the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
Bam Bam Bigelow 
 He was famous for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) (now World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) ) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Bam Bam Bigelow 
 On the morning of January 19, 2007, Bigelow was found dead in his home at about 10:00 A.M. in Hudson, Florida.
Bam Bam Bigelow 
 The autopsy results showed that Bigelow's death was due to multiple drugs found in his system including toxic levels of cocaine and an anti-anxiety drug.
Anglo-Norman language 
 The Anglo-Norman language is the name given to the special sort of the Norman language spoken by the Anglo-Normans, the descendants of the Normans who ruled the Kingdom of England following the conquest by William of Normandy in 1066.
Anglo-Norman language 
 This langue d'oïl became the official language of England and later developed into the unique insular dialect now known as the Anglo-Norman language.
Langues d'oïl 
 Langues d'oïl (which literally means in English: "languages of yes") is the linguistic and historical name for the Gallo-Romance languages which developed from Latin in the northern territories of Roman Gaul that now are occupied by northern France, part of Belgium and the Channel Islands.
Langues d'oïl 
 Langue d'oïl (in the singular), Oïl dialects and Oïl languages (in the plural) refer to all the ancient northern Gallo-Romance languages as well as their modern-day descendants.
Langues d'oïl 
 The most widely spoken modern Oïl language is French, and others include Norman, Walloon, Picard, Gallo, Poitevin-Saintongeais, Champenois.
Langues d'oïl 
 One of these is that Oïl (pronounced [wil], or [wi] as in modern French oui), was the ancestor of the word for yes used in all the Oïl languages (oc was and still is the word used in territories to the south, and that is why the Occitan language is also called langue d'oc (literal English translation: "language of yes")).
Ring 
 It is usually made of metal such as gold, silver, platinum, but can be made of other things, for example, bone or glass.
Ring 
 The Lord Chancellors of England were given a ring when taking office, and returned it when leaving the position.
Ring 
 It is standard practice for members of a church to kneel and kiss the ring as a sign of faith and obedience.
Ring 
 Both men and women used to wear an engagement ring to show that they were going to be married, but more recently only women have worn them.
Ring 
 A diamond ring is seen as being especially lucky, as the sparkle of the diamond is said to come from the fires of love.
Ring 
 Because the ring is round and does not have an end, it is seen as a symbol of love which never ends.
Ring 
 However, a wedding ring is a public symbol of a legal relationship, and in many societies rings have that kind of function.
Gallo-Romance languages 
 It includes French and several other languages spoken in modern France and northern Italy and Spain.
Gallo-Romance languages 
 According to certain linguists, it also includes Occitan and Catalan; others group these two together as a separate Occitano-Romance branch, or place Catalan within the Ibero-Romance group.
Gallo-Romance languages 
 The Gallo-Romance languages, along with the Ibero-Romance and Rhaeto-Romance groups, form Western Romance.
Capital accumulation 
 Capital accumulation means the gathering of objects of value; the increase in wealth; or the creation of wealth.
Capital accumulation 
 investment in non-productive physical assets such as residential real estate that appreciate in value.
Capital accumulation 
 "human capital accumulation," i.e., new education and training increasing the skills of the (potential) labour force.
Capital accumulation 
 Non-financial capital accumulation is an essential factor for economic growth, since additional investment is essential to enlarge the scale of production and increase employment opportunities.
Capital accumulation 
 Rosa Luxemburg insisted that capital accumulation is the cause of the imperialism on her essay ""The Accumulation of Capital".
Investment 
 Investment or investing means that an asset is bought, or that money is put into a bank to get a future interest from it.
Investment 
 It is a term used in business management, finance and economics, related to saving or deferring consumption.
Investment 
 Literally, the word means the "action of putting something in to somewhere else" (perhaps originally related to a person's garment or 'vestment').
Investment 
 Economists refer to a real investment (such as a machine or a house), while financial economists refer to a financial asset, such as money that is put into a bank or the market which may then be used to buy a real asset.
Investment 
 Advisors, who tell people how to manage their investments, might say that even when an investment is losing money because of bad times, not to give up and withdraw it.
Investment 
 The investment decision (also known as capital budgeting) is one of the fundamental decisions of business management.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 The Battle of Bannockburn, fought on 23 and 24 June 1314, was an important Scottish victory in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 When King Alexander III of Scotland died in 1286, his heir was his granddaughter Margaret, Maid of Norway.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 King Edward I of England arranged to have his son, Edward II of England, become her husband and share the crown of Scotland in 1289.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Edward I was invited to choose who would be king from among the candidates who had any claim to be king.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 In July 1295 the Scottish Parliament met and took most of the power away from John Balliol and gave it to a group of men they elected called the "Council of Twelve."
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Scotland remained without a king of their own until 1306 when Robert the Bruce declared himself king of Scotland defying Edward I. Just before doing this Robert the Bruce had been involved in a dispute with John Comyn.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 The two met before the altar in Greyfriars Church in Dumfries in 1306 and in a fight John Comyn was killed.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Between 1310 and 1314 a large number of castles were captured from the occupying English soldiers by Bruce and his followers.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 In the Spring of 1313 Edward Bruce, brother of the Scottish King began a siege of Stirling Castle, which was held by Sir Philip Mowbray for the English king.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 It said that if the castle was not relieved by the English by 24 June the following year it would be surrendered to Bruce.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 In October 1313 King Robert made everyone in Scotland take an oath of loyalty to him or lose their lands.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 On 28 November 1313 Edward II announced he would assemble an army to be in Scotland before 24 June 1314.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Edward's first aim was to bring needed food, weapons, and fresh soldiers to Sterling Castle before they had to surrender.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 His army numbered over 20,000 and began marching from Berwick on 17 June 1314 and formed ten divisions.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Edward's army moved on the old Roman road, which ran through an ancient forest known as the Tor Wood, over the Bannock burn and into the New Park, a hunting preserve enclosed at the time of Alexander III.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Bruce's army, like William Wallace's before him, was chiefly composed of infantry armed with 18-foot long pikes.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 It was divided into three main (infantry) battalions, and a fourth larger battalion commanded by the king himself serving as the reserve unit.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Each man carried the pike upright and the outside ranks would lower theirs to form a lethal wall of sharp metal points.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 The Bannock burn (or stream), which the English army had to cross on the way to Stirling was a natural obstacle.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 No matter which way the English cavalry tried to go they would be tangled up and be easy targets for the Scottish infantry.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Like Edward II and his commanders, Mowbray thought the Scots would retreat when they saw the size of Edward's great army.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 The vanguard of Edward's forces under Gloucester had already crossed the ford over the Bannockburn towards the Scottish lines.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Robert the Bruce was mounted on a small palfrey and armed  with a battle-axe He could have simply moved behind his men and let them repel the charging warhorse and rider.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 He then rose in his stirrups and brought down his axe with such force he cut through de Bohun's helmet killing him instantly.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 When King Robert returned his brother and his commanders criticized the king (as much as they dared) for risking his life that way.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Immediately Randolph rode to his men and moved the schildton onto the open ground in the path of the English knights.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 When their leader Sir Henry Beaumont saw the Scots approaching he said "let us wait a little; let them come on; give them room."
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Sir Thomas replied "it is not from fear that I shall fly this day" and along with several other knights charged the Scottish schiltron.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 The remainder of the English knights surrounded the schiltron and attacked the Scots from every angle.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 When Sir James Douglas, commanding the left schiltron saw his friend in trouble and begged Bruce to go to his rescue.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Sir Alexander de Seton had secretly left the King of England's Army and came to Robert the Bruce that night.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 He pledged on his life that the English were discouraged and if Bruce attacked them tomorrow, he would win the battle.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Not long after daybreak on 24 June, three Scots divisions came out of the woods and began moving towards the English.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 When the Scots schiltrons began attacking the English lines the knights and soldiers could not maneuver.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 So without putting on his surcoat he mounted his horse and charged into the schiltron commanded by Edward Bruce.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 Up to this point in the battle the English and Welsh longbowmen (archers) had not been used to their full advantage.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 His 500 light horsemen led by Keith, the Marischal, quickly scattered the English and Welsh archers.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 As he pursued the English king, Douglas and his men encountered Sir Lawrence de Abernethy who with 80 men was on his way to join Edward at Bannockburn.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 On finding out the king had lost the battle he and his men joined Douglas in trying to capture Edward.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 The English tried to bait them into a fight at Winchburg but Douglas stayed on their flank (side).Even with Abernethy's men the Scots were not strong enough to take on Edward's knights.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 So the king was allowed to escape in a boat back to England with only a few of his closest followers.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 In trying to escape the Scottish schildrons, many were drowned in the Bannockburn and the River Forth.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 The purpose of all the raids was to get Edward II to recognize Robert the Bruce as king of Scotland.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 In the later Battle of Dupplin Moor and Halidon Hill the same tactics that brought victory at Bannockburn brought them defeat.
Battle of Bannockburn 
 William Mackenzie wrote: "Never did the arms of England suffer so complete a disaster; never did the arms of Scotland repeat so remarkable a performance."
Wars of the Roses 
 The Wars of the Roses (1455–1487) were a series of civil wars fought over the throne of England between supporters of the House of Lancaster, the Lancastrians, and supporters of the House of York, the Yorkists.
Wars of the Roses 
 King Henry VI was seen as a poor ruler by many of his people because of his lack of interest in politics and his mental illness (his French queen, Margaret of Anjou, often made key decisions instead).
Wars of the Roses 
 Also, England's defeat in the Hundred Years' War in France, money problems after the war and problems with the feudal system of government were other causes.
Wars of the Roses 
 The name of the Wars of the Roses, which was first used only in the 19th century, comes from the white rose symbol for the House of York and the red rose symbol for the House of Lancaster.
Wars of the Roses 
 However, the red rose symbol was not used until after the wars had ended, and most soldiers fought under the symbol of their local nobleman.
Wars of the Roses 
 The houses were named after the cities of Lancaster and York, but neither city played a big role during the war, and both houses owned land all over England and Wales.
Wars of the Roses 
 His oldest son, known by his nickname "The Black Prince" died first, and the throne passed to the Black Prince's son, Richard, who became King Richard II of England in 1377 although he was only ten.
Wars of the Roses 
 He grew up to be a weak and unpopular king, and one of his actions was to send his cousin Henry into exile.
Wars of the Roses 
 He was easily led by a small number of friends, such as his French queen Margaret of Anjou and his advisor Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset.
Wars of the Roses 
 England had done well in the war while he was still a child, and by 1428, they English appeared to be close to defeating their House of Valois enemies.
Wars of the Roses 
 However, Joan of Arc's rebellions in 1429-1430 was one reason for Burgundy's decision to switch sides in 1435.
Wars of the Roses 
 Several other problems made England's control in France to be already weakened when Henry VI started to run the government in 1437.
Wars of the Roses 
 Henry VI tried to end the war by agreeing negotiating peace, but his French enemies realised thar they could win a complete victory.
Wars of the Roses 
 Also in 1453, Henry VI was for the first time overcome with mental illness and could not run the country.
Wars of the Roses 
 A powerful nobleman called Richard, Duke of York persuaded the other nobles to make him "Lord Protector".
Wars of the Roses 
 He raised an army of many people who were unhappy with Henry and Margaret, which led to the First Battle of St Albans in 1455.
Wars of the Roses 
 That was the first to be fought between the Yorkists, who supported York, and the Lancastrians (who supported Henry).
Wars of the Roses 
 Henry was found hiding in a leather shop, taken prisoner and was again overcome with mental illness.
Wars of the Roses 
 For the next few years, both sides wanted to stop a war from breaking out but could not agree on several things.
Wars of the Roses 
 York wanted to be the next king after Henry died, rather than Henry and Margaret's newborn son, Edward.
Wars of the Roses 
 A more serious war broke out in 1459 and started because Warwick had attacked other country's ships during his time in charge of Calais.
Wars of the Roses 
 Many of his supporters thought that was a step too far and so thet agreed that Henry would still be king, but York, not Henry's son, would be the next king.
Wars of the Roses 
 Edward defeated a Lancastrian army at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross, but the Lancastrians won the Second Battle of St Albans where Henry escaped.
Wars of the Roses 
 In London, Edward was met with a lot of support, announced that he wanted to take the throne ans defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton.
Wars of the Roses 
 Fighting broke out again in 1469 when Edward's most powerful supporter, the Earl of Warwick, switched sides.
Wars of the Roses 
 Many people also thought that was wrong since kings were then expected to marry the daughters of noblemen or other kings.
Wars of the Roses 
 He died one month later, and historians think Edward had him murdered since that left the Lancastrians without a leader.
Wars of the Roses 
 Just before dying, Edward had said that his 12-year-old son should become king as Edward V, and Edward's brother Richard would be "Lord Protector".
Wars of the Roses 
 The young Edward and his brother disappeared a few months later while they were living in the Tower of London.
Wars of the Roses 
 Henry Tudor, a distant relative of Henry VI who returned to England, became the leader of the rebellions and created a new Lancastrian army.
Wars of the Roses 
 However, there was another great battle two years later, but Henry VII stopped a rebellion and brought peace to the country.
Wars of the Roses 
 The Wars of the Roses  Has a large article on 'Soldiers and Warfare during the Wars of the Roses' with interesting information on the fighting and tactics of the day, plus battles and people
Matchbook 
 A matchbook is a small cardboard container that holds a quantity of matches inside and has a coarse striking surface on the exterior.
Matchbook 
 A flap on the front is lifted to access the matches, which are attached to the interior base in a comb-like pattern and must be torn away before use. (
Matchbook 
 Matchbooks are often covered with advertising logos or various artistic decorations, and they have served as collector's items and free souvenirs.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 The English translation of the diary was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press under the title, My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner -- A German against the Third Reich.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 At the end of World War Two,  most Germans said they knew nothing about the mass murders of the Jews.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 He watched as naked Jewish men and women were placed in front of a long deep ditch and upon the order of the SS were shot by Ukrainians in the back of their heads and they fell into the ditch.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 Then the ditch was filled with dirt even as he could still hear screams coming from people still alive in the ditch.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 These inhuman atrocities were so terrible that some of the Ukrainians, who were used as tools, suffered nervous breakdowns.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 All the soldiers who had knowledge of these bestial actions of these Nazi sub-humans were of the opinion that the German people should be shaking in their shoes because of the coming retribution.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 But because ninety percent of the German population is guilty, directly or indirectly, for the present situation, we can only say that those who travel together will hang together.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 He also wrote about the leaders and people in other nations who remained indifferent to what Hitler and Mussolini were planning.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 Kellner was very angry that millions of people had to die because a few politicians in the democracies failed to confront Hitler and his allies.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 Kellner was also angry at the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, and the car manufacturer Henry Ford, and at others who blindly expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 Now is a unique chance for England and America to take the initiative, but not only with empty promises and insufficient measures.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 If America had the will to throw its entire might into the fray, it could tip the balance for a return of peace.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 Only a tremendous force and the commitment of all war material can bring the German wild steer to reason.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 Up until now the statesmen–through unbelievable shortsightedness–have neglected or failed their duty.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 12 Nov 1940: Chamberlain and the entire English government is to blame for not acting when they discovered Germany's war preparations.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 5 July 1941: In Giessen, Forester Ritter was arrested because he said the war would last another three years.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 The scorners of mankind, the daredevils and uncompromising aggressors, those are the heroes of today’s Germany.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 29 July 1941: The wounded soldiers in the hospital in Giessen tell about Russian prisoners-of-war being murdered.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 But the German people have allowed themselves to be dictated to by their "infallible" Führer: “The Führer is always right,” “the Führer never errs.”
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 He believed his diary could serve as a warning for future generations to oppose dictatorships and their totalitarian ideology.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 In 1968, he gave his diary to his American grandson, Professor Robert Scott Kellner , to take to America for safekeeping.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 The day will come when the same kind of anti-democratic and anti-Semitic hatred will bring intense misery to the world.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 There will always be people of bad will, therefore people of good will must be prepared to oppose them.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 In the spring of 2005, the diary was on exhibit at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 The Justus Liebig University of Giessen has established the Kellner Project and will publish the diary.
Friedrich Kellner Diary 
 In 2007, a Canadian movie company made a documentary movie about both Friedrich Kellner and his grandson Robert Scott Kellner.
My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner 
 My Opposition: the Diaries of Friedrich Kellner is a 2007 documentary movie by Abella Entertainment Ltd. of Toronto, Canada.
My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner 
 The documentary tells the story of Chief Justice Inspector Friedrich Kellner  ( ) who wrote a secret diary during World War II.
My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner 
 The movie uses interviews, historical footage, and re-enactments of events to tell how Friedrich Kellner risked his life to write the diary.
My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner 
 The story is also about Kellner’s American grandson, Robert Scott Kellner, who was abandoned as a child but later found his grandfather in Germany.
My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner 
 Part of the movie is about the grandson’s attempt to bring the Friedrich Kellner diary to the attention of the public.
My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner 
 The movie begins with Friedrich Kellner as a political activist for the Social Democratic Party of Germany before the war.
My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner 
 Kellner is brought before a tribunal, and he is threatened with imprisonment in a concentration camp.
List of Nobel Prize winners in Economics 
 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, informally called the Nobel Prize in Economics, is a prize awarded each year for outstanding contributions in the field of economics.
List of Nobel Prize winners in Economics 
 The winners of the prize receive their diploma and gold medal from the Swedish monarch at the same December 10 ceremony in Stockholm as the Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature.
Axis of Evil 
 Axis of Evil is a term first used by US President George W. Bush in his State of the Union speech on January 29, 2002 to describe the governments of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea and later Cuba, Libya, and Syria.
Axis of Evil 
 He used this term because he believed that they backed terrorism and were trying to buy weapons of mass destruction.
State of the Union Address 
 The State of the Union Address is a speech the president of the United States of America gives every year, usually in January.
State of the Union Address 
 In the speech the president talks about how the country is doing and what plans he will be proposing for that year.
State of the Union Address 
 Article II, Section 3 of the US Constitution reads «He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient».
State of the Union Address 
 Before the president enters the congressional chamber of the United States Capitol, the Sergeant at Arms always yells: "Mister/Madam Speaker, the President of the United States".