the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
Vinicius and Tom 
 The events were going to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, so the Olympic organizers only wanted designs from Brazilian companies.
Vinicius and Tom 
 Directors from the Brazilian film festival Anima Mundi helped the Rio 2016 organizers choose the mascots.
Vinicius and Tom 
 After looking at the designs, the Rio 2016 organizers chose three of them and asked children to help them choose the final mascot.
Vinicius and Tom 
 The organizers gave the three designs to the children, but they did not tell the children that they were for the Olympics.
Vinicius and Tom 
 The children responded with comments such as "'This is my friend', 'This one seems stuck-up', 'This one has cool hair'; and 'That one looks silly'".
Vinicius and Tom 
 The group included members of the Rio 2016 organizers, the International Olympic Committee, the Brazilian Olympic Committee, and the Brazilian Paralympic Committee, and people who worked in animation, illustration, advertising and market research.
Vinicius and Tom 
 All of the judges agreed to choose a set of two mascots, one for the Olympic Games and the other for the Paralympic Games.
Vinicius and Tom 
 The organizers showed the public the mascots on 23 November 2014, but they had not yet decided what to name them.
Vinicius and Tom 
 On 24 November 2014, the mascots appeared publicly in costumes for the first time at the Ginásio Experimental Olímpico Juan Antonio Samaranch, a school for talented young athletes in Rio.
Vinicius and Tom 
 "Tiba Tuque and Esquindim" – "tiba" means "a lot" in Tupi–Guarani languages; "tuque" comes from batuque, a kind of Brazilian music; and "esquindim" is a Brazilian Portuguese word for natural sway
Vinicius and Tom 
 "Vinicius and Tom" – the names of musicians Vinicius de Moraes and Tom Jobim, the co-writers of the song "The Girl from Ipanema"
Vinicius and Tom 
 In the sport of wrestling, coaches may challenge a referee's call by throwing a "soft object" into the ring.
Vinicius and Tom 
 The Rio 2016 organizers gave wrestling coaches soft plush dolls of Vinicius to throw into the ring when they wished to challenge a call.
Vinicius and Tom 
 One wrestler's coach got a Vinicius doll with a red shirt, while the opponent's coach got one with a blue shirt.
Vinicius and Tom 
 Dustin Nelson, a news writer for the website Thrillist, wrote that the mascot took "a little of the anger out of a challenge".
Vinicius and Tom 
 Jason Bryant, the official commentator for wrestling at the 2016 Olympics, was surprised to see this at the Olympics because there is a lot of emphasis on "protocol" at the Olympics.
Vinicius and Tom 
 However, Byrant eventually said that it does not matter what the challenge object is if it has cultural importance to the location of the competition.
Vinicius and Tom 
 His mission is "to spread joy throughout the world and celebrate the friendship that flourishes between people from all over the world" at the Olympic Games.
Vinicius and Tom 
 His mission is "to inspire everybody to use creativity and determination to always reach further and have fun."
Vinicius and Tom 
 Vinicius and Tom "were both born from the joy of Brazilians" after the International Olympic Committee chose Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
Vinicius and Tom 
 The mascots are named after Vinicius de Moraes and Tom Jobim, who co-wrote the 1962 bossa nova song "The Girl from Ipanema".
Vinicius and Tom 
 On 5 August 2015, Cartoon Network Brazil started to broadcast animated short films with the mascots.
Vinicius and Tom 
 The series is named Vinicius e Tom – Divertidos por Natureza ("Vinicius and Tom – Fun by Nature" or "Vinicius and Tom – Natural Entertainers").
Vinicius and Tom 
 Cartoon Network helped to coproduce the series because it won a competition held by the Rio 2016 organizers to select a collaborator for the series.
Vinicius and Tom 
 Brand director Beth Lula said that the mascots "are one of the principal methods of engaging the public with the Games.
Vinicius and Tom 
 The series is targeted towards children, but the show's staff said that adults will like it too too.
Vinicius and Tom 
 They colored the leaves on the dolls' heads in gold, silver, or bronze in order to match with their medals.
Vinicius and Tom 
 The Vinicius and Tom Lego kit is the first time that Lego made a commercial version of Olympic mascots.
Vinicius and Tom 
 An employee at a Rio 2016 merchandise store said that the mascots were "the most popular thing by far. ...
Vinicius and Tom 
 The Rio 2016 Organizing Committee thought that the mascots could make up a quarter of merchandise sales in Rio.
Vinicius and Tom 
 Overall, merchandise sales were 11 percent higher than what they thought, according to Rio 2016 spokesperson Mario Andrada.
Vinicius and Tom 
 She said that the "mascot for the Olympic Games is almost always strange-looking, and Rio de Janeiro is no exception. ...
Vinicius and Tom 
 though they're by far not the craziest Olympic animals to ever exist ..." In an article published by Mic, Brianna Provenzano called the mascots "lovable".
Vinicius and Tom 
 She described their appearance as "sweet and simple", and she highlighted their symbolisms for the animals and plants of Brazil.
Vinicius and Tom 
 She said that she was unimpressed by Vinicius's design: "Whoever was in charge of coming up with this creature of the huge hands and feet did exactly what it looks like, which is mash up a bunch of animals, video game characters, and cartoons, stuff it with some synthetic filling, and call it day."
Vinicius and Tom 
 Robert John Young, Professor of Wildlife Conservation at the University of Salford, thought that Rio 2016 should have given more attention to environmental protection by using actual animal species instead of inventing their own animal.
Vinicius and Tom 
 Carlos Merigo wrote on Brazilian website B9 that the mascots bring back "the colorful, loving and fun atmosphere that marked the Olympic mascots over the decades".
Vinicius and Tom 
 Merigo called them a "return to origins" following the "shapelessness" of Wenlock and Mandeville, the mascots of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Vinicius and Tom 
 Prakash said that Vinicius and Tom "are more nostalgia-inducing than nightmarish" compared to the "terror" of the mascots of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Vinicius and Tom 
 Stephen Wood wrote an article on the history of Olympic mascots in Paste, and he compared them to the style of Adventure Time, an American animated television series.
Vinicius and Tom 
 In an article published on Slate's culture blog Brow Beat, Matthew Dessem wrote that there were no big problems with the mascots when compared to previous Olympic mascots: "Like the best Olympic mascots of yore, Vinicius and Tom are well-suited to plush toys and licensing deals and will be completely forgotten within a year."
Vinicius and Tom 
 Leila Cobo wrote an article published by Billboard, and she praised the organizers of Rio 2016 for "celebrating music in a most joyful and profound way" by naming the Olympic mascot after Vinicius de Moraes.
Arsène Tchakarian 
 Arsène Tchakarian (December 21, 1916 – August 4, 2018) was a French-Armenian historian, former tailor and member of the French Resistance.
Arsène Tchakarian 
 Tchakarian was the last surviving member of the Manouchian Group (Groupe Manouchian), a Paris-based resistance group led by Missak Manouchian.
National Museum of Brazil 
 Until 2018 it had one of the largest collections of natural history and anthropology in the Americas.
National Museum of Brazil 
 The building fell into disrepair, with peeling wall material, exposed electrical wiring, and a termite problem.
National Museum of Brazil 
 Some of the artifacts lost in the fire included Egyptian mummies, remains from the oldest human skeleton found in the Americas, frescoes from Pompeii, and dinosaur skeletons.
National Museum of Brazil 
 There was an offer from The World Bank to buy the museum for $80m. It was turned down because the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro would have to give up ownership.
National Museum of Brazil 
 On 2 September 2018, at around 19:30 local time, a large fire broke out at the Paço de São Cristóvão.
National Museum of Brazil 
 Brazil's President Michel Temer called the loss of the historical and cultural heritage "incalculable".
Samuel Conti 
 He was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 1970 until his retirement in 1987.
Carilda Oliver Labra 
 Oliver Labra won many national and international prizes including the National Poetry Prize (1950), National Literature Award (1997) and the José de Vasconcelos International Prize (2002).
Paul Taylor 
 Taylor works include Big Bertha (1970),, Airs (1978), Arden Court (1981), Sunset (1983), Last Look (1985), Speaking in Tongues (1988), Brandenburgs (1988), Company B (1991), Piazolla Caldera (1996), Black Tuesday (2001), Promethean Fire (2002), and Beloved Renegade (2008).
Paul Taylor 
 In 1992, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography and was awarded the Kennedy Center Honorees.
Joseph Kobzon 
 Iosif (Joseph) Davydovich Kobzon (; 11 September 1937 — 30 August 2018) was a Soviet-Russian singer.
Ray (wrestler) 
 Ray made her professional wrestling debut in September 2003 and would for the next several years wrestle under different masks, before she began working for Smash in March 2010.
Ray (wrestler) 
 During her career, Ray held the CMLL-Reina International Junior, International Ribbon Tag Team and WNC Women's Championships, among other titles.
Ray (wrestler) 
 After being diagnosed with brain cancer in December 2015, she died on August 30, 2018 at the age of 36.
Marie Severin 
 She was best known for her work for Marvel Comics such as on Spider-Man, Thor, and Iron Man and the 1950s' EC Comics.
Massapequa, New York 
 Massapequa (, ) is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York, on Long Island, east of New York City.
Susan Brown 
 Susan Brown (May 4, 1932 – August 31, 2018) was an American television and movie actress and interior designer.
Susan Brown 
 Brown died in Los Angeles, California on August 31, 2018 from complications of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 86.
Eileen Fulton 
 She is known for her television role as Lisa Grimaldi on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, which she would star from May 18, 1960 until the show's ending on September 17, 2010.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza 
 Cavalli-Sforza's The History and Geography of Human Genes (1994 with Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza) is a standard reference on human genetic variation.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza 
 Cavalli-Sforza also wrote The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution (together with his son Francesco).
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza 
 Earlier, in the 1970s, he and Walter Bodmer wrote what was the standard textbook on modern human genetics,  The Genetics of Human Populations.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza 
 The two, with Bodmer as first author, later wrote another more basic text, Genetics, Evolution, and Man  WHFreeman, 1976.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza 
 Together  with his 1994 book they show human genetics before the genomics era began giving much more detailed data.
Tarun Sagar 
 Muni Tarun Sagar (26 June 1967 – 1 September 2018) was an Indian Digambara monk and political advisor.
Tarun Sagar 
 His lectures are known as Kadve Pravachan (bitter discourses) because they can be critical of common practices and views.
Tarun Sagar 
 He began to publish speeches under the title Kadve Pravachan (Bitter Discourse) starting in 2003 in Ahmedabad.
Tarun Sagar 
 Sagar delivered his sermons Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2010 and in Haryana Legislative Assembly on 26 August 2016.
Tarun Sagar 
 He was known as a "progressive Jain monk" for his criticism of violence, corruption and conservatism, and his speeches came to be called "Katu Pravachan".
Tarun Sagar 
 While Jain monks often did not want to be related with politicians,  Sagar often met politicians and government officials as a guest.
Tarun Sagar 
 He has delivered his sermons Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2010 and in Haryana Legislative Assembly on 26 August 2016.
Tarun Sagar 
 Sagar was respected by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Modi would award him Tarun Kranti Puraskar in 2012.
Tarun Sagar 
 In August 2016, Tarun Sagar was invited to address the Haryana Assembly by both the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress party members.
Randy Weston 
 Black History Special: Jazz Legend Randy Weston on His Life and Celebration of "African Rhythms", Democracy Now!,
Ehsan Yarshater 
 He was the founder and director of The Center for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University.
Conway Savage 
 Conway Victor Savage (27 July 1960 – 2 September 2018) was an Australian rock pianist and singer-songwriter.
Conway Savage 
 Savage had a solo career and released albums, Nothing Broken (2000), Wrong Man's Hands (2004) and Rare Songs & Performances 1989–2004.
Conway Savage 
 He also collaborated with other artists for their albums, such as Soon Will Be Tomorrow (with Suzie Higgie, 1998) and Quickie for Ducky (with Amanda Fox and Robert Tickner, 2007).
Carole Shelley 
 Her many stage roles included the character of Madame Morrible in the original Broadway cast of the musical Wicked.
Barry Du Bois 
 Barry Du Bois (born 4 August 1960) is an Australian designer, building expert and TV personality on Network Ten.
Gareth O'Callaghan 
 Gareth O'Callaghan (born 24 March 1961) is an Irish author and retired radio and television presenter.
Gareth O'Callaghan 
 He was most recently to be heard on 4fm, having presented shows on RTÉ 2fm for much of his career until 2005 and then a show on Galway Bay FM until his retirement in 2018.
Neurodegeneration 
 Neurodegeneration is the progressive loss of structure or function of neurons, including death of neurons.
Neurodegeneration 
 Many neurodegenerative diseases – including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Huntington's disease.
Neurodegeneration 
 There are many parallels between different neurodegenerative disorders including atypical protein assemblies as well as induced cell death.
Neurodegeneration 
 Neurodegeneration can be found in many different levels of neuronal circuitry ranging from molecular to systemic.
St John Ambulance 
 In most places, St John Ambulance are mostly volunteers and their role is to provide first aid at local events (e.g. sports matches, local fairs, races, etc.)
St John Ambulance 
 Other similar organizations include Red Cross and Red Crescent (a worldwide movement) and St Andrew's First Aid in Scotland.
Roger Delgado 
 Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto (1 March 1918 – 18 June 1973), better known as Roger Delgado, was a British actor.
Roger Delgado 
 He is best known as the first actor to play the Master in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
Gambia River 
 It runs from the Fouta Djallon plateau in north Guinea westward through Senegal and the Gambia to the Atlantic Ocean at the city of Banjul.
Gambia River 
 The river is strongly associated with The Gambia, the smallest country in mainland Africa, which consists of little more than the downstream half of the river and its two banks.
Gambia River 
 From the Fouta Djallon, the river runs northwest into the Tambacounda Region of Senegal, where it flows through the Parc National du Niokolo Koba, then is joined by the Nieri Ko and Koulountou before entering the Gambia at Fatoto.
Gambia River 
 At this point the river runs generally west, but in a meandering course with a number of oxbows, and about 100km from its mouth it gradually widens, to over 10km wide where it meets the sea.
Gambia River 
 Near the mouth of the river, near Juffure, is Kunta Kinteh Island, a place used in the slave trade which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Gambia River 
 The aquatic fauna in the Gambia River basin is closely associated with that of the Senegal River basin, and the two are usually combined under a single ecoregion known as the Senegal-Gambia Catchments.
Gambia River 
 Although the species richness is moderately high, only three species of frogs and one fish are endemic to this ecoregion.
Gambia River 
 Oysters are harvested from the River Gambia and used to make oyster stew, a traditional dish in the cuisine of Gambia.
Tongyong Pinyin 
 Tongyong Pinyin is a romanization of Mandarin Chinese, or a way to write Mandarin in the Roman alphabet, that was invented in Taiwan.
Tongyong Pinyin 
 It was created by the Taiwanese to oppose Hanyu Pinyin, which is the official romanization of Mandarin in Mainland China, the UN, and most other international organizations, because many Taiwanese do not want to use a writing system created by the Chinese Communist Party.
Tongyong Pinyin 
 While Taipei mostly uses Hanyu spelling today, many cities, particularly in southern Taiwan, still use many different romanizations, including Tongyong spelling, and it can still be seen in many places.
Tongyong Pinyin 
 However, one major difference is that Tongyong does not use letters 'x' and 'q', which are both used in Hanyu.
Tongyong Pinyin 
 Below are examples of sentences written in Chinese characters, Hanyu Pinyin, and Tongyong Pinyin with English translations.
Turgor 
 Turgor means the state of turgidity and resulting rigidity of cells or tissues, typically due to the absorption of fluid.
Starships (song) 
 It is from her second studio album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded and appears as the tenth track on the album.
Starships (song) 
 The song has a pop rap sound similar to her previous single "Super Bass" and has elements of dance-pop and Eurodance.
Starships (song) 
 Minaj co-wrote the song with Wayne Hector, Carl Falk, Rami Yacoub, and its producer, RedOne, who is known for his work with Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez.
Starships (song) 
 The song has been very successful worldwide, reaching the top ten in countries like the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Gordon Phillips 
 Gordon David Phillips (17 November 1946 – 3 September 2018) was an English professional football goalkeeper and coach.
Renée Fleming 
 Her best known roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, the title role in Dvořák's Rusalka, the title role in Massenet's Manon, the title role in Massenet's Thaïs, the title role in Richard Strauss's Arabella, the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, and the Countess in Capriccio.
Indian Springs Village, Alabama 
 Indian Springs Village (often simply called Indian Springs) is a town of Alabama in the United States.
Indian Springs Village, Alabama 
 An F2 tornado damaged business buildings in the town on March 27, 1994 along with Pelham, Helena, and Inverness.
Inverness, Alabama 
 An F2 tornado damaged business buildings here along with Pelham, Helena, and Indian Springs on March 27, 1994.
Vincent, Alabama 
 Vincent is a city of Shelby, St. Clair, and Talladega counties in the state of Alabama, in the United States.
Mooresville, Alabama 
 It is located southeast of the intersection of Interstate 565 and Interstate 65, and north of Wheeler Lake.
Mooresville, Alabama 
 The town is between Huntsville and Decatur, and is part of the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area; its population as of the 2010 census is 53, down from 59 in 2000.
Jacqueline Pearce 
 Pearce was diagnosed with lung cancer in May 2018 and died shortly after at her home in Lancashire on 3 September 2018, aged 74.
Katyna Ranieri 
 Caterina Ranieri (31 August 1925 – 3 September 2018), known professionally as Katyna Ranieri, was an Italian actress and singer.
Katyna Ranieri 
 She had her first hit in 1954 at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Una canzone da due soldi".
Thomas Sowell 
 He is a National Humanities Medal recipient for innovative scholarship which incorporated history, economics and political science.
Richard Viguerie 
 Richard Art Viguerie (born September 23, 1933) is an American conservative figure, pioneer of political direct mail and writer on politics.
Richard Viguerie 
 Booknotes interview with Viguerie on America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power, September 5, 2004.
Pasadena, Texas 
 As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the city's population is 149,043, making it the seventeenth most populous city in the state of Texas.
Pasadena, Texas 
 The area was founded in 1893 by John H. Burnett of Galveston, who named the area after Pasadena, California.
Claire Wineland 
 Claire Wineland (April 10, 1997 – September 2, 2018) was an American health activist, entrepreneur and author.
Claire Wineland 
 She was also the author of the book Every Breath I Take, Surviving and Thriving with Cystic Fibrosis and a TEDx speaker.
Claire Wineland 
 Wineland died, aged 21, on September 2, 2018 from a stroke at a San Diego, California hospital, one week after having a lung transplant.
Leslie Jones (comedian) 
 Annette Jones (born September 7, 1967), better known as Leslie Jones, is an American comedian and actress.
Leslie Jones (comedian) 
 In 2017 and 2018, Jones was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Saturday Night Live.
Danny Huston 
 He starred in Birth, Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, The Constant Gardener, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, Peter Berg’s The Kingdom, Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood and Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock.
Danny Huston 
 Huston starred in the thriller series American Horror Story, portraying The Axeman in American Horror Story: Coven and Massimo Dolcefino in American Horror Story: Freak Show.
Nevada, Missouri 
 Nevada ( nə--də; pronounced differently than the state) is a city and a county seat of Vernon County, Missouri, United States.
Augustus Loftus 
 Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus,  (4 October 1817 – 7 March 1904) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator.
Augustus Loftus 
 He was Ambassador to Prussia from 1865 to 1868, to the North German Confederation from 1868 to 1871 and to the Russian Empire from 1871 to 1879 and Governor of New South Wales from 1879 to 1885.
Jon Polito 
 His best known works were as Detective Steve Crosetti in the first two seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street and as Phil Bartoli on the first season of Crime Story.
Jon Polito 
 Polito starred as The Rocketeer, The Crow and Gangster Squad, as well as his work with the Coen brothers.
Jon Polito 
 Polito last appeared as Enrico Banducci in a large supporting role in Tim Burton's 2014 movie Big Eyes.
Tropical Storm Gordon (2018) 
 Tropical storm and hurricane warnings were put in effect from southeast Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.
Ken Harrelson 
 Kenneth Smith Harrelson (born September 4, 1941), nicknamed "The Hawk", is an American All-Star first baseman and outfielder in Major League Baseball.
Ken Harrelson 
 He played for the Kansas City Athletics, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians.
Hinterkaifeck murders 
 The six victims were parents Andreas Gruber (63) and Cäzilia (72); their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel (35); Viktoria's children, Cäzilia (7) and Josef (2); and the maid, Maria Baumgartner (44).
Hinterkaifeck murders 
 The name was used for the remote farmstead of the hamlet of Kaifeck, located nearly  north of the main part of Kaifeck and hidden in the woods (the prefix Hinter, part of many German place names, means behind), part of the town of Wangen, which was incorporated into Waidhofen in 1971.
Tamam Shud case 
 The Tamam Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach, Glenelg, just south of Adelaide, South Australia.
Tamam Shud case 
 It is named after the Persian phrase tamám shud, meaning "ended" or "finished", printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers.
Tamam Shud case 
 The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, authored by 12th-century poet Omar Khayyám.