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3 days ago · Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have ...
4 days ago · The rolling stock of the Washington Metro system consists of 1,242 75-foot (22.86 m) cars that were acquired across seven orders. All cars operate as married pairs (consecutively numbered even-odd), with systems shared across the pair. The 7000-series cars, the system's newest, have an operator's cab in only one of each married pair's cars and ...
3 days ago · Doctor Who. universe creatures and aliens. This is a list of fictional creatures and aliens from the universe of the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, and spin-offs: Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Class, K-9 and K-9 and Company. This list only covers alien races and other fictional creatures and not specific ...
2 days ago · Brachycera. An Anthomyiidae species showing characteristic dipteran features: large eyes, small antennae, sucking mouthparts, single pair of flying wings, hindwings reduced to clublike halteres. Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wing".
2 days ago · 1000 or one thousand is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. In most English-speaking countries, it can be written with or without a comma or sometimes a period separating the thousands digit: 1,000. A group of one thousand things is sometimes known, from Ancient Greek, as a chiliad.
1 day ago · Dr. (H.C.) Ir. H. Soekarno [cat.] ( Ejaan Republik: Sukarno, bahasa Jawa: ꦯꦸꦑꦂꦟ, pengucapan bahasa Jawa: [suːˈkarnɔ]; [2] 6 Juni 1901 – 21 Juni 1970) [cat. 1] [cat. 2] Atau dipanggil Bung Karno adalah seorang politikus yang berperan penting dalam Revolusi Nasional Indonesia. Ia bersama Mohammad Hatta memproklamasikan Kemerdekaan ...
2 days ago · Signature. Mohammad Abdus Salam [4] [5] [6] NI (M) SPk ( / sæˈlæm /; pronounced [əbd̪ʊs səlaːm]; 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996) [7] was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. [8]
