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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL (/ s ʌ l ˈ m ɑː n ˈ r ʊ ʃ d i /; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent.
The Antikythera mechanism ( / ˌæntɪˈkɪθɪərə / AN-tih-KIH-ther-ə) is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System), described as the oldest known example of an analogue computer [1] [2] [3] used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. [4] [5] [6] It could also be used to track the four-year ...
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ / GAL-il-AY-oh GAL-il-AY, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/ GAL-il-EE-oh -, Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]) or simply Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a ...
NA: September 30, 2008. JP: August 6, 2009. Genre (s) Role-playing. Mode (s) Single-player. Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood [a] is a 2008 role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Sega for the Nintendo DS. It is a part of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and is its only RPG entry.
Reba Nell McEntire (born March 28, 1955), [1] [2] or simply Reba ( / ˈriːbə / REE-bə ), is an American country music singer and actress. Dubbed "the Queen of Country", [3] she has sold more than 75 million records worldwide. [4] Since the 1970s, McEntire has placed over 100 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, 25 of which ...
The states and territories included in the United States Census Bureau 's statistics for the United States population, ethnicity, and most other categories include the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Separate statistics are maintained for the five permanently inhabited territories of the United States: Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands ...
Anne Frank at the 6th Montessori School, 1940. Photographs of Anne Frank, 1939. Frank was born Annelies [6] or Anneliese [7] Marie Frank on 12 June 1929 at the Maingau Red Cross Clinic [8] in Frankfurt, Germany, to Edith ( née Holländer) and Otto Heinrich Frank. She had an older sister, Margot. [9]
Mission: Impossible is a series of American action spy films, based on the 1966 TV series created by Bruce Geller. The series is mainly produced by and stars Tom Cruise, who plays Ethan Hunt, an agent of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). The films have been directed, written, and scored by various filmmakers and crew, while incorporating ...