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1 hour ago · When Darius Visser decided to take up his mum’s heritage and enlist as a Samoan cricketer little did he realize it would lead to him becoming a world beater. The 28-year-old from Sydney wrote his way into the ICC record books on Tuesday when he belted 39 runs in one over for Samoa in a T20 World Cup qualifying win over Vanuatu in Samoa.
1 day ago · Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, [ 6][ note 1] commonly known simply as Boethius ( / boʊˈiːθiəs /; Latin: Boetius; c. 480–524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, polymath, historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages. He was a central figure in the translation of the Greek classics into Latin, a precursor to ...
1 day ago · Aileen Geving. Becca Hamilton. Jamie Haskell. Mary Hobson (curler) Jill Jones. Nicole Joraanstad. Missy Keiser (Melissa Keiser) Loren Kinney. Jan Lagasse.
1 day ago · Robert Bloch. Robert Albert Bloch ( / blɒk /; April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small amount of science fiction. His writing career lasted 60 years, including ...
1 day ago · Elon Reeve Musk [ ˈiːlɒn ˈɹiːv ˈmʌsk] (* 28. Juni 1971 in Pretoria, Südafrika) ist ein südafrikanisch-kanadisch-US-amerikanischer Unternehmer und Milliardär. Er wurde als Gründer und technischer Leiter des PayPal -Vorgängers X.com und des Raumfahrtunternehmens SpaceX sowie als Leiter und Mitinhaber des Elektroautoherstellers Tesla ...
1 day ago · Peter I ( [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized : Pyotr I Alekseyevich, [ note 1]; 9 June [ O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [ O.S. 28 January] 1725), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, [ note 2] from 1721 until his death in 1725.
1 day ago · Wirtschaft. Das Volumen der 1998 weltweit angekündigten Mergers & Acquisitions betrug rund 2,5 Billionen US-Dollar, was eine Steigerung von 55 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahr bedeutet. Vollzogen wurden etwa 20.670 Transaktionen mit einem Gesamtvolumen von 2,1 Billionen US-Dollar. Der am 27.