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4 days ago · Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( / ˈrʌdjərd / RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) [1] was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology ( The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim ...
5 days ago · Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System. In English, it is named after the Roman god Mercurius ( Mercury ), god of commerce and communication, and the messenger of the gods. Mercury is classified as a terrestrial planet, with roughly the same surface gravity as Mars.
3 days ago · The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español [paɾˈtiðo soθjaˈlista oˈβɾeɾo espaˈɲol] ⓘ; abbr. PSOE [peˈsoe] ⓘ) is a social-democratic [2] [6] political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in government longer than any other political party in modern democratic Spain: from 1982 to 1996 under ...
5 days ago · For Oxford spelling, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling § British English with "-ize" (Oxford spelling). A serial comma (sometimes also called an Oxford comma or Harvard comma) is a comma used immediately before a conjunction ( and, or, nor) in a list of three or more items. ham, chips, and eggs – serial comma.
3 days ago · Produced. C-5A: 1968–1973. C-5B: 1985–1989. Number built. 131 (C-5A: 81, C-5B: 50) The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin. It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-range strategic ...
5 days ago · e. Ion Antonescu ( / ˌæntəˈnɛskuː /; Romanian: [i'on antoˈnesku] ⓘ; 14 June [ O.S. 2 June] 1882 – 1 June 1946) was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II. Having been responsible for facilitating the Holocaust in ...
3 days ago · Alprazolam, sold under the brand name Xanax among others, is a fast-acting, potent tranquilizer of moderate duration within the triazolobenzodiazepine group of chemicals called benzodiazepines. [10] Alprazolam is most commonly used in management of anxiety disorders, specifically panic disorder or generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). [6]
