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• China-based supercomputer

  17 June 2013 ( #Tianhe-2, #National University of Defense Technology, #United States, #Tianhe-I, #Jack Dongarra, #China, #Supercomputer, #Milky Way )

  ... 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...

• Bradley Manning

  04 June 2013 ( #United States, #United States Army, #Iraq, #Bradley Manning, #Afghan War documents leak, #WikiLeaks, #Baghdad, #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...

• The Mona Lisa

  02 June 2013 ( #Leonardo, #France, #Paris, #Musée du Louvre, #Lisa del Giocondo, #Mona Lisa, #Francesco del Giocondo, #Leonardo da Vinci )

  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,...

• Bruce Lee

  27 May 2013 ( #Jeet Kune Do, #United States, #Martial arts, #brucelee, #Hong Kong, #Lee Hoi-Chuen, #Lee, #Game of Death )

  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...

• Guantanamo Facts and Figure

  24 May 2013 ( #Guantanamo, #Detention (imprisonment), #Barack Obama, #Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, #Obama, #Hunger strike, #Guantánamo Bay hunger strikes, #Guantanamo Bay detention camp )

  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:...

• Moaz al-Khatib

  21 May 2013 ( #Khatib, #Syria, #Bashar al-Assad, #Ahmad Al-Khatib, #Damascus, #Royal Dutch Shell, #Moaz al-Khatib, #London )

  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...

• Nokia Corporation

  19 May 2013 ( #Mobile phone, #Nokia, #Helsinki Stock Exchange, #Espoo, #New York Stock Exchange, #iPhone, #Finland, #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...

• David Beckham Life and History

  18 May 2013 ( #Major League Soccer, #Los Angeles Galaxy, #Beckham, #Manchester United FC, #Premier League, #England, #UEFA Champions League, #David Beckham )

  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...

• Political unrest in Bangladesh

  16 May 2013 ( #Jamaat-e-Islami, #Dhaka, #European Union, #Bangladesh Liberation War, #Jeddah, #Bangladesh, #Sheikh Hasina, #Capital punishment )

  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...

• A vote for democracy in Pakistan

  14 May 2013 ( #Nawaz Sharif, #Democracy, #Asia, #Imran Khan, #Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan), #Pakistan, #Pakistan Peoples Party, #Pakistan Muslim League )

  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...

• Coronavirinae or Corona Virus

  13 May 2013 ( #World Health Organization, #Severe acute respiratory syndrome, #Common cold, #SARS coronavirus, #Saudi Arabia, #Coronaviridae, #SARS, #Coronavirus )

  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...

• Red Indians Native Americans

  05 May 2013 ( #United States, #George Washington, #Native Americans in the United States, #Ethnicity, #Native American, #Hawaii, #Choctaw, #New World )

  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...

• Saudi Arabia

  04 May 2013 ( #Arab world, #Arabian Peninsula, #Masjid al-Haram, #Al-Masjid al-Nabawi, #Persian Gulf, #United Arab Emirates, #Saudi Arabia, #Riyadh )

  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)...

• Times Square New York

  01 May 2013 ( #John Morin Scott, #New York, #Longacre Square, #TKTS, #Broadway, #Duffy Square, #Times Square, #New York City )

  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...

• Bird Flu

  01 May 2013 ( #Human flu, #Influenza A virus, #China, #Bird, #Influenza, #Avian influenza, #Orthomyxoviridae, #Middle East )

  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...

• Trafalgar Square

  01 May 2013 ( #Trafalgar Square, #Edwin Lutyens, #Canada House, #Nelson, #Charles Barry, #Royal Mews, #London, #George Ledwell Taylor )

  Trafalgar Square is a public space and tourist attraction in central London, United Kingdom, built around the area formerly known as Charing Cross. It is in the borough of the City of Westminster. At its centre is Nelson's Column, which is guarded by...

• Madame Tussauds London

  01 May 2013 ( #Wax museum, #Strasbourg, #One Direction, #Madame Tussaud, #Philippe Curtius, #Marie Tussaud, #London, #Bern )

  Madame Tussaud Madame Tussauds ( UK / t ə ˈ s ɔː d z / , US / t uː ˈ s oʊ z / ; the family themselves pronounce it / ˈ t uː s oʊ / [1] ) is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities. It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud...

• Government Funded Pakistani Journalists

  23 April 2013 ( #United States, #Information Ministry, #Government Funded Pakistani Journalists, #Pakistan, #Benazir Bhutto, #Supreme Court, #Sindh, #Institute of Regional Studies )

  Following directions of the Supreme Court (SC), details of Rs 1 77,988,450 paid from the secret fund of the Information Ministry to 282 journalists for the year 2011-12 were made public on Monday. Names of several senior journalists and anchors are included...

• Award Winning Photograph 2013

  21 April 2013 ( #Gaza, #Paul Hansen, #World Press Photo, #Muhammad, #Dagens Nyheter, #Israel, #Suhaib, #Mohamed )

  The award winning photograph proudly displayed by Mustafa Hijazi yesterday in the bombed remains of his family home. Paul Hansen won the World Press Photo award... 2013 with this heart wrenching photograph of the funerals of the Hijazi children, 2 year...

• Conflict in Darfur

  17 April 2013 ( #Darfur Conflict, #Refugee camp, #Khartoum, #Doha, #Sudan, #Darfur, #Qatar, #Territorial Disputes )

  Picture of IDP camp in Sudan resulting from the Darfur conflict. Original captions states: "Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) use sticks and scraps of plastic to construct makeshift shelters at Intifada transit camp near Nyala in South Darfur. These...

• The Ottoman Empire

  16 April 2013 ( #Osman I, #Holy Roman Empire, #Anatolia, #Ottoman Empire, #Turkey, #Suleiman the Magnificent, #Turkish, #Ottoman )

  1922, Departure of Mehmed VI who was the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿOsmâniyye [4] Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu), also historically referred to as the...

• Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat

  16 April 2013 ( #Canada, #Saeb Erekat, #Palestinian government, #Palestinian people, #Palestine Liberation Organization, #Israel, #John Baird, #East Jerusalem )

  Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat (also Erakat or Arekat ; Arabic : صائب عريقات Ṣāʼib ʻUrayqāt or ʻRēqāt ) born April 28, 1955, in Jordanian-controlled East Jerusalem , [1] [2] was the Palestinian chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee until 12 February...

• Mustafa Barghouti

  16 April 2013 ( #West Bank, #United States, #Palestinian National Authority, #Sloan Fellow, #Barghouti, #Mahmoud Abbas, #Ramallah, #Mustafa Barghouti )

  Mustafa Barghouthi Mustafa Barghouti (Arabic: مصطفى البرغوثي , strict transliteration Muṣṭafā al-Barġūṯī, also transcribed Mustafa Barghouthi, Mustafa Al Barghuthi; born 1954) is a Palestinian democracy activist. He was a candidate for the presidency...

• Marwan Barghouti

  16 April 2013 ( #West Bank, #Second Intifada, #Marwan Barghouti, #Barghouti, #Israel Defense Forces, #Mahmoud Abbas, #Israel, #Ramallah )

  Marwan Barghouti Marwan Hasib Ibrahim Barghouti (Arabic: مروان حسيب ابراهيم البرغوثي ) (born 6 June 1959) is a Palestinian political figure convicted and imprisoned for murder by an Israeli court. [1] He is regarded as a leader of the First and Second...

• Ismail Haniyeh

  16 April 2013 ( #Politician, #Palestinian National Authority, #Gaza Strip, #Ismail Haniyeh, #Fatah, #Mahmoud Abbas, #Hamas, #Haniyeh )

  Ismail Abdel Salam Ahmed Haniyeh ( Arabic : إسماعيل عبد السلام أحمد هنية , Ismaʻīl Haniyya ; sometimes transliterated as Ismail Haniya , Ismail Haniyah ; Arabic pronunciation ( help · info ) ) (born 29 January 1963) is a senior political leader of Hamas...