the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
Flag of Switzerland 
 The Swiss cross on a red field ultimately derives from a similar banner of the Holy Roman Empire, and thus has strong Christian connotations.
Flag of Switzerland 
 The motto "Honor et Fidelitas" was inscribed on the cross of several Swiss mercenary flags of the 18th century.
Flag of Switzerland 
 In modern times, through association with consistent Swiss policy, the flag has also come to mean neutrality, democracy, peace and refuge.
Taizu Emperor 
 Unluckily, Nurhaci was wounded by Yuan Chonghuan's Portuguese cannon and he died 2 days later at a little town called De-A Man.
Japanese dragon 
 Like other creatures called dragons, the Ryū is a big, fantastic animal that looks similar to a serpent, and is related to the Chinese lóng and the Korean yong.
Japanese dragon 
 Like all these Asian dragons, it is shown without wings, has legs with claws, and usually lives in the ocean, the clouds, or heavens.
Japanese dragon 
 Japanese dragons do not fly as often as the Chinese one, which is the reason why they usually appear much more like serpents.
Japanese dragon 
 Ryū originated from China and is one of the four creatures from heavens of Japanese mythology (the other three are the phoenix, turtle and tiger).
Japanese dragon 
 In Japanese mythology, one of the first dragons is the Yamata-no-Orochi, a very big serpent with eight heads and eight tails.
Japanese dragon 
 The serpent ate girls, and it was killed by Susanoo after Susanoo tricked the creature into becoming drunk on sake.
Japanese dragon 
 Dragons in later Japanese folklore were often good, perhaps because of influence from Chinese culture.
Japanese dragon 
 In Urashima Tarō, the main character rescues a turtle which turns out to be the son of Ryūjin, the dragon king of the ocean.
Japanese mythology 
 Most Japanese myths, as generally known today, are based on the Kojiki, Nihonshoki and some other books.
Japanese mythology 
 The Kojiki or "Record of Ancient Things" is the oldest known book of myths, legends, and history of Japan.
Japanese mythology 
 The Shintoshu explains origins of Japanese gods and goddesses from a Buddhist point of view while the Hotsuma Tsutae has a very different version of mythology.
Japanese mythology 
 One notable thing of Japanese mythology is that it explains birth of Amaterasu, the origin of the Imperial family, and assigned them divinity.
Huang Taiji 
 In 1612, Huang Taiji followed his father, Nurhaci, to attack Wu La. He was awarded Beile, a traditional title of Manchu nobility below prince.
Huang Taiji 
 In 1636, Huang took control of the southern part of Mongol, the north-eastern part of China and Korea.
Japanese folklore 
 It also includes many supernatural creatures, such as kami (gods and revered spirits), yōkai (monster-spirits) (like oni, kappa, and tengu), onryō (ghosts), dragons, and animals with supernatural powers like the kitsune (fox), tanuki (raccoon dog), mujina (badger), and bakeneko (transforming cat).
Japanese folklore 
 Japanese folklore is often divided into several categories: "mukashibanashi," tales of long-ago; "namidabanashi", sad stories; "obakebanashi", ghost stories; "ongaeshibanashi", stories of kindness; "tonchibanashi", witty stories; "waraibanashi", funny stories; and "yokubaribanashi", stories of greed.
Meiji period 
 National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
Pheasant 
 Males pheasants are usually larger than the females, and they have feathers of bright colours and long tails.
Pheasant 
 In many countries pheasant species are hunted, often illegally, as game, and several species are threatened by this and other human activities.
Polytonality 
 The first clarinet plays a melody that uses the notes of the C major chord, while the second clarinet plays a different version of the same melody using the notes of the F sharp major chord.
Polytonality 
 Composers who have used bitonality or polytonality include Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Béla Bartók, Charles Ives and many others.
M1 motorway 
 It was the second motorway to be built in the UK, after the Preston bypass (which later formed part of the M6).
M1 motorway 
 Data from driver location signs/distance marker posts are used to provide distance and carriageway identification information.
M1 motorway 
 Where a junction spans several hundred metres and the data is available, both the start and finish values for the junction are shown.
Teddy Randazzo 
 Teddy Randazzo (May 13, 1935 - November 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work in the 1950s and 1960s.
Teddy Randazzo 
 Randazzo appeared as himself in a 1962 movie, Don't Knock the Twist, which was about the Twist craze of the early 1960s.
Kaspar Hauser 
 Kaspar Hauser (born probably 30 April  1812; died 17 December  1833) was a child who lived in Germany.
Kaspar Hauser 
 Kaspar appeared in the street in 1828, not able to talk normally, and no one knew where he had come from.
Kaspar Hauser 
 On May 26 1828 the boy who became known as Kaspar Hauser was found in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany.
Kaspar Hauser 
 One letter seems to have been written by a poor workman and it was addressed to a captain in the army.
Kaspar Hauser 
 The writer of the letter says that he had looked after the boy since 1812 and that the boy wants to serve the king in the army.
Kaspar Hauser 
 The other letter looked as if it was from his mother to the poor workman who had been looking after him.
Kaspar Hauser 
 It says that the child was born on April 30th 1812 and that he was called Kaspar but that he has no second name.
Kaspar Hauser 
 The only things Kaspar could say (in German) were: "I want to be a knight, as my father was," and "Horse!
Kaspar Hauser 
 He was probably 16 years old, but his thinking was like a small child, and he would only drink water and eat bread.
Kaspar Hauser 
 He said that he had spent his life locked up in a small room with only a straw bed to sleep in and a wooden horse to play with.
Kaspar Hauser 
 Hauser was then taken into care by a schoolteacher, Friedrich Daumer, who taught him to speak, read and write.
Kaspar Hauser 
 On October 17 1829, a hooded man tried to kill Hauser with a large knife but managed only to wound his forehead.
Kaspar Hauser 
 People were worried that the person might try to kill him again, so he was given to someone else to be looked after.
Kaspar Hauser 
 Because someone had tried to murder him some people thought it proved that he was related to a noble family in the house of Baden.
Kaspar Hauser 
 A British nobleman, Lord Stanhope, was interested in Hauser and gave him presents and tried to get permission to look after him.
Kaspar Hauser 
 Many historians thought that Lord Stanhope himself might have been from the house of Baden and that was why he was interested in Kaspar.
Kaspar Hauser 
 On 14 December  1833, Hauser was told to go to a garden where he would find out about the family he came from.
Kaspar Hauser 
 No one knew who had murdered him, although a strange note was found in a black purse saying that Kaspar would not be able to tell people who had killed him, but that he was from the Bavarian border and that his initials were MLÖ."
Kaspar Hauser 
 Books have been written about him and lots of people have made guesses about who he might have been.
Kaspar Hauser 
 Some people have even guessed that he was just pretending, but it seems unlikely that he could have kept that up for several years.
Twist (dance) 
 Ballard's version of the song was not a hit, but a cover version by Chubby Checker became an international hit, and sparked off a craze for the dance.
Cover version 
 A cover version (or simply "cover") is a song which is re-recorded by a singer or band, after another artist has released a recording of it.
Cover version 
 Paul Revere and the Raiders recorded two songs, "Louie, Louie" and "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone", that were bigger hits for other bands (The Kingsmen and The Monkees, respectively) than their versions.
Cover version 
 Without You" (written by Peter Ham and Tom Evans of the band Badfinger) was first covered by Harry Nilsson, then later by dozens of other singers, including Mariah Carey. "
Cover version 
 Yesterday" and "Something", written by Paul McCartney and George Harrison of The Beatles (respectively), are also standards.
Cover version 
 "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (first recorded by Gladys Knight and the Pips, then later by Marvin Gaye)
Cover version 
 Jan Wayne: Because the Night (Patti Smith); Only You (Yazoo); Take My Breath Away (Berlin); Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler); Here I Am (Scorpions: Send Me an Angel); She's Like the Wind (Patrick Swayze)
Cover version 
 Novaspace: Beds Are Burning (Midnight Oil); Dancing with Tears in My Eyes (Ultravox); Run to You (Bryan Adams); So Lonely (The Police); Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper); Wicked Game (Chris Isaak); Your Eyes (Vladimir Cosma)
The Kingsmen 
 Many people believed the song contained obscenity or suggestive lyrics, and tried to have the song banned.
The Kingsmen 
 An American court decided the song was not obscene, and the controversy over the song only helped to promote sales of the record.
The Kingsmen 
 The Kingsmen had other hits, including "Jolly Green Giant", a parody of the mascot of Green Giant vegetables.
Obscenity 
 Obscenity is a term that is used to describe words, images or actions that offend the sexual morality most people have or had at the time.
Obscenity 
 Even though the word has been used with a sexual connotation for a long time, it can still have the meaning of "inspiring disgust".
Obscenity 
 It can simply be used to mean profanity, or it can mean anything that is taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting.
Obscenity 
 Censorship is often used to try to suppress or control materials that are obscene under these definitions.
Disciples of Christ 
 The Disciples of Christ are an American Christian denomination of churches, which began in the 1800s.
Zsa Zsa Gábor 
 On 18 December 2016, at 6:00 am, Gabor died at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California from cardiopulmonary arrest complicated by coronary artery disease, aged 99.
Zsa Zsa Gábor 
 Her ashes were buried at the Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Beverly Hills, California on 30 December.
Brittany Snow 
 She is known for her roles as Meg Pryor in American Dreams, Daisy Lemay in Guiding Light, Kate Spencer in John Tucker Must Die, Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray, Donna Keppel in Prom Night and Jenna Backstrom in the NBC television series Harry's Law.
Desk 
 A desk is a piece of furniture where someone can sit and write, often with drawers or other places to put books, papers, and other things.
Coles Supermarkets 
 Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers (Coles Group before it was taken over on 23 November 2007).
Coles Supermarkets 
 With over 750 stores nationally and more than 60,000 employees, Coles currently has the second-biggest market share behind Woolworths Supermarkets.
Empire of Nicaea 
 The Empire of Nicaea () was the largest of the Byzantine Greek states founded by the nobility of the Byzantine Empire after Constantinople was conquered during the Fourth Crusade.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 It is the biggest stock exchange in India and the third biggest in the world in terms of amounts of transactions.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 NSE is mutually-owned by a set of leading financial institutions, banks, insurance companies and other financial intermediaries in India but its ownership and management operate as separate groups.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 In July 2007, the NSE had a total market capitalization of 42,74,509 crore INR making it the second-largest stock market in South Asia in terms of market-capitalization.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 The National Stock Exchange of India was promoted by leading Financial institutions at the behest of the Government of India, and was incorporated in November 1992 as a tax-paying company.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 In April 1993, it was recognized as a stock exchange under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 National Stock Exchange of India commenced operations in the Wholesale Debt Market (WDM) segment in June 1994.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 The Capital Market (Equities) segment of the NSE commenced operations in November 1994, while operations in the Derivatives segment commenced in June 2000.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 The NSE has remained in the lead of modernization of India's capital and financial markets, and its pioneering efforts include:
National Stock Exchange of India 
 Being the first national, anonymous, electronic limit order book (LOB) exchange to trade securities in India.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 Since the success of the NSE, existent market and new market structures have followed the "NSE" model.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 National Securities Clearing Corporation Ltd. was a landmark in providing novation on all spot equity market (and later, derivatives market) trades in India.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 NSE pioneered commencement of Internet Trading in February 2000, which  led to the wide popularization of the NSE in the broker community.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 Being the first exchange that, in 1996, proposed exchange traded derivatives, particularly on an equity index, in India.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 After four years of policy and regulatory debate and formulation, the NSE was permitted to start trading equity derivatives three days after the BSE.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 NSE has also launched the NSE-CNBC-TV18 media centre in association with CNBC-TV18, a leading business news channel in India.
National Stock Exchange of India 
 NSE also conducts online examination and awards certifications, under its programmes of NSE's Certification in Financial Markets (NCFM).
National Stock Exchange of India 
 Currently, certifications are available in 9 modules, covering different sectors of financial and capital markets.
List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes 
 Two all-season collections (The Chosen Collection and The Complete DVD Collection) have been also been released.
Buffy Summers 
 Buffy Summers moved from Los Angeles to Sunnydale for her second year in high school, where she met Rupert Giles, Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris, where they become known as the Scooby Gang.
Spike (Buffyverse) 
 Spike is a fictional vampire that appears in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the spin-off Angel.
Angel (Buffyverse) 
 Angel is a fictional vampire that appears in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and is the main character of the spin-off Angel.
Angel (Buffyverse) 
 On 1898, he killed a Romani and a mystic placed a spell where she restored his soul, making him feel guilty.
Shunzhi Emperor 
 Also, he put the Upper 3 banners (Plain Yellow, Striped Yellow, and Plain White) under the control of the emperor.
Hush (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) 
 A group of silent pale demons known as the Gentlemen have taken the voices of everyone at Sunnydale in a box.
Hush (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) 
 Giles does a slideshow explaining who the Gentlemen are and that they kill people who lost their voice.
Hush (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) 
 Joss Whedon was aware the dialogue in the show worked and decided to write an episode where there is mostly none.
David Greenwalt 
 Greenwalt is best known as a writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and co-creator of its spinoff, Angel.
David Greenwalt 
 On June 1, 2007, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Greenwalt would serve as executive producer and showrunner on Moonlight, a new series that will debut on CBS in the fall of 2007.
David Greenwalt 
 Executive producer Joel Silver said that his name would remain: "He worked really hard on the arc of the series.
David Greenwalt 
 Writer - Moonlight, Kidnapped, Surface, Miracles, Jake 2.0, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, Profit, The Wonder Years, The Commish, Doogie Howser, M.D.
David Greenwalt 
 Producer - Kidnapped, Moonlight, Surface,  Jake 2.0, Miracles, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, Profit, The Commish, Eureka
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Đồng Hới 
 It is at around 500 km (310 mi) south of Hà Nội (Hanoi), 260 km (160 mi) north of Đà Nẵng (Danang), 1,200 km (750 mi) north of Hồ Chí Minh City (Saigon).
Đồng Hới 
 It borders Laos on the west, the South China Sea on the east, Hà Tĩnh province on the north, and Quảng Ninh in the south.
Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park 
 Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park (Vietnamese language: Vườn quốc gia Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng) is a national park in Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam.
Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park 
 This park has 300 caves and grottoes with a total length of 70 km, of which British and Vietnamese scientists have so far surveyed 20 km.
Tan Son Nhat International Airport 
 It served 8.5 million passengers in 2006 and 11 million passengers in 2007, more than a half of total passengers in Vietnam's airports, as well as two-thirds of international passenger traffic for Vietnam.
Tan Son Nhat International Airport 
 The airport can handle up to 17 million passengers per year in the two terminals (Domestic, International).
Romulus Augustus 
 Flavius Romulus Augustus (461 – after 476), often called Romulus Augustulus ("little Augustus"), was a Western Roman Emperor.
463 
 Childeric I, king of the Salian Franks, allies with the Roman general Aegidius against the Visigoths.
Justinian I 
 Justinian I () (, ) (c. 482 – 14 November 565), commonly known as Justinian the Great, was Eastern Roman Emperor from 527 until his death.
Diocletian 
 Diocletian (Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, about 245 to about 312) was Roman Emperor from 20 November 284 to 11 May 305.
Diocletian 
 Economy: Recognizing a gold drain from the western Mediterranean to the east, he tried to stop the inflation of the region by legislation.
Diocletian 
 He decreed that coins could only be made of gold or silver, stopping the trend of using lead in their creation.
Diocletian 
 They lit signal fires on signal towers to warn other outposts of possible invasion by Germans from across the border.
Diocletian 
 He allowed soldiers to move up through the ranks by "military credits" earned by years of loyal service and by actions on the field of battle.
Diocletian 
 Finally, in 305, the two senior emperors abdicated and retired, and the two juniors rose to the rank of Augustus.
Diocletian 
 They in turn were supported by two juniors: Severus II in the west under Constantius, and Maximinus in the east under Galerius.
Diocletian 
 These men were from the Roman province of Illyria, several in the city of Sirmium, which would become one of the four capitals under this system.
Diocletian 
 From the time of Domitian (81–96), when over half the Roman army was deployed in the Danubian regions, the Illyrian provinces had been the most important recruiting ground of the auxilia and later the legions.
Diocletian 
 The four Tetrarchs based themselves not at Rome but in other cities closer to the frontiers, mainly intended as headquarters for the defence of the empire.
Diocletian 
 Although Rome ceased to be the operational capital, it was still the nominal capital of the entire empire.
Diocletian 
 Nicomedia in northwestern Asia Minor (modern Izmit in Turkey), a base for defence against invasion from the Balkans and Persia's Sassanids was the capital of Diocletian, the eastern (and most senior) Augustus.
Diocletian 
 In the final reorganisation by Constantine the Great, in 318, the domain, facing Sassanid Persia, became the pretorian prefecture Oriens 'the East', the core of later Byzantium.
Diocletian 
 Sirmium (modern Sremska Mitrovica) in the Vojvodina region of modern Serbia, and near Belgrade, on the Danube border, was the capital of Galerius, the eastern Caesar; this was to become the Balkans-Danube prefecture Illyricum.
Diocletian 
 Mediolanum (modern Milan, near the Alps) was the capital of Maximian, the western Augustus; his domain became "Italia et Africa", with only a short exterior border.
Diocletian 
 Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier, in Germany) was the capital of Constantius Chlorus, the western Caesar, near the strategic Rhine border, it had been the capital of Gallic emperor Tetricus I; this quarter became the prefecture Galliae.
Diocletian 
 Aquileia, a port on the Adriatic coast, and Eboracum (modern York, in northern England near the Scottish tribes), were also significant centres for Maximian and Constantius respectively.
Diocletian 
 In terms of regional jurisdiction there was no precise division between the four Tetrarchs, and this period did not see the Roman state actually split up into four distinct sub-empires.
Diocletian 
 Each emperor had his zone of influence within the Roman Empire, but little more, mainly high command in a 'war theatre'.
Diocletian 
 Each Tetrarch was himself often in the field, while delegating most of the administration to the hierarchic bureaucracy headed by his respective Praetorian Prefect, each supervising several Vicarii, the governors-general in charge of another new administrative level, the civil diocese.
Diocletian 
 For a listing of the provinces, now known as eparchy, within each quarter (known as a praetorian prefecture), see Roman province.
Diocletian 
 In the West, the Augustus Maximian controlled the provinces west of the Adriatic Sea and the Syrtis, and within that region his Caesar, Constantius, controlled Gaul and Britain.
Diocletian 
 In the East, the arrangements between the Augustus Diocletian and his Caesar, Galerius, were much more flexible.
Diocletian 
 Diocletian's reforms fundamentally changed the structure of Roman imperial government, and stabilized the empire economically and militarily.
Diocletian 
 This helped the empire to remain intact for another hundred years, despite having seemed near the brink of collapse in Diocletian's youth.
Diocletian 
 Weakened by illness, Diocletian left the imperial office on 1 May 305, and became the first Roman emperor to voluntarily abdicate the position.
Diocletian 
 Wonderful plates made available worldwide by the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center. (
Diocletian 
 N.B. "Spalatro" was a less used alternative form of "Spalato", the Italian name for Croatian "Split").
Riku 
 Riku (Kingdom Hearts), fictional character from the Kingdom Hearts video game series by Disney and Square Enix
Huns 
 They moved into Europe around 370, and in the 5th century, built an empire there under Attila the Hun.
Huns 
 Coinage and History of the White Huns- Waleed Ziad- Articles from the 'Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society', 2004-2006
Huns 
 The History Files Europe: The Origins of the Huns, based on conversations with Kemal Cemal, Turkey, 2002
Visigoths 
 The Visigoths (Western Goths) were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe (the Ostrogoths were the other).
Visigoths 
 Both were among the loosely-defined Germanic tribes that fought the Roman Empire during the Migration Period.
Visigoths 
 Later Visigothic kings ruled southern Gaul, and Hispania after they had taken it from the Alans and the Vandals.
Visigoths 
 After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the Visigoths played a major role in southwestern Europe for another 250 years and adopted Roman culture and clothing.
Turkic peoples 
 A Turkic person is called a Turk and mainly come from these independent states Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.
Turkic peoples 
 Turkic people can sometimes understand each other during communication because of their language being connected to Turkic and having the same words.
116 
 Roman Emperor Trajan completes his invasion of Parthia by capturing the cities of Seleucia, Babylon, Ctesiphon and Susa, marking the high-water mark of the Roman Empire's eastern expansion.
Trajan 
 Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, 18 September 53 – 9 August 117) was Roman Emperor from 98 to 117 AD.