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12 hours ago · Václav Havel (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslav ˈɦavɛl] ⓘ; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003.
12 hours ago · Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [a] (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980), commonly referred to in the Western world as Mohammad Reza Shah, [b] or just simply The Shah, was the last monarch of Iran. He began ruling the Imperial State of Iran after succeeding his father Reza Shah in 1941 and remained in power until he was overthrown by ...
12 hours ago · Cinema of China No. of screens 86,300 (2023) • Per capita 2.98 per 100,000 (2016) Main distributors China Film (32.8%) Huaxia (22.89%) Enlight (7.75%) Produced feature films (2016) Fictional 772 Animated 49 Documentary 32 Number of admissions (2016) Total 1,370,000,000 • Per capita 1 Gross box office (2023) Total CN¥54.9 billion (US$7.73 billion) National films 58.33% The cinema of China ...
12 hours ago · School of Visual Arts. 0.13 miles. Baruch College (CUNY) 0.21 miles. New York University School of Medicine. 0.39 miles. American Academy of Dramatic Arts. 0.53 miles. CUNY Graduate Center. 0.72 miles
12 hours ago · The Anthropocene ( / ˈænθrəpəˌsiːn, ænˈθrɒpə -/ [1] [2] [3]) is the common name for a proposed geological epoch, dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth up to the present day. It affects Earth's geology, landscape, limnology, ecosystems and climate. [4] [5] The effects of human activities on Earth can be ...
12 hours ago · Characters of Shakespear's Plays is an 1817 book of criticism of Shakespeare's plays, written by early nineteenth century English essayist and literary critic William Hazlitt. Composed in reaction to the neoclassical approach to Shakespeare 's plays typified by Samuel Johnson, it was among the first English-language studies of Shakespeare's ...
