the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
Gold Star family 
 Starting in World War I, the families of US soldiers and sailors often flew flags that had a blue star for each member of the family that was serving in the military.
Gold Star family 
 In August of 1947, the United States Congress authorized the military to present a gold star lapel pin to the family members of those killed in action.
Gold Star family 
 Another pin—this time a gold star with a gold background and four oak sprigs around the star—was authorized by Congress in 1973.
Gold Star family 
 The military continues to award Gold Star lapel pins to the family members or next of kin of service members who die during military service.
Sex hormone 
 Sex hormones, also called sex steroids, are steroid hormones that interact with androgen or estrogen receptors.
Sex hormone 
 The non-steroid luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone and gonadotropin-releasing hormone are usually not regarded as sex hormones, although they play major sex-related roles.
Sex hormone 
 Natural sex steroids are made by the gonads (ovaries or testes), by adrenal glands, or by conversion from other sex steroids in tissues such as liver or fat.
Darwin Day 
 This recognizes the importance of his book The Origin of Species, the basis of the theory of evolution.
Darwin Day 
 However, 2009 was the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and was also the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species.
Darwin Day 
 Events were planned, with celebrations in Shrewsbury (his birthplace), the University of Cambridge, and the Natural History Museum in London.
SPAS-12 
 The SPAS-12 has been popular in many movies, TV shows, and video games including Call of Duty, Battlefield, Grand Theft Auto, Left 4 Dead and more.
Lucille Dumont 
 Lucille Dumont (January 20, 1919 – July 29, 2016) was a Canadian singer, radio host and television host.
Lucille Dumont 
 She was credited by the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame for having "served and personified" Quebec popular music.
Lucille Dumont 
 She was also credited with being "at the birth of Quebec television", having been in Radio Canada's first television shows.
Mukto-Mona 
 Mukto-Mona (Bengali: মুক্তমনা ) is the first online platform for Bengali speaking freethinkers, atheists, and secular bloggers and writers, started by Avijit Roy.
Mukto-Mona 
 The website supports free expression and criticizes religious fundamentalism, especially Islamic religious fundamentalism.
Mukto-Mona 
 The Council for Secular Humanism called Mukto-Mona "the largest and the fastest-growing collection of contemporary freethinkers in Bangladesh and within South Asia".
Mukto-Mona 
 The group worked with international NGOs like the Center for Inquiry and the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
Mukto-Mona 
 Ananta Bijoy Das was on a list of targets by the same group of Islamists who were behind the murder of Avijit Roy.
Mukto-Mona 
 Mukto-Mona was the first Bengali group to celebrate  Darwin Day and International Women's Day on the internet.
Mukto-Mona 
 In 2015, Mukta-Mona received "The Bobs – Best of Online Activism" award from German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
International Humanist and Ethical Union 
 The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is a humanist NGO based in the U.K. It has members on United Nations committees and other international organizations.
Thesis statement 
 In an essay or research paper, a thesis statement is a statement at the start or the end of an introduction that shows the reader the argument of the essay.
Thesis statement 
 A thesis statement gives concise information about what the whole essay is about, including the topic of the paper.
Thesis statement 
 Thesis statements are not obscure, because obscurity happens when a "writer is himself not quite sure of his meaning.
Thesis statement 
 He has a vague impression of what he wants to say, but has not, either from lack of mental power or from laziness, exactly formulated it in his mind, and it is natural enough that he should not find a precise expression for a confused idea.” (
Thesis statement 
 Rubrics of a good essay involve good sentence development and formation acceptable to grammatical standards and relevant word choices organized in forms of phrases, clauses and sentences.
Thesis statement 
 The thesis statement is developed, supported, and explained in the course of the paper by means of examples and evidence.
Thesis statement 
 A thesis statement does not necessarily forecast organization of an essay which can be more complex than its purpose.
Thesis statement 
 In simple terms, first a thesis statement will have a main topic sentence formed from questioning the topic, then the writer's statement regarding the topic sentence, and finally ends with the specific supporting points detailing the writer's statement for justifying its relation with the topic sentence.
Metropolitan City of Bari 
 It replaced the Province of Bari and includes the city of Bari and some forty other municipalities (comuni).
Metropolitan City of Bari 
 It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established by the Law 56/2014.
Metropolitan City of Bari 
 The Metropolitan City is bordered on the east by the Adriatic Sea, to the northwest by Basilicata (province of Potenza), to the north by the province of province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, to the west with Basilicata (province of Matera), to the southeast by the province of province of Brindisi and to the south with the province of Taranto.
Scheunen 
 Scheunen is a former municipality in the administrative district of Bern-Mittelland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Scheunen 
 On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Scheunen and Münchringen merged into the municipality of Jegenstorf.
Scheuren 
 Scheuren is a municipality of the administrative district Biel/Bienne in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Candidate 
 The word comes from a Latin word for white, because men who wanted to be chosen would wear white so everyone would notice them.
Biel/Bienne (administrative district) 
 The administrative district of Biel/Bienne in the Swiss canton of Bern has 19 municipalities in an area of 97.63 km².
Brown Bess 
 The Land Pattern, or more popularly known as the "Brown Bess", and its versions were all .75 caliber smoothbore flintlock muskets.
Brown Bess 
 Its effective range was about  but in most battle situations the distance between forces was only about .
Brown Bess 
 While the origins of the name Brown Bess are uncertain, a plausible explanation is the name was based on the German Braun buss, meaning strong gun.
Brown Bess 
 Very similar to the snaphaunce it was the first to introduce the half-cocked position of the hammer.
Brown Bess 
 It was in use during the English Civil War and many found their way to the British North American colonies.
Brown Bess 
 Later the metal parts (furniture) were changed to brass and the wood ramrod which broke easily was replaced by an iron ramrod.
Brown Bess 
 This was the result of the 1768 Clothing Warrant that was intended to lessen the weight of uniforms and equipment carried by British soldiers.
Brown Bess 
 In addition to shortening the musket, to reduce its weight, soldiers could no longer carry swords (except in the Highland and Grenadier units).
Brown Bess 
 Among the variety of weapons used by the Continental Army, versions of the Brown Bess were also used.
Brown Bess 
 This was the same drill as the one in the drill manual by Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben for the Continental Army.
Brown Bess 
 bring a paper cartridge from your pouch, bite the top off the paper cartridge exposing the gunpowder and cover it with your thumb (so the powder does not spill out).
Brown Bess 
 done in two motions), first shut the pan while bringing the elbow to the butt of the musket and while holding the cartridge in your hand.
Brown Bess 
 The butt of the musket is placed on the ground, the lock is to the front and the muzzle is at chin-height; bring your right hand under the muzzle.
Brown Bess 
 First motion is to place the open cartridge in the muzzle shaking the remaining powder into the barrel followed by the ball and the paper.
Brown Bess 
 two motions), with your fingers, first pull the ramrod up until it is halfway out, quickly backhanding the ramrod.
Brown Bess 
 The second movement is to completely remove the ramrod and turning it quickly place it into the barrel ramming end down.
Brown Bess 
 Secondly, bring the hammer from the half-cock position to full cock moving your fingers under the trigger guard.
Brown Bess 
 with the right foot, step back and at the same time drop the muzzle to the level position; bring the butt of the musket to the shoulder, placing the left hand on the stock under the barrel and the finger on the trigger.
Emmental (administrative district) 
 The administrative district of Emmental in the Swiss canton of Bern has 42 municipalities in an area of 691 km².
Schlosswil 
 Schlosswil is a former municipality of the administrative district of Bern-Mittelland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Schlosswil 
 On 1 January 2018 the former municipality of Schlosswil merged into the municipality of Grosshöchstetten.
Emirates Flight 521 
 Emirates Flight 521 was an Emirates airline crashed upon landing in Dubai International Airport on 3 August 2016.
Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani 
 It was created from 10 municipalities (comuni), which were formerly in the provinces of Bari (7 municipalities) and Foggia (3 municipalities), taking its name from the three cities which share the new administrative functions of the province.
Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani 
 The province borders to the northwest by the province of Foggia, to the north and northeast by the Adriatic Sea, to the east with the Metropolitan City of Bari, to the south by province of Potenza (Basilicata region).
Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani 
 The main river of the province, and of the Apulia region, is the Ofanto river, that flows into the Adriatic Sea between Margherita di Savoia and Barletta.
Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani 
 The highest point in the province is Monte Caccia,  high; it is in the Altopiano delle Murge, a karstic plateau of rectangular shape in southern Italy.
Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani 
 , there are 393,534 persons (194402 males and 199,132 females) living in the province, for a population density of  inhabitants/km².
Schüpfen 
 Schüpfen is a municipality in the administrative district of Seeland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Dissociative 
 They are often used as anesthetic, to make people unconscious during operations or for other medical uses.
Dissociative 
 Some dissociatives, like that produced from Salvia divinorum, enter the bloodstream and attach to opioid receptors in the brain.
Dissociative 
 The most commonly available dissociatives around the world are ketamine, phencyclidine (PCP) and dextromethorphan or DXM.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 The US Springfield Model 1795 Musket was the first smoothbore flintlock musket produced in the United States.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 It was based on the French Model 1763 Charleville musket and like the French design was a .69 caliber musket.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 The Charleville musket had been the primary musket used by Americans during the American Revolutionary War.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 The Charleville being the more accurate of the two, it was selected as the model for a new American musket.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 About the middle of the 18th century, French gunsmith Honoré Blanc developed the concept of interchangeable parts for muskets.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 Jefferson quickly saw that mass production of weapons parts would free America from dependence on European sources for parts.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 He could not get Blanc to move to the United States but he did convince President George Washington it was a good idea.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 Whitney used a large force of unskilled workers and machinery to produce standardized identical parts at a low cost.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 The Model 1795 muskets were the first muskets produced at the Springfield Armory and also the Harpers Ferry Armory.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 The Harpers Ferry Armory did not begin producing the muskets until 1798 at the earliest and more probably started around 1800.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 The models from the Springfield Armory have dates of manufacture on the lockplate and have an eagle stamp with the word "Springfield".
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 The Springfield musket was used in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and even the American Civil War.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 Created in 1777, during the American Revolution the arsenal stored muskets, cannon, and other weapons.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 When France entered the war on the side of the United States, the large stores of arms and ammunition were sent to Springfield for storage and to be sent to the troops.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 The contract paid Whitney $13.40 per musket when it was determined the Springfield armory could make them for $10 each.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 The reason they did this was to learn from Whitney and other contractors how the weapon was produced and assembled efficiently.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 When government inspectors saw talented workers at various contractor's factories, they would often persuade them to come work at Springfield.
Springfield Model 1795 Musket 
 By the 1840s the government no longer saw the need to pay contractors the higher prices and would award contracts based on the best bid.
Schwanden bei Brienz 
 Schwanden bei Brienz is a municipality in the administrative district of Interlaken-Oberhasli in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Schwarzhäusern 
 Schwarzhäusern is a municipality in the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Roggwil, Berne 
 Roggwil is a municipality in the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
South Italy 
 South Italy ( or just ) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a NUTS1 level region.
South Italy 
 It should not to be confused with the Mezzogiorno, or Southern Italy, which generally refers to all the southern half of the Italian State, including the island of Sicily and sometimes even Sardinia.
South Italy 
 South Italy borders to the north with Central Italy (to the northwest with Lazio and to the northeast with Marche).
South Italy 
 The Adriatic Sea is to the east and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west, and the Ionian Sea to the south.
Seeberg 
 Seeberg is a municipality of the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Interchangeable parts 
 Interchangeable parts is a  basic concept of creating identical or nearly identical parts to be mass produced.
Interchangeable parts 
 For example, cars, computers, furniture, almost all products used today, are made from interchangeable parts.
Interchangeable parts 
 These parts are made with precision machines so each part can fit in any product that uses this part.
Interchangeable parts 
 Since it is no longer necessary to make each part one at a time and by hand, assembling products takes fewer workers.
Interchangeable parts 
 Interchangeability of parts also allows products to be repaired by replacing a broken part with an identical new part.
Interchangeable parts 
 But their version of the idea revolved around parts that had very loose tolerances or were used only for very simple parts.
Interchangeable parts 
 In 1720 a Swedish inventor named Christopher Polhem used interchangeable parts for clocks in his workshop.
Interchangeable parts 
 About the middle of the 18th century, French gunsmith Honoré Blanc developed the concept of interchangeable parts for muskets.
Interchangeable parts 
 Jefferson quickly saw that mass production of weapons parts would free America from dependence on European sources for parts.
Interchangeable parts 
 He could not get Blanc to move to the United States but he did convince President George Washington it was a good idea.
Interchangeable parts 
 Whitney used a large force of unskilled workers and machinery to produce standardized identical parts at a low cost.
Interchangeable parts 
 What he produced was the first smoothbore flintlock musket produced in the United States, the Springfield Model 1795 Musket.
Interchangeable parts 
 Whitney's idea of using machines to create interchangeable parts started what came to be known as the "American system" of mass production.
Interchangeable parts 
 One of the most famous inventors to use interchangeable parts, mass production and the assembly line was Henry Ford.
Interchangeable parts 
 Parts were created in large quantities and delivered to his assembly plant where workers built the cars on an assembly line.
Interchangeable parts 
 That was an excellent wage at the time, so much so that it allowed many of his workers to buy their own Model T. That same year Ford produced more cars than all other car manufacturers combined.
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election 
 For the first time, social media created the change (of plans for Democratic and Republican primaries) rather than talking about it.
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election 
 Many people think social media is the reason Bernie Sanders did so well in the Democratic primaries.
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election 
 In May 2016, 450,000 people belonged to the pro-Sanders Facebook group Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash.
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election 
 Social media is also thought by most people to be the reason Donald Trump did so well in the Republican primaries.
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election 
 Activity by Donald Trump supporters on social media was one of the things talked about at the first Republican debate.
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election 
 Trump mentioned that his social media accounts provided a tremendous platform for his election and helps keep people interested.
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election 
 Right Side Broadcasting Network often uploads live footage of Donald Trump rallys on YouTube, causing their popularity to go way up.
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election 
 In April 2016, Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton super PAC, started a program called "Barrier Breakers" that wants to compete with the mostly online volunteer efforts of Sanders and Trump supporters.
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election 
 With $1 million in funding, Correct the Record hired a paid staff of people that used to be reporters, bloggers, public affairs specialists, designers to post good things about Clinton.
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election 
 On June 9, 2016, as a response to Donald Trump's tweet about Obama's endorsement to Clinton, she wrote with a three word tweet: "Delete your account".
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election 
 By the end of June 2016, this most retweeted tweet of all time got more than 1,000,000 interactions.
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election 
 The Guardian compared Internet memes to political cartoons, saying, "For the first time in a US election cycle, community-generated (created) memes have grown to play a significant (important) role in political discourse (debate), similar to the classic printed cartoon.
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election 
 While an Internet meme is unlikely to destroy a political career, lots of memes targeting a candidate might."
FN BRG-15 
 It was designed by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal to replace Browning M2HB .50 caliber heavy machine gun.
Mettauertal 
 On 1 January 2010 the former municipalities of Etzgen, Hottwil, Mettau, Oberhofen and Wil merged into the new municipality of Mettauertal.
Unterehrendingen 
 Unterehrendingen is a village and former municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Unterehrendingen 
 On 1 January 2006 the former municipalities of Unterehrendingen and Oberehrendingen merged into the new municipality of Ehrendingen
Lodano 
 Lodano is a village and former municipality of the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Lodano 
 On 4 April 2004 the former municipalities of Aurigeno, Coglio, Giumaglio, Lodano, Moghegno and Someo merged into the municipality of Maggia.
Honoré Blanc 
 His design for the Musket Model 1777 was accepted and he was made chief controller for three arms factories.
Honoré Blanc 
 In 1785, in an experiment, Blanc mixed parts from 25 gunlocks and assembled several models with ease.
Honoré Blanc 
 Blanc shifted his attention to setting up a private company to produce gunlocks using interchangeable parts in 1791.
Honoré Blanc 
 Even after receiving permission and funds from the French government, he was very slow in getting started.
Honoré Blanc 
 While European gunsmiths were not impressed by the idea, he did interest the American Ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson.
Honoré Blanc 
 Jefferson quickly saw that mass production of weapons parts would free America from dependence on European sources for parts.
Honoré Blanc 
 He could not get Blanc to move to the United States but he did convince President George Washington it was a good idea.
Honoré Blanc 
 Whitney used a large force of unskilled workers and machinery to produce standardized identical parts at a low cost.
Honoré Blanc 
 What resulted was the Springfield Model 1795 Musket, the first military musket made in the United States.
Seedorf, Bern 
 Seedorf is a municipality in the administrative district of Seeland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Seehof, Switzerland 
 Seehof () is a municipality in the administrative district of Jura bernois in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Seehof, Switzerland 
 This is one of two German speaking cities in the majority French-speaking Bernese Jura (Jura bernois).
Long range shooting 
 Long range shooting is a relative term generally meaning accurate shooting at distances ordinary shooters with ordinary rifles could not hit.
Long range shooting 
 Modern long range shooting is more than just using modern machined actions and precision gun barrels.
Long range shooting 
 These produce a rifle that a decent shooter can hit targets at about 250 yards, ranges that were unheard of by black powder shooters.
Long range shooting 
 The ability to hit a target at  (or 10 football fields away) requires the shooter to become an expert in ballistics.
Long range shooting 
 This is how far above the target the shooter must aim to compensate for the force of gravity on the bullet at a given distance.
Long range shooting 
 This means a bullet that fired out of the barrel with a muzzle velocity (speed at the muzzle) of 2800 FPS that exits a barrel with 1:12 rifling is spinning at 168,000 RPMs.
Long range shooting 
 Finally, the spotter tells the shooter where the round hit—on target or a miss—and what adjustments to make to get back on-target.
Ofanto 
 The Ofanto () is a river in South Italy that flows through the regions of Campania, Basilicata, and Apulia, and into the Adriatic Sea.
Ofanto 
 The Ofanto river starts in the Apennines mountains, within the Irpinia (a historical region of the southern Apennines around Avellino), at an elevation of about , in the comune of Torella dei Lombardi, Province of Avellino, Campania.
Ofanto 
 The river forms the border between the province of Avellino and the province of Potenza and then turns to the north, forming the border between the province of Foggia and the province of Potenza.
Ofanto 
 It then turns to the northeast and forms the border between the province of Foggia and the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani.
Ofanto 
 Finallly, the river flows, in the community of Fiumara between Margherita di Savoia and Barletta, into the Adriatic Sea near the Gulf of Manfredonia.