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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Rolirad | Henryk Rolirad | Henryk Rolirad (11 April 1909 – 4 January 1984) was a Polish food–systems engineer who was recognized as a Righteous among the Nations for saving Jews during World War II.
== Early life ==
Henryk Rolirad was born in Poznań, Poland, and was adopted at age two by Stanisław and Stefania Rolirad. He graduated from Poznań... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown | Jonestown | The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name Jonestown, was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious movement under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Morgan_Smith_Medal | Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal | The Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "in recognition of excellence in published research on marine or freshwater algae." It has been awarded every three years since 1979.
== List of Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal winners ==
Source: NAS
Mark E. Hay (2018)
For developing algae... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonori_Matuyama | Motonori Matuyama | Motonori Matsuyama (松山 基範, Matsuyama Motonori; October 25, 1884 – January 27, 1958) was a Japanese geophysicist who was (in the late 1920s) the first to provide systematic evidence that the Earth's magnetic field had been reversed in the early Pleistocene and to suggest that long periods existed in the past in which th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risen_Christ_%28Michelangelo,_Santa_Maria_sopra_Minerva%29 | Risen Christ (Michelangelo, Santa Maria sopra Minerva) | The Risen Christ (Cristo della Minerva in Italian, also known as Christ the Redeemer or Christ Carrying the Cross) is a marble sculpture by the Italy High Renaissance master Michelangelo, finished in 1521. It is in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, to the left of the main altar.
== History ==
The work ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hall_(Victorian_politician)#:~:text=John%20Joseph%20Hall%20(18%20February,1949)%20was%20an%20Australian%20politician. | John Hall (Victorian politician) | John Joseph Hall (18 February 1884 – 30 June 1949) was an Australian politician and journalist.
He was born in Eaglehawk to miner and tea merchant Joseph Hall and Isabella, née Gray. He attended state school before becoming a booking clerk with Victorian Railways and a journalist with the Bendigo Advertiser; he was als... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors | List of Crayola crayon colors | Since the introduction of Crayola drawing crayons by Binney & Smith in 1903, more than 200 colors have been produced in a wide variety of assortments. The table below represents all of the colors found in regular Crayola assortments from 1903 to the present. Since the introduction of fluorescent crayons in the 1970s, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hawk_of_Lebanon | The Hawk of Lebanon | "The Hawk of Lebanon" (Arabic: هلا يا صقر لبنان) is a popular song in the Arab world about Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The song was written by little known Palestinian boy band Firkat al-Shamal (Band of the North) at the height of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.
The lyrics consist of constant repetition of a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird | John Logie Baird | John Logie Baird (; 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnham#:~:text=The%20estimated%20population%20taken%20at%20the%202011%20Census%20was%20around%20245.&text=There%20is%20evidence%20of%20human,found%20in%20the%20village%20today. | Alnham | Alnham (, ) is a hamlet and civil parish in Northumberland, England. It is about 14 miles (23 km) west of Alnwick, and is about 6 miles (10 km) from the Scottish border, on the south of a small tributary of the River Aln. The village stands on uneven ground, sloping from south to north, at the foot of the southern outl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relojes_Centenario#:~:text=It%20was%20founded%20by%20Alberto,still%20functions%20to%20this%20day. | Relojes Centenario | Relojes Centenario (or Centenario Clocks) is the first manufacturer of monumental clocks in Latin America. It was founded by Alberto Olvera Hernández in the municipality of Zacatlán, Puebla, Mexico as a workshop on the family farm when he was a teenager. His first clock was for the family farm but the next one went to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakshi_Ghulam_Mohammad | Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad | Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad (20 July 1907 – 15 July 1972) was an Indian politician who served as the prime minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1953 to 1964. Bakshi was a founding member of the National Conference and rose to be the second in command to the principal leader Sheikh Abdullah. He served as the deputy prime minis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/259_Aletheia | 259 Aletheia | 259 Aletheia is a very large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German–American astronomer Christian Peters on June 28, 1886, at Litchfield Observatory, Clinton, New York. The dark and heterogeneously composed X-type (Tholen: CP-type) asteroid contains primitive carbonaceous materials, responsible for its low al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Relief_Administration#:~:text=In%20addition%2C%20the%20Vatican%20created,Walsh%2C%20SJ.&text=The%20ARA's%20operations%20in%20Russia,renewed%20the%20export%20of%20grain. | American Relief Administration | American Relief Administration (ARA) was an American relief mission to Europe and later post-revolutionary Russia after World War I. Herbert Hoover, future president of the United States, was the program director.
The ARA's immediate predecessor was the important United States Food Administration, also headed by Hoover... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanduk_Ruit#Awards_and_honors | Sanduk Ruit | Sanduk Ruit (Nepali: सन्दुक रूइत; pronounced [ˈsʌnduk rui̯t]) is an ophthalmologist from Nepal who was involved in restoring the sight of over 180,000 people across Africa and Asia using small-incision cataract surgery.
Ruit is the founder and the executive director of the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, which man... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_cuisine#List_of_dishes | Kashmiri cuisine | Kashmiri cuisine refers to the traditional culinary practices of the Kashmiri people. Rice has been a staple food in Kashmir since ancient times. The equivalent for the phrase "bread and butter" in Kashmiri is haakh-batte (greens and rice).
Kashmiri cuisine is generally meat-heavy. The region has, per capita, the high... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._D._Kumaraswamy | H. D. Kumaraswamy | Haradanahalli Devegowda Kumaraswamy (born 16 December 1959) is an Indian politician and film producer who is serving as the 5th Minister of Heavy Industries and 14th Minister of Steel of India since 2024. He also served as the 18th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 2018 to 2019 and previously from 2006 to 2007. He was a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator | Myers–Briggs Type Indicator | The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-report questionnaire that makes pseudoscientific claims to categorize individuals into 16 distinct "personality types" based on psychology. The test assigns a binary letter value to each of four dichotomous categories: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Fawkes | Wally Fawkes | Walter Ernest Fawkes (né Pearsall; 21 June 1924 – 1 March 2023), also known as Trog when signing cartoons, was a Canadian-British jazz clarinettist and satirical cartoonist.
After emigrating with his family to Britain from Canada when he was 7 years old, he taught himself the clarinet, and first joined a revivalist ja... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_Warneke | 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/President_of_the_Supreme_Federal_Court#:~:text=The%20Brazilian%20Presidents%20who%20appointed,position%20since%2028%20September%202023 | President of the Supreme Federal Court | The President of the Supreme Federal Court is the highest-ranking officer of the Brazilian judiciary branch. The holder is also president of the National Council of Justice (CNJ). Among their responsibilities are representing both the Court and the council before other branches of government and authorities, presiding ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon | Annie Jump Cannon | Annie Jump Cannon (; December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_110_Bandeirante | Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante | The Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante (English: pioneer) is a Brazilian twin-turboprop light transport aircraft designed by Embraer for military and civil use.
The EMB 110 was designed by the French engineer Max Holste; it had been designed in line with specifications issued by the Brazilian Ministry of Aeronautics in 1965. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comrades_Marathon#Cheating_in_the_race | 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/Mustafa_Adebayo_Balogun | Mustafa Adebayo Balogun | Mustafa Adebayo Balogun (25 August 1947 – 4 August 2022), widely known as Kumawu, was a Nigerian police officer, 11th Inspector General of Police from March 2002, but was forced to retire because of widespread charges of corruption in January 2005.
== Background ==
Balogun attended the University of Lagos, graduating... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavatar | Heavatar | Heavatar is a German power metal band.
== History ==
Heavatar was founded in 2012 by Van Canto founder Stefan Schmidt as a project. The debut album, All My Kingdoms, was released in February 2013 via Napalm Records. Jörg Michael acts as the drummer on this album. The project also features guitarist Sebastian Scharf a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuwakot,_Bagmati_Province | Nuwakot, Bagmati Province | Nuwakot (Nepali: नुवाकोट) is a town in central Nepal, serving as the namesake of the district of the same name. The town is located on the bank of Trishuli and Tadi Rivers. It is located around 60 kilometres west of Kathmandu, and is known as a historic town which was the capital of the Valley in the days before the un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Plan | Rogers Plan | The Rogers Plan (also known as Deep Strike) was a framework proposed by United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers to achieve an end to belligerence in the Arab–Israeli conflict following the Six-Day War and the continuing War of Attrition.
== History ==
The Rogers Plan was publicly proposed in a December 9, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_cuckoo-dove#:~:text=The%20brown%20cuckoo%2Ddove%20was,in%20New%20South%20Wales%2C%20Australia. | Brown cuckoo-dove | The brown cuckoo-dove (Macropygia phasianella) is a dove in the genus Macropygia found in Australia from Weipa and Aurukun in the north to Bega in the south, and most inland at Atherton and Toowoomba. It is sometimes called the "brown pigeon" or "pheasant pigeon", but both terms are best avoided, as they can lead to co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badminton_Asia_Championships | Badminton Asia Championships | The Badminton Asia Championships (formerly Asian Badminton Championships until 2006) is a tournament organized by governing body Badminton Asia to crown the best badminton players in Asia.
The tournament started in 1962 and is held annually since 1991. The event had rotated between team and individual competitions befo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Pieces#Two | Number Pieces | The term Number Pieces refers to a body of late compositions (40, or 41 if Seventeen was actually composed) by John Cage. Each piece is named after the number of performers involved: for instance, Seven is a piece for seven performers, One9 (read "One Nine") is the ninth work for one performer, and 1O1 is a piece for a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention#:~:text=On%20June%2012%2C%202019%2C%20during,be%20excommunicated%20from%20the%20convention. | Southern Baptist Convention | The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), alternatively the Great Commission Baptists (GCB), is a Christian denomination based in the United States. It is the world's largest Baptist organization, the largest Protestant, and the second-largest Christian body in the United States. The SBC is a cooperation of fully autonomo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Gebrselassie | Haile Gebrselassie | Haile Gebrselassie (Amharic: ኀይሌ ገብረ ሥላሴ, romanized: Haylē Gebre Silassē; born 18 April 1973) is an Ethiopian former long-distance track, road running athlete, and businessman. He won two Olympic gold medals and four World Championship titles over the 10,000 metres. Haile triumphed in the Berlin Marathon four times con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Murray_(lexicographer)#:~:text=In%201861%2C%20Murray%20met%20a,tuberculosis%2C%20then%20known%20as%20consumption. | James Murray (lexicographer) | Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA (; 7 February 1837 – 26 July 1915) was a British lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1879 until his death.
== Life and learning ==
James Murray was born in the village of Denholm near Hawick in the Scottish Borders, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Jammu_and_Kashmir#:~:text=Saz%2De%2DKashmir%3A%20It,major%20changes%20since%20its%20origin. | Music of Jammu and Kashmir | Music of Jammu and Kashmir reflects a rich musical heritage and cultural legacy of the Indian-administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Two different regions of Jammu and Kashmir consists the Jammu region and Kashmir Valley. Music of Kashmir and Chenab Valley has influences of Central Asian music while music ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_All-Africa_Games | 1999 All-Africa Games | The 7th All-Africa Games (Zulu: imiDlalo yesi-7 yase-Afrika; Afrikaans: 7de Afrika-Spele), also known as Johannesburg 1999 (Zulu: eGoli 1999), was a sport event held from 10 to 19 September 1999, in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa. 53 countries participated in eighteen sports. Netball was included as a demonstratio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventaquemada | Ventaquemada | Ventaquemada is a town and municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Ventaquemada is located at a distance of 98 kilometres (61 mi) from the capital Bogotá and 29 kilometres (18 mi) from the departmental capital Tunja. The urban centre is situated at an altitude of 2,630 m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorizema_dicksonii | Chorizema dicksonii | Chorizema dicksonii, commonly known as yellow-eyed flame pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with oblong to lance-shaped leaves and red and orange flowers.
== Description ==
Chorizema dicksonii is an erect ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat#:~:text=In%201944%2C%20Arafat%20enrolled%20in,Herzl%20and%20other%20prominent%20Zionists. | Yasser Arafat | Yasser Arafat (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, President of Palestine from 1989 to 2004 and President of the Palestinian Authority (PNA) from 1994 t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comrades_Marathon#History | 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/Mullvad | Mullvad | Mullvad is a commercial VPN service based in Sweden. The name "Mullvad" is the word for "mole" in the Swedish language. Mullvad operates using the WireGuard and OpenVPN protocols. It also supports Shadowsocks as a bridge protocol for censorship circumvention. Mullvad's VPN client software is publicly available under th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mr._Box_Office_episodes | List of Mr. Box Office episodes | Mr. Box Office is an American syndicated sitcom that premiered on September 22, 2012. The series centers on Marcus Jackson (Bill Bellamy), a well-known movie actor who ends up in legal trouble due to a physical altercation with a paparazzo, leading to his sentence to teach a class of inner-city high school students in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oicat%C3%A1#:~:text=%22Hailstoned%20farmlands%22.-,History,%2C%20culturally%2C%20and%20in%20productivity. | Oicatá | Oicatá is a town and municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, Department of Boyacá, Colombia. The urban centre is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at an altitude of 2,815 metres (9,236 ft) and a distance of 153 kilometres (95 mi) from the national capital Bogotá and 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the departmen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Gardiner_(art_collector) | Margaret Gardiner (art collector) | Margaret Emilia Gardiner OBE (22 April 1904 – 2 January 2005) was a radical modern British patron of artists and resident of Hampstead, London, from 1932, where she was also a left wing political activist. She was also for a time the partner of Professor John Desmond Bernal. She was known as "Mrs Bernal" for most of he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality_in_the_United_States | Bisexuality in the United States | The first English-language use of the word "bisexual" to refer to sexual orientation occurred in 1892.
== Early history ==
The first English-language use of the word "bisexual" referring to sexual orientation was by the American neurologist Charles Gilbert Chaddock in his 1892 translation of the 7th edition of Kraff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia%E2%80%93Europe_Meeting | Asia–Europe 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/RuPaul%27s_Drag_Race_season_1 | RuPaul's Drag Race season 1 | The first season of RuPaul's Drag Race premiered in the United States on February 2, 2009, on Logo, and ended on March 23 of the same year. Nine contestants were selected to compete in the running of becoming "America's Next Drag Superstar." The first season was filmed during the summer of 2008. The winner of the first... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio | Polio | Poliomyelitis ( POH-lee-oh-MY-ə-LY-tiss), commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. Approximately 75% of cases are asymptomatic; mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever; in a proportion of cases more severe symptoms develop such as headache, neck stiffness, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abasto_de_Buenos_Aires | Abasto de Buenos Aires | The Abasto Shopping is one of the biggest shopping mall centers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The building was the central wholesale fruit and vegetable market in the city ("Mercado de Abasto") from 1893 to 1984. Since 1999, it has served as a shopping mall. It is also famous for being in the area where the tango singer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavino_Angius#:~:text=Confirmed%20as%20deputy%20in%201992,Italian%20Senate%20in%20May%202006. | Gavino Angius | Gavino Angius (born 18 November 1946) is an Italian politician.
== Biography ==
Born at Sassari (Sardinia), after the degree in Political Sciences, he became a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), for which he was secretary of his city's section. He was elected for the first time at the Italian Chamber of Dep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grete_Stern | Grete Stern | Grete Stern (9 May 1904 – 24 December 1999) was a German-Argentine photographer. Between April 1930 and March 1933, she studied at the Bauhaus. With her husband Horacio Coppola, she helped modernize the visual arts in Argentina, and presented the first exhibition of modern photographic art in Buenos Aires, in 1935.
=... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Carleton,_1st_Viscount_Dorchester | Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester | Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester (10 March 1573 – 15 February 1632) was an English art collector, diplomat and Secretary of State.
== Early life ==
He was the second son of Anthony Carleton of Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, and of Joyce Goodwin, daughter of John Goodwin of Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_paddlefish | Chinese paddlefish | The Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius; simplified Chinese: 白鲟; traditional Chinese: 白鱘; pinyin: báixún: literal translation: "white sturgeon"), also known as the Chinese swordfish, is an extinct species of fish that was formerly native to the Yangtze and Yellow River basins in China. With records of specimens over ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Prize_in_Statistics | International Prize in Statistics | The International Prize in Statistics is awarded every two years to an individual or team "for major achievements using statistics to advance science, technology and human welfare". The International Prize in Statistics, along with the COPSS Presidents' Award, are the two highest honours in the field of Statistics.
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Argentine_general_election | 1983 Argentine general election | A general election was held in Argentina on 30 October 1983 and marked the return of constitutional rule following the self-styled National Reorganization Process dictatorship installed in 1976. Voters fully chose the president, governors, mayors, and their respective national, province and town legislators; with a tur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio | Caravaggio | Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His pain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_las_Carreras | Francisco de las Carreras | Francisco de las Carreras (1809–1870) was an Argentine lawyer, judge and politician. He was the first President of the Supreme Court of Argentina between 1863 and 1870.
== Career ==
De las Carreras did his higher studies in Law at the University of Buenos Aires, turning to politics during the government of Juan Manue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston,_Ohio | Weston, Ohio | Weston is a village in Wood County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,455 at the 2020 census. Weston is located just 10 miles west of Bowling Green, Ohio, a university town.
== History ==
Weston was originally called Taylortown, and under the latter name was platted in 1853 by Thomas Taylor, and named for h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbeo | Berbeo | Berbeo is a town and municipality in the Lengupá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. The urban centre of Berbeo is located at an altitude of 1,350 metres (4,430 ft) in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. Berbeo borders San Eduardo in the east, Zetaquirá and Miraflores in the west, Zetaquirá in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_Kiefer#Recognitions | 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/List_of_attorneys_general_of_Argentina | List of attorneys general of Argentina | The attorney general of Argentina (Spanish: Procurador General de la Nación Argentina) is the chief of all the prosecutors who act before national courts, as well as the designated prosecutor in the Supreme Court. The attorney general leads the Ministry of Public Prosecutions (Ministerio Público Fiscal; MPF). The Minis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopore | Sopore | Sopore (Urdu pronunciation: [soːpoːr] ; Kashmiri pronunciation: [soːpoːr]) is a city in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is 45 km (28 mi) north-west of Srinagar, and 16 km (10 mi) north-east of Baramulla.
Sopore is one of the largest subdivisions in Jammu and Kashmir, consisting of seven tehsils ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedaant_Madhavan#Junior_National_Aquatics_Championships_2022 | Vedaant Madhavan | Vedaant Madhavan (born 21 August 2005) is an Indian freestyle swimmer. He is a 5-time gold medalist at the Malaysian Open, a gold and silver medalist at the Danish Open, as well as a bronze medalist at the Latvian and Thailand Open. Madhavan finished 5th at the Commonwealth Youth Games.
== Early life ==
Madhavan was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Gay_Bottje | Will Gay Bottje | Will Gay Bottje (June 30, 1925; Grand Rapids, Michigan - January 7, 2018; Grand Rapids, Michigan) was an American composer known for his contributions to electronic music.
Bottje was a graduate of the Juilliard School (Bachelor of Music in flute performance and Master of Music in composition) where he studied compositi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Singapore | Demographics of Singapore | As of June 2025, the population of Singapore stood at 6.11 million. Of these 6.11 million, 4.20 million are residents, consisting of about 3.66 million citizens and 540,000 permanent residents (PRs). The remaining 1.91 million people living in Singapore are classed as non-residents, defined as "foreign workforce across... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Duterte | Sara Duterte | Sara Zimmerman Duterte-Carpio (English: , Tagalog: [dʊˈtɛɾtɛ]; born May 31, 1978), commonly known as Inday Sara, is a Filipino lawyer and politician who is the 15th and current vice president of the Philippines. She is the third female vice president (after Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Leni Robredo), the third vice pres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor_General_of_the_Republic_(Brazil) | Prosecutor General of the Republic (Brazil) | The prosecutor general of the Republic (Portuguese: procurador-geral da República) is the head of the Brazilian Federal Prosecution Office, an autonomous agency in charge of criminal prosecution and the defense of society in general. The prosecutor general heads a group of independent prosecutors (Procuradores da Repúb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Zahafi | Mohamed Zahafi | Mohamed Zahafi (born 1959) is a Moroccan middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.
In 1983 he won bronze medals in both 800 and 1500 metres at the Maghreb Championships. Both races were won by Saïd Aouita. In the same year Zahafi competed at the 1983 World Championships, but without reaching the final. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noetic_Learning_math_contest | Noetic Learning math contest | The Noetic Learning math contest is a national biannual problem-solving competition for elementary and middle school students. The contest aims to encourage students' interest in mathematics and develop problem-solving skills. It is open to students in grades 2 through 8. It is held twice a year, in the fall and spring... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kacey_Musgraves | Kacey Musgraves | Kacey Lee Musgraves (born August 21, 1988) is an American country singer-songwriter. She began her career in the early 2000s, when she self-released three solo albums and recorded another album as a member of the duo Texas Two Bits. In 2007, Musgraves appeared on the fifth season of the USA Network singing competition ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Museum_of_Chicago#:~:text=In%20late%202018%2C%20the%20museum,Randolph%20St). | Design Museum of Chicago | The Design Museum of Chicago or "DMoC" (formerly Chicago Design Museum) is a museum of design in Chicago. It was founded by Tanner Woodford in 2012 as a pop-up museum, and hosted exhibitions in different venues around Chicago in 2012 and 2013. Following a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in 2014, the museum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cora_Sadosky | Cora Sadosky | Cora Susana Sadosky de Goldstein (May 23, 1940 – December 3, 2010) was an Argentine mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Howard University.
== Early life and education ==
Sadosky was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the daughter of mathematicians Manuel Sadosky and Corina Eloísa "Cora" Ratto de Sadosky. At t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghulam_Hassan_Sofi#:~:text=Ghulam%20Hassan%20Sofi%20(1932%2C%20Srinagar,India%20Radio%2C%20in%20early%201950s. | Ghulam Hassan Sofi | Ghulam Hassan Sofi (1932, Srinagar - 2009, Srinagar) was a singer and harmonium player of traditional music of Kashmir, India.
Sofi began his career from Radio Kashmir, local station of All India Radio, in the early 1950s. He also sang for the station Doordarshan Kendra Srinagar, and for the Cultural Academy, besides ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downey,_California#2010 | Downey, California | Downey is a city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States, 13 mi (21 km) southeast of Downtown Los Angeles. It is considered part of the Gateway Cities. The city is the birthplace of the Apollo space program and Taco Bell. It is also the home of the oldest operating McDonald's restaurant in the wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shastri_Nagar_metro_station | Shastri Nagar metro station | The Shastri Nagar (formerly called Vivekanandapuri) metro station is located on the Red Line of the Delhi Metro.
== Station layout ==
== Facilities ==
List of available ATM at Shastri Nagar metro station are
== See also ==
List of Delhi Metro stations
Transport in Delhi
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
Delhi Suburba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meldola_Medal_and_Prize#:~:text=Thomas%20Summers%20West-,1955%3A%20Peter%20Gray,-1954%3A%20John | Meldola Medal and Prize | The Meldola Medal and Prize was awarded annually from 1921 to 1979 by the Chemical Society and from 1980 to 2008 by the Royal Society of Chemistry to a British chemist who was under 32 years of age for promising original investigations in chemistry (which had been published). It commemorated Raphael Meldola, President ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Manekshaw#:~:text=A%20flyover%20bridge%20in%20Ahmedabad's,Minister%20of%20Gujarat%2C%20Narendra%20Modi. | Sam Manekshaw | Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw (3 April 1914 – 27 June 2008), also known as Sam Bahadur ("the Brave"), was an Indian Army general officer who was the Chief of the army staff during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, and the first Indian army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marsha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gokula# | Gokula | Veer Gokula Jat (died 1 January 1670), also known as Gokul Dev, was a zamindar and chieftain who led a rebellion against the Mughal Empire during the reign of emperor Aurangzeb in the late 17th century. Gokula emerged as a symbol of resistance against Mughal oppression, particularly their discriminatory religious and e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanele_Muholi#Awards | 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/Anna_Wintour_Costume_Center | Anna Wintour Costume Center | The Anna Wintour Costume Center is a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art main building in New York City, United States. It houses the collection of the Costume Institute, a curatorial department of the museum focused on fashion and costume design. The center is named after Anna Wintour, the longtime editor-in-chief ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Palma | Emilio Palma | Emilio Marcos de Palma Morella (born 7 January 1978) is an Argentine man who was the first person born on the continent Antarctica.
== Biography ==
Palma was born in Fortín Sargento Cabral at the Esperanza Base, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, and weighed 3.4 kg (7 lb 8 oz). His father, Captain Jorge Emilio ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Nigerien_constitutional_referendum | 1989 Nigerien constitutional referendum | A constitutional referendum was held in Niger on 24 September 1989. The new constitution would make the country a one-party state with the National Movement for the Society of Development as the sole legal party. The government would have a presidential system, as well as the continued involvement of the Armed Forces, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_Ha%C5%A1ek | Filip Hašek | Filip Hašek (born 20 March 1997) is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Latvian Higher League club Jelgava.
== Club career ==
Hašek made his professional debut for Bohemians 1905 against Slovácko on 22 July 2018.
== References ==
== External links ==
Bohemians 1905 official club profile ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_Williams_(Afrikaans_singer) | Jody Williams (Afrikaans singer) | Jody Williams (born May 17, 1990) is a South African pop/R&B singer. She won the fourth season of the South African reality television singing competition Idols on 9 December 2007 at age 17, making her the youngest winner of the competition until 2017, when Paxton Fielies won the Competition at age 17.
Her debut platin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-class_blimp | K-class blimp | The K-class blimp was a class of blimps (non-rigid airship) built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio, for the United States Navy. These blimps were powered by two Pratt & Whitney Wasp nine-cylinder radial air-cooled engines, each mounted on twin-strut outriggers, one per side of the control car that hung u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dior | Dior | Christian Dior SE (French: [kʁistjɑ̃ djɔʁ]), commonly known as Dior, is a French multinational luxury goods company that is controlled and chaired by Bernard Arnault, who also heads LVMH. As of December 2023, Dior controlled around 42% of the shares and 57% of the voting rights of LVMH. In addition, the Arnault family ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Ya | Hey Ya | "Hey Ya!" is a song by American hip hop duo Outkast, performed by its member André 3000, who wrote and produced the song. Along with "The Way You Move", which was recorded by Outkast's other member Big Boi and featured Sleepy Brown, "Hey Ya!" was released by Arista Records as the second single from the duo's fifth alb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foton_(satellite) | Foton (satellite) | Foton (or Photon) is the project name of two series of Russian science satellite and reentry vehicle programs. Although uncrewed, the design was adapted from the crewed Vostok spacecraft capsule. The primary focus of the Foton project is materials science research, but some missions have also carried experiments for ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthops_bidens | Acanthops bidens | Acanthops bidens is a species of mantis in the family Acanthopidae.
== Discovery ==
This species was described by Morgan Hebard in 1922.
== Distribution ==
Acanthops bidens is native to Mexico.
== References == |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bentley_(painter) | Charles Bentley (painter) | Charles Bentley (1805/6–4 September 1854), was an English watercolour painter of coastal and river scenery.
== Life ==
Bentley was born in 1805 or 1806, the son of a master-carpenter and builder living in Tottenham Court Road, London. He was sent to work colouring prints for Theodore Fielding to whom he was eventual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weesp_train_disaster | Weesp train disaster | The Weesp train disaster took place on 13 September 1918 near Weesp, Netherlands. With 41 deaths and 42 injuries, it was the largest train disaster in Dutch railway history until the 1962 Harmelen train disaster.
The 102 train from Amersfoort to Amsterdam derailed near the railway bridge over the Merwedekanaal near Wee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagina_procumbens | 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/Billene_Seyoum#Education | Billene Seyoum | Billene Seyoum Woldeyes (Amharic: ቢለኔ ሥዩም ወልደየስ; born 1982) is an Ethiopian politician, poet and author who is serving as the Foreign Press Secretary for the Office of Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 5 November 2018. Billene speaks as the prime minister's foreign spokesperson in English.
== Early life ==
Billene was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Creutz#:~:text=Creutz%20was%20born%20in%201944,the%20time%20of%20Michael's%20birth. | Michael Creutz | Michael John Creutz (born November 24, 1944) is an American theoretical physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory specializing in lattice gauge theory and computational physics.
== Background ==
Creutz was born in 1944 in Los Alamos, New Mexico. His father, Edward Creutz, was also a physicist and was working on the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shipley_Rowlinson | John Shipley Rowlinson | Sir John Shipley Rowlinson (12 May 1926 – 15 August 2018) was a British chemist. He attended Oxford University, where he completed his undergraduate studies in 1948 and doctoral in 1950. He then became research associate at University of Wisconsin (1950–1951), lecturer at University of Manchester (1951–1961), Professo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality_in_the_United_States#:~:text=1997%3A%20At%20an%20LGBT%20PrideFest,first%20openly%20bisexual%20state%20official. | Bisexuality in the United States | The first English-language use of the word "bisexual" to refer to sexual orientation occurred in 1892.
== Early history ==
The first English-language use of the word "bisexual" referring to sexual orientation was by the American neurologist Charles Gilbert Chaddock in his 1892 translation of the 7th edition of Kraff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Samir_Farag | Ahmed Samir Farag | Ahmed Samir Farag (Arabic: أحمد سمير فرج; born 20 May 1986) is an Egyptian footballer who plays for El-Daklyeh and Egyptian national football team. Farag mainly plays as a left back but can play as a left midfielder and left winger.
In June 2008, Farag was chosen to the Egypt national football team and took a place in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motaz_Azaiza#:~:text=Motaz%20Hilal%20Azaiza%20(Arabic%3A%20%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%AA%D8%B2,a%20Palestinian%20photojournalist%20from%20Gaza. | Motaz Azaiza | Motaz Hilal Azaiza (Arabic: معتز هلال عزايزة; born (1999-01-30)30 January 1999) is a Palestinian photojournalist from Gaza. He is known for covering the Gaza war, drawing a large social media following. In 2023, he was named Man of the Year by GQ Middle East and one of his photos, showing a girl trapped in rubble from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre | Jallianwala Bagh massacre | The Jallianwala Bagh massacre (IPA: [dʒəlɪjãːʋaːlaː baːɣ, baːɡ]), also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, British India, during the annual Baisakhi fair to protest against the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of pro-Indian indep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Ladies_Football_Association | English Ladies Football Association | The English Ladies' Football Association (ELFA) was formed in 1921 and active until 1922. It was arguably a direct response to the Football Association (FA)’s ban on women's football teams. The first meeting of the ELFA was held several weeks after the ban and Leonard Bridgett, the manager and coach of Stoke Ladies, wa... |
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