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13 hours ago · Early life and education Sutherland (third from the right) at the Puppet Club at Victoria School in Saint John, 1948 Donald McNichol Sutherland was born on 17 July 1935 at the Saint John General Hospital in Saint John, New Brunswick, the youngest son of Dorothy Isobel (née McNichol ; 1892–1956) and Frederick McLea Sutherland (1894–1983), who worked in sales and ran the local gas ...
13 hours ago · Mindfulness is the cognitive skill, usually developed through meditation, of sustaining meta-attention of the contents of one's own mind in the present moment. Mindfulness derives from sati, a significant element of Hindu and Buddhist traditions, and is based on Zen, Vipassanā, and Tibetan meditation techniques.
13 hours ago · 22 January – China releases a large amount of data and high-resolution images from the lander and rover of the Chang'e 4 mission which has been studying the far side of the Moon since 3 January 2019. 23 January Researchers announce the first replication of a vocal tract and voice simulation of an Egyptian mummy (the priest Nesyamun).
13 hours ago · Etymology. The English meditation is derived from Old French meditacioun, in turn from Latin meditatio from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder". In the Catholic tradition, the use of the term meditatio as part of a formal, stepwise process of meditation goes back to at least the 12th-century monk Guigo II, before which the Greek word theoria was used for the same ...
13 hours ago · Paul John Gascoigne (/ ˈ ɡ æ s k ɔɪ n /, born 27 May 1967), nicknamed Gazza, is an English former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Regarded as one of the best playmakers of his generation and one of the best English footballers of all time, Gascoigne is described by the National Football Museum as "widely recognised as the most naturally talented English ...
13 hours ago · Noelani Malia Day and Alan Uhi will swim for Tonga at this year's Paris Olympics, starting later this month. Alan will compete on his Olympic debut in the 100m backstroke, while Noelani will swim in the 50m freestyle. They will be accompanied by officials Calina Panuve and Christos Stathis. Noelani made her
13 hours ago · Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (/ ˈ k ɔːr b ɪ n /; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North since 1983. An independent, Corbyn was a member of the Labour Party from 1965 until his expulsion in 2024, and is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group parliamentary caucus.
