the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
Reading, Berkshire 
 The Huntley and Palmer's biscuit factory was the biggest in the world in 1914 and one factory was built on Kings Road by George Palmer in 1846.
Reading, Berkshire 
 and comedian Ricky Gervais are from Reading, and also actress Kate Winslet, who has a road named after her.
Dozen 
 Humans might have started to count on a base 12 because there are approximately 12 cycles of the moon in one cycle of the sun.
Dozen 
 The dozen is convenient because its multipliers and multiples are convenient: 12 = 3 × 2 × 2, and 360 = 30 × 12.
Dozen 
 The French word douzaine means "about twelve" and is part of a family of words with similar meanings, e.g. vingtaine – "about 20"  centaine – "about 100"  etc.
The Little Mermaid 
 It was first published in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1837 in the third volume of Fairy Tales Told for Children with "The Emperor's New Clothes".
The Little Mermaid 
 She wants to meet him again; however, she is a mermaid, and her father, who is the king of the sea, would not let her do so.
The Little Mermaid 
 The Annotated Little Mermaid  by Heidi Anne Heiner, Paull's translation, with scholarly annotations, scans from six illustrated editions, bibliography.
List of airlines 
 : Top - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZFor countries in the Middle East, refer to the section below.
List of airlines 
 For DOMs/TOMs, see the sections for French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, New Caledonia, Réunion, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.
Atlantic herring 
 Swarms of up to 4 cubic kilometers in size have been measured of atlantic herring, with an eastimated 4 billion individual fish.
Atlantic herring 
 The current reason for the overfishing is the need of the Omega Fatty Acid, which helps increase memory, and brain functions.
Muscat 
 The official language is Arabic and English is used as an additional language for many purposes, including business and tourism purposes.
Muscat 
 People started living in the Muscat area about 2300 years ago but the first writings of the city are about 1900 years old in the 1st century CE.
Muscat 
 Muscat developed into an important city in the 9th century CE because of business and trade at the port.
Muscat 
 Portugal, Persian (Iran) and Turkey had many wars for control over Muscat from the 1500s to the 1700s.
Muscat 
 Muscat has several tourist sites including seven museums, a fort, an old palace and a new opera house.
Muscat 
 According to an article in Times Of Oman, almost 500,000 people visited in February alone for the popular Muscat Festival.
Ukrainian language 
 The Ukrainian language (Ukrainian: українська (мова), transliteration: ukrajins'ka mova) is an Eastern Slavic language.
Ukrainian language 
 2only after consonants; a capital letter does not exist; the soft sign ь is not a letter representing a sound, but modifies the sound of the preceding letter, indicating palatalisation ('softening').
Native speaker 
 A native speaker's language is usually the language their parents speak and/or the language of their country of origin.
Native speaker 
 It is the only language of a monolingual person, and likely the first language of a multilingual person which is acquired naturally in their native environment.
Florence Nightingale 
 She was the first female to receive the Order of Merit, one of the highest honours awarded by the British monarch.
Florence Nightingale 
 As a nurse she was given the name 'The Lady with the Lamp' because at night, she checked on the wounded soldiers and always carried 'The Lamp' with her.
Florence Nightingale 
 Florence Nightingale was a wonderful woman, coming from a wealthy family she refused the aristocrat lifestyle her family expected from her and instead focused on helping the poor, the injured and the sick.
Florence Nightingale 
 Some of her books were written in simple English so that they could easily be understood by those with poor reading skills.
Florence Nightingale 
 Nightingale was helped to understand statistics by her country's leading expert on public statistics, William Farr.
Florence Nightingale 
 Farr worked with her on all the statistics from the Crimean War, which she publicised in her writing.
Florence Nightingale 
 She proved that more men had died from disease than fighting, a very important piece of information.
Florence Nightingale 
 Unfortunately, both she and Farr believed the disease was caused by foul air: this was called the miasma theory.
Florence Nightingale 
 Snow's work was published in 1855, but it was 30 years before the germ theory was generally accepted.
Florence Nightingale 
 Farr publicly acknowledged he was wrong in 1866, but Nightingale never really gave up the miasma idea.
Florence Nightingale 
 London's cholera epidemics stopped once the authorities built sewage treatment plants, delivered cleaner water, and built a system of underground pipes that kept sewage from seeping into the water supply.
Florence Nightingale 
 Florence Nightingale was born into an upper class British family in 1820 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
Florence Nightingale 
 Although her parents expected her to become a wife and a mother, in 1845 she decided to become a nurse.
Florence Nightingale 
 After reading many reports about the poor treatment of sick and injured soldiers, she travelled to Crimea to see for herself and discovered the hospitals were crowded and dirty.
Florence Nightingale 
 At the hospital in Istanbul where the injured soldiers were sent, Florence realized that soldiers died more often from diseases like cholera than from their injuries in war.
Florence Nightingale 
 government that providing better conditions for sick and injured soldiers would help them win the war.
Florence Nightingale 
 While she was working in Crimea she became known as “The Lady with the Lamp” because she would walk around the hospital in the evening carrying a lamp and check on the soldiers.
Florence Nightingale 
 When she returned to England she started a school in 1860 for nurses at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London.
Florence Nightingale 
 She was a keen Christian but also believed that pagan and eastern religions also contained genuine worth.
Florence Nightingale 
 She was a strong opponent of discrimination against all types of Christians as well as against non-Christians.
Florence Nightingale 
 In 1907, Florence Nightingale became the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit by King Edward VII.
Florence Nightingale 
 There are many statues of her in Britain, including one in Waterloo Place in London and a Florence Nightingale museum, also in London.
Apocalypse Now 
 It tells the story of an Army Captain who is sent on a boat deep into the Cambodian jungle to capture a Special Forces colonel who, it is suggested, has gone insane.
Apocalypse Now 
 It was partly based on Joseph Conrad's novel about a journey down the Congo River, Heart of Darkness.
Apocalypse Now 
 It was nominated for eight Academy Awards at the 52nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Duvall.
Apocalypse Now 
 It ranked #14 in Sight & Sounds greatest films poll in 2012, and #6 in the Director's Poll of greatest films of all time.
1228 
 The Sixth Crusade is launched by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, after delays due to sickness and an excommunication from Pope Gregory IX.
1327 
 April 6 – Petrarch sees a woman he names Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion.
1327 
 He writes a series of poems dedicated to her, which are collected into his Canzoniere ("Song Book").
312 
 October 28 – Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius and becomes the only Roman Emperor in the West.
1709 
 January 10 - Abraham Darby I makes cast iron using coke fuel at his Coalbrookdale blast furnace in Shropshire, England.
1709 
 February - In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated one more time with Masque de la Mobile in the capital of French Louisianne, Mobile (Alabama), before Mobile is moved 27 miles (43 km) down the Mobile River to Mobile Bay in 1711.
1709 
 February 2 - Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
1709 
 July 8 (New Style) - Battle of Poltava: In the Ukraine, Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava (see above).
1360 
 October 24 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
Vojvodina 
 The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serbian: Аутономна Покрајина Војводина or Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina) is one of the two autonomous provinces in Serbia.
Vojvodina 
 Vojvodina is ethnically, culturally and linguistically diverse, with more than 26 different ethnic groups and six official languages.
1649 
 January 30 – The Commonwealth of England, a republican form of government, replaces the monarchy as the form of government of England and later of Scotland and Ireland.
1649 
 January 30 – Prince Charles Stuart declares himself King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1649 
 February 5 – In Edinburgh, Scotland claimant King Charles II of England is declared King in his absence.
1649 
 March 19 – The House of Commons pass an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring that it is "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
1649 
 August 15 – Admiral Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert to allow Oliver Cromwell to land in Dublin and begin the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
1649 
 September 2 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1649 
 April 9 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Pennsylvania Station 
 The name "Pennsylvania Station" comes from the times when all these stations belonged to the Pennsylvania Railroad and, later, to Penn Central.
Pennsylvania Station 
 The station in Pittsburgh, although officially known as Union Station, is also called Penn Station by locals.
Dan Quayle 
 James Danforth "Dan" Quayle (born February 4, 1947) is an American politician who was the 44th vice president of the United States.
Dan Quayle 
 Quayle was born at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital (When he was born as Methodist Hospital in 1947) in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dan Quayle 
 His maternal grandfather, Eugene C. Pulliam, was a rich and influential publishing magnate who founded Central Newspapers, Inc., owner of over a dozen major newspapers such as The Arizona Republic and The Indianapolis Star.
Dan Quayle 
 James C. Quayle moved his family to Arizona in 1955 to run part of the family's publishing business.
Dan Quayle 
 While his family was very wealthy, Quayle was less rich; his total net worth by the time of his election in 1988 was less than $1 million.
Cincinnati 
 Cincinnati is a city in the southwestern corner of the state of Ohio near the states of Kentucky and Indiana.
Cincinnati 
 Cincinnati is home to major sports teams including the Cincinnati Reds and the Cincinnati Bengals, as well as events like the Cincinnati Masters and the Thanksgiving Day race.
Cincinnati 
 The University of Cincinnati traces its foundation to the Medical College of Ohio, which was founded in 1819.
Cincinnati 
 Cincinnati was named after the Roman leader Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus and was an early major city in the midwestern United States.
Cincinnati 
 Many Germans settled in the city and the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood gets its name from the river in Germany.
Cincinnati 
 Soap and machine tools are major industries in the area, which is home to the company Procter & Gamble as well as Macy's.
Cable car 
 The construction of the longest cable way in the world was finished in 16th October 2010 in Armenia.
Tokusatsu 
 It is used to talk about television shows and movies that have superheros, giant monsters, and other science fiction and fantastic themes.
Snakes on a Plane 
 Snakes on a Plane (released in Japan as Snake Flight (スネーク・フライト)) is a 2006 American action horror crime thriller movie.
Snakes on a Plane 
 It was directed by David R. Ellis and it stars Samuel L. Jackson and released to movie theaters by Warner Bros. It is about many snakes on a plane that is traveling from Hawaii to Los Angeles, California.
Snakes on a Plane 
 The snakes attack people on the plane, and Samuel L. Jackson's character, FBI agent Neville Flynn becomes angry at the snakes, so he fights them.
Snakes on a Plane 
 The movie became very popular before it was released because of the title and because of many people talked about it on the Internet.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 
 The War in Afghanistan was a war fought by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, The Netherlands, Australia and other countries against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, after the terrorist attacks against the US on September 11, 2001.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 
 On 31 August 2021 (local time), the war ended as the last coalition soldiers (from foreign countries), left Afghanistan.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 
 By February 2002, 5,000 soldiers from ISAF (or International Security Assistance Force) were in Afghanistan.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 
 British troops left Afghanistan in 2015, after 5 years of training the Afghanistan police to deal with threats from the Taliban.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 
 After security deteriorated, American soldiers returned and over 10,000 were in the country at the end of 2017.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 
 In 2020, the US and NATO allies promised to leave Afghanistan as long as the Taliban agreed to certain things: not allowing terrorists to operate in its area, and starting peace talks with the Afghanistan government.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 
 In mid-2021, the Taliban began a military offensive to enlarge their territory as US and allied forces began to leave.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 
 During the 2021 evacuation from Afghanistan, over 150,000 people chose to to be taken out of Afghanistan; They were diplomats, other civilian staff, other civilians, and military staff.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 
 The last military airplanes of the United States, left the airport in Kabul, one minute before 31 August 2021.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 
 More than 15,000 Coalition soldiers were wounded:  6,773 US, 3,954 UK, 1,500 Canadian and over 2,500 other Coalition soldiers.
Castrato 
 Most of the main soprano roles in operas by Handel and other composers of that time were written for castrati.
Castrato 
 The practice of castrating young boys who had good singing voices was quite common in Italy in the 17th century.
Castrato 
 These include the vocal cords enlarging and growing bigger, and the voice getting deeper as a consequence.
Castrato 
 Many families who were poor had their children castrated because it might give them a better future.
Castrato 
 Once a boy was castrated he would go to a special music school where children learned singing and musical instruments.
Castrato 
 They were the great stars of their day, and audiences came to the opera to cheer on their favourite singers.
Castrato 
 It is impossible now for us to know what these great castrato voices sounded like, but they must have had very powerful voices and many of the singers were very skilled in singing and adding musical ornamentation to the songs.
Castrato 
 This was largely due to the German-born composer Georg Friderich Händel who moved to England in 1709 and wrote lots of Italian operas.
Castrato 
 The popularity of castrato singers died out in the 19th century when operas became less artificial and more like real life.
Castrato 
 By the mid-19th century they were no opera castrati left, although a few castrati still sang in church choirs.
Castrato 
 There is a recording of his voice made in 1902 which can be heard online, but he may not have been a good singer and he was old when he made the recording, so we cannot judge whether the castrato voice was beautiful by that recording.
Falsetto 
 Actors do this sometimes, e.g. Robin Williams in the film Mrs Doubtfire or Kevin Clash when voicing the character Elmo in Sesame Street and Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, with his R&B falsetto.
Falsetto 
 Women can also use falsetto, but when they do there is not as big of a change in sound from their normal voices as there is in men.
Falsetto 
 When women use falsetto the voice sounds lighter or weaker than it does when they speak or sing normally.
Falsetto 
 It is similar to playing harmonics on a string instrument by lightly touching the string at a certain point so that only part of the string vibrates.
Falsetto 
 When a man sings falsetto his vocal range is usually one octave higher than his normal singing voice.
Falsetto 
 Later the popularity of the countertenor disappeared, but in the mid 20th century it became popular again for performing Renaissance and Baroque music.
Falsetto 
 Today the tradition of men singing alto (with countertenor voices) still exists in Britain in cathedral choirs and some church choirs which are all-male choirs.
Falsetto 
 It is not a big, operatic voice, and it blends in well with boys’ treble voices in the acoustic of churches and cathedrals.
Falsetto 
 Occasionally falsetto can be used for comic effect, as in the roasted swan in the Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.
Countertenor 
 A countertenor is a male singer who uses a falsetto voice to sing high notes like a female contralto or mezzo-soprano.
Countertenor 
 Countertenors were used a lot in the Renaissance and Baroque periods when females were not allowed to sing in church choirs.
Countertenor 
 People forgot about this way of singing in the 18th and 19th centuries, although male altos continued to sing in English cathedral and church choirs.
Countertenor 
 He sang many songs from the Baroque period that had been written for the countertenor voice, for example songs by Henry Purcell who sang countertenor himself.
Countertenor 
 Today there is a lot of interest again in using this type of voice for performing early music like Renaissance and Baroque music.
Breeches role 
 It is also called a trouser role (British) or pants role (U.S.) or travesti role (the Italian word).
Breeches role 
 They are normally sung by mezzo-sopranos or contraltos with light voices because they can often sound boyish.
Breeches role 
 These castrati were men pretending to be women, but there were also women pretending to be men (especially when the actress was trying to deceive another character) and the audiences were used to this kind of thing.
Breeches role 
 As they gradually stopped the horrible practice of castrating young boys in the late 18th century these male characters started to be sung by mezzo-sopranos instead.
Breeches role 
 Other famous examples include the role of Siebel in Dvořák’s opera Rusalka and the role of Prince Orlofsky in Johann Strauss’s opera Die Fledermaus.
Breeches role 
 There is the role of Oktavian in Richard Strauss’s opera Der Rosenkavalier (1911), but this opera was deliberately trying to produce the old-fashioned atmosphere of Mozart’s time.
Breeches role 
 In both cases it makes the characters more dramatic, but the first is very serious while the second is supposed to be humorous.
Treble (singer) 
 Often it is called boy soprano, but since there are also many girls who sing in cathedral and church choirs these days, the word treble is now used to describe the voice of either sex.
Treble (singer) 
 At puberty he starts to become a man and his voice range will go down (we say that his voice “breaks”).
Treble (singer) 
 A girl’s voice also changes when she reaches puberty, but the change into a grown-up female voice is more gradual than with a boy, and it is still within the soprano or  alto range.
Treble (singer) 
 Boys who join a cathedral choir or the choir of a large church will have to work hard to develop their voice and learn to sing musically.
Treble (singer) 
 They often start this training aged 7 or 8, and they may only have four or five years before their voice starts to break.
Treble (singer) 
 They do not usually become famous as soloists, but the Welsh treble Aled Jones became very famous for about three years and made many recordings before his voice broke in 1987.
Treble (singer) 
 Although children do not usually sing in opera, occasionally a treble is used for the part of a very small boy, e.g. in  Debussy’s opera Pélléas et Mélisande.
Claque 
 A claque (pronounce: ‘clack’) is a small group of people in an opera house who deliberately either clapped loudly (applauded) or shouted boo for a particular singer.
Claque 
 Someone who liked one of the singers and wanted them to have lots of applause would pay a group of people to sit near the back of the opera house and to clap and shout enthusiastically whenever that singer had finished a song.
Claque 
 Sometimes the claque would be paid to do the opposite: they would be told to hiss and boo when the singer had sung.
Claque 
 Very often a singer would have to pay some money to the claque so that they would applaud him (or her).
Claque 
 In the early 20th century, when the world-famous tenor Enrico Caruso refused to pay the claque in Naples a bribe, they hissed during his singing of the great aria Una furtiva lagrima.
Leech 
 All leeches are carnivorous, that is, they eat mainly meat, but some are also haemophagic; this means they drink the blood of other animals.
Leech 
 They were used to suck the blood of patients a long time ago, before we knew about germs and that losing blood is bad for health.
Chemotherapy 
 Often, chemotherapy drugs are combined with each other and with other drugs when a person is treated for cancer.
Typhoid 
 Typhoid, or typhoid fever, is an illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica.
Typhoid 
 An asymptomatic human carrier is an individual who is still excreting typhoid bacteria in their stool a year after the acute stage of the infection.
Typhoid 
 Also, it can cause stomach pains, headache, being delirious (restless, excited, seeing things), and not being hungry.
Typhoid 
 For example, in the Indian subcontinent, typhoid is one of the most common diseases because of poor sanitation and lack of basic hygiene.
Necklace 
 The necklace's gemstones are believed to have been cut in India in the 17th century, but the early history of the necklace itself is unknown.
Necklace 
 The first recorded owner of the piece was Tukoji Rao III, Maharaja of Indore (a Princely State in India) in the early 20th century.
Necklace 
 On his abdication, the necklace was passed to his son, Yashvantrao II, who took up his father's throne.
Cranbourne, Victoria 
 The Cranbourne Racecourse and Recreation Reserve and the Cranbourne Training Complex are popular facilities.
Cranbourne, Victoria 
 The office, built in 1875, is still standing on the corner of South Gippsland Highway and Sladen Street.
Cranbourne, Victoria 
 The MRA Cranbourne GP Run is held each year on the Saturday of the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix.
Transylvania 
 In the past, it was a part of Hungary, was an independent principality, belonged to the Ottoman Empire or was a province of Austria-Hungary.
Transylvania 
 The borders was made up by the Siret River from east, river Tisza from west of north and south by the Carpathian Mountains.
Transylvania 
 But Transylvania was also ruled from Alba Iulia during its dependence from the Ottoman Empire, and the seat of the Transylvanian Diet was moved to Sibiu for some time in the 19th century.
Transylvania 
 This vampire story by Bram Stoker is based on a local nobleman Vlad III the Impaler, known for his cruelty.
Southwest Airlines 
 It flies mostly among about a hundred airports within the United States but also to flies from the United States to airports in the Caribbean Sea and Mexico.
Southwest Airlines 
 Originally, many of Southwest's flights were to airports in the Southwestern United States, such as Dallas Love Field and Houston Hobby Airport, but it also flies to airports in other parts of the country, such as Chicago Midway Airport and Baltimore/Washington International Airport.
Southwest Airlines 
 Southwest Airlines controls most of the gates at Dallas Love Field and most other airlines cannot fly from there.