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22 hours ago · Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, DL, JP, FRS (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
22 hours ago · It was previously called The House of the People and The People's House. The building of the Palace of the Parliament was the most extreme expression of the systematization program imposed by Nicolae Ceaușescu upon Romania. Systematization was an urban planning program used to convert villages into miniature cities.
- Constantin Ion ParhonPetru Groza
22 hours ago · Great Wall Motor exports some cars to Russia as knock-down kits, to be assembled in a Haval factory in Tula Oblast. MG ZS is most exported Chinese car model in 2023, with a total of 251,000 units sold overseas. In 2012, exports of Chinese automobiles were about 1 million vehicles per year and mostly to emerging markets.
22 hours ago · Toponymy Timbuktu looking west, René Caillié (1830) View of Timbuktu, Heinrich Barth (1858) Over the centuries, the spelling of Timbuktu has varied a great deal: from Tenbuch on the Catalan Atlas (1375), to traveller Antonio Malfante's Thambet, used in a letter he wrote in 1447 and also adopted by Alvise Cadamosto in his Voyages of Cadamosto, to Heinrich Barth's Timbúktu and Timbu'ktu ...
22 hours ago · Early life and education Main article: Early life of John Milton Blue plaque on 1 Bread Street, London, commemorating Milton's birthplace Portrait of Milton at age 10 in Milton's Cottage, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, painted by Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen John Milton was born in Bread Street, London, on 9 December 1608, the son of composer John Milton and his wife Sarah Jeffrey. The ...
22 hours ago · WALL-E: Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt: Wanted: Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt: Best Sound Editing The Dark Knight: Richard King: Iron Man: Frank E. Eulner and Christopher Boyes: Slumdog Millionaire: Tom Sayers and Glenn Freemantle: WALL-E: Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood: Wanted: Wylie Stateman: 2009: Best Sound Mixing ...
22 hours ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of ...
