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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vonnegut_(crater)#:~:text=Vonnegut%20is%20a%20crater%20on,scientific%20literature%20prior%20to%20naming. | Vonnegut (crater) | Vonnegut is a crater on Mercury, near the north pole. It was named by the IAU in 2017 after the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Part of Vonnegut's 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan takes place on Mercury. The crater was referred to as e5 in scientific literature prior to naming.
S band radar data from the Arecibo Observa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_North_Miami_mayoral_special_election | 2014 North Miami mayoral special election | The 2014 North Miami mayoral special election took place on November 4, 2014, following a primary election on August 26, 2014. Following her victory in the 2013 election, Mayor Lucie Tondreau was indicted by federal prosecutors on charges relating to a $8 million mortgage fraud scheme. She was later suspended from offi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OV1-13 | OV1-13 | Orbiting Vehicle 1–13 (also known as OV1-13 ) was a satellite launched on 6 April 1968 to measure the level of radiation in orbit at altitudes as high as 8,000 km (5,000 mi). Part of the OV1 series of USAF satellites, using standardized designs and sent to orbit on decommissioned Atlas ICBMs to reduce development and l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Geun-hye#Presidency_(2013%E2%80%9317) | Park Geun-hye | Park Geun-hye (; Korean: 박근혜 [pak‿k͈ɯn.hje] ; born 2 February 1952) is a South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 until her removal from office in 2017. A member of Saenuri during her presidency and the eldest daughter of Park Chung Hee, she was the first woman in the country an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hyderabad_gang_rape_and_murder#Victim | 2019 Hyderabad gang rape and murder | 2019 Hyderabad gang rape and murder of a 26-year-old veterinary doctor in Shamshabad, near Hyderabad, sparked outrage across India. Her body was found in Shadnagar on 28 November 2019, the day after she was murdered. Four suspects were arrested and according to the Cyberabad Metropolitan Police, confessed to having rap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarvepalli_Radhakrishnan | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (; 5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975) was an Indian academician, philosopher and statesman who served as the Vice President of India from 1952 to 1962 and President of India from 1962 to 1967. He was the ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1952. He was also the vice-chancellor o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamy_Awards#:~:text=The%20winners%20of%20awards%20in,Actor)%2C%20and%20web%20series. | Streamy Awards | The YouTube Streamy Awards, also known as the Streamy Awards or Streamys, are an awards show presented annually by Dick Clark Productions and Tubefilter to recognize excellence in online video, including directing, acting, producing, and writing. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented takes place in Los ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Poliakoff | Martyn Poliakoff | Sir Martyn Poliakoff (born 16 December 1947) is a British chemist known for his work on green chemistry and for being the main presenter on the popular YouTube channel Periodic Videos. The core subjects of his academic work are supercritical fluids, infrared spectroscopy and lasers. He is a research professor in chemis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Deer_(federal_electoral_district) | Red Deer (federal electoral district) | Red Deer is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada. A riding of the same name was previously represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1908 to 2015.
== Demographics ==
According to the 2021 Canadian census
Languages: 85.7% English, 3.6% Tagalog, 1.7% Spanish, 1.6% French,
Religions: 50.7% Christian... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_C._Merle#:~:text=From%202013%20to%202015%2C%20Merle,Fund%20(%22LDF%22). | Natasha C. Merle | Natasha Clarise Merle (born 1983) is an American lawyer from New York who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
== Education ==
Merle received her Bachelor of Arts in government and Spanish, with honors, from the University of Texas at Austi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evi_Nemeth | Evi Nemeth | Evi Nemeth (born June 7, 1940 – missing-at-sea June or July 2013) was an engineer, author, and teacher known for her expertise in computer system administration and networks. She was the lead author of the "bibles" of system administration: UNIX System Administration Handbook (1989, 1995, 2000), Linux Administration Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyholm_Prize_for_Education#:~:text=1973/74%20%E2%80%93%20H%20F%20Halliwell | Nyholm Prize for Education | The Nyholm Prize for Education commemorates the life and work of Australian-born chemist Sir Ronald Nyholm, who – alongside his research in coordination chemistry – passionately campaigned for the improvement of science education. He acted as president of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1968 to 1970.
The prize, whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Disney_Miller | Diane Disney Miller | Diane Marie Disney-Miller (December 18, 1933 – November 19, 2013) was the eldest daughter and only biological child of Walt Disney and his wife Lillian Bounds Disney. Diane co-founded the Walt Disney Family Museum alongside her family. She was president of the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Family Foundation.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Annabel_Goldsmith | Lady Annabel Goldsmith | Lady Annabel Goldsmith (née Vane-Tempest-Stewart, formerly Birley; 11 June 1934 – 18 October 2025) was an English socialite, author, and political activist. She was the eponym of Annabel's, the exclusive Mayfair nightclub founded by her first husband, businessman Mark Birley. A prominent London society hostess during t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_World_Outreach_Center_Quran-burning_controversy | Dove World Outreach Center Quran-burning controversy | In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, United States, announced plans to burn 200 copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The announcement attracted significant media attention and sparked international outrage, particularly thr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerr,_7th_Marquess_of_Lothian | John Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian | John William Robert Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian (1 February 1794 – 14 November 1841), styled Lord Newbottle until 1815 and Earl of Ancram from 1815 to 1824, was a Tory politician. He served briefly as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard under Sir Robert Peel between September and November 1841.
== Background ==
Ker... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pherzawl_district | Pherzawl district | Pherzawl district is located in the southern part of the state of Manipur. It is bounded on the east by Churachandpur District; on the north by Tamenglong District, Noney District and Jiribam district; on the west by the Cachar District of Assam and on the South by Sinlung Hills, Mizoram. Pherzawl District has approxi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Group_8#:~:text=NASA%20Astronaut%20Group%208%20was,largest%20group%20to%20that%20date. | NASA Astronaut Group 8 | NASA Astronaut Group 8 was a group of 35 astronauts announced on January 16, 1978. It was the first NASA selection since Group 6 in 1967, and was the largest group to that date. The class was the first to include female and minority astronauts; of the 35 selected, six were women, one of them being Jewish American, thre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solicitor_General_of_India | Solicitor General of India | The Solicitor General of India (SGI) is subordinate to the Attorney General for India. The SGI is the second-highest law officer of the country, assists the Attorney General, and is assisted by Additional Solicitors General of India (Addl. SGIs). The SGI and the Addl. SGIs advise the Union of India and appear on its be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Whittle | Ricky Whittle | Richard George Whittle (born 31 December 1979) is a British actor. Whittle first came to prominence as a model for Reebok in the early 2000s. He is known in the United Kingdom for his role as Calvin Valentine in the soap opera Hollyoaks. In 2009, he finished second in the BBC reality competition Strictly Come Dancing. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_political_status_for_Puerto_Rico | Proposed political status for Puerto Rico | Proposed political status for Puerto Rico includes various ideas for the future of Puerto Rico, and there are differing points of view on whether Puerto Rico's political status as a territory of the United States should change.
Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island that was a colony of the Spanish Empire for about four cen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Mehretu#Personal_life | 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/Stephen_Resnick#:~:text=Resnick%20listed%20his%20primary%20research,as%20a%20result%20of%20leukemia. | Stephen Resnick | Stephen Alvin Resnick (; October 24, 1938 – January 2, 2013) was an American Marxist economist. He was well known for his work (much of it written together with Richard D. Wolff) on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis. His work, along with that of Wolff, is especially associated with a post-Alth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pehr_Löfling | Pehr Löfling | Pehr Löfling (31 January 1729 – 22 February 1756) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
== Biography ==
Löfling was born in Tolvfors Bruk, Gävle, Sweden. He studied at the University of Uppsala where he attended courses taught by Carl Linnaeus. When the Spanish ambassador asked Linnaeus to select a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Moreau_Gottschalk | Louis Moreau Gottschalk | Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was an American composer, pianist, and virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works. He spent most of his working career outside the United States.
== Life and career ==
Louis Moreau Gottschalk was born on May 8, 1829, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Edwa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemidactylus_boavistensis | Hemidactylus boavistensis | Hemidactylus boavistensis, the Boa Vista leaf-toed gecko, is a species of gecko in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to the Cape Verde Islands. The specific name, boavistensis, refers to the island Boa Vista, one of the islands where it has been found. It has also been found on the island of Sal and the isl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Depardieu | Julie Depardieu | Julie Marion Depardieu (born 18 June 1973) is a French actress who has appeared in a number of successful films.
== Early life ==
Born 18 June 1973 in Boulogne-Billancourt, she is the daughter of Gérard and Élisabeth Depardieu and the sister of the late Guillaume Depardieu – all of whom have worked as film actors. Sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotfi_A._Zadeh | Lotfi A. Zadeh | Lotfi Aliasger Zadeh (; Azerbaijani: Lütfi Rəhim oğlu Ələsgərzadə; Persian: لطفی علیعسکرزاده; 4 February 1921 – 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Zadeh is best... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristi_Noem# | Kristi Noem | Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem ( NOHM; née Arnold; born November 30, 1971) is an American politician serving as the 8th United States secretary of homeland security since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the 33rd governor of South Dakota from 2019 to 2025 and represented South Dakota's at-large congressio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Technology,_Srinagar | National Institute of Technology, Srinagar | National Institute of Technology Srinagar (NIT Srinagar or NITSRI) is a public technical university located in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is one of the 31 National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and, as such, is directly under the control of the Ministry of Education (MoE). It was established in 1960 as on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Nogueira#:~:text=Juan%20Nogueira%20(born%201%20May,for%20the%202016%20Summer%20Olympics. | Juan Nogueira | Juan Nogueira (born 1 May 1988) is a Brazilian amateur heavyweight boxer who won a bronze medal at the 2014 South American Games. He competed at the 2013 and 2015 world championships and qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
== References == |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuwakot_District#:~:text=The%20district%20accordingly%20has%20nine,%22City%20of%20nine%20hills%22. | Nuwakot District | Nuwakot District (Nepali: नुवाकोट जिल्ला), a part of Bagmati Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Bidur as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,121 km2 (433 sq mi) and had a population of 288,478 in 2001 and 277,471 in 2011.
The district contains places of historical si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Hart | Thomas C. Hart | Thomas Charles Hart (June 12, 1877 – July 4, 1971) was an admiral in the United States Navy, whose service extended from the Spanish–American War through World War II. Following his retirement from the navy, he served briefly as a United States Senator from Connecticut.
== Life and career ==
Hart was born in Davison,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Zorrilla | China Zorrilla | China Zorrilla (Spanish: [ˈtʃina soˈriʝa]; born Concepción Matilde Zorrilla de San Martín y Muñoz del Campo; 14 March 1922 – 17 September 2014) was an Uruguayan theater, film, and television actress, also director, producer and writer. An immensely popular star in the Rioplatense area, she is often regarded as a "Grand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Echandi_Jim%C3%A9nez | Mario Echandi Jiménez | Mario José Echandi Jiménez (17 June 1915 – 30 July 2011) was the 33rd President of Costa Rica, serving from 1958 to 1962.
== As diplomat ==
Mario Echandi was a career diplomat.
Prior to his election, he had served as Costa Rica's ambassador to the United States and as the country's representative to both the United N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazzercise#:~:text=Judi%20Sheppard%20Missett%20created%20Jazzercise%20in%20Evanston%2C%20Illinois%20in%201969 | Jazzercise | Jazzercise is a fitness franchise company founded by Judi Sheppard Missett in 1969 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California, United States. The franchise's name is a portmanteau of "jazz" and "exercise."
Jazzercise combines dancercise, martial arts and strength training with popular music for a full-body workout. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Polivanov | Yevgeny Polivanov | Yevgeny Dmitrievich Polivanov (Russian: Евге́ний Дми́триевич Полива́нов; 12 March [O.S. 28 February] 1891 – 25 January 1938) was a Soviet linguist, orientalist, and polyglot who wrote major works on the Chinese, Japanese, Uzbek, and Dungan languages and on theoretical linguistics and poetics.
== Life ==
He participat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsien_Chung_Wang | Hsien Chung Wang | Hsien Chung (or Hsien-Chung or Hsien-chung) Wang ( 王宪钟 Wang Xian Zhong; 18 April 1918 in Beijing – 25 June 1978 in New York City) was a Chinese-American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry, Lie groups, and algebraic topology.
== Biography ==
Part of a family, from Shandong Province that had produced ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa | Mansa Musa | Mansa Musa (reigned c. 1312 – c. 1337) was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign. Musa's reign is often regarded as the zenith of Mali's power and prestige, although he features less in Mandinka oral traditions than his predecessors.
Musa was exceptionally wealthy, to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billene_Seyoum#:~:text=Billene%20Seyoum%20Woldeyes%20(Amharic%3A%20%E1%89%A2%E1%88%88%E1%8A%94,minister's%20foreign%20spokesperson%20in%20English. | 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/Minister_of_War_(France) | Minister of War (France) | The Minister of War (French: Ministre de la guerre) was the leader and most senior official of the French Ministry of War. It was a position in the Government of France from 1791 to 1947, replacing the position of Secretary of State for War and later being merged with the offices of Minister of the Navy and Minister of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Memorial_Cup | 1920 Memorial Cup | The 1920 Memorial Cup final was the second junior ice hockey championship of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. The George Richardson Memorial Trophy champions Toronto Canoe Club Paddlers of the Ontario Hockey Association competed against the Abbott Cup champions Selkirk Fishermen of the Manitoba Junior Hockey Le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A9o_Hamon | 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/Abdul_Hamid_(field_hockey)#:~:text=Died,%2C%20Punjab%2C%20Pakistan | Abdul Hamid (field hockey) | Abdul Hamid Hamidi (7 January 1927 – 11 July 2019) was a field hockey player from Pakistan. He was born in Bannu. He scored 48 International goals in just 55 appearances for Pakistan. He won silver medal at 1956 Summer Olympics and was captain of the gold medal-winning national team at 1960 Summer Olympics.
After his r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F4F_Wildcat#Specifications_(F4F-3) | Grumman F4F Wildcat | The Grumman F4F Wildcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft that entered service in 1940 with the United States Navy, and the British Royal Navy where it was initially known as the Martlet. First used by the British in the North Atlantic, the Wildcat was the only effective fighter available to the United Stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Oka#:~:text=He%20was%20a%20professor%20at,received%20many%20honours%20in%20Japan. | Kiyoshi Oka | Kiyoshi Oka (岡 潔, Oka Kiyoshi; April 19, 1901 – March 1, 1978) was a Japanese mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of several complex variables.
== Biography ==
Oka was born in Osaka. He went to Kyoto Imperial University in 1919, turning to mathematics in 1923 and graduating in 1924.
He was in Paris... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Altbir#:~:text=Dora%20Altbir%20(born%2021%20February,the%20University%20of%20Santiago%2C%20Chile. | Dora Altbir | Dora Altbir (born 21 February 1961) is a Chilean physicist in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. She was awarded the National Prize for Exact Sciences (Chile) in 2019 for her work in the theoretical study of magnetic nanostructures. She is currently a professor at the University of Santiago, Chile.
Altbir is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_S._Woolley#:~:text=In%201980%2C%20she%20was%20awarded,University%20and%20the%20Caroline%20F. | Alma S. Woolley | Alma S. Woolley (October 3, 1931, New York City – December 17, 2005, Baltimore) was an American nurse, nurse educator, nursing historian, and author. She led several schools of nursing, and authored a number of books and articles on nursing education, the history of nursing education, and nurses.
== Early years and e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_Malherbe | François de Malherbe | François de Malherbe (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa də malɛʁb], 1555 – 16 October 1628) was a French poet, critic, and translator.
== Life ==
He was born in Le Locheur (near Caen, Normandie), to a family of standing, although the family's pedigree did not satisfy the heralds in terms of its claims to nobility pre-16... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bujar_Nishani | Bujar Nishani | Bujar Faik Nishani (Albanian pronunciation: [bujaɾ ni'ʃani]; 29 September 1966 – 28 May 2022) was an Albanian politician. He served as the president of Albania from 24 July 2012 to 24 July 2017.
Nishani was the youngest person to have been chosen as president of Albania, taking office at the age of 47. Before his elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_Eudaly | Chloe Eudaly | Clover "Chloe" Delight Esther Eudaly (1969/1970) is an American politician from Oregon who served as Portland's City Commissioner from 2017 to 2021. Eudaly lost her November 2020 re-election bid to Mingus Mapps.
== Portland City Commissioner ==
Eudaly won her position in 2016 by promising to focus on the needs of ren... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Japan | Vehicle registration plates of Japan | In Japan, the national government issues vehicle registration plates for motor vehicles through the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Land Transportation Offices nationwide. However, the local municipality rather than the national government registers certain vehicles with small engine displacemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.K._Birla_Garden | K.K. Birla Garden | K.K. Birla Garden, is a botanical garden in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir, India and spread over 19 kanals. The garden is named after prominent India industrialist K. K. Birla. Garden has many distinctive features including a pond and several species of flora and fauna.
Earlier, the site was home to an ancient pond. Later ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Lee,_Lady_Baltimore | Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore | Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore (23 March 1678, (13 March 1678 OS) – 1 February 1721, (22 January 1721 OS), was an English noblewoman, and granddaughter of King Charles II of England and his mistress Barbara Villiers. She married in 1699, Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, from whom she separated in 1705; she... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Institute_Awards | Franklin Institute Awards | The Franklin Institute Awards (or Benjamin Franklin Medal) is an American science and engineering award presented by the Franklin Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia. The Franklin Institute awards comprises the Benjamin Franklin Medals in seven areas of science and engineering, the Bower Awards and Prize for Ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_of_Joy | Band of Joy | Band of Joy (sometimes known as Robert Plant and the Band of Joy) were an English rock band formed in 1966. Various line-ups of the group performed from 1966 to 1968 and from 1977 to 1983. Frontman Robert Plant revived the band's name in 2010 for a concert tour of North America and Europe.
The band is notable for inclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Carlo_Argan#:~:text=In%201938%20he%20published%20a,%2C%20from%201959%2C%20in%20Rome. | 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/ChromeOS#:~:text=In%20June%202010%2C%20Google's%20software,resemble%20Microsoft's%20Remote%20Desktop%20Connection. | ChromeOS | ChromeOS (sometimes styled as chromeOS and formerly styled as Chrome OS) is an operating system designed and developed by Google. It is derived from the open-source ChromiumOS operating system (which itself is derived from Gentoo Linux), and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface.
Google an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyholm_Prize_for_Education | Nyholm Prize for Education | The Nyholm Prize for Education commemorates the life and work of Australian-born chemist Sir Ronald Nyholm, who – alongside his research in coordination chemistry – passionately campaigned for the improvement of science education. He acted as president of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1968 to 1970.
The prize, whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_Across_Hawthorne | Hands Across Hawthorne | Hands Across Hawthorne was a rally held at the Hawthorne Bridge in the American West Coast city of Portland, Oregon, on May 29, 2011. The demonstration was in response to an attack, one week earlier, on Brad Forkner and Christopher Rosevear, a gay male couple who had been holding hands while walking across the bridge. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_team_%C3%A9p%C3%A9e | Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's team épée | The women's team épée event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July 2021 at the Makuhari Messe. 24 fencers (8 teams of 3) from 8 nations competed.
== Background ==
This was the 6th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1996 except 2008 (during the time when team events ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)#Life | Dolly (sheep) | Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female Finn-Dorset sheep and the first mammal that was cloned from an adult somatic cell. She was cloned by associates of the Roslin Institute in Scotland, using the process of nuclear transfer from a cell taken from a mammary gland. Her cloning proved that a cloned organi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCic%C3%A1n#:~:text=The%20municipality%20was%20founded%20by,Blasco%20on%20February%2026%2C%201756. | Güicán | Güicán de la Sierra, also known as Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Güicán, is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá. It is close to the national natural park El Cocuy National Park. As of the year 2020, it has a total population of 6,426.
== Etymology ==
The municipality was named after Güi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Circle_(House) | Family Circle (House) | Family Circle is a public artwork by the American artist Herbert House, located at the intersection of 18th and Harvard Streets NW in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. Family Circle was dedicated in 1991. It was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in 1994... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Walker | World of Walker | World of Walker is the second studio album by Norwegian DJ and record producer Alan Walker. It was released on 25 November 2021 through MER Musikk and Sony Music Entertainment and includes his successful 2019 single "On My Way".
== Background ==
The elaborate official artwork for World of Walker consists of thousands... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Medical_College,_Srinagar | Government Medical College, Srinagar | The Government Medical College, Srinagar (also known as GMC Srinagar) is a government medical college and hospital located in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. It was established in 1959. It is the oldest medical college in Kashmir. The college and hospital are affiliated with the University of Kashmir and recognised... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/María_Teresa_Castillo | María Teresa Castillo | María Teresa Castillo (October 15, 1908 – June 22, 2012) was a Venezuelan journalist, politician, political activist, human rights activist, and cultural entrepreneur. She was the founder of the Caracas Athenaeum, a leading cultural institution which promotes the arts of Caracas. She also served as the president of Car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Wilson_Gilmore#Awards_and_recognition | Ruth Wilson Gilmore | Ruth Wilson Gilmore (born April 2, 1950) is a prison abolitionist and prison scholar. She is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has made important contributions to carce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Spencer,_Baroness_Hunsdon | Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon | Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon (29 June 1552 – 25 February 1618) was an English noblewoman, scholar, and patron of the arts. She was the inspiration for Edmund Spenser's Muiopotmos, was commemorated in one of the poet's dedicatory sonnets to The Faerie Queene, and was represented as "Phyllis" in the latter's pasto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Buckle | Samuel Buckle | Samuel Buckle (14 September 1808 – 1860) was an early English photographer.
== Biography ==
Samuel Buckle was born in Orton Longueville in 1808 as the son of the jockey Francis Buckle. Samuel Buckle was the manager of a brewery in Peterborough between 1841 and 1853, when it was sold. In 1845 he married Anne Ball. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harry_Dunning | John Harry Dunning | John Harry Dunning (26 June 1927 – 29 January 2009) was a British economist and is widely recognised as the father of the field of international business. He researched the economics of international direct investment and the multinational enterprise from the 1950s until his death. In the 1980s, he published the eclec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatland,_Iowa | Wheatland, Iowa | Wheatland is a city in Clinton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 775 at the time of the 2020 census.
== History ==
Wheatland was platted in 1858 under the leadership of John Bennett. The town was named for President James Buchanan's estate Wheatland in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The entire township (Sprin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountains_in_India | List of mountains in India |
== Highest major summits in India ==
== Other significant mountains ==
=== Mountain ranges ===
Himalayas
Karakoram
Barail Range
Purvanchal Range
Arakan Yoma
Western Ghats
Eastern Ghats
Vindhyas
Aravali
Satpura
== Lists by state or region ==
Lists of mountains by state or region of India:
List of peaks in Himac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_Race_terminology | Drag Race terminology | A number of slang terms have been used on Drag Race. Some terms in the list already existed within drag culture, but were more widely popularized by their use on various iterations of the show, while others originated within the franchise itself. During his 2018 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, RuPaul ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londa_Schiebinger | Londa Schiebinger | Londa Schiebinger ( SHEE-bing-ər; born May 13, 1952) is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Department of History, and by courtesy the d-school, Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984. An international authority on the theory, practice, and history of gender and int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Afzal_Cheema#Council_of_Islamic_ideology | Mohammad Afzal Cheema | Justice Mohammad Afzal Cheema (Punjabi and Urdu: محمد افضل چیمہ; 1 January 1913 – 4 August 2008) was a Pakistani politician and judge. Justice Cheema is the only Pakistani to reach the top positions in all branches of state. He served as the acting President of Pakistan, Judge of the High Court and then Supreme Court o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle_v._Gamble | Estelle v. Gamble | Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97 (1976), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States established the standard of what a prisoner must plead in order to claim a violation of Eighth Amendment rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Specifically, the Court held that a prisoner must allege acts or omissions sufficientl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamburg | Margaret Hamburg | Margaret Ann "Peggy" Hamburg (born July 12, 1955, Chicago, Illinois) is an American physician and public health administrator, who is serving as the chair of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and co-chair of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP). She served as the 21st Commissione... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Domingo,_Antioquia | 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/Dickson_Prize | Dickson Prize | The Dickson Prize in Medicine and the Dickson Prize in Science were both established in 1969 by Joseph Z. Dickson and Agnes Fischer Dickson.
== Dickson Prize in Medicine ==
The Dickson Prize in Medicine is awarded annually by the University of Pittsburgh and recognizes US citizens who have made "significant, progress... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCleymaniye_Mosque#Overall_design | Süleymaniye Mosque | The Süleymaniye Mosque (Turkish: Süleymaniye Camii, pronounced [sylejˈmaːnije]) is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–1566) and designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. An inscription specifies the foundation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anantnag_district | Anantnag district | Anantnag district is an administrative district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is one of ten districts which make up the Kashmir Valley. The district headquarters is Anantnag city. As of 2011, it was the third most populous district of Jammu and Kashmir (out of 22), after Ja... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzo_Ferrari#:~:text=When%20he%20was%2010%20he%20witnessed%20Felice%20Nazzaro%27s%20win%20at%20the%201908%20Circuito%20di%20Bologna%2C%20an%20event%20which%20inspired%20him%20to%20become%20a%20racing%20driver. | Enzo Ferrari | Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari (; Italian: [ˈɛntso anˈsɛlmo ferˈraːri]; 18 February 1898 – 14 August 1988) was an Italian racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of Scuderia Ferrari in Grand Prix motor racing, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque. Under his leadership in Formula One, Ferrari won n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Girlfriends_episodes#Season_8_(2007%E2%80%9308) | List of Girlfriends episodes | Girlfriends is an American situation comedy. The series was on UPN for its first six seasons and was on The CW for its final two seasons, running for a total of 172 episodes, spanning eight seasons. Girlfriends premiered on September 11, 2000, and aired its final episode on February 11, 2008.
== Series overview ==
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathalie_M%C3%A9nigon | Nathalie Ménigon | Nathalie Ménigon (born 28 February 1957 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise), was convicted for acts of terrorism committed while she was a member of the French revolutionary group Action Directe. She was sentenced to life in prison in 1989 and released in August 2008 after serving more than 20 years in prison.
== Arres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico | Puerto Rico | Puerto Rico (abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Repu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zofia_Kielan-Jaworowska# | Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska | Zofia Emilia Kielan-Jaworowska (25 April 1925 – 13 March 2015) was a Polish paleobiologist. In the mid-1960s, she led a series of Polish-Mongolian paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert. She was the first woman to serve on the executive committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences. The most notab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Senior_Chess_Championship | World Senior Chess Championship | The World Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation.
The 2025 tournament took place in Gallipoli, Italy, from 20 October to 2 November.
== Overview ==
Originally, the minimum age was 60 years for men, and 50 for women.
Since 2014, the Senior Champi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana_Zatulovskaya | Tatiana Zatulovskaya | Tatiana Zatulovskaya (Hebrew: טטיאנה זטולובסקיה; Russian: Татьяна Яковлевна Затуловская, Tatiana Yakovlevna Zatulovskaya; 8 December 1935 – 2 July 2017) was an Israeli (formerly Soviet and Russian) chess player. She was a three-time Soviet women's champion and twice the world women's senior champion. She was awarded th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediumwave_transmitter_Lopik#:~:text=The%20Mediumwave%20transmitter%20Lopik%20was,Radio%20Maria%20on%20675%20kHz. | Mediumwave transmitter Lopik | The Mediumwave transmitter Lopik was a medium wave broadcasting facility near Lopik in the Netherlands. It was constructed in 1938 (1938) and destroyed on September 1, 2015 (2015-09-01). Its last use was to transmit the Dutch language edition of Radio Maria on 675 kHz. The aerial consisted of a 196-metre (643 ft) guyed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine | Wayback Machine | The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Launched for public access in 2001, the service allows users to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past. Founders Brewster Kahle and Bru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily_Sewell#:~:text=She%20made%20her%20television%20appearance,miniseries%20Mighty%20Morphin%20Alien%20Rangers. | Sicily Sewell | Sicily Sewell (born October 1, 1985) is an American chef, restaurateur, television producer, and actress. She is sometimes credited in film or television as simply with a mononym Sicily. Following the birth of two daughters, Sewell became a restaurateur.
== Early life, family and education ==
Sewell was born in Ponti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Fernanda_Cabal#:~:text=Mar%C3%ADa%20Fernanda%20Cabal%20Molina%20was,until%20her%20high%20school%20years. | María Fernanda Cabal | María Fernanda Cabal Molina (born August 8, 1966) is a Colombian political scientist, businesswoman, politician, and Senator of Colombia. A member of the Democratic Center Party, she has held her seat since 2018 and is her party's most voted-for member of Congress.
Born in Cali, Cauca Valley, Cabal graduated from the U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamini_Roy | Jamini Roy | Jamini Roy (11 April 1887 – 24 April 1972) was an Indian painter. He was honoured by the Government of India the award of Padma Bhushan in 1954. He remains one of the most famous pupils of Abanindranath Tagore, another praised Indian artist and instructor. Roy's highly simplified, flattened-out style, and reminiscent o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda,_Tolima | Honda, Tolima | Honda (IPA: [onda]) is a town and municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia. The population of the municipality was 24,693 as of the census 2018. Along with Líbano, Honda is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Líbano-Honda. The main industries of Honda are tourism, fishing, and cattle-ranching.
== Topon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosi_River | Kosi River | The Kosi or Koshi is a transboundary river which flows through China, Nepal and India. It drains the northern slopes of the Himalayas in Tibet and the southern slopes in Nepal. From a major confluence of tributaries north of the Chatra Gorge onwards, the Kosi River is also known as the Saptakoshi (Nepali: सप्तकोशी, sap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitti_Tondo | Pitti Tondo | The Pitti Tondo (Tondo Pitti) is an unfinished marble relief of the Virgin and Child by Michelangelo in round or tondo form. It was executed between 1503 and 1504 while he was residing in Florence and is now in the Museo nazionale del Bargello in Florence.
== History ==
The tondo was worked on during the year in whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_space | Women in space | Women have flown and worked in outer space since almost the beginning of human spaceflight. A number of women from a range of countries have worked in space, though overall women are still significantly less often chosen to go to space than men, and in June 2020, constituted only 12% of all astronauts who had been to s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Network | Game Network | Game Network was a European free-to-air television channel. It was initially owned by Digital Bros group, and later taken over by Cellcast Group. It was first launched in 1999.
== History ==
Game Network first broadcast in Italy on 17 September 1999. The channel was available throughout Southern Europe, and developed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_Is_the_Time_(Brenda_Fassie_album) | Now Is the Time (Brenda Fassie album) | Now Is the Time is the eleventh studio album by South African singer Brenda Fassie. Released on August 4, 1996, by CCP Records, this is her eleventh album for the label. Now Is The Time features two duets with Congolese superstar Papa Wemba.
The album primarily incorporates Kwaito, gospel and Afropop music elements wit... |
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