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1 day ago · Kurt Vonnegut (/ ˈ v ɒ n ə ɡ ə t / VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. [1] His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty-plus years; further works have been published since his death.
3 hours ago · From the manuscript Jami' al-Tawarikh by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, 1307 AD. In Islam, angels (Arabic: ملاك٬ ملك, romanized: malāk; plural: ملائِكة, malāʾik/malāʾikah or Persian: فرشته, romanized: ferešte) are believed to be heavenly beings, created from a luminous origin by God. [1][2][3][4] The Quran is the ...
3 hours ago · Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the overall system could have been vastly different. As suggested in Lorenz's book entitled The Essence of Chaos, published in 1993, [5] "sensitive dependence can serve as an acceptable definition of chaos". In the same book, Lorenz defined the butterfly effect as: "The phenomenon that ...
1 day ago · It also spawned an ongoing series of musicals, [12] as well as two featured films: one original animated film and the other being a live-action which loosely follows the events of the first eighteen volumes. [13] Viz Media licensed the series and distributes an English version of the manga in North America under the Shonen Jump imprint. [14]
1 day ago · Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
1 day ago · George Bernard Shaw. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works ...
1 day ago · e. The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (Latin: Trinitas, lit. 'triad', rom Latin: trinus 'threefold') [ 1 ] is the central doctrine concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: [ 2 ][ 3 ] God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God ...
