the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
Kashmir 
 The Nilamata Purana gives the name Kashmira to the (Kashmir Valley includes the Wular Lake) Mira" which means the sea lake or the mountain of Sage Kashyapa.
Kashmir 
 Mira in Sanskrit means Ocean or boundary, considering it to be an embodiment of Uma and it is the Kashmir that the world knows today.
Kashmir 
 Kashyapa-pura, which has been identified with Kaspapyros of Hecataeus (apud Stephanus of Byzantium) and Kaspatyros of Herodotus (3.102, 4.44); In classical literature Herodotus also called it Kaspatyrol.
Kashmir 
 Xuanzang, the Chinese monk who visited Kashmir in 631 AD called it Kia-shi-mi-lo, the Tibetans called it Khachal, meaning "snowy mountain".
Kashmir 
 Cashmere is an archaic spelling of present-Kashmir, and in some countries it is still spelled this way.
Kashmir 
 A tribe of Semitic origin, named Kash (which means a deep slash in the native dialect), is believed to have founded the cities of Kashan and Kashgar, not to be confused with the Kashyapi tribe from Caspian.
Kashmir 
 At first, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, Hari Singh, wanted his state to remain independent of both India and Pakistan.
Kashmir 
 Singh fought back at first, but on 27 October, he asked the Governor-General of India, Louis Mountbatten, for help.
Kashmir 
 Once the papers of accession to India were signed, Indian soldiers entered Kashmir with orders to stop any further occupation, but they were not allowed to expel anyone from the state.
Kashmir 
 Pakistan claimed that it was illegal for Singh to give Kashmir to India, and the First Kashmir War was started.
Kashmir 
 The UN resolution asked Pakistan to vacate the areas it had occupied and asked India to assist the U.N. Plebiscite Commission to organize a plebiscite to determine the will of the people.
Kashmir 
 Pakistan would have to choose between a plebiscite with the possibility of winning control over Kashmir, or their pact with the US.
Kashmir 
 In 1949 and 1972 they agreed on a border for most of the Territories (except for the Siachen Glacier).
Kashmir 
 This demarcation line which marks the border between India and Pakistan is known as the Line of Control.
Kashmir 
 The border between Aksai Chin (held by China) and Jammu and Kashmir (held by India) is known as Line of Actual Control.
Kashmir 
 The Kashmir border between the Punjab (Pakistan) and Indian-administered Kashmir is called the working boundary, but is not recognised by Pakistan.
Kashmir 
 The Siachen Glacier and the bordering Saltoro Range first saw military action in 1984 when the Indian Army occupied the glacier and the Saltoro range to prevent Pakistan from occupying the area.
Kashmir 
 However, the Indian Armed forces have held onto the heights on the plateau, preventing the Pakistani soldiers from climbing up the Saltoro range.
Kashmir 
 The Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL) refers to the current position that divides Indian and Pakistani troops in the Siachen Glacier region.
Kashmir 
 This line runs across the edge of the Saltoro Range, which is a mountainous plateau with peaks that are over 8,000 meters tall.
Kashmir 
 Pakistan refers to this as Indian-occupied Kashmir, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Indian-annexed Kashmir, or Indian-held Kashmir.
Kashmir 
 Kashmir is now divided in twenty-one districts, grouped under five divisions jointly controlled by Pakistan and India respectively:
Kashmir 
 Given its temperate climate, it is suited for crops like Asparagus, Artichoke, seakale, broad beans, scarletrunners, beetroot, cauliflower and cabbage.
Kashmir 
 Fruit trees are common in the valley, and the cultivated orchards yield pears, apples, peaches, and cherries.
Kashmir 
 The chief trees are deodar (National tree of Pakistan), firs and Pines, chenar (State tree) or plane, Maple, birch and Walnut, apple, cherry.
Kashmir 
 Historically, Kashmir became known worldwide when Cashmere wool was exported to other regions and nations (exports have ceased due to decreased abundance of the cashmere goat and increased competition from Western China).
Kashmir 
 Kashmiris are well adept at Knitting and making Pashmina Shawls, silk carpets, rugs, Kurtas, and Pottery.
Kashmir 
 Efforts are on to export the naturally grown fruits and vegetables as Organic foods mainly to the Greater Middle East region which it forms an integral part.
Kashmir 
 The economy was badly damaged by the 2005 Pakistan earthquake which, as of 8 October 2005, resulted in over 70,000 deaths in the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir and around 1,500 deaths in Indian controlled kashmir.
Kashmir 
 The Indian-held portion of Kashmir is believed to have potentially rich rocks containing hydrocarbon reserves.
Kashmir 
 In the last ten years, fewer people have visited Kashmir because of terrorism, but it still remains one of the most sought after tourist destinations.
Rural area 
 People who live "in the country" often live in small villages, but they might also live somewhere where there are no other houses nearby.
Rural area 
 Rural is the opposite of urban, which means places such as cities where buildings and places where people work and live are all close together.
Rural area 
 In the U.S. and Angola the term "rural area" technically describes a place that has less than 500 inhabitants per square mile.
Stephen Crane 
 He was born on November 1, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey to Jonathan Townley Crane, a clergyman, and Mary Helen Peck Crane.
Stephen Crane 
 His major works include the novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), the war novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895), and the short story "The Open Boat" (1897).
Lawrence's goldfinch 
 Bigger than the Lesser Goldfinch, and smaller than the American Goldfinch, with less yellow markings than either.
Lawrence's goldfinch 
 It lives from central California and its southern coast in the United States, to Baja California in Mexico.
George Newbold Lawrence 
 George Newbold Lawrence (October 20, 1806 - January 17, 1895) was an American businessperson and amateur ornithologist (bird expert).
George Newbold Lawrence 
 Lawrence counted birds for Spencer Fullerton Baird and John Cassin, and the three men wrote Birds of North America in 1858.
Santa Claus 
 In some countries, he is said to live at the North Pole with his wife Mrs. Claus, elves who are said to build his toys, and reindeer who are said to pull his sleigh through the sky.
Santa Claus 
 Father Christmas, the Nordic version, is said to reside in Lapland, Finland, but some think he is from the North Pole.
Santa Claus 
 Santa bring gifts to good children (and children-at-heart) worldwide on Christmas usually by sliding down fireplace chimneys (or opening doors with a special key) and reindeer pulling his sleigh.
Santa Claus 
 However, after the children have fallen asleep, parents typically play the role of Santa Claus and leave their gifts under the Christmas tree.
Santa Claus 
 Children's parents sometimes signed tags on gifts for children with "From Santa Claus" before the gifts are laid under the tree.
Santa Claus 
 Santa Claus was not a real, historical person, but the modern character of Santa was most likely created from different traditions from European and Christian culture, such as the real-life Roman Catholic saint Saint Nicholas, the Dutch Sinterklaas, and others.
Santa Claus 
 He is also known as Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, Kristingle, Christingle, Father Christmas, Santy, and many other names.
Santa Claus 
 In the Nordic version, Santa is said to live in a small hill called Korvatunturi in Lapland, Finland.
Santa Claus 
 The saint who inspired the legend of Sinterklaas (and thus, Santa Claus) is Saint Nicholas, who lived in the 4th Century AD and had a reputation for secret gift-giving, especially to the poor and needy, such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him.
Santa Claus 
 He is said to reside at the top of the world at the North Pole with his wife Mrs. Claus, elves, and reindeer.
Santa Claus 
 As his home and workshop are fictional, there is no definite geographical location as to where the home or workshop is located.
Santa Claus 
 Over the years, there have been a number of websites created by various organizations that have purported to track Santa.
Santa Claus 
 Some, such as NORAD Tracks Santa, the Airservices Australia Tracks Santa Project, the Santa Update Project, and the MSNBC and Bing Maps Platform Tracks Santa Project have endured.
Santa Claus 
 Others, such as the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport's Tracks Santa Project, the Santa Retro Radar – Lehigh Valley Project, and the NASA Tracks Santa Project, have fallen out of use.
Santa Claus 
 The origins of the NORAD Tracks Santa program began in the United States in 1955, when a Sears Roebuck store in Colorado Springs, Colorado gave children a number to call a "Santa hotline."
Santa Claus 
 The number was mistyped, resulting in children calling the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) on Christmas Eve instead.
Santa Claus 
 Colonel Harry Shoup, the Director of Operations, received the first call for Santa and responded by telling children there were signs on the radar that Santa was indeed heading south from the North Pole.
Santa Claus 
 A tradition began which continued under the name NORAD Tracks Santa when in 1958, the United States and Canada jointly created the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
Santa Claus 
 In the past, many local television stations in the United States and Canada likewise claimed they tracked Santa in their own metropolitan areas through the stations' meteorologists.
Santa Claus 
 In December 2000, the Weather Channel built upon these local efforts to provide a national Christmas Eve Santa tracking effort called SantaWatch in cooperation with NASA, the International Space Station, and Silicon Valley-based new multimedia firm Dreamtime Holdings.
Santa Claus 
 In the 21st century, most local television stations in the United States and Canada rely upon outside established "Santa tracking" efforts, such as NORAD Tracks Santa.
Santa Claus 
 Many other websites became available year-round, devoted to Santa and purport to keep tabs on his activities in his workshop.
Santa Claus 
 However, some websites, such as Santa's page on Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces, have used or still use "bots" to compose and send email replies, with occasional unfortunate results.
Santa Claus 
 One particular website called emailSanta.com was created when a 1997 Canada Post strike prevented a man named Alan Kerr (credited as the "Head Elf")'s young niece and nephews from sending their letters to Santa; in a few weeks, over 1,000 emails to Santa were received and had received 1,000 emails a day one year later.
Santa Claus 
 Now celebrating close to two decades on-line, emailSanta.com receives roughly 1 million emails a year.
Santa Claus 
 In addition to providing holiday-themed entertainment, "Santa tracking" websites raise interest in space technology and exploration, serve to educate children in geography.
Santa Claus 
 By the end of the 20th century, the reality of mass mechanized production became more fully accepted by the Western public.
Santa Claus 
 That shift was reflected in the modern depiction of Santa's residence—now often humorously portrayed as a fully mechanized production and distribution facility, equipped with the latest manufacturing technology, and overseen by the elves with Santa and Mrs. Claus as executives and / or managers.
Santa Claus 
 An excerpt from a 2004 article, from a supply chain managers' trade magazine, aptly illustrates this depiction:
Santa Claus 
 In the cartoon base, Santa has been voiced by several people, including Ed Asner, Stan Francis, Mickey Rooney, John Goodman, and Keith Wickham.
Santa Claus 
 Many television commercials, comic strips and other media depict this as a sort of humorous business, with Santa's elves acting as a sometimes mischievously disgruntled workforce, cracking jokes, making riddles, and pulling pranks on their boss.
Santa Claus 
 For instance, a Bloom County story from December 15, 1981 through December 24, 1981 has Santa rejecting the demands of PETCO (Professional Elves Toy-Making and Craft Organization) for higher wages, a hot tub in the locker room, and "short broads," with the elves then going on strike.
Santa Claus 
 Ronald Reagan steps in, fires all of Santa's helpers, and replaces them with out-of-work air traffic controllers (an obvious reference to the 1981 air traffic controllers' strike), resulting in a riot before Santa vindictively rehires them in humiliating new positions such as his reindeer.
Santa Claus 
 In an episode of The Sopranos titled "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power," Paulie Gualtieri says he "used to think Santa and Mrs. Claus were running a sweatshop over there... The original elves were ugly, traveled with Santa to throw bad kids a beatin', and gave the good ones toys."
Santa Claus 
 In Kyrgyzstan, a mountain peak was named after Santa, after a Swedish company had suggested the location be a more efficient starting place for present-delivering journeys all over the world, than Lapland.
Santa Claus 
 In the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, a Santa Claus Festival was held on December 30, 2007, with government officials attending.
Santa Claus 
 The Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of Santa Clauses is held by Thrissur, Kerala, India, where on December 27, 2014, 18,112 Santas came overtaking the current record of Derry City, Northern Ireland.
Santa Claus 
 On September 9, 2007, where a total of 12,965 people dressed up as Santa or Santa's helpers which previously brought down the record of 3,921, which was set during the Santa Dash event in Liverpool City Center in 2005.
Santa Claus 
 A gathering of Santas in 2009 in Bucharest, Romania attempted to top the world record, but failed with only 3,939 Santas.
Cinnamon 
 There is a literature which suggests that cinnamon spice may have positive effects on diabetes type II.
1186 
 Year 1186 (MCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1188 
 Giraldus Cambrensis and Baldwin of Exeter travel through Wales attempting to recruit men for the Third Crusade.
Science fiction 
 Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or SF) is the type genre of speculative fiction which deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, interstellar travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
Science fiction 
 It has been called the "literature of ideas", and it often explores the potential consequences of scientific, social, and technological innovations.
Science fiction 
 Science fiction stories can be novels, movies, TV shows, video games, comic books and other literature.
Science fiction 
 Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke are seen as the big three science fiction authors of the 20th century.
Science fiction 
 Philip K. Dick, Poul Anderson and William Gibson are other well-known science fiction authors from the 20th century.
Science fiction 
 Although not everyone agrees on the exact definitions of these two types, the way they use science or the type of science used in the stories is different.
Science fiction 
 Hard science fiction, or "hard SF", is special because it uses true facts and theories from sciences.
Science fiction 
 A few of these scientist/writers are Gregory Benford and Geoffrey A. Landis, while mathematician authors include Rudy Rucker and Vernor Vinge.
Science fiction 
 Other noteworthy hard SF authors include Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Isaac Asimov, Greg Bear, Stanislav Lem, Larry Niven, Robert J. Sawyer, Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds, Charles Sheffield, and Greg Egan.
Science fiction 
 Soft science fiction stories take ideas from social sciences such as psychology, economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
Science fiction 
 Some Social SF and Soft SF can be types of speculative fiction, for example utopian or dystopian stories.
Science fiction 
 George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, are examples.
Science fiction 
 Some people think that satirical novels in fantastic settings (places) such as Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift are speculative fiction.
Science fiction 
 Publishing companies and critics put works of SF into different subgenres to help describe the work to help readers choose which books to read or movies to watch.
Science fiction 
 In Alternate (or alternative) history stories, writers imagine how the past might have been different.
Science fiction 
 There are several types: through war (On The Beach), pandemic (The Last Man), astronomic impact (When Worlds Collide), ecological disaster (The Wind From Nowhere), or mankind's self-destruction (Oryx and Crake), or some other general disaster.
Science fiction 
 Bruce Bethke used this word as the title for a short story in 1980 by putting together two words: "cybernetics" and "punk".
Science fiction 
 Stories usually take place in the near-future and the settings are often dystopian (characterized by misery).
Science fiction 
 Joe Haldeman's The Forever War is a response to the World War II–style stories of earlier military SF authors.
Science fiction 
 Maritime science fiction is science fiction that features a maritime or marine environment and technology and/or marine lifeforms mixed with science fiction.
Science fiction 
 Two examples of this type are Olaf Stapledon's novel Odd John and Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human.
Science fiction 
 Space western takes ideas from books and movies about exploring the American Old West and moves them  to space in the future.
Science fiction 
 These stories are often on "frontier" colony worlds (colonies that have only recently been terraformed and/or settled) serving as stand-ins for the backdrop of lawlessness and economic expansion that were predominant in the American west.
Science fiction 
 Ray Bradbury's 1952 short story called A Sound of Thunder is a more recent and very famous example of this genre.
Science fiction 
 This subgenre uses fiction to explore ideas from libertarian political philosophy about government and social organization.
Science fiction 
 A classic example of libertarian science fiction is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein.
Science fiction 
 Examples include The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, and the Girl Genius series by Phil and Kaja Foglio.
Science fiction 
 The start of this style may be seen in some writing by Michael Moorcock, Philip Jose Farmer and Steve Stiles.
Science fiction 
 Biopunk is like cyberpunk, but instead of focusing on cybernetic technology, it focuses on biotechnology.
Science fiction 
 Mundane science fiction is science fiction set on a fiction Earth and not involving any space travel or extra-terrestrial elements.
Science fiction 
 Science fiction fandom is the "community of the literature of ideas... the culture in which new ideas emerge and grow before being released into society at large".
Science fiction 
 Members of this community, "fans", are in contact with each other at conventions or clubs, through print or online fanzines, or on the Internet using web sites, mailing lists, and other resources.
Science fiction 
 Soon fans began writing letters to each other, and then grouping their comments together in informal publications that became known as fanzines.
Science fiction 
 Conventions, clubs, and fanzines were the main fan activities, or "fanac", for decades, until the Internet improved communication among a much larger population of interested people.
Science fiction 
 There are national awards, like Canada's Aurora Award and the UK Arthur C. Clarke Award, regional awards, like the Endeavour Award presented at Orycon for works from the Pacific Northwest, special interest or subgenre awards like the Chesley Award for art or the World Fantasy Award for fantasy.
Science fiction 
 Conventions (in fandom, shortened as "cons"), are held in cities around the world, catering to a local, regional, national, or international membership.
Science fiction 
 General-interest conventions cover all aspects of science fiction, while others focus on a particular interest like media fandom, filking, etc.
Science fiction 
 Most are organized by volunteers in non-profit groups, though most media-oriented events are organized by commercial promoters.
Science fiction 
 The convention's activities are called the "program", which may include panel discussions, readings, autograph sessions, costume masquerades, and other events.
Science fiction 
 Activities that occur throughout the convention are not part of the program; these commonly include a dealer's room, art show, and hospitality lounge (or "con suites").
Science fiction 
 They may be associated with an ongoing science fiction convention, or have regular club meetings, or both.
Science fiction 
 Most groups meet in libraries, schools and universities, community centers, pubs or restaurants, or the homes of individual members.
Science fiction 
 Long-established groups like the New England Science Fiction Association and the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society have clubhouses for meetings and storage of convention supplies and research materials.
Science fiction 
 The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) was founded by Damon Knight in 1965 as a non-profit organization to serve the community of professional science fiction authors, 24 years after his essay "Unite or Fie!"
Science fiction 
 Fandom has helped support related groups as they started to form, including media fandom, the Society for Creative Anachronism, gaming, filking, and furry fandom.
Science fiction 
 Fanzine printing methods have changed over the decades, from the mimeograph and the ditto machine, to modern photocopying.
Science fiction 
 Modern fanzines are printed on computer printers or at local copy shops, or they may only be sent as email.
Science fiction 
 Artists working for fanzines have risen to prominence in the field, including Brad W. Foster, Teddy Harvia, and Joe Mayhew; the Hugos include a category for Best Fan Artists.
Science fiction 
 The earliest organized fandom online was the SF Lovers  community, originally a mailing list in the late 1970s with a text archive file that was updated regularly.
Science fiction 
 In the 1990s, the development of the World-Wide Web made the online fan community much, much larger.
Science fiction 
 Fans created thousands and then millions of web sites devoted to science fiction and related genres for all media.
Science fiction 
 Though sites like SF Site and Read and Find Out give readers a broad range of references and reviews about science fiction.
Science fiction 
 Fans write stories that take place in the setting of an established book, movie, or television series.
Science fiction 
 In some cases, the copyright owners of the books, movies, or television series have instructed their lawyers to issue "cease and desist" letters to fans.
Blaise Pascal 
 Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor,  philosopher, writer and Catholic theologian.
Blaise Pascal 
 Though best known for his works in mathematics, including the creation of Pascal's Triangle, which is named after him, and developments in the field of probability, Pascal was also a scientist.
Blaise Pascal 
 Pascal invented a form of counting machine which helped inventors create the calculator in the 20th century.
Pascal's triangle 
 It is named after French mathematician Blaise Pascal, but it was used in China 3 centuries before his time.
Pascal's triangle 
 Then, to get the numbers of following rows, add the number that can be seen above and to the left (if any) and the number above and to the right (if any) to find the new value.
Pascal's triangle 
 where the coefficients ai in this expansion are precisely the numbers on row n + 1 of Pascal's triangle; in other words,
Antidisestablishmentarianism 
 An official state church is called the "established" church, so a disestablishmentarian is a person who wants to stop the state church.