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A leksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, [Born. June 6 (N.S.), 1799, Died. Feb. 10 (N.S.), 1837], wa...
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P robably no contemporary film director was better known to the general public or more admired by h...
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Allan Quatermain is a fictional character, the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's ...
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S arod ’samrat’, Amjad Ali Khan is one of the most distinguished maestro in the...
ananda m. chakrabarty
O il is transported in huge tankers over the seas. During the voyage, oil from the tankers leaks in...
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W hen the mountains echo with the song, the villagers of Nagrasu near Rudraprayag in Uttara...
austin powers
Sir Austin Danger Powers, KBE, is a fictional character portrayed by Mike Myers
in the Au...
beavis & butthead
Beavis and Butt-head was an American animated television series created by Mike
Judge. A...
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A t an early age Benjamin Peary Pal was introduced to plants. His father, though a physician, used ...
bigfoot
Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is a figure in North American folklore alleged
to inhabi...
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I n 1932, a foreign scientist who came to Lucknow University to meet Birbal Sahni, the grea...
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Brenda Starr is a comic strip about a glamorous, adventurous reporter. Created
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bruce lee
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N ot a good century for the Chinese. After dominating much of the past two millenniums in s...
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C .V.Raman was a scientist in Physics, who won noble prize in 1930. His discovery of the ‘Ram...
calyampudi radhakrishna rao
I n 1941 a bespectacled young man came to Calcutta to secure a job. He had a first class first in M...
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L aser is the acronym for “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation". Though i...
charlie chaplin
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C harlie Chaplin is the endearing figure of his Little Tramp was instantly recognizable aro...
chintamani nagesa ramachandra rao
W hen eleven-year-old C. N. R. Rao and his classmates did very well in science, their teacher took ...
christopher columbus
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C hristopher Columbus (14511 - 20 May 1506)(Cristoforo Colombo in Italian, Cristobal Colon ...
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T here was nothing in the childhood of Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia to suggest that he would become a g...
dattaraya ramchandra kaprekar
M athematics can be a fascinating game. Of course, few ever learn enough to play it. But Dattaraya ...
dayanand saraswati
S wami Dayananda Saraswati was born in Tamil Nadu. He became a swami as a young man and was the ass...
devendra lal
A t 6.00 p.m. G.M.T. on November 22, 1973, an American astronaut, Edward Gibson, came out of Skylab...
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