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3 days ago · GRETA, Thursday.—At a meeting of miners held last night, a deputation reported having interviewed Mr. Cater, the manager, in reference to the complaints of several men that they had ...
1 day ago · Françoise Madeleine Hardy ( French: [fʁɑ̃swaz madlɛn aʁdi]; 17 January 1944 – 11 June 2024) was a French singer-songwriter and actress. Mainly known for singing melancholic sentimental ballads, Hardy rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure of the yé-yé wave, and became a cultural icon in France and internationally.
2 days ago · Image depicts a scene which is anachronistic or contradicts known geographic range. Example: Brontoscorpio chasing a Cephalaspis , two animals which did not live together. Example: Dinosaurs from the Triassic or Jurassic depicted walking on grass, which did not exist at that time.
6 days ago · Wikimedia Commons, or simply Commons, is a wiki-based media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other media. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. In order to find certain media files on Wikimedia Commons, you can search an entire category, or see if a gallery page for your subject exists.
20 hours ago · Early life Abd al-Malik was born in July/August 644 or June/July 647 in the house of his father Marwan ibn al-Hakam in Medina in the Hejaz (western Arabia). [b] His mother was A'isha, a daughter of Mu'awiya ibn al-Mughira. His parents belonged to the Banu Umayya, one of the strongest and wealthiest clans of the Quraysh tribe. Muhammad was a member of the Quraysh, but was ardently opposed by ...
Jun 5, 2024 · Libraries in Indonesia: Definitions, regulation and evolution. In early 2024, Asia Study Grant recipient Dr Anita Dewi spent four weeks exploring the Library’s Indonesian collection for her project ‘Libraries, librarianship, and librarians in Indonesia: The past and present’.
May 29, 2024 · Helen Garner and Drusilla Modjeska, image courtesy of Drusilla Modjeska. Come in from the cold and warm up with a variety of conversations and lectures at the National Library this June.
