the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
Slavic paganism 
 Sources about Slavs and their beliefs mainly come from the old Ruthenian chronicles and notes of German bishops.
Slavic paganism 
 There's also Chronicle of Thietmar, and the other chronicles, although they are not the only sources of information about Slavs and their beliefs.
Slavic paganism 
 For example, West Slavs (mainly Polabians and Volinians) believed that Svetovid was a creator of the world while eastern ones believed that it was Rod.
Slavic paganism 
 One of the most well-known demons in Slavic beliefs is Baba Yaga, with the appearance of an ugly and deformed woman.
Slavic paganism 
 Baba Yaga has its counterparts in many european beliefs, such as the German Frau Holle and Italian Befana.
Slavic paganism 
 Polans and other Polish tribes came to the territory of today's Poland, probably in the VIII and IX century, bringing their beliefs on the west.
Slavic paganism 
 There are also famous Helmold's Chronica Slavorum and the other chronicles and notes of German bishops, geographs, as well as the old Ruthenian chroniclers and Jewish or Arabian traders of Slavs.
Slavic paganism 
 The history of paganism as the main religion in Poland ends Baptism of Poland in 966, but it is not end of Slavic paganism in this country at all.
Slavic paganism 
 Pagans would not agree to Christian reforms of Mieszko I and his sons, causing a Pagan Reaction in Poland that culminated in uprising of pagans in 1037-1038 (later supressed by Casimir the Restorer).
Slavic paganism 
 Pagans lived in Poland even to the XII century, when last pagans were Christianised in West Pomerania by bishop Otto from Bamberg and Boleslav III Wrymouth.
Slavic paganism 
 The beginings of Czech statehood we can found in 895, when there was founded the first Czech country ruled by the Premyslid dynasty.
Slavic paganism 
 Pagan elites knew that it would cause the moving them away from power and will increase Frankish influence.
Slavic paganism 
 Although she lost the rebellion, there were still elites that resisted the reigns of Vaclav, so the brother of the Duke Boleslav I organised a coup against him.
Slavic paganism 
 Probably in 935 during the feast, one of the followers of Boleslav, murdered Vaclav and his brother became the Duke of Bohemia.
Slavic paganism 
 The term "Ruthenia" can refer to Kievan Rus', Novogrodian Rus', or Volynians and other Ruthenian, east Slavic countries and tribes.
Slavic paganism 
 The baptism of Kievan Rus', toke from the hand of the Byzantines, didn't end Paganism in this country, although it caused paganism to become less popular, and a many people didin't admit to practicing Slavic beliefs.
Slavic paganism 
 Vladimir the Great started the mass baptism of people in Dnieper, which didn't end paganism among people.
Slavic paganism 
 White Serbs, a Slavic tribe from White Serbia first settled in an area near Thessaloniki on the Balkans and in the 6th and early 7th century, established the Serbian Principality by the 8th century.
Slavic paganism 
 Serbians adopted well the new religion and, unlike in the countries above, there were not any pagan rebellions against the Christianity.
Slavic paganism 
 Helmoldi presbyteri Chronica Slavorum : Helmold, Johann Martin Lappenberg , Georg Heinrich Pertz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Slavic paganism 
 Chronicon; : Thietmar, von Merseburg, Bishop of Merseburg, 975-1018 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Yukiya Amano 
 He was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from July 2009 until his death in July 2019.
Don Mossi 
 Donald Louis Mossi (January 11, 1929 – July 19, 2019) was an American major league pitcher from 1954 to 1965.
Don Mossi 
 He played for the Cleveland Indians (1954–1958), Detroit Tigers (1959–1963), Chicago White Sox (1964) and for the Kansas City Athletics (1965).
Peter McNamara 
 He won the 1980 and 1982 men's doubles championship at Wimbledon and the Australian Open doubles in 1979.
Peter McNamara 
 McNamara died on 20 July 2019, at the age of 64, from prostate cancer in Sonthofen, Bavaria, Germany.
Chicago Daily News 
 The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper in the midwestern United States, published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago,  In 1984, Weston sold his rights to the Chicago Daily News trademark to Rupert Murdoch, who, at the time, was owner and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Paul Krassner 
 Krassner became an important figure in the counterculture of the 1960s as a member of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters.
Lois Wille 
 Lois Jean Wille (née Kroeber; September 19, 1931 – July 23, 2019) was an American journalist, editor, and author.
Lois Wille 
 She won her first of two Pulitzer Prizes in 1963 for her reports about how the Chicago local government’s failure to have good services to low-income women.
Lois Wille 
 Her stories led to a number of important policy changes in women’s healthcare, public housing, and the juvenile court systems.
Republic of China (1912–1949) 
 After Yuan died death in 1916, the Beiyang government was further weakened by a brief restoration of the Qing dynasty.
Republic of China (1912–1949) 
 Various groups in the Beiyang Army claimed independence and fought with each other during the Warlord Era.
Republic of China (1912–1949) 
 In 1921, the KMT created a rival government in Canton, supported by the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Republic of China (1912–1949) 
 In April 1927, Jiang created a nationalist government in Nanjing and massacred Communists in Shanghai.
Republic of China (1912–1949) 
 China experienced industrialization and modernization but suffered conflicts between the Nationalist government in Nanking, the CPC, warlords, and the Empire of Japan.
Varieties of Chinese 
 Chinese varieties differ most in their phonology (sounds), but have similar vocabulary and syntax (grammar).
Varieties of Chinese 
 Southern varieties tend to have fewer initial consonants but more often preserve the Middle Chinese final consonants.
Varieties of Chinese 
 Its vocabulary is based on Mandarin group and grammar based on literature in the modern written vernacular.
Varieties of Chinese 
 It is the official language of China, one of the four official languages of Singapore, and one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
Varieties of Chinese 
 It then expanded east across the North China Plain to Shandong and then south towards the Yangzi river valley.
Varieties of Chinese 
 During times of unity, people wanted to use a common standard language to make communication easier between people.
Varieties of Chinese 
 So it had six major groups of Chinese languages, with great internal diversity, particularly in Fujian.
Varieties of Chinese 
 The Republic of China replaced as the written standard by written vernacular Chinese, which was based on northern dialects.
Varieties of Chinese 
 In the 1930s a standard national language was adopted, with its pronunciation based on the Beijing dialect, but with vocabulary also drawn from other Mandarin varieties.
Varieties of Chinese 
 Varieties from the coast of Fujian around Xiamen have spread to Southeast Asia (where it is called Hokkien) and Taiwan (where it is called Taiwanese Hokkien).
Varieties of Chinese 
 The Hakka ("guest families") live in the hills of Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan, and many other parts of southern China.
Varieties of Chinese 
 The prestige variety and by far most commonly spoken variety is Cantonese, from the city of Guangzhou (historically called "Canton")
Varieties of Chinese 
 These are sometimes divided into three groups: Northern (Mandarin), Central (Wu, Gan, and Xiang) and Southern (Hakka, Yue, and Min).
Peter Hamm 
 Peter Hamm (27 February 1937 – 22 July 2019) was a German poet, author, journalist, editor and literary critic.
Peter Hamm 
 From 1964 to 2002, Hamm worked as contributing editor for culture for the broadcster Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Marianne Koch 
 Koch is known for her roles in  Night People alongside Gregory Peck and in Sergio Leone's 1964 movie A Fistful of Dollars alongside Clint Eastwood.
Francisco Grau 
 Francisco Grau Vegara (22 January 1947 – 21 July 2019) was a Spanish musician, composer and General in the Spanish Armed Forces.
Francisco Grau 
 In January 2008, Grau became the first General of Music in the Spanish Armed Forces, having been made a colonel some years previously.
Bologna massacre 
 The Bologna massacre was the bombing of Bologna Centrale railway station in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy by Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari.
Art Neville 
 Arthur Lanon Neville (December 17, 1937 – July 22, 2019) was an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist.
Art Neville 
 Neville performed with singers Labelle (on "Lady Marmalade"), Paul McCartney, Lee Dorsey, Robert Palmer, Dr. John and Professor Longhair.
Hans Lagerqvist 
 Lagerqvist placed fourth at the 1971 European Championships and seventh at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships and 1972 Olympics.
Maxim Dadashev 
 On July 19, 2019, Dadashev lost to opponent Subriel Matías at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Oxon Hill, Maryland 
 Oxon Hill is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in southern Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.
Oxon Hill, Maryland 
 Oxon Hill is a suburb of Washington, D.C.. As of the 2010 census Oxon Hill had a population of 17,722.
Storm Area 51 
 "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us" is a Facebook event that was planned for September 20, 2019 at Area 51, a United States Air Force (USAF).
Storm Area 51 
 Air Force officials and Nevada state officials warned the group members not to raid the area or otherwise they would use executive force.
Storm Area 51 
 Copycat events such as plans to storm a secret vault of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Loch Ness, and the Bermuda Triangle have also been created.
Arcadia Group 
 Arcadia Group plc  is a British multinational retailing company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Arcadia Group 
 It owns the high street clothing retailers Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Topman, Topshop, Wallis and the out of town chain Outfit, which sells lines from the other group chains.
Arcadia Group 
 The group has more than 2,500 outlets in the UK, concessions in UK department stores such as Debenhams, Selfridges, as well as several hundred franchises in other countries.
Arcadia Group 
 The company is majority owned by Taveta Investments, itself owned by Tina Green, the wife of Sir Philip Green, who is himself the chairman of the Arcadia Group.
Arcadia Group 
 Philip Green has been involved in a number of controversies during his career, including the payment of generous dividends to Richard Caring, Tom Hunter, and Philip Green's family prior to the demise of BHS.
Arcadia Group 
 In April 2019, it was reported that the Arcadia group, controlled by Philip Green's family, had recorded a £300m deficit into its pension fund, while the Green family had cashed out £1.2bn in dividends from Arcadia in 2005.
Arcadia Group 
 British MP Frank Field, who previously investigated the BHS pension deficit, has publicly criticised Philip Green for paying huge dividends to his family and friend Richard Caring "when things are going well", and making his employees pay "when things are not going well".
SABMiller 
 It is the world's second-largest brewer measured by revenues (after the Belgian-Brazilian-American Anheuser-Busch InBev) and is also a major bottler of Coca-Cola.
SABMiller 
 It has operations in 80 countries world-wide and in 2009 sold around 21 billion litres of beverages.
SABMiller 
 SABMiller's origins date back to the foundation of South African Breweries in 1895 as to serve a growing market of miners and prospectors in and around Johannesburg.
SABMiller 
 From the early 1990s onwards, the company increasingly expanded internationally, making several acquisitions in both emerging and developed markets.
SABMiller 
 In 1999, it formed a new UK-based holding company, SAB plc, and moved its primary listing to London.
SABMiller 
 SABMiller has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
SABMiller 
 It has a market capitalisation of approximately £42 billion as of 24 October 2015, the 6th-largest of any company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange.
SABMiller 
 In October 2015, Anheuser-Busch InBev  announced plans to acquire SABMiller for £69 billion ($104 billion).
Home Retail Group 
 Home Retail Group owns a number of well-known brands, including Alba, Bush, Chad Valley, Challenger, Cherokee, Cooksworks, Habitat, Heart of House,  Hygena, Schreiber, and Sovereign.
Marzanna 
 Marzanna (in Polish), Marena (in Russian), Morana (in Czech, Bulgarian, Slovene, and Serbo-Croatian),  or Morena or Kyselica (in Slovak), Morena (in Macedonian), Maslenitsa (in Russia) and also Mara (in Belarusian and Ukrainian), Maržena, Moréna, Mora or Marmora, Morė (in Lithuanian) is the goddess of death and winter in Slavic paganism.
Marzanna 
 In many Slavic countries, it is very popular to burn a doll, that represents Marzanna, when it's beginning of spring.
Gerovit 
 Almost everything we know about him, we know thanks to German bishops, who visited Slavic countries.
Zhangzhung 
 Zhangzhung (Tibetan: ཞང་ཞུང; Tibetan pinyin: Xangxang; Chinese: 象雄; pronounced Shangshung) was a kingdom of western China (Tibet) and northern India before the 7th century.
Zhangzhung 
 The Zhangzhung are mentioned frequently in Tibetan texts as the original rulers of central and western Tibet.
Zhangzhung 
 sGob-ba, the outer; Western Tibet, from Gilgit in the west to Dangs-ra khyung-rdzong in the east, next to lake gNam-mtsho, and from Khotan, Xinjiang in the north to Chu-mig brgyad-cu rtsa-gnyis in the south.
Zhangzhung 
 Phug-pa, the inner; The inner region is said to be sTag-gzig (Tazig) [often identified with Bactria, Central Asia]
Zhangzhung 
 The capital was Khyunglung, the "Silver Palace of Garuda", southwest of Mount Kailash, with palaces found in the upper Sutlej Valley.
Zhangzhung 
 A modern Kinnauri language of the same name (pronounced Jangshung) is spoken by 2,000 people in the Sutlej Valley of Himachal Pradesh, India.
Zhangzhung 
 Bonpos claim that Tonpa lived 18,000 years ago and visited Tibet from the land of Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring (modern Tajikstan) or Shambhala.
Zhangzhung 
 The Bonpo claim that during this time Lord Tonpa's teachings entered the Indian subcontinent and helped develop the Vedic religion (Hinduism).
Zhangzhung 
 An example of this link between Bon and Hinduism is Mount Kailash, the center of Zhang Zhung culture and also most sacred mountain to Hindus.
Video assistant referee 
 Video assistant referee (VAR) is a system that helps referees to decide better about players fouls, if a goal was valid, red card decisions, etc.
Video assistant referee 
 When the referee is going to review a play on the field at the VAR box, they outline a square with their hands, as if showing the outline of a TV screen.
Video assistant referee 
 In March 2018, the VAR was permanentely written into the Laws of the Game by the International Football Association Board (IFAB).
Video assistant referee 
 Goal/No Goal: if the ball went inside or did not go inside of the goal, ball went out of play, foul, offside, or handball.
Video assistant referee 
 Penalty/No Penalty: ball went out of play, dive, foul was in or outside the box, handball, or foul was not penalised.
Video assistant referee 
 Red/Yellow Card: violent conduct, hitting/spitting/kicking/punching another player, coach, or referee, mistaken identity or incorrect card given, or decision to award a yellow or red card.
Video assistant referee 
 The referee can review the play on the field by going to the VAR box, listen to the VAR's recommendation, or completely ignore the VAR advice.
Video assistant referee 
 The referee can only review the play on the field with recommendation of the VAR to prevent the referee from relying on it too much.
Video assistant referee 
 The VAR system has been criticised by many people, mostly because of how much time is used up in reviews, overly relying on it, and causing confusion.
Oyanagi Shigeta 
 Oyanagi Shigeta (小柳司気太, 1870 December 24 - 1940 July 18 ) is a Japanese scholar of Chinese literature and Taoism.
Epigraphy 
 Epigraphy is the study of writings, inscriptions (epigraphs) on things like rocks, clay, stone, paper, etc.
Luo Zhenyu 
 Luo Zhenyu (August 8, 1866 – May 14, 1940), courtesy name Shuyun (叔蘊), was a Chinese classical scholar, philologist, epigrapher, antiquarian.
Silesian language 
 Some linguists say, that it is a dialect of Polish, because of big similarities between these languages.
Cen Chunxuan 
 Cen Chunxuan (1861 – 27 April 1933) was a Zhuang Chinese politician who lived in the late Qing dynasty and Republic of China.
Cen Chunxuan 
 He was a governor of Guangdong and became a warlord during the ROC but then Sun Yat-sen's government replaced his.
Taibei Imperial University 
 After Japan lost the war, the Republic of China took over and made part of it the National Chung Hsing University.
Fujita Toyohachi 
 Fujita Toyohachi (Kanji: 藤田豊八；Hiragana: ふじたとよはち) is a Japanese writer and professor in East Asian History.
Fujita Toyohachi 
 He was a teacher at Beijing University (the Imperial University, 京師大學堂), author of Secondary Education East Asian history《中等教育東洋史》and Research on the History of East-West Interactions《東西交涉史之研究（東西交渉史の研究）》。
Fujita Toyohachi 
 After he died, those were sent to the Toyo Bunko (東洋文庫) and put into a section called Fujita's library「藤田文庫」。
Fujita Toyohachi 
 In 1895 he graduated from the University of Tokyo Liberal arts school with a degree in Chinese language studies.
Fujita Toyohachi 
 After that he taught the history of Chinese literature at Waseda University, Toyo University, and other schools
Fujita Toyohachi 
 After 1904 Cen Chunxuan (岑春煊) governor of Guangxi and Guangdong asked Fujita to help with education.
Fujita Toyohachi 
 He taught the history of east–west sea transportation and the history of the Western regions (China, Xiyu, modern day Xinjiang).
Fujita Toyohachi 
 In 1925 he became professor at the imperial Tokyo University and first lecturer on East Asian history.
Fujita Toyohachi 
 In 1928 he became a professor and Minister of culture and politics at Taibei Imperial University (臺北帝國大學).
Western Regions 
 It sometimes refers to Xinjiang or even northern parts of the Indian subcontinent (as in the novel Journey to the West).
Western Regions 
 Because it is located on the Silk Road, the xiyu have been important since at least the 3rd century BC.
Western Regions 
 In the 7th century, the Tang campaign against the Western Regions led to Chinese control of the region.
Western Regions 
 The xiyu became an important place of exchange between East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and the Muslim world.
Western Regions 
 When he returned to Chang'an, the influential Great Tang Records on the Western Regions was written.
Emperor Ming of Han 
 Emperor Ming of Han (15 June 28 AD – 5 September 75 AD) was the second emperor of China's Eastern Han Dynasty.
Kalman filter 
 The Kalman filter is an algorithm (a step-by-step process) that helps people remove errors from numbers.
Kalman filter 
 People also use the Kalman filter to make a model of how humans use nerves and muscles to move their bodies.
Kalman filter 
 The Kalman filter makes a first guess about what we think is true (an estimate) and how certain we are that it is true (uncertainty).
Thônex 
 In 1869, the municipality was created when Chêne-Thônex split into two independent municipalities Chêne-Bourg and Thônex.
American Indian Wars 
 The American Indian Wars (also known as the Indian Wars or the First Nations Wars; ) is the name for the various battles that were fought by European, American, and Canadian governments and colonists against various American Indian and First Nation tribes.
American Indian Wars 
 These conflicts happened in North America from the time of the earliest colonial settlements in the 17th century until the 1920s.
American Indian Wars 
 The various Indian Wars resulted from a wide variety of factors, including cultural differences, land disputes, and crimes committed by both sides.
American Indian Wars 
 The European powers and their colonies also enlisted Indian tribes to help them do war against each other's colonial settlements.
American Indian Wars 
 The British Royal Proclamation of 1763, included in the Constitution of Canada, banned white settlers from taking the lands of native peoples in Canada without signing a treaty with them.
American Indian Wars 
 As white settlers went west across America after 1780, the size, length of time, and intensity of conflicts increased between settlers and various Indians.
American Indian Wars 
 The biggest came in the War of 1812, which resulted in the defeat of major Indian coalitions in the Midwest and the South.
American Indian Wars 
 The Indian Removal Act of 1830 allowed the US government to remove natives from east of the Mississippi River to the west.
American Indian Wars 
 It was changed to relocating Indian tribes to specially designated and federally protected reservations.
American Indian Wars 
 Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas by John Henry Brown, published 1880, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.
Yao Qian Shu 
 The money tree (Chinese: 搖錢樹; yao qian shu; literally: shake money tree) is a holy tree that can give you money if you shake it.
Dry county 
 A dry county is a county in the United States whose government does not allow the sale of any kind of alcoholic beverages.
Dry county 
 Some smaller jurisdictions also exist, such as cities, towns, and townships, which don't allow alcohol to be sold.
Dry county 
 Dry jurisdictions can be contrasted with "wet" (minimal alcohol prohibitions) and "moist" (fewer prohibitions than "dry" but more than "wet").
Jeremy Kemp 
 He was known for his roles in the miniseries The Winds of War, the movie The Blue Max and the TV series Z-Cars.
Nicodemus, Kansas 
 The place commemorates the only remaining western town created by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period.
Nicodemus, Kansas 
 During the last weekend of July, former residents and their descendants return for celebrations and parades.
Nicodemus, Kansas 
 As of 2018, its First Baptist Church, African Methodist Episcopal Church, and other historic buildings are in bad condition that they cannot be opened to the public.
Nicodemus, Kansas 
 Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Region, n.d.
Nicodemus, Kansas 
 Going home to Nicodemus: The story of an African American frontier town and the pioneers who settled it.
Ragged school 
 There was no legal structure which supported primary education in England until the second half of the 19th century.
Ragged school 
 Parliament did not lay down rules for education until 1870, the year of Forster's Education Act (Elementary Education Act of 1870).
Ragged school 
 The Elementary Education Act 1880 (the Mundella Act) made school boards  enforce compulsory attendance from 5 to 10 years.
Ragged school 
 The 1891 Elementary Education Act provided for the state payment of school fees up to ten shillings per head.
Pinyin for other languages 
 Chinese Pinyin is used for other languages besides Standard Mandarin and other Varieties of Chinese.
Pinyin for other languages 
 The former State Administration of Surveying and Mapping, Geographical Names Committee and former Script Reform Committee created these pinyin methods.
Latakia Governorate 
 Latakia Governorate ( / ALA-LC: Muḥāfaẓat al-Lādhiqīyah) is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria.
Latakia Governorate 
 Members of the Alawite sect are the majority in the governorate, although Armenians, Turkmen, and Sunni Kurds form the majorities in the Kessab, Jabal Turkman, and Jabal al-Akrad regions respectively.
Latakia Governorate 
 The capital of Latakia had, by 2010 estimates, 400,000 inhabitants, 50% of whom were Alawites, 30% were Sunni, and 20% Christian.
Latakia Governorate 
 The Latakia Governorate borders Turkey to the north, Tartous to the south, Hama and Idlib to the east and the Mediterranean sea to the west.