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[ { "id": "11341299", "title": "Henry Feilden (Conservative politician)", "text": " Henry Master Feilden (21 February 1818 – 5 September 1875) was an English Conservative Party politician.", "score": "1.6985543" }, { "id": "3064835", "title": "Feilden", "text": "Bernard Feilden (1919–2008), British conservation architect ; Bob Feilden (1917–2004), British mechanical engineer ; Gerry Feilden (1904–1981), British general and horse racing identity ; Henry Feilden (disambiguation) ; Joseph Feilden (1824–1895), British politician ; Richard Feilden (1950–2005), British architect ; William Feilden (1772–1850), British politician ", "score": "1.5850108" }, { "id": "14189134", "title": "Feilden baronets", "text": " Henry Wemyss Feilden, second son of the second Baronet, was an Arctic explorer.", "score": "1.572508" }, { "id": "13370826", "title": "Bernard Feilden", "text": " Feilden was born in Hampstead, London. He was educated at Bedford School and The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London, completing his training at the Architectural Association after the second world war. His love of architecture was inherited from his grandfather, Brightwen Binyon (1846-1905), an Ipswich architect and former pupil of Alfred Waterhouse. He joined the practice of Edward Boardman and Son in Norwich, where he designed the Trinity United Reformed Church. He set up an architectural practice, Feilden+Mawson, with David Mawson in 1956, to which offices in Norwich, London and Cambridge were later added. In 1968 Feilden took over as consultant architect to the University ", "score": "1.544341" }, { "id": "2423008", "title": "Henry Wemyss Feilden", "text": " Colonel Henry Wemyss Feilden, CB (6 October 1838 – 8 June 1921) was a British Army officer, Arctic explorer and naturalist.", "score": "1.5208797" }, { "id": "11361512", "title": "Richard Feilden", "text": " In 2005, the Richard Feilden Foundation was set up in his memory. The charity is a network of professionals, with expertise of the built environment and education sectors who provide skills and transfer knowledge to enhance educational infrastructure across Africa. It partners with like-minded organisations and individuals to collaborate on building education projects in Africa.", "score": "1.5164903" }, { "id": "2423009", "title": "Henry Wemyss Feilden", "text": " Feilden was the second son of Sir William Henry Feilden (1812−1879), 2nd Baronet of Feniscowles. Feilden was born at Newbridge Barracks in Kildare where his father was then serving in the 17th Lancers. He was educated at Cheltenham College. After joining the Black Watch, at the age of nineteen, he fought in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny 1857-58 and at the Taku Forts in China in 1860. In 1862 he volunteered for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War of 1861−1865. He served as assistant adjutant-general with the remnant of the Army of Tennessee under General Joseph E. Johnston and was present at the surrender at Bennett Place. He then returned ", "score": "1.5119551" }, { "id": "13370825", "title": "Bernard Feilden", "text": " Sir Bernard Melchior Feilden CBE FRIBA (11 September 1919 – 14 November 2008) was a conservation architect whose work encompassed cathedrals, the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal.", "score": "1.500639" }, { "id": "3064837", "title": "Feilden", "text": "Feilden baronets ", "score": "1.492554" }, { "id": "11361509", "title": "Richard Feilden", "text": " Feilden was born in Lincoln on 29 March 1950. His father, Bob Feilden, was an engineer who served as the Director General of the British Standards Institution from 1970 to 1981. His uncle Bernard Feilden was a conservation architect. Richard Feilden changed his university studies from engineering to architecture, graduating from Cambridge University, followed by further studies at the Architectural Association. In 1978 he set up his own architecture practice in Bath, Somerset, with fellow architect Peter Clegg: now Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. The practice specialised in designing and constructing low-energy housing. He built his own house in Warleigh, Wiltshire. He was known to be outspoken, honest and critical of the problems with building design and wider issues, such as global sustainability. He argued that head teachers should be centrally involved in the design of their schools and criticised the mediocrity ", "score": "1.4920564" }, { "id": "11341300", "title": "Henry Feilden (Conservative politician)", "text": " On 16 March 1869, the result of the 1868 general election in the borough of Blackburn was declared null and void, after an election petition had been lodged. The two Conservatives who had been elected, William Henry Hornby and Feilden's father Joseph Feilden, were unseated when Mr Justice Willes found that there had been widespread intimidation of voters. Henry Feilden was elected at the resulting by-election on 31 March 1869, along with William Henry Hornby's son Edward. Both candidates had appealed for support as a tribute to their fathers. Feilden was re-elected at the 1874 general election, and held the seat until his death in 1875 aged 57.", "score": "1.4919429" }, { "id": "2423010", "title": "Henry Wemyss Feilden", "text": " the British Army, where he made captain in the Royal Artillery in 1874. He served in the First Boer War in 1881 and again in Africa in 1890. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War, he was again appointed Paymaster of Imperial Yeomanry on 3 February 1900. He was decorated for his service in India, China and South Africa, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) for his services to Imperial Yeomanry in 1900. Feilden also collected information on the geology, flora and fauna of newly explored areas, and served as naturalist on Sir George Nares' British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76 on board Alert. During his service in ", "score": "1.4881613" }, { "id": "15257876", "title": "Henry Raymond Selden", "text": " Henry Raymond Selden (1821–1865) from Vermont, was an officer in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War, and in service on the frontiers and then in the Union Army during the American Civil War in New Mexico Territory.", "score": "1.4875369" }, { "id": "3064834", "title": "Feilden", "text": " Feilden may refer to:", "score": "1.4823432" }, { "id": "2423011", "title": "Henry Wemyss Feilden", "text": " he contributed notes on the birds of the region to Allan Octavian Hume. He was a fast friend of the famous writer and poet Rudyard Kipling. The surgeon on HMS Alert, Dr Edward L. Moss, held a low opinion of Feilden's scientific expertise. In 1864, Feilden married Julia, daughter of Judge David James McCord (1797–1855) of South Carolina. In 1880 Feilden settled in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. Feilden joined the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society in 1880 and became President in 1885. He lived in Norfolk for over 20 years, moving to Burwash, Sussex in 1902. One of his discoveries in 1888 was a stuffed specimen of the Great Bustard which had been shot in Norfolk. ", "score": "1.4706583" }, { "id": "2423012", "title": "Henry Wemyss Feilden", "text": " contributed to Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society and submitted scientific papers to The Zoologist and Ibis (the journal of the British Ornithologists' Union, to which he was elected in 1873), amongst others. In 1895 and 1897, accompanying Henry J. Pearson, Feilden partook in expeditions to Novaya Zemlya, Kolguyev, Spitsbergen, Lapland and the Kara Sea. As well as being a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Feilden was nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, but was rejected. The following is from his nomination certificate: \"Was naturalist to Sir George Nares' Polar Expedition of 1875−6, when, besides making large and valuable zoological observations and collections, he laid down ", "score": "1.4671994" }, { "id": "2423013", "title": "Henry Wemyss Feilden", "text": " geology of 300 miles of the coast of Smith's Sound, and brought home 2000 specimens, carefully localised, illustrating and confirming his surveys. On the same voyage he discovered the Miocene Flora of Grinnell's Land, his collection and observations on which from an important contribution to Heer's \"Flora Fossilis Arctica.\" He has made three subsequent voyages to Arctic Europe and Asia, visiting Novaya Zemlya, Barents Land, Kolguev Island, Spitsbergen, and Russian Lapland, for the purpose of collating the geology, zoology, and botany of Arctic Europe with those of America…\" Feilden died at his home in Burwash in 1921, aged 83, about one year after his wife Julia McCord Feilden (1837–1920). He had no children.", "score": "1.4644794" }, { "id": "11361508", "title": "Richard Feilden", "text": " Richard John Robert Feilden OBE (29 March 1950 – 3 January 2005) was a British architect who co-founded Feilden Clegg Architects.", "score": "1.4590552" }, { "id": "11361510", "title": "Richard Feilden", "text": " school design. According to architect Sunand Prasad, Feilden's greatest achievement was to form Feilden Clegg into \"a modern form of practice that explicitly embraces the collaborative nature of producing architecture.\" In 1998 he became part of Lord Rogers' Urban Task Force and, in 2000, was appointed to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. Feilden was accidentally killed in Warleigh on 3 January 2005, when a tree fell on him while he was clearing a patch of woodland as a memorial to his father, who had died eight months earlier. In tribute the 2005 RIBA President, George Ferguson, said of Feilden: \"He showed that good architecture needn't be showy or iconic. What is great about his practice is that, although Richard led from the front, it wasn't reliant on one single person. They're the one firm we lose to graciously.\"", "score": "1.4562211" }, { "id": "25520532", "title": "Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios", "text": " The Richard Feilden Foundation was set up in memory of Richard Feilden in 2005. The charity’s mission is to support sustainable architecture and education projects in Africa, promoting community involvement and the use of African expertise and technologies. The charity uses the skills and knowledge of the practice to work with like-minded organisations. Projects include an HIV Training Clinic in Mzuzu Malawi, Rubengera Technical Secondary School in Rwanda and a number of schools in Uganda.", "score": "1.4467373" } ]

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[ { "id": "5316421", "title": "Herlyn Espinal", "text": " Espinal was born and raised in the Santa Rita district of Yoro. In a 2009 interview he said that from an early age he had aspirations of becoming a journalist. In his youth, Espinal was active in the La Fragua theater company in El Progreso, Yoro.", "score": "1.8138638" }, { "id": "5316420", "title": "Herlyn Espinal", "text": " Herlyn Iván Espinal Martínez (14 September 1982 – 20 July 2014) was a Honduran journalist and television reporter who worked as chief correspondent in San Pedro Sula, the second largest city in Honduras, for Televicentro's daily newscast Hoy Mismo. Espinal was abducted in the vicinity of Santa Rita, in the department of Yoro, early on the morning of 20 July 2014. He was found dead, a victim of multiple gunshot wounds, in a nearby location on the morning of 21 July. He was the forty-third journalist killed in Honduras since 2013.", "score": "1.7767518" }, { "id": "5316424", "title": "Herlyn Espinal", "text": " Espinal was found dead on 21 July 2014. He was 31 at the time of his murder. In the aftermath of his murder, contradictory information circulated regarding the last hours of his life and the circumstances of his death. Some sources claimed he was shot two times, others that he had been shot up to five times. One report of his death stated that the city in which he worked, San Pedro Sula, is \"considered the most violent city in the most violent country on the planet\". Espinal's mother stated that he had been at her home in Santa Rita watching television around 9 ", "score": "1.6238754" }, { "id": "5316422", "title": "Herlyn Espinal", "text": " His first job as a journalist was with a local television channel in Agua Blanca Sur, Yoro, as a reporter and a presenter. He did both his own field work and presented it later on camera. He told an interviewer that journalists should always be \"objective, impartial, and honest\", and that journalists who take bribes will ultimately be exposed, adding, \"Truth is mighty and will prevail\". He also worked as a correspondent for Radio Progreso. Both the La Frague theater company and Radio Progreso were founded by the Jesuit order in El Progreso, Yoro. As chief correspondent for Hoy Mismo, which aired in San Pedro ", "score": "1.5473511" }, { "id": "5316425", "title": "Herlyn Espinal", "text": " on July 19 when an unidentified man phoned and arranged a meeting, which Espinal agree to. Later that evening, according to multiple accounts, Espinal met with friends at a restaurant in Santa Rita, and also left with friends very early on the morning of July 20, 2014. He reportedly arrived back at his mother's home around 3 a.m., parked his car in front of the house, and then voluntarily entered a white panel truck in which three other persons were seated. Some sources added further details, some of which appeared to conflict with others for timeline reasons. It was stated, for example, that ", "score": "1.5463312" }, { "id": "5316423", "title": "Herlyn Espinal", "text": " Cortés, Honduras's second largest city, he coordinated all news reports from northern Honduras. On multiple occasions he ran as a Liberal Party candidate for city council, and at the time of his death was planning to run yet again. He said in 2009 that his \"greatest personal ambition\" was to pursue investigative journalism and to become mayor of Santa Rita and create new work opportunities for the town. The two people he admired most, he stated, were his grandmother, \"a worthy example of perseverance and triumph\", and his mother. At the time of his murder, he was living in an apartment in San Pedro Sula.", "score": "1.5129324" }, { "id": "5316426", "title": "Herlyn Espinal", "text": " after leaving Las Tejas at around 2 a.m., had soon after joined up with friends with whom he proceeded to socialize at various other places in Santa Rita. Another detail that was mentioned in some reports but not others had Espinal arriving that same night at the Paradise Motel shortly after 3:00 a.m. and leaving it shortly before 4:00 a.m. At least one source stated that he had entered the Paradise Motel with \"a man of fair complexion, height about 1.93 m tall and burly\", and had left the motel with that man, Espinal being at that point \"semi-naked\". Also at around 4 ", "score": "1.499503" }, { "id": "726651", "title": "Ari Espinal", "text": " Aridia Espinal (born c. 1988) is an American politician from New York.", "score": "1.4691113" }, { "id": "5316428", "title": "Herlyn Espinal", "text": " Espinal's body was reportedly discovered along a road between the towns of El Olivar and La Danta in an area called El Batey, in the department of Yoro. He was allegedly found face down and shirtless, his body already partially decomposed and his face disfigured by gunfire. Several reports variously described his body as having been found in a vacant lot, in bushes in a pasture, and in a ditch. One report indicated that according to forensics reports, he had been shot five times, sustaining wounds to his arm, torso, neck, and a fatal shot to the back of the head, and had been killed about 24 hours before his body was found, which was inconsistent with known facts. His body was reportedly identified at the scene by his stepfather, José Santos Ramírez, and another relative, José Jiménez. On the same day that Espinal's body was found, a pool of blood and shell casings were purportedly found on a bridge over the Humuya River on the road between Santa Rita and La Barca.", "score": "1.4552312" }, { "id": "5316430", "title": "Herlyn Espinal", "text": " una Ciudadanía Participativa (ACI PARTICIPA) and El Centro de Prevención, Tratamiento y Rehabilitación de Victimas de la Tortura y sus Familiares (CPTRT), expressed deep concern over the disappearance and murder of Espinal. Juan Mairena, head of the Honduran journalists' association, called his murder \"a heavy blow for journalism\". After the Honduran Minister of Security, Arturo Corrales, suggested that the killing may have been a crime of passion or the result of an inheritance dispute, rather than an act of retribution motivated by his work as a reporter, PEN, the international organization for writers, expressed concern that investigators had ruled out Espinal's activity as a journalist as a possible motive within 24 hours of his body being found.", "score": "1.4494631" }, { "id": "5316433", "title": "Herlyn Espinal", "text": " had attended a party. It was reported that Bueso, after his arrest, had spoken with police for six hours and that he maintained that authorities had singled him out only because he owned a white vehicle similar to the one that Espinal had last been seen entering. Authorities stated with \"great fanfare\" on 29 August that Bueso was \"instrumental\" in the case, but the next day they released him, citing lack of evidence of his involvement. On 31 August, the public prosecutor claimed that Bueso had never been detained, but had simply been interviewed as a witness because he was one of ", "score": "1.447213" }, { "id": "5316436", "title": "Herlyn Espinal", "text": " considered a perpetrator, and that there was also an arrest order out for another person in connection with the murder. In mid-September 2014, Hector Hernandez, coordinator of forensic medicine in San Pedro Sula, who had already been subjected to a 15-day suspension, was removed from his position because he had made public statements about the murder of Espinal. He had said that Espinal had died of multiple gunshot wounds, even though evidence had not yet been collected at the scene. While Hernandez would continue to operate as a forensic doctor on call, he would no longer be coordinator of the city morgue.", "score": "1.4258015" }, { "id": "5316434", "title": "Herlyn Espinal", "text": " last people to see Espinal alive. A local commentator, who criticized authorities on 31 August for their supposed sloppiness in the matter of Bueso, also charged them with failing to follow up leads properly and refusing to make information about the investigation publicly available. This same commentator also made sweeping accusations of official corruption and incompetence in the handling of the case, and noted that suspicion had now fallen upon a person named Juan Carlos Acosta Manzanares, although a similarity in names and appearance had caused someone named Juan Carlos Acostas Meléndez to be dragged into the case. On 1 September, Espinal's ", "score": "1.4162192" }, { "id": "27726857", "title": "Raynel Espinal", "text": " Raynel Joseph Espinal (born October 6, 1991) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher wjp os a free agent. He has made a single appearance in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox. Listed at 6 ft and 215 lb, he throws and bats right-handed.", "score": "1.409116" }, { "id": "8899115", "title": "Rogelio Espina", "text": " Espina was born in Manila, Philippines. From 1976 to 1980, he studied at the Far Eastern University with a bachelor's degree on zoology. From 1980 to 1984 at the same school, he studied a degree on Doctor of Medicine. He was a medical specialist in the Philippine Department of Health (Valenzuela District) from January 1, 1997 to April 1, 1998.", "score": "1.3929961" }, { "id": "2976460", "title": "Gerardo Espina Jr.", "text": " Gerardo J. Espina Jr. (born August 7, 1970), also known as Gerry Espina, is a Filipino politician. He is currently the Representative of the lone District of Biliran, having been elected in the 2010 elections. Prior to this, he was a member of the 13th Congress of the Philippines as representative of the lone legislative district of Biliran which he served for one term from 2004-2007.", "score": "1.3902413" }, { "id": "12576432", "title": "Pinoy Idol", "text": " 16 and August 17, 2008 at the SMX Convention Center. Gretchen (Stephanie) Espina is 20 from Biliran. She is the daughter of Rogelio J. Espina, the governor of the said province. She is studying in the University of the Philippines, Diliman where she is a member of the internationally acclaimed University of the Philippines Singing Ambassadors (UPSA). During the competition, she was never in the bottom group. She auditioned in Pasay accompanied by a bodyguard. Jay Ann \"Jayann\" Bautista is 21 from Pampanga. She studies in the University of the Philippines, Diliman and her parents run their own businesses. She was formerly a ", "score": "1.3902358" }, { "id": "12596238", "title": "Inday Espina-Varona", "text": " Ma. Salvacion Espina Varona, more popularly known as Inday Espina-Varona is a Filipina journalist. She is Head of Regions for Rappler.com. She was formerly became a senior contributing editor and a writer for ABS-CBN Integrated News & Current Affairs.", "score": "1.3827875" }, { "id": "8124050", "title": "Erika Casupanan", "text": " Casupanan was born in the municipality of Hermosa, located in Bataan, a province of the Philippines. When she was young, she emigrated with her parents to Canada. She grew up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, where she attended St. Paul Catholic High School. She later earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media, Information & Technoculture from the University of Western Ontario (Western University). Eventually, she moved to Toronto, where she worked as an agency consultant at Media Profile for five years, and a communications manager at Kijiji for four years.", "score": "1.3719412" }, { "id": "8027147", "title": "Gretchen Espina", "text": " Espina came from a musically-inclined family who is also the prominent political family in Biliran, with her father, Congressman Dr. Rogelio \"Roger\" J. Espina, Representative of the Lone District of Biliran, described as a \"good piano player and singer.\" Her mother, Cecil, works as a pediatrician; while her grandfather, Gerry, was a Mayor of Kawayan, Biliran. Her uncle, Gerry (Gerryboy) Espina Jr. is the present Governor of Biliran. Espina was born in Quezon City, Metro Manila, where she spent her early years studying in School of the Holy Spirit before transferring to Naval Central School where she finished elementary level with honors. She had her secondary education in Cathedral School of La Naval, where she graduated as a salutatorian. Espina pursued college in University of the Philippines Diliman campus in Quezon City, with a major in European Languages. She is a member of The University of the Philippines Singing Ambassadors and represented UP in the Inter-Collegiate Singing Contest held in Shantou University, Guangdong, China, where she won the first prize as a solo performer.", "score": "1.3694384" } ]

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[ { "id": "30588349", "title": "Edward Corser", "text": " Corser was born at Upton Cressett, near Birmingham in England, and was educated in Worcester. He migrated to Brisbane, Queensland with his family in 1864 and worked for three years on the Maryborough Sugar Company's plantation. He then worked as a clerk for the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, variously stationed in Maryborough, Brisbane and Gayndah, rising to become acting manager of the Gayndah branch at the age of 21. In 1872, he opened his own wholesale merchant business, Corser and Co. Ltd., which became a \"large commercial establishment\" at Maryborough selling wine, spirits and general merchandise, and continued to be managed by one of his sons after he entered ", "score": "1.8303025" }, { "id": "30588348", "title": "Edward Corser", "text": " Edward Bernard Cresset Corser (1852 – 31 July 1928) was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Maryborough from 1909 to 1915 and a Commonwealth Liberal Party and then Nationalist Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1915 until his death.", "score": "1.7874286" }, { "id": "30588350", "title": "Edward Corser", "text": " Corser was a co-founder and president of the Maryborough Chamber of Commerce, a long-serving member and nine-year chairman of the Burrum Divisional Board, president of the Maryborough Harbour Board, president of the Western Railway Association, one of the original shareholders of the Maryborough Co-operative Dairy Association Ltd., and was a member and president of the Maryborough Grammar School board and local hospitals' committee. As a prominent local figure prior to his entry into politics, he championed the construction of the Nanango railway line, Gayndah railway line and the failed Port of Urangan project. He was a supporter of both Federation and the White Australia Policy and was a strong protectionist.", "score": "1.7119396" }, { "id": "1992935", "title": "Corser", "text": "Bernard Corser, (1882–1967) Australian politician ; Edward Corser, (1852–1928) Australian politician ; Frederick Corser, (1849–1924) American architect ; Rodger Corser, (born 1973) Australian actor ; Thomas Corser, (1793–1876) British clergyman ; Troy Corser, (born 1971) Australian motorcycle racer Corser is a surname, and may refer to: ", "score": "1.6155844" }, { "id": "30588412", "title": "Bernard Corser", "text": " Corser was born at Maryborough in 1882 to Edward Corser and Mary Jane (née Stewart). He was educated at Maryborough Christian Brothers' School, Riverview College, Sydney, and returned to Queensland to study at Queensland Agricultural College, Gatton.", "score": "1.516441" }, { "id": "25632923", "title": "John M. Corse", "text": " Corse was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but moved at the age of seven with his family to Burlington in the Iowa Territory. His father, John Lockwood Corse, served six terms as the mayor of that town and established a prosperous book and stationery business. Young Corse became a partner in the family business. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy and studied there for two years. Leaving West Point in 1855, Corse chose not to stay in the military, but instead attended a law school in Albany, New York, and passed his bar exam. He later returned to Iowa and was nominated as the new state's lieutenant governor by the Iowa Democratic Party. In 1860, he unsuccessfully ran for secretary of state.", "score": "1.462837" }, { "id": "30588411", "title": "Bernard Corser", "text": " Bernard Henry Corser (4 January 1882 – 15 December 1967) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1912 to 1928 and a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1928 to 1954.", "score": "1.461197" }, { "id": "12672278", "title": "Edward Gonner", "text": " Gonner was born on 5 March 1862 in Mayfair, London, to Peter Kersey Gonner, a silk mercer, and Elizabeth Carter. He attended Merchant Taylors' School in London, before matriculating at Lincoln College, Oxford in 1880, graduating B.A. in 1884.", "score": "1.4558742" }, { "id": "15345032", "title": "Eskdale, Maryborough", "text": " 1868 James Dowzer retired to a dairy farm near Tiaro and Eskdale was acquired by solicitor Edward Corser, who had arrived in Brisbane in 1863 and moved to Maryborough the following year. The house was reportedly not yet finished when the Corser family moved in, and they named it as a reminder of Eskdale in the Lake District of Northern England. Corser died in 1874, and his son, Edward Bernard Corser, inherited the property. E. B. Corser was a prominent local merchant, establishing the business of Corser and Co., and later a successful politician, serving in both the Legislative Assembly of Queensland and Australian House of Representatives. E. ", "score": "1.4473352" }, { "id": "3116688", "title": "Rodger Corser", "text": " Corser's big role came in 1998, when he was cast in the leading role (from a field of 6,000) in the Australian production of the musical Rent. Corser portrayed the role of Roger, an HIV-positive musician. The show played seasons in Sydney and Melbourne and launched Corser into a successful career in television. His other theatre credits include Leader of the Pack and Below. In 2009, he took to the stage in the theatre production Secret Bridesmaids' Business. Corser played Detective Senior Constable George Newhouse in the final four episodes of Water Rats in 2001. Corser played Peter Johnson in the Australian drama ", "score": "1.4344323" }, { "id": "15345033", "title": "Eskdale, Maryborough", "text": " Corser died at home at Eskdale while still a serving federal MP in 1928, and Eskdale was transferred to one of his sons, Edward Stewart Corser. E. S. Corser retained ownership until 1961, and it remained in the Corser family until October 1975 when it was bought by Peter and Jacqueline Holtorf. The Holtorfs used the residence as their family home until 1999 when they converted the house into a Bed and Breakfast. The original section of the house has been authentically restored and is used for guests. The house originally stood on five acres of land on which there were three tennis courts, stables and gymnasium all ", "score": "1.4337004" }, { "id": "30588351", "title": "Edward Corser", "text": " In 1909, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the member for the multi-member seat of Maryborough, and when it became a single-member seat in 1912 was re-elected by only 10 votes. A by-election was ordered, which he was eventually declared to have won by 2 votes; a further challenge did not proceed for procedural reasons. He was defeated at the 1915 state election. His son, Bernard Corser, sat in the Legislative Assembly along with him as the member for Burnett. In 1915, as the candidate of the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party, he transferred to federal Parliament by winning the ", "score": "1.4275954" }, { "id": "29442523", "title": "Edward Sexton", "text": " Edward Sexton (born 9 November 1942) is a British Savile Row tailor, fashion designer and manufacturing consultant. Sexton has been called a key player in the history of Savile Row.", "score": "1.4172117" }, { "id": "13563778", "title": "Edward", "text": "Edward Barker, English cartoonist who signed his drawings simply as Edward ; Edward Blishen, English author ; Ed Byrne (academic), Principal of King's College London and former Vice-Chancellor of Monash University ; Edward Duyker (born 1955), Australian historian ; Edward Dutton, English author ; Edward Elgar (1857–1934), English composer ; Edward Gamble, English comedian ; Edward Gibbons, English musician ; Edward Gorey, American illustrator ; Edward Gould, English animator and creator of Eddsworld ; Edward Grimes, one of the two members of Irish pop duo Jedward ; Edward Hopper (1882–1967), American realist painter ; Edward Jayakody (born 1952), Sri Lankan Sinhala musician and composer ; Edward Killy, American filmmaker ; Edward Daniel Leahy, Irish painter ; Edward MacDowell (1860–1908), American composer and pianist ; Edward Norton (born 1969), American actor ; Edward Platt, (1916-1974), American actor ; Edward John David \"Eddie\" Redmayne (born 1982), English actor ; Edward Said (1935–2003), Palestinian-American academic ; Ed Sheeran, English singer-songwriter and musician ; Edward van de Vendel, Dutch author of children's literature ; Edward \"Eddie\" Van Halen, Dutch-American musician ; Eddie Vedder, American singer, musician, songwriter ; Edward W. Hardy (born 1992), American composer, musician, and producer ", "score": "1.4157951" }, { "id": "26691588", "title": "Edward Stevenson (costume designer)", "text": " Edward Manson Stevenson was born in Pocatello, Idaho on May 13, 1906 to Jennie Uhland Stevenson (née Dolly) and Andrew Burtner Stevenson. Andrew worked for the Oregon Shortline Railroad, a subsidiary of Union Pacific, rising from dispatch clerk to division superintendent. He served a term in 1903 as senator from Bannock County in the Idaho state legislature and was the Republican nominee in 1907 for Pocatello mayor. Andrew's political activity was often limited by time spent fulfilling his duties with the railroad, duties which included a great deal of travel. Jennie, a widowed former schoolteacher, had two sons from her first marriage ", "score": "1.4082531" }, { "id": "10161283", "title": "Edward Sels", "text": " Edward Sels (born 27 August 1941 at Vorselaar, Belgium) is a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1963 to 1972, winning 35 races. He was road champion of Belgium in 1961 (Military) and 1964. He won seven stages in the Tour de France and one in the Giro d'Italia. He wore the yellow jersey for two days in the 1964 Tour de France. His sister, Rosa Sels, was a cyclist too.", "score": "1.4040847" }, { "id": "28071574", "title": "Edward Henry Corbould", "text": "(web version: ) ", "score": "1.4020488" }, { "id": "9244369", "title": "Edward Morris (basketball)", "text": " Edward Bernard Morris Jr. (born May 4, 1984) is a US-born Japanese professional basketball player for the Yokohama B-Corsairs in Japan. He played college basketball for the Pittsburg State University Gorillas.", "score": "1.4005889" }, { "id": "3116687", "title": "Rodger Corser", "text": " Corser graduated from Deakin University in 1996 with an Honours B.A. in Media Studies. He formed a band called Tender Prey when he was 16. They played their majority of gigs at the Shoppingtown Hotel, Doncaster, Victoria. He was also lead vocalist in a band called Stone the Crows. They played Rolling Stones and Black Crowes covers as well as many original songs. They released \"Perfect Face\" on a Nu-Music CD in the mid-1990s. Corser was also the lead vocalist in a 4-piece cover band called \"Sideshow Bob\" that played around a few Melbourne pubs during the mid-late 90s (1995–1996) – namely at places like the Royal Hotel in Essendon, Victoria, Australia.", "score": "1.3986468" }, { "id": "7055252", "title": "Edward Augustus Brackett", "text": " Edward Augustus Brackett (October 1, 1818 – March 15, 1908) was a self-taught American sculptor, author, and conservationist. Brackett was born in Vassalboro, Maine to Reuben and Elizabeth (Starkey) Brackett, and moved with his parents in the spring of 1837 to Cincinnati, where he started work as a sculptor. In 1839 he showed a pair of portrait busts at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts, and subsequently moved to New York City. In 1841, after roughly two years in New York, he moved to Boston with an introduction from his friend William Cullen Bryant, where from 1843 he lived in Winchester, ", "score": "1.3971109" } ]

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[ { "id": "5833268", "title": "John Finlay (footballer)", "text": " John Finlay (16 February 1919 – 5 March 1985) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward for Sunderland. John Finlay made his debut on the 11th of September 1946 as a substitute for Sunderland AFC on their 4th match of the season in Division 1 against Charlton Athletic. 27,425 attended the match witnessing John's Debut. The Match which started at 6:00pm at Charlton Athletic's stadium “The Valley” was refereed by W.H.E Evans", "score": "1.6728635" }, { "id": "6137936", "title": "Andrew Finlay", "text": " Source:", "score": "1.6535826" }, { "id": "7879702", "title": "John Finlay (poet)", "text": " John Finlay (1782–1810) was a Scottish poet.", "score": "1.6485124" }, { "id": "7879703", "title": "John Finlay (poet)", "text": " Finlay was born in Glasgow in December 1782. He was educated in one of the academies at Glasgow, and at the age of fourteen entered the university, where he had as a classmate John Wilson (alias 'Christopher North'), who states that he was distinguished \"above most of his contemporaries\". The prospect of obtaining a situation in one of the public offices led him to visit London in 1807, and while there he contributed to the magazines some articles on antiquarian subjects. Not finding suitable employment he returned to Glasgow in 1808. He began to collect materials for a continuation of Warton's History of Poetry, but in 1810 he left Glasgow to visit Professor Wilson at Ellerlay, Westmoreland; on the way he fell ill at Moffat, and died there on 8 December.", "score": "1.6356311" }, { "id": "30032455", "title": "John Finlay (Canadian politician)", "text": " John Finlay (April 22, 1837 – November 13, 1910) was a Canadian politician. Born in Dummer Township, Peterborough County, Upper Canada, Finlay was educated in the Public Schools of Dummer. A manufacturer, Finlay was Councillor and Reeve of the Village of Norwood and County Councillor. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Peterborough East in the general elections of 1904. A Liberal, he did not run in the 1908 elections.", "score": "1.6026491" }, { "id": "8838045", "title": "John Finlay (fur trader)", "text": " John Finlay (1774 – December 19, 1833) was a fur trader and explorer with the North West Company. He is best remembered for establishing the first fur trading post in what is now British Columbia, Canada and for his exploration of the Finlay River, one of the two major rivers forming the Peace River. Finlay was born in Montreal, the son of James Finlay, who himself was a significant player in the western Canadian fur trade. Finlay was apprenticed as a clerk in the North West Company in 1789 at the age of 15. He accompanied Alexander Mackenzie on his historic trip across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in 1792-93 becoming, with him, the first European to traverse North America. He was placed ", "score": "1.59461" }, { "id": "14072084", "title": "Matt Finlay", "text": " Matt Finlay (born September 28, 1962 in Toronto, Ontario) is a former professional Canadian football linebacker who played one season with the Montreal Alouettes and nine seasons for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League.", "score": "1.5767738" }, { "id": "30736550", "title": "John Finlayson (engraver)", "text": " John Finlayson (c. 1730–1776) was an English engraver. Finlayson was born about the year 1730, and worked in London. In 1773 he received a premium from the Society of Arts, and about three years after this he died. He engraved in mezzotint several portraits, and a few plates of historical subjects.", "score": "1.5701385" }, { "id": "29418044", "title": "Harold John Finlay", "text": " Harold John Finlay (22 March 1901 – 7 April 1951) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist. He was born in Comilla, India (now Bangladesh), on 22 March 1901. His main research interest was marine and non-marine malacofauna of New Zealand, both recent and fossil. He also specialised on fossil Foraminifera. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1939, and was awarded the scoiety's Hector Memorial Medal in 1941.", "score": "1.5601242" }, { "id": "11290975", "title": "John Baird Finlay", "text": " John Baird Finlay (January 29, 1929 – October 17, 2010) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2004. His career had been in the school system, as a teacher and superintendent. Finlay was born in 1929 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He attended John Wanless public school in Toronto (1934–36), then a PNEU school in Croydon. England in 1936. He returned to Toronto in 1937 and attended Hodgson public school until 1942 followed by University of Toronto Schools until 1947. He then studied at Victoria College, Toronto earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1952. His teaching career included ", "score": "1.5570289" }, { "id": "6619809", "title": "John Martin Finlay", "text": " John Martin Finlay (January 24, 1941 – February 17, 1991) was an American poet and writer of essays, reviews, fiction, letters, and diaries. Finlay is best known for his posthumously published poetry collection, Mind and Blood: The Collected Poems of John Finlay.", "score": "1.5367768" }, { "id": "25651834", "title": "George Finlay", "text": " Finlay was born in Faversham, Kent, where his Scottish father, Captain John Finlay FRS, an officer in the Royal Engineers, was inspector of government powder mills. Finlay's father died in 1802, and his Scottish mother and uncle (Kirkman Finlay) took hand of his education. His love of history was attributed to his mother. Intended for the law, he was educated at the University of Glasgow, the University of Göttingen, and the University of Edinburgh, but becoming an enthusiast in the cause of Greece, he joined Byron in the war of independence, and thereafter bought a property near Athens, where he settled and busied himself with schemes for the improvement of the country, which met with little success. For many years, he acted as the special correspondent of the London Times. He was elected ", "score": "1.5281287" }, { "id": "28330420", "title": "Richard J. Finlay", "text": " Some of his main publications include: He has also edited such books as:", "score": "1.526387" }, { "id": "15589585", "title": "Bob Finlay", "text": " Robert Finlay (born 3 August 1943) is a Canadian long-distance runner. He competed in the 5000 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics.", "score": "1.5248778" }, { "id": "10844458", "title": "Finlay Macdonald (minister)", "text": " Finlay A. J. Macdonald is a retired minister of the Church of Scotland. He was Principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1996 until 2010. In addition to his rapid rise up the ranks of the Church of Scotland, Macdonald is known for fostering co-operation between the various boards and committees which administer the Church and for steering the Church smoothly through its annual business meetings.", "score": "1.5171382" }, { "id": "6443480", "title": "Jock Finlay", "text": " John Finlay (19 October 1882 – 31 March 1933) was a Scottish footballer who played as a left half for Rangers (where he played only once in the Scottish Football League in his first season as a professional), Airdrieonians (where he became an established top division regular over five years), and Newcastle United (where he was registered as a player for 15 years, though World War I interrupted his career and the last few seasons involved only a handful of appearances – by then he was also working as a trainer for the club, a position he held until 1930). Finlay was selected once for the Scottish Football League XI in 1909, and in 1920 played in the Home Scots v Anglo-Scots international trial match, but he never received a full cap for Scotland.", "score": "1.5141184" }, { "id": "9545452", "title": "Ian Finlay (cricketer)", "text": " Ian William Finlay (born 14 May 1946 in Woking) was an English first-class cricketer active 1971–74 who played for Surrey.", "score": "1.5082836" }, { "id": "247298", "title": "William Finlay", "text": " William was born in Lisburn, Ireland on July 12, 1853 and worked in the whole sale grocery business before moving to Montreal, Quebec in 1873. He moved to the Medicine Hat region 10 years later in 1883 and started working for the Northwest Lumber Company, and later his own firm Finlay and Company. He got married and became interested in territorial politics in 1898.", "score": "1.5074791" }, { "id": "6137934", "title": "Andrew Finlay", "text": " Andrew Finlay (born 10 February 1901; date of death unknown) was a Scottish footballer who played as a forward for Port Vale, Airdrieonians, Manchester City, Crewe Alexandra, Third Lanark, Dundee United and Hibernian in the 1920s.", "score": "1.500494" }, { "id": "8838047", "title": "John Finlay (fur trader)", "text": " Finlay in 1824, noting that \"he had studied Finlay’s chart.\" Nonetheless, it would appear from the information Black had that Finlay had only made it as far as the Ingenika River, about 130 km north of the Finlay River's confluence with the Peace. Indeed, Black's journal makes clear that the northern branch, far from being less complicated, was all but impassable in many parts, perhaps explaining Finlay's reluctance to travel more than about one-quarter of the river's actual length. Finlay remained in the North West Company's Athabasca Department, becoming a partner of the company in 1799. He retired from the fur trade in 1804 and returned to Montreal. Little is known of his life there, except that he obtained an appointment as deputy commissary-general.", "score": "1.5003464" } ]

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[ { "id": "8011557", "title": "Bruce McDaniel", "text": " Bruce McDaniel (born September 23, 1962) is an American musician, composer, producer and recording engineer, currently living in New Orleans. Bruce McDaniel was born in Boston, Massachusetts of Mexican and Scottish/American parents on 23 September 1962 and grew up in New York. He was raised by musical parents who met while attending the Juilliard School of Music. He had an early start in NYC's underground punk rock scene as lead guitarist for the Sic F*cks with Tish Bellomo and Snooky Bellomo, a band who, despite the inability to have their name said on the radio, parlayed their comedy-punk spectacle to a feature in Playboy Magazine and movie appearances, including 1982's Alone in ", "score": "1.7091708" }, { "id": "33123058", "title": "Jerry McDaniel", "text": " '91\" poster. An official AFL-CIO special-run artist-signed copy of this print is in the University of Missouri St. Louis Art Collection – \"The Bruce & Barbara Feldacker Labor Art Collection\", and the Special Collections of the Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD. McDaniel has also conceived and produced short films and film titles, among them the film ICE (Idea, Composition, and Execution) and the film titles for The Bolshoi at The Bolshoi. In 2008, the New York Society of Illustrators commemorated the 50th anniversary of their Annual Show by publishing a book entitled Icons and Images: 50 Years of Illustration, containing 500 ", "score": "1.5812864" }, { "id": "25075024", "title": "Randall McDaniel", "text": " Randall Cornell McDaniel (born December 19, 1964) is an American former football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL).", "score": "1.5408397" }, { "id": "8401702", "title": "Ed McDaniel", "text": " Edward McDaniel (born March 23, 1969) is a former American football linebacker in the NFL. He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings, 5th round (125th overall) of the 1992 Draft. He spent his entire professional career with the Minnesota Vikings. McDaniel is a co-owner of D1 Sports Training in Greenville, South Carolina. He resides in a suburb of the Twin Cities in Minnesota and owns a number of apartment buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul.", "score": "1.5247586" }, { "id": "9439297", "title": "John McDaniel", "text": " John McDaniel (born September 23, 1951 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Cincinnati Bengals and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Lincoln University of Missouri and was drafted in the eighth round of the 1974 NFL Draft.", "score": "1.5160909" }, { "id": "4495677", "title": "Hardy McLain", "text": " Bruce Hardy McLain was born in September 1952, in San Francisco, US. McLain earned a bachelor's degree in economics and public policy from Duke University, North Carolina, followed by an MBA in finance and marketing from UCLA, California.", "score": "1.5029008" }, { "id": "11039178", "title": "Pellom McDaniels", "text": " Pellom McDaniels III (February 21, 1968 – April 19, 2020 ) was an American professional football player who was a defensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL). After his playing career, he became a professor and curator at Emory University.", "score": "1.4879283" }, { "id": "12466064", "title": "Steve McDaniel", "text": " Steve K. McDaniel is a former Republican Party Representative from the US state of Tennessee, having represented all of Henderson, Chester, Decatur and Perry Counties.", "score": "1.4839301" }, { "id": "9697872", "title": "David McDaniel", "text": " David McDaniel was born 16 June 1939, in Toledo, Ohio. He studied cinematography at San Diego State University, then moved to Los Angeles. While living in Los Angeles he joined science fiction fandom, using the pseudonym Ted Johnstone. This makes him one of the few authors to write under his real name but conduct his social life under a pseudonym. He was also known by the nickname \"Tedron\", the name of his character in a Shared universe fantasy called Coventry. David McDaniel died sometime in the early morning of 1 November 1977 while alone at his home. At the time of his death he was contracted to fly to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for freelance work as a cameraman.", "score": "1.4790139" }, { "id": "32916678", "title": "Terry McDaniel", "text": " Terence Lee McDaniel (born February 8, 1965) is a former American football player who played 11 seasons in the National Football League, mostly with the Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders. A 5'10\", 180-pound cornerback, he played college football at the University of Tennessee, and was selected in the first round (9th overall) of the 1988 NFL Draft. A five-time Pro Bowl selection from 1992 to 1996, McDaniel had 35 career interceptions for 667 yards and 6 touchdowns. His five interceptions returned for touchdowns over his career with the Raiders are a team record. His 34 interceptions are the third-highest in franchise history, and his 624 return yards are the second-highest.", "score": "1.478832" }, { "id": "33123048", "title": "Jerry McDaniel", "text": " Jerry W. McDaniel (born 1935) is an American heterogeneous artist; graphics artist, illustrator, communication designer, educator and modernist painter. He distinguished himself by doing advertising work for numerous large corporations (PanAm, Intercontinental Hotels, Philip Morris International), creating posters, doing book and magazine illustrations, and influencing numerous students of advertising and communication design. In parallel with his commercial career he was a prolific multimedia artist, painting in acrylic and in watercolor, in various fields such as landscape, portraits, sports, and political graphics. He also designed sports stamps. He was one of the first illustrators to embrace computer graphics.", "score": "1.4785742" }, { "id": "6487874", "title": "James McDaniel", "text": " James McDaniel (born March 25, 1958) is an American stage, film and television actor. He is best known for playing Lt. Arthur Fancy on the television show NYPD Blue. He created the role of Paul in the hit Lincoln Center play Six Degrees of Separation. He played a police officer in the ill-fated 1990 series Cop Rock, and a close advisor to the director Spike Lee regarding the activist Malcolm X in the 1992 film Malcolm X. He also played Sgt. Jesse Longford in the ABC television series Detroit 1-8-7. He was born in Washington, D.C.", "score": "1.4779923" }, { "id": "4495676", "title": "Hardy McLain", "text": " Bruce Hardy McLain (born September 1952) is an American retired hedge fund manager, and a co-founder and former managing partner of CVC Capital Partners.", "score": "1.4774718" }, { "id": "13235941", "title": "Clint McDaniel", "text": " Clinton Eugene McDaniel (born February 26, 1972) is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6'4\" (1.93 m) guard from the University of Arkansas, McDaniel was a key member of the 1994 National Championship team that defeated Duke University, 76–72. Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, McDaniel was considered the best on ball defender in the country. McDaniel went on to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA),signing as a free agent Sacramento Kings during the 1995-96 NBA season signing with the Washington Wizards 1996–97 season but later released. He has also played professionally in Europe and in the Australian National Basketball League (NBL) with the Perth Wildcats and the South East Melbourne Magic. McDaniel has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious 2014 SEC Men's Basketball Legends Award. McDaniel is the first of only two players in SEC history to ever record 100 steals in a single season(102). McDaniel was named to the AP 3rd Team All-Conference 1995, and named to the 1995 Final Four All-Tournament Team.", "score": "1.4764533" }, { "id": "11039181", "title": "Pellom McDaniels", "text": " Following his collegiate career, McDaniels worked for Procter & Gamble as a Health and Beauty Care representative in the Portland, Oregon area before pursuing a professional football career in the World League of American Football with the Birmingham Fire. In 1991, McDaniels signed his first contract in the National Football League with the Philadelphia Eagles. After having hip surgery, he spent his recovery time coaching football defensive lineman at Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon. Pellom spent his evenings after practice working on his own reconditioning and strength building. He was considered one of the best coaches to have worked at Sunset High according to his students. In 1992, the Kansas City Chiefs asked McDaniels to ", "score": "1.4762685" }, { "id": "11312642", "title": "Wayne McDaniel", "text": " Wayne McDaniel is an American former professional basketball player. He spent much of his career in the Australian National Basketball League (NBL), playing 288 games from 1983-1994. He scored over 7,600 points in his career at an average of 26.5 points per game over twelve seasons with 4 teams. He was a four-time NBL All-Star. Born in San Francisco, California, McDaniel played college basketball for the Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners from 1980 to 1982. He played professionally for the Adelaide 36ers (1983), Geelong Supercats (1984–1985), Newcastle Falcons (1986–1988) and Hobart Devils (1989–1994) of the NBL. Setting many single-game and single-season records, he retired in 1995. As of the ", "score": "1.4649651" }, { "id": "12047895", "title": "Rodger McDaniel", "text": " University of Wyoming College of Law with a Juris Doctor Degree and practiced law for twenty years, specializing in employment and insurance law. McDaniel also served as the Wyoming lobbyist for State Farm Insurance and Anheuser Busch Companies for all of his legal career. He also participated, as a member of the Lawyer's Guild, as a human rights observer in Guatemala. From 1991–1992, McDaniel and his family joined Habitat for Humanity as International Partners in Guatemala and Nicaragua. Shortly after his return to Wyoming, McDaniel closed his law practice in order to attend Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, earning a Masters in Divinity Degree. Between 1999 and 2002, McDaniel consulted for the Wyoming Department of Health's Substance Abuse Division, where he ", "score": "1.4602727" }, { "id": "9697871", "title": "David McDaniel", "text": " David Edward McDaniel (16 June 1939 – 1 November 1977) was an American science fiction author, who also wrote spy fiction, including several novels based upon the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", "score": "1.4593353" }, { "id": "31640190", "title": "Bruce McLenna", "text": " A native of Holly, Michigan, McLenna grew up in Fenton, Michigan.", "score": "1.4548012" }, { "id": "12350931", "title": "Jim McMullan", "text": " James P. McMullan (October 13, 1936 – May 31, 2019 ) was an American actor from Long Island, New York, best known for his role as Dr. Terry McDaniel on the 1960s series Ben Casey and as Senator Andrew Dowling on the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas. McMullan studied Industrial Design at New York University and Parsons School of Design; he graduated from the University of Kansas in 1961 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. Guest starred in a 1962 episode of Laramie, as Virg Walker", "score": "1.451833" } ]

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[ { "id": "1632413", "title": "Edwin Wallock", "text": " Edwin Wallock (November 6, 1877 – February 4, 1951) was an American actor of the silent film era. He appeared in 60 films between 1912 and 1923. He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa and died in Los Angeles, California.", "score": "1.9331672" }, { "id": "4590667", "title": "Ronnie Wallwork", "text": " Ronald Wallwork (born 10 September 1977) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. An England under-20 international, he began his career at Manchester United, where he made his professional debut in 1997. He never fully established himself in the United first-team however, and was loaned out to Carlisle United and Stockport County. During a further loan spell at Royal Antwerp, he was banned from football for life for attacking a Belgian referee, although the ban was later substantially reduced. In 2002, Wallwork moved to West Bromwich Albion, where he was the Player of the Year for 2004–05. He was not always a regular in the side however, and spent time on loan at ", "score": "1.5390942" }, { "id": "12133673", "title": "Frank K. Hallock", "text": " Frank Kirkwood Hallock (August 18, 1860 – April 29, 1937) was an American medical doctor and book collector. He was born in Oyster Bay, Long Island, on August 18, 1860. Hallock received a Bachelor of Arts in 1882 and a Master of Arts in 1885, both from Wesleyan University; and a MD from the College of Physicians at Wesleyan in 1885. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He studied neurology in Germany for two years. He was medical director at Cromwell Hall from 1890 until his death. He was also director and president of the Cromwell Savings Bank. Hallock was a trustee of Wesleyan University from 1917 to 1937. He died in Cromwell, Connecticut on April 29, 1937.", "score": "1.5361872" }, { "id": "10005401", "title": "Merrill G. Wheelock", "text": " Merrill Greene Wheelock (1822–1866) was an artist and architect in Boston, Massachusetts in the 19th century. He served in the Massachusetts infantry in the American Civil War.", "score": "1.4850821" }, { "id": "6493182", "title": "Nathan M. Hallock", "text": " Nathan Mullock Hallock (August 23, 1844 - March 21, 1903) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. Hallock was born in Mount Hope, New York on August 23, 1844. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, for extraordinary heroism shown on June 15, 1863, while serving as a Private with Company K, 124th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, at Bristoe Station, Virginia. His Medal of Honor was issued on September 10, 1897. Hallock died at the age of 58, on March 21, 1903 and was buried at Hillside Cemetery in Middletown, Orange County, New York.", "score": "1.465008" }, { "id": "6574579", "title": "Stephen Warnock", "text": " Stephen Warnock (born 12 December 1981) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. Starting off his career at Liverpool, he went on to also represent Coventry City, Bradford City, Blackburn Rovers, Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers, Leeds United, Derby County, Wigan Athletic and Burton Albion during a career that spanned between 2002 and 2018. A full international between 2008 and 2010, he was capped twice by the England national team and was part of the nation's squad at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.", "score": "1.4646119" }, { "id": "9611359", "title": "Richard Wallwork", "text": " Richard Wallwork (2 January 1882 – 14 April 1955) was a New Zealand artist. Born in England, he studied at the Manchester School of Art and then Royal College of Art. He taught at Liverpool City School of Art and in 1910 was recruited to teach at the Canterbury College School of Art in Christchurch in New Zealand. He moved there with his wife Elizabeth Wallwork and established a reputation as a respected teacher and eventually rose to become director of the college. He had a prodigious output of landscapes of Canterbury and historical works of classic and Maori legends as well as taking commissions for portraits. He died in Christchurch at the age of 73.", "score": "1.4440193" }, { "id": "9421004", "title": "Harry D. Belock", "text": " He was born April 10, 1908 in New York City. Belock was a self-taught scientist. He was described as one of the world’s greatest electronic scientists without a string of college degrees after his name. An early occupation was construction of one of Brooklyn’s first radio stations, WARS atop the Shelburne Hotel. Belock spent 1933-1935 as a sound engineer in Hollywood and years as a freelance inventor. He designed transmitters and sound-effects equipment for CBS. He also worked for Bing Crosby, troubleshooting the photo finish timer system at Del Mar Racetrack. During World War II and after, Belock developed the REAC computer for Reeves Instrument Corporation (for which he became a vice president and general manager). The REAC was one of ", "score": "1.4431176" }, { "id": "26778634", "title": "Fritz Poock", "text": " Carl Rudolph \"Fritz\" Poock (February 20, 1877 – January 2, 1945) was an American artist born in Germany. He was a noted practitioner of the Plein-Air Painting style, an important movement in pre-World War II Southern California, and a part of the influential Arroyo Seco art scene.", "score": "1.4370741" }, { "id": "10895690", "title": "Alfred Lubbock", "text": " Alfred Lubbock (31 October 1845 – 17 July 1916) was an English insurance underwriter and banker. He is best known as an amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket for a variety of sides including Kent County Cricket Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1863 and 1875. He was considered to be one of the best batsman of his era, comparable to WG Grace, and also played association football, playing for Old Etonians in the 1875 FA Cup Final.", "score": "1.4288042" }, { "id": "3778985", "title": "Kevin Horlock", "text": " Kevin Horlock (born 1 November 1972) is an English-born Northern Irish former footballer. He is a currently manager of Needham Market and assistant manager of the Northern Ireland under-21 team. Horlock is a former Northern Ireland international and is most associated with Manchester City, for whom he played in three different divisions including the Premier League. He also played for Swindon Town, West Ham United, Ipswich Town, Doncaster Rovers and Mansfield Town. Horlock was well known for his accurate set pieces and is particularly skilled at taking free kicks.", "score": "1.4198565" }, { "id": "26778636", "title": "Fritz Poock", "text": " In 1905, Poock moved to Los Angeles, eventually settling in the Highland Park neighborhood. He worked in construction — including a stint at Manzanillo, Mexico, where he also painted — and as a mechanical drafter until retiring at age 50 to devote himself full-time to painting.", "score": "1.410002" }, { "id": "28675232", "title": "Joe Moock", "text": " Joseph Geoffrey Moock (born March 12, 1944) is an American former professional baseball infielder who appeared in 13 games as a third baseman and pinch hitter in the Major Leagues for the New York Mets in. Born in Plaquemine, Louisiana, he batted left-handed and threw right-handed, stood 6 ft tall and weighed 180 lb. Moock attended Louisiana State University and was selected in the third round of the initial June amateur draft, held in 1965. In his second pro season, 1966 with the Auburn Mets, Moock led the New York–Penn League in hits with 146. He spent most of the first five months ", "score": "1.4092534" }, { "id": "11792884", "title": "James Orrock", "text": " James Orrock R.I., R.O.I. (1829 – 10 May 1913), was a prominent Scottish collector of art and oriental ceramics, illustrator and landscape watercolourist. The scale of his involvement with the art trade and with top collectors such as John Ruskin is highlighted in the large two volume set of books published about him by Byron Webber: published in London, Chatto and Windus 1903: James Orrock R.I., Painter, Connoisseur, Collector. Rather than being a forger as some modern scholars like to believe Orrock was a dedicated enthusiast of contemporary British art and emulated some of those artists in his own work. He illustrated three books in the style of Turner: Mary Queen-of-Scots, 1906; Old England : her story mirrored in her scenes, 1908; and, In the Border country, 1906.", "score": "1.4061148" }, { "id": "13695164", "title": "William Archibald Wall", "text": " William Archibald Wall (1828 – 1888) was an American painter, born in New York in 1828. Died in Paddington, London in 1888. He specialized in waterscapes, landscapes and rural and urban views. Although American by birth, Wall spent many years living and working in London. Wall was the son of Irish-born painter William Guy Wall (1792 – 1864). Wall the elder got married in 1812, the same year he left Ireland for the United States. He and his wife had two daughters; William Archibald was their only son. Wall contributed a landscape to the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1847 and again in 1853. He was in London in 1857 and 1858, and exhibited landscapes in those ", "score": "1.4017764" }, { "id": "26341252", "title": "Charles Hallock", "text": " Charles Hallock (March 13, 1834 – December 2, 1917) was an American author and publisher born in New York City to Gerard Hallock and Elizabeth Allen. On September 10, 1855 he married Amelia J. Wardell. He studied at Yale, 1850–51, and Amherst College. He was assistant editor of the New Haven Register, 1854–56; proprietor and associate editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, of which his father was editor, 1856-62. He was founder and publisher, from 1873–80, of Forest and Stream, which was later incorporated into its main competitor Field and Stream. He experimented in Sunflower cultivation, using the seed for oil; in sheep raising on Indian reservations; in establishing a reservation for sportsmen in Minnesota; in the development of Alaska and Florida, and of special industries in North Carolina; and in various other sanitary and economic schemes. He originated the code of uniform game laws and incorporated with Fayette S. Giles and others the first great American game preserve at Blooming Grove, Pike County, Pennsylvania Hallock, Minnesota was named after him.", "score": "1.3982687" }, { "id": "16075279", "title": "Joseph N. Hallock", "text": " When he was 21, he moved to Greenport and purchased an interest in the Suffolk Times. He spent the next two years learning the printing business, followed by a year working as a teacher. He then became associate editor of the Long Island Traveller in Southold, where he stayed for the next three years. After the paper's owner, M. B. Vandusen, sold the paper and bought the Advance in Patchogue, Hallock followed him and worked for that paper for about a year. In 1889, he bought the Traveller and became its editor and proprietor. Hallock for several years was the editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine having achieved the number of 1,200 subscriptions.", "score": "1.3888636" }, { "id": "26980646", "title": "DJ Edwin", "text": " Edwin was a resident DJ at The Beat Nightclub in Fortitude Valley for thirteen years, playing five nights a week on the 2-5am shift, and later was a resident DJ at Rockafella's, playing four nights a week. Edwin worked at Central Station Records for many years — both in the original Fortitude Valley store and the Brisbane CBD store. He would put aside music and make suggestions for many of the regulars. Edwin also DJ'd at Radical Clothing store in the city in the 1990s.", "score": "1.3880017" }, { "id": "31035261", "title": "Freddy Willockx", "text": " Frederik A. A. Willockx (born 2 September 1947) is a Belgian socialist politician, member of the Flemish Different Socialist Party. Freddy Willockx was first elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1979 and served until 1994. He served as state secretary for finances in 1980 and as minister of post, telephony and telegraph services from 1980 to 1981 and from 1988 to 1989. He served as minister of pensions 1992-1994. He was elected a Member of the European Parliament (1994–1999). In June 1999 he was elected again to the Chamber of Representatives but resigned in July when he was appointed special government commissioner for the handling of the Dioxin Affair and for the implementation of European Directives (1999–2001). He was named as minister of state in 2002. He served as mayor of Sint-Niklaas from 1989 to 1995 and once again from 2001 to 2010, when he retired.", "score": "1.3879833" }, { "id": "8712248", "title": "Terry Rollock", "text": " Terry Euclyn Rollock (born 25 September 1969) is a former Barbadian cricketer. Rollock was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break googly. He was born at Saint Lucy, Barbados. Rollock made his first-class debut for Barbados against Free State during the South African Provinces tour of the West Indies in 1996. From the 1996/97 season to the 1997/98 season, he represented Barbados in 11 first-class matches, the last of which came against Trinidad and Tobago. In his 11 first-class matches, he scored 299 runs at a batting average of 19.93, with a single half century high score 53. In the field he took 7 catches. With the ball he took 21 wickets at a bowling average of 23.95, with a single five wicket haul which gave him best figures of 6/15. During the 2003 English cricket season, Rollock represented the Kent Cricket Board in a single List A match against Derbyshire in the 3rd round of the 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy. In his only List A match, he scored 5 runs and took a single wicket at a cost of 28 runs.", "score": "1.385417" } ]

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[ { "id": "15072933", "title": "Matthew McKay (politician)", "text": " Matthew McKay (6 October 1858 – 14 February 1937) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in West Gwillimbury Township, Ontario and became a dentist, dental surgeon and schoolteacher. McKay attended high school at Bradford, Whitby Collegiate Institute, Normal School in Toronto and Queen's University in Kingston (Bachelor of Arts) and the Royal College of Dental Surgeons in Toronto. McKay was a councillor of Pembroke, Ontario for five years and once served as the community's mayor. He was first elected to Parliament at the Renfrew North riding in the 1921 general election. After serving one term, he was defeated by Ira Delbert Cotnam of the Conservative party in the 1925 election. After unsuccessful attempts to unseat Cotnam in 1926 and 1930, McKay returned to the House of Commons by defeating Cotnam in the 1935 election. McKay died at an Ottawa hospital on 14 February 1937 from influenza and pneumonia before completing his term in the 18th Canadian Parliament. He was survived by a wife, two daughters and a son.", "score": "1.6476088" }, { "id": "2979521", "title": "Matt McKay (English footballer)", "text": " Matt McKay (born 21 January 1981) is an English footballer who played as a midfielder in the Football League for Chester City. McKay joined Everton from Chester on transfer deadline day on 26 March 1998. He did not make any appearances for the Everton first team and was forced to retire at the early age of 21 due to injury.", "score": "1.6228268" }, { "id": "9751469", "title": "Adam McKay", "text": "Acting roles ", "score": "1.572121" }, { "id": "9211131", "title": "Ben McKay (footballer)", "text": " Ben McKay (born 24 December 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).", "score": "1.526839" }, { "id": "1191712", "title": "Christian McKay", "text": " McKay was born in Bury, Lancashire. He has a sister, Karen. His mother, Lynn, worked as a hairdresser, and his father, Stuart, was a railway worker. He studied piano as a youth, and performed the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 at age 21. McKay subsequently halted his concert career and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to study acting.", "score": "1.5221274" }, { "id": "15908158", "title": "Ian G. McKay", "text": " McKay was born in Kamloops, British Columbia, and was raised in Penticton, British Columbia. He is the youngest of five boys. In July 1980, he was sent by his hometown to live in the city of Ikeda, on Japan’s island of Hokkaido. At the age of 16, he developed a lifelong appreciation for the country and for its language. Upon graduating from Penticton Secondary School in 1981, he returned to Japan as a Rotary Youth Exchange student. Following his studies, McKay worked and lived in Japan over the course of 14 years. McKay studied Political Science and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia; he received an MBA from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 2005.", "score": "1.4855819" }, { "id": "8184804", "title": "Tim McKay", "text": " McKay graduated from Humboldt State University and was a long-term resident of Trinidad, California.", "score": "1.4839413" }, { "id": "9165023", "title": "Alexander Gordon McKay", "text": " Alexander Gordon \"Sandy\" McKay, (December 24, 1924 – August 31, 2007) was a Canadian academic who specialized in Vergilian studies. Born in Toronto, Ontario, McKay graduated from Upper Canada College in 1942. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1946 from the University of Toronto, a Master of Arts degree in 1947 from Yale University, a A.M. degree in 1948 from Princeton University and a Ph.D in 1950 from Princeton. He started his academic career as an instructor at Princeton University from 1947 to 1949. He then taught at Wells College (1949-1950), the University of Pennsylvania (1950-1951), the University of Manitoba (1951-1952), Mount ", "score": "1.4837801" }, { "id": "27173559", "title": "John McKay (pianist)", "text": " John McKay (born November 11, 1938) is an American pianist and music educator of Canadian birth. He has performed in concerts, recitals, and on radio and television broadcasts throughout North America and Europe. His programs often include works by contemporary American and Canadian composers, and he has performed the world premieres of works by Mortimer Barron, Clermont Pépin and Harry Somers among other composers. He has also performed extensively as a chamber musician and accompanist, including in performances with his wife, contralto Sara Hayden. In 1989 he co-founded the Minnesota Valley Sommarfest.", "score": "1.4716108" }, { "id": "4810636", "title": "John McKay (politician)", "text": " John Norman McKay (born March 21, 1948) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He is the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Scarborough—Guildwood. McKay was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2006 during the government of Paul Martin, then served as an opposition MP and critic until November 2015 during the government of Stephen Harper. As of April, 2019, he serves as Chair of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security; Chair of the Canadian Section of the Canada-United States Permanent Joint Board on Defence; Chair of the Canada-United Kingdom Inter-Parliamentary Association, Vice-Chair of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group, and Counsellor Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association. McKay was sworn in as a ", "score": "1.4711405" }, { "id": "15153147", "title": "John McKay (mathematician)", "text": " McKay earned his Bachelor and Diploma in 1961 and 1962 at the University of Manchester, and his Ph.D. in 1971 from the University of Edinburgh. Since 1974 he works at Concordia University, since 1979 as a professor in Computer Science. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2000, and won the 2003 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize. In April 2007 a Joint Conference was organised by the Université de Montréal and Concordia University honouring four decades of the work of John McKay.", "score": "1.4687953" }, { "id": "4810641", "title": "John McKay (politician)", "text": " Between 2015 and 2019 McKay served as the Parliamentary Secretary to then Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan.", "score": "1.4630879" }, { "id": "1491120", "title": "Christopher McKay", "text": " Dr Christopher P. McKay (born 1954) is an American planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, studying planetary atmospheres, astrobiology, and terraforming. McKay majored in physics at Florida Atlantic University, where he also studied mechanical engineering, graduating in 1975, and received his PhD in astrogeophysics from the University of Colorado in 1982.", "score": "1.4554855" }, { "id": "1191711", "title": "Christian McKay", "text": " Christian Stuart McKay (born 30 December 1973 ) is an English stage and screen actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Orson Welles in the 2008 film Me and Orson Welles, for which he was nominated for over two dozen awards including the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also appeared in movies such as Florence Foster Jenkins, The Theory of Everything, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Rush.", "score": "1.4535503" }, { "id": "31138824", "title": "Joel McKay", "text": " Joel McKay (born 16 July 1979) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL). Geelong secured McKay with the 15th selection of the 1997 National Draft. He was drafted from the Murray Bushrangers, but came from Wodonga originally. During his time at Geelong he struggled with back injuries and played just four senior AFL games, two in 1998 and two in 2000.", "score": "1.4513147" }, { "id": "4810642", "title": "John McKay (politician)", "text": "Liberal Party of Canada Critic for Environment – 2013–2015 ; Liberal Party of Canada Critic for Defence – 2011-2013 ; Official Opposition Critic for Small Business and Tourism – 2008 ; Official Opposition Critic for Crown Corporations – 2006 McKay served as the Critic for the Environment for the Liberal Party of Canada during the government of Steven Harper He was appointed to the role by Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau on August 21, 2013. His positions include: ", "score": "1.4486526" }, { "id": "27173560", "title": "John McKay (pianist)", "text": " Born in Montreal, McKay studied the piano with Lubka Kolessa in his native city as a boy. He graduated from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University with a Bachelor of Music in 1961. In 1962 he won the Prix d'Europe which enabled him to pursue studies in Vienna and Cologne with Bruno Seidlhofer and in Brussels with Stefan Askenase. In 1969 he joined the music faculties of both the University of Toronto and The Royal Conservatory of Music. He taught concurrently at those institutions until 1972 when was appointed head of the piano department at Dalhousie University. In ", "score": "1.4472618" }, { "id": "9073096", "title": "Matthew Good", "text": " Matthew Frederick Robert Good (born June 29, 1971) is a Canadian musician. He was the lead singer and songwriter for the Matthew Good Band, one of the most successful alternative rock bands in Canada during the 1990s and early 2000s. Since the band disbanded in 2002, Good has pursued a solo career and established himself as a political commentator and mental health activist. Between 1996 and 2016, with sales by Matthew Good Band included, Good was the 25th best-selling Canadian artist in Canada. Good has been nominated for 21 Juno Awards during his career, winning four.", "score": "1.4449303" }, { "id": "7094373", "title": "Nicholas McKay (actor)", "text": " Nicholas \"Nick\" McKay is an Australian actor who has appeared in a recurring role on the television series Farscape. In addition, he voiced Nev, a bull elephant seal in the acclaimed 2006 animated film, Happy Feet. He is the voice actor for The X Factor (Australia) and he was the original narrator of MasterChef Australia from 2009 until 2012. He was educated at The King's School, Parramatta. He was the voice-over for Network 10 multi-channel One HD, between 2009 & 2012. He is currently voice-over for the Seven News division of the Seven Network and associated promos.", "score": "1.4443958" }, { "id": "15153146", "title": "John McKay (mathematician)", "text": " John K. S. McKay (born 18 November 1939, Kent) is a dual British/Canadian citizen, a mathematician at Concordia University, known for his discovery of monstrous moonshine, his joint construction of some sporadic simple groups, for the McKay conjecture in representation theory, and for the McKay correspondence relating certain finite groups to Lie groups.", "score": "1.4426943" } ]

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[ { "id": "5985263", "title": "Dominick Bellizzi", "text": " Dominick Bellizzi (c. 1912 – 17 May 1934) was an American jockey who died at age 21 as a result of a horse racing accident. He was known as \"The Duke\". Bellizzi was born in New York to Albanian immigrants Samuel and Teresa Bellizzi. An up-and-coming young jockey in Thoroughbred racing, during 1933 Bellizzi rode to victory in the Futurity at Chicago's Arlington Park for Charles T. Fisher's Dixiana Farm. Competing on the New York circuit, he won the Adirondack Stakes and for the prominent Brookmeade Stable, owned by heiress Isabel Dodge Sloane, he captured both the Toboggan Handicap and the Whitney Handicap. In 1934, Bellizzi rode Brookmeade's colt High Quest to victory in the Wood Memorial Stakes, an important prep race for the Kentucky Derby. However, trainer Robert A. Smith opted to run the stable's Florida Derby winner ", "score": "1.6386243" }, { "id": "25616400", "title": "Dominic A. Cariello", "text": " Cariello obtained a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 1992. As a civilian he works at a paving and construction manufacturer in Racine, Wisconsin.", "score": "1.5080992" }, { "id": "15868748", "title": "Bellizzi (surname)", "text": "Domenico Bellizzi (1918–1989), Albanian poet ; Dominick Bellizzi (c. undefined 1912–1934), American jockey ; Mario Bellizzi (born 1957), Italian poet Bellizzi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ", "score": "1.4930758" }, { "id": "14622947", "title": "Odelvis Dominico", "text": " Odelvis Dominico Speek (born May 6, 1977) is a male volleyball player from Cuba, who plays as a middle-blocker for the Men's National Team. He became Best Blocker at the first 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament in Düsseldorf, where Cuba ended up in second place and missed qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China.", "score": "1.4619482" }, { "id": "26113257", "title": "Vincent Fantauzzo", "text": " Vincent Fantauzzo (born 1977, Manchester, England), is a Melbourne-based Australian portrait artist known for his award winning portraits of Heath Ledger, Brandon Walters, Matt Moran, Emma Hack, Baz Luhrmann, Asher Keddie and his son Luca. He has won the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize twice, the Archibald Packing Room Prize, and the Archibald People's Choice Award four times.", "score": "1.4100292" }, { "id": "16159317", "title": "Jason Capizzi", "text": " Jason Capizzi (born June 19, 1983) is a former American football offensive tackle for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League. He was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2007. Capizzi later won Super Bowl XLIII with the Steelers over the Arizona Cardinals, his only championship. He played college football at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Capizzi has also been a member of the New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Kansas City Chiefs, St. Louis Rams, Cleveland Browns and Carolina Panthers.", "score": "1.4092532" }, { "id": "12314155", "title": "D. Dominick Lombardi", "text": " D. Dominick Lombardi was born into the family of an Italian-American carpenter in the Bronx, New York, in 1954. He worked in the family carpentry shop as a teenager. He was a regular contributor for the Huffington Post from 2012 to 2018, and a curator for the Hampden Gallery at UMASS Amherst, with his most recent effort titled \"A Horse Walks Into a Bar\" and the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, titled \"I Am...\". He was a curator and a curatorial advisor for the Lab Gallery (2004-2006), producing over 60 exhibitions in three years with a cycle of 10-day exhibitions. Lombardi taught life drawing, painting, and beginning drawing as an adjunct art professor at Westchester Community College from 1988-2015. ", "score": "1.388659" }, { "id": "8805740", "title": "Giano Vetusto", "text": "Dominick Pezzulo ", "score": "1.3825374" }, { "id": "13879752", "title": "Pierluca Zizzi", "text": " He was born in Turin in 1970 and graduated from the Polytechnic of Turin.", "score": "1.37895" }, { "id": "30589241", "title": "Dominic Zito", "text": " Dominic Zito (born June 13, 1982) is an American choreographer. He is the National Team choreographer for USA Gymnastics and has worked with gymnasts, including Olympians, such as Jordyn Wieber, Kyla Ross, Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles, Dominique Moceanu and Elise Ray.", "score": "1.3730398" }, { "id": "14449428", "title": "Tayavek Gallizzi", "text": " Tayavek Gallizzi (born February 8, 1993) is an Argentine professional basketball player who currently plays for Regatas Corrientes of the Argentine Liga Nacional de Básquet (LNB). He defends Argentina.", "score": "1.3667967" }, { "id": "2908093", "title": "Dominic W. Lanza", "text": " Dominic William Lanza (born May 20, 1976) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. He was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Arizona.", "score": "1.3652337" }, { "id": "9985664", "title": "Dominic", "text": "Dom DiMaggio (1917–2009), American baseball player ; Hans Dominik (1872–1945), German science fiction writer ; Dominic Adiyiah (born 1989), Ghanaian footballer ; Dominic Andres (born 1972), Swiss curler and Olympic champion ; Dominic Ball (born 1995), English footballer ; Dominic Bird (born 1991), New Zealand rugby union player ; Dominic Calvert-Lewin (born 1997), English footballer ; Dominic Cork (born 1971), English cricketer ; Dominic Jones (born 1987), American football player ; Dominic Matteo (born 1974), Scottish footballer ; Dominic Moore (born 1980), Canadian professional ice hockey centre ; Dominic Tan (born 1997), Malaysian footballer ; Dominic Thiem (born 1993), professional Austrian tennis player ; Dominic Thomas (born 1995), English footballer ; Dominic Thompson (footballer) (born 2000), English footballer ; Dominic Waters (born 1986), American basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League ; Dominick Cruz (born 1985), American mixed martial artist, former UFC bantamweight champion ; Dominik Halmoši (born 1987), Czech professional ice hockey goaltender ; Dominik Hašek (born 1965), Czech professional ice hockey goaltender ; Dominik Hrbatý (born 1978), Slovakian male tennis player ; Dominik Landertinger (born 1988), Austrian biathlete ; Dominik Paris (born 1989), Italian alpine skier ; Dominick Zator (born 1994), Canadian soccer player ", "score": "1.3648083" }, { "id": "32600358", "title": "Dominic Armato", "text": " Dominic Armato (born November 18, 1976) is an American voice actor, journalist and food critic. He is best known for his work on LucasArts games. His most famous role is the voice of Guybrush Threepwood in the Monkey Island series. After ending his active voice-acting career in the early 2000s (with brief appearances in games), Armato has worked in the dining industry. Until 2015, Armato wrote a food-oriented blog, Skillet Doux. He was employed by The Arizona Republic as a food critic and journalist from 2015-2020.", "score": "1.3615868" }, { "id": "2168973", "title": "Matthew Dominick", "text": " Matthew Stuart Dominick was born on December 7, 1981 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado to Donald and Rhonda Dominick. He graduated from D'Evelyn Junior/Senior High School in Littleton, Colorado. In 2005, he received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering at the University of San Diego with minors in physics and mathematics, and was a member of the Navy ROTC and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.", "score": "1.3580172" }, { "id": "31217809", "title": "Dominic Agostino", "text": " Born in Sicily, Italy, Agostino was raised in Hamilton, Ontario and attended Mohawk College in that city. He worked as rehabilitation counsellor with the Ontario March of Dimes, and was a special assistant to Ontario Minister of Culture Lily Munro from 1985 to 1987.", "score": "1.356549" }, { "id": "711610", "title": "Vince Bellissimo", "text": " Vince Bellissimo (born December 14, 1982) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player. Bellissimo was selected by the Florida Panthers in the 5th round (158th overall) of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.", "score": "1.3555796" }, { "id": "13879753", "title": "Pierluca Zizzi", "text": " Zizzi began working as an architect.", "score": "1.354264" }, { "id": "7643297", "title": "Domenick Lombardozzi", "text": " Domenico \"Domenick\" Lombardozzi (, ; born March 25, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Herc in The Wire, and is also known for his roles in A Bronx Tale (1993), Entourage, and The Irishman (2019).", "score": "1.3527912" }, { "id": "16332676", "title": "Steve Lombardozzi Jr.", "text": " Stephen Anthony Paul Lombardozzi Jr. (born September 20, 1988) is an American professional baseball second baseman and left fielder for the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals, Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates and Miami Marlins.", "score": "1.3502247" } ]

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[ { "id": "30906171", "title": "Ole Krarup", "text": " Ole Krarup (17 March 1935 – 7 October 2017) was a Danish EU politician and former professor of law at the University of Copenhagen.", "score": "2.1450615" }, { "id": "30906173", "title": "Ole Krarup", "text": " Krarup died on 7 October 2017 at the age of 82.", "score": "2.1211822" }, { "id": "30906172", "title": "Ole Krarup", "text": " From 1994 through 2006 he was Member of the European Parliament with the Folkebevægelsen mod EU (People's Movement against the EU), Member of the Bureau of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left and sat onthe European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and its Committee on Budgetary Control. Krarup was a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with South Africa. Krarup resigned as an MEP on 1 January 2007 due to medical consequences after a traffic accident while riding his bicycle in Strasbourg in 2006. He was succeeded by MEP Søren Bo Søndergaard.", "score": "1.8858776" }, { "id": "15783519", "title": "Søren Krarup", "text": " Krarup was born in Grenaa, to vicar Vilhelm Krarup and Bodil Marie Krarup (née Langballe). He is married to Anette Elisabeth (née Lund Steen), with whom he has four children, one of whom, Marie, has also entered politics. He is the grandson of Alfred Krarup and cousin of Jesper Langballe and Ole Krarup. Krarup graduated from Christianshavns Gymnasium in 1957 and cand.theol. in 1965. He has been vicar in Seem and resident curate at Ribe Cathedral from 1965 to 2005 and ward chairman from 1965. He was director of Studenterkredsen from 1961 to 1963. From 2000 to 2001 he represented his party on the board of DR. He was from 1965 co-publisher of Tidehverv, and editor from 1984. In October 2000 he was listed as the Danish People's Party candidate in Sønderborg and was elected to parliament for the Sønderjylland constituency on 20 November 2001. Krarup has an extensive writing career behind him, as he from 1960 to 2001 published 26 books. Especially through his role in Tidehverv and as MP for the Danish People's Party, he has had great influence on modern Danish theology and modern Danish national conservative politics.", "score": "1.8041322" }, { "id": "9489499", "title": "Lenny Ibizarre", "text": " Lenny Ibizarre (born Lennart Krarup), is a Danish producer and musician from Copenhagen. He is known for his work as a DJ and record producer in Ibiza.", "score": "1.797159" }, { "id": "15783516", "title": "Søren Krarup", "text": " Søren Krarup (born 3 December 1937) is a Danish pastor, writer, and politician, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Danish People's Party from 2001 to 2011. Krarup is a significant and influential critic from the Danish national conservative movement, as well as the theological movement Tidehverv. He has written several books about Christianity, history and politics, and is regarded by both his supporters and many of his opponents as a great intellectual capacity. He has been regarded as the main ideologue of the Danish People's Party, although he rejects the particular term himself, as he regards \"love for the fatherland\" not to be an ideology or \"-ism\", but rather a fundamental precondition for one's ", "score": "1.7345469" }, { "id": "29824797", "title": "Carl Emil Krarup", "text": " Krarup was originally a civil engineer. He was in charge of public works in Copenhagen until 1898 when he joined the Danish Telegraph Administration. In 1901 he conducted research at the University of Würzburg in Germany on loaded lines. Returning to Denmark he continued the theoretical work at the University of Copenhagen and published a paper in 1902.", "score": "1.7338071" }, { "id": "12801088", "title": "Krarup", "text": "Carl Emil Krarup (1872–1909), Danish telegraph engineer ; Kai Aage Krarup (born 1915), Danish equestrian ; Ole Krarup (1935–2017), Danish politician ; Søren Krarup (born 1937), Danish pastor Notable people with this surname include:", "score": "1.7128072" }, { "id": "4858282", "title": "Steen Krarup Jensen", "text": " Steen Krarup Jensen (born April 12, 1950 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish sculptor, poet, song writer and social critic. He is educated in sculpture at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts during the period from 1971 to 1978. In 1977 he received Viggo Jarls Legacy. Steen Krarup Jensen has worked with marble and granite and been experimenting with a lot of other materials in mobiles and assemblages. He is also one of the two inventors of the asphaltophone (see musical road). Steen Krarup Jensen was the founder of Danske Billedkunstneres Fagforening, a union of Danish sculptors. In connection to that, he became famous in 1981 when he blew up a sculpture with dynamite as a protest against the living conditions of Danish sculptors. As a writer he has written a large number of texts for variety shows, songs and newspaper chronicles. In 2007, Steen Krarup Jensen and composer Jakob Freud-Magnus won a Danish contest by writing a suggestion for a new national anthem. Steen Krarup Jensen is the father of jazz musician Simon Jensen.", "score": "1.6364355" }, { "id": "15783517", "title": "Søren Krarup", "text": " He is a noted critic of Cultural Radicalism (Danish cultural relativist movement), Marxism and official Danish social policy, EU policy and immigration and refugee policy. He has, like a number of other prominent Danish politicians from the Danish People's Party, been a member of Den Danske Forening, but along with party members Jesper Langballe and Søren Espersen resigned from the association in 2002 after it had publicly compared Islam with the plague. In 2007, while he was still not a member of the association, he however stated in a speech at its jubilee that he continued to hold its magazine \"with great pleasure\", and said he regarded the association as \"the freedom fighters of our time\".", "score": "1.6326629" }, { "id": "32964927", "title": "People's Movement against the EU", "text": " in the European Parliament, but then switched to being associate members of the GUE-NGL group. Ole Krarup stated that the other Danish subgroup of EDD, Jens-Peter Bonde from the June Movement, increasingly aimed at \"democratising\" or \"improving\" the EU, according to Krarup making it impossible for the People's Movement to pursue their policies within the group. Krarup claimed that the group membership was a primarily technical matter, and that only the GUE-NGL group could secure full political autonomy of the People's Movement. He stated that the movement's political cross-spectrum position was not affected. The People's Movement is a member of EUdemocrats and TEAM (the European Alliance of EU-critical Movements) ", "score": "1.6206255" }, { "id": "12801087", "title": "Krarup", "text": " Krarup is a Danish surname. In 2004 it was Denmark's 332nd most common surname.", "score": "1.5979018" }, { "id": "9759341", "title": "Ole Jacob Bull", "text": " Ole Jacob Bull (born 11 March 1948) is a Norwegian translator and cultural director. He holds the cand.mag. degree from 1974. He worked as director of the Norwegian Writers' Center from 1980 to 1982, studied abroad from 1982 to 1983 (and 1979 to 1980), and then worked in the publishing house Aschehoug Forlag from 1985 to 1997. He was acting director of the Arts Council Norway from 1997 to 2010 and he translates novels and plays from English, Swedish, and Danish.", "score": "1.5842888" }, { "id": "10940766", "title": "Ole Jacob Frich", "text": " Ole Jacob Frich (4 June 1954 – 19 August 2015) was a Norwegian communications director and politician for the Labour Party. Frich was born in Cooma, Australia. He took his education at Sagene Teachers' College. In politics, he has been a city councillor (kommunalråd) in Oslo. From 1992 to 1996 he served in Brundtland's Third Cabinet as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. He entered the private sector, and worked at Geelmuyden.Kiese and the Norwegian Financial Services Association. In 2000 he was hired in KLP, where he is executive vice president for communication. He died on 19 August 2015.", "score": "1.5837253" }, { "id": "911438", "title": "Marie Krarup", "text": " Marie Krarup Soelberg (born 6 December 1965 in Seem near Ribe) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Danish People's Party. She was elected into parliament in the 2011 Danish general election.", "score": "1.572604" }, { "id": "5309587", "title": "Ole Humlum", "text": " Ole Humlum (born 21 July 1949) is a Danish professor emeritus of physical geography at the University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences and adjunct professor of physical geography at the University Centre in Svalbard. His academic focus includes glacial and periglacial geomorphology and climatology.", "score": "1.5710158" }, { "id": "29266929", "title": "Ole Lysø", "text": " Ole Lysø (born 29 April 1940) is a Norwegian labourer, trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party. He is the mayor of Austrheim. He was born in Kornstad as a son of fisher and farmer Alfred Magnar Lysø (1900–1960) and housewife Olianna Sofie Aardal (1898–1978). He finished secondary modern school in 1955, worked at the farm until 1961, then served his compulsory military service in Gaza. Then, from 1963 to 1965, he worked and learned the skill of welding at Bergen Mekaniske Verksted. He worked in different factories between 1965 and 1992. From 2000 to 2002 he was a senior manager in the company Vestec. He was a member of Austrheim municipal council from 1967 to 1979 and 1991 to present, serving as mayor from 1991 to 1999 and 2003 ", "score": "1.56352" }, { "id": "3313494", "title": "Erik Arup", "text": " Arup was born at Slangerup in Frederikssund Municipality, Denmark. He was the son of the physician Peter Michael Christian Arup (1845–1915) and Malvina Cathrine Ipsen (1852–1934). He was raised in a cultured home and was the cousin of Danish-English structural engineer Ove Arup (1895–1988). He was educated as both a theologian and a historian. Arup attended the University of Copenhagen and was awarded his dr.phil. in 1907. As a young man he was deeply impressed by Viggo Hørup and his political anti-militarist line. During World War I, Arup was connected to the cabinet of social-liberal Carl Theodor Zahle as a permanent under-secretary. From 1908-1914 he was archivist in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1916, Arup replaced Kristian Erslev as professor of history at the University of Copenhagen, a position he held until 31 January 1947. Arup was also the editor of Historisk Tidsskrift from 1917 to 1924, involved in editing Danish medieval sources from 1931 to 1937, and for some years collaborator to the pioneering Danish-Swedish periodical Scandia. He took a particular interest in Iceland and, as member of several organisations dealing with Danish-Icelandic relations, he generally showed himself compliant with Icelandic views.", "score": "1.5624087" }, { "id": "11614039", "title": "Ole Kassow (social entrepreneur)", "text": " Ole Kassow (born 26 June 1966) is a Danish social entrepreneur. He founded the nonprofit organization Cycling Without Age in 2012. Ole Kassow was born in Odense, Denmark. He grew up with a handicapped father and brother, experiencing early in his age stigmatization and exclusion of persons with certain disabilities. However, his father's practical jokes and humour to overcome the handicaps in their life and to infuse happiness into people around them, helped to develop Ole's positive attitude towards disabilities and old age. After completing high school, Ole travelled to various countries to learn more about different cultures and languages. He then attended the University of Southern Denmark between 1986 ", "score": "1.5512841" }, { "id": "6507623", "title": "Pandrup", "text": "Ole Christensen (born 1955), politician and former MEP ; Pernille Holmsgaard (born 1984), handball player ", "score": "1.5495845" } ]

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[ { "id": "29001709", "title": "Edu Alonso", "text": " Eduardo 'Edu' Alonso Álvarez (born 30 May 1974) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right midfielder. He spent the better part of his career with Alavés after starting out at Athletic Bilbao, playing 180 competitive matches for the former club. Overall, he made more than 200 appearances in both La Liga and Segunda División.", "score": "1.6456099" }, { "id": "13167572", "title": "Antonio Álvarez Alonso", "text": " Antonio Álvarez Alonso (11 March 1867 - 22 June 1903) was a Spanish pianist and composer. He is best known for his Pasodoble Suspiros de España.", "score": "1.6396657" }, { "id": "4454482", "title": "Alonso Fernández Alvarez", "text": " Alonso is an international model and assistant manager with a license in business administration. He has high ambitions to be an important businessman who can benefit the national economy holding a business administration college degree. He is also an enthusiastic sportsman who practices yoga and meditation, as well as gymnastics, acrobatics and swimming. Alonso started modeling commercials at the age of 4 through 12, then 19 shooting photos for Levi's Jeans. Alonso speaks Spanish, French and English. He works as a print and runway model.", "score": "1.6311052" }, { "id": "6904289", "title": "José Antonio", "text": "José Antonio Alvarez (born 1960), Spanish corporate executive ; José Antonio Attolini Lack (1931–2012), Mexican architect ; José Antonio Fernández Carbajal (born 1954), Mexican corporate executive ; Jose Antonio Ortega Bonet (1929–2009), Cuban-American entrepreneur and businessman ; José Antonio Sosa (born 1957), Spanish architect and researcher, member of the Royal Spanish Academy ", "score": "1.6141322" }, { "id": "30553954", "title": "Antonio Álvarez (footballer, born 1955)", "text": " Born in Marchena, Seville, and a product of hometown Sevilla FC's youth system, Álvarez made his La Liga debut during the 1975–76 season, scoring once in eight games as the team finished in 11th position. In the following decade he would be more often than not an undisputed starter for the Andalusians, eventually playing 370 matches all competitions comprised. At the end of the 1987–88 campaign, still with Sevilla in the top division, the 33-year-old Álvarez – having made just 17 league appearances – opted to move on, and signed with neighbouring CD Málaga. In summer 1991 he joined another club in the region, Segunda División B's Granada CF, eventually retiring at the age of 40.", "score": "1.6122012" }, { "id": "30553956", "title": "Antonio Álvarez (footballer, born 1955)", "text": "Copa del Rey: 2009–10 ; Supercopa de España runner-up: 2010 ", "score": "1.6093795" }, { "id": "13967876", "title": "Antonio Hernández-Gil Álvarez-Cienfuegos", "text": " Antonio Hernández-Gil Álvarez-Cienfuegos (1953–2020) was a Spanish lawyer, legal scholar and university professor. He was the Dean of Madrid Bar Association.", "score": "1.5971087" }, { "id": "13967877", "title": "Antonio Hernández-Gil Álvarez-Cienfuegos", "text": " Born in Burgos in 1953. He obtained a Law Degree from the Complutense University of Madrid, with the Extraordinary Prize of Degree and Extraordinary Doctorate Award. In 1975 he began teaching at the Complutense University of Madrid and in 1978 he was Adjunct Professor of Civil Law at the National University of Distance Education (UNED). In 1983 he obtained the Chair of Civil Law at the University of Santiago de Compostela and in 1986, the Chair of Civil Law at UNED, where he continued to teach until 2020. In 1974 he joined the Madrid Bar Association as a lawyer, dedicating himself to Civil and Commercial Law, especially in judicial procedures and arbitrations, both national and international, and from 1981 to ", "score": "1.5896702" }, { "id": "29953752", "title": "Antonio Alonso Martinez", "text": " Antonio Alonso Martinez (born 29 April 1963 in Portugal) is a Portuguese/ Spanish painter. Since the 80s, the artist argues that humanity will find their own spiritual reality. This has been the central theme of his work for more than 30 years. Born in Portugal to Spanish parents, Martinez opted for the Spanish nationality in 1978. He studied Fine Arts at the Center for Art and Visual Communication, Lisbon, Portugal. In 1984 was co-author of the Manifest of the Multi-instrumentalist Painting published in the Newspaper of Letters, Arts and Ideas on 26 June 1984. This manifest was accompanied by an exhibition at the University of Fine Arts of Lisbon, creating enthusiasm among the new artists and critic. In January 2011 one of his work - Portrait of Kurt Cobain - reached the second higher value in the sale of Contemporary Art at the Austrian auction house Dorotheum. In September 2012 another portrait of Kurt Cobain by Martinez was sold at Christie's in London. In January 2013 in Warsaw one of his works - Diana - reached the highest value on auction at Forbes Millionaires Club.", "score": "1.5809481" }, { "id": "30553953", "title": "Antonio Álvarez (footballer, born 1955)", "text": " Antonio Álvarez Giráldez (born 10 April 1955) is a Spanish former football central defender and manager.", "score": "1.5783274" }, { "id": "30931503", "title": "José Antonio Álvarez Lima", "text": " Álvarez Lima was born in Apizaco, Tlaxcala. As a child, he worked in a shoe store owned by friends of his father. A graduate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) after a brief stint at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, he taught at several universities, including the Universidad Iberoamericana, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, and the UNAM; he was the president of the National Political Science College, a professional organization, from 1979 to 1980. After several years as the deputy director of operations at Canal Once and a stint as the news director of Canal 13, in 1980, Álvarez Lima was tapped ", "score": "1.5696276" }, { "id": "4454477", "title": "Alonso Fernández Alvarez", "text": " Alonso Fernández Álvarez (born March 16, 1982) is a Costa Rican fashion model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Mister Costa Rica 2009 and represented Costa Rica at Mister International 2009 but unplaced.", "score": "1.551297" }, { "id": "31206981", "title": "Antonio De Diego", "text": " Antonio de Diego Álvarez is a Spanish paracanoeist and member of the National Spanish Canoeist Team, Paracanoe class A (maximum level of disability). He has won several medals: gold medal at the Europe Paracanoe Championship Trasona 2010(K-1 200 m), silver medal at the world championship Paracanoe Poznan 2010 (K-1 200 m), bronze medal World Paracone Szeged 2011 (K-1 200 m) and silver medal at the Europe Paracanoe Championship Zagreb 2012. He also practices other sports such as diving, yachting and handcycling. On 2 July 2004 he suffered a motorciclying accident requiring a double femoral amputation and causing major paralysis in his right arm. Currently he is training for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was born in Madrid on 2 July 1967, with an 85% physical disability rating. He has gone from not being able to turn around in ", "score": "1.5421278" }, { "id": "9747314", "title": "Fernando Luis Alvarez", "text": " Alvarez was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, and he was moved to Colombia at the age of three, where he lived with his grandmother till the age of twelve. Alvarez went through the school system from elementary to Greenwich High School. He then moved to London to pursue higher study from Richmond, The American International University in London in International Business & Finance, Economics and Political Science. In 2008, he started working with collector and gallerist Allan Stone. In the same year, while working at the Stone residence, he started the solo studio, Greenwich Soho Factory in Greenwich and in 2009 he founded the Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery in Stamford,Connecticut which opened its second wing in the year 2013.", "score": "1.5396633" }, { "id": "9810461", "title": "Carlos Álvarez (baritone)", "text": " Carlos Álvarez (born 1966 in Málaga) is a Spanish baritone who has had a major international opera career since the early 1990s. His recording of the title role in Isaac Albéniz's Merlin with Plácido Domingo as King Arthur won a Latin Grammy Award in 2001, and his recording of the role of Ford in Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2006.", "score": "1.5135214" }, { "id": "13806484", "title": "Carlos Manuel Álvarez", "text": " Alvarez was born in Matanzas and studied journalism at the University of Havana.", "score": "1.5040252" }, { "id": "11100752", "title": "José Antonio Alonso Navarro", "text": " José Antonio Alonso Navarro is a philologist, university professor of English and English literature, and European literature in general. In addition, he is a medievalist, a translator, and a writer. He was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1965. Navarro holds a BA in English Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and a PhD in English Philology from the Coruña University (Spain). He wrote a doctoral dissertation about the afterlife in Medieval Europe, and included a complete comparative analysis of two medieval texts on the afterlife within the same genre. He was awarded the \"CUM LAUDE\" accolade. On 21 March 2017 Nick White, Deputy Head of Mission and Chargé d´Affaires at the British Embassy of Asuncion, Paraguay, awarded Navarro a Certificate of Honor on behalf of the British Ambassador in Asuncion, Jeremy Hobbs due to his outstanding contribution to the translation and spread of Medieval English Literature in both Spain and Paraguay for almost 20 years.", "score": "1.4994211" }, { "id": "4343929", "title": "José Luis Álvarez (politician)", "text": " José Luis Álvarez y Álvarez (born 4 April 1930) is a Spanish politician. He was the city of Madrid's mayor from March 3, 1978 and to January 5, 1979. He then worked with Adolfo Suárez and Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo as Minister of Transport and Communications from 1980 to 1981. He also was the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food between 1981 and 1982. He was born in Madrid.", "score": "1.4985808" }, { "id": "11411335", "title": "Adalberto Álvarez Marines", "text": " Adalberto Alvarez Marines (born 1952 ) is a Mexican artist and artisan who specializes in creating sculptures and other works in hard paper mache, called cartonería in Mexican Spanish. As a child, Alvarez began drawing and writing, with some success in publishing illustrations and stories. In his mid twenties, he discovered cartoneria and shifted his artistic work to this medium, first on a personal basis while working at a factory until in 1994, when he dedicated himself to the craft full-time. Alvarez's work is distinct in Mexican cartoneria because of its often non-traditional themes and artistic sense, often classed as art, rather than handcraft. With the exception of alebrijes and skeletal figures, Alvarez avoids traditional forms in favor of exploring what can be done with the medium, focusing on sculpture, decorative items and furniture. He was named a \"grand master\" of Mexican folk art in 2014 and has exhibited his work in Mexico and the United States. However, he does not like to spend time in exhibition and promotion, establishing his own Cartoneria Museum at his home in Santa Catarina Ayotzingo, Chalco, State of Mexico", "score": "1.4906934" }, { "id": "11341949", "title": "Antonio Domínguez Álvarez", "text": " Dominguez Alvarez worked at various private sector companies for 30 years before becoming the Inspector General of the Panama Canal. This included a role as director of Frito-Lay for Central America.", "score": "1.4829943" } ]

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[ { "id": "5925269", "title": "Boutheina Jabnoun Marai", "text": " Boutheina Jabnoun Marai (Tunisian Arabic: بثينة جبنون مرعي) is a Tunisian journalist and magazine publisher. She is the co-owner and the editor-in-chief of Bouthaina magazine. She currently resides in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.", "score": "1.8451962" }, { "id": "3087012", "title": "Boutheina", "text": "Boutheina Jabnoun Marai, Tunisian journalist ; Bouthaina Shaaban, Syrian politician ; Bouthayna Shaya, Syrian actress and voice actress ; Buthaina Al-Yaqoubi, Omani athlete Boutheina (also spelled Bothayna or Buthaina; بثينة) is an Arabic given name for females. People with the name include: ", "score": "1.6228919" }, { "id": "32083142", "title": "Lubna Jaffery", "text": " Lubna Boby Jaffery (born 2 April 1980) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Born in Norway to parents of Pakistani origin she grew up in Bergen. She took her secondary education in Åsane in 1999, and at the University of Bergen she took the cand.mag. degree in 2004 and the master's degree in 2007. She was an adviser in the Workers' Youth League in 2000, before becoming a central board member from 2000 to 2004. She had previously chaired the county branch from 1998 to 1999. Jaffery was a member of Bergen city council from 1999 to 2003 and ", "score": "1.5815189" }, { "id": "11128790", "title": "Loubna Mrie", "text": " Mrie comes from an Alawite family from a village near Latakia. Her father is a high official in the Syrian Air Force Intelligence. Despite her family ties, she is one of a few Alawites to join the fight against the Assad regime and has been branded a traitor by her father. As rioting broke out in the initial stages of the Syrian Civil War, Loubna attended Latakia University but moved to Damascus in 2012 as Latakia was deemed to be unsafe for activists. This was due to Assad troops opening fire on civilian protestors. She later joined the Free Syrian Army (FSA) where she helped with the transport of food and medical aid, then with the smuggling of ", "score": "1.5358397" }, { "id": "7563085", "title": "Bouthaina Shaaban", "text": " US sanctioned Shaaban together with other five other Syrian officials. She is the author of Both Right and Left Handed: Arab Women Talk About Their Lives (1988), a book composed mostly of interviews with Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, and Algerian women. In this study, Shaaban invited Arab women to talk openly about their lives and the roles of women in their societies, how they feel they've changed through different times of war and crisis, and what they think the future holds for Arab women. Another of her books published in English is her study of Arab female writers Voices revealed: Arab women novelists, 1898-2000. In his article of 2012, \"Failing the masses: Buthaina Shabaan and the public intellectual crisis\", A. Al-Saleh described her public image like this: \"The shift of Shabaan from being a feminist to serving the propaganda of the regime has damaged her integrity as an intellectual.\"", "score": "1.5231831" }, { "id": "11128789", "title": "Loubna Mrie", "text": " Loubna Mrie (Arabic: لبنى مرعي ; born 1991) is a Syrian civil rights activist.", "score": "1.5031798" }, { "id": "8336463", "title": "Ghada Chreim Ata", "text": " Ghada Chreim Ata (غادة شريم), born on September 30, 1968, is a Lebanese female politician and professor of French literature at the Lebanese University. She is Minister for Refugees in the government of Hassan Diab since January 2020.", "score": "1.4753947" }, { "id": "13978634", "title": "Bouthayna Shaya", "text": " Born in Sweida area in Syria graduated from the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts in 1989 and has a chorus Directed by theater.", "score": "1.4713254" }, { "id": "15112045", "title": "Paula Yacoubian", "text": " Paulette Siragan Yaghobian (بوليت سيراغان يعقوبيان; born 4 April 1976) is a Lebanese journalist, television host and politician. She was previously known as a journalist and a television host. Throughout her career, she had worked as a host in a number of Lebanese and pan-Arab international television stations. Known for the transformational impact she's had in her organizations and the broader community, Paula became one of the experts chosen by the World Bank group as a member of their 'External Advisory Panel for Diversity and Inclusion' as a result of her advocacy for women's rights, her efforts for women empowerment, as well as for being a fierce defender of electoral women quota and a fairer electoral law in Lebanon. In 2018, she announced her candidacy for the 2018 Lebanese Parliamentary Elections, running for the Armenian Orthodox seat in the Beirut I constituency. She was officially announced as a winner following the elections which took place on Sunday 6 May 2018. On 8 August 2020, she resigned and called for a new government after the 2020 Beirut explosions.", "score": "1.4686071" }, { "id": "26995533", "title": "Soumia Benkhaldoun", "text": " Soumia Benkhaldoun (1963) is a Moroccan engineer, politician, and activist in the field of gender equality. Benkhaldoun graduated from the École Mohammadia d'ingénieurs. She started working as State engineer in 1986, was a professor at the Ecole Superieure de Technologie Fès between 1987 and 1994, and then at Ibn Tofail University between 1994 and 2006. She also worked as an expert in the field of women and development with ISESCO, the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. In addition she has been part of various organizations and committees in the field of gender equality. On 10 October 2013, she was appointed Minister Delegate to the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Executive Training in the Benkirane II Government. She resigned from this position in May 2015, and was replaced by Jamila el Moussali.", "score": "1.4642689" }, { "id": "630698", "title": "Louisa Hanoune", "text": " Hanoune was born in Chekfa, Jijel Province. Her parents were mountain peasants from Chekfa, Jijel Province, and she fled with her family to the city of Annaba, after her parental home was bombed by the French army during the Algerian War (1954–1962). She was the first woman of her family to go to school. With Algeria's free and compulsory education system, Hanoune completed secondary school and went on to obtain her bachelor's degree before joining the air transport sector. Hanoune studied law at the University of Annaba, a decision which was opposed by her father. She has stated that \"It is this right to education which will completely change the position, the representation of women in our society and of which I am partly a product.\"", "score": "1.4526643" }, { "id": "8781887", "title": "Mai Ghoussoub", "text": " Her father, Raymond Ghoussoub, a Maronite Christian, was a professional footballer. She studied at the French lycée in Beirut, then mathematics at the American University of Beirut, and French literature at the Lebanese University, and later sculpture at Morley College and the Henry Moore Studio in London. She was a Trotskyite at the start of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975, but soon became disillusioned and moved on to humanitarian work, establishing two medical dispensaries in a poor Muslim area after the doctors had left and the pharmacies had closed. She lost an eye in 1977, after her car was hit by a shell while taking someone to hospital. She moved to London to be treated, and spent time in Paris, where she worked as a journalist for Arab newspapers. She wrote Comprendre le Liban with her childhood friend André Gaspard, under the ", "score": "1.4507481" }, { "id": "630702", "title": "Louisa Hanoune", "text": " At the international level, Louisa Hanoune was a founding member of the International Workers and Peoples in January 1991. She has participated as a representative of PT conferences against privatization, for the defense of trade union organizations, and campaigned for workplace standards. She is a committee member of the women workers and of the Africa Committee of the International Workers. She was involved with a coalition of unions that spoke out against the war in Iraq, including the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions and the International Confederation of Workers (EIT). In March 2010, Haroune joined other women's-rights activists in calling for repeal of Algeria's Family Code on grounds of its failure to provide adequate protection for females. In February 2011, she criticised a 12 February anti-Bouteflika demonstration in ", "score": "1.4486158" }, { "id": "3242224", "title": "Bahaa Trabelsi", "text": " Bahaa Trabelsi (born 1966) is a Moroccan novelist. Trabelsi was born in Rabat and went to secondary school in Morocco and then she emigrated to France. After her graduation in France (troisième cycle) she returned to Morocco for some time. She now holds a Doctorate degree in economic studies from the university of Aix en Provence. She is the author of the successful novel \"Une femme simplement\" (1995). \"Une Vie à trois\" is her second novel. Bahaa has worked in a government job and is now a journalist and head of the Moroccan magazine \"Masculin\" and prominent member of an association fighting Aids. Her third novel is \"Slim\". Bahaa Trabelsi is an active member of civil society and has participated in the creation of several associations, including Women and Development. The Keeper's Chair is her fifth novel and won the 2017 Sofitel Literary Award. Tahar Ben Jelloun was the chairman of the jury that awarded the award on that occasion.", "score": "1.4484448" }, { "id": "27291512", "title": "Amina Zoubir", "text": " Amina Zoubir (born 1983) is a contemporary artist, filmmaker and performer from Algiers, Algeria. She is known as a feminist performer through video-actions entitled Take your place, which she directed in 2012 during the 50th anniversary of Algerian independence, aiming to question gender issues and conditions of women in Algerian society. She has worked with different art mediums such as sculpture, drawing, installation art, performance and video art. Her work relates to notions of body language in specific spaces of North Africa territories.", "score": "1.444788" }, { "id": "11128791", "title": "Loubna Mrie", "text": " She promoted the aims of the revolution in the Alawitian community and spoke with the victims of government-run troops. After her father issued a warrant for her arrest, she fled in August 2012 to Turkey. On August 11, 2012, her mother was abducted, according to her father, who subsequently broke off all contact with her. Loubna later received information from a friend about the death of her mother. She later became a photojournalist with Reuters based in Aleppo where she covered the conflict then moved to New York where she is a researcher and commentator on Syrian and Middle Eastern affairs. She has been published in The Washington Post, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, and The New Republic, among other publications.", "score": "1.4434421" }, { "id": "7563084", "title": "Bouthaina Shaaban", "text": " Shaaban worked first as an interpreter for the Syrian presidents Hafez al-Assad and Bashar al-Assad, his son. Under Hafez she became an \"adviser to the Foreign Ministry,\" and in 2003 she was named Minister of Expatriates, \"a new post created to try to lure wealthy Syrian expatriates abroad — or at least their resources — back home.\" In 2008, she was appointed political and media adviser to president Bashar al-Assad. Between 1985 and 2003 she was also the professor of Romantic poetry at the English department of Damascus University. Shaaban was particularly visible in English-speaking media after the Valentine's Day 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, when she participated in several television interviews and wrote several op-ed pieces attacking the United Nations probe into Syrian involvement in the murder and insisted that Israel and the United States were responsible for Hariri's assassination. In August 2011, ", "score": "1.442604" }, { "id": "28591327", "title": "Nada Sehnaoui", "text": " Country'' (1992–present). Sehnaoui's works have been exhibited internationally in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East and North Africa, including in New York, Boston, Washington D.C., London, Paris, Marseille, Liège, Houston, Munich, Beirut, Dubai, and Doha. An activist in the fields of human rights and political reform, Sehnaoui is a member of Beirut Madinati, an urban public policy organization under whose umbrella she ran for a seat on Beirut's municipal council in 2016. She is also a founding member of the Civil Center for National Initiative, whose works include a legal campaign to remove reference to sect from state records, and an initiative to legally administer civil marriages in Lebanon.", "score": "1.4402145" }, { "id": "25366553", "title": "Boutheïna Amiche", "text": " Boutheïna Amiche (born 12 September 1990) is a Tunisian handball player for ASF Sfax and the Tunisian national team. She participated at the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship.", "score": "1.4401473" }, { "id": "630697", "title": "Louisa Hanoune", "text": " Louisa Hanoune (لويزة حنون; born 7 April 1954) is the head of Algeria's Workers' Party (Parti des Travailleurs, PT). In 2004, she became the first woman to run for President of Algeria. Hanoune was imprisoned by the government several times prior to the legalization of political parties in 1988. She was jailed soon after she joined the Trotskyist Social Workers Organisation, an illegal party, in 1981 and again after the 1988 October Riots, which brought about the end of the National Liberation Front's (FLN) single-party rule. During Algeria's civil war of the 1990s, Hanoune was one of the few opposition voices in parliament, and, despite her party's laicist values, a strong opponent of the government's \"eradication\" policy toward Islamists. In January 1995, she signed the Sant'Egidio Platform together with representatives of other opposition parties, notably the Islamic Salvation Front, the radical Islamist party whose dissolution by military decree brought about the start of the civil war.", "score": "1.4355195" } ]

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[ { "id": "6141368", "title": "Derek Wheatley", "text": " Derek Peter Francis Wheatley QC (died 23 September 2018) was an English barrister, legal advisor and novelist. Wheatley was educated at University College, Oxford, going up to Oxford in 1944. He became a barrister and was involved with the case of Isabel Earl, who was tried at the Old Bailey for murder. As a barrister, he handled both criminal and commercial cases. Subsequently, he was a Recorder (judge) of the Crown Court and a Deputy Coroner of the Queen's Household (1959–64). Later, he joined Lloyds Bank as its Chief Legal Advisor. Wheatley wrote many articles for newspapers and legal journals. He also wrote a novel, The Silent Lady (Mona Lisa), based on his experiences as a barrister, especially the Isabel Earl case. He died on 23 September 2018 at the age of 92.", "score": "1.7449834" }, { "id": "9397223", "title": "Kevin Wheatley", "text": " Wheatley was born in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills on 13 March 1937, the third child of Raymond and Ivy (née Newman) Wheatley, both natives of Sydney. He was educated at Maroubra Junction Junior Technical School. Upon completing his schooling, Wheatley worked as a labourer in Sydney. On 20 July 1954, aged 17, he married Edna Davis; together they would have four children. He was a keen rugby player, and he earned the nickname of \"Dasher\" on the field.", "score": "1.5547738" }, { "id": "7672867", "title": "Ron Wheatley", "text": " Roland Wheatley (20 June 1924 – 27 July 2003) was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half.", "score": "1.5434202" }, { "id": "9993822", "title": "Ossie Wheatley", "text": " Oswald Stephen Wheatley (born 28 May 1935) is a former cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Warwickshire and Glamorgan, whom he captained from 1961 to 1966. Wheatley was born at Low Fell, Gateshead, County Durham. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. A tall, fair-haired right-arm fast-medium bowler, he came to prominence for Cambridge University in 1958 when he set the record for the most wickets in the university's abbreviated season with 80 first-class wickets for under 18 each. He played in the university holidays for Warwickshire with very limited success but in 1959 joined that county full-time, taking 100 wickets in the ", "score": "1.5179558" }, { "id": "27133755", "title": "Barrie Wheatley", "text": " Barrie Wheatley (born 21 February 1938) is an English former professional footballer who played for Crewe Alexandra and Rochdale.", "score": "1.5175442" }, { "id": "10104169", "title": "Peter Jaffrey Wheatley", "text": " Wheatley was born on 5 March 1921 in Wilmslow, Cheshire. He was educated at King Edward VII School (photo) in Sheffield, where he was Head Prefect in 1938/1940, Captain of cricket for two years and 1st XI footballer for four. He began a degree at Oxford at the start of World War II, but was soon enlisted as a bombardier. He was captured during the Fall of Singapore in 1942. After four years as a prisoner of war, and working on the Burma railway, and then regaining his health, Wheatley returned to Oxford, studying at Queen's Colllege (1946-1948) and Merton College (1948-1949). He ", "score": "1.5065641" }, { "id": "3949797", "title": "Austin Wheatley", "text": " Austin Wheatley (born November 16, 1977) is a former American football tight end. He played college football at Iowa. He was drafted in the 5th round 158th overall) in the 2000 NFL draft by the New Orleans Saints.", "score": "1.5042915" }, { "id": "10888021", "title": "Rebecca Wheatley", "text": " Rebecca Wheatley (born 25 April 1965) is a British actress and musician. Wheatley grew up in Teddington, Middlesex, where she went to St Catherine's convent school, before gaining her BA in English literature from the University of Wales, Lampeter. She sang in “In the Smoke”, S5:E7 of Pie in the Sky (1997). Wheatley is best known as Amy Howard, the receptionist in the BBC's Casualty drama, a role which she played for four years from September 1997 until March 2001. She was a regular panellist on Loose Women in 2002. Although Wheatley originally trained as a classical singer, she has become well known for various types of popular music. She has sung in many of the cabaret venues in the West End of London, including The Café Royal, The Ritz and The Savoy. She has also sung at the Grand Opera House in Belfast in televised performances for BBC ", "score": "1.4950452" }, { "id": "37481", "title": "Paul Wheatley (geographer)", "text": " After serving as navigator in the Bomber Command and the Pathfinder Group 205 in World War II, Wheatley took a degree in geography at Liverpool University, at first specializing in English historical geography. When he moved to University College, London, he became interested in the historical geography of Southeast Asia and China, then moved to University of Malaya, in Malaysia, then University of California, Berkeley, returned for a time to University College, and finally to University of Chicago, where he stayed from 1971 until retiring in 1991.", "score": "1.4942374" }, { "id": "11255295", "title": "Alan Wheatley", "text": " Alan Wheatley (19 April 1907 – 30 August 1991) was an English actor. He was a well known stage actor in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, appeared in forty films between 1931 and 1965 and was a frequent broadcaster on radio from the 1930s to the 1990s, and on television from 1938 to 1964. His most prominent television role was the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, with Richard Greene as Robin Hood; Wheatley played the sheriff in 54 episodes between 1955 and 1959. Earlier, he had played Sherlock Holmes in the first television series featuring the great detective. In addition to acting, Wheatley was a radio announcer during the Second World War, broadcasting to occupied Europe, where he became a well known voice. Poetry was another of his interests: he translated the poetry of Federico García Lorca and was a frequent reader of poems on air. In his later years he worked mainly in radio, as a narrator, a verse-reader and an actor.", "score": "1.4924582" }, { "id": "30355555", "title": "Dennis Wheatley", "text": " Wheatley was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant into the Royal Field Artillery during the First World War, receiving his basic training at Biscot Camp in Luton. He was assigned to the City of London Brigade and the 36th (Ulster) Division. Wheatley was gassed in a chlorine attack during Passchendaele and was invalided out, having served in Flanders, on the Ypres Salient, and in France at Cambrai and Saint-Quentin. In 1919 he took over management of the family's wine business. In 1931, however, after business had declined because of the Great Depression, he sold the firm and began writing. During the Second World War Wheatley was a member of the London Controlling ", "score": "1.4912133" }, { "id": "13041643", "title": "Wheatley (surname)", "text": "Nicky Wheatley in the British soap-opera Coronation Street ", "score": "1.4824643" }, { "id": "30355554", "title": "Dennis Wheatley", "text": " Wheatley was born at 10 Raleigh Gardens, Brixton Hill, London to Albert David and Florence Elizabeth Harriet (Baker) Wheatley. He was the eldest of three children in the family, which owned Wheatley & Son of Mayfair, a wine business. He admitted to having little aptitude for schooling and was later expelled from Dulwich College for allegedly forming a \"secret society\" (as he mentions in his introduction to The Devil Rides Out). Soon after his expulsion Wheatley became a British Merchant Navy officer cadet on the training ship HMS Worcester.", "score": "1.4822521" }, { "id": "9306896", "title": "Derek Rackley", "text": " Rackley attended the University of Minnesota and was a four-year letterman in football. He saw action as tight end, in addition to handling long snapper duties for four years. He worked for General Mills in Minnesota before he began his professional career.", "score": "1.4747066" }, { "id": "28382346", "title": "Keith Wheatley", "text": " Keith James Wheatley (born 20 January 1946 in Guildford, Surrey) is a retired English cricketer. Wheatley was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler. Wheatley represented Hampshire, making his first-class debut for the county in the 1965 County Championship season against Leicestershire. He made his List-A debut against Glamorgan in 1967. Wheatley's final first-class match for the club came in 1970 against Somerset and his final one-day game coming in the same year against local rivals Sussex. At the end of the 1970 season Wheatley left Hampshire. Wheatley represented Hampshire in 79 first-class matches, scoring 1,781 runs at an average of 18.55. He also took 69 wickets at an average of 28.31 with his off breaks, including brilliant best figures of 4/1 against Glamorgan in 1968. In one-day cricket Wheatley fared less well, playing just 10 matches and scoring 53 runs at an average of 5.30.", "score": "1.4735587" }, { "id": "26661779", "title": "Benjamin Robert Wheatley", "text": "Attribution ", "score": "1.4585408" }, { "id": "1907931", "title": "Tyrone Wheatley Jr.", "text": " Tyrone Wheatley Jr. (born February 4, 1997), also known as T.J. Wheatley, is an American football offensive lineman for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). Wheatley played college football at the University of Michigan and Stony Brook University.", "score": "1.4545546" }, { "id": "8118076", "title": "Moreton John Wheatley", "text": " of the Royal Parks of London, lands originally owned by the monarchy and officially designated public parks with the introduction of the Crown lands Act 1851. Among other duties, he was in charge of the keepers and civil officers in the parks, and he lived in a house inside Hyde Park. Shortly before his retirement as Bailiff, he was appointed a Companion (civil) of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the November 1901 Birthday Honours list, and invested by King Edward VII on 17 December 1901. He lived at Gwersyllt in Denbighshire, and died on 13 May 1916.", "score": "1.4511167" }, { "id": "13246713", "title": "Charles M. Wheatley", "text": " Charles Moore Wheatley (16 March 1822 – 6 May 1882) was an American miner and palaeontologist of the 19th century. He is noted for identifying several new fossilized species, some of which bear his name, and for his connection to the Port Kennedy Bone Cave, which contained one of the most important middle Pleistocene (Irvingtonian, approximately 750,000 years ago) fossil deposits in North America. In 1879, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. He also managed successful mines in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, including a lead mine in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.", "score": "1.4476004" }, { "id": "28517892", "title": "Wheatley (Portal)", "text": " Wheatley is a fictional artificial intelligence from the Portal franchise first introduced in the 2011 video game Portal 2. He is voiced by British comedian and writer Stephen Merchant, and created in part by Portal 2s designer Erik Wolpaw. In the Portal narrative, Wheatley is one of several spherical \"personality cores\" developed to restrain GLaDOS, the main artificial intelligence that operates the Aperture Science facility, from becoming rampant, though Wheatley is later revealed to have been built to act as an intelligence dampener towards GLaDOS. Initially serving as a comedic foil to the player-character Chell during the first half of Portal 2, Wheatley becomes the main antagonist ", "score": "1.4460328" } ]

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[ { "id": "26546057", "title": "Henry W. Barnett", "text": " Henry W. Barnett (January 9, 1927 – May 11, 1994) was an American politician who served in the New York State Assembly from the 89th district from 1983 to 1992.", "score": "1.6829561" }, { "id": "30782661", "title": "Charlie Barnett (comedian)", "text": " Charles Barnett (September 23, 1954 – March 16, 1996) was an American comedian and actor.", "score": "1.5921013" }, { "id": "32890274", "title": "William A. Barnett", "text": " William Arnold Barnett (born October 30, 1941) is an American economist, whose current work is in the fields of chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinear dynamics in socioeconomic contexts, econometric modeling of consumption and production, and the study of the aggregation problem and the challenges of measurement in economics.", "score": "1.5913837" }, { "id": "28821479", "title": "Oliver Barnett", "text": " Oliver Wesley Barnett (born April 9, 1966, in Louisville, Kentucky) is a former American football defensive lineman in the National Football League who played for the Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills, and San Francisco 49ers.", "score": "1.5698048" }, { "id": "28537012", "title": "Homer Barnett", "text": " Homer Garner Barnett (1906 in Bisbee, Arizona – May 9, 1985) was an American anthropologist, thinker, fieldworker, and teacher.", "score": "1.5616361" }, { "id": "11146021", "title": "Ben Barnett (footballer)", "text": " Benjamin James Barnett (born 18 December 1969) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a forward.", "score": "1.5581858" }, { "id": "14470712", "title": "Ferdinand Lee Barnett (Chicago)", "text": " Barnett started practicing law around 1883. His prominence grew quickly and in 1888 he was considered for a Republican nomination for Cook County Commissioner. In 1892, he started a law partnership with S. Laing Williams. The pair split over Williams' affiliation with Booker T. Washington, whom Barnett frequently opposed.", "score": "1.5578756" }, { "id": "32890275", "title": "William A. Barnett", "text": " Barnett received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from M.I.T., his M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.", "score": "1.5521739" }, { "id": "5447896", "title": "George Ezra Barnett", "text": "1) REDIRECT: George Ezra ", "score": "1.5519357" }, { "id": "5598379", "title": "Powell S. Barnett", "text": " Powell S. Barnett (2 August 1883 – 16 March 1971) was a Seattle-based musician, civil rights activist, and African American community leader.", "score": "1.5485116" }, { "id": "13658497", "title": "J. D. Barnett (politician)", "text": " Joel Dwight Barnett (January 2, 1845 - December 9, 1897) served in the California State Assembly for the 24th district. In 1964, during the American Civil War, he served in Company A, 44th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army.", "score": "1.5339775" }, { "id": "14465252", "title": "Fred Barnett (English footballer)", "text": " Fred Barnett (13 April 1896 – 1982) was an English professional footballer who played for Hawley, Northfleet United, Tottenham Hotspur, Southend United, Watford and Dartford.", "score": "1.5317199" }, { "id": "32277632", "title": "Morris S. Barnett", "text": " Morris S. Barnett (1808 – April 30, 1902) was an American politician. Barnett owned a sawmill in Eldorado, Wisconsin in the 1840s. United States Senator Philetus Sawyer worked for Barnett at the sawmill. He was active in the anti-slavery movement in Wisconsin. He lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and served on the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. Barnett then moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. In 1851 and 1857, Barnett served in the Wisconsin Assembly while living in Fond du Lac. Barnett was a member of the Whig and Free Soil Party. Barnett later supported the Republican Party. Barlett died from pneumonia at his son's home in Neenah, Wisconsin.", "score": "1.5292557" }, { "id": "14470708", "title": "Ferdinand Lee Barnett (Chicago)", "text": " Ferdinand Lee Barnett (February 18, 1852 – March 11, 1936) was an American journalist, lawyer, and civil rights activist in Chicago, Illinois, beginning in the late Reconstruction era. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, as a child, his family fled to Windsor, Ontario, Canada, just before the American Civil War. After the war, they settled in Chicago, where Barnett graduated from high school, and then obtained his law degree from what is today Northwestern University School of Law. He was a founding editor of the African-American oriented The Chicago Conservator monthly in 1878. The third black person to be admitted to the practice of law in Illinois, he also became a successful lawyer. In 1895, Barnett married Ida B. Wells, a journalist and anti-lynching activist. In 1896, Barnett became Illinois' first black assistant state's attorney. He was active in anti-lynching and civil rights causes and was called \"one of the foremost citizens Chicago has ever had\" by the Chicago Defender.", "score": "1.5290765" }, { "id": "11786167", "title": "Rex Barnett", "text": " Rex Barnett (born October 22, 1938) is an American politician and former member of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. A Republican, he represented District 4 (Atchison, Nodaway and Worth Counties) in the Missouri House of Representatives for four terms (from 1994 to 2002). During this time, he sat on committees for criminal law, public safety and law enforcement, and appropriations for corrections and public safety.", "score": "1.5277228" }, { "id": "14470720", "title": "Ferdinand Lee Barnett (Chicago)", "text": " Barnett left the position of assistant state's attorney in 1910, turning to private practice where he advocated for African-American rights. He often worked pro bono, focusing on employment discrimination and criminal cases. In 1917 he was a candidate for alderman of the second ward in Chicago. His most famous case was the defense with attorneys Robert M. McMurdy and Cowen of \"Chicken Joe\" Campbell. Although Campbell was convicted for the murder of Odelle B. Allen, his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Frank O. Lowden on April 12, 1918. In the 1920s, Barnett and his wife supported Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. In the 1920s and 1930s, Barnett began to support the Democratic Party. Barnett died March 11, 1936.", "score": "1.5235555" }, { "id": "7656602", "title": "George E. Barnett", "text": " George Ernest Barnett (February 19, 1873 – June 17, 1938) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University from 1911 to 1938. In 1932, he served as president of the American Economic Association.", "score": "1.5196286" }, { "id": "15676573", "title": "James V. Barnett II", "text": " Barnett earned a BS degree in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1967. His early career was spent at Fairchild Semiconductor, Raytheon Semiconductor, American Microsystems, Ness Time, and Zilog Semiconductor.", "score": "1.5175636" }, { "id": "15891276", "title": "Charlie Barnett (footballer)", "text": " Charlie John Barnett (born 19 September 1988) is an English footballer.", "score": "1.5169728" }, { "id": "5598381", "title": "Powell S. Barnett", "text": " its chairman, and chairing the committee that revised the Seattle Urban League. Barnett, a sousaphone player, was the first black member of the once all-white Seattle Musicians Union, Local 76 and was instrumental in the merger between the black and white musicians' locals into the Musician's Association of Seattle 76-493. In 1967 he was named Seattle-King County's Senior Citizen of the Year for his history of service and contributions to the local community. Barnett's account of Black and Asian race relations in Seattle in 1909 has been used in scholarship to substantiate the anti-black discrimination and racial tensions that were pervasive in Seattle at the time.", "score": "1.5138004" } ]

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[ { "id": "10842463", "title": "Modou Dia", "text": " Modou Dia (born 27 March 1950) is a Senegalese politician and former diplomat. Dia represented Senegal in Saudi Arabia, the Soviet Union, West Germany and Austria. He also was the Senegalese permanent representative to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. Dia was a candidate in the February 2007 presidential election, placing last out of 15 candidates with about 0.13% of the vote. Dia attended the Institut catholique d'arts et métiers in Lille.", "score": "1.7689778" }, { "id": "12723485", "title": "Modou Jobe", "text": " Born in Sanyang, he has played club football for Real de Banjul, Niarry Tally, Linguère and El-Kanemi Warriors. He re-joined Linguère in October 2017 for pre-season training, before signing for Nigerian club El-Kanemi Warriors in November 2017. He made his debut for the club in the Nigerian Professional Football League in March 2018.", "score": "1.6850992" }, { "id": "2772815", "title": "Modou Diagne", "text": " Modou Diagne (born 3 January 1994) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays for Cypriot club Olympiakos Nicosia. As a youth, he was capped for the France U20 team, but switched to Senegal U23 team for the 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations. He also holds French citizenship.", "score": "1.6354527" }, { "id": "26509252", "title": "Modou Jobe (footballer, born 2000)", "text": " He is the product of Superstars Academy. He then spent two years in Israel with Hapoel Ramat Gan debuting in the Liga Leumit. He played back half year before joining Serbian SuperLiga side Inđija where he played the second half of the 2020-21 season. Having the club ended relegated Jobe was released in Summer 2021.", "score": "1.6226583" }, { "id": "31285092", "title": "Modou", "text": "Modou Bamba Gaye, Gambian politician ; Modou Barrow (born 1992), Gambian football player ; Kabba-Modou Cham (born 1992), Belgian-born Gambian football player ; Modou Dia (born 1950), Senegalese politician and diplomat ; Modou Diagne (born 1994), Senegalese football player ; Modou Jadama (born 1994), American association football player of Gambian descent ; Modou Jagne (born 1983), Gambian association football player ; Pa Modou Jagne (born 1989), Gambian association football player ; Pa-Modou Kah (born 1980), Norwegian football coach and former player ; Modou Kouta, Chadian football player and manager ; Modou Sady Diagne (born 1954), Senegalese basketball player ; Modou Sougou (born 1984), Senegalese football player ; Modou Sowe (born 1963), Gambian football referee ; Modou Tall (born 1953), Senegalese basketball player Modou is an African masculine given name that may refer to", "score": "1.5655699" }, { "id": "14265243", "title": "Mamadou Diop (musician)", "text": " Mamadou Diop, also known as Modou Diop, is a Senegalese performing artist, now living in the United States. With his trademark West African rhythm guitar he has performed with the likes of Thione Seck, Baaba Maal, Jimi Mbaye, Orchestre Baobab, Nicolas Menheim, Papa Seck, the Grand Soda Mama, and many other notable musicians from West Africa. Through his music, he has traveled the world, finally settling in New England just north of Boston, Massachusetts in Salem 1996. During his musical career in Senegal, Mamadou contributed his talents to support many other professional musicians, both seasoned and well-known artists and up-and-coming artists alike. When he arrived in the United States he formed his own band of musicians. Formed in 1998, the group was known as \"Mamadou Diop and the Jolole Band\". In 2000, the ensemble simplified their name to \"MAMADOU\". Mamadou performs regularly with the band MAMADOU, showcasing his unique brand of dance music. In November 2011, Mamadou Diop was awarded the Boston Music Award as International Artist of the Year.", "score": "1.5522202" }, { "id": "32795273", "title": "Modibo Diakité", "text": " Born in Bourg-La-Reine, France, Diakité also owns a Malian passport, as both of his parents are originally from Mali.", "score": "1.5495064" }, { "id": "7553382", "title": "Mamadou Sidiki Diabaté", "text": " Mamadou Sidiki Diabaté, widely known as \"Madou,\" was born on September 23, 1982 in Bamako, Mali. He is a Muslim and he's the youngest son of the late Sidiki Diabaté and Mariam Kouyaté. He is part of the seventy-first generation of kora players in his family. His family has a long heritage in the oral tradition of jalis (sometimes spelled djeli), or griots. \"Jali\" is the Mandingo word for the repository musician and storyteller of Mande's ancient oral tradition, transmitting history and culture from generation to generation, from father to son. \"Mandé,\" often used to describe Madou and his family, is a broad cultural designation of several ethnic groups in West Africa, including (though not exclusively) the Mandinka, Maninka (or \"Malinke\"), ", "score": "1.5420837" }, { "id": "26649694", "title": "Modou Faal", "text": " Modou Faal (11 February 2003) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Championship club West Bromwich Albion.", "score": "1.5352695" }, { "id": "32493703", "title": "AS CotonTchad", "text": "Modou Kouta ; 2011 –? Oumar Francis ; 2016 - Modou Kouta ; 2018 - Mahamat Allamine 'Boli' ", "score": "1.5246282" }, { "id": "7553385", "title": "Mamadou Sidiki Diabaté", "text": " drum,) also of West African descent. Madou is renowned for his extensive knowledge of traditional kora repertoire and command of both jazz sensibilities and foreign influences. His style is often associated with the \"Jazz Manding\" music movement developing Mali today. While Madou prides himself on preserving the tradition and legacy of the kora, he is also known for having diverged from his father's style, inspired by afro-Latin groups like the Rail Band (also called the Super Rail Band, or Bamako Rail Band,) in addition to his brother's music (particularly Toumani's Bembeya Jazz). In 2004, Madou received a degree in music from the Institut National des Arts (INA), in Bamako, Mali. Madou now resides in with his wife, singer Safiatou Diabaté.", "score": "1.5129502" }, { "id": "26570855", "title": "Oumou Armand Diarra", "text": " Oumou Armand Diarra is the pseudonym of Malian writer Oumou Modibo Sangare. She is the author of several articles about the struggle of women in Africa and Mali. She advocates social development while being consistent with the positive rules of the traditional and modern society of her country.", "score": "1.512907" }, { "id": "26509251", "title": "Modou Jobe (footballer, born 2000)", "text": " Modou Jobe (born 13 June 2000) is a Gambian footballer.", "score": "1.5047295" }, { "id": "26649695", "title": "Modou Faal", "text": " Faal was born in The Gambia but relocated to Birmingham, England with his family when he was seven years old.", "score": "1.4968224" }, { "id": "15672291", "title": "Institut catholique d'arts et métiers", "text": "Modou Dia, Senegalese politician and former diplomat ; ; Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe, French politician. ", "score": "1.4691362" }, { "id": "32795272", "title": "Modibo Diakité", "text": " A tactically versatile right-footed defender, Diakité is usually deployed as a centreback in a 3 or 4-man defence, although he is also capable of playing as a rightback. A quick, large, hard-working, and physically strong player, although not particularly skilled technically, he is known in particular for his ball-winning abilities and his strength in the air.", "score": "1.468626" }, { "id": "30792045", "title": "Modupeola Fadugba", "text": " Modupeola Fadugba studied engineering, economics, and education. She has received an MA in Economics from the University of Delaware, and holds an MEd from Harvard University. Her parents were Nigerian Diplomats, and the artist spent most of her youth in England and the United States. She is a self-taught artist. Her recent series Dreams from the Deep End, which she developed during a residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, was included in a recent solo exhibit at Gallery 1957.", "score": "1.4667315" }, { "id": "12723484", "title": "Modou Jobe", "text": " Alagie Modou Jobe (born 27 October 1988) is a Gambian international footballer who plays for Jeddah, as a goalkeeper.", "score": "1.4657793" }, { "id": "7168259", "title": "Modou Bamba Gaye", "text": " Modou Bamba Gaye is a Gambian politician who was the National Assembly Member for Lower Saloum, representing the National Reconciliation Party (NRP), from a 2015 by-election to the 2017 parliamentary election.", "score": "1.4645648" }, { "id": "30792044", "title": "Modupeola Fadugba", "text": " Modupeola Fadugba (born 1985) is a self-taught Nigerian multi-media artist, living and working in Nigeria.", "score": "1.4545264" } ]

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[ { "id": "31930791", "title": "Jon Eikemo", "text": " Jon Eikemo (born 30 November 1939 in Åsane, Norway) is a Norwegian actor. He debuted on stage in 1961. He made his film debut in 1968, with the movie De ukjentes marked ('The Market of the Unknown'). Eikemo has been a minor political candidate for the Norwegian Centre Party.", "score": "1.9179833" }, { "id": "30323607", "title": "Eikemo", "text": "Jon Eikemo (born 1939), Norwegian actor ; Olve Eikemo (born 1973), Norwegian musician Eikemo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ", "score": "1.7562011" }, { "id": "16279916", "title": "Jon Ewo", "text": " Jon Ewo ( born 29 June 1957) is a Norwegian novelist, short story writer, crime fiction writer and children's writer. He was born in Oslo and educated as librarian. He made his literary debut in 1986 with the short story collection Det sies at oktober er en fin måned. His crime novels include Torpedo (1996), ''Hevn. Torpedo II (1997) and Gissel. Torpedo III'' (1998). He received the Brage Prize in 2007, for the biography Fortellingen om et mulig drap (jointly with illustrator Bjørn Ousland.", "score": "1.5750715" }, { "id": "1648852", "title": "Marit Eikemo", "text": " Marit Eikemo (born 1971) is a Norwegian essayist, novelist, journalist and magazine editor. Eikemo was born in Odda. She edited the book Her, no: Møte med unge menneske in 1999, and contributed to the essay collection Synd.no from 2001. Her first novel was Mellom oss sagt from 2006. In 2008 she published the essay collection Samtidsruinar, and in 2009 the novel Arbeid pågår. She was awarded the Nynorsk Literature Prize for the novel Samtale ventar in 2011. Eikemo was co-editor of the cultural and political magazine Syn og Segn from 2003 to 2006, jointly with Hilde Sandvik.", "score": "1.5734534" }, { "id": "437074", "title": "Olav Eikeland", "text": " Olav Eikeland (born 10 October 1955) is a Norwegian philosopher and working life researcher. Since 2008, he is professor of work research and research director for the Program for Research on Education and Work at Oslo Metropolitan University (formerly Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences). Since 2012, he is also vice dean of the Faculty of Education and International Studies. He was a researcher at the Work Research Institute from 1985 to 2008, and served as the institute's director 2003-2004.", "score": "1.5338743" }, { "id": "29723170", "title": "Jon Eirik Ødegaard", "text": " Jon Eirik Ødegaard (born 29 September 1972) is a retired Norwegian footballer. Hailing from Røros, he failed to break through from the junior ranks to the senior team at Rosenborg and instead tried his luck in Hamkam. Following relegation from the 1995 Tippeligaen he moved back to Trondheim and took one year in Strindheim and Byåsen each. He was brought back to the first tier by Vålerenga, and played three seasons there and four in Moss. Originally a midfielder, he was converted to left back while at Moss. After quitting his professional career due to serious injury he had outings for low-league teams Rapid and Tronvik. The son of a camping site and hotel owner in Røros, Ødegaard elected not to take over the family business and instead settled at Jeløya in Moss. He coached Moss' junior team for four years before becoming Tor Thodesen's assistant manager ahead of the 2011 season. He was later a player developer in local minnows Sprint-Jeløy and used his chef training to lead a cafeteria.", "score": "1.5280622" }, { "id": "10902812", "title": "Efosa Ojomo", "text": " Efosa was born in Nigeria. He attended Secondary School in Nigeria. After failing college entry exams twice, he proceeded to the Fisk University and later to Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee where he obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he worked as a researcher under Late Professor Clayton Christensen at the Forum for Growth and Innovation. He also worked as an engineer for National Instruments right after graduation.", "score": "1.5045593" }, { "id": "8348459", "title": "Jon Reidar Øyan", "text": " Jon Reidar Øyan (born 15 April 1981) is a Norwegian gay rights activist and politician for the Labour Party. He made his mark as leader of the Norwegian National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation, and stepped down in 2008. He was then hired as an advisor for the parliamentary group of the Norwegian Labour Party. He had a background as a member of Snillfjord municipal council. In October 2009 he was appointed political advisor in the Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion. From November to December 2011 he was an acting State Secretary in the Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs. He was later a personal adviser to Helga Pedersen.", "score": "1.4925078" }, { "id": "25621639", "title": "Sten Ove Eike", "text": " Source:", "score": "1.471422" }, { "id": "10902811", "title": "Efosa Ojomo", "text": " Efosa Ojomo is a Nigerian author, researcher and speaker. He leads the Global Prosperity research group at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a think tank based in Boston and Silicon Valley and is a senior research fellow at the Harvard Business School. Efosa speaks regularly on innovation and has presented his work at TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the World Bank, Harvard, Yale, Oxford and at several other conferences and institutions. In January 2019, Efosa and Harvard Business School professor, Clayton Christensen published \"The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty\".", "score": "1.4577703" }, { "id": "26385636", "title": "Jon Kvist", "text": " Jon Kvist (born 6 January 1967) is a Danish researcher and author. He is a professor at the Institute of Society and Globalization, at the Roskilde University, as well as a member of the Nordic Centre of Excellence on Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model.", "score": "1.4454195" }, { "id": "5523503", "title": "Ola Henmo", "text": " Ola Henmo (born 1965) is a Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer. Hailing from Grav in Bærum, he played football for the clubs Frigg, Fossum, Stabæk and then Fossum again. He became a journalist working 15 years in Aftenposten. As a journalist he worked extensively with the 2011 Norway attacks, and was a consultant for the television series Utøya. He published a book for the 75th anniversary of the Norwegian Cancer Society (2013) and portrait books about activist Kim Friele (2015) and disabled politician Torstein Lerhol (2019), the latter two on the publishing house Cappelen Damm.", "score": "1.4371643" }, { "id": "11557674", "title": "James Eike", "text": " James W. Eike (September 29, 1911 – February 8, 1983) was a birdwatcher and former president of the Virginia Society of Ornithology. The James W. Eike Service Award was created by the Society in his honor in 1984. Eike was born in Woodbridge, Virginia. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1932 and began a federal career in 1934 with the U.S. Public Health Service. He later worked for the Civil Service Commission and joined the U.S. State Department in 1946. He retired in 1970 from the U.S. Information Agency. He lived in Northern Virginia around Falls Church and Fairfax. He kept detailed field notebooks which recorded his observation of birds, as well as weather conditions, for over 30 years, rarely missing a day. His observations were concentrated near his home in Northern Virginia, but also include Maryland, Washington D.C., and North Carolina. Eike joined the Virginia Society of Ornithology in 1933, and was an active member and officer of the Society for the rest of his life. Eike's personal papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution Archives. His collection of 111 field books are part of Smithsonian's Field Book Registry; they have been scanned and posted online.", "score": "1.4227158" }, { "id": "10902813", "title": "Efosa Ojomo", "text": " Efosa Ojomo is the director of Global Prosperity at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. He was formerly a senior research fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at the Harvard Business School. He was mentored by Late Professor Clay Christensen, one of the world's top experts on strategy, growth, and innovation. Efosa's research examines how emerging economies, or what he now refers to as growth economies, including sub-Saharan Africa, can engender prosperity for their citizens by focusing on investments in market-creating innovations. He also works with firms to help them develop a market-creating innovation strategy. Efosa was also the President and co-founder of “Poverty Stops Here”. He was a Co-President, Harvard Business School Africa Business Club from 2014 till 2015. He worked as an engineer and in business development for National Instruments for eight years following graduation. He was named THINKER S50 Radar Class of 2020.", "score": "1.4219942" }, { "id": "11383409", "title": "Jon Asamoah", "text": " Jonathan Yao-Lante Asamoah (born July 21, 1988) is a former offensive guard who played in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at Illinois. Asamoah was considered one of the top interior offensive linemen for the 2010 NFL Draft. Asamoah has also played for the Atlanta Falcons.", "score": "1.4194162" }, { "id": "10872321", "title": "Arne Eidsmo", "text": " Arne Eidsmo (4 April 1941 – 16 October 2011) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He hailed from Tromsø, and for 42 years he was the regional director of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise in Northern Norway. He retired in April 2011. He also served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Fisheries from 1989 to 1990, in Syse's Cabinet. Eidsmo was also a freemason, since 1967, and the last two years of his life he was a \"Provincial Master\" in the organization. He died in October 2011 at the University Hospital of North Norway following short-term illness.", "score": "1.4189136" }, { "id": "32083260", "title": "Raimo Valle", "text": " Raimo Valle (born 15 September 1965) is a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party. He hails from Unjárga - Nesseby. He graduated as cand.mag. from the University of Tromsø in 1989. Outside politics he worked as a consultant in Troms County Municipality from 1993 to 2007. He was a board member of the Centre for Sami Studies, University of Tromsø after graduating, was the county leader of the Federation of Norwegian Professional Associations in Troms from 1999 to 2003 and from 2001 to 2007 he was a board member of the Association of Social Scientists. In 2007 he was appointed to Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion. He left office in 2012.", "score": "1.416105" }, { "id": "6303665", "title": "John Eidsmoe", "text": " John A. Eidsmoe is an attorney and a professor of constitutional law and related subjects. He has previously taught at the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, Faulkner University, Montgomery, Alabama, the O. W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University and Oak Brook College of Law and Government Policy. He was in the US Air Force as a lieutenant colonel and is an Alabama State Defense Force colonel, headquarters judge advocate, deputy chaplain and training officer. He earned his J.D. from the University of Iowa, M.A. from Dallas Theological Seminary, M. Div. from Lutheran Brethren Seminary and D. Min. from O.R.U. In a 2001 interview, Eidsmoe said, \"When Biblical law conflicted with American law, O.R.U. students were generally taught that 'the first thing you should try ", "score": "1.4132652" }, { "id": "29924689", "title": "Frank Jonke", "text": " Frank Jonke (born January 30, 1985) is a Canadian former soccer player who played in the USL Premier Development League, Canadian Soccer League, Kakkonen, Ykkönen, Veikkausliiga, and the North American Soccer League.", "score": "1.4120677" }, { "id": "25621638", "title": "Sten Ove Eike", "text": " Eike was born in Skudenes, and played for the local club Skudenes UIL before he joined Haugesund in 2004. Eike suffered from a heart attack after a match against Stavanger on 27 September 2009, but he made his comeback in the 2011 Tippeligaen. He played 124 matches and scored 20 goals for Haugesund. On 15 August 2011, Eike signed a half-year contract with the 1. divisjon club Sandefjord. With the help of Eike's six goals in nine matches, Sandefjord came third in 2011 Norwegian First Division, but missed out on the promotion to Tippeligaen. After the season, he decided to step down from the professional football career, and got a job as director of football and janitor in his youth club Skudenes, but he admitted that he would probably play some matches for the team in the Norwegian Fifth Division. Until 2017 he played some Skudenes games every season, being a prolific goalscorer.", "score": "1.4021623" } ]

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[ { "id": "14830513", "title": "Marco Ameglio", "text": " Marco Antonio Ameglio Samudio (b. 1961) is a Panamanian politician and businessman. He served as the President of the National Assembly from 1991 to 1992. Ameglio has been on the Panama Canal Authority Board of Directors since March 23, 2010. He was sworn for a period of 9 years.", "score": "1.7832141" }, { "id": "1327565", "title": "Pietro Ameglio", "text": " Pietro Ameglio (born 1957) is a Uruguayan-born naturalized Mexican citizen and Gandhian civil rights and peace activist best known for his role in promoting nonviolence and creating a movement for peace and anti-militarism in Mexico. In May 2011, Ameglio helped to organize demonstrations in support of survivor and victim rights related to ongoing violence in Mexico following the death of Juan Francisco Sicilia Ortega, the son of Javier Sicilia, bringing hundreds of thousands of people together across Mexico and in 17 countries around the world. A practitioner of Gandhian methodology, Ameglio's philosophy is to tap the positive values and moral sensibilities of Mexican culture which can be marshaled to oppose war and to change the model of \"Armed Peace\" to a model of \"Peace with Justice.\" This combination of practical and formal peace work has led Pietro Ameglio to be described as \"one of the most important teachers and practitioners of active nonviolence in Latin America today.\" Pietro Ameglio has been selected as the 2014 winner of the El-Hibri Peace Education Prize, the eighth annual Laureate to be selected.", "score": "1.6441958" }, { "id": "5264013", "title": "Ameglia", "text": "Roberto Pazzi ", "score": "1.6041577" }, { "id": "31702113", "title": "Ameglio", "text": "Carlos Ameglio (born 1965), Uruguayan film director ; Giovanni Ameglio (1854–1921), Italian general ; Marco Ameglio (born 1961), Panamanian businessman ; Pietro Ameglio (born 1957), Uruguayan-born Mexican activist Ameglio is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ", "score": "1.5976529" }, { "id": "13195205", "title": "Divino Otelma", "text": " Marco Amleto Belelli, or Divino Otelma, (born 8 May 1949) is an Italian television personality, politician and singer.", "score": "1.5746372" }, { "id": "25166053", "title": "Carlos Ameglio", "text": " Carlos Ameglio (born 23 June 1965 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan film director. His film La cáscara was distinguished as the best film at the AFIA Film Festival in Aarhus. Currently he is working on the Kiken project with Diego Dubcovsky.", "score": "1.5498623" }, { "id": "16207569", "title": "Marco Dispaltro", "text": " Marco Dispaltro (born 2 August 1967) is a Canadian boccia player who competes at international elite competitions. He is a Paralympic bronze medalist in the pairs with Josh Vander Vies and a Parapan American Games champion in the individual events.", "score": "1.5351508" }, { "id": "1079034", "title": "Marco Ambrosini", "text": " Marco Ambrosini (born 1964 in Forlì, Italy) is an Italian musician, composer and arranger living in Germany.", "score": "1.5272427" }, { "id": "709298", "title": "Marco Mazzoni", "text": " Marco Mazzoni (born 17 January 1982) is a Milan-based Italian artist, originally from Tortona. He is generally considered a portrait artist and only uses coloured pencils in his work. Mazzoni's work holds a strong interest in flora and fauna(flora e fauna), and often depicts the female herbalists of 16th—18th Century Sardinia. Notably, Marco created a portrait of musician Anomie Belle included in the album art for Flux, and as the cover of The Good Life EP. Mazzoni received a bachelor's degree in painting from Brera Art Academy in Milan. His work has been exhibited in galleries throughout Europe and the United States.", "score": "1.5240207" }, { "id": "13621746", "title": "Lucas Ambrogio", "text": " .", "score": "1.5116861" }, { "id": "32155147", "title": "Marco Aurelio Denegri", "text": " Marco Aurelio Denegri Santagadea (16 May 1938 – 27 July 2018) was a Peruvian intellectual, literary critic, television host and sexologist.", "score": "1.5095224" }, { "id": "32155152", "title": "Marco Aurelio Denegri", "text": " He died on 27 July 2018 due to pulmonary emphysema.", "score": "1.5045564" }, { "id": "30440661", "title": "Marco Amenta", "text": " Marco Amenta (Palermo, 11 August 1970) is an Italian director, producer, and photojournalist.", "score": "1.4998683" }, { "id": "15294249", "title": "Marco Di Vaio", "text": " Marco Di Vaio (born 15 July 1976) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker. A prolific goalscorer, in his long club career, Di Vaio scored over 200 league goals while playing for several clubs, mainly in Italy, as well as in Monaco, Spai and Canada. At international level, Di Vaio represented the Italy national football team at Euro 2004.", "score": "1.4854094" }, { "id": "1327572", "title": "Pietro Ameglio", "text": " Born in Uruguay and educated in Mexico, Ameglio completed his undergraduate studies in History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and earned a Master’s in Contemporary History at the Autonomous University of Morelos (UAEM). Ameglio served 18 years as Chair of the Humanities Department at La Salle University in Cuernavaca. Ameglio has held both the Henry D. Thoreau Special Chair and the Spanish Exile Masters – Due Disobedience Special Chair (2008-2014) within the School of Philosophy and Literature at National Autonomous University (UNAM) in Mexico City. He teaches classes on “Peace Pedagogy”, “Civil Resistance” and “Techniques of Nonviolence” at the UNAM and the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. These courses ", "score": "1.4745625" }, { "id": "27046512", "title": "Marco Bertolotto", "text": " Marco Bertolotto (born 8 September 1959 in Quiliano) is an Italian doctor and politician, formerly president of the Province of Savona. A graduate in medicine and surgery, Bertolotto pursued a number of specializations in medicine, surgery, and sanitary management prior to beginning his political career. He served as director of the pain therapy and palliative care unit at Santa Corona hospital in Pietra Ligure, before being elected to the first of two terms as mayor of Toirano in 1995. During his second term of office he generated a lively council debate over the construction of a waste incinerator on municipal land. He also engineered a twinning agreement, inaugurated in October 2003, with the Christian community of Rumbek in South Sudan. Bertolotto was in ", "score": "1.4691827" }, { "id": "32155150", "title": "Marco Aurelio Denegri", "text": " Denegri never married and was very reserved regarding his private life. In some programs he expressed being friends with some intellectuals, although during the last years of his life he became totally isolated. His main link to the world was his assistant and maid Rosa Torres; anyone interested in speaking to Denegri had to ring her cellphone to request a telephone conversation with Denegri. After Denegri gave her permission, she connected the phone line and the person in question could communicate directly with him. During his youth he frequently visited Jirón Huatica in Lima, a meeting place for prostitutes and their clients. In \"Miscelánea humanística\" he drew a map of the location as he knew it. He was also a witness to peculiar sexual encounters. In one of ", "score": "1.4606564" }, { "id": "27617188", "title": "Marco Stradiotto", "text": " Marco Stradiotto (born 7 October 1965) is an Italian politician. Stradiotto was born on 7 October 1965 in Noale. He was elected to the Legislature XIV as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, serving from 2001 to 2006, while affiliated with The Daisy. Between 2008 and 2013, Stradiotto sat on the Senate for the Democratic Party.", "score": "1.4596047" }, { "id": "31544820", "title": "Marco Evaristti", "text": " Marco Evaristti (born 1963) is a Chilean artist who has lived in Denmark since the 1980s. While a trained and practicing architect, he is best known for hosting a dinner party where the main course was agnolotti pasta that was topped with a meatball made with his own fat, removed earlier in the year in a liposuction operation.", "score": "1.4588833" }, { "id": "26005852", "title": "Marco Tulio Boasso", "text": " Marco Tulio Boasso (born in 1962 in Montevideo, Uruguay) served as the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Special Envoy and Chief of Mission in Afghanistan. He was appointed to this position by the IOM Director General in March 2009.", "score": "1.4495682" } ]

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[ { "id": "14732035", "title": "Valgerður Bjarnadóttir", "text": " Valgerður Bjarnadóttir (born 13 January 1950) is an Icelandic politician.", "score": "2.0333462" }, { "id": "11503300", "title": "Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir", "text": " Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir (also Vala Thorodds) is an Icelandic poet, publisher, translator and literary curator. Valgerður is the founder and director of two independent publishers of poetry and prose – Partus Press, based in the UK, and Partus forlag, based in Reykjavík, Iceland. Her first chapbook, the booklet-length poem Það sem áður var skógur (What Once Was Forest), was edited by Sjón and published in the chapbook series Meðgönguljóð in Iceland in 2015. She edited and translated from the Icelandic the selected poems of Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Waitress in Fall, which was co-published in the UK in 2018 by Carcanet Press and Partus Press.", "score": "1.8209221" }, { "id": "25391000", "title": "Valgerður Sverrisdóttir", "text": " Valgerður Sverrisdóttir (born 23 March 1950) is an Icelandic politician. She was a member of the Althing (Iceland's parliament) for the Progressive Party for the Northeast constituency starting in 1987 and was Chairman of the Progressive Party parliamentary group from 1995 to 1999, Minister of Industry and Commerce from 1999 to 2006, and Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2004 to 2005. She was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 15 June 2006 to 24 May 2007. She has been a member of the Progressive Party's central committee since 1983.", "score": "1.8133285" }, { "id": "3389307", "title": "Valgerður Gunnarsdóttir", "text": " Valgerður Gunnarsdóttir is an Icelandic politician, a member of the Icelandic parliament, and the former headmaster of Laugar Junior College. She was a member of Húsavík town council from 1986 to 1998 and served as the president of the town council from 1994 to 1998. Valgerður has been a member of the Budget Committee since 2013 and a member of the Icelandic Delegation to the Nordic Council from the same year. She has been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2016 and serves as deputy chairman for the Icelandic delegation.", "score": "1.7633004" }, { "id": "11292284", "title": "Guðrún Valgerður Stefánsdóttir", "text": " Guðrún Valgerður Stefánsdóttir graduated from Iceland's Social Pedagogue School in 1976, completed special pedagogue education from the University of Oslo in 1983 and Teacher Certification from the Iceland University of Education in 1991. She completed a master's from Iceland University of Education in 1998 and a Ph.D in Disability Studies from the University of Iceland’s Faculty of Social Sciences in 2008. Before Guðrún began her academic career, she worked with disabled people, as both a social pedagogue and special teacher. She started teaching at the Social Pedagogue School of Iceland in 1989. In 1998, Iceland University of Education (now the School of Education at the University of Iceland) hired her as assistant professor. Guðrún is now a professor in disability studies in the School of Education at the University of Iceland.", "score": "1.7498629" }, { "id": "10789191", "title": "Sigurlína Ingvarsdóttir", "text": " Sigurlína (Lína) Valgerður Ingvarsdóttir (born 1978) is an Icelandic engineer, project manager and video games specialist. Starting in 2012, she worked in Stockholm, Sweden, for EA DICE, and coordinated the development of Star Wars Battlefront and later of FIFA. Since 2021, she has been chair of Icelandic game developer Solid Clouds.", "score": "1.7452278" }, { "id": "3808424", "title": "Valgerður Hafstað", "text": " into a home near the French capital of Paris the following year and relocated to New York City in 1974. From 1981, she worked at the Reykjavík Art Museum Kjarvalsstaðir. Valgerður partook in the American-based Scandinavian Today between 1982 and 1984 and then with the travelling Borealis exhibition for which she received a salary from 1983 to 1984. Early in 1983, Valgerður took part in an exhibition held at the Reykjavík Art Museum Kjarvalsstaði. Her works in Iceland include stained glass windows she did in Tjarnarkirkja in Svarfaðardalur and decorated a wall in Varmahlíðarskóli in Skagafjörður. Valgerður also produced several privately owned paintings. A posthumous exhibition of her works took place at Berg Culture House in July 2012. Three years later, the Kópavogur Art Museum held an exhibition of Valgerður's paintings.", "score": "1.7316278" }, { "id": "3808423", "title": "Valgerður Hafstað", "text": " On 1 June 1930, Valgerður was born in Vík in the South Constituency. She was the daughter of Árni Hafstað and Ingibjörg Sigurðardóttir. Valgerður had ten siblings and she was the youngest of them all. She was educated in art at the Academy of Free and Mercantile Art in Copenhagen before matriculated to the School of Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík. Valgerður remained in Reykajvik until 1948, when she went to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. She studied mosaic and painting at the Academy, remaining there until 1952. Valgerður went on to study mosaic processing at the Ecole des Arts Italiennes, and worked on mineral windows and mosaics. Her first art exhibition was a joint venture with Gerður Helgadóttir at Paris' Galerie La Rouge in 1957. Valgerður ", "score": "1.7246795" }, { "id": "10205332", "title": "Sigríður Dúna Kristmundsdóttir", "text": " Sigríður Dúna Kristmundsdóttir (born 1952) is a professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland.", "score": "1.6850634" }, { "id": "3808422", "title": "Valgerður Hafstað", "text": " Valgerður Hafstað (1 June 1930 – 9 March 2011) was an Icelandic painter who worked with acrylic, oil and watercolours. She was educated at the Academy of Free and Mercantile Art in Copenhagen, the School of Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík and Paris' Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Valgerður worked on mineral windows and mosaics and produced several privately owned paintings.", "score": "1.6736774" }, { "id": "2268596", "title": "Helga Vala Helgadóttir", "text": " Helga Vala Helgadóttir (born 14 March 1972 in Reykjavik) is an Icelandic politician of the Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin). She is a member of the Althing, elected in the 2017 Icelandic parliamentary election on 28 October 2017, representing the constituency of Reykjavík North. She was educated at Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð and then in 1998 trained in acting at the Icelandic Academy of the Performing Arts. She later gained a BA in 2009 and a master's degree in law from Reykjavík University in 2011. In 2011 she also received her lawyer's license and from 2011 to 2017, she operated her own law firm.", "score": "1.6683646" }, { "id": "11292283", "title": "Guðrún Valgerður Stefánsdóttir", "text": " Guðrún Valgerður Stefánsdóttir is a professor in disability studies at the School of Education of the University of Iceland.", "score": "1.667688" }, { "id": "15850942", "title": "Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir", "text": " Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir (born 1977) is an Icelandic artist. She was born in Reykjavík, studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and went on to receive a MFA from the Glasgow School of Art. She has had solo exhibitions in Reykjavík, Frankfurt, New York City and Montreal and participated in group exhibitions at the Gothenburg Art Museum, the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow and the Reykjavík Art Museum. She works with drawing, painting, sculpture and animation. Her art evokes a mythical world infused with both humour and wildness. Her figures combine attributes of both humans and beasts. She also produced art for album covers for various artists including Jónsi, Sigur Rós and Alex Somers. In 2014, she collaborated with Erica Eyres in an installation at the Listasafn ASÍ art museum called Sniffer. Her work is held in collections around the world including the Zabludowicz Art Trust in London, the Nordic Watercolour Museum in Sweden, the Kunsthaus Zürich in Switzerland and the Reykjavík Art Museum.", "score": "1.6660619" }, { "id": "13777334", "title": "Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir", "text": " Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir is an Icelandic visual artist. She was born in 1985 in Reykjavík and received Bachelor of Fine Arts from IAA in 2009. She graduated with Master of Fine Arts from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland in 2013. She currently resides in Reykjavik, Iceland.", "score": "1.6292138" }, { "id": "4930866", "title": "Birgitta Jónsdóttir", "text": " Birgitta Jónsdóttir (born 17 April 1967) is an Icelandic politician, anarchist, poet, and activist. She was a Member of the Althing (MP) for the Southwest Constituency from 2013 to 2017, representing the Pirate Party, having been elected at the 2013 election. She was previously an MP for Reykjavík Constituency South from 2009 to 2013. In November 2017, she has announced to retire from politics \"for now\". She published her first book of poetry at the age of 22, and later became a web developer. She was a noted Icelandic activist, and took on a number of roles during the protests following the 2007–2008 financial crisis. She was first elected as an MP representing the Citizens' Movement in the 2009 election. Later in ", "score": "1.6233901" }, { "id": "8739337", "title": "Ólína Þorvarðardóttir", "text": " Ólína Kjerúlf Þorvarðardóttir (born 8 September 1958) was a member of the Althing, representing the Social Democratic Alliance for the Northwest Constituency from 2009 to 2016.", "score": "1.623085" }, { "id": "14500545", "title": "Valdís Óskarsdóttir", "text": " Valdís Óskarsdóttir (born 1950 in Akureyri, Iceland) is an Icelandic film editor, whose work includes The Celebration, Les Misérables, Finding Forrester and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. She received multiple awards in early 2005 for her work on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In addition, she has twice won the Danish Film Academy's Robert Award for Best Editing. Sveitabrúðkaup (Country Wedding), her directorial debut, premiered in Iceland in August 2008.", "score": "1.6117591" }, { "id": "2268600", "title": "Helga Vala Helgadóttir", "text": " Helga Vala worked as an actress and director at Akureyri Theater in 1999 and also as an actress at New Perspective Theater Company in 2000. She was also a program director on the Bylgjan, RÚV, NFS from 2000 to 2006. Correspondent at publishing company Edda 2002. In 2008, she worked as a journalist on Mannlíf. She then came a legal representative at Lögron, Reykjavik Law Office and neighbor, 2009–2011. From 2011 to 2017, Helga ran her own law firm, Valva Lawyers. Helga Vala has held numerous confidential positions, including serving on the board of the Icelandic Actors Association, the National Theater Council and the Copyright Council. In her work as a lawyer, Helga has specialized in the affairs of refugees, immigrants and families. Helga Vala has also as a lawyer worked with victims of sexual and domestic violence. Helga Vala received recognition from Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association in 2014 for work in the field of human rights and humanitarianism in Iceland", "score": "1.607228" }, { "id": "11292288", "title": "Guðrún Valgerður Stefánsdóttir", "text": " Guðrún has served in various positions of confidentiality at the University of Iceland and outside it. Examples include her participation on the Editorial Board of the journal Uppeldi og menntun (Icelandic Journal of Education). She was one of its two editors during the four-year period from 2013 to 2016. In addition, she has been director of the social pedagogue programme and participated in developing undergraduate and graduate curriculums for social pedagogues. She was also a member of the Doctoral Programme Committee of the School of Education for several electoral terms and participated in developing the School's doctoral curriculum. In addition, she was one of the initiators of university studies for people with intellectual disabilities and has participated in international cooperation in that context. The curriculum has won various awards, including the Múrbrjót of the National Association of Intellectual ", "score": "1.6049294" }, { "id": "2638890", "title": "Jónína Kristín Berg", "text": " with her own art. She performs aromatherapy and has served on the Board of Icelandic Healers. She followed Ásatrúarfélagið from its inception as she was a neighbour of the co-founder Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson. She became active in the organization in 1985. In 1993 she was elected as a board member. Since 1994 she is responsible for annual blóts in Snæfellsnes and Borgarfjörður and since 1996 she is the regional gothi of the Western Region. In 2002 she became the interim allsherjargoði after a conflict resulted in Jörmundur Ingi Hansen's removal from the office. She was succeeded by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson in 2003 after a regular election could be held. She has legal rights to perform marriages.", "score": "1.6040269" } ]