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5,329,751 | A Far Off Place | A Far Off Place (aka Far Off Place and Kalahari) is a 1993 American adventure drama film based on Laurens van der Post's works A Far Off Place (1974) and its predecessor, A Story Like the Wind (1972). It stars Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Randall, Jack Thompson and Maximilian Schell. The plot concerns three young teenagers who must cross the Kalahari Desert to safety when their parents are killed by a poacher. A Far Off Place was filmed in Namibia and Zimbabwe from May to September 1992. | [
"Nature"
] | 2006-05-29T00:49:28Z | 2006-08-06T02:51:41Z |
4,780,448 | Realitatea TV | Realitatea TV (Romanian pronunciation: [re.aliˈtate̯a teˈve], meaning "The Reality TV") is the former name of the Romanian news television channel Realitatea Plus. The channel began broadcasting in 2001 as a general-profile television and became the first Romanian news television in 2002. Its owners are Romanian politician Cozmin Guşă and businessman Maricel Păcuraru. After becoming insolvent in 2011 and bankruptcy in 2019, the channel lost its license on 31 October 2019. The channel began broadcasting on 1 November 2019, including advertising, on Realitatea Plus, a channel that was launched in 2015 on satellite for the public outside Romania. | [
"Internet"
] | 2006-04-17T10:18:35Z | 2006-04-17T15:27:46Z |
1,046,823 | Frank Darabont | Frank Árpád Darabont (born Ferenc Árpád Darabont, January 28, 1959) is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In his early career, he was primarily a screenwriter for such horror films as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), The Blob (1988) and The Fly II (1989). As a director, he is known for his film adaptations of Stephen King novellas and novels, such as The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999), and The Mist (2007). Darabont also developed and executive-produced the first season and first half of the second season of the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2010–2011). | [
"Entertainment"
] | 2004-10-07T12:11:57Z | 2004-10-07T12:12:43Z |
56,981,999 | Yam Kai-bong | Yam Kai-bong (Chinese: 任啟邦; born 20 May 1978) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the former member of the Tai Po District Council for Yee Fu and the convenor of the Neo Democrats. | [
"Politics"
] | 2018-03-30T10:12:07Z | 2018-03-30T10:13:29Z |
25,664,190 | Socrates | Socrates (, Greek: Σωκράτης, translit. Sōkrátēs; c. 470 – 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and answer; they gave rise to the Socratic dialogue literary genre. Contradictory accounts of Socrates make a reconstruction of his philosophy nearly impossible, a situation known as the Socratic problem. | [
"Ethics"
] | 2001-09-24T16:18:30Z | 2001-10-13T02:00:44Z |
3,584,852 | Sheryl WuDunn | Sheryl WuDunn (born November 16, 1959) is an American business executive, writer, lecturer, and Pulitzer Prize winner. A senior banker focusing on growth companies in technology, new media and the emerging markets, WuDunn also works with double bottom line firms, alternative energy issues, and women entrepreneurs. She has also been a private wealth adviser with Goldman Sachs and was previously a journalist and business executive for The New York Times. She was a foreign correspondent in The New York Times Beijing and Tokyo bureaus. While in Tokyo, WuDunn and husband Nicholas Kristof's news coverage and editorial policies were criticized by some Japanese academics as being prone to exoticism and insulting stereotypes. | [
"Economy"
] | 2006-01-01T05:50:36Z | 2006-01-01T05:52:33Z |
11,361,477 | Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital | Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital is a pediatric acute care children's teaching hospital located in Cleveland, Ohio. It is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and has a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and level 1 pediatric trauma center. | [
"Life"
] | 2007-05-22T18:08:14Z | 2007-05-22T22:08:34Z |
44,042,936 | Movyans Skolyow Meythrin | Movyans Skolyow Meythrin (MSM) (English: Nursery Schools Movement) is a not-for-profit organisation set up by Rhisiart Tal-e-bot, who is also its current director, since 2009. Based at Cornwall College in Camborne, it aims to spread the Cornish language among small children and their families. | [
"Education"
] | 2014-10-06T22:11:33Z | 2014-10-07T10:00:54Z |
18,104,376 | Monastery of Gastria (Constantinople) | Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque (Turkish: Sancaktar Hayrettin Câmîi; also Sancaktar Hayrettin Mescidi, where Mescit is the Turkish word for a small mosque, or Sancaktar Mescidi) is part of a former Eastern Orthodox monastery converted into a mosque by the Ottomans. It is generally believed that the small building belonged to the Byzantine Monastery of Gastria (Greek: Μονῆ τῶν Γαστρίων, Monē tōn Gastríōn, meaning "Monastery of the Vases"). The edifice is a minor example of Palaiologan architecture in Constantinople, and is important for historical reasons. | [
"Religion"
] | 2008-06-24T06:14:00Z | 2008-06-24T06:14:45Z |
26,651,222 | Gustaf VI Adolf | Gustaf VI Adolf (Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf; 11 November 1882 – 15 September 1973) was King of Sweden from 29 October 1950 until his death in 1973. He was the eldest son of Gustaf V and his wife, Victoria of Baden. Before Gustaf Adolf acceded to the throne, he had been crown prince for nearly 43 years during his father's reign. As king, and shortly before his death, he gave his approval to constitutional changes which removed the Swedish monarchy's last political powers. He was a lifelong amateur archeologist particularly interested in Ancient Italian cultures. | [
"Humanities"
] | 2002-10-15T02:05:42Z | 2002-11-10T11:30:39Z |
1,447,455 | Władysław Tatarkiewicz | Władysław Tatarkiewicz (Polish: [vwaˈdɨswaf tatarˈkʲevitʂ]; 3 April 1886 – 4 April 1980) was a Polish philosopher, historian of philosophy, historian of art, esthetician, and ethicist. | [
"Ethics"
] | 2005-01-30T07:58:02Z | 2005-01-30T08:07:18Z |
13,829,923 | Gish Bar Patera | Gish Bar Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is 106.3 by 115.0 kilometers and 9,600 km2 in area. It is located at 16.18°N 90.26°W / 16.18; -90.26. It is named after the Babylonian sun god Gish Bar. Its name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1997. | [
"Universe"
] | 2007-10-20T22:55:59Z | 2007-10-20T22:58:41Z |
2,384,246 | Ivan Dixon | Ivan Nathaniel Dixon III (April 6, 1931 – March 16, 2008) was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, and for his starring roles in the 1964 independent drama Nothing But a Man and the 1967 television film The Final War of Olly Winter. In addition, he directed many episodes of television series. Active in the civil rights movement from 1961, Dixon served as a president of Negro Actors for Action. | [
"Entertainment"
] | 2005-08-05T12:12:48Z | 2005-08-05T12:14:22Z |
24,891,918 | Rao Yutai | Rao Yutai (Chinese: 饒毓泰; December 1, 1891 – October 16, 1968) was a Chinese physicist, one of the founders of modern physics in China. He was a founding member of Academia Sinica in 1948 and of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955. | [
"Knowledge"
] | 2009-10-29T22:39:39Z | 2009-10-29T22:41:39Z |
67,488,765 | Predicand | In semantics, a predicand is an argument in an utterance, specifically that of which something is predicated. By extension, in syntax, it is the constituent in a clause typically functioning as the subject. : 76 | [
"Science"
] | 2021-04-24T14:54:56Z | 2021-04-24T15:04:53Z |
17,603,827 | Fiona Stanley Hospital | Fiona Stanley Hospital (FSH) is a state government hospital and teaching facility in Murdoch, Western Australia. Completed in December 2013, the hospital is the largest building project ever undertaken for the Government of Western Australia. It is immediately adjacent to the
private non-profit St John of God Murdoch Hospital, with the distance between the entrances to the emergency departments of these two hospitals being approximately 390 metres (430 yd). | [
"Life"
] | 2008-05-25T10:21:24Z | 2008-11-10T17:05:37Z |
1,709,593 | Natalie Bassingthwaighte | Natalie Bassingthwaighte (; born 1 September 1975) is an Australian singer, actress and television personality. Born in Crookwell and raised in Wollongong, New South Wales, she began her career in musical theatre. She later pursued an acting career in 1998 with guest appearances in television shows. Bassingthwaighte rose to prominence in 2003 on the Australian soap opera Neighbours for her role as Izzy Hoyland, which earned her three Logie Award nominations. In 2004, she was recruited as the lead singer of Australian electro-pop band, Rogue Traders. | [
"Mass_media"
] | 2005-04-08T14:48:28Z | 2005-04-08T20:50:57Z |
61,920,042 | Mary L. Gray | Mary L. Gray is an American anthropologist and author. She is a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, as well as a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Along with her research, Gray teaches at Indiana University, maintaining an appointment as an Associate Professor of the Media School, with affiliations in American Studies, Anthropology, and Gender Studies. In 2020, she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in recognition of her work "investigating the ways in which labor, identity, and human rights are transformed by the digital economy." | [
"Ethics"
] | 2019-09-30T01:32:31Z | 2019-10-08T19:59:21Z |
70,306,830 | Hanifa Abubakar | Hanifa Abubakar (born April 5, 2016) was a Nigerian girl who was kidnapped and murdered by Abdumalik Tanko, the proprietor of her school Noble Kids Academy in Nassarawa, Kano State, Nigeria. The case received national attention due to the young age of the victim and the manner of her death. | [
"Health"
] | 2022-03-14T05:19:53Z | 2022-06-15T14:10:27Z |
49,362,591 | Fatima Massaquoi | Fatima Massaquoi-Fahnbulleh (; 25 December 1911 – 26 November 1978) was a Liberian writer and academic. After completing her education in the United States, she returned to Liberia in 1946, making significant contributions to the cultural and social life of the country. Born into a family of African royalty, Massaquoi grew up in the care of an aunt in Njagbacca, in the Garwula District of Grand Cape Mount County of southern Liberia. After seven years, she returned to the northwestern part of the country in Montserrado County, where she began her schooling. In 1922 she accompanied her father, a diplomat, to Hamburg, Germany, where she completed her school education and started a course in biology at the University of Hamburg. | [
"People"
] | 2016-02-08T14:41:35Z | 2016-02-08T16:17:40Z |
48,945,899 | Ahmed Samy Khalifa | Ahmed Samy Khalifa (14 November 1933 – 14 August 2015) was an Egyptian pediatric hematologist and oncologist. He established the specialty of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Ain Shams University. He treated thousands of children with thalassemia, leukemia and other hematologic and ontological diseases all over Egypt. | [
"People"
] | 2015-12-29T22:41:58Z | 2015-12-29T22:44:59Z |
7,166,963 | Bluenotes | Bluenotes (formerly Thrifty's) is a Canadian "lifestyle" clothing brand. Bluenotes currently operates 120+ stores in Canada, across all major provinces, and it includes
an online store. Thrifty's' 107 stores were bought out by U.S. retailer American Eagle Outfitters from Dylex and rebranded the store with name Bluenotes in 2000. Eventually the division was sold to privately owned YM, Inc. in 2004. | [
"Concepts"
] | 2006-09-26T19:23:44Z | 2006-09-27T15:54:07Z |
5,033,762 | Oxford "-er" | The Oxford "-er", or often "-ers", is a colloquial and sometimes facetious suffix prevalent at Oxford University from about 1875, which is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. The term was defined by the lexicographer Eric Partridge in his Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (several editions 1937–61). | [
"Science"
] | 2006-05-06T17:05:26Z | 2006-05-06T17:06:06Z |
42,765,315 | Ann Heberlein | Ann Helen Heberlein (née Holmström; 22 June 1970) is a Swedish academic and author, who writes extensively on theology and ethics. She is best known for her autobiographical account of life with bipolar disorder, Jag vill inte dö, jag vill bara inte leva (2008; "I don't want to die, I just don't want to live"). She ran for parliament in the 2018 general election as a Moderate Party representative. | [
"Ethics"
] | 2014-05-15T18:06:36Z | 2014-05-15T18:09:50Z |
57,562,403 | Kyenvu | Kyenvu is a 2018 Ugandan short film written, produced and directed by Kemiyondo Coutinho and starring still Kemiyondo Coutinho, Michael Wawuyo Jr. in lead roles and supported by Rehema Nanfuka (Taxi Gossip), Joel Okuyo Atiku (MAN), Alex Bwanika (Man), Bash Luks (Passenger), Andrew Kiyegga (Taxi Conductor), Yusuf Boxa Kaija (Luda Guy) and others. The film is Kemiyondo Coutinho’s directorial and production début and won the Pan African Film Festival (PAFF)’s Best Narrative Short Film. | [
"Nature"
] | 2018-06-01T07:51:51Z | 2018-06-01T07:57:57Z |
398,166 | Sebastian Shaw (character) | Sebastian Hiram Shaw is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He has been frequently depicted as an adversary of the X-Men. A mutant, Shaw possesses the ability to absorb energy and transform it into his own raw strength. He is the leader of the New York branch of the Hellfire Club, an exclusive secret society composed of mutants bent on world domination, although to the public, he is a legitimate businessman and ordinary human. He once funded the mutant-hunting Sentinel program to keep it under his thumb. | [
"Academic_disciplines"
] | 2003-12-12T01:36:08Z | 2003-12-12T04:57:07Z |
71,099,664 | RED Air | RED Air S.R.L. is a low-cost leisure airline with facilities in Las Américas International Airport and main offices in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. | [
"Business"
] | 2022-06-21T23:25:00Z | 2022-06-21T23:30:49Z |
39,499,646 | Západoslovenská energetika | Západoslovenská energetika, a.s. (ZSE) is a Slovak utility company based in Bratislava. Its main objective is to sell and supply electricity to end customers. In 2002 it became a member of the E.ON Group. On 1 July 2007, electricity distribution and trade became independent services provided by respective subsidiaries. Západoslovenská distribučná, a.s. and ZSE Energia, a.s., are 100% subsidiaries of ZSE. | [
"Energy"
] | 2013-05-27T11:53:17Z | 2013-05-27T11:55:02Z |
478,168 | Allobroges | The Allobroges (Gaulish: *Allobrogis, 'foreigner, exiled'; Ancient Greek: Ἀλλοβρίγων, Ἀλλόβριγες) were a Gallic people dwelling in a large territory between the Rhône river and the Alps during the Iron Age and the Roman period. The Allobroges came relatively late to Gaul compared to most other tribes of Gallia Narbonensis; they first appear in historical records in connection with Hannibal's crossing of the Alps in 218 BC. Their territory was subsequently annexed to Rome in 121 BC by Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus. An attempted revolt was crushed by Gaius Pomptinus in 61 BC. However, they had rejected the second Catilinarian conspiracy in 63 BC. | [
"History"
] | 2004-02-20T13:42:32Z | 2004-02-20T13:44:57Z |
46,560,656 | Yang Yuliang | Yang Yuliang (simplified Chinese: 杨玉良; traditional Chinese: 楊玉良; pinyin: Yáng Yùliáng; born November 1952) is a Chinese chemist and educator. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He formerly served as president of Fudan University between January 14, 2009 to October 24, 2014. | [
"Knowledge"
] | 2015-04-29T14:23:48Z | 2015-04-29T14:26:07Z |
1,216,944 | Corinne Grant | Corinne Grant (born 12 June 1973) is an Australian lawyer, comedian and television presenter. | [
"Mass_media"
] | 2004-11-28T01:04:12Z | 2004-11-28T01:08:55Z |
29,024,701 | China-Japan Friendship Hospital | The China-Japan Friendship Hospital (Chinese: 中日友好医院) also abbreviated as China-Japan Hospital was established through the cooperation of the Chinese and Japanese governments during the 1980s. The hospital has been directly affiliated with China's Ministry of Health since its first day of operation, October 23, 1984. The hospital is located on East Yinghuayuan Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing. The hospital covers 9.7 hectares (24 acres), with floorspace of facilities measuring 180,000 square metres (1,900,000 sq ft). Within the hospital, there are 1,500 beds, 58 departments, as well as a clinical research and education center. | [
"Life"
] | 2010-10-02T04:58:49Z | 2010-10-02T05:34:29Z |
61,750,916 | Sebastião Antônio de Oliveira | Sebastião Antônio de Oliveira (October 7, 1915 or 1916 – January 7, 1976), known as The Monster of Bragança, was a Brazilian rapist and serial killer who committed at least eight rapes and five murders in the Bragança region in two periods: between 1953 and 1963, and between 1974 and 1975, when he was arrested. This case shocked the 1970s society in Bragança Paulista. | [
"Health"
] | 2019-09-11T12:47:46Z | 2019-09-11T12:57:40Z |
113,500 | Conjunction (grammar) | In grammar, a conjunction (abbreviated CONJ or CNJ) is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses, which are called its conjuncts. That description is vague enough to overlap with those of other parts of speech because what constitutes a "conjunction" must be defined for each language. In English, a given word may have several senses and in some contexts be a preposition but a conjunction in others, depending on the syntax. For example, after is a preposition in "he left after the fight" but a conjunction in "he left after they fought". In general, a conjunction is an invariant (non-inflecting) grammatical particle that stands between conjuncts. | [
"Science"
] | 2002-10-20T04:40:49Z | 2002-10-20T04:57:17Z |
4,714,875 | Mandokhel | The Mandokhail (Pashto: مندوخیل) is a Pashtun tribe primarily found in northern regions of the Balochistan Province and in southern Afghanistan. Most of the Mandokhails are settled in Zhob District of Balochistan Province, Pakistan; they live on both sides of the Zhob river. Mandokhail has many subtribes:
There are Hassanzai, Arabzai, Dawoodkhail, Surhkhail, Mamayzai, Sheikh. Mandokhail tribe is found on the Northern west border of Balochistan which is also known as the Durand line. == References == | [
"Language"
] | 2006-04-12T03:52:20Z | 2006-08-09T21:43:56Z |
21,836,445 | Francis Marion Wright | Francis Marion Wright (August 5, 1844 – July 15, 1917) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois and previously was a judge of the Court of Claims. | [
"Human_behavior"
] | 2009-03-06T01:47:17Z | 2009-03-07T04:20:02Z |
1,996,636 | List of Aerolíneas Argentinas destinations | Aerolíneas Argentinas was formed by the Argentine's Ministry of Transport as a state corporation in May 1949 (1949-05), when it took over the routes and assets of four struggling airlines. A year and a half later, in late December 1950 (1950-12), the company introduced the Buenos Aires–Rio de Janeiro–Natal–Dakar–Lisbon–Paris–Frankfurt route, using 48-seater DC-6 equipment, linking Argentina with Germany for the first time since 1933. By May 1952 (1952-05), the carrier's route network was 35,500 miles (57,100 km) long. Upon taking delivery of the first three Comet 4s, which also became the first jetliners in the airline's fleet, these brand new aircraft were deployed on the Buenos Aires–London, Buenos Aires–New York City, and Buenos Aires–Santiago de Chile routes. As of December 2012, the airline's top five international routes in terms of available seat kilometre (ASK) were Buenos Aires-Ezeiza–Madrid-Barajas, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza–Miami, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza–Barcelona, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza–Rome-Fiumicino and Buenos Aires-Ezeiza–Sydney; European routes account for about 41% of total ASK. | [
"Business"
] | 2005-06-05T19:15:51Z | 2005-06-05T19:21:03Z |
9,952,209 | Transafrik International | Transafrik International is a cargo airline based in Angola with its offices in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. | [
"Business"
] | 2007-03-09T12:15:21Z | 2007-04-04T05:29:00Z |
20,652,006 | Tomasz Mrowka | Tomasz Mrowka (born September 8, 1961) is an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry and gauge theory. He is the Singer Professor of Mathematics and former head of the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mrowka is the son of Polish mathematician Stanisław Mrówka, and is married to MIT mathematics professor Gigliola Staffilani. | [
"Mathematics"
] | 2008-12-12T00:03:44Z | 2008-12-13T20:06:35Z |
18,521,875 | Proton-to-electron mass ratio | In physics, the proton-to-electron mass ratio (symbol μ or β) is the rest mass of the proton (a baryon found in atoms) divided by that of the electron (a lepton found in atoms), a dimensionless quantity, namely:
μ = mp/me = 1836.152673426(32). The number in parentheses is the measurement uncertainty on the last two digits, corresponding to a relative standard uncertainty of 1.7×10−11. | [
"Science"
] | 2008-07-21T07:10:34Z | 2008-07-21T07:23:57Z |
3,197,378 | Hanjuku Hero | Hanjuku Hero (半熟英雄, Hanjuku Hīrō, "Soft-Boiled Hero") is a Japan-exclusive series of real-time strategy video games. It is directed by Takashi Tokita and published by Square Enix (formerly Square). The series contains four main titles and a spin-off game. The main titles are Hanjuku Hero (1988), Hanjuku Hero: Aa, Sekaiyo Hanjukunare...! (1992), Hanjuku Hero Tai 3D (2003), and Hanjuku Hero 4: 7-Nin no Hanjuku Hero (2005). | [
"Technology"
] | 2005-11-19T13:56:18Z | 2006-11-14T04:58:35Z |
58,139,587 | Storz Brewing Company (revived) | The Storz Brewing Company was located at 1807 North 16th Street in North Omaha, Nebraska. Established from a company started in 1863, Storz Brewing began in 1876 by Gottlieb Storz and was owned by the Storz family until 1966; the brewery ceased operations in 1972. Their beers won several prizes in international competitions, and Storz was the top selling brand in Nebraska starting in World War II. Storz was one of the "Big 4" brewers located in Omaha, which also included the Krug, Willow Springs and Metz breweries. On August 8, 2013, it was announced the brand would be revived by Tom Markel, nephew of Monnie Storz Markel, the granddaughter of Gottlieb Storz, with his cousin John Markel, son of Monnie Storz Markel as investor. | [
"Food_and_drink"
] | 2018-08-14T05:11:40Z | 2018-08-14T05:12:12Z |
4,614,052 | Aberdeen Praya Road | Route 1 (Chinese: 一號幹線) is a major artery in Hong Kong that runs in a generally north-south direction, connecting Aberdeen with Sha Tin. The route is heavily congested, notably on the Canal Road viaduct that links the Aberdeen Tunnel with the Cross-Harbour Tunnel in Causeway Bay. Route 1 continues to serve as the most direct route from the north shore of Hong Kong Island to the Southern District. The road travels across the harbour and runs through the middle of Kowloon and continues heading north into the New Territories. | [
"Geography"
] | 2006-04-03T15:05:31Z | 2007-03-31T18:32:38Z |
65,861,706 | Vozhyk | Vozhyk (Belarusian: Во́жык , Russian: Ёжик) is a Belarusian humour magazine offering satire, cartoons, caricature and humorous essays to its readers. Vozhyk stands for "hedgehog" in Belarusian. It is published monthly in Minsk, Belarus, in the Belarusian language. | [
"Internet"
] | 2020-11-17T04:26:19Z | 2020-11-17T04:28:17Z |
7,157,523 | Menasha Skulnik | Menasha Skulnik (Yiddish: מנשה סקולניק; May 15, 1890 – June 4, 1970) was an American actor, primarily known for his roles in Yiddish theater in New York City. Skulnik was also popular on radio, playing Uncle David on The Goldbergs for 19 years. He made many television and Broadway appearances as well, including successful runs in Clifford Odets's The Flowering Peach and Harold Rome's The Zulu and the Zayda. | [
"Society",
"Culture"
] | 2006-09-26T03:48:21Z | 2006-12-08T18:22:03Z |
1,941 | Aeon | The word aeon , also spelled eon (in American and Australian English), originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timeless" or "for eternity". It is a Latin transliteration from the ancient Greek word ὁ αἰών (ho aion), from the archaic αἰϝών (aiwōn) meaning "century". In Greek, it literally refers to the timespan of one hundred years. A cognate Latin word aevum (cf. αἰϝών) for "age" is present in words such as eternal, longevity and mediaeval. | [
"Time"
] | 2001-09-19T00:21:30Z | 2001-09-19T00:22:08Z |
49,364,999 | Sex, Birth, Death | The second season of Criminal Minds premiered on CBS on September 20, 2006, and ended on May 16, 2007. Lola Glaudini left the show after six episodes and was replaced by Paget Brewster three episodes later while Kirsten Vangsness was promoted to the official main cast after previously being listed as also starring in season 1. | [
"Information"
] | 2016-02-08T18:31:01Z | 2017-11-28T20:55:59Z |
3,127,927 | Jamie Cox | Jamie Cox (born 15 October 1969) is an Australian cricketer and former opening batsman for Tasmania in Australia's domestic competitions. He then played county cricket in England where he captained Somerset. He is a former member of the Cricket Australia's National Selection Committee and previously Director of Cricket at the South Australian Cricket Association. He was then General Manager of Football Performance at the St Kilda Football Club in the AFL, before being appointed to the MCC staff as Assistant Secretary. | [
"Mass_media"
] | 2005-11-10T19:24:59Z | 2005-11-10T19:25:52Z |
426,507 | Doctrine of the Mean | The Doctrine of the Mean or Zhongyong is one of the Four Books of classical Chinese philosophy and a central doctrine of Confucianism. The text is attributed to Zisi (Kong Ji), the only grandson of Confucius (Kong Zi). It was originally a chapter in the Classic of Rites. The phrase "doctrine of the mean" occurs in Book VI, verse 29 of the Analects of Confucius, which states:
The Master [Confucius] said, The virtue embodied in the doctrine of the Mean is of the highest order. But it has long been rare among people
The Analects never expands on what this term means, but Zisi's text, The Doctrine of the Mean, explores its meaning in detail, as well as how to apply it to one's life. | [
"Philosophy"
] | 2004-01-10T18:04:34Z | 2004-01-11T05:02:16Z |
47,922,562 | Discovery Bay International School | Discovery Bay International School (DBIS) (Chinese: 愉景灣國際學校) is a coeducational international school located in Discovery Bay, Hong Kong. DBIS opened in January 1983, when Hong Kong Resorts International recognised a need to create a new school to serve Discovery Bay's growing community. The school is accredited with the Council of International Schools and Western Association of Schools and Colleges. | [
"Education"
] | 2015-09-24T21:11:58Z | 2015-09-24T21:12:37Z |
69,230,630 | Reginald Green (economist) | Reginald Herbold Green (May 4, 1935 – October 16, 2021) was an American development economist who focused on African economic issues. His research focus included studying the economies of eastern and southern Africa, South African Development Community (SADC), international organizations and aid disbursement, and the Economic Commission on Africa, specializing in poverty alleviation, development enablement, and economic liberalization. His study for UNICEF of the economic impact of South Africa's apartheid policies on children in countries such as Angola and Mozambique was influential in stimulating western countries to put pressure on South Africa to end the apartheid regime. | [
"People"
] | 2021-11-09T19:05:12Z | 2021-11-09T19:14:31Z |
73,405,678 | Tipping Point (Burn Notice) | The seventh and final season of the American television spy drama Burn Notice aired from June 6, 2013 to September 12, 2013, on the cable television channel USA Network. The 13-episode season was ordered by USA Network on November 7, 2012. In May 2013, the network announced that this season will be the show's last. Production on the series wrapped on July 31, 2013. | [
"Information"
] | 2023-03-28T22:14:45Z | 2023-03-28T22:19:00Z |
1,033,600 | Peter Turner (mathematician) | Peter Turner (1586–1652) was an English mathematician. | [
"Mathematics"
] | 2004-10-02T08:31:57Z | 2005-02-25T04:50:56Z |
9,735,720 | Leonard William King | Leonard William King, FSA (8 December 1869 – 20 August 1919) was an English archaeologist and Assyriologist educated at Rugby School and King's College, Cambridge. He collected stone inscriptions widely in the Near East, taught Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at King's College for a number of years, and published a large number of works on these subjects. He is also known for his translations of ancient works such as the Code of Hammurabi. He became Assistant Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum. | [
"Academic_disciplines"
] | 2007-02-26T19:01:59Z | 2007-03-23T02:59:10Z |
5,803,747 | Battle of Awa | The Battle of Awa (阿波沖海戦, Awa oki kaisen) occurred on 28 January 1868 during the Boshin War in Japan, in the area of Awa Bay near Osaka. Involving ships of the Tokugawa shogunate and Satsuma vessels loyal to the imperial court in Kyoto, the battle was the second naval battle in Japanese history between modern naval forces (after the 1863 Battle of Shimonoseki Straits). Enomoto Takeaki led the shogunal navy to victory at Awa, in one of the few Tokugawa successes of the Boshin War, one day after the start of the land Battle of Toba–Fushimi (which the shogunate lost to the Imperial forces). | [
"Time"
] | 2006-07-02T23:31:42Z | 2006-07-02T23:32:30Z |
52,979,802 | Louise Ebrel | Louise Ebrel (27 July 1932 – 30 March 2020) was a Breton singer whose parents Eugénie Goadec (one of the Goadec Sisters) and Job Ebrel were themselves singers. Her repertoire was composed of traditional Breton songs, either for dancing (kan ha diskan) or for listening (gwerz). Ebrel was born at Treffrin in the Côtes-du-Nord (the present Côtes d'Armor). From 1991 to 2006 she accompanied the singer-poet Denez Prigent in concerts, both as a duo and with his musical group. Since 1996 she frequently sang with Ifig Flatrès in kan ha diskan at festoù noz. | [
"History"
] | 2017-01-25T10:36:12Z | 2017-01-25T10:42:54Z |
21,258,318 | Fulton Ferry station | The Fulton Ferry station was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line in Brooklyn, New York City. As the name implies, it was built to serve the Fulton Ferry between the two ferry slips in Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Fulton Street Elevated was built by the Kings County Elevated Railway Company and this station started service on April 24, 1888. The station had 2 tracks and 2 side platforms. It was served by trains of the BMT Fulton Street Line, and until 1920, trains of the BMT Brighton Line. | [
"Entities"
] | 2009-01-26T01:39:55Z | 2009-01-26T02:43:44Z |
1,412,934 | List of official names of South Africa | There are eleven official names of South Africa, one in each of its 12 official languages. The number is surpassed only by India. These languages include English, Afrikaans, the Nguni languages (Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, and Swazi), the Sotho-Tswana languages (Tswana, Sotho, and Pedi), Venda, and Tsonga. There are smaller but still significant groups of speakers of Khoi-San languages, which are not official, but one of the eight unofficially recognised languages. There are even smaller groups of speakers of endangered languages, many of which are from the Khoi-San family, but receive no official status; however, some groups are attempting to promote their use and revival. | [
"Science"
] | 2005-01-20T04:38:11Z | 2005-02-20T20:49:27Z |
39,021,740 | Zdzisław Wąsik | Zdzisław Wąsik (born 3 May 1947) is a Polish linguist and semiotician, Rector Senior and Professor Ordinarius at the Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław and Professor Senior at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. | [
"Universe"
] | 2013-04-05T14:35:00Z | 2013-04-05T14:43:06Z |
4,515,372 | Stormbreaker | Stormbreaker is a young adult action-adventure book written by British author Anthony Horowitz, and is the first novel in the Alex Rider series. The book was released in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2000, and in United States release on 21 May 2001, where it became a New York Times Bestseller. Since its release, the book has sold more than nine million copies worldwide, been listed on the BBC's The Big Read, and in 2005 received a California Young Reader Medal. A film adaptation, starring Alex Pettyfer as Alex Rider, was released in 2006, which underperformed at the box office and earned lukewarm reception. | [
"Information"
] | 2006-03-25T22:54:08Z | 2006-03-25T22:54:29Z |
64,779,391 | Children's Cancer Research Fund | Children's Cancer Research Fund is a not-for-profit organization focused on raising money to fund research for childhood cancer. In addition to funding research, they also provide support programs for families affected by cancer. | [
"Health"
] | 2020-08-07T16:58:29Z | 2020-08-07T17:04:36Z |
44,212,709 | Colonial Theatre (New York City) | The Colonial Theatre in New York City was at Broadway and 62nd Street in what was then the San Juan Hill neighborhood on the Upper West Side, Manhattan. Originally named the Colonial Music Hall, it was opened in 1905 by Frederic Thompson and Elmer "Skip" Dundy. Designed by George Keister, the theater had a seating capacity of 1,293. Thompson and Dundy operated the theater for only a few weeks before selling it to Percy G. Williams, who changed the name to Colonial Theatre. It functioned exclusively as a vaudeville house during Williams' stewardship. | [
"Entities"
] | 2014-10-26T00:30:06Z | 2014-10-26T00:31:53Z |
3,747,335 | Craig Hutchison (broadcaster) | Craig Hutchison (born 4 December 1974) is an Australian journalist, sports broadcaster and businessman. He is the chief executive officer of Sports Entertainment Group and is the host of Footy Classified. | [
"Mass_media"
] | 2006-01-17T05:00:57Z | 2006-01-17T05:01:58Z |
25,549,740 | York Theatre (Montreal) | The York Theatre was an Art deco cinema and mixed-use complex in Montreal, opened in 1938 and demolished in 2001 for the construction of the Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex of Concordia University. The York was designed by architects Perry, Luke and Little, with an interior design by Emmanuel Briffa. Briffa, who had overseen interior designs of over 100 cinemas in Canada, commissioned murals by artist Kenneth Hensley Holmden for the project. These murals were badly damaged by a fire in 1989. Three of eight murals were removed and restored by the university, and are now incorporated into its new building. | [
"Entertainment"
] | 2009-12-24T22:15:14Z | 2009-12-24T22:19:34Z |
873,743 | Fluxys | Fluxys is a Belgium-based company, mainly acting as a natural gas transmission system operator. In 2004, it employed around 850 people and its infrastructure comprised about 3,700 km (2,300 mi) of pipelines and a terminal in Zeebrugge, Belgium. The company is listed on Euronext Brussels market. | [
"Energy"
] | 2004-08-02T19:37:28Z | 2004-08-02T20:10:02Z |
14,923,316 | International availability of McDonald's products | McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the world's largest chain of fast food restaurants, serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries. McDonald's traces its origins to a 1940 restaurant in San Bernardino, California, United States. After expanding within the United States, McDonald's became an international corporation in 1967, when it opened a location in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. By the end of the 1970s, McDonald's restaurants existed in five of the Earth's seven continents; an African location came in 1992 in Casablanca, Morocco. In order to cater to local tastes and culinary traditions, and often in respect of particular laws or religious beliefs, McDonald's offers regionalized versions of its menu among and within different countries. | [
"Lists"
] | 2007-12-28T18:17:59Z | 2007-12-28T20:26:34Z |
4,958,116 | 55 Cancri b | 55 Cancri b (abbreviated 55 Cnc b), occasionally designated 55 Cancri Ab (to distinguish it from the star 55 Cancri B), also named Galileo, is an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star 55 Cancri A every 14.65 days. It is the second planet in order of distance from its star, and is an example of a hot Jupiter, or possibly rather "warm Jupiter". In July 2014 the International Astronomical Union launched NameExoWorlds, a process for giving proper names to certain exoplanets and their host stars. The process involved public nomination and voting for the new names. In December 2015, the IAU announced the winning name was Galileo for this planet. | [
"Universe"
] | 2006-04-30T18:58:55Z | 2006-05-13T17:26:15Z |
13,976,005 | Glitre Energi | Glitre Energi (formerly Energiselskapet Buskerud, EB) is a power company based in Drammen, Norway. The company operates electricity retailing, operates the power grid in Drammen, Nedre Eiker and Kongsberg and provides services within broadband. Glitre Energi serves approximately 90,000 customers, supplying electricity to customers in the Norwegian regions of Buskerud and Hadeland. The company is responsible for the power lines in Buskerud, which make up a large distribution network across densely populated areas. Glitre Energy is owned by the City of Drammen (50%) and Buskerud County Municipality (50%). | [
"Energy"
] | 2007-10-29T20:55:19Z | 2008-03-04T05:01:05Z |
53,849,603 | Vietnam Helicopters | Vietnam Helicopters (VNH), formally the Vietnam Helicopter Corporation (VNH Corp or VHC; Vietnamese: Tổng công ty Trực thăng Việt Nam - Công ty TNHH, lit. 'Vietnam Helicopter Corporation - LLC'), also known by its military designation Corps 18 (Vietnamese: Binh đoàn 18), is a transportation business owned by the Vietnam Ministry of National Defense. It operates helicopters to transport cargo, train pilots and export/import devices in the aviation industry as well as providing aircraft maintenance while offering commercial services such as tourist transportation. Being a military-associated organization, VNH also operates state-sponsored flights serving civil defense purposes including medical evacuation and search-rescue missions. | [
"Business"
] | 2017-04-22T11:30:04Z | 2017-04-22T12:52:25Z |
30,386,879 | John Baines (mathematician) | John Baines (1787–1838), was an English mathematician. Baines was born in the parish of Horbury, Yorkshire, in 1787. From 1810 at least, he sent mathematical contributions to periodicals, including Ladies' Diary, the Gentleman's Diary, the York Miscellany, and other similar periodicals, which were noted for their geometrical and algebraic problems. He wrote to the Northern Star from Nottingham. The Ladies' Diary for 1833 carried a more substantial article on Georges Cuvier's Theory of the Earth, written to prove its confirmation of the Mosaic account. | [
"Mathematics"
] | 2011-01-09T15:22:41Z | 2011-01-09T15:25:30Z |
2,346,634 | Louis-Émile Bertin | Louis-Émile Bertin (French pronunciation: [lwi emil bɛʁtɛ̃]; 23 March 1840 – 22 October 1924) was a French naval engineer, one of the foremost of his time, and a proponent of the "Jeune École" philosophy of using light, but powerfully armed warships instead of large battleships. | [
"Time"
] | 2005-07-31T07:46:29Z | 2005-07-31T07:51:13Z |
1,139,962 | O (2001 film) | O is a 2001 American romantic thriller film, and a modern adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello, set in an American high school. It stars Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles, and Josh Hartnett. It was directed by Tim Blake Nelson and written by Brad Kaaya. The film contains many different styles of music, ranging from rap to opera. It was filmed in Charleston, South Carolina in the spring of 1999. | [
"Internet"
] | 2004-11-07T01:22:51Z | 2004-11-16T02:22:23Z |
33,559,485 | Arlen F. Chase | Arlen F. Chase (born 1953) is a Mesoamerican archaeologist and a faculty member in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. Previously, he was a professor in the anthropology department at Pomona College, Claremont, CA and before that the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He previously served a variety of administrative roles (Departmental Chair for Anthropology; Associate Dean for the College of Sciences) at the University of Central Florida over the course of his 32 year stay at that institution. He is noted for his long-term research at the ancient Maya city of Caracol, Belize and for exploring landscape traces of Maya civilization using lidar. | [
"Humanities"
] | 2011-10-28T17:16:47Z | 2011-10-28T17:20:21Z |
59,018,740 | List of libraries in Bulgaria | This is a list of libraries in Bulgaria. | [
"Lists"
] | 2018-11-10T15:46:53Z | 2018-11-11T08:51:49Z |
1,683,023 | Birkhoff's theorem (electromagnetism) | In physics, in the context of electromagnetism, Birkhoff's theorem concerns spherically symmetric static solutions of Maxwell's field equations of electromagnetism. The theorem is due to George D. Birkhoff. It states that any spherically symmetric solution of the source-free Maxwell equations is necessarily static. Pappas (1984) gives two proofs of this theorem, using Maxwell's equations and Lie derivatives. It is a limiting case of Birkhoff's theorem (relativity) by taking the flat metric without backreaction. | [
"Science"
] | 2005-04-02T16:10:36Z | 2005-04-02T16:16:09Z |
27,363,391 | Poornima Indrajith | Poornima Indrajith (née Poornima Mohan) is an Indian actress and film producer who works predominantly in Malayalam films. She debuted as child artist with the Malayalam film Onnu Muthal Poojaym Vare in 1986. Her last film before marriage was Dany in 2001. She made a comeback in 2019 film Virus which was critically acclaimed and a box office success. | [
"Concepts"
] | 2010-05-15T13:11:44Z | 2010-05-15T13:12:45Z |
1,129,919 | Metallicity | In astronomy, metallicity is the abundance of elements present in an object that are heavier than hydrogen and helium. Most of the normal currently detectable (i.e. non-dark) matter in the universe is either hydrogen or helium, and astronomers use the word "metals" as convenient shorthand for "all elements except hydrogen and helium". This word-use is distinct from the conventional chemical or physical definition of a metal as an electrically conducting solid. Stars and nebulae with relatively high abundances of heavier elements are called "metal-rich" when discussing metallicity, even though many of those elements are called nonmetals in chemistry. | [
"Universe"
] | 2004-11-03T21:57:07Z | 2004-11-03T21:57:24Z |
63,581,493 | Rousettinae | The Rousettinae are a subfamily of megabats. Taxa within this subfamily include:
Tribe Eonycterini
Genus Eonycteris
Greater nectar bat, E. major
Cave nectar bat, E. spelaea
Philippine dawn bat, E. robusta
tribe Epomophorini
Genus Epomophorus
Angolan epauletted fruit bat, E. angolensis
Ansell's epauletted fruit bat, E. anselli
Peters's epauletted fruit bat, E. crypturus
Dobson's epauletted fruit bat, E. dobsonii
Gambian epauletted fruit bat, E. gambianus
Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat, E. grandis
Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat, E. labiatus
East African epauletted fruit bat, E. minimus
Minor epauletted fruit bat, E. minor
Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat, E. wahlbergi
Genus Epomops
Buettikofer's epauletted fruit bat, E. buettikoferi
Franquet's epauletted fruit bat, E. franqueti
Genus Hypsignathus
Hammer-headed bat, H. monstrosus
Genus Micropteropus
Hayman's dwarf epauletted fruit bat, M. intermedius
Peters's dwarf epauletted fruit bat, M. pusillus
Genus Nanonycteris
Veldkamp's dwarf epauletted fruit bat, N. veldkampii
tribe Myonycterini
Genus Megaloglossus
Azagnyi fruit bat, M. azagnyi
Woermann's bat, M. woermanni
Genus Myonycteris
São Tomé collared fruit bat, M. brachycephala
East African little collared fruit bat, M. relicta
Little collared fruit bat, M. torquata
Tribe Plerotini
Genus Plerotes
D'Anchieta's fruit bat, P. anchietae
Tribe Rousettini
Genus Rousettus – rousette fruit bats
Genus Rousettus
Manado fruit bat, R. bidens
Geoffrey's rousette, R. amplexicaudatus
Egyptian rousette, R. aegyptiacus
Leschenault's rousette, R. leschenaulti
Linduan rousette, R. linduensis
Comoro rousette, R. obliviosis
Bare-backed rousette, R. spinalatus
Madagascan rousette, R. madagascariensis
Tribe incertae sedis
Genus Pilonycteris
Sulawesi rousette, P. celebensis
Tribe Scotonycterini
Genus Casinycteris
Short-palated fruit bat, C. argynnis
Campo-Ma’an fruit bat, C. campomaanensis
Pohle's fruit bat, C. ophiodon
Genus Scotonycteris
Zenker's fruit bat, S. zenkeri
Tribe Stenonycterini
Genus Stenonycteris
Long-haired fruit bat, S. lanosis
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] | 2020-04-06T13:14:30Z | 2020-04-06T13:18:58Z |
11,245,085 | Architects (Registration) Acts 1931 to 1938 | The Architects (Registration) Acts, 1931 to 1938 is the statutory citation for three Acts of the United Kingdom Parliament, namely:
Architects (Registration) Act 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5. c. 33);
Architects (Registration) Act 1934; and
Architects Registration Act 1938. These acts have been amended and have been replaced as amended by the Architects Act 1997, with effect from 21 July 1997. | [
"Law"
] | 2007-05-15T21:47:38Z | 2007-05-16T08:03:48Z |
13,398,082 | Siege of Constantinople (626) | The siege of Constantinople in 626 by the Sassanid Persians and Avars, aided by large numbers of allied Slavs, ended in a strategic victory for the Byzantines. The failure of the siege saved the empire from collapse, and, combined with other victories achieved by Emperor Heraclius (r. 610–641) the previous year and in 627, enabled Byzantium to regain its territories and end the destructive Roman–Persian Wars by enforcing a treaty with borders status quo c. 590. | [
"Military"
] | 2007-09-23T05:01:40Z | 2007-09-23T05:02:04Z |
5,386,460 | List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities | The following is a list of adjectival forms of cities in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these cities. Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms. The ending -man has feminine equivalent -woman (e.g. an Irishman and a Scotswoman). The French terminations -ois / ais serve as both the singular and plural masculine; adding 'e' (-oise / aise) makes them singular feminine; 'es' (-oises / aises) makes them plural feminine. | [
"Science"
] | 2006-06-02T02:07:15Z | 2006-06-02T03:07:49Z |
334,599 | List of state and territory name etymologies of the United States | The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian. Of those that come from Native American languages, eight come from Algonquian languages, seven from Siouan languages (one of those via Miami-Illinois, which is an Algonquian language), three from Iroquoian languages, two from Muskogean languages, one from a Caddoan language, one from an Eskimo-Aleut language, one from a Uto-Aztecan language, and one from either an Athabaskan language or a Uto-Aztecan language. Twenty other state names derive from European languages: seven come from Latin (mostly from Latinized forms of English personal names, one of those coming from Welsh), five from English, five from Spanish, and three from French (one of those via English). The source language/language family of the remaining five states is disputed or unclear: Arizona, Idaho, Maine, Oregon, and Rhode Island. | [
"Science"
] | 2003-10-04T17:09:50Z | 2003-10-04T17:38:56Z |
46,385,484 | The Most Good You Can Do | The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically is a 2015 Yale University Press book by moral philosopher and bioethicist Peter Singer describing and arguing for the ideas of effective altruism. As a follow-up to The Life You Can Save, which makes the moral argument for donating money to improve the lives of people in extreme poverty, the new book focuses on the broader question of how to do the most good. | [
"Ethics"
] | 2015-04-12T02:24:45Z | 2015-04-12T02:59:47Z |
38,991,218 | Georges Appert | Georges Appert (1850–1934) was a French historian, academic, writer and Japanologist. He was a legal scholar and professor of law at the University of Tokyo. | [
"Time"
] | 2013-04-02T14:41:28Z | 2013-04-02T15:01:46Z |
38,336,911 | Zisurrû | Zisurrû, meaning “magic circle drawn with flour,” and inscribed ZÌ-SUR-RA-a, was an ancient Mesopotamian means of delineating, purifying and protecting from evil by the enclosing of a ritual space in a circle of flour. It involved ritual drawings with a variety of powdered cereals to counter different threats and is accompanied by the gloss: SAG.BA SAG.BA, Akkadian: māmīt māmīt, the curse from a broken oath, in The Exorcists Manual, where it refers to a specific ritual on two tablets the first of which is extant. | [
"Language"
] | 2013-01-26T17:26:08Z | 2013-04-12T07:29:06Z |
2,983,683 | Typology (anthropology) | Typology in anthropology was the categorization of the human species by races, based solely on traits that are readily observable from a distance such as head shape, skin color, hair form, body build, and stature. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, anthropologists used a typological model to divide people from different ethnic regions into races, (e.g. the Negroid race, the Caucasoid race, the Mongoloid race, the Australoid race, and the Capoid race which was the racial classification system as defined in 1962 by Carleton S. Coon). The typological model was built on the assumption that humans can be assigned to a race based on similar physical traits. However, author Dennis O'Neil says the typological model in anthropology is now thoroughly discredited. | [
"Humanities"
] | 2005-10-24T01:31:00Z | 2006-04-16T04:56:02Z |
1,601,461 | RusAir | AtlasJet (ex-Rusair) was an airline with its headquarters in Moscow, Russia. It provided charter services and business flights, aviation management and project support. It also offered international medevac services. | [
"Business"
] | 2005-03-13T14:24:05Z | 2005-03-22T16:25:23Z |
48,183,875 | Gough Whitlam's birthplace | Ngara was the birthplace of the 21st prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam. It is located at 46 Rowland Street, Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. "Ngara" means "to listen, hear and think" in the Darug language of the Darug or Iyora (Eora) Aboriginal people in the Sydney area. | [
"Entities"
] | 2015-10-12T07:00:32Z | 2015-10-13T02:26:27Z |
23,527,541 | Colin Franklin (bibliographer) | Colin Ellis Franklin, FSA (8 October 1923 – 17 May 2020) was an English writer, bibliographer, book-collector and antiquarian bookseller. | [
"Human_behavior"
] | 2009-07-07T20:13:31Z | 2009-07-07T20:14:36Z |
21,247,935 | 66th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line) | The 66th Street station was an express station on the demolished IRT Ninth Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It had two levels. The lower level was built first and had two tracks and two side platforms. The upper level was built as part of the Dual Contracts and had one track and two side platforms over the lower level local tracks. The station closed on June 11, 1940. | [
"Entities"
] | 2009-01-25T07:57:25Z | 2009-01-25T08:01:15Z |
19,157,942 | North Dakota State Board of Pharmacy v. Snyder's Drug Stores, Inc. | North Dakota State Board of Pharmacy v. Snyder's Drug Stores, Inc., 414 U.S. 156 (1973), held that a state statute, under which Snyder's had been denied a pharmacy operating permit because it was not majority owned by pharmacists, did not violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court overruled the decision of the North Dakota Supreme Court, which relied on the 1928 decision in Liggett Co. v. Baldridge to hold the statute unconstitutional. The questions which were raised by the case were: (1) Does the U.S. Supreme Court have jurisdiction to decide the case, e.g. is it final; (2) was the statute in question constitutional. The Supreme Court answered both questions in the affirmative. | [
"Law"
] | 2008-09-03T09:00:57Z | 2008-09-06T06:16:15Z |
67,370,359 | Heimin | Heimin (平民) is the Japanese word for commoner. The word first came into use towards the end of the Edo period to denote people who were born without any social privileges, contrasting them with shizoku. Heimin mostly consisted of farmers, artisans and merchants. | [
"Time"
] | 2021-04-11T18:08:03Z | 2021-04-11T20:26:51Z |
1,484,421 | Malaclypse the Younger | Gregory Hill (May 21, 1941 – July 20, 2000), better known by the pen name Malaclypse the Younger, was an American author. He is listed as author of the Principia Discordia, which was written with Kerry Wendell Thornley (a.k.a. Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst) and others. He was also adapted as a character in The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975). | [
"Universe"
] | 2005-02-09T05:54:31Z | 2005-02-09T06:00:17Z |
12,810,992 | Salim al-Shimiri | Salim al-Shimiri (born in Basra, Iraq) is an Iraqi fashion designer. His job entails selecting the fabrics used, the models, positioning the lighting for runway shows as well as creating the garments. He graduated at Baghdad University with a degree in microbiology, he later returned to study art. He has held many fashion shows in Iraq, notably the 1991 show in the Palestine Hotel which was attended by United Nations delegation visiting Iraq, and impressed by his designs they offered him contacts and addresses of fashion houses in the United States and Europe. Before 2003, Salim was quite successful in Iraq, however, the toppling of Saddam Hussein and his regime resulted in loss of revenue and clients for him. | [
"Concepts"
] | 2007-08-17T14:56:12Z | 2007-08-17T14:57:51Z |
43,294,983 | Jonathan Bennett (mathematician) | Jonathan Bennett is a mathematician and Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the University of Birmingham. He was a recipient of the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 2011 for "his foundational work on multilinear inequalities in harmonic and geometric analysis, and for a number of major results in the theory of oscillatory integrals." | [
"Mathematics"
] | 2014-07-14T02:30:34Z | 2014-07-14T02:36:06Z |
3,636,781 | Moray Callum | Moray S. Callum (born 19 November 1958) is a Scottish automobile designer who was vice president, design, for Ford Motor Company, having retired on 1 May 2021. His elder brother Ian Callum was the Design Director of Jaguar from 1999 to 2019. | [
"Engineering"
] | 2006-01-06T15:14:32Z | 2006-01-06T18:24:23Z |
42,789,486 | TechKnow | TechKnow is a 30-minute news program on the Al Jazeera English and, formerly, Al Jazeera America networks. The show ran from April 2014 until December 2017, profiling advances and inventions in the areas of science, technology and medicine. The series was hosted by an ensemble, notably led by science communicators Phil Torres, Shini Somara, Cara Santa Maria. The show was created by executive producers Steve Lange and Roland Woerner of the Los Angeles–based Make Fresh Productions. The show's main setting is Republic of Pie in North Hollywood, California. | [
"Internet"
] | 2014-05-18T05:38:05Z | 2014-05-18T05:41:32Z |
1,741,689 | Harry Mathews | Harry Mathews (February 14, 1930 – January 25, 2017) was an American writer, the author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays. Mathews was also a translator of the French language. | [
"Academic_disciplines"
] | 2005-04-14T22:56:28Z | 2005-04-14T23:02:14Z |
2,742,414 | Tibor Rubin | Tibor "Ted" Rubin (June 18, 1929 – December 5, 2015) was a Hungarian-American Army Corporal. A Holocaust survivor who immigrated to the U.S. in 1948, he fought in the Korean War and was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the war, as a combatant and a prisoner of war (POW). Rubin received the award from President George W. Bush on September 23, 2005, 55 years after the Korean War. Rubin was repeatedly nominated for various military decorations, but was overlooked because of antisemitism by a superior. Fellow soldiers who filed affidavits supporting Rubin's nomination for the Medal of Honor said that Rubin's sergeant "was an anti-Semite who gave Rubin dangerous assignments in hopes of getting him killed". | [
"Society",
"Culture"
] | 2005-09-24T02:07:31Z | 2005-09-25T21:32:11Z |
8,658,821 | Johannes du Plessis Scholtz | Johannes du Plessis Scholtz (14 May 1900 – 26 January 1990) was a South African philologist, art historian, and art collector. | [
"People"
] | 2006-12-29T15:28:00Z | 2007-01-20T23:20:57Z |
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