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2 days ago · George Clooney, American actor and filmmaker who was a popular leading man and a respected director and screenwriter. His movies included Three Kings (1999), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Syriana (2005), Up in the Air (2009), The Descendants (2011), and Gravity (2013).
2 days ago · William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England—died April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon) was a poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet.
5 days ago · Totalitarianism, form of government that permits no individual freedom and seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state. Coined by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the early 1920s, the term has become synonymous with absolute and oppressive single-party government.
2 days ago · Mahatma Gandhi, the revered Indian leader and advocate of nonviolent resistance, inspired a nation to fight for independence from British rule through peaceful means, leaving an enduring legacy in history.
1 day ago · Elizabeth was the elder daughter of Prince Albert, duke of York, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.As the child of a younger son of King George V, the young Elizabeth had little prospect of acceding to the throne until her uncle, Edward VIII (afterward duke of Windsor), abdicated in her father’s favour on December 11, 1936, at which time her father became King George VI and she became ...
1 day ago · Australia - Wildlife, Ecosystems, Diversity: The distribution of climates, topography, and soils that has produced the zones and ecological variation of Australian vegetation has also been reflected in the distribution of animal life. Australia probably has between 200,000 and 300,000 species, about 100,000 of which have been described. There are some 250 species of native mammals, 550 species ...
4 days ago · Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the most-influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. Among his best-known works are Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1909) and Guernica (1937).
