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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Indian_Premier_League_final | 2015 Indian Premier League final | The 2015 Indian Premier League final was a day/night Twenty20 cricket match between the Mumbai Indians and the Chennai Super Kings, played on 24 May 2015, at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. It was held to determine the winner of the 2015 season of the Indian Premier League, the annual professional Twenty20 tournament in India. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_for_Engineering_Geology_and_the_Environment | International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment | The International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG) (French: Association Internationale de Géologie de I'lngénieur et de l'Environnement), formerly International Association for Engineering Geology, is an international scientific society that was founded in 1964. It is affiliated with the I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_vaccine#:~:text=In%20March%202021%2C%20the%20European,the%20world%20to%20approve%20Qdenga. | Dengue vaccine | Dengue vaccine is a vaccine used to prevent dengue fever in humans. Development of dengue vaccines began in the 1920s but was hindered by the need to create immunity against all four dengue serotypes. As of 2023, there are two commercially available vaccines, sold under the brand names Dengvaxia and Qdenga.
Dengvaxia i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Yao | Andrew Yao | Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Chinese: 姚期智; pinyin: Yáo Qīzhì; born December 24, 1946) is a Chinese computer scientist, theoretical physicist, and computational theorist. He is currently a professor and the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University. Yao used the minimax theorem t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive | Data Protection Directive | The Data Protection Directive, officially Directive 95/46/EC, enacted in October 1995, was a European Union directive which regulated the processing of personal data within the European Union (EU) and the free movement of such data. The Data Protection Directive was an important component of EU privacy and human rights... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_von_Bennigsen | Rudolf von Bennigsen | Karl Wilhelm Rudolf von Bennigsen (10 July 1824, Lüneburg – 7 August 1902, Bennigsen near Springe) was a German politician descended from an old Hanoverian family.
== Biography ==
Bennigsen was born at Lüneburg on 10 July 1824. He was descended from an old Hanoverian family, his father, Karl von Bennigsen, was an off... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangui_Oduber#:~:text=Oduber%20was%20born%20on%20July,siblings%2C%20Glenson%20and%20Nelson%20Jr. | 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/Arshad_Sauleh | Arshad Sauleh | Arshad Sauleh (Urdu: ارشر صالح) is an artist and a radio broadcaster born in a Muslim family at Srinagar in the summer capital of Kashmir who has remained host/judge of several noted art exhibitions besides he is teaching art at Government College of Education in Srinagar.
== Contribution and awards ==
Arshid Sauleh ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_P._Snyder_(admiral) | Charles P. Snyder (admiral) | Charles Philip Snyder (July 10, 1879 – December 3, 1964) was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who served as the U.S. Navy's first Naval Inspector General during World War II.
== Early career ==
Born in Charleston, West Virginia in Kanawha County to future West Virginia Congressman Charles P. Snyder and J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth#:~:text=North%20Dakota%20approved%20recognition%20of%20Juneteenth%20as%20a%20state%2Drecognized%20annual%20holiday%20on%20April%2013%2C%202021%2C%5B107%5D%20with%20Hawaii%20becoming%20the%2049th%20state%20to%20recognize%20the%20holiday%20on%20June%2016%2C%202021 | Juneteenth | Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday's name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, referring to June 19, 1865, the day w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Chazy#:~:text=In%201922%20Chazy%20was%20awarded%20the%20Valz%20Prize%20from%20the%20French%20Academy%20of%20Sciences%20for%20his%20papers%20on%20the%20three%2Dbody%20problem | Jean Chazy | Jean François Chazy (15 August 1882, Villefranche-sur-Saône – 9 March 1955, Paris) was a French mathematician and astronomer.
== Life ==
Chazy was the son of a small provincial manufacturer and studied mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure with completion of the agrégation in 1905. He received his doctorate in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea | New Guinea | New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Indonesian: Papua, fossilized Nugini, also known as Papua or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of 785,753 km2 (303,381 sq mi). It has the third-largest remaining rainforest globally, and the highest plant biodiversity of any islan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Croft_(linguist) | William Croft (linguist) | William Croft (born November 13, 1956) is an American professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, United States. From 1994 to 2005 he was successively research fellow, lecturer, reader and professor in Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK.
He is the inventor of and advocate for radical construc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosario_Crocetta | Rosario Crocetta | Rosario Crocetta (born 8 February 1951) is an Italian politician. He was the first openly gay mayor in Italy when he became Mayor of Gela in 2003, a post he held until 2009.
A prominent figure in the fight against the Sicilian Mafia, in 2009 he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He was President ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopore#:~:text=Bourne%20in%201864-,Demographics,2%20(3.82%20sq%20mi). | 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/William_Holwell_Carr | William Holwell Carr | The Reverend William Holwell Carr, (1758–1830) was an English priest, art dealer, art collector and painter. His bequest of paintings was an important early addition to the collection of the National Gallery in London.
== Life ==
He was born William Holwell in Exeter, Devon, the son of Edward Holwell, an apothecary, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_William_McBride | Edward William McBride | Edward William McBride (ca 1791 – September 3, 1834) was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.
He was born in Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake) around 1791, the son of a United Empire Loyalist. He served in the local militia during the War of 1812. He was assistant to King's Printer John Cameron and took over ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru | Nauru | Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru, formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies within the Micronesia subregion of Oceania, with its nearest neighbour being Banaba (part of Kiribati) about 300 kilometres (190 mi) to the east.
With an area of only 21 sq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_Kiefer#Studios | 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/Artificial_intelligence | Artificial intelligence | Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/83_Beatrix | 83 Beatrix | 83 Beatrix is a fairly large asteroid orbiting in the inner part of the main asteroid belt. It was discovered by Annibale de Gasparis on April 26, 1865. It was his last asteroid discovery. A diameter of at least 68 kilometres (42 mi) was determined from the Beatrician stellar occultation observed on June 15, 1983. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughan_Jones | Vaughan Jones | Sir Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones (31 December 1952 – 6 September 2020) was a New Zealand mathematician known for his work on von Neumann algebras and knot polynomials. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1990.
== Early life ==
Jones was born in Gisborne, New Zealand, on 31 December 1952. He was brought up in Cambridg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_virus | Zika virus | Zika virus (ZIKV; pronounced or ) is an arbovirus which is a member of the virus family Flaviviridae. It is spread by daytime-active Aedes mosquitoes, such as A. aegypti and A. albopictus. Its name comes from the Ziika Forest of Uganda, where the virus was first isolated in 1947. Zika virus shares a genus with the den... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Azad#:~:text=Azad%20was%20born%20on%2011,come%20to%20India%20from%20Herat. | Maulana Azad | Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin (11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958), better known as Maulana Azad and sometimes referred as Abul Kalam Azad, was an Indian writer, activist of the Indian independence movement and statesman. A senior leader of the Indian National Congress, following India's independence, he became the fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Theorist | Logic Theorist | Logic Theorist is a computer program written in 1956 by Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, and Cliff Shaw. It was the first program deliberately engineered to perform automated reasoning, and has been described as "the first artificial intelligence program". Logic Theorist proved 38 of the first 52 theorems in chapter two... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oesper_Award#:~:text=1988%2C%20Konrad%20E.%20Bloch | Oesper Award | The Ralph and Helen Oesper Award or Oesper Award was first given in 1981 by the University of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes "outstanding chemists for lifetime significant accomplishments in the field of chemistry with long-lasting impact on the chemical sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattlestar_Ricklactica#:~:text=4%20Reception-,Plot,to%20jump%20higher%20than%20usual. | Rattlestar Ricklactica | "Rattlestar Ricklactica" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the Adult Swim animated television series Rick and Morty. The 36th episode overall, it was written by James Siciliano and directed by Jacob Hair and was broadcast on December 15, 2019.
== Plot ==
While setting up Christmas lights, Jerry falls off t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinhuangdao_Beidaihe_Airport | Qinhuangdao Beidaihe Airport | Qinhuangdao Beidaihe Airport (IATA: BPE, ICAO: ZBDH) is an airport serving the city of Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, north China. It is located in Longjiadian Town, Changli County, 47 kilometres (29 mi) from the city center and 34 kilometres (21 mi) from Beidaihe.
== History ==
The Beidaihe Airport project was started... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Suozzi#:~:text=His%20mother%2C%20Marguerite%20(n%C3%A9e%20Holmes,Chaminade%20High%20School%20in%201980. | Tom Suozzi | Thomas Richard Suozzi ( SWOZ-ee; born August 31, 1962) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 3rd congressional district since 2024 and previously from 2017 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the county executive of Nassau County on Long Island from 2002 to 2009 and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wular_Lake | Wular Lake | Wular Lake (Urdu pronunciation: [ʋʊlər]), also known as Wolar (Kashmiri pronunciation: [ʋɔlar]) in Kashmiri, is one of the largest freshwater lakes in the Indian subcontinent. It is located near Bandipora town in the Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The lake basin was formed as a result of tectonic activ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comair_(South_Africa) | Comair (South Africa) | Comair Limited was an airline based in South Africa that operated scheduled services on domestic routes as a British Airways franchisee (and an affiliate member of the Oneworld airline alliance). It also operated as a low-cost carrier under its own kulula.com brand. Its main base was O. R. Tambo International Airport i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia_Bioparc | Valencia Bioparc | Bioparc Valencia is a 10-hectare (25-acre) zoo park in Valencia, Spain. The zoo is owned by the City Council of Valencia and designed and managed by Rainforest (a private Spanish company devoted to building and managing zoos). It has a large collection of African fauna.
Located in Valencia's Turia riverbed, most of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_National_Park | Shenandoah National Park | Shenandoah National Park (often ) is a national park of the United States that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. The park is long and narrow, with the Shenandoah River and its broad valley to the west, and the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont to the east. Skyline Drive is the main park ro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saqqara#Site_looting_during_2011_protests | Saqqara | Saqqara (Arabic: سقارة : saqqāra[t], Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [sɑʔːɑːɾɑ]), also spelled Sakkara or Saccara in English , is an Egyptian village in the markaz (county) of Badrashin in the Giza Governorate, that contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty, serving as the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassmaster_Classic | Bassmaster Classic | The Bassmaster Classic (known as the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Classic for sponsorship reasons) is a tournament in the sport of professional bass fishing, organized by the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society. It was first held in 1971 on Lake Mead, Nevada. Originally it was a fall event, (1971-1983) but it switched to a sum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Garbarino | Andrew Garbarino | Andrew Reed Garbarino ( GAR-bə-REE-noh; born September 27, 1984) is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 2nd congressional district since 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the New York State Assemblyman for the 7th district from 2013 to 2020.
A moderat... |
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/Pluto | Pluto | Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume by a small margin, but is less massive than E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_UCI_Cyclo-cross_World_Championships_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_junior_race | 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships – Men's junior race | This event was held on Saturday 31 January 2009 as part of the 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Hoogerheide, Netherlands.
== Ranking ==
== Notes ==
== External links ==
Union Cycliste Internationale |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnath_Bharti | Somnath Bharti | Somnath Bharti (born 10 May 1974) is an Indian politician and lawyer.
As a member of the Aam Aadmi Party, Bharti served as a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Delhi from Malviya Nagar constituency. He has previously served as minister of Law, Tourism, Administrative Reforms, Art & Culture in the Government of D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_June_21,_2001#:~:text=A%20total%20solar%20eclipse%20occurred,eclipse%20of%20the%2021st%20century. | Solar eclipse of June 21, 2001 | A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Thursday, June 21, 2001, with a magnitude of 1.0495. It was the first solar eclipse of the 21st century. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachid_Lousteque#:~:text=In%20December%202019%2C%20following%20the%20sacking%20of%20Rachid%20Taoussi%2C%20Lousteque%20was%20named%20as%20interim%20manager%20of%20Olympique%20de%20Khouribga%20after%20previously%20working%20as%20an%20assistant%20coach%20under%20Taoussi. | Rachid Lousteque | Rachid Lousteque is a Moroccan professional football manager, who was last the head coach of the Somalia national team.
== Managerial career ==
In December 2019, following the sacking of Rachid Taoussi, Lousteque was named as interim manager of Olympique de Khouribga after previously working as an assistant coach und... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7030_Stretch | IBM 7030 Stretch | The IBM 7030, also known as Stretch, was IBM's first transistorized supercomputer. It was the fastest computer in the world from 1961 until the first CDC 6600 became operational in 1964.
Originally designed to meet a requirement formulated by Edward Teller at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the first example wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_highways_in_Tamil_Nadu#SH201_to_SH234 | List of state highways in Tamil Nadu | State Highways in India are stretches with heavy traffic intensity of more than 10,000 Passenger Car Units (PCUs) but less than 30,000 PCUs which connects district headquarters, important towns and the National Highways in the state and neighboring states. The Construction & Maintenance wing of the Highways Department ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Clifford | Camille Clifford | Camilla Antoinette Clifford (29 June 1885 – 28 June 1971), known professionally as Camille Clifford, was a Belgian-born stage actress whose short theatrical career was highlighted by her performance as "Miss New York" in the Henry W. Savage production of The Prince of Pilsen, a role in which she impersonated a "Gibson ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Day | Third Day | Third Day is a Christian rock band formed in Marietta, Georgia in 1991. The band was founded by lead singer Mac Powell, guitarist Mark Lee (the only constant members) and Billy Wilkins. The band's name is a reference to the biblical accounts of the resurrection of Jesus on the third day following his crucifixion. The b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(American_TV_series)_season_3#:~:text=On%20September%2029%2C%202021%2C%20the,Favorite%20award%20and%20US%2410%2C000. | The Circle (American TV series) season 3 | The third season of the American reality competition streaming series The Circle began on Netflix on September 8, 2021, and concluded on September 29, 2021. The season was announced in March 2020 when Netflix renewed The Circle for a second and third season. Michelle Buteau returned as host.
Like the previous seasons, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War | Rationale for the Iraq War | There are various rationales that have been used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Iraq War, and subsequent hostilities.
The George W. Bush administration began actively pressing for military intervention in Iraq in late 2001. The primary rationalization for the Iraq War was articulated by a joint resolution of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paymaster_of_the_Forces | Paymaster of the Forces | The Paymaster of the Forces was a position in the British government. The office was established in 1661, one year after the Restoration of the Monarchy to Charles II of England, and was responsible for part of the financing of the British Army, in the improved form created by Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Manekshaw#Legacy_and_assessment | 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/Nepal_Tourism_Board | Nepal Tourism Board | Nepal Tourism Board' (NTB) is the official national tourism organization of Nepal which works towards establishing Nepal as a premier holiday destination to the world. The Board provides platform for vision-drawn leadership for Nepal's tourism sector by integrating Government commitment with the dynamism of private sec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiolipin | Cardiolipin | Cardiolipin (IUPAC name 1,3-bis(sn-3’-phosphatidyl)-sn-glycerol, "sn" designating stereospecific numbering) is an important component of the inner mitochondrial membrane, where it constitutes about 20% of the total lipid composition. It can also be found in the membranes of most bacteria. The name "cardiolipin" is der... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age#: | Stone Age | The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years and ended between 4000 BC and 2000 BC, with the advent of metalworking. Because of its enormous timescale, it encompasses 99... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeen_Lake | Nigeen Lake | Nigeen Lake (alternatively spelled as Nageen Lake) is a lake located in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is mildly eutrophic, a term that refers to a body of water rich in nutrients, which cause excessive growth of aquatic plants like algae, resulting in bacteria that consume nearly all the oxygen. It is sometime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedaant_Madhavan#:~:text=Vedaant%20Madhavan%20(born%2021%20August,freestyle%20within%2016%3A01.73%20seconds. | 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/2013%E2%80%9314_CEV_Challenge_Cup | 2013–14 CEV Challenge Cup | The 2013–14 CEV Challenge Cup was the 34th edition of the European Challenge Cup volleyball club tournament, the former CEV Cup.
Turkish club Fenerbahçe Grundig beat Italian Andreoli Latina in the final and achieved their first CEV Challenge Cup trophy. Serbian opposite Ivan Miljković was the Most Valuable Player of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_India | Geography of India | India is situated north of the equator between 8°4' north (the mainland) to 37°6' north latitude and 68°7' east to 97°25' east longitude. It is the seventh-largest country in the world, with a total area of 3,287,263 square kilometres (1,269,219 sq mi). India measures 3,214 km (1,997 mi) from north to south and 2,933 k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Meat_Inspection_Act | Federal Meat Inspection Act | The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) is an American law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions. These requirements also apply to imported meat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanterikanonvagn_72 | Infanterikanonvagn 72 | The Infanterikanonvagn 72 (Ikv 72) is a light assault gun vehicle developed by Swedish firm AB Landsverk in the early 1950s.
== History ==
In early 1949, the Swedish Army initiated a project for an assault gun was to provide direct fire support for infantry attacks. The vehicle was intended to replace towed artiller... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Figuero#Biography | Ana Figuero | Ana Figueroa (June 19, 1907 - 1970) was a Chilean educator, feminist, political activist, and government official.
== Biography ==
Figuero was born in Santiago on 19 June 1907 as the daughter of Miguel Figueroa Rebolledo and Ana Gajardo Infante. She studied at the University of Chile and graduated in 1928. She became... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIVB_Women%27s_Volleyball_Nations_League | FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League | The FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The first tournament took place between May and July 2018, with the final round ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frederic_Watts | George Frederic Watts | George Frederic Watts (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life. These paintings were intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the "House of Life... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Dhanoa | Dan Dhanoa | Dan Dhanoa (born Inderpreet Singh Dhanoa; 28 February 1959) is an Indian former film actor and a sailor (master mariner) in the Merchant Navy.
He is known mostly for portraying cult villainous roles in Hindi cinema in the 1980s and 1990s, in about 100 films, such as Mard (1984), Karma (1986), Tridev (1989), Sanam Bewaf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Lumia_550 | Microsoft Lumia 550 | Microsoft Lumia 550 is a budget smartphone manufactured by Microsoft Mobile as part of its Lumia family of Windows-based mobile computing products. It was introduced along with the Lumia 950 and the Lumia 950 XL on 6 October 2015 at a press event held in New York City.
The Lumia 550 was released in December 2015 with W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo-Ukwu | Igbo-Ukwu | Igbo-Ukwu (English: Great Igbo) is a town in the Nigerian state of Anambra in the south-central part of the country. The town comprises three quarters namely Obiuno, Ngo, and Ihite (an agglomeration of 4 quarters) with several villages within each quarter and thirty-six (36) administrative wards. It is also bordered ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_Software_System_Award | ACM Software System Award | The ACM Software System Award is an annual award that honors people or an organization "for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both". It is awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1983, with a cash pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Honeycomb#:~:text=Unsupported%2C%20Google%20Play%20Services%20support%20dropped%20since%20January%202017 | Android Honeycomb | Android Honeycomb is the codename for the third major version of Android, designed for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets; however, it has also been unofficially ported to the Nexus One. It is the eighth version of Android and is no longer supported, as of November 14, 2016. Android Honeycomb debute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Niemeyer_Francke | Gloria Niemeyer Francke | Gloria Niemeyer Francke (April 28, 1922 – August 3, 2008) was an American pharmacist. She became assistant director of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Division of Hospital Pharmacy (1946–1956); executive secretary of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (1949–1960); and research associate for the Au... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangabal_Lake#:~:text=The%20lake%20has%20a%20maximum,1%20kilometre%20(0.62%20mi). | Gangabal Lake | Gangabal Lake (lit. 'place of Ganga'), also called Haramukh Ganga, is an alpine high-altitude oligotrophic lake situated at the foot of Mount Harmukh in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The lake has a maximum length of 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) and a maximum width of 1 kilometre (0.62 mi). It is fed by pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Otto#:~:text=At%20the%201988%20Seoul%20Olympic%20Games%20she%20once%20again%20was,retired%20from%20swimming%20in%201989. | Kristin Otto | Kristin Otto (German pronunciation: [ˈkʁɪstɪn ˈʔɔtoː] ; born 7 February 1966) is a former East German swimmer, becoming Olympic, World and European champion, multiple times. She is most famous for being the first woman to win six gold medals at a single Olympic Games, doing so at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. In long c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danh_V%C3%B5 | Danh Võ | Danh Võ (born Võ Trung Kỳ Danh, August 5, 1975) is a contemporary artist of Vietnamese descent. He lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City.
== Early life ==
Danh Võ was born in Vũng Tàu, Vietnam. After the Communists' victory and the fall of Saigon, the Võ family and 20,000 other South Vietnamese were brought in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlesh_Yadav#:~:text=In%20her%20election%20affidavit%20of,are%20worth%20%E2%82%B97.95%20crores. | Umlesh Yadav | Umlesh Yadav (born 1958) is an Indian politician from Sarfabad village in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. She is the first politician to be disqualified by the Election Commission of India in 2011 for a period of 3 years for suppression of her election expenses incurred when she was elected as an MLA. Umlesh was MLA representing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taz_Russky | Taz Russky | Taz Russky (Russian: Таз Русский) is a rural locality (a selo) in Klyapovskoye Rural Settlement, Beryozovsky District, Perm Krai, Russia. The population was 175 as of 2010. There are 6 streets.
== Geography ==
It is located on the Taz River, 13 km southeast of Beryozovka (the district's administrative centre) by roa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Gambetta | Léon Gambetta | Léon Gambetta (French: [leɔ̃ ɡɑ̃bɛta]; 2 April 1838 – 31 December 1882) was a French lawyer and republican politician who proclaimed the French Third Republic in 1870 and played a prominent role in its early government.
== Early life and education ==
Born in Cahors, Gambetta is said to have inherited his vigour and e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Radebe | Lucas Radebe | Lucas Valeriu Ntuba Radebe OIS (born 12 April 1969) is a South African former professional footballer who played as a centre back.
He began playing in the than known Bophuthatswana Soccer league (BOPSOL) playing for Stocks Birds in Lehurutshe closer to Zeerust(North West Provence) before being scouted by Kaizer Chiefs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-Yo_Ma#:~:text=In%202010%2C%20President%20Obama%20announced,of%20the%20Chicago%20Symphony%20Orchestra. | Yo-Yo Ma | Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born to Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy, and began to study the cello with his father at age four. At the age of seven, Ma moved with his family to Boston and later to New York City, where he continued his cello studies at the Juilliar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamia_Millia_Islamia#:~:text=The%20foundation%20stone%20was%20laid,his%20student%20Shabbir%20Ahmad%20Usmani. | 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/Elizabeth_Belding | Elizabeth Belding | Elizabeth Michelle Belding is a computer scientist specializing in mobile computing and wireless networks.
She is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
== Education and career ==
Belding graduated from Florida State University in 1996 with two degrees: one in computer science... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endometriosis | Endometriosis | Endometriosis is a disease in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows elsewhere in the body. The tissue most often grows on or around the ovaries and fallopian tubes, on the outside surface of the uterus, or the tissues surrounding the uterus and the ovaries. It can also appear on the bowel, or bladder, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss | Leo Strauss | Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a German-American political philosopher and historian of philosophy whose work greatly influenced twentieth-century political theory in the United States and the study of classical political thought. He is known best for his interpretation of ancient and medieval ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Butler | Marilyn Butler | Marilyn Speers Butler, Lady Butler, FRSA, FRSL, FBA (née Evans; 11 February 1937 – 11 March 2014) was a British literary critic. She was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1986 to 1993, and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1993 to 2004. She was the first female hea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Baker_Asvat#:~:text=He%20was%20awarded%20the%20Order%20of%20Luthuli%20in%20Silver%20by%20President%20Cyril%20Ramaphosa%20in%202021. | Abu Baker Asvat | Abu Baker Asvat (/ɑsfat/) (23 February 1943 – 27 January 1989), also known as Abu Asvat
or Abu nicknamed Hurley was a South African medical doctor who practised in Soweto in the 1970s and 1980s. A founding member of Azapo, Asvat was the head of its health secretariat, and involved in initiatives aimed at improving th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idrottsf%C3%B6reningen_Kamraterna#:~:text=IFK%20was%20founded%20in%20Stockholm,or%20other%20larger%20associations%20existed. | Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna | Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna (English: Sporting Society Comrades), usually abbreviated IFK, is a central organisation for many sports clubs in Sweden. There are also eight IFK clubs in Finland but they are organised separately. The Swedish IFK was founded 1 February 1895 and has 164 member clubs with around 100,000 mem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milet_(singer)#Promotional_singles | Milet (singer) | Milet (ミレイ, Mirei) is a Japanese singer and songwriter. She made her major debut in 2019 with Inside You EP. The EP peaked at number 16 on the Oricon Albums Chart. After releasing five EPs, she released first studio album Eyes in 2020. The album hit number one on both Oricon and Japan's Billboard chart, certified Gold ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creflo_Dollar | Creflo Dollar | Creflo Augustus Dollar Jr. (born January 28, 1962) is an American pastor, televangelist, and the founder of the non-denominational World Changers Church International (WCCI), based in College Park, Georgia. He is the head of Creflo Dollar Ministries and the Creflo Dollar Ministerial Association.
For much of his career,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azusa_Street_Revival#:~:text=Discarded%20lumber%20and%20plaster%20littered%20the%20large%2C%20barn%2Dlike%20room%20on%20the%20ground%20floor.%5B22%5D%5B23%5D%20Nonetheless%2C%20it%20was%20secured%20and%20cleaned%20in%20preparation%20for%20services.%20They%20held%20their%20first%20meeting%2... | Azusa Street Revival | The Azusa Street Revival was a historic series of revival meetings that took place in Los Angeles, California. It was led by William J. Seymour, an African-American preacher. The revival began on April 9, 1906, and continued until roughly 1915.
Seymour was invited to Los Angeles for a one-month engagement at a local c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Bomb#DC_Comics | Human Bomb | The Human Bomb is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Police Comics #1 (August 1941), and was created by writer and artist Paul Gustavson.
== Publication history ==
The Human Bomb was first published by Quality Comics in the 1940s, and decades later by DC Comics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Circle_(House)#:~:text=House%20created%20the%20sculpture%20out,that%20he%20cut%20and%20welded. | 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/SS_Columbia_(1880) | SS Columbia (1880) | SS Columbia (1880–1907) was a cargo and passenger steamship that was owned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and later the San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company. Columbia was constructed in 1880 by the John Roach & Sons shipyard in Chester, Pennsylvania for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company.
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Langmuir_Award | Irving Langmuir Award | The Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics is awarded annually, in even years by the American Chemical Society and in odd years by the American Physical Society. The award is meant to recognize and encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research in chemistry and physics, in the spirit of Irving Langmuir. A nominee ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Hudgens# | Vanessa Hudgens | Vanessa Anne Hudgens ( HUJ-ənz; born December 14, 1988) is an American actress and singer. After making her feature film debut in Thirteen (2003), Hudgens rose to fame portraying Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical film series (2006–2008), which brought her mainstream recognition. Through Hollywood Records she ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Norvik | Erling Norvik | Erling Norvik (9 April 1928 – 31 December 1998) was a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party.
Norvik was born in Vadsø, the son of Erling Johannes Norvik, who served in the Norwegian parliament (Stortinget) from 1949 to 1961. The younger Norvik started his professional career as a journalist for the regional ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_EGOT_winners | List of EGOT winners | EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, is the designation given to people who have won all four of the major performing art awards in the United States. Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television, audio recording/music, film, and theatre. Achieving the EGOT has been ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udupi#:~:text=Udupi%20is%20one%20of%20the,known%20as%20the%20temple%20city. | Udupi | Udupi (Kannada: [uɖupi]) also known as Odipu (Tulu: [oɖipu]) is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the administrative headquarters of Udupi district, and one of the fastest-growing cities in Karnataka. Udupi is one of the top tourist attractions in Karnataka and has various educational institutions. It is n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_the_Dickason_children | Murders of the Dickason children | On 16 September 2021, Lauren Anne Dickason, a South African immigrant, murdered her three daughters, 6-year-old Liané, and 2-year-old twins Maya and Karla at her home in Timaru, New Zealand. After admitting to killing her children, she went on trial, denying that it was murder, but instead pleaded insanity or infantici... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda_Planetarium | Swami Vivekananda Planetarium | Swami Vivekananda Planetarium, also called Pilikula Planetarium, at Pilikula Nisargadhama in Mangaluru is the first 3D planetarium in India. It is also only such planetarium in the country with hybrid modern technology innovations coupled with 3D technology of 8K digital and opto-mechanical (hybrid) projection system. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hani | Chris Hani | Chris Hani (28 June 1942 – 10 April 1993; born Martin Thembisile Hani ) was a South African military commander, politician and revolutionary who served as the leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and chief of staff of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the former armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). He... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._S._Ramaiah | M. S. Ramaiah | Mathikere Sampige Ramaiah (b. 20 April 1922 – 25 December 1997) was an educationist, philanthropist, and industrialist, involved in infrastructure projects in India.
== Early life ==
Mathikere Sampangi Ramaiah was born on 20 April 1922, in Madhugiri to Sampangappa and Narasamma. He completed his primary education in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Maria_Sison | Jose Maria Sison | Jose Maria Canlas Sison (Tagalog: [hoˈse mɐˈɾija kɐnˈlas ˈsisɔn]; February 8, 1939 – December 16, 2022), also known as Joma, was a Filipino writer, poet, and activist who founded and led the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and added elements of Maoism to its philosophy—which would be known as National Democrac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangabandhu_Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman_Novo_Theatre | Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre | Novo Theatre, Dhaka (formerly Bhasani Novo Theatre and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre) is a planetarium on Bijoy Sarani Avenue of Tejgaon area in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
== History ==
The Novo Theatre opened to public on 25 September 2004. It was previously named Bhashani Novo Theatre. It was made autonomo... |
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