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1 day ago · Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (full name: أبو بکر محمد بن زکریاء الرازي, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī ), [a] c. 864 or 865–925 or 935 CE, [b] often known as (al-)Razi or by his Latin name Rhazes, also rendered Rhasis, was a Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who lived during the Islamic Golden Age ...
1 day ago · Tbilisi (English: / t ə b ɪ ˈ l iː s i, t ə ˈ b ɪ l ɪ s i / ⓘ tə-bil-EE-see, tə-BIL-iss-ee; Georgian: თბილისი, pronounced [ˈtʰbilisi] ⓘ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis (/ ˈ t ɪ f l ɪ s / ⓘ TIF-liss), (Georgian: ტფილისი, romanized: t'pilisi) is the capital and largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura ...
6 hours ago · Africa. Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth 's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [7] With 1.4 billion people [1] [2] as of 2021, it accounts for about 18% of the world's human ...
6 hours ago · United States portal. v. t. e. Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Born in Kaunas, Lithuania (then within the ...
6 hours ago · The University of Chicago. / 41.78972°N 87.59972°W / 41.78972; -87.59972. The University of Chicago ( UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) [10] is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. The university has its main campus in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. [11] [12]
1 day ago · The rankings are based on airline passenger satisfaction surveys across more than 100 countries between September 2023 and May 2024. Other notable names to make the top 100 were: Ryanair (63 ...
1 day ago · William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FRSE (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) [7] was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. [8] He was the professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, where he undertook significant research and mathematical analysis of ...
