Datasets:
ChristophSchuhmann
/
wikipedia-en-nov22-1-sentence-level

Dataset card Data Studio Files Community
sentences
stringlengths
1
39.3k
Lake Burdur has great ornithological importance harbouring numerous wintering bird species.It is the most important wintering site in the world for the white-headed duck, a globally threatened species.It has also served habitats to 10 other internationally important waterfowl species.
Lake Burdur has been a Ramsar Site since 1993 and Wildlife Reserve since 1994.
"Aphanius anatoliae sureyanus" (the only fish species) and "A. burduricus" are endemic species of the lake.The formation of the lake began 5 million years ago as a tectonic depression.
(Burdur area is in first grade earthquake zone) It is known that the lake maintained fresh water character for long period of time.The altitude in Plio-pleistocene period was 100 m higher, so the lake extended in NE–SW direction.In late Pleistocene period salinization and shrinking of the lake began, which is a process in progress today.
Carlos Fernández Shaw Carlos Fernández Shaw (23 September 1865 – 7 June 1911) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and journalist.He wrote the texts for many zarzuelas, including "La revoltosa", "La chavala" and "Las bravías", all in collaboration with José López Silva and with music by Ruperto Chapí.
He also wrote the libretto for Chapí's through-written opera "Margarita la tornera".He later wrote the libretto for "La vida breve" by Manuel de Falla, based on his tragic poem of gypsy life "La chavalilla" and drawing on ideas from "La chavala".He wrote articles for "La epoca", "La illustración" and "El correo".
Fernández Shaw was born in Cadiz, the son of a Spanish father and an English mother.He was the father of the equally successful playwright and librettist Guillermo Fernández Shaw; while his grandson (also named Carlos Fernández Shaw) was a Spanish Consul General to the United States in the late 20th century, where he co-authored the book "The Hispanic Presence in North America".He died in Madrid, aged 45.
Crispin Gray Crispin John Orion Gray (born 1963) is an English guitarist and songwriter.Best known for his bands Daisy Chainsaw and Queenadreena, Gray has also played with Dizzy Q Viper, Vapid Dolly and The Dogbones.
He is currently a member of Starsha Lee.His great uncle was British poet John Gray, allegedly an inspiration for Oscar Wilde's "The Picture Of Dorian Gray".http
Michel Fabrizio Michel Fabrizio (born 17 September 1984) is a professional motorcycle road racer.From to , he raced in the Superbike World Championship.
He currently competes in the CIV Supersport 600 Championship, aboard a MV Agusta F3 675.Born in Frascati, near Rome, Fabrizio first raced in Minimoto at the age of 6, winning several titles before reaching his teens.He won the Aprilia Challenge in 2001, and raced in the 125 cc World Championship for Gilera in 2002, with little success.
In 2004 he made his first appearance in MotoGP, with the WCM team, failing to complete the season and finishing the season 22nd cc-gp.htm.In 2005 he raced in the Supersport World Championship, on a factory Honda.He was 5th overall, with 9 top 5 results in the 12 races, although without a win.
For Fabrizio was teamed with the veteran Pierfrancesco Chili on privateer Honda machinery.He started his career with fifth and eighth at Qatar.He stood in for Toni Elías on MotoGP Fortuna Honda at Donington Park, but crashed in practice and broke his collarbone.
He replaced the injured Elías again for the same team in the 2007 German Grand Prix at Sachsenring on July 15, 2007.At Brno in the 2006 Superbike World Championship, he started tenth, but chose hard-compound tyres, which remained on the pace as other riders faded.In the first race he passed a fading Andrew Pitt as well as Fonsi Nieto, Troy Corser and Noriyuki Haga in the closing laps to score his first Superbike World Championship podium finish.
In race two he fared even better - after passing James Toseland for fourth towards the end, he caught the battle for second between Haga and Corser.As Corser attempted a move, Fabrizio dived down the inside of both, slithering and nearly hitting Haga, before edging ahead of them both to the line, immediately improving on his career-best result with a second.His best results of 2007 were two third places, at Assen and Brno.
In both seasons he was eleventh overall.In he raced alongside Troy Bayliss for Ducati Xerox Team on the new Ducati 1098.He came third in race one at Philip Island, Australia, despite a huge crash at the original start.
At Miller Motorsports Park, he qualified on the front row and took a pair of third places, despite dropping to eleventh on lap one of the first race.He had a double-DNF at Assen, shortly before an arm operation, and finished a career-best 8th overall.For 2009, he stays on at Ducati Xerox, partnering Noriyuki Haga after Bayliss' retirement.
His first WSBK win (in his 94th start) came at Monza after Ben Spies ran out of fuel.Seven successive podiums followed, cementing his third place in the standings behind Haga and Spies.This run ended at Brno when he took Spies down as they battled for the lead.
He finished the season third overall.Fabrizio and Haga both continue with the team for 2010.The bike dominated pre-season testing at Phillip Island.
After Ducati announced that they would be ending support for their World Superbike operations at the end of the 2010 season, Fabrizio agreed a contract with Team Suzuki Alstare to race in the 2011 Superbike World Championship season.In August 2009, after Casey Stoner announced his intention to withdraw from the next three Grand Prix, it was announced that his place in the Ducati Marlboro team would be taken by Mika Kallio whilst the Finn's place at Pramac Racing would be taken by Fabrizio.His race was marred by physical difficulties, which caused him to retire from the first race in Brno.
Gilgamesh flood myth The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the "Epic of Gilgamesh".Many scholars believe that the flood myth was added to Tablet XI in the "standard version" of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who used the flood story from the Epic of Atrahasis.
A short reference to the flood myth is also present in the much older Sumerian Gilgamesh poems, from which the later Babylonian versions drew much of their inspiration and subject matter.Gilgamesh’s supposed historical reign is believed to have been approximately 2700 BCE, shortly before the earliest known written stories.The discovery of artifacts associated with Aga and Enmebaragesi of Kish, two other kings named in the stories, has lent credibility to the historical existence of Gilgamesh.
The earliest Sumerian Gilgamesh poems date from as early as the Third dynasty of Ur (2100–2000 BCE).One of these poems mentions Gilgamesh’s journey to meet the flood hero, as well as a short version of the flood story.The earliest Akkadian versions of the unified epic are dated to ca.
2000–1500 BCE.Due to the fragmentary nature of these Old Babylonian versions, it is unclear whether they included an expanded account of the flood myth; although one fragment definitely includes the story of Gilgamesh's journey to meet Utnapishtim.The "standard" Akkadian version included a long version of the story and was edited by Sin-liqe-unninni, who lived sometime between 1300 and 1000 BCE.
The Gilgamesh flood tablet XI contains additional story material besides the flood.The flood story was included because in it the flood hero Utnapishtim is granted immortality by the gods and that fits the immortality theme of the epic.The main point seems to be that Utnapishtim was granted eternal life in unique, never-to-be-repeated circumstances.
As if to demonstrate this point, Utnapishtim challenges Gilgamesh to stay awake for six days and seven nights.However, as soon as Utnapishtim finishes speaking Gilgamesh falls asleep.Utnapishtim instructs his wife to bake a loaf of bread for every day he is asleep so that Gilgamesh cannot deny his failure.
Gilgamesh, who wants to overcome death, cannot even conquer sleep.As Gilgamesh is leaving, Utnapishtim's wife asks her husband to offer a parting gift.Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh of a boxthorn-like plant at the very bottom of the ocean that will make him young again.
Gilgamesh obtains the plant by binding stones to his feet so he can walk on the bottom of the sea.He recovers the plant and plans to test it on an old man when he returns to Uruk.Unfortunately, when Gilgamesh stops to bathe it is stolen by a serpent that sheds its skin as it departs, apparently reborn.
Gilgamesh, having failed both chances, returns to Uruk, where the sight of its massive walls provokes him to praise this enduring work of mortal men.The implication may be that mortals can achieve immortality through lasting works of civilization and culture.Lines 1-203, Tablet XI (note
According to Atrahasis III ii, lines 40–47 the flood hero was at a banquet when the storm and flood began
But he (Atrahasis) was in and out.He could not sit, could not crouch, for his heart was broken and he was vomiting gall.
"According to Tigay, Atrahasis tablet III iv, lines 6–9 clearly identify the flood as a local river flood
Like a raft they have moved in to the edge [of the boat].Like a raft they have moved in to the riverbank.
"The sentence "Like dragonflies they have filled the river."
was changed in Gilgamesh XI line 123 to "Like the spawn of fishes, they fill the sea.
"Tigay holds that we can see the mythmaker's hand at work here, changing a local river flood into an ocean deluge.Most other authorities interpret the Atrahasis flood as universal.
A. R. George, and Lambert and Millard make it clear that the gods' intention in Atrahasis is to "wipe out mankind".The flood destroys "all of the earth".The use of a comparable metaphor in the Gilgamesh epic suggests that the reference to "dragonflies [filling] the river" is simply an evocative image of death rather than a literal description of the flood However, the local river flood in Atrahasis could accomplish destruction of all "mankind" and "all of the earth" if the scope of "mankind" is limited to all of the people living on "all of the land" of the flood plains in the lower river valley known to the Atrahasis writer.
Other editorial changes were made to the Atrahasis text in Gilgamesh to lessen the suggestion that the gods may have experienced human needs.For example, Atrahasis OB III, 30–31 "The Anunnaki, the great gods [were sitt]ing in thirst and hunger" was changed in Gilgamesh XI, line 113 to "The gods feared the deluge.
"Sentences in Atrahasis III iv were omitted in Gilgamesh, e.g.
"She was surfeited with grief and thirsted for beer" and "From hunger they were suffering cramp.
"These and other editorial changes to Atrahasis are documented and described in the book by Prof. Tigay (see below) who is associate professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages and literature in the University of Pennsylvania.Prof.
Tigay comments
These lines share a common theme, the hunger and thirst of the gods during the flood.
"Although the 18th century BC copy of the Atrahasis (Atra-Hasis) epic post-dates the early Gilgamesh epic, we do not know whether the Old-Akkadian Gilgamesh tablets included the flood story, because of the fragmentary nature of surviving tablets.Some scholars argue that they did not.
Tigay, for example, maintains that three major additions to the Gilgamesh epic, namely the prologue, the flood story (tablet XI), and tablet XII, were added by an editor or editors, possibly by Sin-leqi-unninni, to whom the entire epic was later attributed.According to this view, the flood story in tablet XI was based on a late version of the Atrahasis story.As with most translations, especially from an ancient, dead language, scholars differ on the meaning of ambiguous sentences.
For example, line 57 in Gilgamesh XI is usually translated (with reference to the boat) "ten rods the height of her sides", or "its walls were each 10 times 12 cubits in height".A rod was a dozen cubits, and a Sumerian cubit was about 20 inches.Hence these translations imply that the boat was about 200 feet high, which would be impractical with the technology in Gilgamesh's time (about 2700 BC).
There is no Akkadian word for "height" in line 57.The sentence literally reads "Ten dozen-cubits each I-raised its-walls.
"A similar example from an unrelated house building tablet reads
This measurement (about 83 feet) means wall length not height.Line 142 in Gilgamesh XI is usually translated "Mount Niṣir held the boat, allowing no motion.
"Niṣir is often spelled "Nimush", which is described as the newer reading.
The Akkadian words translated "Mount Niṣir" are "KUR-ú KUR ni-ṣir".The word KUR could mean hill or country; it is capitalized because it is a Sumerian word.The first KUR is followed by a phonetic complement "-ú" which indicates that KUR-ú is to be read in Akkadian as "šadú" (hill) and not as "mātu" (country).
Since "šadú" (hill) could also mean "mountain" in Akkadian, and scholars knew the Biblical expression "Mount Ararat", it has become customary to translate "šadú" as "mountain" or "mount".The flood hero was Sumerian, according to the WB-62 Sumerian King List.In Sumerian the word KUR's primary meaning is "mountain" as attested by the sign used for it.
From the word mountain, the meaning "foreign country" is developed due to mountainous countries bordering Sumer.KUR in Sumerian also means "land" in general.The second KUR lacks a phonetic complement and is therefore read in Akkadian as "mātu" (country).
Hence, the entire clause reads "The hill/mound country niṣir held the boat".Lines 146-147 in Gilgamesh XI are usually translated "I ... made sacrifice, incense I placed on the peak of the mountain.
"Similarly "I poured out a libation on the peak of the mountain."
But Kovacs provides this translation of line 156
The sentence literally reads "I placed an offering on top of a hilly ziggurat.
"A ziggurat was an elevated platform or temple tower where priests made offerings to the temple god.Most translators of line 157 disregard ziq-qur-rat as a redundant metaphor for peak.
There is no authority for this other than previous translations of line 157.Kovacs' translation retains the word ziggurat on page 102.One of the Sumerian cities with a ziggurat was Eridu located on the southern branch of the Euphrates River next to a large swampy low-lying depression known as the apsû.
The only ziggurat at Eridu was at the temple of the god Ea (Enki), known as the apsû-house.In Gilgamesh XI, line 42 the flood hero said "I will go down [the river] to the apsû to live with Ea, my Lord.
"Lines 189–192 (lines 198–201) in Gilgamesh XI are usually translated "Then godEnlil came aboard the boat.
He took hold of my hand and brought me on board.He brought aboard my wife and made her kneel at my side.Standing between us, he touched our foreheads to bless us."
Longsands Academy Longsands Academy is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in the town of St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, England.It is one of two St Neots secondary schools that are part of the Astrea Academy Trust, with Ernulf Academy being the other.
Longsands Academy was opened in September 1960 as "Longsands School", a secondary modern, under headmaster Harold K Whiting assisted by Deputy Head Mr Denny and Head Mistress Miss K C Flowerdew.The school's four houses were Rutherford (after Physicist Ernest Rutherford), Britten (after composer Benjamin Britten), Eliot (after poet Thomas Stearns Eliot) and Moore (after sculptor Henry Moore).When opened the school had four years.
The 1st year was streamed into 1E, 1A, 1S, and 1T, 2nd year 2N, 2O, 2R, 2T and 2H, 3rd year 3S, 3O, 3U, 3T, 3H and 4th year 4W, 4E, 4S, 4T.The use of the letters of the cardinal points of the compass being a way of partially disguising which classes were streamed the highest.The 5th year was started in 1961 for those pupils staying on beyond school leaving age (then 15) who were taking the GCE at O level.
Subsequently, Longsands became a comprehensive school and acquired a Sixth Form, and was heavily expanded.It was known as "Longsands Community College" until the late 1990s before being shortened to "Longsands College"'.In August 2011 Longsands College was renamed to Longsands Academy, as Longsands became an academy.
The academy accommodates students between the age of 11 and 18.The upper two years are part of the Sixth Form, which is based in a separate self-contained block on site.The school facilities include a sports hall, two gyms, a library, a stage for theatrical productions, an enclosed courtyard, and a large outdoor area including cricket strip and two rugby pitches, as well as a football pitch, long jump pit and all weather floodlit football/hockey pitch.
The school once had a museum located within the building, which closed in 1989 following the death of teacher Granville Rudd, who taught archaeology and museum studies with many of the contents (including an impressive collection of human skulls) later being transferred to St Neots town museum.The old museum room was used primarily as a classroom until 2003 when it was converted into two classrooms with remaining artefacts being donated to other museums.Media Lab The Media Lab was opened in December 2005, some six months after designation of Specialist Status as an Academy with a specialism in Media.
Originally a boiler room, it now houses a video editing suite, radio studio facility.The suite is used by other schools in the local community.The Horizon Association was formed in 1992.
It contains two schools in England, one in Wales, one in Spain, two in Italy, one in Moscow, two in France, two in Germany and two in the Netherlands.Horizon was formed by Michel Rousseau-Rambaud who was Head of a lycée in Angers in France.The purpose in forming the organisation was to further the ideal of European citizenship.
Xirovouni Xirovouni () is a former municipality in the Arta regional unit, Epirus, Greece.Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Arta, of which it is a municipal unit.
The municipal unit has an area of 123.634 km2.Population 3,184 (2011).The seat of the municipality was in Ammotopos.
František Wolf František Wolf (1904–1989) was a Czech mathematician known for his contributions to trigonometry and mathematical analysis, specifically the study of the perturbation of linear operators.Wolf was born 1904 in Prostějov, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and now part of the Czech Republic, the elder of two children of a furniture maker.
He studied physics at Charles University in Prague, and then mathematics at Masaryk University in Brno under the supervision of Otakar Borůvka; he was awarded a doctorate in 1928 (degree "Rerum Naturum Doctor").He then taught mathematics at the high school level until 1937, when he obtained a faculty position at Charles University.When the German army invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, Wolf obtained an invitation to visit the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Sweden; he remained in Sweden as part of the underground resistance to the Germans until 1941 before emigrating to the United States.
He taught at Macalester College for a year, and then joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1942.At Berkeley, he was one of the co-founders of the "Pacific Journal of Mathematics" in 1951.He retired in 1972, but then moved to Guatemala where he helped to set up a graduate program in mathematics at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.
List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to India Countries belonging to the Commonwealth of Nations exchange High Commissioners rather than Ambassadors.Though there are a few technical differences (for instance, whereas Ambassadors present their diplomatic credentials to the host country's head of state, High Commissioners are accredited to the head of government), they are in practice the same office.
Celebrity Big Brother (Australian TV series) Celebrity Big Brother was a celebrity edition of "Big Brother".It lasted for 24 days, starting on 21 July 2002 and ending on 12 August 2002.
A proportion of the profits from "Eviction" votes went to charities.This was the only series of "Celebrity Big Brother" that was made as a part of the Big Brother Australia format.This series used the same house from "Big Brother 2", which itself used the house from "Big Brother 1", but slightly remodeled.
The bathroom was off limits to the cameras.Several guest celebrities appeared briefly in the series on only a temporary basis without becoming a housemate.These included Carla Bonner ("Neighbours" actress) and Bert Newton.
Ed Bighead Edward Bighead is a fictional character in the cartoon series "Rocko's Modern Life" and the comic book series of the same name.Mr.
Bighead, a anthropomorphic cane toad, lives next door to the main character of the show, Rocko, whom he vehemently dislikes.
In the television show, he is voiced by Charles Adler.Joe Murray, the creator of "Rocko's Modern Life", said that he based the Bigheads on a group of neighbors who lived next door to Murray during his childhood.Murray described the neighbors as "grumpy and pissed about everything."
The general concept involving characters with large heads originated from a comic, written by Murray, named "Rizzo the Art Director.
"Ed Bighead is an employee at a large corporation.He is cold, petty, evil, bossy, and has a terrible temper; in fact, the only people that he fears are his wife, Bev and his boss, Mr. Dupette.
He particularly dislikes Rocko and his friends, Heffer Wolfe and Filburt.He usually yells at anyone he sees, and grumbles bitterly under his breath at any situation he finds even slightly troubling.In the original television show, Ed works at the Conglom-O Corporation, the largest company in town.
He has worked at Conglom-O since at least 1961, yet despite his long tenure, his "slimy boss" Mr. Dupette, has never promoted him into a permanent position in the top echelons of the company.While his actual job at Conglom-O varies throughout the course of the show, he seems to be stuck in mostly middle management roles that occasionally cause him a great deal of stress (She's the Toad, Zanzibar).He has also been shown as a lowly worker (Teed Off, Magic Meatball) to being an executive of sorts (Closet Clown, Canned).
In the episode Teed Off, Ed states his current job at Conglom-O is "Checking the bottle caps on all the bottles.
"And agrees to lose a round of golf to Mr. Dupette (in secret) in order to get a promotion to "Put" the bottle caps on the bottles, a prospect that seems very thrilling to him.In the later seasons of the show, his character is fleshed out more.
He is shown to display, at times, genuine affection for Rocko and his friends (Old Fogey Froggy, Put to Pasture), but is mostly grouchy towards them.However, in "", he became to be on better terms with Rocko when they helped save O-town.In the comic book, Ed Bighead works for a similar company headed by a white elephant named Donald Frump (a parody of Donald Trump).
Ed is the husband of Bev Bighead, and Bev is the only character in the series that can turn Ed from mean to downright terrified.They celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in “I Have No Son”.Bev has the strength to stand up to Ed, and this makes her quite a powerful figure.
Indeed, she is probably the most powerful figure for Ed, because anyone else who Ed torments never does anything to stop it.Therefore, the other characters, particularly Rocko, are always under his control.He does not have many friends and is disliked by many, but appears to not be bothered by this.
He had an estranged relationship with his son Ralph, who created a show called "The Fatheads," which was loosely based off his parents.Ralph also becomes a cartoonist instead of following Ed's footsteps at Conglom-O, which caused Ed to deny he had a son.The two of them later reconciled after Rocko and Filburt contact him about his parents’ 30th anniversary.
They both renconcile at the end when they admitted they still care for each other (Ralph even kept the donut from the initiation at Conglom-O).Ralph eventually came out as transgender under the name Rachel in "" and although Ed wasn't accepting at first, he later accepted the transition.Ed usually played the role of an antagonist, or the bully.
Corymbia citriodora Corymbia citriodora, commonly known as lemon-scented gum or spotted gum, is a species of tall tree that is endemic to north-eastern Australia.It has smooth white to pink bark, narrow lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, white flowers and urn-shaped or barrel-shaped fruit.
"Corymbia citriodora" is a tree that typically grows to a height of , sometimes to and forms a lignotuber.It has smooth, pale, uniform or slightly mottled, white to pink or coppery bark that is shed in thin flakes.Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves that are long and wide.
Adult leaves are the same shade of glossy green on both sides, often lemon-scented when crushed, narrow lance-shaped to curved, long and wide tapering to a petiole long.The flower buds are borne in leaf axils on a branched peduncle long, each branch with three buds on pedicels long.Mature buds are oval to pear-shaped, long and wide with a rounded, conical or slightly beaked operculum.
Flowering occurs in most months and the flowers are white.The fruit is a woody urn-shaped or barrel-shaped capsule long and wide with the valves enclosed in the fruit.Lemon-scented gum was first formally described in 1848 by William Jackson Hooker in Thomas Mitchell's "Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia".
In 1995 Ken Hill and Lawrie Johnson changed the name to "Corymbia citriodora".The specific epithet ("citriodora") is Latin, meaning "lemon-scented".
"Corymbia citriodora" is similar to "C. maculata" and "C. henryi".
"Corymbia citriodora" grows in undulating country in open forest and woodland in several disjunct areas in Queensland and as far south as Coffs Harbour in New South Wales.In Queensland it is found as far north as Lakeland Downs and Cooktown and as far inland as Hughenden and Chinchilla.Plants of "C. citriodora" are naturalised in the Darling Range near Mundaring, Western Australia and by planting to suburban New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria.