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Bird Flu
Avian influenza — known informally as avian flu or bird flu — refers to "influenza caused by viruses adapted to birds." [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] The version with the greatest concern is highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). "Bird flu" is a phrase...
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Times Square New York
Times Square is a major commercial intersection and a neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway (now converted into a pedestrian plaza) and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Times Square...
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia السعودية as-Su‘ūdiyyah or as-Sa‘ūdiyyah ), officially known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest Arab state in Western Asia by land area (approximately 2,250,000 km2 (870,000 sq mi), constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula)...
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Red Indians Native Americans
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct Native American tribes...
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Coronavirinae or Corona Virus
A coronavirus that may cause SARS. (transwikied from en.wikipedia. Coronaviruses are species in the genera of virus belonging to the subfamily Coronavirinae in the family Coronaviridae . [1] [2] Coronaviruses are enveloped viruses with a positive-sense...
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A vote for democracy in Pakistan
Despite terror threats and widespread violence, a large number of people cast their votes in the Pakistan election. The voting turnout of more than 60% was a record in the country’s history. The elections have proved that the majority of people in Pakistan...
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Political unrest in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh war crimes tribunal has sentenced to death another Jamaat-e-Islami activist who was just 19 years old at the time of the 1971 war. He is the third Jamaat-e-Islami activist to receive the death sentence since the tribunal was set by the...
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David Beckham Life and History
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE [2] (born 2 May 1975) [3] is an English footballer. He has played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, Milan, Los Angeles Galaxy, French Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain, and the England national team...
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Nokia Corporation
Nokia Corporation [3] (Finnish: Nokia Oyj , Swedish: Nokia Abp ; Finnish pronunciation: [ˈnokiɑ] , English / ˈ n ɒ k i ə / ) (OMX: NOK1V, NYSE: NOK) is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology corporation (originally a paper production...
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Moaz al-Khatib
Ahmad Mouath Al-Khatib Al-Hasani (Arabic: أحمد معاذ الخطيب الحسني , born 1960) is the ex [1] president of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. He is also a former imam of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. [2] Khatib originally...
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Guantanamo Facts and Figure
Detainees at Camp X-Ray Original caption: Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of Military Police at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, • Detainees in Guantanamo now: 166 • Detainees facing active charges:...
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Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (Madame Tussauds Hong Kong). Bruce Lee (Chinese: 李小龍; born Lee Jun-fan; 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973) was a Chinese American, martial artist, actor, martial arts instructor, [3] philosopher, and filmmaker. The founder of Jeet Kune Do, Lee...
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The Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa (or La Joconde, La Gioconda). The Mona Lisa ( La Gioconda or La Joconde ) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about,...
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Bradley Manning
Bradley Edward Manning (born December 17, 1987) is a United States Army soldier who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to the website WikiLeaks. He was ultimately charged with 22 offenses, including communicating...
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China-based supercomputer
... A China-based supercomputer has been ranked the world's fastest, offering nearly double the processing speeds of the US's most powerful system. Tianhe-2 - meaning Milky Way-2 - operates at 33.86 petaflop/sec, the equivalent of 33,860 trillion calculations...
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Bangladesh war ‘tribunal’
Karwan Bazar, one of the most important business centres in Dhaka ACCORDING to media reports, Bangladesh’s special 1971 war investigation tribunal sentenced to life another Jamaat-i-Islami activist, Ghulam Azam. He is 90 years old and can’t walk. The...
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Hisorty of Amazon.com, Inc
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American international multibillion dollar electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. [9] [10] [11] Amazon.com started as an online bookstore,...
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History of eBay International
eBay Inc. is an American multinational internet consumer-to-consumer corporation, headquartered in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations...
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History of PayPal
PayPal is a global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders. PayPal is...
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History of Wikipedia
The earliest known proposal for an online encyclopedia was made by Rick Gates in 1993, [2] but the concept of an open source web-based online encyclopedia was proposed by Richard Stallman in December 2000. [3] Wikipedia was formally launched on 15 January...
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The University of Cambridge
Trinity College graduands entering the Senate House during a University of Cambridge graduation ceremony. The University of Cambridge (informally known as "Cambridge University" or simply as "Cambridge") is a public research university located in Cambridge,...
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Harvard University
Massachusetts Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities...
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The Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize (Swedish pronunciation: [noˈbɛl] , Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset; Norwegian: Nobelprisen) is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of cultural...
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcasting statutory corporation. [2] Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man....
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Speedy recovery
Friday 19 October 2012 I read with much interest Khawaja Umer Farooq’s letter “Many Malalas in Pakistan (Oct. 17). I wonder shouldn’t the United Kingdom government also be commended for accepting Malala into its state-of-the-art Trauma Hospital, and for...