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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia%E2%80%93Europe_Meeting | The Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) is an Asian–European political dialogue forum to enhance relations and various forms of cooperation between its partners.
It was officially established on 1 March 1996 at the 1st ASEM Summit (ASEM1) in Bangkok, Thailand, by the then 15 Member States of the European Union (EU) and the Eur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_Memorial_Cup | The 1922 Memorial Cup final was the fourth junior ice hockey championship of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. The Eastern Canada champions, the Fort William War Veterans , played the Western Canada champions, Regina Patricias, for the Memorial Cup in a two-game, total goal series, at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_Ayyub | Rana Ayyub (born 1 May 1984) is an Indian journalist and opinion columnist with The Washington Post. She is author of the investigative book Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up.
== Background and family ==
Rana Ayyub was born in Mumbai, India. Her father Mohammad Ayyub Waqif, was a writer with Blitz, a Mumbai-based ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Nations_(Medieval_Tournament) | The Battle of the Nations is an international historical medieval battles world championship, first held in 2009, in Khotyn, Ukraine and held in Europe, in April, every year until the 2020 and 2021 events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and in 2022 cancelled due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It is a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketanji_Brown_Jackson | Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson (née Brown; kə-TAHN-jee; born September 14, 1970) is an American lawyer and jurist who is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn into ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#:~:text=In%202004%2C%20the%20Trillian%20chat,video%20equivalent%20of%20an%20emoticon%22. | An emoticon (, ə-MOH-tə-kon, rarely , ih-MOTT-ih-kon), portmanteau of emotion and icon, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail.
ASCII emoticons can be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon | An emoticon (, ə-MOH-tə-kon, rarely , ih-MOTT-ih-kon), portmanteau of emotion and icon, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail.
ASCII emoticons can be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation#The_Awesome_Album | Parks and Recreation (also known as Parks and Rec) is an American political satire mockumentary television sitcom created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur. The series aired on NBC from April 9, 2009, to February 24, 2015, for 125 episodes, over seven seasons. A special reunion episode aired on April 30, 2020. The seri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomo_Cosmos_F.C. | Jomo Cosmos is a South African soccer club based in Johannesburg that plays in the ABC Motsepe League. The club is owned and coached by South African football legend Jomo Sono.
At the end of the 2021–22 National First Division season, the club was relegated to the third tier of football in South Africa for the first t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOS-04 | EOS-04 or Earth Observation Satellite - 04 (formerly known as RISAT-1A) is an Indian Space Research Organisation Radar Imaging Satellite designed to provide high-quality images under all weather conditions for applications such as Agriculture, Forestry & Plantations, Soil Moisture & Hydrology and Flood mapping. It is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justhis | Heo Seung (Korean: 허승, born May 7, 1991), better known by his stage name Justhis (Korean: 저스디스), is a South Korean rapper. He released his first album, 2 Many Homes 4 1 Kid, on June 14, 2016. He is a member of the Korean hip hop crew IMJMWDP, and is currently signed to GROOVL1N.
== Discography ==
=== Studio albums ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justhis#:~:text=Heo%20Seung%20(Korean%3A%20%ED%97%88%EC%8A%B9%2C,is%20currently%20signed%20to%20GROOVL1N. | Heo Seung (Korean: 허승, born May 7, 1991), better known by his stage name Justhis (Korean: 저스디스), is a South Korean rapper. He released his first album, 2 Many Homes 4 1 Kid, on June 14, 2016. He is a member of the Korean hip hop crew IMJMWDP, and is currently signed to GROOVL1N.
== Discography ==
=== Studio albums ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_R360 | The Mazda R360 is a kei car manufactured and marketed by Mazda from May 1960 to 1969. It was the first passenger car produced by the company. The R360 is a two-door coupé with a 2+2 seating arrangement. It has a rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout and was designed to be inexpensive and light weight.
== History ==
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Welding%22_Kumar#:~:text=He%20was%20originally%20known%20as,a%20son%20named%20Sushil%20kumar. | "Welding" Kumar was an Indian criminal from Chennai, who gained infamy for an attack on a lawyer for which he was sentenced to life in prison. He was later killed in Puzhal Prison during a fight with other inmates.
== Personal life ==
He was born in Navalar Street near Korukkupettai in Chennai. He was originally know... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Welding%22_Kumar#Personal_life | "Welding" Kumar was an Indian criminal from Chennai, who gained infamy for an attack on a lawyer for which he was sentenced to life in prison. He was later killed in Puzhal Prison during a fight with other inmates.
== Personal life ==
He was born in Navalar Street near Korukkupettai in Chennai. He was originally know... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba | Patrice Émery Lumumba ( pə-TREESS luu-MUUM-bə; born Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960, following ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Happy_Valley_episodes#Series_1_(2014) | Happy Valley is a British crime drama television series created by Sally Wainwright and produced by Red Production Company. The first series of six episodes started airing on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 29 April 2014. It was released on Netflix in the United States and Canada on 20 August 2014. A second six-episo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Happy_Valley_episodes | Happy Valley is a British crime drama television series created by Sally Wainwright and produced by Red Production Company. The first series of six episodes started airing on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 29 April 2014. It was released on Netflix in the United States and Canada on 20 August 2014. A second six-episo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE/RSE_James_Clerk_Maxwell_Medal | The IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal is an award given by the IEEE and Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK. It is named after James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), who made fundamental contributions to the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation. The award is presented annually, and was established in 2006.
The award is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Frank_Rosenblatt_Award | The IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award is a Technical Field Award established by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Board of Directors in 2004. This award is presented for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the design, practice, techniques, or theory in biologically and linguistically motivat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Milsap | Ronnie Lee Milsap (born Ronald Lee Millsaps; January 16, 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. Nearly completely blind from birth, he became one of the most successful and versatile country "crossover" singers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Women_in_Mathematics#Presidents | The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences. The AWM was founded in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_(South_African_TV_series) | Generations is a South African soap opera which first premiered on SABC 1 in 1993. It was created and produced by Mfundi Vundla and aired weekdays at 20:00 UTC+2 (South African Standard Time) on SABC 1. Set against the backdrop of the advertising industry, this drama celebrated the hopes and dreams of South Africans wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_World_Outreach_Center_Quran-burning_controversy#2011_burning_of_the_Quran | In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, United States, announced plans to burn 200 copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The announcement attracted significant media attention and sparked international outrage, particularly thr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Dreadful_(TV_series) | Penny Dreadful is a horror drama television series created for Showtime and Sky by John Logan, who also acts as executive producer alongside Sam Mendes. The show was originally pitched to several American and British channels, and eventually landed with Showtime, with Sky Atlantic as co-producer. It premiered at the So... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithila_Makhana#:~:text=Subsequently%2C%20in%20April%202022%2C%20it,from%20the%20Government%20of%20India. | Mithila Makhana (botanical name: Euryale ferox) is a special variety of aquatic fox nut cultivated in Mithila region
of Bihar state in India and in Nepal.
In Mithila, Makhana is also termed as Makhan. It is one of the three prestigious cultural identities of Mithila: Pond, Fish and Makhan (Maithili language: पग-पग प... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_Warneke | Lorne Baird Warneke (November 16, 1942 – August 28, 2020) was an Alberta-based psychiatrist and advocate for 2SLGBTQ+ people in Canada. He founded the first Canadian gender identity clinic at Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta.
== Life ==
Warneke was born in Alberta, Canada on November 16, 1942 to Joh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_Warneke#:~:text=After%20graduating%20high%20school%2C%20Warneke,same%20university%2C%20graduating%20in%201967. | Lorne Baird Warneke (November 16, 1942 – August 28, 2020) was an Alberta-based psychiatrist and advocate for 2SLGBTQ+ people in Canada. He founded the first Canadian gender identity clinic at Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta.
== Life ==
Warneke was born in Alberta, Canada on November 16, 1942 to Joh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Flamigni | Sergio Flamigni (22 October 1925 – 10 December 2025) was an Italian politician and writer. A member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), he took part in the Italian Parliament's investigative commissions on the murder of Aldo Moro, the Propaganda Due scandal, and the Italian Mafia.
== Life and career ==
Flamigni was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Flamigni#:~:text=Sergio%20Flamigni%20(born%2022%20October,and%20on%20the%20Italian%20Mafia. | Sergio Flamigni (22 October 1925 – 10 December 2025) was an Italian politician and writer. A member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), he took part in the Italian Parliament's investigative commissions on the murder of Aldo Moro, the Propaganda Due scandal, and the Italian Mafia.
== Life and career ==
Flamigni was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Begum | Raj Begum (27 March 1927 – 26 October 2016) was a Kashmiri playback and folk singer often called the "Nightingale" or "Melody Queen" of Kashmir, whose emotive, high-register voice helped normalize women’s public performance in the Valley and popularized Kashmiri poetic traditions for mass audiences. She received the Pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Island | Gough Island ( GOF), also known historically as Gonçalo Álvares, is a rugged volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a dependency of Tristan da Cunha and part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. It is approximately 400 km (250 mi) south-east of the Tristan da Cu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagina_procumbens | Sagina procumbens (procumbent pearlwort) is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native throughout Europe, most of western and central Asia, and northwest Africa. It is a common weed in many environments, and can be found in wild and disturbed habitat, especially moist areas. It can frequently be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Berg#:~:text=During%20a%20four%2Dyear%20stretch,is%20an%20all%2Dtime%20record. | Patricia Jane Berg (February 13, 1918 – September 10, 2006) was an American professional golfer. She was a founding member and the first president of the LPGA. Her 15 major title wins remains the all-time record for most major wins by a female golfer. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
In winter times she ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7030_Stretch | The IBM 7030, also known as Stretch, was IBM's first transistorized supercomputer. It was the fastest computer in the world from 1961 until the first CDC 6600 became operational in 1964.
Originally designed to meet a requirement formulated by Edward Teller at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the first example wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Smith_Jr. | Virgil K Smith (born December 18, 1979) is a Democratic former member of the Michigan House of Representatives and Michigan Senate. Smith previously represented the 4th Senate district, which is composed of Allen Park, Lincoln Park, Southgate and the north side of Detroit. From 2003 to 2008, Smith represented State Hou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblorrico | Pueblorrico is a municipality in Colombia, located in the southwest subregion of the Department of Antioquia. It borders the municipalities of Salgar and Tarso to the north, Jericó to the east, Andes to the south, and Ciudad Bolívar and Hispania to the west.
== History ==
In 1540, a Spanish lieutenant from the conque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Bradley_(politician) | Marc Julian Bradley (born February 11, 1981) is an American businessman and Republican politician from Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. He is a member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 28th Senate district since 2021. He is the first black Republican to serve in the Wisconsin Senate and only the second black Repu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Nawakwi | Edith Zewelani Nawakwi (24 June 1959 – 7 April 2025) was a Zambian politician and economist. She was the first woman in Zambia to hold the post of Minister of Finance following her appointment in 1998 since Zambia's independence 33 years previously to that time. She was also the first woman to hold that post in the SAD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope | The Hubble Space Telescope (HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most versatile, renowned as a vital research tool and as a public relations boon for astronomy. The Hubble Space... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germund_Dahlquist | Germund Dahlquist (16 January 1925 – 8 February 2005) was a Swedish mathematician known primarily for his early contributions to the theory of numerical analysis as applied to differential equations.
Dahlquist began to study mathematics at Stockholm University in 1942 at the age of 17, where he cites the Danish mathema... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basanti_Dulal_Nagchaudhuri#:~:text=Nagchaudhuri%20was%20married%20to%20Dipali,John's%20College%2C%20Agra. | Basanti Dulal Nag Chaudhuri (6 September 1917 – 25 June 2006) was an Indian Nuclear scientist and academic, and Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. He is known as one of the pioneers of nuclear physics in India. While serving as the Director General (chairman) to the Defence Research and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basanti_Dulal_Nagchaudhuri | Basanti Dulal Nag Chaudhuri (6 September 1917 – 25 June 2006) was an Indian Nuclear scientist and academic, and Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. He is known as one of the pioneers of nuclear physics in India. While serving as the Director General (chairman) to the Defence Research and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susumu_Kitagawa | Susumu Kitagawa (北川 進, Kitagawa Susumu; born 4 July 1951) is a Japanese Nobel Prize-winning chemist specializing in coordination chemistry, with a focus on organic–inorganic hybrid compounds and the chemical and physical properties of porous coordination polymers, particularly metal-organic frameworks. He is Distingui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Gennes_Prize | The De Gennes Prize (formerly known as the Prize for Materials Chemistry) was established in 2008 and is awarded biennially by the Royal Society of Chemistry for outstanding and exceptional work in the field of materials chemistry. The de Gennes Prize honours the work of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.
The recipient of the de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Gennes_Prize#:~:text=2013%3A%20Susumu%20Kitagawa | The De Gennes Prize (formerly known as the Prize for Materials Chemistry) was established in 2008 and is awarded biennially by the Royal Society of Chemistry for outstanding and exceptional work in the field of materials chemistry. The de Gennes Prize honours the work of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.
The recipient of the de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Cuisia_Jr. | Jose Lampe Cuisia Jr. (born 16 July 1944) is a Filipino banker, business executive, and diplomat. He was the seventh Governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines, serving from 1990 to 1993, and formerly the Ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines to the United States of America. He is vice-chairman in the Phi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sherman#Publications | Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.
Her breakthrough work is often considered to be the collection Untitled Film Stills, a series of 70 black-an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascarin_Peak | Mascarin Peak (until 2003 called State President Swart Peak), is the highest mountain on Marion Island, with a height of 1,230 metres (4,040 ft). Marion Island is the largest island of the Prince Edward Islands in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean. The islands belong to South Africa and are administered by the South Afric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Prize | The Shaw Prize is a set of three annual awards presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in the fields of astronomy, medicine and life sciences, and mathematical sciences. Established in 2002 in Hong Kong, by Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫), the awards honour "individuals who are curren... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Prize#Mathematical_sciences | The Shaw Prize is a set of three annual awards presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in the fields of astronomy, medicine and life sciences, and mathematical sciences. Established in 2002 in Hong Kong, by Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫), the awards honour "individuals who are curren... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Lugard,_1st_Baron_Lugard | Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (22 January 1858 – 11 April 1945), known as Sir Frederick Lugard between 1901 and 1928, was a British soldier, explorer of Africa and colonial administrator. He was Governor of Hong Kong (1907–1912), the last Governor of Southern Nigeria Protectorate (1912–1914), the fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rugby_Europe_Championship | The 2022 Rugby Europe Championship was the sixth Rugby Europe Championship, the annual rugby union for the top European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship, and the 52nd edition of the competition (including all its previous incarnations as the FIRA Tournament, Rugby Union European Cup, FIRA Nations Cup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rugby_Europe_Championship#Table | The 2022 Rugby Europe Championship was the sixth Rugby Europe Championship, the annual rugby union for the top European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship, and the 52nd edition of the competition (including all its previous incarnations as the FIRA Tournament, Rugby Union European Cup, FIRA Nations Cup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comrades_Marathon | The Comrades Marathon is an ultramarathon of approximately 88 kilometres (55 mi) which is run annually in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa between the cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg. It is the world's largest and oldest ultramarathon race. The direction of the race alternates each year between the "up"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sherman#Publications | Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.
Her breakthrough work is often considered to be the collection Untitled Film Stills, a series of 70 black-an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sherman#:~:text=Early%20Work%20of%20Cindy%20Sherman,1975%2D1995%20(Paperback). | Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.
Her breakthrough work is often considered to be the collection Untitled Film Stills, a series of 70 black-an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Alcorn | James Lusk Alcorn (November 4, 1816 – December 19, 1894) was a governor, and U.S. senator during the Reconstruction era in Mississippi. A Moderate Republican and Whiggish "scalawag", he engaged in a bitter rivalry with Radical Republican Adelbert Ames, who defeated him in the 1873 gubernatorial race. Alcorn was the fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki_Smith | Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS, feminism, and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki_Smith#Recognition | Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS, feminism, and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPaul%27s_Drag_Race_season_10 | The tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race began airing on March 22, 2018, on VH1. The premiere was broadcast one week after the finale of the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, and episodes were followed by RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked. Contestants were officially announced on February 22, 2018, in a teaser tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxi_Gnauck | Maxi Gnauck (born 10 October 1964) is a German former artistic gymnast who represented East Germany. With a total of 27 medals at the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cups, and European Championships she is considered one of the most successful woman gymnasts that Germany has ever produced. In 1980 she was sel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxi_Gnauck#:~:text=She%20was%20one%20of%20the,at%20the%20University%20of%20Leipzig. | Maxi Gnauck (born 10 October 1964) is a German former artistic gymnast who represented East Germany. With a total of 27 medals at the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cups, and European Championships she is considered one of the most successful woman gymnasts that Germany has ever produced. In 1980 she was sel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._Archambault | George F. Archambault, Ph.G., Ph.C., J.D. (April 29, 1909 – January 1, 2001) was the first pharmacy liaison officer for the United States Public Health Service and considered the "father of consultant pharmacy". On April 22, 1999, for his 90th birthday party, Deputy Surgeon General Kenneth P. Moritsugu proclaimed Archa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough | John Bannister Goodenough ( GUUD-in-uf; July 25, 1922 – June 25, 2023) was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1986 he was a professor of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is credi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipilotti_Rist | Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist, birth name Elisabeth Charlotte Rist (born 21 June 1962 in Grabs) is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female body.
Rist's work is known for i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipilotti_Rist#Recognition | Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist, birth name Elisabeth Charlotte Rist (born 21 June 1962 in Grabs) is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female body.
Rist's work is known for i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapworth_Medal | The Lapworth Medal is the highest award of the Palaeontological Association, given to those who have made a significant contribution to the science by means of a substantial body of research.
== Recipients ==
Source: Palaeontological Association
2024 - Prof. Michael J. Benton, OBE, FRS
2023 - Prof. Else Marie Friis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaynes_Covered_Bridge | The Jaynes Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge, carrying Codding Hollow Road across the North Branch Lamoille River in Waterville, Vermont. Built in 1877, it is one of three 19th-century covered bridges in the town, and one of five to span the North Branch Lamoille in a five-mile span. It was listed on the Na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaynes_Covered_Bridge#:~:text=The%20Jaynes%20Covered%20Bridge%20is,in%20a%20five%2Dmile%20span. | The Jaynes Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge, carrying Codding Hollow Road across the North Branch Lamoille River in Waterville, Vermont. Built in 1877, it is one of three 19th-century covered bridges in the town, and one of five to span the North Branch Lamoille in a five-mile span. It was listed on the Na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Emerson_Bashen | Janet Rita Bashen (née Emerson; born February 12, 1957) is an American entrepreneur, business consultant, and software inventor. Bashen is best known for patenting a web-based EEO software application, LinkLine, now known as Nalikah, to assist with equal employment opportunity investigations and claims tracking. Bashen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Oulanyah | Jacob L'Okori Oulanyah (23 March 1965 – 20 March 2022) was a Ugandan agricultural economist, lawyer, and politician, who served as the Speaker of the 11th Parliament of Uganda from 2021 to 2022. He was elected to that position on 24 May 2021, after defeating his tenacious rival the then incumbent Speaker Rebecca Alitwa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_tenth_Parliament_of_Uganda | This is a list of members elected to the tenth Parliament of Uganda (2016 to 2021) in the 2016 general election. It was preceded by the ninth Parliament (2011 to 2016) and succeeded by the eleventh Parliament (starting 2021).
== Leadership ==
The acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda Steven Kavuma presi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon%27s_psychedelic_Rolls-Royce#:~:text=In%20December%201977%2C%20Lennon%20and,for%20a%20%24250%2C000%20tax%20credit. | John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls-Royce is an art car created in 1967 and later displayed in many museums.
After previously owning a used Rolls-Royce, John Lennon of the Beatles ordered a new bespoke Rolls-Royce Phantom V limousine in December 1964. Originally painted matte black, the car was delivered six months later i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_P._Zakim#:~:text=Zakim%20was%20also%20co%2Dfounder,formed%20in%20Boston%20in%201986. | Leonard Paul Zakim (November 17, 1953 – December 2, 1999) was a Jewish American religious and civil rights leader in Boston. Zakim died in 1999 after a five-year battle with bone-marrow cancer. Boston's Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge was named in his honor.
== Early life and education ==
Zakim, nicknamed "Lenny"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_P._Zakim#:~:text=He%20and%20his%20wife%20Joyce,%3A%20Josh%2C%20Deena%20and%20Shari. | Leonard Paul Zakim (November 17, 1953 – December 2, 1999) was a Jewish American religious and civil rights leader in Boston. Zakim died in 1999 after a five-year battle with bone-marrow cancer. Boston's Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge was named in his honor.
== Early life and education ==
Zakim, nicknamed "Lenny"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohinder_Amarnath | Mohinder Amarnath Bhardwaj (born 24 September 1950) is a former Indian cricketer and cricket analyst. He is the son of Lala Amarnath, the first post-independence captain of India. Mohinder was the vice captain of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, where he was the player of the final. He was also a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohinder_Amarnath#:~:text=In%20his%20book%20%22Idols%22%2C,world)%20batting%20against%20Jeff%20Thomson. | Mohinder Amarnath Bhardwaj (born 24 September 1950) is a former Indian cricketer and cricket analyst. He is the son of Lala Amarnath, the first post-independence captain of India. Mohinder was the vice captain of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, where he was the player of the final. He was also a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_centers_and_institutes | Stanford University has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics. These centers and institutes may be within a department, within a school but across departments, an independent laboratory, institute or center reporting directly to the dean of research and outside any school, or sem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_centers_and_institutes#Michelle_R._Clayman_Institute_for_Gender_Research | Stanford University has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics. These centers and institutes may be within a department, within a school but across departments, an independent laboratory, institute or center reporting directly to the dean of research and outside any school, or sem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londa_Schiebinger | Londa Schiebinger ( SHEE-bing-ər; born May 13, 1952) is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Department of History, and by courtesy the d-school, Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984. An international authority on the theory, practice, and history of gender and int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merce_Cunningham | Mercier Philip Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of American modern dance for more than 50 years. He frequently collaborated with artists of other disciplines, including musicians John Cage, David Tudor, Brian Eno, and graphic artists Robert Ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostina_Livia_Pietrantoni | Agostina Pietrantoni (27 March 1864 – 13 November 1894) born Livia Pietrantoni, was an Italian religious sister of the Sisters of Divine Charity. Pietrantoni worked as a nurse in the Santo Spirito hospital in Rome where she tended to ill victims in a tuberculosis ward before a patient murdered her in 1894. Her canonisa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliment_Voroshilov#:~:text=On%2015%20March%201953%2C%20Voroshilov,Premier%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union. | Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Russian: Климент Ефремович Ворошилов ; Ukrainian: Климент Охрімович Ворошилов, romanized: Klyment Okhrimovych Voroshylov), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (Russian: Клим Ворошилов; 4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the St... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliment_Voroshilov | Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Russian: Климент Ефремович Ворошилов ; Ukrainian: Климент Охрімович Ворошилов, romanized: Klyment Okhrimovych Voroshylov), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (Russian: Клим Ворошилов; 4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the St... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazal_Ilahi_Chaudhry | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1 January 1904 – 2 June 1982) was a Pakistani barrister, politician and statesman who served as the fifth president of Pakistan from 1973 until his resignation in 1978, due to Zia-ul-Haq's martial law following the 1977 coup d'état which overthrew Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's government. He was the first... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_speakers_of_the_West_Pakistan_Legislative_Assembly | The Speaker of the West Pakistan Legislative Assembly was the presiding officer of that legislature.
== Sources ==
Former Speakers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arshad_Sauleh | Arshad Sauleh (Urdu: ارشر صالح) is an artist and a radio broadcaster born in a Muslim family at Srinagar in the summer capital of Kashmir who has remained host/judge of several noted art exhibitions besides he is teaching art at Government College of Education in Srinagar.
== Contribution and awards ==
Arshid Sauleh ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arshad_Sauleh#:~:text=2011%2DMerit%20Award%20by%20State,Art%20Culture%20and%20Language%20Srinagar. | Arshad Sauleh (Urdu: ارشر صالح) is an artist and a radio broadcaster born in a Muslim family at Srinagar in the summer capital of Kashmir who has remained host/judge of several noted art exhibitions besides he is teaching art at Government College of Education in Srinagar.
== Contribution and awards ==
Arshid Sauleh ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_People%27s_Party#:~:text=The%20People's%20Party%20has%20been,as%20the%20largest%20opposition%20party. | The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is a Pakistani political party with a centre-left to leftist political position and a democratic socialist ideology. It is one of the three major mainstream political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. It currently holds the most seats in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_People%27s_Party | The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is a Pakistani political party with a centre-left to leftist political position and a democratic socialist ideology. It is one of the three major mainstream political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. It currently holds the most seats in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Fulbeck | Lawrence Keith "Kip" Fulbeck is an American artist, spoken word performer, filmmaker and author. Fulbeck's work explores identity politics.
His mixed race ethnic background is English, Welsh, Irish and Cantonese. He is best known for his work addressing Hapa and multiracial identity and as the creator of The Hapa Proje... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panavia_Tornado | The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multi-role combat aircraft, jointly developed and manufactured by Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany. There are three primary Tornado variants: the Tornado IDS (interdictor/strike) fighter-bomber, the Tornado ECR (electronic combat/reconnaissance) S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Air_Force#2000s | The German Air Force (German: Luftwaffe, lit. ''air weapon'', pronounced [ˈlʊftvafə] ) is the aerial warfare branch of the Bundeswehr, the armed forces of Germany. The German Air Force (as part of the Bundeswehr) was founded in 1956 during the era of the Cold War as the aerial warfare branch of the armed forces of West... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Classical_Music_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum | The American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum is a non-profit organization celebrating past and present individuals and institutions that have made significant contributions to classical music—"people who have contributed to American music and music in America", according to Samuel Adler (co-chairman of the orga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Classical_Music_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum#2005 | The American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum is a non-profit organization celebrating past and present individuals and institutions that have made significant contributions to classical music—"people who have contributed to American music and music in America", according to Samuel Adler (co-chairman of the orga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niloufar_Bayani | Niloufar Bayani (Persian: نیلوفر بیانی; born 1986;) is an Iranian wildlife conservation biology researcher and activist. She was convicted in 2019 of espionage by Iranian authorities in a closed-door trial in Iran, and received a 10-year prison sentence.
== Early life and education ==
Niloufar Bayani was born in 1986... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Zonfrillo#Death | Barry "Jock" Zonfrillo (4 August 1976 – 1 May 2023) was a Scottish chef, television presenter and restaurateur. He was the founder of the Orana Foundation and a judge on MasterChef Australia.
== Early life ==
Zonfrillo was born in Glasgow, Scotland and raised in Ayr. His father, Ivan, was a barber and his mother, Sar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Zonfrillo#:~:text=Italy%20in%202023.-,Death,check%20at%20Zagame's%20House%20hotel. | Barry "Jock" Zonfrillo (4 August 1976 – 1 May 2023) was a Scottish chef, television presenter and restaurateur. He was the founder of the Orana Foundation and a judge on MasterChef Australia.
== Early life ==
Zonfrillo was born in Glasgow, Scotland and raised in Ayr. His father, Ivan, was a barber and his mother, Sar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico | Puerto Rico (abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Repu... |
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