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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boliney | Boliney | Boliney, officially the Municipality of Boliney (Ilocano: Ili ti Boliney; Filipino: Bayan ng Boliney), is a municipality in the province of Abra, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 3,778 people.
== Geography ==
The Municipality of Boliney has a land area of 216.92 square kilometres (83... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Bradley_(politician) | 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/Carlotta_Gall | Carlotta Gall | Carlotta Gall is a British journalist and author who covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for The New York Times for twelve years. She was also their Istanbul bureau chief covering Turkey and now covers the war in Ukraine.
== Career ==
Daughter of veteran Scottish journalist Sandy Gall, Carlotta Gall started her newspape... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Mutua_Madrid_Open_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_singles#Qualifying | 2022 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's singles | Ons Jabeur defeated Jessica Pegula in the final, 7–5, 0–6, 6–2 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2022 Madrid Open. It was her first WTA 1000 title, and she became the first Arab and African woman to win a WTA 1000 title.
Aryna Sabalenka was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Amanda Anis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venecia,_Antioquia | Venecia, Antioquia | Venecia is a town and municipality in southwest region of the Antioquia Department, Colombia. According to the 2018 census, the population comprised 10,280 people. The town includes Cerro Tusa, a pyramid-shaped mountain, and another mountain known as Cerro Bravo.
The town was named after Venice, Italy because the area ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamia_Millia_Islamia | Jamia Millia Islamia | Jamia Millia Islamia is a public and research university located in Delhi, India. Originally established at Aligarh, United Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India) during the British Raj in 1920, it moved to its current location in New Delhi, Okhla in 1935. It was given the deemed status by the University Grants C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrksat_(satellite)#:~:text=T%C3%BCrksat%201A%20was%20the%20first,atmosphere%20before%20reaching%20its%20orbit. | Türksat (satellite) | Türksat is the name of a series of Turkish communications satellites operated or projected by the state-owned Türksat A.Ş.
Satellite telecommunication is provided by the Gölbaşı Ground Station in Ankara, Turkey.
== Missions ==
== Satellites ==
=== Türksat 1A ===
Türksat 1A was the first attempt of the project an... |
Hillhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Gardiner_(art_collector)#:~:text=She%20made%20her%20home%20at,)%2C%20author%20of%20Black%20Athena. | 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/Generations_(South_African_TV_series) | 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/Harbhajan_Singh_Rissam | Harbhajan Singh Rissam | Harbhajan Singh Rissam (10 August 1951 – 17 October 2013) was an Indian interventional cardiologist, philanthropist and writer, known for his medical service and his novel based on medical profession. He was the director of cardiac clinical services at Max Healthcare, Delhi and his maiden novel, The Scalpel - Game Be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius | Vilnius | Vilnius ( VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] , Polish: Wilno Polish: [vil.nɔ] ) is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the most-populous city in the Baltic states. The city's estimated January 2025 population was 607,667, and the Vilnius urban area (which extends beyond the city limits) has an estimated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kanpur_road_accident | 2022 Kanpur road accident | On October 1, 2022, a tractor carrying pilgrims overturned and fell into a pond near Bhadeuna village in Kanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, India. 27 people died in the accident, while 9 others were injured. Most of the victims were women and children.
After the incident, the Government of Uttar Pradesh banned the use o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Turner#cite_note-Contract-1 | Tina Turner | Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, actress, and author. Dubbed the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", Turner's vocal prowess and stage presence helped to break racial and gender barriers in rock music. She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with est... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurgaon_kidney_scandal#:~:text=the%20Kumar%20siblings.-,Arrest%20of%20Amit%20Kumar,a%20bank%20draft%20worth%20Rs. | Gurgaon kidney scandal | The multi-billion rupee Gurgaon kidney scandal came to light in January 2008 when police arrested several people for running a kidney transplant racket in Gurgaon, an industrial township near New Delhi, India. Kidneys of most of the victims, who were the poor hailing from the nearby western Uttar Pradesh, were transpla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Juno | Honda Juno | The Honda Juno is a scooter. Two versions were produced, the K-series of 1954 (K, KA, KB), and the M-series of 1962 (M80, M85).
== Juno K ==
The Juno K was a deliberately elaborate bike in 1954. It was Honda's first scooter and would be competing with the well established Fuji Rabbit and Mitsubishi Silver Pigeon. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangui_Oduber#Early_life | Dangui Oduber | Danguillaume Pierino Oduber (born July 13, 1978) is an Aruban politician serving as Minister of Tourism and Public Health in the second Wever-Croes Cabinet. He previously served as a member of Parliament
== Early life ==
Oduber was born on July 13, 1978, in Oranjestad, Aruba, to Nelson Oduber - the former Prime Minis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents#The_current_war_ends | War of the currents | The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s: arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arya_Stark | Arya Stark | Arya Stark is a fictional character in American author George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy novel series and its HBO television adaptation Game of Thrones, where she was portrayed by English actress Maisie Williams. She is a prominent point-of-view character in the novels with the third most viewpo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_at_home,_peace_in_the_world#:~:text=The%20slogan%20%22Peace%20at%20home,during%20his%20tours%20of%20Anatolia. | Peace at home, peace in the world | The slogan "Peace at home, peace in the world" (Turkish: Yurtta sulh, cihanda sulh, rendered today as Yurtta barış, dünyada barış due to Atatürk's language reforms) was first pronounced by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on 20 April 1931 to the public during his tours of Anatolia. This stance was later integrated and implemented... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horiyoshi_III | Horiyoshi III | Horiyoshi III (Japanese: 三代目彫よし, Hepburn: Sandaime Horiyoshi; born 1946 as Yoshihito Nakano (中野 義仁)) is a horishi (tattoo artist), specializing in Japanese traditional full-body tattoos, or "suits," called Horimono.
== Biography ==
Nakano was inspired when he saw a Yakuza (Japanese gangster) with a full-body tattoo i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Ngoyi#:~:text=She%20was%20the%20first%20woman%20elected%20to%20the%20executive%20committee%20of%20the%20African%20National%20Congress%2C | Lillian Ngoyi | Lilian Masediba Matabane Ngoyi, "Ma Ngoyi", OMSG (25 September 1911 – 13 March 1980) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. She was the first woman elected to the executive committee of the African National Congress, and helped launch the Federation of South African Women.
Prior to becoming a machinist at a texti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Andrews_(mathematician)#:~:text=Awards%20and%20honors,-In%202003%20Andrews&text=He%20was%20elected%20a%20Fellow,Arts%20and%20Sciences%20in%201997. | George Andrews (mathematician) | George Eyre Andrews (born December 4, 1938) is an American mathematician working in special functions, number theory, analysis and combinatorics.
== Education and career ==
He is currently an Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. He did his undergraduate studies at Oregon State Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._Woodworth_Award | C. W. Woodworth Award | The C. W. Woodworth Award is an annual award presented by the Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America. This award, the PBESA's largest, is for achievement in entomology in the Pacific region of the United States over the previous ten years. The award is named in honor of Charles W. Woodworth and was esta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._V._Giri | V. V. Giri | Varahagiri Venkata Giri (; 10 August 1894 – 24 June 1980), better known as V. V. Giri was an Indian statesman, activist, and diplomat who served as the president of India from 1969 to 1974. He previously served as the vice president of India from 1967 to 1969 and the minister of labour from 1952 to 1954.
Born in Berh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Oulanyah | 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/Battle_of_the_Nations_%28Medieval_Tournament%29#Main_provisions | 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/Agriculture_and_Forestry_University | Agriculture and Forestry University | The Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU) (Nepali: कृषि तथा वन विज्ञान विश्वविद्यालय) is a public agricultural university in Nepal. AFU has its central offices at Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal. It was established by the Parliament of Nepal through a bill passed in June 2010 merging two constituent campuses of Tribhuvan Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Artin_Junior_Prize_in_Mathematics | Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics | Established in 2001, the Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics is presented usually every year by the Armenian Mathematical Union to a former student of an Armenian university, who is under the age of thirty-five, for outstanding contributions in algebra, geometry, topology,
and number theory. The award is announced i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BClay_Adal%C4%B1 | Tülay Adalı | Tülay Adalı is a Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, whose research interests include signal processing, machine learning, and data fusion.
With Simon Haykin, she is the author of the book Adaptive Signal Processing: Next Gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_P._Zakim#:~:text=He%20and%20his%20wife%20Joyce,%3A%20Josh%2C%20Deena%20and%20Shari. | Leonard P. Zakim | 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/Claude_Bourdet#:~:text=In%201935%20he%20married%20Ida%20Adamoff. | Claude Bourdet | Claude Bourdet (28 October 1909 – 20 March 1996) was a writer, journalist, polemist, and militant French politician.
== Personal life ==
Bourdet was a son of the dramatic author Édouard Bourdet and the poet Catherine Pozzi, was born and died in Paris, France.
In 1935, he married Ida Adamoff.
== Education ==
He left... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Manning_O%27Connor | Eleanor Manning O'Connor | Eleanor Manning O'Connor (June 27, 1884 – July 12, 1973) was an American architect and educator passionate about the creation of decent public housing for all.
== Early life and education ==
Eleanor Manning O'Connor was born in 1884 to Delia Josephine Grady and James Manning, a building contractor in Lynn, Massachuse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandi_Bahauddin | Mandi Bahauddin | Mandi Bahauddin (Punjabi / Urdu: مَنْڈی بَہَاءُ الدِّین, romanized: manḍī bahā-ud-dīn Punjabi: [mɐ̃ɳˈɖiː ˈbä˥ʊ̯˩d̪ˑiːnᵊ]; Urdu: [mə̃nˈɖiː ˈbəɦɑːʊ̯d̪.d̪iːn]) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. It is also the capital of Mandi Bahauddin District. It is the 43rd most populous city in Pakistan, according to the 2023 census. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster | Tenerife airport disaster | The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife. The incident occurred at 5:06 pm WET (UTC+0) in dense fog, when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam ( UB-duul kə-LAHM; 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the president of India from 2002 to 2007.
Born and raised in a Muslim family in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, Kalam studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the nex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_II_of_Holland#:~:text=King%20of%20Germany%0A(formally,1247%20%E2%80%93%2028%20January%201256 | William II of Holland | William II (February 1227 – 28 January 1256) was the Count of Holland and Zeeland from 1234 until his death. He was elected anti-king of Germany in 1248 and ruled as sole king from 1254 onwards.
== Early life ==
William was the eldest son and heir of Count Floris IV of Holland and Matilda of Brabant. When his father ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justhis | 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/Austrian_Decoration_for_Science_and_Art | Austrian Decoration for Science and Art | The Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (German: Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst) is a state decoration of the Republic of Austria and forms part of the Austrian national honours system.
== History ==
The "Austrian Decoration for Science and Art" was established by the National Council as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Whiteread#Ghost | Rachel Whiteread | Dame Rachel Whiteread (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993.
Whiteread was one of the Young British Artists who exhibited at the Royal Academy's Sensation exhibition in 1997. Am... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Photography_Awards#2007 | International Photography Awards | The International Photography Awards are a group of awards for professional, non-professional and student photographers on a global scale which are awarded annually at the Lucie Awards gala. The winners of the main categories are invited to attend the gala to compete for the main award of International Photographer of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitwan_National_Park | Chitwan National Park | Chitwan National Park is the first national park of Nepal. It was established in 1973 as the Royal Chitwan National Park and was granted the status of a World Heritage Site in 1984. It covers an area of 952.63 km2 (367.81 sq mi) in the Terai of south-central Nepal. It ranges in elevation from about 100 m (330 ft) in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_North_Carolina | List of governors of North Carolina | The governor of North Carolina is the head of government of the U.S. state of North Carolina and commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
There have been 70 governors of North Carolina, with six serving non-consecutive terms, totaling 76 terms. The current governor is Democrat Josh Stein, who took office on J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutak_Hydroelectric_Plant#:~:text=The%20Chutak%20Hydroelectric%20Plant%20is,)%20from%20the%20capital%20Leh). | Chutak Hydroelectric Plant | The Chutak Hydroelectric Plant is a run-of-the-river power project on the Suru River (a tributary of Indus) in Kargil district in the Indian union territory of Ladakh. The barrage of the project is at Sarze village and the powerhouse is located on the right bank of the Suru near Chutak village. The project construction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Hicok_Low | Will Hicok Low | Will Hicok Low (May 31, 1853 – November 27, 1932) or Will Hicock Low was an American artist, muralist, and writer on art.
== Early life ==
Low was born in Albany, New York. In 1873 he entered the atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme in the École des Beaux Arts at Paris, subsequently joining the classes of Carolus-Duran, with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rugby_Europe_Championship#:~:text=6%20February%202022,(France) | 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/Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Council# | Tamil Nadu Legislative Council | Tamil Nadu Legislative Council was the upper house of the former bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It began its existence as Madras Legislative Council, the first provincial legislature for Madras Presidency. It was initially created as an advisory body in 1861, by the British colonial government... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pramod_Kale#Awards | Pramod Kale | Pramod Kale (born 4 March 1941) is an Indian engineer who has worked for the Indian Space Research Organisation in various leadership roles.
== Early life and education ==
He was born on 4 March 1941 in Pune, India. Kale completed his matriculation in 1956 from the M.C. High School, Vadodara and went on to study at F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonam_Wangchuk_(engineer) | Sonam Wangchuk (engineer) | Sonam Wangchuk (born 1 September 1966) is an Indian activist, innovator, education reformer, and environmentalist. He is the founding-director of the Students' Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL), which was founded in 1988 by a group of students who had been, in his own words, the 'victims' of an alien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_Kiefer#Books | 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/Pantera | Pantera | Pantera () is an American heavy metal band formed in Arlington, Texas in 1981 by the Abbott brothers (guitarist Dimebag Darrell and drummer Vinnie Paul), and currently composed of vocalist Phil Anselmo, bassist Rex Brown, and touring musicians Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante. The group's best-known lineup consisted of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethtown-Kitley#:~:text=Newbliss%20had%20two%20schoolhouses%20to,%235%20Newbliss%20School. | Elizabethtown-Kitley | Elizabethtown-Kitley is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada, in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville. Its southern border lies along the St. Lawrence River and it extends north into many rural hamlets and villages. The township was created on January 1, 2001, by the amalgamation of the former Township of Elizab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Paradise | Welcome to Paradise | "Welcome to Paradise" is a song by the American rock band Green Day. It first appeared as the third track on the band's second studio album, Kerplunk (1991). It was re-recorded and rereleased as the fifth track on the band's third studio album, Dookie (1994), and released as the album's third single. Its physical rele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_by_Piece_(Kelly_Clarkson_album) | Piece by Piece (Kelly Clarkson album) | Piece by Piece is the seventh studio album by American pop singer Kelly Clarkson. It was released on February 27, 2015, by RCA Records. It was her final studio album under her recording contract with the label, to which she signed after winning the first season of American Idol in 2002. She then made the switch to Atla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Domingo,_Antioquia#:~:text=Santo%20Domingo%20is%20a%20town%20and%20municipality%20in,founded%20in%201778%20by%20Don%20Juan%20Gregorio%20Duque. | Santo Domingo, Antioquia | Santo Domingo is a town and municipality in the Colombian department of Antioquia. Part of the subregion of Northeastern Antioquia, it lies at an altitude of 1,975 m (6,480 ft) above sea level.
The municipio was founded in 1778 by Don Juan Gregorio Duque. In 1858, the writer Tomás Carrasquilla was born here.
== Clim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Even_Woke_Me_Up_to_Say_Goodbye_(album) | She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye (album) | She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye is the thirteenth studio album by American musician and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis, released on Mercury Records in 1970.
== Background ==
She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye was Lewis's sixth album for Mercury since his 1968 comeback album Another Place, Another Time. Lewis was also in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_Is_Futile_(Dexter) | Resistance Is Futile (Dexter) | "Resistance Is Futile" is the ninth episode of the second season and twenty-first overall episode of the American television drama series Dexter, which first aired on November 25, 2007 on Showtime in the United States. The episode was written by Melissa Rosenberg and was directed by Marcos Siega.
Set in Miami, the seri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_M._Knight | Austin M. Knight | Austin Melvin Knight (December 16, 1854 – February 26, 1927) was an admiral in the United States Navy. He was commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet from 1917 to 1918. His 1901 textbook Modern Seamanship was a standard reference for over eight decades.
== Early career ==
Born in Ware, Massachusetts, to future A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlow_Award#:~:text=1975,Geoffrey%20Duxbury | Marlow Award | The Marlow Medal and Prize is an early-career award in physical chemistry given by the Royal Society of Chemistry. One or two prizewinners each year, who must be junior researchers under 35 or within 10 years of completing their doctorate, receive £2000 and hold lectures at universities in the UK. The award was establi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(word) | Jazz (word) | The origin of the word jazz is one of the most sought-after etymologies in modern American English. Interest in the word – named the Word of the Twentieth Century by the American Dialect Society – has resulted in considerable research and the linguistic history is well documented. "Jazz" originated in slang around 1912... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_McLaughlin#:~:text=McLaughlin%20was%20born%20Audrey%20Marlene,of%20Scottish%20and%20English%20descent. | Audrey McLaughlin | Audrey Marlene McLaughlin (née Brown; born November 8, 1936) is a Canadian politician and former leader of the New Democratic Party from 1989 to 1995. She was the first female leader of a political party with representation in the House of Commons of Canada, as well as the first federal political party leader to repre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonqorabad,_Alborz | Sonqorabad, Alborz | Sonqorabad (Persian: سنقرآباد) is a village in, and the capital of, Chahardangeh Rural District in the Central District The previous capital of the rural district was the village of Chahar Dangeh, now the city of Chaharbagh.
== Demographics ==
=== Population ===
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga_Khan_University_Hospital,_Karachi#:~:text=Cooperation%20with%20other%20Karachi%20hospitals,-In%202017%2C%20a&text=In%202016%2C%20The%20Express%20Tribune,Robotic%20Exoscope%2C%20in%20Pakistan.%22 | Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi | The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) is a private hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. Established in 1985, it is the primary teaching hospital of the Aga Khan University's (AKU) Faculty of Health Sciences. The hospital provides secondary and tertiary care, including diagnosis of disease and team management of patient car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A9o_Hamon#:~:text=Cl%C3%A9o%20Hamon%20was%20born%20on,%2Den%2DParisis%2C%20France. | Cléo Hamon | Cléo Hamon (born 25 November 2001) is a French pair skater. With her former skating partner, Denys Strekalin, she is a two-time French national champion (2020, 2021), 2018 Volvo Open Cup champion, and has competed in the final segment at three World Junior Championships (2017–2019).
== Personal life ==
Cléo Hamon was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Kuzwayo#:~:text=With%20director%20Betty%20Wolpert%2C%20Kuzwayo%20was%20involved%20in%20making%20the%20documentary%20films%20Awake%20from%20Mourning%20(1982) | Ellen Kuzwayo | Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo (29 June 1914 – 19 April 2006) was a South African women's rights activist and politician, who was a teacher from 1938 to 1952. She was president of the African National Congress Youth League in the 1960s. In 1994, she was elected to the first post-apartheid South African Parliament. Her auto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Warren | Stuart Warren | Stuart Warren (24 December 1938 – 22 March 2020) was a British organic chemist and author of chemistry textbooks aimed at university students.
== Academic career ==
Warren was educated at Cheadle Hulme School near Manchester and read the Natural Sciences Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge. He stayed at Cambridge t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhunath_Singh# | Prabhunath Singh | Prabhunath Singh is a politician from Bihar, India and was a member of the 12th, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha. Singh represented the Masrakh assembly constituency from 1985 to 1995, and the Maharajganj Lok Sabha constituency of Bihar from 1998 to 2009. In 2013, he won the bypoll and remained as MP until 2014. Singh is a mem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Kobozev | Sergei Kobozev | Sergey Kobozev (Kostroma, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union; 20 July 1964 – 8 November 1995) was a Russian boxer, who challenged for the WBC Cruiserweight title in 1995. He is also known as a first boxer to defeat John Ruiz. He proved to be a tough slugger, but his career ended early after he was killed by the Russian mafia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arshad_Sauleh#:~:text=Arshad%20Sauleh%20(Urdu%3A%20%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%B1%20%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD,College%20of%20Education%20in%20Srinagar. | 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.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Efra%C3%ADn_Gonz%C3%A1lez_Luna | Statue of Efraín González Luna | A statue of Efraín González Luna is installed along the Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres, in Centro, Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre#:~:text=In%201933%2C%20when%20he%20resumed%20his%20theory%20of%20the%20expanding%20universe%20and%20published%20a%20more%20detailed%20version%20in%20the%20Annals%20of%20the%20Scientific%20Society%20of%20Brussels%2C%20Lema%C3%AEtre%20achieved%20his%20greatest%20public%... | Georges Lemaître | Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître ( lə-MET-rə; French: [ʒɔʁʒ ləmɛːtʁ] ; 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, and mathematician who made major contributions to cosmology and astrophysics. He was the first to argue that the recession of galaxies is evidence of an expandi... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Whitaker | Rosa Whitaker | Rosa Whitaker Duncan-Williams is an American lobbyist and former trade negotiator who served as the first Assistant US Trade Representative for Africa in the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. She now runs a consulting firm, The Whitaker Group.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otumfuo_Nana_Osei_Tutu_II | Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II | Osei Tutu II (born Nana Barima Kwaku Duah; 6 May 1950) is the 16th Asantehene, enstooled on 26 April 1999. By name, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is in direct succession to the 17th-century founder of the Ashanti Empire, Otumfuo Osei Tutu I. He is also the Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. A ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Wigglesworth | Smith Wigglesworth | Smith Wigglesworth (10 June 1859 – 12 March 1947) was a British evangelist who was influential in the early history of Pentecostalism.
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Smith Wigglesworth was born on 10 June 1859 in Menston, Yorkshire, England, to an impoverished family. As a small child, he worked in the fields pulling turnips along... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bil_Keane#Awards | Bil Keane | William Aloysius Keane (October 5, 1922 – November 8, 2011) was an American cartoonist best known for the newspaper comic strip The Family Circus. He began it in 1960 and his son Jeff Keane continues to produce it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulwama | Pulwama | Pulwama (Urdu pronunciation: [pʊlʋɑːmɑː] ; Kashmiri pronunciation: [pulʋoːm] or [pulɡoːm]) is a town and notified area council in the Pulwama district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is located approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of the summer capital of the state, Srin... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Smith_(statistician) | Adrian Smith (statistician) | Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith, FRS (born 9 September 1946) is a British statistician who was chief executive of the Alan Turing Institute from 2018 to 2023 and president of the Royal Society from 2020 to 2025.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov# | Ivan Pavlov | Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Russian: Иван Петрович Павлов, IPA: [ɪˈvan pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈpavləf] ; 26 September [O.S. 14 September] 1849 – 27 February 1936) was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs. Pavlov also conducte... |
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== Early life and education ==
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munu_Adhi# | Munu Adhi | Munu Adhi (4 September 1926 – 21 June 2005) was an Indian politician of the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He served as the Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from 1977 to 1980.
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