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wit-train-topic-000000851
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_structure_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses
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Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses
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Branch offices
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Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses / Branch offices
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Jehovah's Witnesses are organized hierarchically, and are led by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses from the Watch Tower Society's headquarters in Warwick, New York. The Governing Body, along with other "helpers", are organized into six committees responsible for various administrative functions within the global Witness community, including publication, assembly programs and evangelizing activity.
The Governing Body and its committees supervise operations of nearly one hundred branch offices worldwide. Each branch office oversees the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in a particular country or region, and may include facilities for the publication and distribution of Watch Tower Society literature. Directly appointed by the Governing Body, branch committees supervise administrative functions for congregations in their jurisdiction. Congregations are further organized into circuits of about twenty congregations each. The Governing Body directly appoints circuit overseers as its representatives to supervise activities within circuits. Headquarters representatives visit groups of branch offices to provide instruction and report the branch's activities to the Governing Body.
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Jehovah's Witnesses operate 87 branch offices worldwide, under the oversight of headquarters representatives who visit each of their assigned branches every few years, auditing operations, counseling branch committee members, department heads and missionaries, and reporting back to the Governing Body. Each branch office is referred to as Bethel. The United States branch office, spread across three New York State locations with a staff of more than 5000, also serves as the international headquarters.
Branch offices, operated by Witness volunteers known as Bethel families, produce and distribute Bible-based literature and communicate with congregations within their jurisdiction. Full-time staff at branch offices take a vow of poverty and are members of a religious order. Each branch is overseen by a committee of three or more elders, which is appointed by the Governing Body. A Service Department in each branch corresponds with congregations and supervises the work of traveling overseers. Branch offices may also have departments responsible for printing, translation and legal representation.
Each branch office appoints various committees in its jurisdiction's communities, with local elders as members. Committees may include:
Hospital Liaison Committee
Patient Visitation Group
Regional Building Committee
Assembly Hall Committee
District Convention Committee
Disaster Relief Committee
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wit-train-topic-000000852
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Harbor_Inn
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Bar Harbor Inn
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Gallery
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Bar Harbor Inn / Gallery
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The Bar Harbor Inn is an inn in Bar Harbor, Maine. It was built in 1887, and has been an inn since 1950.
The inn has accommodations in the main building, Oceanfront Lodge and The Newport. It has two restaurants: the Reading Room and the Terrace Grille. A bar, called the Oasis Lounge, is located off of the Reading Room. There is also a spa on site.
The inn closes from December to late March.
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wit-train-topic-000000853
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembroke_Power_Station
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Pembroke Power Station
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Construction
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Pembroke Power Station / Construction
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Pembroke B Power Station is a 2,200 MWe natural gas-fired power station near Pembroke in Wales. The power station was officially opened on 19 September 2012 and is the largest gas-fired power station in Europe. It is also the largest power station to be built in the UK since Drax power station came online in 1986. Pembroke Power Station currently generates enough power to supply 3.5 million homes and businesses.
It is a CCGT-type power station that uses natural gas. There are five 400 MW modules, each with a 288 MWe Alstom gas turbine, heat recovery steam generator and steam turbine.
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In 2004, RWE (former National Power) revived plans to build a CCGT power station at Pembroke when proposals for LNG terminals at Milford Haven brought high pressure natural gas infrastructure to the area. A public exhibition was held by the three-man development team in Pembroke Town Hall in February 2005 outlining the proposal to build the £800 million power station in support of the company's planning application.
The EPC contractor was Alstom. The ATEX inspection was conducted by the French notified body LCIE. Construction began in 2008 and was completed by mid-2012. The power station employs around 100 people.
During the construction of the power station a contractual dispute broke out between the Main contractor Alstom Power and one of its mechanical subcontractors, Somi. The dispute eventually led to Somi leaving the project leaving dozens of local subcontractors and suppliers unpaid. The local newspaper gave detailed coverage of the matter and the local MP attempted to raise awareness of the issue by mentioning it in Parliament but with little success.
The Main contractor Alstom took on most (if not all) of the local subcontractors and paid all wages due and has since won its case against Somi in a high court judgement.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000854
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorvald_L%C3%B8chen
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Thorvald Løchen
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Introduction
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Thorvald Løchen
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Thorvald Løchen (1861–1943) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician. He served as the County Governor of Nordre Trondhjems county from 1902 until 1916 and also as the County Governor of Hedmark county from 1916 until 1926.
He received a cand.jur. degree in 1883, and then began to work in the Ministry of the Interior from 1891 to 1900. He was the chief executive of the Ministry of Agriculture from 1900 to 1902. After that he became the County Governor in Nordre Trondhjem county from 1902 to 1916; and then immediately after that, he was appointed as the County Governor of Hedmark county, a position he held from 1916 to 1926.
During his time in Nordre Trondhjem county, the first part of the Nordlandsbanen railway line, then called the Hell-Sunnan line, was completed. Løchen also participated in the investigation and planning of the next section of the line heading northwards, a question which was decided at an extraordinary county council meeting in 1915, although that portion of the track was not completed until 1926–1929.
Thorvald Løchen was the son of the lawyer Edvard Martin Løchen, and he was the brother of Justice Minister Einar Løchen. In 1909, he married Ingeborg Mathia Motzfeldt, the daughter of government minister Ernst Motzfeldt.
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wit-train-topic-000000855
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Rodrigues
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José Rodrigues
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Introduction
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José Rodrigues
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José Rodrigues de Carvalho (July 16, 1828 in Lisbon – October 19, 1887 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter.
O Pobre Rabequista (The poor rabequista), painted in 1855 and considered Rodriques' most famous work, was first shown in Paris at the Universal Exhibition in 1855 and at the International Exposition of Porto in 1865, where he won the second award.
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wit-train-topic-000000856
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheriton_Fitzpaine
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Cheriton Fitzpaine
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Introduction
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Cheriton Fitzpaine
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Cheriton Fitzpaine is a village in Devon, England, located 4 miles (7 km) north-east of Crediton. The population of the parish in the 2011 Census was 556.
The village is noted for its historic buildings, including the old Primary School, the longest thatched house in England. Cheriton Fitzpaine is a major part of the electoral ward Way, with a 2011 population of 1,603.
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wit-train-topic-000000857
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgomphodon
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Microgomphodon
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Description
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Microgomphodon / Description
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Microgomphodon is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsid from the Middle Triassic of South Africa and Namibia. Currently only one species of Microgomphodon, M. oligocynus, is recognized. With fossils present in the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of the Burgersdorp Formation in South Africa and Omingonde Formation of Namibia and ranging in age from late Olenekian to Anisian, it is one of the most geographically and temporally widespread therocephalian species. Moreover, its occurrence in the upper Omigonde Formation of Namibia makes Microgomphodon the latest-surviving therocephalian. Microgomphodon is a member of the family Bauriidae and a close relative of Bauria, another South African bauriid from the CAZ. Like other bauriids, it possesses several mammal-like features such as a secondary palate and broad, molar-like postcanine teeth, all of which evolved independently from mammals.
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Microgomphodon has a short snout and large eye sockets that are roughly equal in size to the temporal openings behind them (these openings are typically much larger in therocephalians). Its incisors are large and pointed, with the lower set splaying forward from the lower jaw. A pair of enlarged canines in the upper jaw separates the incisors in the front from the postcanines in the back. The postcanine teeth are widened and bear cusps that interlock with the postcanines of the lower jaw. They are positioned closer to the midlines of the upper and lower jaws than are the incisors due to an inward expansion of the maxilla and dentary bones.
Microgomphodon is very similar in appearance to Bauria, but differs in having a small hole called a pineal foramen at the top of the skull behind the eye sockets, a complete postorbital bar enclosing the eye sockets from behind, fewer postcanine teeth, and canines located farther back along the upper jaw. Additionally, the two taxa can be distinguished by many subtle differences relating to the shape of the skull. For example, Microgomphodon has a deeper snout, slightly larger eyes, and a sharper angle to the zygomatic arches than does Bauria. Specimens of Microgomphodon are generally smaller than those of Bauria; the largest skull of Microgomphodon is 89 millimetres (3.5 in) long whereas the largest of Bauria is 130 millimetres (5.1 in).
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000858
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_long-distance_paths
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European long-distance paths
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Introduction
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European long-distance paths
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The European long-distance paths (E-paths) are a network of long-distance footpaths that traverse Europe. While most long-distance footpaths in Europe are located in just one country or region, each of these numbered European long-distance paths passes through many different countries.
The first long-distance hiking trail in Europe was the National Blue Trail of Hungary, established in 1938. The formation of the European Union made transnational hiking trails possible.
The European long-distance paths are designated by the European Ramblers' Association.
In general the routes connect and make use of existing national and local trails such as the GR footpaths.
Today the network consists of 12 E-paths and covers more than 70,000 km, crisscrossing Europe. The newest E-path is E12, following the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
The E-paths are constantly improving and changing in small bits as many persons and organisations are involved in maintaining and upgrading the E-paths.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000859
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auchentiber
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Auchentiber
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Views of the Auchentiber area
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Auchentiber / Views of the Auchentiber area
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The hamlet of Auchentiber is in North Ayrshire, Parish of Kilwinning, Scotland. Auchentiber is 4 miles NE of Kilwinning on the Lochlibo Road, 2.2 miles from the hamlet of Burnhouse and 2.6 miles from the village of Barrmill. Grid Ref. NS3647. Some new housing has been built, but the settlement is still very much a hamlet. The settlement is on the Lugton Water, which runs into the River Garnock after running through Montgreenan and Eglinton Country Park in Irvine.
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wit-train-topic-000000860
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Brazil
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National Museum of Brazil
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Donations
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National Museum of Brazil / Donations
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The National Museum of Brazil is Brazil's oldest scientific institution. It is located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, where it is installed in the Paço de São Cristóvão, which is inside the Quinta da Boa Vista. The main building was originally the residence of the Portuguese Royal Family between 1808 and 1821 and was later used to house the Brazilian Imperial Family between 1822 and 1889. After the monarchy was deposed, it hosted the Republican Constituent Assembly from 1889 to 1891 before being assigned to the use of the museum in 1892. The building was listed as Brazilian National Heritage in 1938 and was largely destroyed by a fire in 2018.
Founded by King João VI of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves on 6 June 1818, under the name of "Royal Museum", the institution was initially housed at the Campo de Santana park, where it exhibited the collections incorporated from the former House of Natural History, popularly known as Casa dos Pássaros, created in 1784 by the Viceroy of Brazil, Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa, 4th Count of Figueiró, as well as collections of mineralogy and zoology.
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The German Foreign Ministry has offered €1 million in aid to rebuild Brazil's National Museum. This amount was used to buy container-laboratories to investigate specimens. Those equipment were to be located in a donated field nearby Maracanã Stadium. From the initial amount announced, R$180 thousand was delivered. On 21 May 2019 the Director travelled to Germany and France to ask for the rest and more help, because Brazil Government seems not possible to financially further help. From Germany, the second amount of €145 thousand or R$654 thousand was donated.
Each of 140 geoparks of UNESCO's conservation areas will collect and send a lithic, fossil, or cultural artifact to Brazil. This means 140 objects would complement the future collection.
On 17 October 2018, Secretary of the Patrimony of the Union, Sidrack Correia confirmed the donation of the area of 49,300 m², that is about a kilometer from the museum, to install laboratories containers in 45 days, budgeted at R$2.2 million, purchased with funds from the TJRJ Pecunary Penalty Fund to be used by museum researchers. It also serves as a center for students visitation. Part of the total, 10 thousand square meters will be for the Justice Court to install its transport area.
The National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), linked to the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC), concluded on 17 October 2018 the donation of 1,164 items, mostly mobile, to the National Museum. The furniture, which includes tables, chairs, workstations, drawers and cabinets, aid in the restructuring of the Museum. The idea of the donation came from the need for the institute to free itself of idle equipment that was in its old headquarters, in Edifício A Noite, located in Praça Mauá, the port area of Rio de Janeiro, to allow the return of the property to the Secretariat of the Patrimony of the Union (SPU), which should have been empty. Part of the furniture was taken to the Botanical Garden of the National Museum, located in Quinta da Boa Vista, where some sectors are working. Others will be used in the direction of the museum, in the services of museology and teaching assistance, and in the departments of invertebrates, geology, paleontology, entomology and ethnology.
On 24 October 2018, a farmer from Cuiabá donates 780 old Brazilian coins at an average value of R$5 thousand to Rio de Janeiro National Museum. More than R$100 thousand was donated in campaign to museum.
On 13 November 2018, the Universidade Estadual do Pará donated 514 insects to the Museum, 314 were borrowed from there. Among them were grasshoppers.
On 25 May 2019, Nuuvem, largest gaming platform in Latin America, donated R$16,860 to the National Museum. The two-day income from the game "The Hero's Legend" was reverted to the museum and 500 gamers engaged in the action. The inspiration came from an initiative that Ubisoft created for the game "Assassin's Creed" for the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
Until June 2019, the small donations from several private individuals summed R$323 thousand.
The British Council donated R$150 thousand for educational exchange.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew would donate in 2020 a collection of relics collected in the Amazon, stored in the British institution for over 150 years. The items were grouped by botanist Richard Spruce, who spent 15 years gathering specimens and making notes while travelling through the forest and brought to Queen Victoria ceremonial tools and objects used by indigenous tribes in the region. His collection, later stored in the Kew Gardens archives, also includes wooden baskets and graters, trumpets, rattles, and ritual headdresses.
Wilson Saviano, professor at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, donated 300 pieces, 15 paintings and 40 books from his private collection of contemporary African art.
Books: In entomology, it had 20 donations that would give about 23,000 items, it was certainly one of the areas that suffered the most. In vertebrates, more than 500 specimens from various areas of Brazil were donated. In geology and paleont
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000861
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathronympha_strigana
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Lathronympha strigana
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Introduction
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Lathronympha strigana
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Lathronympha strigana is a species of moth in the family Tortricidae.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000862
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Town_Hall
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Leigh Town Hall
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Introduction
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Leigh Town Hall
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Leigh Town Hall stands facing the parish church across the Civic Square at the junction with Market Street in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It was granted Grade II Listed status in 1987.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000863
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alling_Gifford
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Charles Alling Gifford
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Selected works
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Charles Alling Gifford / Selected works
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Charles Alling Gifford was an American architect and a partner in the New York City firm of Gifford & Bates. He is best remembered for his resort hotels, but also designed houses, churches, and five armories for the New Jersey National Guard.
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Trinity Church Mission Chapel, Clark Street, Newark, New Jersey, 1883
Augustus Newbold Morris Residence, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1885
Alterations to Franklin Murphy Residence, 1027 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey, 1891. Murphy later was the 31st governor of New Jersey.
Robert F. Ballentine Gymnasium, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1892–1894, burned and demolished 1930.
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University now occupies the Ballantine Gymnasium site.
New Jersey State Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893, burned 1894.
Central Presbyterian Church, 377 Clinton Avenue, Newark, New Jersey, 1893–1894
Conyngham Manor, 130 South River Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1897. Designed for Gifford's father-in-law. Now part of Wilkes College
Conyngham Stable, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1898.
Alterations to "Markland" (Andrew Anderson Residence), 102 King Street, St. Augustine, Florida, 1899–1901. Gifford doubled the size of the 1839 Greek-Revival mansion. Now part of Flagler College
Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, 1900–1902. Built by Joseph Stickney as a resort hotel and spa.
Young Men's Christian Association, 107 Halsey Street, Newark, New Jersey, 1901–1903, demolished.
"Brushwood," (Henry Young Mansion), 134 Ballantine Road, Bernardsville, New Jersey, 1903–1904.
"The Knoll" (George Macculloch Miller Residence), Morristown, New Jersey, 1904.
New Jersey State Building, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, demolished. "Washington's Headquarters at Morristown."
146 East 56th Street, New York City, 1905. Three-story Neo-Georgian stable/carriagehouse built for Edwin Gould. The first story currently houses a hair salon, Bumble and Bumble.
Clifton House Hotel, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 1905, burned 1932
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000864
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Paludi_di_Celano
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Museo Paludi di Celano
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Introduction
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Museo Paludi di Celano
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Museo Paludi di Celano (Italian for Swamps of Celano Museum) is an archaeology museum in Celano, Province of L'Aquila (Abruzzo).
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wit-train-topic-000000865
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buildings_in_Savannah_Historic_District_(Savannah,_Georgia)
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Buildings in Savannah Historic District (Savannah, Georgia)
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Selected contributing properties
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Buildings in Savannah Historic District (Savannah, Georgia) / Selected contributing properties
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The Savannah Historic District is a large urban U.S. historic district that roughly corresponds to the city limits of Savannah, Georgia, prior to the American Civil War. The area was declared a National Historic Landmark District in 1966, and is one of the largest districts of its kind in the United States. The district was made in recognition of the unique layout of the city, begun by James Oglethorpe at the city's founding and propagated for over a century of its growth.
Below is a list of relevant buildings inside Savannah Historic District:
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wit-train-topic-000000866
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ecclesiastical_parishes_in_the_Diocese_of_Bath_and_Wells
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List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells
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Deanery of Axbridge
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List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells / Archdeaconry of Wells / Deanery of Axbridge
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The ecclesiastical parishes within the Diocese of Bath and Wells cover the majority of the English county of Somerset and small areas of Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. The episcopal seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells is in the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in the city of Wells in Somerset. The diocesan offices, the bishops' offices and residences and the cathedral are all located around the Bishop's Palace in Wells. The diocese is not referred to as "Bath diocese" or "Wells diocese", but as "Bath and Wells diocese". The ordinary of the diocese is the diocesan Bishop of Bath and Wells, Peter Hancock; he is assisted throughout the diocese by the Bishop suffragan of Taunton, Ruth Worsley, whose See was created in 1911. Alternative episcopal oversight is provided by the provincial episcopal visitor, the Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet, Jonathan Goodall, who is licensed as an honorary assistant bishop of the diocese in order to facilitate his work there.
The parish with its local parish church is the basic unit of the Church of England.
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The deanery is split between Sedgemoor and Mendip, and also includes one civil parish in North Somerset.
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wit-train-topic-000000867
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosier_Monastery,_Maastricht
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Crosier Monastery, Maastricht
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Cloister yard
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Crosier Monastery, Maastricht / Architectural heritage / Monastery wings / Cloister yard
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The Crosier Monastery or Monastery of the Crutched Friars is a former monastery of the Order of the Holy Cross in Maastricht, Netherlands. The well-preserved convent buildings house a five-star hotel, the Kruisherenhotel. It is a rare example of a Gothic monastery in the Netherlands, having survived more or less in its entirety. The buildings from the 15th and 16th century constitute three listed buildings. The more or less intact monastery archive is unique in the Netherlands.
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The cloister yard is a quadrangle that is not entirely square, surrounded by four monastery wings. The lower Gothic windows on this side were probably once open; they were (re)glazed in the 19th century. Gothic windows also appear in the upper floor of the south wing; the lower windows in this wing are wider than elsewhere. Also, the south wing features a centrally-placed one-storey outbuilding with a hip roof that protrudes into the cloister yard. As is the case with the street-facing façades, brightly coloured window shutters decorate the Renaissance windows around the cloister yard.
The cloister yard may have been used originally as a herb garden (hortus medicus). It is now a hotel patio. The white pavement and the colour of the garden furniture, as well as the red and white window shutters, refer to the colours of the Crosiers' cross. A modern staircase leads to a fire escape tunnel that goes under the south wing of the cloisters, connecting the courtyard to the outside world. A light sculpture by Ingo Maurer in the shape of an illuminated vertical column filled with 3000 litres of water with silver dust has been temporarily removed because of malfunctioning.
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wit-train-topic-000000868
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaffer_am_Hochficht
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Klaffer am Hochficht
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Introduction
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Klaffer am Hochficht
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Klaffer am Hochficht is a municipality in the district of Rohrbach in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
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wit-train-topic-000000869
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molino_Dorino_(Milan_Metro)
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Molino Dorino (Milan Metro)
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Introduction
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Molino Dorino (Milan Metro)
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Molino Dorino is a station on Line 1 of Milan Metro in Milan, Italy. The underground station was opened in 1986. It's an underground station, placed near the city limit. The station is located between Via Molino Dorino and Via Francesco Cilea.
The station has a car parking with 1660 parking spaces.
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wit-train-topic-000000870
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cave_Singers
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The Cave Singers
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Introduction
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The Cave Singers
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The Cave Singers is an American band from Seattle, Washington. Composed of former members of Pretty Girls Make Graves after its disbandment in 2007, former PGMG-member Derek Fudesco teamed up with Pete Quirk (of Hint Hint) and Marty Lund (of Cobra High) and began playing in the Seattle area. Soon after the band's conception, The Cave Singers signed with Matador Records on June 11, 2007. The band spent time recording in Vancouver with music engineer Colin Stewart, who quickly produced the band's first full-length LP. The band released the limited edition single 7" "Seeds Of Night" including b side "After The First Baptism" on August 2, 2007. Invitation Songs, the first LP, was released on September 25, 2007 to critical acclaim. The second single, "Dancing On Our Graves", was released on February 25, 2008.
On August 18, 2009, The Cave Singers released their second album, Welcome Joy, featuring guest appearances from Amber and Ashley Webber of the band Lightning Dust. Matador Records gave away a free download of the track "Beach House" to fans.
The Cave Singers signed to Jagjaguwar on June 15, 2010. The label released their third LP, No Witch, on February 22, 2011.
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wit-train-topic-000000871
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_S-K
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Regulation S-K
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Item 402: Executive Compensation
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Regulation S-K / Regulation S-K: Highlights by item / Management and "Certain Security Holders" / Item 402: Executive Compensation
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Regulation S-K is a prescribed regulation under the US Securities Act of 1933 that lays out reporting requirements for various SEC filings used by public companies. Companies are also often called issuers, filers or registrants.
Regulation S-K is generally focused on qualitative descriptions while the related Regulation S-X focuses on financial statements.
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While this disclosure is required in Form 10-K, it is often performed in the Annual Report and incorporated by reference in Form 10-K by large companies such as Pfizer.
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wit-train-topic-000000872
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9F_Tw%C3%BClpstedt
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Groß Twülpstedt
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Introduction
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Groß Twülpstedt
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Groß Twülpstedt is a municipality in the district of Helmstedt, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The Municipality Groß Twülpstedt includes the villages of Groß Sisbeck, Groß Twülpstedt, Klein Sisbeck, Klein Twülpstedt, Papenrode, Rümmer and Volkmarsdorf.
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wit-train-topic-000000873
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Rock_Cafe
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Hard Rock Cafe
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Gallery
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Hard Rock Cafe / Gallery
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Hard Rock Cafe Inc. is a chain of theme restaurants founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton in London. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock and roll memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain. In 2007, Hard Rock Cafe International, Inc. was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida and was headquartered in Orlando, Florida, until April 2018, when the corporate offices were relocated to Davie, Florida. As of July 2018, Hard Rock International has venues in 74 countries, including 185 cafes, 25 hotels, and 12 casinos.
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wit-train-topic-000000874
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_palm_civet
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Asian palm civet
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Behaviour and ecology
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Asian palm civet / Behaviour and ecology
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The Asian palm civet is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia. Since 2008, it is IUCN Red Listed as Least Concern as it accommodates to a broad range of habitats. It is widely distributed with large populations that in 2008 were thought unlikely to be declining.
In Indonesia, it is threatened by poaching and illegal wildlife trade; buyers use it for the increasing production of kopi luwak, a form of coffee that involves ingestion and excretion of the beans by the animal.
Asian palm civets are claimed to be the carrier that transmitted SARS from horseshoe bats to humans.
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The Asian palm civet is thought to lead a solitary lifestyle, except for brief periods during mating. It is both terrestrial and arboreal, showing a nocturnal activity pattern with peaks between late evening until after midnight. It is usually active between dawn and 4:00 in the morning, but less active during nights when the moon is brightest.
Scent marking behaviour and olfactory response to various excretions such as urine, feces, and secretion of the perineal gland differs in males and females. Scent marking by dragging the perineal gland and leaving the secretion on the substrate was most commonly observed in animals of both sexes. The duration of the olfactory response varied and depended both on the sex and excretion type. The palm civet can distinguish animal species, sex, familiar and unfamiliar individuals by the odor of the perineal gland secretion.
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wit-train-topic-000000875
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_library
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Law library
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Introduction
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Law library
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A law library is a special library used by law students, lawyers, judges and their law clerks, historians and other scholars of legal history in order to research the law. Law libraries are also used by people who draft or advocate for new laws, e.g. legislators and others who work in state government, local government, and legislative counsel offices or the U.S. Office of Law Revision Counsel and lobbying professionals. Self-represented, or pro se, litigants (parties to a civil lawsuit or criminal defendants who do not have a licensed attorney representing them) also use law libraries.
A law library may contain print, computer assisted legal research, and microform collections of laws in force, session laws, superseded laws, foreign and international law, and other research resources, e.g. continuing legal education resources and legal encyclopedias (e.g. Corpus Juris Secundum among others), legal treatises, and legal history. A law library may also have law librarians who help legal researchers navigate law library collections and who teach legal research. Some law libraries serve scholars from around the world, e.g. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London and the New York City Bar Association Law Library.
Law libraries in the United States are usually classified as a type of special library because of their focus on providing specialized resources, as well as their specialized and limited user base.
Most law schools around the world have a law library, or in some universities, at least a section of the university library devoted to law. In the United States, law school libraries may be subject to accreditation review by the American Bar Association Standards of Legal Education.
Law libraries may be found in courts, legislatures (e.g. the Law Library of Congress), prison libraries, government departments, private law firms, and barristers chambers.
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wit-train-topic-000000876
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Summit_County,_Ohio
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Summit County, Ohio
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Outside Akron
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Summit County, Ohio / Current listings / Outside Akron
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Summit County, Ohio.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Summit County, Ohio, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
There are 176 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 3 National Historic Landmarks. The city of Akron is the location of 57 of these properties and districts, including 2 of the National Historic Landmarks; they are listed separately, while the 120 properties and districts and the National Historic Landmarks in the remaining parts of the county are listed here. One district, the Valley Railway Historic District, is split between Akron and other parts of the county, and is thus included on both lists. Another 2 properties were once listed but have been removed.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted July 17, 2020.
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wit-train-topic-000000877
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Sardi%C3%B1as
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Alberto Sardiñas
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Introduction
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Alberto Sardiñas
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Alberto David Sardiñas Glottmann (born June 15, 1978) is an syndicated radio personality, producer, author, columnist and motivational speaker, born in Caracas, Venezuela.
His career in the media started in Venezuela. After arriving in Miami, Florida in 2000, he has been involved in the entertainment industry, and is also a motivational speaker in the Hispanic world.
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wit-train-topic-000000878
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audion
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Audion
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Patents and disputes
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Audion / History / Patents and disputes
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The Audion was an electronic detecting or amplifying vacuum tube invented by American electrical engineer Lee de Forest in 1906. It was the first triode, consisting of an evacuated glass tube containing three electrodes: a heated filament, a grid, and a plate. It is important in the history of technology because it was the first widely used electronic device which could amplify; a small electrical signal applied to the grid could control a larger current flowing from the filament to plate.
The original triode Audion had more residual gas in the tube than later versions and vacuum tubes; the extra residual gas limited the dynamic range and gave the Audion non-linear characteristics and erratic performance. Originally developed as a radio receiver detector by adding a grid electrode to the Fleming valve, it found little use until its amplifying ability was recognized around 1912 by several researchers, who used it to build the first amplifying radio receivers and electronic oscillators. The many practical applications for amplification motivated its rapid development, and the original Audion was superseded within a few years by improved versions with higher vacuum.
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De Forest and everybody else at the time greatly underestimated the potential of his original device, imagining it to be limited to mostly military applications. It is significant that he apparently never saw its potential as a telephone repeater amplifier, even though crude electromechanical note magnifiers had been the bane of the telephone industry for at least two decades. (Ironically, in the years of patent disputes leading up to World War I, it was only this "loophole" that allowed vacuum triodes to be manufactured at all since none of De Forest's patents specifically mentioned this application).
De Forest was granted a patent for his early two-electrode version of the Audion on November 13, 1906 (U.S. Patent 841,386), and the "triode" (three-electrode) version was patented in 1908 (U.S. Patent 879,532). De Forest continued to claim that he developed the Audion independently from John Ambrose Fleming's earlier research on the thermionic valve (for which Fleming received Great Britain patent 24850 and the American Fleming valve patent U.S. Patent 803,684), and De Forest became embroiled in many radio-related patent disputes. De Forest was famous for saying that he "didn't know why it worked, it just did".
He always referred to the vacuum triodes developed by other researchers as "Oscillaudions", although there is no evidence that he had any significant input to their development. It is true that after the invention of the true vacuum triode in 1913 (see below), De Forest continued to manufacture various types of radio transmitting and receiving apparatus, (examples of which are illustrated on this page). However, although he routinely described these devices as using "Audions", they actually used high-vacuum triodes, using circuitry very similar to that developed by other experimenters.
In 1914, Columbia University student Edwin Howard Armstrong worked with professor John Harold Morecroft to document the electrical principles of the Audion. Armstrong published his explanation of the Audion in Electrical World in December 1914, complete with circuit diagrams and oscilloscope graphs. In March and April 1915, Armstrong spoke to the Institute of Radio Engineers in New York and Boston, respectively, presenting his paper "Some Recent Developments in the Audion Receiver", which was published in September. A combination of the two papers was reprinted in other journals such as the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. When Armstrong and De Forest later faced each other in a dispute over the regeneration patent, Armstrong was able to demonstrate conclusively that De Forest still had no idea how it worked.
The problem was that (possibly to distance his invention from the Fleming valve) De Forest's original patents specified that low-pressure gas inside the Audion was essential to its operation (Audion being a contraction of "Audio-Ion"), and in fact early Audions had severe reliability problems due to this gas being adsorbed by the metal electrodes. The Audions sometimes worked extremely well; at other times they would barely work at all.
As well as De Forest himself, numerous researchers had tried to find ways to improve the reliability of the device by stabilizing the partial vacuum. Much of the research that led to the development of true vacuum tubes was carried out by Irving Langmuir in the General Electric (GE) research laboratories.
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wit-train-topic-000000879
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCON_(music_festival)
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KCON (music festival)
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2015
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KCON (music festival) / History / 2015
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KCON is an annual Korean wave convention held in locations across the world, created by Koreaboo and organized by CJ E&M. It was first held in Southern California as KCON and has since expanded into eight countries as of 2018.
In 2015, KCON expanded to Japan and then quickly announced the first KCON USA in the East Coast. In 2016, KCON expanded into Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Paris, France. In January 2017, KCON announced that they would be hosting their first KCON Mexico at the Mexico City Arena on March 17 and 18, 2017.
An online replacement of KCON titled, KCON:TACT, is currently taking place and started on June 20 until June 26, 2020 via YouTube, AISPlay, and Shopee.
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wit-train-topic-000000880
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceragenia_bicornis
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Ceragenia bicornis
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Introduction
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Ceragenia bicornis
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Ceragenia bicornis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Fabricus in 1801.
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wit-train-topic-000000881
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2022_lunar_eclipse
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May 2022 lunar eclipse
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Saros series
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May 2022 lunar eclipse / Related eclipses / Saros series
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A total lunar eclipse will take place on 16 May 2022, the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2022, and the second will happen on 8 November.
The eclipse will be a dark one with the northern tip of the moon passing through the center of the Earth's shadow. This is the first central eclipse of shove Saros series 131.
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Lunar Saros series 131, has 72 lunar eclipses. Solar Saros 138 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.
This eclipse series began in AD 1427 with a partial eclipse at the southern edge of the Earth's shadow when the Moon was close to its descending node. Each successive Saros cycle, the Moon's orbital path is shifted northward with respect to the Earth's shadow, with the first total eclipse occurring in 1950. For the following 252 years, total eclipses occur, with the central eclipse being predicted to occur in 2078. The first partial eclipse after this is predicted to occur in the year 2220, and the final partial eclipse of the series will occur in 2707. The total lifetime of the lunar Saros series 131 is 1280 years. Solar Saros 138 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.
Because of the ⅓ fraction of days in a Saros cycle, the visibility of each eclipse will differ for an observer at a given fixed locale. For the lunar Saros series 131, the first total eclipse of 1950 had its best visibility for viewers in Eastern Europe and the Middle East because mid-eclipse was at 20:44 UT. The following eclipse in the series occurred approximately 8 hours later in the day with mid-eclipse at 4:47 UT, and was best seen from North America and South America. The third total eclipse occurred approximately 8 hours later in the day than the second eclipse with mid-eclipse at 12:43 UT, and had its best visibility for viewers in the Western Pacific, East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. This cycle of visibility repeats from the initiation to termination of the series, with minor variations. Solar Saros 138 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.
Lunar Saros series 131, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 72 lunar eclipse events including 57 umbral lunar eclipses (42 partial lunar eclipses and 15 total lunar eclipses). Solar Saros 138 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.
This is the first of the series that passes through the center of the Earth's shadow. The last occurrence was on May 2004 lunar eclipse. The next occurrence is May 2040 lunar eclipse.
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wit-train-topic-000000882
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Tokyo_Marathon
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2018 Tokyo Marathon
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Introduction
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2018 Tokyo Marathon
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The 2018 Tokyo Marathon (Japanese: 東京マラソン 2018) was the twelfth edition of the annual marathon race in Tokyo and was held on Sunday, 25 February. An IAAF Gold Label Road Race, it was the first World Marathon Majors event to be held that year. The men's race was won by Dickson Chumba in 2:05:30 hours while the women's race was won by Birhane Dibaba in 2:19:51. The men's runner-up Yuta Shitara set a Japanese national record time of 2:06:11 hours. This was also an Asian record. The host nation featured prominently in the men's race, with two runners in the top five and six of the top ten being Japanese. The Japanese women fared less well, with sixth-place Hiroko Yoshitomi being the best national performer (over ten minutes behind the winner).
Around 35,500 runners took part in the marathon races, with a further 500 taking part in a 10K run linked to the event. The public section of the race was oversubscribed 9 times over, with nearly 320,000 applications received. From an initial 35,911 starters, a total of 34,542 people finished the marathon distance, 7905 (23%) of which were women and 32 wheelchair racers. The event was broadcast live on television by Fuji TV and live radio commentary was provided by Nippon Broadcasting System. An exhibition about the race was held at Tokyo Big Sight in the three days proceeding the race.
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wit-train-topic-000000883
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Diks
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Isabelle Diks
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Introduction
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Isabelle Diks
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Lillian Isabella (Isabelle) Diks (Heerlen, 25 July 1965) is a Dutch GreenLeft politician. Between 1 September 2008 and 1 January 2009 she replaced Member of Parliament Mariko Peters as member of the House of Representatives. Peters was on maternity leave.
Diks attended a school specialized in arts between 1977 and 1983. She studied for a year at the Academy of Creative Art in Maastricht and continued to study at the Charles Montaigne Fashion Academy in Amsterdam between 1984 and 1986. Between 1987 and 1988, she worked as a stylist. After 1988, Diks worked as an independent designer of wedding dresses and evening gowns in Apeldoorn. In 2006, she left her business to move to Leeuwarden. Between 2002 and 2004, she studied cultural studies at the Open University (without graduating). From 2004, she studied International Relations at the University of Groningen, where she specialized in European cooperation, international law and European law. She has also owned and operated a bed and breakfast in Leeuwarden since 2006.
Diks had been active within GreenLeft since 1994, first in the municipal council of Apeldoorn, where she served as chair of the local parliamentary party and as member of the board of the regional water board, and later as member of the States-Provincial in Gelderland, where she served as vice-chair (2003–2006). Between 2006 and 2008, she was a member of the national board of GreenLeft, where she served as international secretary. In 2006, she stood on the list for the general election on the tenth place. She was not elected.
In August 2008, it was announced that Diks would temporarily replace Mariko Peters as MP. Between 1 September 2008 and 1 January 2009 Peters would be on maternity leave. The Dutch House of Representatives has a special regulation that MPs on maternity leave may be replaced temporarily without giving up their seats. Formally, Matthieu Heemelaar was the candidate to succeed Peters as he was higher on the list, but he relinquished the honour to Diks since she, a specialist on international affairs and the international secretary of the party, had the expertise to replace Peters, the foreign affairs spokesperson of the GreenLeft. On 1 January 2008 she became an alderwoman in Leeuwarden. She served once more in the House of Representatives between 23 March 2017 and 1 May 2020. Since 22 April 2020 she has been alderwoman in Groningen.
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wit-train-topic-000000884
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hefei_South_railway_station
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Hefei South railway station
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Introduction
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Hefei South railway station
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Hefeinan (South) railway station (Chinese: 合肥南站; pinyin: Héféinán Zhàn), also known as Hefei High-Speed railway station (Chinese: 合肥高铁站; pinyin: Héféi Gāotiě Zhàn), is located in Baohe, Hefei, Anhui, China.
Hefei South railway station is also a comprehensive transportation hub; passengers can interchange between high-speed long-distance trains, long-distance and local buses, taxi, etc. Hefei Metro Line 1 are located at or near the bottom of station complex Metro station. The formation of a centralized transfer center will see connections with the future Hefei Metro Lines 4 & 5.
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wit-train-topic-000000885
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daan_Roosegaarde
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Daan Roosegaarde
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Design works and projects
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Daan Roosegaarde / Design works and projects
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Daan Roosegaarde is a Dutch artist and founder of Studio Roosegaarde, which develops projects that merge technology and art in urban environments.
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Roosegaarde's projects often employ light and sensing technology in an interactive manner.
Icoon Afsluitdijk is an environmental art installation on a 32-kilometre dyke the Afsluitdijk as part of a government-sponsored renovation program of that structure. It comprises three features, called Gates of Light, Windvogel and Glowing Nature.
Gates of Light: Is an example of a futuristic and energy neutral landscape, and includes restored floodgates fitted with prisms that reflect light from vehicle headlights. If there are no cars, the structures don’t light up.
Windvogel: Smart kites that create green energy as they twist in the wind through a dynamo generator attached at the base. The string of the kites are luminous, so they glow in the dark.
Glowing Nature: Features live bioluminescent algae; single-celled organisms that emit light when touched. They can offer inspiration for light or energy solutions for the future.
Smog Free Project uses a 7-metre (23 ft) smog tower to filter pollution—processing 30,000 cubic metres per hour (39,000 cuyd/h) of air, using 1,400 Watts of power—and collect the impurities to be converted into jewelry. A related concept mounts filters on bicycles to collect air impurities, as each bicycle travels. The studio promotes these project elements as Smog Free Tower, Smog Free Jewelry and Smog Free Bicycle, respectively.
Intimacy was a project to design garments that reacted to changes in heat produced by people present or from the environment by changing the opacity of their "e-foil" material, based on sensor input. The e-foil material was produced in black and white versions.
Beyond is a 121-metre (397 ft) long lenticular print of cloud images, back-lit by LED lamps at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, which gives the illusion of depth into the image.
Rainbow Station is a lighting project, in collaboration with Leiden University, which illuminates the 125-year-old Amsterdam Central Station.
Smart Highway is a collaboration with the Heijmans infrastructure group to use light, energy and information that interacts with traffic on roadways. It includes the Van Gogh Path—a 600-metre (2,000 ft) cycle path between Nuenen and Eindhoven, which uses embedded lights that twinkle to evoke Vincent Van Gogh's painting, The Starry Night.
Lotus 7.0 is an interactive wall lighting project, premiered in Paris.
The work from his Studio Roosegaarde has been exhibited at the Rijksmuseum, Tate Modern, Tokyo National Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Design Museum in London. Roosegaarde won the London Design Innovation medal in 2016.
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wit-train-topic-000000886
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAFTA_Fellowship
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BAFTA Fellowship
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Recipients
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BAFTA Fellowship / Recipients
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The BAFTA Fellowship, or the Academy Fellowship, is a lifetime achievement award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in recognition of "outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image". The award is the highest honour the Academy can bestow, and has been awarded annually since 1971. Fellowship recipients have mainly been film directors, but some have been awarded to actors, film and television producers, cinematographers, film editors, screenwriters and contributors to the video game industry. In 2002, Merchant Ivory Productions became the first organisation to win the award. People from the United Kingdom dominate the list, but it includes over a dozen U.S. citizens and several from other countries in Europe, though none of the latter have been recognized since 1996. In 2010, Shigeru Miyamoto became the first citizen of an Asian country to receive the award.
The inaugural recipient of the award was the filmmaker and producer Alfred Hitchcock. The award has been made posthumously to the comedy pair Morecambe and Wise, in 1999, and to Stanley Kubrick, who died that year and was made a fellow in 2000.
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wit-train-topic-000000887
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont%C3%A9gut,_Gers
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Montégut, Gers
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Introduction
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Montégut, Gers
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Montégut is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.
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wit-train-topic-000000888
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongsberg_Colt
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Kongsberg Colt
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Production
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Kongsberg Colt / Production
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The Kongsberg Colt is a nickname used for Colt M1911 pistols produced under license by the Norwegian factory Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk.
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As production start was slow, some Model 1911s were bought from Colt USA. Four hundred pistols were shipped to Norway for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1915, 300 more pistols were shipped in 1917 for the Norwegian Army. Price was US$18.50 per piece.
The first test production at Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk in Norway occurred in 1917 and 95 pistols were finished and wrongly stamped "COLT AUT. PISTOL M/1912". These pistols were identical to the Colt M1911 except for a minor detail on the hammer checkering. 100 pistols were ordered, but 5 were rejected during production. The serial range was from 1 to 95. Number 2 was stolen from Norwegian Armed Forces Museum in 1978.
Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk was ready to start mass production in 1918. One significant change was now made. The slide-stop was extended down and back to make it easier to operate. This change required a cut-out in the left stock. This change had been suggested in 1916, but did not materialize on the production pistols before in 1918. The new version had the left side of the slide stamped "11.25 m/m AUT. PISTOL M/1914.", which was correct as the adoption of the gun was approved in 1914. Most of the pistols that had been marked "1912" were recalled to the factory to have the "new" slide stop installed.
Production went on, and 22,311 pieces were made before 1940, including the 1917 test-run).
During the German occupation of Norway (1940–1945), manufacture of the pistol, given the designation Pistole 657(n), was continued under German control. The Waffenamt acceptance mark (WaA84) was added in 1945 and only those 920 pistols produced that year were ever Waffenamt-marked. It is not likely that any of these Waffenamt-marked pistols ever saw any action during World War II as the first one, serial# 29615, was delivered March 29, 1945 and the last one, serial# 30534, was delivered on 5 May 1945 just before liberation of Norway. In total, approximately 8200 pistols were made during German occupation (serials 22312-30534). All of them were delivered to AOK Norwegen (Army) except 700 that were delivered to Maza Norwegen (Navy).
Occupation production:
1940 = approx. 50 pistols
1941 = approx. 4099 pistols
1942 = 3154 pistols
1945 = 920 pistols
No pistols were produced in 1943 and 1944. In those years, production of Krag-Jørgensen rifles was prioritized.
A further 2,319 pistols were assembled from existing parts after the war until production was halted at serial number 32854 in 1948. Twenty additional pistols were assembled from foreign-produced parts in 1987 as collector's pieces for the US market. A US dealer supplied commercial frames, slides and barrels as well as other parts that were assembled at Kongsberg. Previous markings were removed and Kongsberg markings and serials were engraved on the parts before the assembled pistols were returned to the US.
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wit-train-topic-000000889
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosham_railway_station
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Cosham railway station
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Gallery
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Cosham railway station / Gallery
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Cosham railway station serves Cosham, a northern suburb of the city of Portsmouth, Hampshire in southern England. It is 90 miles 6 chains from London Waterloo.
Opened in 1848 by the London and South Western Railway, it is located on the West Coastway Line which runs between Brighton and Southampton. It is currently served by the South Western Railway, Southern, and Great Western Railway train operating companies.
The station used to have a small goods yard which served local freight trains around Portsmouth. Today all that remains is an old loading gauge, with the original site being built upon.
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wit-train-topic-000000890
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigartinaceae
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Gigartinaceae
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Introduction
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Gigartinaceae
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Gigartinaceae is a red algae family in the order Gigartinales.
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wit-train-topic-000000891
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_Southwestern_Medical_Center
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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School of Health Professions
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Academics / School of Health Professions
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The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is a public academic health science center in Dallas, Texas. With approximately 13,568 employees and 2,445 faculty and over 2.7 million outpatient visits per year, UT Southwestern is the largest medical school in the University of Texas System and state of Texas.
UTSW's operating budget in 2019 was more than $3.152 billion, and is the largest medical institution in the Dallas Metroplex, annually training about 3,700 medical, graduate, and health professions students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows. Ongoing support from outside sources provides approximately $422.6 million per year for more than 5,700 research projects. In 2017, the school had the largest federal expenditure funding of all UT medical institutions at $204.5 million.
UTSW's three-part mission is to: educate leaders in patient care, biomedical science, and disease prevention; conduct research; and deliver patient care. It incorporates three major degree-granting institutions – UT Southwestern Medical School, UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and UT Southwestern School of Health Professions.
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About 340 students are enrolled in UT Southwestern's School of Health Professions. The school confers a doctoral professional degree in Physical Therapy and master's degrees in Clinical Nutrition, Physician Assistant Studies, Prosthetics-Orthotics, and Rehabilitation Counseling. The school also has a baccalaureate certificate program in Radiation Therapy.
The Physician Assistant program was founded in 1972. For the past five years, graduates have had a 100 percent first-time pass rate on the national certifying exam. Much of the training occurs at Parkland Hospital.
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wit-train-topic-000000892
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Franklin_County,_Vermont
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Vermont
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Current listings
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Vermont / Current listings
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Vermont.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Vermont, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
There are 62 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted July 31, 2020.
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wit-train-topic-000000893
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Jeanne
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Jonathan Jeanne
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Introduction
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Jonathan Jeanne
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Jonathan Josue Jeanne (born July 3, 1997) is a French basketball player for Iberojet Palma of the LEB Oro. He was considered as a possible 2017 NBA Draft first round pick, before being diagnosed with Marfan syndrome. He went undrafted that year because of the sudden development. Jeanne stands 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in) tall and plays power forward and center.
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wit-train-topic-000000894
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_constant
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Mathematical constant
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Simple representatives of sets of numbers
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Mathematical constant / Mathematical curiosities and unspecified constants / Simple representatives of sets of numbers
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A mathematical constant is a key number whose value is fixed by an unambiguous definition, often referred to by a symbol, or by mathematicians' names to facilitate using it across multiple mathematical problems. Constants arise in many areas of mathematics, with constants such as e and π occurring in such diverse contexts as geometry, number theory, and calculus.
What it means for a constant to arise "naturally", and what makes a constant "interesting", is ultimately a matter of taste, just as some mathematical constants are notable more for historical reasons—than for their intrinsic mathematical interest. The more popular constants have been studied throughout the ages and computed to many decimal places.
All named mathematical constants are definable numbers, and usually are also computable numbers.
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Some constants, such as the square root of 2, Liouville's constant and Champernowne constant:
are not important mathematical invariants but retain interest being simple representatives of special sets of numbers, the irrational numbers, the transcendental numbers and the normal numbers (in base 10) respectively. The discovery of the irrational numbers is usually attributed to the Pythagorean Hippasus of Metapontum who proved, most likely geometrically, the irrationality of the square root of 2. As for Liouville's constant, named after French mathematician Joseph Liouville, it was the first number to be proven transcendental.
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wit-train-topic-000000895
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnan
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Yunnan
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Climate
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Yunnan / Geography / Climate
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Yunnan is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres and has a population of 48.300 million. The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan, autonomous regions of Guangxi, and Tibet as well as Southeast Asian countries: Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar. Yunnan is China's fourth least developed province based on disposable income per capita in 2014.
Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys by as much as 3,000 metres. Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc and tin are the largest in China, and there are also major reserves of copper and nickel.
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Yunnan has a generally mild climate with pleasant and fair weather because of the province's location on south-facing mountain slopes, receiving the influence of both the Pacific and Indian oceans, and although the growing period is long, the rugged terrain provides little arable land. See Agriculture in Yunnan. Under the Köppen climate classification, much of the province lies within the subtropical highland (Köppen Cwb) or humid subtropical zone (Cwa), with mild to warm winters, and temperate summers, except in the almost tropical to truly tropical south, where temperatures regularly exceed 30 °C (86 °F) in the warmer half of the year. In general, January average temperatures range from 8 to 17 °C (46 to 63 °F); July averages vary from 21 to 27 °C (70 to 81 °F). Average annual rainfall ranges from 600 to 2,300 millimetres (24 to 91 in), with over half the rain occurring between June and August. The plateau region has moderate temperatures. The western canyon region is hot at the valley bottoms, but there are freezing winds at the mountaintops.
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wit-train-topic-000000896
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sclavis
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Louis Sclavis
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Introduction
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Louis Sclavis
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Louis Sclavis (born 2 February 1953) is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including jazz and free jazz.
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wit-train-topic-000000897
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetness
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Sweetness
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The sweetness receptor
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Sweetness / The sweetness receptor
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Sweetness is a basic taste most commonly perceived when eating foods rich in sugars. Sweet tastes are generally regarded as pleasurable, except when in excess. In addition to sugars like sucrose, many other chemical compounds are sweet, including aldehydes, ketones, and sugar alcohols. Some are sweet at very low concentrations, allowing their use as non-caloric sugar substitutes. Such non-sugar sweeteners include saccharin and aspartame. Other compounds, such as miraculin, may alter perception of sweetness itself.
The perceived intensity of sugars and high-potency sweeteners, such as aspartame and neohesperidin dihydrochalcone, are heritable, with gene effect accounting for approximately 30% of the variation.
The chemosensory basis for detecting sweetness, which varies between both individuals and species, has only begun to be understood since the late 20th century. One theoretical model of sweetness is the multipoint attachment theory, which involves multiple binding sites between a sweetness receptor and a sweet substance.
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Despite the wide variety of chemical substances known to be sweet, and knowledge that the ability to perceive sweet taste must reside in taste buds on the tongue, the biomolecular mechanism of sweet taste was sufficiently elusive that as recently as the 1990s, there was some doubt whether any single "sweetness receptor" actually exists.
The breakthrough for the present understanding of sweetness occurred in 2001, when experiments with laboratory mice showed that mice possessing different versions of the gene T1R3 prefer sweet foods to different extents. Subsequent research has shown that the T1R3 protein forms a complex with a related protein, called T1R2, to form a G-protein coupled receptor that is the sweetness receptor in mammals.
Human studies have shown that sweet taste receptors are not only found in the tongue, but also in the lining of the gastrointestinal tract as well as the nasal epithelium, pancreatic islet cells, sperm and testes. It is proposed that the presence of sweet taste receptors in the GI tract controls the feeling of hunger and satiety.
Another research has shown that the threshold of sweet taste perception is in direct correlation with the time of day. This is believed to be the consequence of oscillating leptin levels in blood that may impact the overall sweetness of food. Scientists hypothesize that this is an evolutionary relict of diurnal animals like humans.
Sweetness perception may differ between species significantly. For example, even amongst the primates sweetness is quite variable. New World monkeys do not find aspartame sweet, while Old World monkeys and apes (including most humans) all do. Felids like domestic cats cannot perceive sweetness at all.
The ability to taste sweetness often atrophies genetically in species of carnivores who do not eat sweet foods like fruits, including bottlenose dolphins, sea lions, spotted hyenas and fossas.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000898
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Raoux
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Jean Raoux
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Gallery
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Jean Raoux / Gallery
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Jean Raoux, French painter, was born at Montpellier.
After the usual course of training he became a member of the Academy in 1717 as an historical painter. His reputation had been previously established by the acclaimed decorations executed during his three years in Italy on the palace of Giustiniani Solini in Venice, and by some easel paintings, the Four Ages of Man, commissioned by the grand prior of Vendôme. To this latter class of subject Raoux devoted himself, refusing to paint portraits except in character. Th
e list of his works is a long series of sets of the Seasons, of the Hours, of the Elements, or of those scenes of amusement and gallantry in the representation of which he was immeasurably surpassed by his younger rival Watteau. After his stay in England he lived much in the Temple, where he decorated several rooms. He died in Paris in 1734. His best pupils were Chevalier and Montdidier. His works were much engraved by Poilly, Moyreau, Dupuis, etc.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000899
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_engineering_vehicle
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Military engineering vehicle
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Tank-based combat engineering vehicles
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Military engineering vehicle / Tank-based combat engineering vehicles
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A military engineering vehicle is a vehicle built for the construction work or for the transportation of combat engineers on the battlefield. These vehicles may be modified civilian equipment or purpose-built military vehicles. The first appearance of such vehicles coincided with the appearance of the first tanks, these vehicles were modified Mark V tanks for bridging and mine clearance. Modern military engineering vehicles are expected to fulfil numerous roles, as such they undertake numerous forms, examples of roles include; Bulldozers, cranes, graders, excavators, dump trucks, Breaching vehicles, Bridging vehicles, Military ferries, amphibious crossing vehicles, and Combat Engineer Section Carriers.
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Most CEVs are armoured fighting vehicles that may be based on a tank chassis and have special attachments in order to breach obstacles. Such attachments may include dozer blades, mine rollers, cranes etc. An example of an engineering vehicle of this kind is a bridgelaying tank, which replaces the turret with a segmented hydraulic bridge. The Hobart's Funnies of the Second World War were a wide variety of armoured vehicles for combat engineering tasks. They were allocated to the initial beachhead assaults by the British and Commonwealth forces in the D-Day landings
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000900
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Pacific_typhoon_season
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2001 Pacific typhoon season
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Typhoon Haiyan (Maring)
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2001 Pacific typhoon season / Systems / Typhoon Haiyan (Maring)
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The 2001 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 2001, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between May and November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 2001 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin are assigned a name by the Tokyo Typhoon Center. Tropical depressions in this basin have the "W" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names.
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Tropical Depression 25W formed over the Philippine Sea on October 11. The PAGASA named it as Maring 3 hours later. Maring steadily moved northwards due to an intensifying high-pressure area moving southwestwards, as the JTWC upgraded it to a tropical storm on October 13. In the same time, Maring became Tropical Storm Haiyan. The next day, the three agencies, upgraded it to a typhoon. Typhoon Haiyan reached peak intensity as a category 2 on October 15, without furthering intensifying to a category 3. As the high-pressure moved westwards, Haiyan rapidly weakened to a minimal typhoon and moved westwards too, affecting Taiwan. Haiyan finally dissipated on October 18.
Throughout Japan and the Ryukyu Islands, two people were killed by the typhoon and another was injured. Damage from the storm amounted to 296.024 million yen (US$3.4 million).
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000901
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisian_campaign
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Tunisian campaign
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Operation Ochsenkopf
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Tunisian campaign / Northern sector / Operation Ochsenkopf
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The Tunisian campaign was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied forces. The Allies consisted of British Imperial Forces, including a Greek contingent, with American and French corps. The battle opened with initial success by the German and Italian forces but the massive supply interdiction efforts led to the decisive defeat of the Axis. Over 250,000 German and Italian troops were taken as prisoners of war, including most of the Afrika Korps.
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The main offensive, Ochsenkopf led to fierce fighting - Kampfgruppe Lang attacking in the northern sector were held up by a small force of artillery and a battalion of the Hampshire Regiment for a whole day at Sidi Nsir and Hampshire Farm before they could be overcome. This delay was critical and as a result the British force was able to prepare a significant killing field at Hunts Gap (an area between Medjez and about 24 km (15 mi) north-east of Béja). In the Southern attack Kampfgruppe Audorff made some progress west toward Medjez el Bab but a British ad hoc force, Y Division was able to repel the Southern attack; particularly after two Churchill tanks shot up an entire German transport column at a place called 'Steamroller' Farm. The final attack by Lang's battered force was stopped at Hunt's Gap by the 128th Infantry Brigade of the 46th Infantry Division with substantial artillery, RAF air cover and two squadrons of Churchill tanks from the North Irish Horse under command.
Fighting lasted until 5 March and in terrible weather conditions the operation was called off by Arnim. The failure had cost the Axis grievous losses in infantry as well as tanks, particularly the loss of many of the heavy Tiger Tanks. Ochsenkopf was to be the last major Axis offensive by the 5th Panzer Army. On 25 March, Alexander ordered a counter-attack on the V Corps front and on 28 March, Anderson attacked with the 46th Infantry Division, with the 138th Infantry Brigade, 128th Infantry Brigade in reserve and reinforced by the 36th Infantry Brigade, 1st Parachute Brigade and French units including a tabor of specialist mountain Goumiers, the artillery of two divisions plus more from army resources. In four days, it succeeded in recapturing all lost ground and took 850 German and Italian prisoners. On 7 April, Anderson tasked the 78th Infantry Division with clearing the Béja-Medjez road. Supported by artillery and close air support, they methodically advanced 16 km (10 mi) through difficult mountain terrain over the next ten days, clearing a front 16 km (10 mi) wide. The 4th Infantry Division joined the fighting, taking position on the left of the 78th Division and pushing toward Sidi Nsir.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000902
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_%C5%A0iroki
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Tin Široki
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Introduction
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Tin Široki
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Tin Široki (born 29 April 1987) is a Croatian alpine skier. He competed in the men's combined at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000903
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanocortin_1_receptor
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Melanocortin 1 receptor
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Some roles in development
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Melanocortin 1 receptor / Functions / Some roles in development
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The melanocortin 1 receptor, also known as melanocyte-stimulating hormone receptor, melanin-activating peptide receptor, or melanotropin receptor, is a G protein–coupled receptor that binds to a class of pituitary peptide hormones known as the melanocortins, which include adrenocorticotropic hormone and the different forms of melanocyte-stimulating hormone.
MC1R is one of the key proteins involved in regulating mammalian skin and hair color. It is located on the plasma membrane of specialized cells known as melanocytes, which produce the pigment melanin through the process of melanogenesis. It works by controlling the type of melanin being produced, and its activation causes the melanocyte to switch from generating the yellow or red phaeomelanin by default to the brown or black eumelanin in replacement.
MC1R has also been reported to be involved in cancer, developmental processes, and susceptibility to infections and pain.
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Since G protein–coupled receptors are known to activate Signal transduction in cells, it should not be surprising to find MC1R involved in development. As one example at the cellular level, preventing signalling by MC1R stopped erythropoiesis from proceeding from the polychromatic cell stage (poly-E in the figure) to the orthochromatic cell stage (ortho-E in the diagram). The same report showed that neutralizing antibodies to MC1R prevented phosphorylation of STAT5 by erythropoietin, and that MC2R and MC5R were also involved, as shown in their model.
One example at the tissue level showed the involvement of MC1R in the normal and pathological development of articular cartilage in the mouse knee. In this study the authors compared normal mice with mice completely lacking MC1R. Even without experimental induction of osteoarthritis, mice without MC1R had less articular cartilage (as shown by the red staining in the image). After experimental induction of osteoarthritis, the defect caused by MC1R was more pronounced.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000904
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martins_Creek_railway_station
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Martins Creek railway station
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Introduction
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Martins Creek railway station
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Martins Creek railway station is located on the Hunter Line in New South Wales, Australia opening on 14 August 1911. It serves the town of Martins Creek. It is served by NSW TrainLink Hunter line services travelling between Newcastle and Dungog.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000905
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain,_Quebec
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Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain, Quebec
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Introduction
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Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain, Quebec
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Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain is a municipality of 516 people in the Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. It is the smallest municipality in terms of population in the regional county.
Before September 4, 2010, it was known simply as Saint-Prosper.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000906
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_%C8%98aguna
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Andrei Șaguna
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Introduction
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Andrei Șaguna
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Andrei Șaguna ([anˈdrej ʃaˈɡuna]; 20 January 1809, Miskolc, Hungary – 28 June 1873, Nagyszeben, Hungary) was a Metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Transylvania, and one of the Romanian community political leaders in the Habsburg Monarchy, especially active during the 1848 Revolution. He was an honorary member of the Romanian Academy.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000907
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morterone
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Morterone
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Introduction
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Morterone
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Morterone (Valassinese Lombard: Murterun) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) northeast of Milan and about 7 kilometres (4 mi) northeast of Lecco. For its population of 33 persons, it was considered the smallest of any comune (municipality) in Italy – in an area of 13.8 square kilometres (5.3 sq mi). For this record is competing with the comune (municipality) of Pedesina, that in the past years had even fewer inhabitants.
In 2016 Morterone with its 32 residents became again the smallest Italian comune.
Morterone borders the following municipalities: Ballabio, Brumano, Cassina Valsassina, Cremeno, Lecco, Moggio, Vedeseta.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000908
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckwheat
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Buckwheat
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Culinary use
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Buckwheat / Culinary use
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Buckwheat, or common buckwheat, is a plant cultivated for its grain-like seeds and as a cover crop. The name "buckwheat" is also used for a number of other species. A related and bitterer species, Fagopyrum tataricum, is a domesticated food plant raised in Asia. Despite the name, buckwheat is not related to wheat, as it is not a grass. Instead, buckwheat is related to sorrel, knotweed, and rhubarb. Buckwheat is referred to as a pseudocereal because its seeds' culinary use is the same as cereals', owing to their composition of complex carbohydrates.
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The fruit is an achene, similar to sunflower seed, with a single seed inside a hard outer hull. The starchy endosperm is white and makes up most or all of buckwheat flour. The seed coat is green or tan, which darkens buckwheat flour. The hull is dark brown or black, and some may be included in buckwheat flour as dark specks. The dark flour is known as blé noir (black wheat) in French, along with the name sarrasin (saracen). The grain can be prepared by simple dehulling, milling into farina, to whole-grain flour or to white flour. The grain can be fractionated into starch, germ and hull for specialized uses.
Buckwheat noodles have been eaten in Tibet and northern China for centuries, where the growing season is too short to raise wheat. A wooden press is used to press the dough into hot boiling water when making buckwheat noodles. Old presses found in Tibet and Shanxi share the same basic design features. The Japanese and Koreans may have learned the making of buckwheat noodles from them.
Buckwheat noodles play a major role in the cuisines of Japan (soba) and Korea (naengmyeon, makguksu and memil guksu). Soba noodles are the subject of deep cultural importance in Japan. The difficulty of making noodles from flour with no gluten has resulted in a traditional art developed around their manufacture by hand.
Noodles also appear in Italy, with pasta di grano saraceno in Apulia region of Southern Italy and pizzoccheri in the Valtellina region of Northern Italy.
Buckwheat groats are commonly used in western Asia and eastern Europe. The porridge was common, and is often considered the definitive peasant dish. It is made from roasted groats that are cooked with broth to a texture similar to rice or bulgur. The dish was taken to America by Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish immigrants who called it kasha, and they mixed it with pasta or used it as a filling for cabbage rolls (stuffed cabbage), knishes, and blintzes; buckwheat prepared in this fashion is thus most commonly called kasha in America. Groats were the most widely used form of buckwheat worldwide during the 20th century, eaten primarily in Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland, called grechka in Ukrainian or Russian.
Porridge was also traditionally made from farina, Cream of buckwheat in the US and polenta taragna in Italy, or flour, called dhindo in Nepal.
Buckwheat pancakes are eaten in several countries. They are known as buckwheat blinis in Russia, galettes bretonnes in France, ployes in Acadia, poffertjes in the Netherlands, boûketes in the Wallonia region of Belgium, kuttu ki puri in India and kachhyambain Nepal. Similar pancakes were a common food in American pioneer days. They are light and foamy. The buckwheat flour gives the pancakes an earthy, mildly mushroom-like taste.
Yeasted patties called hrechanyky are made in Ukraine.
A jelly called memilmuk in Korea is made from buckwheat starch
Buckwheat is a permitted sustenance during fasting in several traditions. In India, on Hindu fasting days (Navaratri, Ekadashi, Janmashtami, Maha Shivaratri, etc.), fasting people in northern states of India eat foods made of buckwheat flour. Eating cereals such as wheat or rice is prohibited during such fasting days. While strict Hindus do not even drink water during their fast, others give up cereals and salt and instead eat non-cereal foods such as buckwheat (kuttu). In the Russian Orthodox tradition, it is eaten on the St. Philip fast.
Buckwheat honey is dark, strong and aromatic. Because it does not complement other honeys, it is normally produced as a monofloral honey.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000909
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross-Basenach
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Gross-Basenach
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M III
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Gross-Basenach / M III
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Gross-Basenach or Groß-Basenach is the designation for a series of five so-called M-class German military semi-rigid airships constructed by balloonist Nikolaus Basenach and Major Hans Georg Friedrich Groß of the Royal Prussian Airship Battalion Nr 2 between 1907 and 1914.
They produced one experimental and four military Groß-Basenach types, rebuilding each one several times. In all they were not as successful as Major Groß wished. He was one of the sharpest critics of the Zeppelin airships, but the overall superiority and popularity of the Zeppelins doomed his own airships. Even his more successful competitors, Parseval and Schütte-Lanz, could not compete with Zeppelin after the war's end.
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M III was built in 1909 and first flew on 31 December 1909
Volume: 7,800 m³
Länge: 81.5 metres
enlarged in 1912 to 9,000 m³ and a length of 83.3 metre
Propulsion: two Körting-engines each 75 HP
Maximum speed: 59 kilometres per hour (37 mph); after rebuild: 68 kilometres per hour (42 mph)
M III was the fastest airship of its time.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000910
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardsville,_Alabama
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Edwardsville, Alabama
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Gallery
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Edwardsville, Alabama / Gallery
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Edwardsville is a town in Cleburne County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 202. From 1867 to 1906, it served as the Cleburne County Seat. In 1880 and 1890, it was the most populous community in the county. It reached its population zenith of 448 in 1900 when it fell behind Heflin, to which it also lost the county seat to six years later. It has not had more than 226 persons since 1920.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000911
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopua_Petoa
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Alopua Petoa
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Introduction
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Alopua Petoa
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Alopua Petoa (born 24 January 1990 in Nauru) is a footballer who plays as a striker for Tuvaluan club FC Nanumaga. He is also a member of the Tuvalu national football team where he is also the all-time top scorer with 9 goals.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000912
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A74(M)_and_M74_motorways
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A74(M) and M74 motorways
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Junctions
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A74(M) and M74 motorways / Junctions
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The A74(M) and M74 form a major motorway in the United Kingdom, mainly in Scotland, with a short section in England. Following an extension opened on 28 June 2011, they connect the M8 motorway west of Glasgow to the Scottish-English border at Gretna, creating a route from the south to the west of the city. In conjunction with the M6 motorway, they form one of the three major cross-border routes between Scotland and England. They are part of the unsigned international E-road network E05. Although the entire route is usually referred to as the M74, more than half of its length is officially the A74(M); see naming confusion below.
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wit-train-topic-000000913
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keddie_Wye
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Keddie Wye
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Railfanning
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Keddie Wye / Railfanning
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The Keddie Wye is a railroad junction in the form of a wye on the Union Pacific Railroad in Plumas County, California, United States. Located at the town of Keddie, it joins the east-west Feather River Route with the "Inside Gateway" north to Bieber. The west and north legs of the wye are on bridges over Spanish Creek, and the southeast leg runs through a tunnel. Just to the northwest, where the two bridged legs join, is Tunnel No. 31.
The wye and the town are named for Arthur Keddie, who purchased the survey rights and the right to build a railroad through the Feather River Canyon from George Jay Gould I, the son of Jay Gould.
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The Keddie Wye is a favorite railfan spot and is part of Plumas County's 7 Wonders of the Railroad World. Access to the site is described in the county travel guide.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000914
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_Heaven
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Bicycle Heaven
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Bowden Spacelanders
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Bicycle Heaven / Exhibits / Bowden Spacelanders
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Bicycle Heaven is the largest transportation museum in the world dedicated to bicycles. The museum was founded by Craig Morrow and comprises his personal collection gathered over decades. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The museum is an active collection. The 650m² show room contains over 3,500 bicycles with an additional 27,000 in storage. There are over 100,000 parts to keep the collection in repair.
Bicycle Heaven maintains free entry by serving as a bike shop and consulting as prop agents for film, television and theatrical productions. After filming the bicycles are returned and become part of the permanent collection.
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Benjamin Bowden, a British industrial designer, designed a space-age fiberglass bicycle in 1946. Bowden named the design the Spacelander; it entered production in 1960 and sold for $89.50. Only 522 Spacelander bicycles were made in the original run. By the 1990s only a few dozen were estimated to have survived. Morrow collected 17 of the proposed 38 left in the world. The Bowden Spacelanders are some rarest bicycles in the museum. Given their scarcity and good condition, they are valued over $50,000 each.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000915
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turntablism
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Turntablism
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Hip-Hop
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Turntablism / History / Hip-Hop
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Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating new music, sound effects, mixes and other creative sounds and beats, typically by using two or more turntables and a cross fader-equipped DJ mixer. The mixer is plugged into a PA system for live events and/or broadcasting equipment so that a wider audience can hear the turntablist's music. Turntablists manipulate records on a turntable by moving the record with their hand to cue the stylus to exact points on a record, and by touching or moving the platter or record to stop, slow down, speed up or, spin the record backwards, or moving the turntable platter back and forth, all while using a DJ mixer's crossfader control and the mixer's gain and equalization controls to adjust the sound and level of each turntable. Turntablists typically use two or more turntables and headphones to cue up desired start points on different records.
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Turntablism as a modern art form and musical practice has its roots within African-American inner city Hip-Hop and Hip-Hop culture of the late 1970s. Kool Herc (a Jamaican DJ who immigrated to New York City), Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash are widely credited for having cemented the now established role of DJ as hip hop's foremost instrumentalist. Kool Herc's invention of break-beat DJing is generally regarded as the foundational development in hip hop history, as it gave rise to all other elements of the genre. His influence on the concept of "DJ as turntablist" is equally profound.
To understand the significance of this achievement, it is important to first define the "break." Briefly, the "break" of a song is a musical fragment only seconds in length, which typically takes the form of an "interlude" in which all or most of the music stops except for the percussion. Kool Herc introduced the break-beat technique as a way of extending the break indefinitely. This is done by buying two of the same record, finding the break on each record, and switching from one to the other using the DJ mixer: e.g., as record A plays, the DJ quickly backtracks to the same break on record B, which will again take the place of A at a specific moment where the audience will not notice that the DJ has switched records. Using that idea, Grandmaster Flash elaborated on Kool Herc's invention of break-beat DJing and came up with the quick-mix theory, in which Flash sectioned off a part of the record like a clock. He described it as being "...like cutting, the backspin, and the double-back."
Kool Herc's revolutionary techniques set the course for the development of turntablism as an art form in significant ways. Most important, however, he developed a new form of DJing that did not consist of just playing and mixing records one after the other. The type of DJ that specializes in mixing a set is well respected for his/her own set of unique skills, but playlist mixing is still DJing in the traditional sense. Kool Herc instead originated the idea of creating a sequence for his own purposes, introducing the idea of the DJ as the "feature" of parties, whose performance on any given night would be different than on another night, because the music would be created by the DJ, mixing a bassline from one song with a beat from another song. The DJ would be examined critically by the crowd on both a technical and entertainment level.
Grand Wizzard Theodore, an apprentice of Flash, who accidentally isolated the most recognizable technique of turntablism: scratching. He put his hand on a record one day, to silence the music on the turntable while his mother was calling out to him and thus accidentally discovered the sound of scratching by moving the record back and forth under the stylus. Though Theodore discovered scratching, it was Flash who helped push the early concept and showcase it to the public, in his live shows and on recordings. DJ Grand Mixer DXT is also credited with furthering the concept of scratching by practicing the rhythmic scratching of a record on one or more turntables (often two), using different velocities to alter the pitch of the note or sound on the recording (Alberts 2002). DXT appeared (as DST) on Herbie Hancock's hit song "Rockit." These early pioneers cemented the fundamental practice that would later become the emerging turntablist art form. Scratching would during the 1980s become a staple of hip hop music, being used by producers and DJs on records and in live shows. By the end of the 1980s it was very common to hear scratching on a record, generally as part of the chorus of a track or within its production.
On stage the DJ would provide the music for the MCs to rhyme and rap to, scratching records during the performance and showcasing his or her skills alongside the verbal skills of the MC. The most well known example of this 'equation' of MCs and DJ is probably Run-D.M.C. who were composed of two MCs and one DJ. The DJ, Jam Master Jay, was an integral part of the group since his turntablism was critical to Run DMC's
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000916
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_Romania
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Early Modern Romania
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Background
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Early Modern Romania / Background
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The Early Modern Times in Romania started after the death of Michael the Brave, who ruled in a personal union, Wallachia, Transylvania, and Moldavia – three principalities in the lands that now form Romania – for three months, in 1600. The three principalities were subjected to the Ottoman Empire, and paid a yearly tribute to the Ottoman Sultans, but they preserved their internal autonomy. In contrast, Dobruja and the Banat were fully incorporated into the Ottoman Empire.
The Orthodox princes of Wallachia and Moldavia ruled their realms with absolute power, but the boyars took control of state administration in the 1660s and 1670s. The growing influence of Greeks caused bitter conflicts in both principalities. Due to extensive taxation, the peasants often rebelled against their lords. The long reign of Matthew Basarab in Wallachia and of Vasile Lupu in Moldavia contributed to the development of local economy. Most princes of Wallachia and Moldavia also paid tribute to the princes of Transylvania.
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The lands that now form Romania were divided among various polities in the Middle Ages. Banat, Crişana, Maramureş and Transylvania were integrated into the Kingdom of Hungary. Wallachia and Moldavia developed into independent principalities in the 14th century. Dobruja emerged as an autonomous realm after the disintegration of Bulgaria in the 1340s.
In accordance with the Byzantine political traditions, the princes of Wallachia and Moldavia were autocrats who ruled with absolute power. Any male member of the royal families could be elected prince, which caused internal strives, giving pretext to the neighboring powers for intervention. Most princes of Wallachia accepted the suzerainty of the Kings of Hungary; the Moldavian monarchs preferred to yield to the kings of Poland. Royal councils – which consisted of the logofăt, the vornic, and other high officials – assisted the monarchs, but the princes could also discuss the most important matters at the assembly of the Orthodox clergy, the boyars and the army. The Orthodox Church, especially the monasteries, held extensive domains in both principalities. The boyars were landowners who enjoyed administrative and judicial immunities. A group of free peasants (known as răzeşi in Wallachia and moşneni in Moldavia) existed in each principality, but the princes' most subjects were serfs – the rumâni in Wallachia, and the vecini in Moldavia – who paid tithes or provided specific services to their lords. Gypsy slaves also played an eminent role in the economy, especially as black-smiths, basket-makers, and goldwashers.
The Kingdom of Hungary were divided into counties. The heads of most counties were directly subordinated to the sovereign, with the exception of the seven Transylvanian counties which were under the authority of a higher royal official, the voivode. Assemblies of noblemen were the most important administrative bodies in the counties; in Transylvania, the voivodes held joint assemblies. In theory, all noblemen enjoyed the same privileges, for instance, they were exempted of taxes. However, the so-called conditional nobles – including the Romanian cneazes and the nobles of the Church – did not have the same liberties: they paid taxes or rendered specific services either to the monarch or to their lords. The Transylvanian Saxons, whose territories were divided into seats, formed an autonomous community which remained independent of the authority of the voivodes. The Hungarian-speaking Székelys, who lived in the easternmost part of Transylvania, were also organized into seats. On 16 September 1437 the Transylvanian noblemen and the heads of the Saxon and Székely communities concluded an alliance – the Union of the Three Nations – against the Hungarian and Romanian peasants who had risen up in open rebellion. This Union developed into the constitutional framework of the administration of Transylvania in the next decades. Within the peasantry, Romanians had a special position, for instance, they did not pay the ecclesiastic tithe, payable by all Catholic peasants.
The expansion of the Ottoman Empire reached the Danube around 1390. The Ottomans invaded Wallachia in 1390 and occupied Dobruja in 1395. Wallachia paid tribute to the Ottomans for the first time in 1417, Moldavia in 1456. However, the two principalities were not annexed, their princes were only required to assist the Ottomans in their military campaigns. The most outstanding 15th-century Romanian monarchs – Vlad the Impaler of Moldavia and Stephen the Great of Moldavia – were even able to defeat the Ottomans in major battles. In Dobruja, which was included in the Silistra Eyalet, Nogai Tatars settled and the local Gypsy tribes converted to Islam.
The disintegration of the Kingdom of Hungary started with the Battle of Mohács on 29 August 1526. The Ottomans annihilated the royal army and Louis II of Hungary perished. Rivalries between the partisans of the two newly elected kings – John Zápolya and Ferdinand of Habsburg – caused a civil war. Ferdinand I's attempt to reunite the country after Zápolya's death provoked
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wit-train-topic-000000917
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_Fighter_Wing
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52nd Fighter Wing
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Cold War
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52nd Fighter Wing / History / Cold War
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The 52d Fighter Wing is a wing of the United States Air Force stationed at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. It flies the F-16CJ fighter aircraft. It was activated in 1948, but derives significant elements of its history from the predecessor Second World War 52d Fighter Group, which is now the 52d Operations Group, subordinate to the wing.
The wing provides United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa and/or the NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe with mission-ready personnel and systems. The assigned F-16 aircraft can be tasked to suppress enemy air defenses, provide close air support, carry out air interdiction, counter-air, strategic attack, and combat search and rescue. The wing also supports contingencies and operations other than war as required.
In concert with USAFE wings at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, the 52d Fighter Wing directly supports the strategic mobility mission once conducted at Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany. The wing provides logistics support for C-17 Globemaster III and C-5 Galaxy aircraft, crew, passengers and cargo to sustain air mobility operations throughout Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia.
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Established as the 52d Fighter Wing, All Weather, on 10 May 1948, the wing served in the United States as an air defense unit in the northeastern United States from 1947 until the end of 1968.
The 52d was reactivated on 18 August 1955 and designated 52d Fighter Group (Air Defense). It was assigned to Air Defense Command and equipped with North American F-86 Sabre aircraft. It served once more as an air defense unit in the southeastern United States.
In December 1971, it became the host wing at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, and inherited tactical squadrons from the 36th Tactical Fighter Wing at nearby Bitburg Air Base. The wing participated in numerous tactical exercises, operations, and tests of USAFE and NATO and provided close air support, interdiction, and base defense operations. It operated with other NATO forces in frequent "squadron exchange" programs and hosted US-based units on temporary duty in Europe. In January 1973, a Wild Weasel defense suppression mission was added. After October 1985, using the F-4 Phantom II model aircraft, defense suppression became the wing's sole tactical mission. In 1987, the 52d acquired F-16 Falcons and became the first wing to integrate F-16Cs with F-4Gs to form hunter/killer teams within individual fighter squadrons.
It deployed aircraft and personnel to strategic locations in Saudi Arabia and Turkey in support of the liberation of Kuwait from September 1990 – March 1993. Near the end of 1992, it began receiving A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft. It received F-15 Eagles in 1994 but lost its F-4Gs. In January and December 1999, the wing supported Operations Northern Watch, Allied Force, and Decisive Forge with numerous deployments to Italy and Turkey.
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wit-train-topic-000000918
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal_J%C3%B3zef_Pi%C5%82sudski_Boulevards_in_W%C5%82oc%C5%82awek
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Marshal Józef Piłsudski Boulevards in Włocławek
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Gallery
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Marshal Józef Piłsudski Boulevards in Włocławek / Gallery
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The Marshal Józef Piłsudski Boulevards in Włocławek is a street located along the left bank of the Vistula River with an adjacent promenade crossing the Zgłowiączka River. It used to be called Nadbrzeżna St, Bulwarowa St and Boulevard of the Polish United Workers' Party. In the nineteenth century it was commonly called "Bulwarek".
Regular events take place on the boulevards: Days of Włocławek, the Vistula River Festival, Boulevards of Sport and Art, as well as other concerts and events.
Among other things, you will find a children's playground and an outdoor gym, walking and cycling trails, as well as a car park with 30 spaces. There are 27 bicycle racks along the entire promenade. There are 13 viewing terraces with new trees and bushes planted. At one of them, opposite the Church of St. John the Baptist, there is the town's coat of arms laid out of cobblestone, as well as distances to the most important Polish and world cities and other patterns, such as fish. A seasonal stall selling coffee and ice cream operates here as well. There is a Floating Stage on the Vistula River attached to the promenade - chairs for spectators are erected opposite to it.
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wit-train-topic-000000921
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Botanic_Garden_of_Wales
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National Botanic Garden of Wales
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Introduction
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National Botanic Garden of Wales
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The National Botanic Garden of Wales (Welsh: Gardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru) is a Botanical Garden located in Llanarthney in the River Tywi valley, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The garden is both a visitor attraction and a centre for botanical research and conservation, and features the world's largest single-span glasshouse measuring 110 m (360 ft) long by 60 m (200 ft) wide.
The National Botanic Garden of Wales seeks "to develop a viable world-class national botanic garden dedicated to the research and conservation of biodiversity, lifelong learning and the enjoyment of the visitor." The Garden is a registered charity reliant upon funding from visitors, friends, grants and gifts. Significant start-up costs were shared with the UK Millennium Fund.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000922
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwolle
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Zwolle
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Image gallery
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Zwolle / Geography / Image gallery
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Zwolle is a city and municipality in the northeastern Netherlands serving as Overijssel's capital. With a population of 127,497, it is the second-largest municipality of the province after Enschede.
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wit-train-topic-000000923
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach_City_College
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Long Beach City College
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Athletics
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Long Beach City College / Athletics
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Long Beach City College is a public community college in Long Beach, California. It was established in 1927 and is divided into two campuses. The Liberal Arts Campus is in Lakewood Village and the Pacific Coast Campus is in central Long Beach on Pacific Coast Highway. It is the only college in the Long Beach Community College District.
LBCC serves San Pedro, Catalina Island and the cities of Long Beach, Lakewood and Signal Hill. During the 2015-2016 academic year, the college had an enrollment of 33,818 students.
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Long Beach City College has 21 athletic programs for men and women. The teams are known as the Vikings, and they have won 16 national and 84 state championships as of Spring 2006. The mascot is a viking named Ole.
The Vikings are recognized as a powerhouse in some of the most competitive community college conferences in California, as well as the nation.
The Long Beach City College Viking's 1950 football team celebrated what would be their first of five National Championships:(1950,1960,1962,1964,1995)
The 2005-06 season saw Long Beach City College win for the first-ever time the Pepsi/NATYCAA Cup, State Associations Division, from the National Association of Two-Year College Athletic Administrators (NATYCAA). This award represents the best junior college athletics program in the state of California. LBCC won the award by 20.5 points over second-place Mount San Antonio College, buoyed by state titles in men's water polo, women's soccer, baseball, and men's volleyball, for a total of 174.5 points.
Hall of Champions, the indoor athletics venue, was the home of the now-defunct Long Beach Breakers of the American Basketball Association's current incarnation.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000924
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Lake_County,_Oregon
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Lake County, Oregon
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Current listings
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Lake County, Oregon / Current listings
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This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Lake County, Oregon, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them. The National Register recognizes places of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States. Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, Oregon is home to over 2,000, and 19 of those are found in Lake County.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted September 13, 2019.
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wit-train-topic-000000925
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetism
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Synthetism
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Gallery
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Synthetism / Gallery
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Synthetism is a term used by post-Impressionist artists like Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin to distinguish their work from Impressionism. Earlier, Synthetism has been connected to the term Cloisonnism, and later to Symbolism. The term is derived from the French verb synthétiser.
Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, and others pioneered the style during the late 1880s and early 1890s.
Synthetist artists aimed to synthesize three features:
The outward appearance of natural forms.
The artist's feelings about their subject.
The purity of the aesthetic considerations of line, colour and form.
In 1890, Maurice Denis summarized the goals for synthetism as,
It is well to remember that a picture before being a battle horse, a nude woman, or some anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.
The term was first used in 1877 to distinguish between scientific and naturalistic impressionism, and in 1889 when Gauguin and Emile Schuffenecker organized an Exposition de peintures du groupe impressioniste et synthétiste in the Café Volpini at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.
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wit-train-topic-000000926
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stacking
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Focus stacking
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Pictures
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Focus stacking / Gallery / Pictures
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Focus stacking is a digital image processing technique which combines multiple images taken at different focus distances to give a resulting image with a greater depth of field than any of the individual source images. Focus stacking can be used in any situation where individual images have a very shallow depth of field; macro photography and optical microscopy are two typical examples. Focus stacking can also be useful in landscape photography.
Focus stacking offers flexibility: since it is a computational technique, images with several different depths of field can be generated in post-processing and compared for best artistic merit or scientific clarity. Focus stacking also allows generation of images physically impossible with normal imaging equipment; images with nonplanar focus regions can be generated. Alternative techniques for generating images with increased or flexible depth of field include wavefront coding and light-field cameras.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000927
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_prehistoric_life_of_Rhode_Island
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List of the prehistoric life of Rhode Island
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Cenozoic
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List of the prehistoric life of Rhode Island / Cenozoic
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This list of the prehistoric life of Rhode Island contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Rhode Island.
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†Anguinella
†Anguinella virginica
Barbatia
†Barbatia marylandica – or unidentified comparable form
Caryocorbula
†Caryocorbula cuneata
Cerithiopsis
†Cerithiopsis calvertensis – or unidentified comparable form
Cerithium
†Chesapecten
†Chesapecten jeffersonius – or unidentified comparable form
Cliona
Glossus
†Glossus mazlea – or unidentified comparable form
†Mariacolpus
†Mariacolpus plebeia
Nuculana
†Nuculana liciata
Stewartia
†Stewartia anodonta – or unidentified comparable form
Tellina
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wit-train-topic-000000929
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_I_listed_churches_in_West_Yorkshire
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Grade I listed churches in West Yorkshire
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Churches
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Grade I listed churches in West Yorkshire / Churches
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West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. Created as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, it consists of five metropolitan boroughs, namely the City of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, the City of Leeds and the City of Wakefield.
Its area corresponds approximately with the historic West Riding of Yorkshire, and it contains the major towns of Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, and Wakefield.
In England, buildings are given listed building status by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, acting on the recommendation of English Heritage. This gives the structure national recognition and protection against alteration or demolition without authorisation. Grade I listed buildings are defined as being of "exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important"; only 2.5 per cent of listed buildings are included in this grade. This is a complete list of Grade I listed ecclesiastical buildings, including cathedrals, churches and chapels, in West Yorkshire as recorded in the National Heritage List for England.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000930
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_Mexico
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Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
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April 16 to 30
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Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico / April 2020 / April 16 to 30
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The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.
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The first death attributed to COVID-19 of a minor under 25 is reported in Tabasco on April 16, a two-year-old girl with Down syndrome and congenital heart disease. The government announced on April 16 that it will restrict transportation between areas of the country that are infected with COVID-19 (mostly large cities) and areas that are not infected, without specifying what areas are included or how it will be enforced. President López Obrador also said that based upon current projections, the 979 municipalities that have not had reported cases of coronavirus will be able to reopen schools and workplaces on May 17; the date is June 1 for the 463 municipalities that have. The elderly and other vulnerable groups will still be requested to stay home, and physical distancing should remain in place until May 30. It is expected that the pandemic will end in the metropolitan area on June 25.
TV Azteca called for the public to ignore information and warnings from Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez on April 17: "Like every night, the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell led the conference on COVID-19 in Mexico. But his numbers and conferences have already become irrelevant. Moreover, we tell him with all his words, no longer pay attention to Hugo López-Gatell." President López Obrador's proposal for a United Nations General Assembly resolution to prevent price gouging or hoarding of medical supplies by wealthy countries has 161 co-sponsors. The proposal was first made during a video conference of the G20. Pemex reports 10 deaths, 92 cases, and 1,052 suspected cases of COVID-19. 17 have recovered.
On April 18, Alonso Pérez Rico, Health Secretary for Baja California, reported that at least 30 doctors in the state, principally in Mexicali, have tested positive for COVID-19. None is critical.
On April 20 the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) announced that it had hired 3,158 of the 4,572 health professionals it needs. A Venezuelan YouTuber residing in Mexico City broke quarantine after being diagnosed with COVID-19 on April 20. Authorities had to sanitize the grocery store he contaminated and his immigration status was being investigated. His girlfriend similarly broke quarantine a few days earlier.
Mexico entered Phase 3 of its contingency plan on April 21. 712 deaths and 8,772 confirmed cases were reported. The Mexico City General Hospital delivered the wrong body to the widow of Ángel Dorado Salinas, 52. She discovered the mistake when she saw a photograph of the corpse.
In mid-April, it came to media attention that Mexican drug cartels, in an effort to boost their own popularity and in response to poor efforts by the Mexican presidency, began distributing supplies to impoverished citizens in the streets. The president of Mexico has since called on the cartels to stop distributing supplies and "end violence" instead.
The number of coronavirus cases surges past 10,000 to 10,544 with 970 deaths on April 21.
Six people were arrested in San Pedro Tlaquepaque and Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, for violating the state's quarantine orders on April 22. Another six people were denied permission to enter the state. Two women were arrested in Querétaro for attacking a health worker. They face up to three years in prison and a fine of 24,644 pesos (US$977). A field hospital with 854 beds is inaugurated in Mexico City; it should be fully operational on June 1.
On April 26, the Mexican Council of Businessmen (CMN) and IDB Invest announce a US$12 billion plan to provide credit to 30,000 micro-, small-, and medium-sized industries. AMLO opposes the plan, likening it to Fobaproa, the 1995 bank-rescue plan that cost taxpayers billions. PAN supports the plan.
The death toll surpassed the 1,000 figure on April 23. Tijuana expects its hospitals to run out of space over the weekend.
On April 29, eight public and three private hospitals in Mexico City stopped accepting COVID-19 patients due to a lack of space and ventilators. Mexico City Head of Government Claudia Scheinbaum said there were 54 hospitals with 1,500 beds available. On the same day,
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wit-train-topic-000000931
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naas_Botha
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Naas Botha
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Introduction
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Naas Botha
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Hendrik Egnatius 'Naas' Botha (born 27 February 1958) is a South African former rugby union player, who played for Northern Transvaal and South Africa (the Springboks).
He was voted Rugby Player of the Year in 1979, 1981, 1985 and 1987. Botha mostly played in the fly-half position and is now a rugby commentator for the South African M-Net and Supersport TV channels. He is also the Head Coach of the Indian Men's and women's rugby union teams.
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wit-train-topic-000000932
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Mountain_Formation
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Klondike Mountain Formation
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Insects and crustaceans
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Klondike Mountain Formation / Paleobiota / Insects and crustaceans
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The Klondike Mountain Formation is an Early Eocene geological formation located in the northeast central area of Washington state. The formation, named for the type location designated in 1962, Klondike Mountain north of Republic, Washington, is composed of volcanic rocks in the upper unit and volcanics plus lacustrine sedimentation in which a lagerstätte with exceptionally well-preserved plant and insect fossils has been found, along with fossil epithermal hot springs.
The formation is the youngest in a group of formations which belong to the Challis Sequence rocks. The formation unconformably overlies rocks of the Eocene Sanpoil Volcanics and much older Triassic and Permian formations. The formation is bounded on its edges by a series of high-angle strike slip faults, which have contained the Klondike Mountain Formation in a series of graben structures, such as the Republic Graben.
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The neuropteran insects (lacewings and their allies) identified as of 2014 include species from the families Berothidae, Chrysopidae, Hemerobiidae, Ithonidae (including Polystoechotidae), Nymphidae, Osmylidae, and Psychopsidae. A number of mecopteran species belonging to the families Cimbrophlebiidae, Dinopanorpidae, Eorpidae, and Panorpidae are also known. A solitary lepidopteran fossil has been recovered, but no full descriptive work has been made on the specimen, aside from a single PhD dissertation. Early examination placed the moth in the family Geometridae, but later work has identified it as the oldest member of the tiger moth subfamily Arctiinae.
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wit-train-topic-000000933
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontonagon_School
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Ontonagon School
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Introduction
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Ontonagon School
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The Ontonagon School is a former school building located at 301 Greenland Road in Ontonagon, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 25, 2011.
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wit-train-topic-000000934
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Broughton_West
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Listed buildings in Broughton West
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Buildings
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Listed buildings in Broughton West / Buildings
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Broughton West is a civil parish in the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England. It contains 39 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the market town of Broughton-in-Furness and a number of small villages and settlements, including Broughton Mills, but is otherwise rural. Many of the listed buildings are located in Broughton-in-Furness, and the others are scattered around the parish. Most of the listed buildings are country houses, smaller houses and associated structures, and farmhouses and farm buildings. The other listed buildings include a church and items in the churchyard, bridges, public houses, a former market hall, a commemorative obelisk, stocks, a limekiln and market benches.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000935
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6wenberger_Land
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Löwenberger Land
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Some historical sites
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Löwenberger Land / Some historical sites
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Löwenberger Land is a municipality in the Oberhavel district, in the German state of Brandenburg, about 50 km north of Berlin.
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en
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wit-train-topic-000000936
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._C._Barton
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William P. C. Barton
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U.S. Naval Surgeon
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William P. C. Barton / Biography / U.S. Naval Surgeon
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William Paul Crillon Barton, was a medical botanist, physician, professor, naval surgeon, and botanical illustrator.
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At the age of 23, Barton chose to enter the U.S. Navy as a surgeon. He received his commission on April 10, 1809, and less than week later commissioned the famous Thomas Sully to paint his portrait for a sum of $50. This painting, now in the Wilstach Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, shows a young Barton in uniform – a blue coat with gold braid, and hands gloved. Barton wrote, “I was overwhelmed with the difficulties I had to encounter in the performance of professional duties, where every species of inconvenience and disadvantage that can be imagined was opposed to the exertions of the surgeon.” Ultimately, Barton was not one to accept inadequacies, but rather to fight for reform.
Barton fought to tighten the controls of shipboard medical supplies. He called for the introduction of lemons and limes aboard Navy ships long before the U.S. Navy accepted the importance of an antiscorbutic treatment for vitamin C deficiency or scurvy. Barton went as far as to send a bottle of lime juice to the Secretary of the Navy Paul Hamilton with the instructions to drink it in the form of lemonade. His outspoken manner angered many of his colleagues. Barton, of necessity, became familiar with the administration of hospitals.
In February, 1811, Congress passed an act establishing naval hospitals. Secretary of the Navy Paul Hamilton later asked Barton to compose a set of regulations for governing these hospitals. Barton was well aware of the shortcomings in Navy medical care. Shipboard facilities were primitive, and there were no permanent hospitals ashore, only temporary facilities in Navy yards.
Barton began by drafting rules for governing naval hospitals. In 1812, the Navy Department submitted them to Congress. "Each hospital accommodating at least one hundred men should maintain a staff including a surgeon, who must be a college or university graduate; two surgeon's mates; a steward; a matron; a wardmaster; four permanent nurses; and a variety of servants." Not satisfied with the hastily drafted suggestions, Barton expanded his theories in a treatise published in 1814.
He was the first to promote the idea of employing female nurses in the U.S. Navy. He described the "matron's characteristics: she should be "discreet ... reputable ... capable ... neat, cleanly, and tidy in her dress, and urbane and tender in her deportment." She would supervise the nurses and other attendants as well as those working in the laundry, larder, and kitchen, but her main function was to ensure that patients were clean, well-fed, and comfortable.
By 1824, Barton served on the first board to examine candidates for the Navy's medical service. The intent of the board was to examine Surgeon's Mates, "preparatory to their promotion to the rank of Surgeons." The board was also authorized to examine applicants for Commissions as Surgeons' Mates and report upon their fitness.
In 1830 he became the commanding officer at Naval Hospital Norfolk, VA. He was involved in the development of the Philadelphia Naval Hospital when it was located in the Naval Asylum. Today, this gothic structure, that also served as the first home of the U.S. Naval Academy, stands in Grays Ferry.
President John Tyler appointed Barton to the office of first head of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery on September 2, 1842. (The post of Navy Surgeon General was created in March 1871). His time as Chief clerk was active, but short. Among his recommendations were the adoption of a supply table so that drugs and medical supplies could be properly procured and accounted for; the abolition of a venereal fee; uniform standards for recruits; higher professional standards for Navy physicians; standardizations and administrations of naval hospitals; and strict control over the use of liquor on board ships. He was a vehement prohibitionist, and had a “liquor circular” pasted on boxes of whisky identifying the contents as medical supplies which required stringent accounting, a step which was not popular in the fleet.
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wit-train-topic-000000937
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_War_Memorial_Southern_Command
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National War Memorial Southern Command
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Introduction
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National War Memorial Southern Command
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The National War Memorial Southern Command is a war memorial in Pune Cantonment, India, dedicated to post-Independence war martyrs. This is the only war memorial in South Asia which has been erected by citizens' contributions.
The memorial was unveiled and dedicated to the nation on 15 August 1998. A MiG-23BN, used in the Kargil War, is on display at the memorial.
A replica of the now decommissioned frigate INS Trishul, which served in the Liberation of Goa and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, is also on display.
Recently, the Pune Cantonment Board sanctioned a sum of ₹32,00,000 ($47,550) for renovation of the memorial. The work included laying a new lawn, landscaping and laying pathways for visitors.
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wit-train-topic-000000938
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvis_Car_and_Engineering_Company
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Alvis Car and Engineering Company
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1960s
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Alvis Car and Engineering Company / History of the company / 1960s
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Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd was a British manufacturing company in Coventry from 1919 to 1967. In addition to automobiles designed for the civilian market, the company also produced racing cars, aircraft engines, armoured cars and other armoured fighting vehicles.
Car manufacturing ended after the company became a subsidiary of Rover in 1965, but armoured vehicle manufacture continued. Alvis became part of British Leyland and then in 1982 was sold to United Scientific Holdings, which renamed itself Alvis plc.
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Rover took a controlling interest in Alvis in 1965 and a Rover-designed mid-engined V8 coupé prototype named the P6BS was rumoured to be the new Alvis model but with the takeover by British Leyland this too was shelved. By the time the TF 21 was launched in 1966, (available, like its predecessors in both saloon and drophead form and with either manual or automatic gearbox), the model was beginning to show its age despite a top speed of 127 mph – the fastest Alvis ever produced. With only 109 sold and with political troubles aplenty in the UK car manufacturing business at that time, production finally ceased in 1967.
In 1968, a management buyout of the car operations was finalised and all the Alvis car design plans, customer records, stock of parts and remaining employees were transferred to Red Triangle.
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wit-train-topic-000000939
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Square_(2017_film)
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The Square (2017 film)
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Development
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The Square (2017 film) / Production / Development
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The Square is a 2017 satirical film written and directed by Ruben Östlund and starring Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West and Terry Notary. The film is about a curator who struggles with various personal issues, including the theft of his mobile phone and affair with a journalist. Amid these distractions, a controversial promotional video for an art installation is published without his oversight, threatening his career and sparking a debate about freedom of expression and political correctness.
A Swedish production with co-production support from France, Germany and Denmark, the film was shot in Gothenburg, Stockholm and Berlin. The story was partly inspired by an installation Östlund and producer Kalle Boman had made. Östlund was also inspired by a notorious incident involving Oleg Kulik and cast Notary in a parody, drawing on Notary's experience imitating apes.
The film was entered into the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, where it received positive reviews and won the Palme d'Or. It was subsequently selected for the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
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The story for the film was conceived when director Ruben Östlund and producer Kalle Boman entered an installation into the Vandalorum Museum in Värnamo in 2014. In their artists' statement, they wrote "The Square is a sanctuary of trust and caring. Within it we all share equal rights and obligations." While working on the screenplay, Östlund visited numerous art galleries.
In one scene, a man with Tourette's syndrome yells at a public event. Östlund said this was inspired by a true incident at a Swedish theatre, and was depicted without fear of insensitivity, since he said all people are satirized in his work. The beginning of the film was also inspired by a true incident, when in Gothenburg Östlund saw a woman run to a man, saying someone was going to kill her. Another man arrived and yelled. It turned out to be a ploy, in which Östlund's cellphone was stolen.
Much of the art depicted was crafted for the film, with installations influenced by Robert Smithson, an authentic Garry Winogrand image, and another work by Östlund and Kalle Boman. Originally with the performance artist who entertains the affluent patrons, Östlund was considering modelling the character after GG Allin, but deciding that that would be too "extreme", he fell back on his interest in animal imitations. In crafting the scene, his concept was: "this internationally recognized artist is pretending to be a wild beast. What happens when he enters a room full of people in tuxedos?" The scene, and character Oleg Rogozjin, was inspired by a real incident with the artist Oleg Kulik, who performs as a dog and had attacked people at a notorious event in Stockholm. Other artists parodied or referenced in the film include Julian Schnabel and Carl Hammoud.
The budget was $5.5 million. Financial support was provided by the Swedish Film Institute, which awarded the project 11 million SEK, and the Danish Film Institute, which awarded 1 million DKK.
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wit-train-topic-000000940
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashok_Leyland_Viking
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Ashok Leyland Viking
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Introduction
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Ashok Leyland Viking
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The Ashok Leyland Viking is a front engined bus chassis manufactured by Ashok Leyland primarily intended for intercity and moffussil (urban to rural) duties introduced in 1976. It was based on the English Albion Viking. Since then Viking attracted lot of buyers in private and government sectors in India. It was the first bus with an alternator in India. Viking chassis also has a larger front overhang that facilitates placing the front door before front axle.
In 1997 a naturally aspirated CNG engine option specifically designed for BEST was introduced. The company also launched two step entry Viking bus chassis in 2003 as opposed to three step entry buses of that time. This chassis had a floor height of 860mm.
Currently the Viking lineup consists of diesel and CNG engines conforming to BS IV norms. Also the chassis is available in 4 wheelbase options. The chassis have intelligent Exhaust gas recirculation ('iEGR) system, which is a modified version of Exhaust Gas Re circulation (EGR) system.
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wit-train-topic-000000941
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihran_Hakobyan
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Mihran Hakobyan
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Introduction
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Mihran Hakobyan
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Mihran Hakobyan (Armenian: Միհրան Հակոբյան; born February 18, 1984) is an Armenian sculptor. He created the Wikipedia Monument in Słubice, the first one of its type.
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wit-train-topic-000000942
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Turkey
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List of tallest buildings in Turkey
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Tallest skyscrapers in Turkey
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List of tallest buildings in Turkey / Tallest skyscrapers in Turkey
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This list of the tallest buildings and structures in Turkey ranks skyscrapers and towers in Turkey by height. An incomplete list of the tallest buildings in Turkey.
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List of completed highest buildings of Turkey including spires and architectural details, but not antennas and flagpoles.
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wit-train-topic-000000943
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowmore
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Bowmore
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Gallery
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Bowmore / Gallery
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Bowmore is a small town on the Scottish island of Islay. It serves as administrative capital of the island, and gives its name to the noted Bowmore distillery producing Bowmore single malt scotch whisky.
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wit-train-topic-000000944
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicarboxylic_acid
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Dicarboxylic acid
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Linear saturated dicarboxylic acids
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Dicarboxylic acid / Linear saturated dicarboxylic acids
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A dicarboxylic acid is an organic compound containing two carboxyl functional groups. The general molecular formula for dicarboxylic acids can be written as HO₂C−R−CO₂H, where R can be aliphatic or aromatic. In general, dicarboxylic acids show similar chemical behavior and reactivity to monocarboxylic acids. Dicarboxylic acids are also used in the preparation of copolymers such as polyamides and polyesters. The most widely used dicarboxylic acid in the industry is adipic acid, which is a precursor used in the production of nylon. Other examples of dicarboxylic acids include aspartic acid and glutamic acid, two amino acids in the human body. The name can be abbreviated to diacid.
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The general formula is HO
₂C(CH
₂)
ₙCO
₂H. The PubChem links gives access to more information on the compounds, including other names, ids, toxicity and safety.
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wit-train-topic-000000945
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Prussia,_Pennsylvania
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King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
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Points of interest
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King of Prussia, Pennsylvania / Points of interest
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King of Prussia is a census-designated place in Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 19,936. The community took its name in the 18th century from a local tavern named the King of Prussia Inn, which was named after King Frederick the Great of Prussia. Like the rest of Montgomery County, King of Prussia continues to experience rapid development. One of the largest shopping malls in the United States, King of Prussia, is located here. Also located here is the headquarters of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region I. King of Prussia is considered to be an edge city of Philadelphia, consisting of large amounts of retail and office space situated at the convergence of four highways.
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King of Prussia is home to the King of Prussia mall, which is the largest mall in the United States in terms of leasable space. The mall consists of over 400 stores, 8 anchor stores, and over 40 restaurants. The mall has several luxury stores that have their only Philadelphia area location in King of Prussia. The King of Prussia mall is surrounded by several big-box stores, restaurants, hotels, and other businesses, including a United Artists Theatres and an iFLY indoor skydiving center. The King of Prussia Town Center is a lifestyle center that consists of Wegmans, multiple other big-box retailers, and a downtown area with dining, retail, and service establishments and a Town Square. The town center is part of the Village at Valley Forge, a 122-acre mixed-use development under construction that consists of retail, apartments, townhouses, condominiums, office space, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's "Specialty Care and Surgery Center".
King of Prussia is also the location of the Valley Forge Casino Resort, which has over 500 hotel rooms, 600 slot machines, table games, sports betting, seven restaurants, a spa, nightlife, a convention center, and a seasonal poolside club called Valley Beach. Valley Forge National Historical Park, which consists of the site where General George Washington and the Continental Army made their encampment at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78 in the American Revolutionary War, is located to the west of King of Prussia.
King of Prussia is home to the King of Prussia Volunteer Fire Company 9/11 Memorial honoring the lives lost in the September 11 attacks. The memorial, which was dedicated by the King of Prussia Volunteer Fire Company on the 10th anniversary of the attacks in 2011, consists of two steel beams recovered from Ground Zero at the World Trade Center in New York City. The 9/11 Memorial is located adjacent to the King of Prussia Volunteer Fire Company station on Allendale Road across from the King of Prussia mall.
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wit-train-topic-000000946
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ln_Messe/Deutz_station
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Köln Messe/Deutz station
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Introduction
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Köln Messe/Deutz station
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Köln Messe/Deutz station (called Köln-Deutz until November 2004, Colognian: Düx, [dʏks]) is an important railway junction for long-distance rail and local services in the Cologne district of Deutz in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is situated close to the eastern bank of the Rhine and connected via the Hohenzollern Bridge to Köln Hauptbahnhof, the city's main station, which is just a few hundred metres away. The Cologne Trade Fair (German: Koelnmesse) grounds are directly north of the station, hence the Messe in the station's name. The Stadtbahn station of Deutz/Messe is nearby and connected by a pedestrian tunnel.
The station is a junction station, which has platforms on two levels: the high-level platforms are used by trains running in the east-west direction across the Hohenzollern Bridge to and from Köln Hauptbahnhof. The lower level (Köln Messe/Deutz tief) is used by trains running in a north-south direction bypassing the Hauptbahnhof from Köln-Mülheim station towards Troisdorf. It serves an important function in providing some relief for the Köln Hauptbahnhof bottleneck—some ICE services call at Köln-Deutz instead of Köln Hbf, eliminating the need for changing direction, while many regional trains from the west terminate here to prevent them blocking the Hauptbahnhof.
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wit-train-topic-000000947
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting
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Charlie Hebdo shooting
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France
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Charlie Hebdo shooting / Aftermath / France
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On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30am CET local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which took responsibility for the attack. Several related attacks followed in the Île-de-France region on 7–9 January 2015, including the Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege where a terrorist held 19 hostages, of whom he murdered 4 Jewish people.
France raised its Vigipirate terror alert and deployed soldiers in Île-de-France and Picardy. A major manhunt led to the discovery of the suspects, who exchanged fire with police. The brothers took hostages at a signage company in Dammartin-en-Goële on 9 January and were shot dead when they emerged from the building firing.
On 11 January, about two million people, including more than 40 world leaders, met in Paris for a rally of national unity, and 3.7 million people joined demonstrations across France.
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The remaining staff of Charlie Hebdo continued normal weekly publication, and the following issue print run had 7.95 million copies in six languages. In contrast, its normal print run was 60,000, of which it typically sold 30,000 to 35,000 copies. The cover depicts Muhammad holding a "Je suis Charlie" sign, and is captioned: "All is forgiven". The issue was also sold outside France. The Digital Innovation Press Fund donated €250,000 to support the magazine, matching a donation by the French Press and Pluralism Fund. The Guardian Media Group pledged £100,000 to the same cause.
On the night of 8 January, police commissioner Helric Fredou, who had been investigating the attack, committed suicide in his office in Limoges while he was preparing his report shortly after meeting with the family of one of the victims. He was said to have been experiencing depression and burnout.
In the week after the shooting, 54 anti-Muslim incidents were reported in France. These included 21 reports of shootings, grenade throwing at mosques and other Islamic centers, an improvised explosive device attack, and 33 cases of threats and insults. Authorities classified these acts as right-wing terrorism.
On 7 January 2016, the one-year anniversary of the shooting, an attempted attack occurred at a police station in the Goutte d'Or district of Paris. The assailant, a Tunisian man posing as an asylum-seeker from Iraq or Syria, charged police officers with a meat cleaver while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" and was subsequently shot and killed.
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wit-train-topic-000000948
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Hong_Kong
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Prehistoric Hong Kong
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Neolithic
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Prehistoric Hong Kong / Stone Age / Neolithic
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Prehistoric Hong Kong is the period between the arrival of the first humans in Hong Kong and the start of recorded Chinese history first appeared during the Han dynasty. The history of the southern region is reckoned to have been first recorded in 214 BC with Qin Shi Huang conquering the Baiyue and creating the Jiaozhou province.
The prehistorical period can be divided into Stone Age and Bronze Age. Archaeology evidence suggests the earliest human settlement was in the Wong Tei Tung area dating back to 38,000 BC.
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The Neolithic Era began approximately 7,000 years ago in Hong Kong. Excavations of Tung Wan Tsai North (Ma Wan) and Sha Tau Kok reveal evidence of pottery during this time, but it does not reveal if there was pottery before this time due to the lack of absolute dates. The Neolithic period in this area was divided into four different phases. Phase one was when the Neolithic era began around 7000 years ago. The second phase was around 6500-6000 BP when white and painted chalkware were present along with ground adzes and axes along with flaked points. The third phase began around 6000-5000 BP, identified by white chalkware with incisions and shouldered stone implements. The final phase was around 5000-3500 BP with the presence of pottery with geometric patterns, stepped adze, shouldered adze and more ground stone implements.
Hong Kong is located on the coast of South China. Unlike northern China, the settlers in this area were the Che people (Chinese: 輋族). Excavated Neolithic artefacts suggest a difference from northern Chinese Stone-Age cultures, including the Longshan. Excavated sites in Hong Kong were largely located on the western shores of Hong Kong. This location was most likely chosen to avoid strong winds from the southeast and to collect food from the nearby shores. Settlement can be found in Cheung Chau, Lantau Island and Lamma Island.
Evidences of using fire were found from Chung Hom Kok on the Hong Kong Island. In late Neolithic, their settlement extends from shores to the hills nearby.
Stone circles were found in Fan Lau and other areas in Hong Kong. Its purpose is still unidentified but some suggests it is related to worship.
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wit-train-topic-000000949
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Byrne
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Nicky Byrne
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Introduction
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Nicky Byrne
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Nicholas Bernard James Adam Byrne, Jr. (born 9 October 1978) is an Irish singer, songwriter, radio presenter, dancer, television presenter and former professional footballer, best known for being a member of Irish music band Westlife; he is the band's oldest member. Westlife has since released twelve albums, embarked on thirteen world tours, and won several awards, becoming one of the most successful musical groups of all time.
Before his music career, he played professional football, representing Republic of Ireland at several junior levels. Since then he has had a successful TV and radio presenting career. His wife Georgina is the daughter of former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, and they have twin sons called Rocco Bertie Byrne and Jay Nicky Byrne and a daughter called Gia.
On 7 September 2012, it was announced that Byrne would be a contestant for the tenth series of Strictly Come Dancing. He was the ninth contestant to be eliminated. He was ranked number two on Ireland's Sexiest Man of 2014. After RTÉ internally chose him to represent Ireland, he released the song "Sunlight" and performed it in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 competition in Stockholm on 12 May 2016, but failed to advance to the 14 May final.
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wit-train-topic-000000950
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Mary_Pickford
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Timeline of Mary Pickford
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1911-1915
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Timeline of Mary Pickford / Timeline / 1911-1915
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Mary Pickford was a Canadian motion picture actress, producer, and writer. During the silent film era she became one of the first great celebrities of the cinema and a popular icon known to the public as "America's Sweetheart".
Pickford was born Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto and began acting on stage in 1900. She started her film career in the United States in 1909. Initially with the Biograph film company, she moved to the Independent Motion Picture Company in 1911, then briefly to the Majestic Film Company later that same year, followed by a return to Biograph in 1912. After appearing in over 150 short films during her years with these studios she began working in features with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company, a studio which eventually became part of Paramount Pictures. By 1916 Pickford's popularity had climbed to the point that she was awarded a contract that made her a partner with Zukor and allowed her to produce her films. In 1919 Pickford teamed with D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks to create United Artists, an organization designed to distribute their films. She married Fairbanks in 1920.
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wit-train-topic-000000951
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_In-Between
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Anna In-Between
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Publication and development
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Anna In-Between / Publication and development
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Anna In-Between is a 2009 English novel by Trinidadian American author Elizabeth Nunez. Anna, the lead character of the novel, finds herself in a situation where she is made to ponder on the differences between her native Caribbean, where her parents live, and her adopted lifestyle in Manhattan, and how race affects it. The novel was longlisted for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award.
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Anna In-Between was published in 2009 by Akashic Books. The 2003 novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M. G. Vassanji and published by Doubleday Canada narrates a story of Vikram Lall in the colonial and post-colonial Kenya. Nunez, who grew up in Trinidad and later moved to the United States notes on how she relates with the story of Vikram Lall of being straddled in the two different worlds. When Nunez wrote her novel Anna In-Between and portrayed Anna, a character struggling in two identities, she said "[she] just stole Vassanji's line, 'in-between'". The novel was long-listed for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award where Let the Great World Spin by Irish author Colum McCann eventually won. It was awarded at the 2010 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for literary excellence.
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wit-train-topic-000000952
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhesive_label
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Adhesive label
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Introduction
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Adhesive label
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An adhesive label or sticky label is a small piece of paper designed to be affixed to another larger piece of paper or other object, typically by the action of a layer of adhesive on the back of the label.
The most familiar type of label is the postage stamp, which was developed in the mid-19th century.
In 1935, R. Stanton Avery invented a machine to make self-adhesive labels.
The concept has since been extended into a variety of areas:
On mail:
airmail etiquettes
charity labels
address labels
return address labels
postage meter labels
certain types of postal labels
On other kinds of paper objects:
revenue stamps
savings stamps
general markers, notices, or warnings
Almost every imaginable type of paper and adhesive has been used at some point; see postage stamp paper and postage stamp gum for a more detailed discussion. Label may be produced individually, or in sheets, which case they are usually separated by perforations or rouletting, see postage stamp separation.
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wit-train-topic-000000953
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85sg%C3%A5rdstrand
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Åsgårdstrand
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History
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Åsgårdstrand / History
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Åsgårdstrand is a small port town in Horten municipality, Vestfold, Norway. It is also the name of a former independent municipality and a center of trade. The town is situated 10 km south of Horten, 10 km north of Tønsberg and 100 km south of Oslo by the west coast of the Oslofjord. On 1 January 1965 Åsgårdstrand and Borre municipalities, plus a part of Sem were merged into the new municipality of Borre. By the time of the merger Åsgårdstrand had 488 inhabitants and was the smallest municipality in Norway.
Åsgårdsstrand is a summer resort destination with a number of restored old homes. It is home to various cafés, galleries, and a beach. Edvard Munch’s former home is now owned by the municipality and open to the public. It is also home to Borre Kystled, a hiking trail which leads to Borre National Park.
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Åsgårdstrand was ladested (center of trade) from 1650 under Tønsberg, from 1660 under Holmestrand. In 1752 the center of trade was given the rights of doing business with national goods. From the beginning of the 19th century, Åsgårdstrand, was a lively export harbor for lumber, of which most was exported to the Netherlands. By the end of the sail ship era, the trade stagnated. The municipality was founded as Åsgårdstrand formannskapsdistrikt in 1837. Merchant and ship owner Anders Riddervold was elected as the first mayor.
Dating from the 1880s, the town had been increasingly known as an important center for artists and painters. A number of internationally noted painters has either visited or lived in the town including Edvard Munch, Christian Krogh and Hans Heyerdahl. In 1898 Edvard Munch bought a house in Åsgårdstrand where he spent the first of many summers. The house is now operated as a small museum which is associated with the Vestfold Museum (Vestfoldmuseene).
Since the 1920s Åsgårdstrand has been a popular vacation and recreational spot. Visitors come to the small town each summer and spend their holidays in one of the four hotels. From 2007, the town has had the classification of a Tourist Town, which gives the shop owners in the oldest part closest to the sea the right to keep open every day of the week. In order to become a Tourist Town the number of visitors needs to greatly exceed the number of residents throughout the year. In June every year, Åsgårdstrand celebrates Midsummer - the longest day of the year - with a large fire on the shore.
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