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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sher_Afgan_Niazi
Dr. Sher Afgan Khan Niazi (Urdu: شیر افگن خان نیازی; died 11 October 2012) was a Pakistani politician. He served as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs of Pakistan. AK Niazi or General Niazi was his real uncle.He was elected for a fourth time to National Assembly in 2002 as a member of Pakistan Peoples Party (Parliament...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sher_Afgan_Niazi#:~:text=His%20health%20deteriorated%20slowly%20after,with%20Liver%20cancer%20in%202012.
Dr. Sher Afgan Khan Niazi (Urdu: شیر افگن خان نیازی; died 11 October 2012) was a Pakistani politician. He served as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs of Pakistan. AK Niazi or General Niazi was his real uncle.He was elected for a fourth time to National Assembly in 2002 as a member of Pakistan Peoples Party (Parliament...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naughty_Dog#History
Naughty Dog, LLC (formerly JAM Software, Inc.) is an American first-party video game developer based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984, the studio was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001. Gavin and Rubin produced a sequence of progressively more successful games, inc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (; born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Globally, s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey#Personal_life
Oprah Gail Winfrey (; born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Globally, s...
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/83_Beatrix
83 Beatrix is a fairly large asteroid orbiting in the inner part of the main asteroid belt. It was discovered by Annibale de Gasparis on April 26, 1865. It was his last asteroid discovery. A diameter of at least 68 kilometres (42 mi) was determined from the Beatrician stellar occultation observed on June 15, 1983. It i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annibale_de_Gasparis
Annibale de Gasparis (Italian pronunciation: [anˈniːbale de ˈɡasparis]; 9 November 1819 – 21 March 1892) was an Italian astronomer, known for discovering asteroids and his contributions to theoretical astronomy. == Biography == De Gasparis was born in 1819 in Bugnara to Angelo de Gasparis and Eleonora Angelantoni or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Melly
Alan George Heywood Melly (17 August 1926 – 5 July 2007) was an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer, and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973, he was a film and television critic for The Observer; he also lectured on art history, with an emphasis on surrealism. == Early life and career == Melly was born at The Grang...
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girardota
Girardota es un municipio de Colombia, ubicado en el Valle de Aburrá del departamento de Antioquia. Limita por el norte con los municipios de San Pedro de los Milagros y Donmatías, por el este con los municipios de Barbosa y San Vicente, por el sur con los municipios de Barbosa y Guarne, y por el oeste con el municipio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftab_Ghulam_Nabi_Kazi
Aftab Ghulam Nabi Kazi (Urdu: آفتاب غلام نبی قاضی; 6 November 1919 – 9 August 2016) SPk, SK, also known as AGN Kazi, was a Pakistani civil servant and a bureaucrat during the Cold War and during the post cold war. Kazi was born in Sindh, Bombay Presidency, in 1919 to an academic family. He started his career in the Ind...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neeraj_Chopra#:~:text=Post%20Tokyo%20Olympics,-Chopra%20at%20the&text=In%20June%202022%20at%20the,at%20the%20Stockholm%20Diamond%20League.
Lieutenant Colonel Neeraj Chopra (born 24 December 1997) is an Indian javelin thrower. He has won gold medals at the Olympic Games, World Championships and Asian Games. Chopra has won the Diamond League once. He won the Olympic gold medal in 2020 and became the first Asian javelin thrower to do so. He became the firs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Rimington
Dame Stella Rimington (née Whitehouse; 13 May 1935 – 3 August 2025) was a British author and Director General of MI5, a position she held from 1992 to 1996. She was the first female Director General of MI5, and the first Director General whose name was publicised on appointment. In 1993, Rimington became the first Dire...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Makgoba#:~:text=He%20was%20made%20bishop%20of%20Queenstown%20(a%20suffragan%20bishop%20in%20the%20Diocese%20of%20Grahamstown)%20on%2025%20May%202002%20and%20became%20the%20diocesan%20bishop%20of%20Grahamstown%20(in%20Makhanda)%20in%202004.
Thabo Cecil Makgoba KStJ (born 15 December 1960) is the South African Anglican archbishop of Cape Town. He had served before as bishop of Grahamstown. == Biography == Makgoba graduated from Orlando High, Soweto, and completed his BSc degree at Wits University before going to St Paul's College, Grahamstown, to study f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Makgoba
Thabo Cecil Makgoba KStJ (born 15 December 1960) is the South African Anglican archbishop of Cape Town. He had served before as bishop of Grahamstown. == Biography == Makgoba graduated from Orlando High, Soweto, and completed his BSc degree at Wits University before going to St Paul's College, Grahamstown, to study f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Carlo_Argan
Giulio Carlo Argan (17 May 1909 – 12 November 1992) was an Italian art historian, critic and politician. == Biography == Argan was born in Turin and studied in the University of Turin, graduating in 1931. In 1928 he entered the National Fascist Party. In the 1930 he worked for the National Antiquity and Arts Director...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Carlos,_Antioquia
San Carlos is a town and municipality in the Colombian department of Antioquia, part of the subregion of Eastern Antioquia. It is called the hydro-electrical capital of Colombia, because it has many dams and it produces much energy. The population was 14,480 at the 2018 census. == History == The site of the town was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Carlos_Menem#Cabinet
The presidency of Carlos Saúl Menem lasted from July 8, 1989, the date of his inauguration, to December 10, 1999, the date on which his second term ended and his successor, Fernando de la Rúa, took office. It was a government described as liberal-conservative, which in Argentina is normally associated with the right. H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Carlos_Menem
The presidency of Carlos Saúl Menem lasted from July 8, 1989, the date of his inauguration, to December 10, 1999, the date on which his second term ended and his successor, Fernando de la Rúa, took office. It was a government described as liberal-conservative, which in Argentina is normally associated with the right. H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Capilla
La Capilla is a town and municipality in the Eastern Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. The urban centre is situated at an altitude of 1,600 metres (5,200 ft) in the Tenza Valley. == Borders == North with Úmbita and Pachavita South with Tenza and Cundinamarca West with Cundinamarca East wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susac%C3%B3n
Susacón is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Northern Boyacá Province. Susacón borders to the north Soatá, in the east Boavita, La Uvita and Jericó, in the south Sativanorte and in the west the Santander municipality of Onzaga. == History == When the Spanish c...
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susac%C3%B3n
Susacón es un municipio colombiano ubicado en la Provincia del Norte del departamento de Boyacá. == Historia == En la época prehispánica Susacón hacia parte de los dominios del cacique Soaita de Soatá. Los primeros evangelizadores fueron los padres dominicanos. Fueron encomenderos de Susacón Juan de Quincoces y Pedro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_Istanbul#:~:text=Lambda%20Istanbul%20is%20a%20Turkish,an%20official%20organization%20in%202006.
Lambda Istanbul is a Turkish LGBT organization. It was founded in 1993 as a cultural space for the LGBT community, and became an official organization in 2006. Clandestine Pride events were held in Turkey starting in 1993, and with Lambda Istanbul participation, they became public marches. The organization was ordered ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_Istanbul#:~:text=Lambda%20Istanbul%20is%20a%20Turkish%20LGBT%20organization.%20It%20was%20founded%20in%201993%20as%20a%20cultural%20space%20for%20the%20LGBT%20community%2C%20and%20became%20an%20official%20organization%20in%202006.
Lambda Istanbul is a Turkish LGBT organization. It was founded in 1993 as a cultural space for the LGBT community, and became an official organization in 2006. Clandestine Pride events were held in Turkey starting in 1993, and with Lambda Istanbul participation, they became public marches. The organization was ordered ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanele_Muholi#Awards
Zanele Muholi (born 1972) is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000s, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanele_Muholi
Zanele Muholi (born 1972) is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000s, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Salazar_G%C3%B3mez
Jesús Rubén Darío Salazar Gómez (Spanish pronunciation: [ruˈβen salaˈsaɾ ˈɣomes]; born 22 September 1942) is a Colombian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Metropolitan Archbishop of Bogotá from 2010 to 2020. He was made a cardinal in 2012. He was Metropolitan Archbishop of Barranquilla from 1999 to 2010. == Earl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Inorganic_Chemistry_Award#:~:text=2013,Andrew%20R.%20Barron
The Applied Inorganic Chemistry Award, established in 2008, is conferred biennially by the Dalton division of the Royal Society of Chemistry for "outstanding contributions to the development of any branch of inorganic chemistry which has an application in industry." The winner gives a lecture tour in the UK, and receiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Inorganic_Chemistry_Award
The Applied Inorganic Chemistry Award, established in 2008, is conferred biennially by the Dalton division of the Royal Society of Chemistry for "outstanding contributions to the development of any branch of inorganic chemistry which has an application in industry." The winner gives a lecture tour in the UK, and receiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holwell_Carr
The Reverend William Holwell Carr, (1758–1830) was an English priest, art dealer, art collector and painter. His bequest of paintings was an important early addition to the collection of the National Gallery in London. == Life == He was born William Holwell in Exeter, Devon, the son of Edward Holwell, an apothecary, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_number
In recreational mathematics, a vampire number (or true vampire number) is a composite natural number with an even number of digits, that can be factored into two natural numbers each with half as many digits as the original number, where the two factors contain precisely all the digits of the original number, in any or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Mehretu
Julie Mehretu (born November 28, 1970) is an Ethiopian American contemporary visual artist, known for her multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes on a large scale. Her paintings, drawings, and prints depict the cumulative effects of urban sociopolitical changes. == Early life and education == Mehretu was bor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Mehretu#Exhibitions
Julie Mehretu (born November 28, 1970) is an Ethiopian American contemporary visual artist, known for her multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes on a large scale. Her paintings, drawings, and prints depict the cumulative effects of urban sociopolitical changes. == Early life and education == Mehretu was bor...
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abriaqu%C3%AD
Abriaquí es un municipio de Colombia ubicado en la subregión Occidente del departamento de Antioquia. Limita por el norte con los municipios de Frontino y Cañasgordas, por el este con los municipios de Giraldo y Santa Fe de Antioquia, por el sur con los municipios de Caicedo y Urrao, y por el oeste con los municipios d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopetr%C3%A1n
Sopetrán is a municipality of Colombia, located in the subregion west of the state of Antioquia. It is bounded to the north by the municipality of Olaya, to the east by the municipality of Belmira, to the south by the municipalities of San Jerónimo and Ebéjico, and to the west by the municipality of Santa Fe de Antioqu...
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopetr%C3%A1n
Sopetrán es un municipio de Colombia, localizado en la subregión Occidente del departamento de Antioquia. Limita por el norte con el municipio de Olaya, por el este con el municipio de Belmira, por el sur con los municipios de San Jerónimo y Ebéjico y por el oeste con el municipio de Santa Fe de Antioquia. Su cabecera ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleka_Mbete
Baleka Mbete (born 24 September 1949) is a South African politician who was the Deputy President of South Africa from September 2008 to May 2009. She was also the Speaker of the National Assembly for two non-consecutive terms from 2004 to 2008 and from 2014 to 2019. She also served as Deputy Speaker between 1996 and 20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_Kathmandu
The mayor of Kathmandu is the head of the municipal executive of Kathmandu Metropolitan City. The officeholder is elected for a five-year term and limited to serving no more than two terms. The role was first created in 1932 during the Rana regime. The current mayor is Balendra Shah, who was elected in the 2022 electio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_Kathmandu#cite_note-:0-2
The mayor of Kathmandu is the head of the municipal executive of Kathmandu Metropolitan City. The officeholder is elected for a five-year term and limited to serving no more than two terms. The role was first created in 1932 during the Rana regime. The current mayor is Balendra Shah, who was elected in the 2022 electio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and the Sea of Japan to the east. Like North Korea, South Korea claims to be the sole legi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naro_Space_Center
The Naro Space Center is a South Korean spaceport in South Jeolla's Goheung County, operated by the state-run Korea Aerospace Research Institute. The spaceport is located about 485 km (300 mi) south of Seoul. It includes two launch pads, a control tower, rocket assembly and test facilities, facilities for satellite con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Otto
Kristin Otto (German pronunciation: [ˈkʁɪstɪn ˈʔɔtoː] ; born 7 February 1966) is a former East German swimmer, becoming Olympic, World and European champion, multiple times. She is most famous for being the first woman to win six gold medals at a single Olympic Games, doing so at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. In long c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregori_Aminoff_Prize
The Gregori Aminoff Prize is an international prize awarded since 1979 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the field of crystallography, rewarding "a documented, individual contribution in the field of crystallography, including areas concerned with the dynamics of the formation and dissolution of crystal struc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Township,_Michigan
Aloha Township is a civil township of Cheboygan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 937 at the 2020 census. == Communities == Aloha is an unincorporated community on the east shore of Mullett Lake at 45°31′35″N 84°28′00″W. It is on M-212, which is a short spur off M-33, about 8 miles (13 km) sout...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mars
The colonization of Mars is the proposed process of establishing permanent human settlements on the planet Mars. While most colonization concepts focus on settling, colonization is a broader ethical concept. International space law has limited colonization, and national space programs have avoided it, instead focusing ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars#:~:text=On%20April%2026%2C%202012%2C%20scientists,German%20Aerospace%20Center%20(DLR).
The terraforming of Mars is a hypothetical procedure that would consist of a planetary engineering project or concurrent projects aspiring to transform Mars from a planet hostile to life to one that could sustainably host humans and other lifeforms free of protection or mediation. The process would involve the modifica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_Kiefer#Books
Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horror...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horror...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_(Miranda_Lambert_album)
Revolution is the third studio album by American country music singer Miranda Lambert. It was released on September 29, 2009, via Columbia Records Nashville. The album includes the singles "Dead Flowers", "White Liar", "The House That Built Me", "Only Prettier", and "Heart Like Mine", all of which charted on the U.S. B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazprom
PJSC Gazprom (Russian: Газпром, IPA: [ɡɐsˈprom]) is a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg. The Gazprom name is a contraction of the Russian words gazovaya promyshlennost (газовая промышленность, gas industry). In January 2022, Gazprom disp...