Pangaltı Armenian Cemetery | The Pangaltı Armenian Cemetery was located in the Pangaltı quarter of Istanbul near Taksim Square and originally belonged to the Surp Agop Armenian Hospital. In the 1930s, it was demolished and was replaced with the Taksim Gezi Park, Divan Hotel, Hilton Hotel, Hyatt Regency Hotel, and the TRT Radio Buildings. It is considered to have been the largest non-Muslim cemetery in Istanbul's history. | [
"Society",
"Culture"
] | 2012-12-21T21:51:26Z | 2012-12-21T21:52:19Z |
7,079,119 | Constellation Automotive Group | Constellation Automotive Group is a used vehicle marketplace. It was founded in the United Kingdom in 1946, as Southern Counties Car Auctions, and was a publicly traded company, BCA Marketplace, when acquired and taken private by TDR Capital in November 2019. TDR rebranded it to the current name in October 2020. | [
"Economy"
] | 2006-09-20T15:27:02Z | 2006-09-23T02:12:37Z |
10,785,816 | Fjordman | Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen (born 11 June 1975) is a Norwegian far-right counter-jihad blogger who writes under the pseudonym Fjordman. Jensen wrote anonymously as Fjordman starting in 2005, until he disclosed his identity in 2011. He has been active in the counter-jihad movement, which argues that multiculturalism, particularly Muslim mass immigration, poses an existential threat to Western civilization. He has promoted this belief in a self-published book titled Defeating Eurabia, and stated that "Islam, and all those who practice it, must be totally and physically removed from the entire Western world". Anders Behring Breivik, a neo-Nazi, exploited Fjordman's belief in the Eurabia conspiracy theory, a supposed secret Muslim plan to take over Europe, and quoted him extensively – 111 times – in his manifesto. | [
"Politics"
] | 2007-04-20T00:59:22Z | 2007-04-20T01:00:03Z |
4,922,505 | Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge | The Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge was a vertical-lift bridge in the Port of Los Angeles. Dedicated on January 10, 1948, the bridge allowed State Route 47 (the Terminal Island Freeway) to cross over the Cerritos Channel. Named after Schuyler F. Heim, who was in command of the Naval Air Station on Terminal Island in 1942, the bridge was one of the largest vertical-lift bridges on the West Coast. At the time of its opening, it was the highest in the country with the deck weighing about 820 short tons (740 metric tons). Its towers are 186 feet (57 m) tall above the roadway deck and about 236 feet (72 m) tall when measured from the water level at high water. | [
"Entities"
] | 2006-04-27T23:16:14Z | 2006-04-27T23:39:30Z |
19,455,353 | Critical terrorism studies | Critical terrorism studies (CTS) applies a critical theory approach rooted in counter-hegemonic and politically progressive critical theory to the study of terrorism. With links to the Frankfurt School of critical theory and the Aberystwyth School of critical security studies, CTS seeks to understand terrorism as a social construction, or a label, that is applied to certain violent acts through a range of political, legal and academic processes. It also seeks to understand and critique dominant forms of counter-terrorism. | [
"Academic_disciplines"
] | 2008-09-24T17:23:16Z | 2008-09-24T18:37:02Z |
5,656,746 | Rupen Zartarian | Rupen Zartarian or Ruben Zardaryan (Armenian: Ռուբեն Զարդարյան Western Armenian: Ռուբէն Զարդարեան; 1874 – 16 August 1915) was an Armenian writer, educator, and political activist. He was killed by Ottoman authorities during the Armenian genocide. | [
"Language"
] | 2006-06-21T20:26:09Z | 2006-07-05T08:01:23Z |
52,690,325 | CUHK Medical Centre | CUHK Medical Centre Limited is a non-profit teaching hospital at Ma Liu Shui, New Territories, Hong Kong, next to University station. Opened on 6 January 2021, it is a self-financed teaching hospital of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). The hospital provides more than 500 inpatient and day beds, as well as outpatient clinics and a series of specialist diagnosis and treatment procedures. The hospital is managed and its clinical services provided by the CUHK Faculty of Medicine. | [
"Life"
] | 2016-12-26T09:07:33Z | 2016-12-26T09:11:27Z |
3,851,231 | List of places named after Odin | Many toponyms ("place names") contain the name of Odin (Norse Óðinn, Old English Wōden, proto-Germanic Wōdanaz). | [
"Science"
] | 2006-01-26T10:37:33Z | 2006-01-26T15:49:51Z |
45,655,359 | David Oates (archaeologist) | Edward Ernest David Michael Oates, (25 February 1927 – 22 March 2004), known as David Oates, was a British archaeologist and academic specializing in the Ancient Near East. He was director of the excavations at Nimrud from 1958 to 1962, Tell al-Rimah from 1964 to 1971 and at Tell Brak from 1976 to 2004. He was Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology from 1969 to 1982 and Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from 1997 to 2004. | [
"Humanities"
] | 2015-03-12T19:13:06Z | 2015-03-12T19:13:17Z |
19,329,783 | Winnie-the-Pooh | Winnie-the-Pooh (also known as Edward Bear, Pooh Bear or simply Pooh) is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story commissioned by London's Evening News for Christmas Eve 1925. The character is inspired by a stuffed toy that Milne had bought for his son Christopher Robin in Harrods department store, and a bear they had viewed at London Zoo. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). | [
"Human_behavior"
] | 2001-05-20T18:19:15Z | 2001-12-11T18:12:14Z |
25,664,947 | Transavia Denmark | Transavia Denmark ApS, also known as Transavia.com Denmark or Transavia Denmark and trading as transavia.com, was a Danish based low-cost airline operating as a subsidiary of Transavia group. Its main base was at Copenhagen Airport. Transavia Denmark chiefly operated scheduled and charter services to leisure destinations. It was headquartered in Kastrup, Tårnby Municipality. Operations ceased in 2011, although those in the Netherlands and France continue. | [
"Business"
] | 2010-01-03T11:54:48Z | 2010-01-03T12:02:49Z |
2,838,698 | Bangkok Patana School | Bangkok Patana School (Thai: โรงเรียนบางกอกพัฒนา, RTGS: Rong Rian Bangkok Phatthana) is a British International School located in Bang Na District, Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok Patana School was founded in 1957 to provide a British-style education for the children of English-speaking expatriates and others living in Bangkok. It is Thailand's oldest British international school. As of 2010, it is also the largest British school in the country. | [
"Education"
] | 2005-10-05T13:11:50Z | 2005-10-30T08:59:29Z |
76,003,982 | Zulfikar Matin | Zulfikar Matin (born 24 July 1946) is a Bangladeshi novelist and writer. He was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in the essay/research category in 2023. As of 2024, he has published more than 20 books. | [
"Education"
] | 2024-02-05T06:10:33Z | 2024-02-05T06:10:33Z |
14,087,432 | Lofotkraft | Lofotkraft is a power company that operates the power grid in Lofoten, Norway as well as ten hydroelectric power plants through the subsidiary Lofotkraft Produksjon. Since 1998 retailing of power has been managed by Kraftinor, a joint venture with Narvik Energi. It also owns half of Lofotkraft Vind, along with Narvik Energi. The company is owned by the six municipalities it operates the power grid in, Vestvågøy Municipality (41%), Vågan Municipality (41%), Flakstad Municipality (6.5%), Moskenes Municipality (6.5%), Værøy Municipality (3%) and Røst Municipality (2%). | [
"Energy"
] | 2007-11-05T14:58:41Z | 2007-11-09T04:15:13Z |
59,809,346 | List of crossings of the River Derwent, Derbyshire | This is a list of crossings of the Derbyshire Derwent, the principal river of Derbyshire in the Midlands of England. Listed in the table are those crossings that have been identified from the first formal crossing at the packhorse bridge at Slippery Stones, in the upper Derwent valley, continuing through the Derwent Valley Mills heritage site to Derby, to the last crossing near Church Wilne upstream of Derwent Mouth where the Derwent meets the River Trent. Described by Defoe in 1726 as a "fury of a river" the Derwent could only be forded at a number of particular locations, which could still be impassable during winter floods. Wooden bridges provided for a more reliable crossing, but were easily damaged by those same floods. The wooden bridge at Leadmill was destroyed before it was completed in the early 1700s. | [
"Lists"
] | 2019-01-30T11:59:53Z | 2019-01-30T12:16:44Z |
35,349,104 | Grabow Altarpiece | The Grabow Altarpiece (also known as the Petri Altar) was painted by Master Bertram around 1379–1383. Originally located in St. Petri church, it is now in the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany. It includes the earliest known depiction of the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
(lower row, last section on the right). | [
"Universe"
] | 2012-04-06T16:43:43Z | 2012-04-06T16:44:01Z |
24,367,288 | Dewitt Miller | Dewitt Miller (March 1, 1857 – July 29, 1911) was an educator, librarian, journalist, minister, orator, and book collector. | [
"Human_behavior"
] | 2009-09-16T19:26:14Z | 2009-09-16T19:33:05Z |
20,937,528 | John Selby Watson | The Reverend John Selby Watson (April 1804 – 6 July 1884) was a British classical translator and murderer. He was sentenced to death in 1872 for killing his wife, but a public outcry led to his sentence being reduced to life imprisonment. The case is notable for Watson's use of a plea of insanity as his defence, bringing "the insanity defense into perhaps its greatest prominence since M'Naghten." | [
"Academic_disciplines"
] | 2009-01-03T15:39:07Z | 2009-01-03T15:58:19Z |
47,780,711 | City of London Coroner's Court | The Coroner's Court for the City of London is located at Walbrook Wharf, 78-83 Upper Thames Street. | [
"Government"
] | 2015-09-10T23:14:43Z | 2015-09-10T23:15:25Z |
23,451,075 | Willie Fennell | William John Fennell (20 January 1920 – 9 September 1992) was an Australian radio, television (serials and mini-series), stage and film actor, comedian, producer, radio scriptwriter and writer who appeared in many Australian television series in a lengthy career spanning over 50 years, recognised by his slightly nasal, raspy voice, moustache and pork pie hat. As a comedian, his style was stated as a sad humour worth more than a belly-laugh and said to be contrasted with the blue comedy of contemporary performer Roy Rene. He appeared in numerous films, TV movies, miniseries and series, but is probably best known for his longer running roles in The Young Doctors as Arthur Simmonds and Sons and Daughters as Spider Webb. | [
"Mass_media"
] | 2009-07-01T03:07:53Z | 2009-07-01T03:08:11Z |
68,610,924 | Bier Hoi Brewing Company | Bier Hoi Brewing Company produces lager-style beer in Vietnam for export to foreign markets, notably Australia. The company first produced beer for the Woolworths Group in 330 mL cans (4.3% ABV). It currently produces 500 mL "Tall Boy" cans (4.5% ABV) for the Coles Group. | [
"Food_and_drink"
] | 2021-08-31T12:58:01Z | 2021-08-31T12:59:09Z |
564,906 | Death on the Nile | Death on the Nile is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 1 November 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6)(equivalent to £31 in 2023) and the US edition at $2.00 (equivalent to $42 in 2023). The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The action takes place in Egypt, mostly on the River Nile. The novel is unrelated to Christie's earlier (1933) short story of the same name, which featured Parker Pyne as the detective. | [
"Nature"
] | 2004-03-30T20:43:42Z | 2004-03-31T01:17:14Z |
47,833,293 | Frank Sysyn | Frank Edvard Sysyn (born December 27, 1946) is an American historian of Ukrainian origin. His grandmother was from Ukraine. Sysyn was born in Passaic, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University (1968), the University of London (1969), and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1976), taught at Harvard University (1976–85), and was an associate director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (1985–8). He was appointed the first director of the Petro Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) in 1989, University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, and has served as editor-in-chief of its Hrushevsky Translation Project, which is preparing and publishing an English-language translation of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s 10-volume Istoriia Ukraïny-Rusy. | [
"Academic_disciplines"
] | 2015-09-16T07:41:48Z | 2015-09-16T07:42:23Z |
58,402,032 | Amarna letter EA 288 | Amarna letter EA 288, titled Benign Neglect, is a tall, finely-inscribed clay tablet letter, approximately 7.5 in tall x 4.5 in wide, broken into two pieces, from Abdi-Heba the mayor/ruler of Jerusalem, of the mid 14th century BC Amarna letters. The scribe of his six letters to Egypt were penned by the "Jerusalem scribe"; EA 288 is a moderately long, and involved letter. The Amarna letters, about 300, numbered up to EA 382, are a mid 14th century BC, about 1350 BC and 20–25 years later, correspondence. The initial corpus of letters were found at Akhenaten's city Akhetaten, in the floor of the Bureau of Correspondence of Pharaoh; others were later found, adding to the body of letters. Letter EA 288 (also see here-(Obverse): [1]), is numbered VAT 1643, from the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin. | [
"Language"
] | 2018-09-04T18:31:05Z | 2018-09-04T18:57:31Z |
34,258,463 | Presbyterian Orphanage of Missouri | Presbyterian Orphanage of Missouri, also known as Farmington Children's Home and Presbyterian Children's Home, is a historic orphanage and national historic district located at 412 West Liberty Street in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. The district encompasses five contributing large brick buildings built between 1939 and the early 1950s in the Georgian Revival style. They are the Administration Building and Dining Hall, built in 1939 and enlarged in the 1940s, two large dormitories built in the early 1950s (Dearing Hall and Harlan Hall), and a smaller "hospital" building known as Holmes Cottage built in 1940. The Presbyterian Children's Home vacated the campus in 1999 when it moved to the 600 block of Pine Street. After a 2018 merger with a Texas charity, the organization is now known as Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services. | [
"Health"
] | 2012-01-02T17:50:36Z | 2013-01-01T06:38:40Z |
1,505,574 | An Essay on Man | "An Essay on Man" is a poem published by Alexander Pope in 1733–1734. It was dedicated to Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (pronounced 'Bull-en-brook'), hence the opening line: "Awake, my St John...". It is an effort to rationalize or rather "vindicate the ways of God to man" (l.16), a variation of John Milton's claim in the opening lines of Paradise Lost, that he will "justifie the wayes of God to men" (1.26). It is concerned with the natural order God has decreed for man. Because man cannot know God's purposes, he cannot complain about his position in the great chain of being (ll.33–34) and must accept that "Whatever is, is right" (l.292), a theme that was satirized by Voltaire in Candide (1759). | [
"Ethics"
] | 2005-02-14T19:26:17Z | 2005-02-14T19:38:39Z |
58,301,601 | List of mines in Bulgaria | This list of mines in Bulgaria is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list. | [
"Lists"
] | 2018-08-28T06:49:50Z | 2018-09-15T08:35:28Z |
3,085,750 | Singapore Flying College | The Singapore Flying College (Abbreviation: SFC) is a CAAS approved flight school based in Singapore. Established in 1988 under the Singapore Airlines Group, it is the training school for cadet pilots with Singapore Airlines, Scoot and Singapore Airlines Cargo. The SFC headquarters is located at SIA Training Centre, Singapore, in close proximity to Changi Airport and is where the ATPL ground training phase is conducted. On successful completion of Ground Training Phase, cadets subsequently move to SFC's other training facility at Jandakot Airport in Perth, Western Australia to continue with their Flight Training for the Multi-crew Pilot License. Singapore Flying College operated a third training centre at Sunshine Coast Airport, Maroochydore. | [
"Business"
] | 2005-11-05T12:13:17Z | 2005-11-05T12:52:28Z |
718,302 | 3000 Miles to Graceland | 3000 Miles to Graceland is a 2001 American action comedy film directed and co-produced by Demian Lichtenstein. The original script was written by Richard Recco and Demian Lichtenstein shares a co-writing credit on the final film. The film stars Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Bokeem Woodbine, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollak and Daisy McCrackin. 3000 Miles to Graceland was released in the United States on February 23, 2001, by Warner Bros. Pictures and Morgan Creek Productions. The film received mostly negative reviews by the critics and was a box office bomb making only $18.7 million against its $47.4 million budget. | [
"Health"
] | 2004-06-12T02:28:28Z | 2004-06-12T02:54:22Z |
25,086,435 | Forgotten Australians | Forgotten Australians or care leavers are terms referring to the estimated 500,000 children (a figure that includes child migrants and Indigenous Australians) who experienced care in institutions or outside a home setting in Australia during the 20th century. The Australian Senate committee used the term in the title of its report which resulted from its 2003–2004 "Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care", which looked primarily at those affected children who were not covered by the 1997 Bringing Them Home report, which focused on Aboriginal children, and the 2001 report Lost Innocents: Righting the Record which reported on an inquiry into child migrants. Children ended up in out-of-home care for a variety of reasons, mainly relating to poverty and family breakdown at a time when there was little support for families in crisis. Residential institutions run by government and non-government organisations were the standard form of out-of-home care during the first half of the 20th century. Children in institutions were sometimes placed in foster homes for short periods, weekends or during holiday periods. | [
"Health"
] | 2009-11-15T05:14:17Z | 2009-11-15T05:19:39Z |
71,883,742 | Saba (name) | Saba is a surname or given name. | [
"Language"
] | 2022-10-01T01:15:05Z | 2022-10-01T16:42:16Z |
39,381,997 | Kepler-76b | Kepler-76b is a gas giant with mass about two times that of Jupiter. It is a Hot Jupiter that orbits its star every 1.5 days. It was confirmed with the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey and the SOPHIE échelle spectrograph. | [
"Universe"
] | 2013-05-14T03:21:24Z | 2013-05-14T03:24:17Z |
1,100,615 | Tiberius Julius Alexander | Tiberius Julius Alexander (fl. 1st century) was an equestrian governor and general in the Roman Empire. Born into a wealthy Jewish family of Alexandria but abandoning or neglecting the Jewish religion, he rose to become the 2nd procurator of Judea (c. 46 – 48) under Claudius. While Prefect of Egypt (66–69), he employed his legions against the Alexandrian Jews in a brutal response to ethnic violence, and was instrumental in the Emperor Vespasian's rise to power. In 70, he participated in the Siege of Jerusalem as Titus' second-in-command. | [
"Military"
] | 2004-10-25T03:09:00Z | 2004-11-06T05:26:25Z |
589,225 | Bimetallic strip | A bimetallic strip or bimetal strip is a strip that consists of two strips of different metals which expand at different rates as they are heated. They are used to convert a temperature change into mechanical displacement. The different expansions force the flat strip to bend one way if heated, and in the opposite direction if cooled below its initial temperature. The metal with the higher coefficient of thermal expansion is on the outer side of the curve when the strip is heated and on the inner side when cooled. The invention of the bimetallic strip is generally credited to John Harrison, an eighteenth-century clockmaker who made it for his third marine chronometer (H3) of 1759 to compensate for temperature-induced changes in the balance spring. | [
"Engineering"
] | 2004-04-11T02:32:23Z | 2004-04-11T16:25:29Z |
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