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Battle of Piacenza (217 BC) | 75,674,284 | The Battle of Piacenza, which took place in January 217 B.C. during the Second Punic War, represented a double clash of secondary importance between the army of the consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus and the Carthaginian army led by Hannibal. This occurred following Hannibal's victories at the Ticinus. |
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Battle of Piacenza (217 BC) | 75,674,284 | Background | In December 218 B.C., approximately ten thousand Romans who survived the defeat at the Trebia retreated to the fortified city of Piacenza, They successfully defended the city against an attack by Hannibal's cavalry. |
Battle of Piacenza (217 BC) | 75,674,284 | Battle | After a brief wintering, Hannibal, unable to cross the Apennines due to harsh weather, returned to Piacenza, where Consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus had recently arrived. Hannibal deployed with twelve thousand infantry and five thousand cavalry. The consul left the city, initiating the battle. Initially, the Romans had the advantage, pushing the Carthaginians back into their camp and beginning a siege. Hannibal, leaving only a few troops in the entrenchment, regrouped the majority toward the center with orders not to move. Frustrated in their attempts to take the camp by force, the Romans eventually withdrew. Hannibal counterattacked with cavalry on both flanks and personally led his elite troops in the center. A bloody combat ensued, halted by nightfall. |
Battle of Piacenza (217 BC) | 75,674,284 | Aftermath | According to Livy, the losses were balanced, with 600 infantry and 300 cavalry casualties on each side. However, the Romans suffered the loss of several knights, five military tribunes, and three allied prefects. Following this inconclusive clash, both parties abandoned the Po Valley. Sempronius retreated to Lucca, while Hannibal headed to Liguria. |
Hindustani Academy | 75,674,443 | Hindustani Academy is an autonomous literary organization runs under the Language Department of the Government of Uttar Pradesh. Founded in 1927, it is based in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. The organization is dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and development of languages such as Hindi, Urdu, Braj Bhasha, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Bundeli, etc., and their respective literature. |
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Hindustani Academy | 75,674,443 | History | Hindustani Academy, situated in Prayagraj, was founded by the Government of the United Province on January 22, 1927. The inauguration ceremony took place on March 29, 1927, in Lucknow, with the then Governor William Morris presiding over the event. Hindustani Academy was founded with the assistance of the then Education Minister of the United Provinces, Rajeshwar Bali, Pandit Yajnanarayan Upadhyay from Banaras, Hafiz Hidayat Hussain and Tej Bahadur Sapru. |
Hindustani Academy | 75,674,443 | History | The organization was established to enrich and popularize Hindi and its allied languages. Apart from preserving and promoting Hindi, its literature, and other forms like Urdu, Brajbhasha, Bhojpuri, and Awadhi, the academy aims to translate literary works from non-Hindi Indian languages and foreign languages into Hindi and promote original Hindi works and creative literature. |
Hindustani Academy | 75,674,443 | History | Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru served as the first president of the Hindustani Academy. It had its first council comprising writers like Premchand, Ayodhya Prasad Upadhyay, and Shyam Sundar Das. After Sapru, Rai Rajeshwar Bali, Dr. Ramkumar Verma, Dr. Jagdish Gupt, Dr. Yogendra Pratap Singh, Justice Dr. Surendranath Dwivedi, Justice Kamalakant Verma, Kailash Gautam, and others have served as the president of the Hindustani Academy. |
Hindustani Academy | 75,674,443 | History | In the past, the academy hosted prominent Hindi and Urdu writers like Munshi Premchand, Rahul Sankrityayan, Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi, Mahadevi Verma, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Jagadish Gupta in open discussions and talks. |
Hindustani Academy | 75,674,443 | History | In 2014, as part of its initiative, Hindustani Academy revived its legacy by publishing rare pre-Independence Hindi and Urdu works. It re-published 20 rare books, including Raja Bhoj (1932), Awadh Kosh (1934), Prayag Pradeep' (1937), Hindustan Ka Naya Dastoore-Hukumat, Karuna Vasta me Hindustani Tehjeeb and Intkhabe Daag from the pre-independence era, along with a collection of letters of Mirza Ghalib. |
Hindustani Academy | 75,674,443 | Library | A large library is situated at the Hindustani Academy where ancient books, literary works, and manuscripts are preserved. In the Hindustani Academy library, there are 25,000 books available in Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, English, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, and other Indian languages. It also includes three hundred ancient manuscripts, comprising handwritten and monoblock printed copies, along with a collection of over 8,000 literary magazines and newspapers. |
Hindustani Academy | 75,674,443 | Library | Hindustani Academy has undertaken the digitalization and preservation of its library collection, comprising thousands of books. Approximately 25,000 books from the library have been scanned and uploaded in digital format, which includes 15,000 Hindi books, 2,000 Urdu books, and 300 manuscripts. The digitalization efforts extend to Hindustani Academy's magazines, Hindustani, Hans, Chand, Saraswati, Madhuri, and Madhyam Patrika. The process of digitizing these literary works took three years. |
Hindustani Academy | 75,674,443 | Activities | Hindustani Academy encourages writers by awarding national and state-level honors. At the national stage, it presents the Guru Gorakhnath Shikhar Samman (₹5,00,000), Goswami Tulsidas Samman (₹5,00,000), and Sant Kabir Das Samman (₹4,00,000) for literary contributions in early Hindi literature, Bhakti-era literature, and contributions to the Nirguna Bhakti tradition, respectively. |
Hindustani Academy | 75,674,443 | Activities | At the state level, the academy presents awards such as the Bharatendu Harishchandra Samman (₹2,00,000), Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi Samman (₹2,00,000), Mahadevi Verma Samman (₹1,00,000), Firaq Gorakhpuri Samman (₹1,00,000), Bhikhari Thakur Bhojpuri Samman (₹1,00,000), Banadas Awadhi Samman (₹1,00,000), Kumbhandas Brajbhasha Samman (₹1,00,000), and Isuri Bundeli Samman (₹1,00,000). It also recognizes young writers with an award named Hindustani Academy Yuva Lekhan Samman of 11,000 rupees. |
Hindustani Academy | 75,674,443 | Controversies | The appointment of Sunil Jogi as the chairman of the Hindustani Academy in April 2013 stirred controversy, as literary associations questioned his alleged lack of significant contributions to the field of literature and raised concerns about the selection process and Jogi's suitability for the role. A signature campaign was launched by three writers' associations, the Progressive Writers' Association (PWA), Janvadi Lekhak Sangh (JLS) and Jan Sanskrit Manch. |
Je-geun Park | 75,674,486 | Je-Geun Park (Hangul 박제근, Chinese character 朴濟根, born 1965) is a physicist in the Republic of Korea. He is a condensed matter physicist known for his work on wide-ranging problems of magnetism, in particular strongly correlated electron systems. He is credited with discovering a new class of magnetic 2D materials, also known as van der Waals magnets. He has worked as a professor at Seoul National University. |
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Je-geun Park | 75,674,486 | Biography | He was born on October 14, 1965, in Gosung, Republic of Korea. He is married with one daughter. He graduated from Dae-Ah High School in 1984 and attended the Department of Physics at Seoul National University from 1984 to 1988. After his undergraduate, he went on to do his MSc in the group of Professor Se-Jung Oh and worked on core-levels spectroscopy of Mn dihalides and graduated in 1990. He won a national overseas scholarship from the Korean government in 1989 and went to Imperial College, London, to study PhD under Prof. Bryan Coles, FRS. Before returning to Korea, he spent a few years of stints at Lab. Louis Neel, Grenoble, France and Birkbeck College, London. He worked at Inha University (1996–2001) and Sungkyunkwan University (2001–2010). He moved to Seoul National University as a university professor in 2010 and has since built a world-renowned group with pioneering works on van der Waals magnets. He is currently a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Seoul National University. |
Je-geun Park | 75,674,486 | Career | Je-Geun Park worked at Lab. Louis Neel, Grenoble, France and Birkbeck College, London, as a post-docs after getting PhD from Imperial College, London, in 1993. He then returned to Korea to take up an assistant professor position at Inha University from 1996 to 2000 and was promoted to associate professor in 2001. He then worked as an associate professor at SungKyunKwan University from 2001 to 2006 before becoming a professor from 2006 to 2009 and SKKU fellow from 2009 to 2010. He later moved to Seoul University in 2010 as a professor. He is currently a director at the Center for Quantum Materials. |
Je-geun Park | 75,674,486 | Patents | Jeong Ho Lee's patents include Probe System For Low-Temperature High-Precision Heat Transport Measurement And Measurement Device Including Same registered in 2022 and Magnetic Memory Using Spin Current, Operating Method Thereof, And Electronic Apparatus Including Magnetic Memory registered in 2023. |
La Cavale du Dr Destouches | 75,674,552 | La Cavale du Dr Destouches (lit. 'The Escape of Dr. Destouches') is a 2015 French comic book with scenario by Christophe Malavoy and art by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi. It is about the writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline and his time with his wife Lucette and cat Bébert [fr] at the Sigmaringen enclave, where leaders and collaborators of Vichy France gathered in 1944. |
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La Cavale du Dr Destouches | 75,674,552 | The book is loosely based on Céline's novel trilogy about these events. It was published by Futuropolis [fr] on 10 September 2016 . |
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Amaru Topa Inca | 75,674,554 | Amaru Topa Inca, also known as Amaru Inca Yupanqui, (Quechua: Amaru Tupaq Inka) was an Inca prince and co-ruler of the Hanan dynasty, who reigned around 1450. |
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Amaru Topa Inca | 75,674,554 | Biography | Amaru Topa Inca was the son of Pachacuti and Mama Anawarki. |
Amaru Topa Inca | 75,674,554 | Biography | Around 1450, Pachacuti decided to name him his co-ruler and successor. His reign lasted between five and ten years. |
Amaru Topa Inca | 75,674,554 | Biography | He chose the palace of Hatuncancha, in Cuzco, as his residence, and married Curi Ocllo, also called Chimpu Ocllo. Although he was skilled in the administration of the state, he could not familiarize himself with his military tasks. This became evident when a revolt of the Colla broke out around lake Titicaca, while Pachacuti was campaigning in the Amazon rainforest. At first, Pachacuti put down the rebellion himself. However, following his return to Cusco, the Colla revolted again. This time, Amaru, as co-ruler, led the army, accompanied by his two brothers. The Inca armies were victorious, but all the decisions of Amaru Yupanqui, if he would not have been assisted by his brothers, would have been disastrous. Due to the lack of military talent found in the joint prince, Pachacuti changed his decision and instead, with the support of the nobility, who disliked Amaru, decided to name another one of his sons, Tupac Yupanqui, who in turn had a reputation as a talented warrior, as his co-ruler and successor. Mariano Babtista Gumucio believes that Amaru was not forced to abdicate, and that he succeeded to his father in 1478, before quickly being overthrown by his brother Tupac Yupanqui. |
Amaru Topa Inca | 75,674,554 | Biography | On the other hand, the French historian Henri Favre, rejecting the idea of a "co-government", writes that Tupac Yupanqui, with the support of the army, forced his father to abdicate, and to name him successor instead of Amaru Topa Inca. |
Amaru Topa Inca | 75,674,554 | Biography | The Spanish chronicles last mention him when his brother, now sole ruler of the Inca Empire, was on a campaign in Chile. |
Amaru Topa Inca | 75,674,554 | Inca Yupanqui | Inca Garcilaso de la Vega mentions an Inca Yupanqui, an Inca emperor whose reign took place between those of Pachacuti and Tupac Yupanqui, and who was the father of the latter; this theory is supported by Peruvian historian Julio Rolando Villanueva Sotomayor. Garcilaso writes that most Spanish chroniclers confused the names of the sovereigns, and that the Inca Yupanqui, present in the names of Pachacuti and Tupac (Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, Tupac Inca Yupanqui), is a separate person. Pedro Cieza de León also mentions an Inca Yupanqui, but he is referring to Pachacuti. Most chroniclers acknowledge the existence of Amaru, but write that he is only co-sovereign with his father, and that Tupac succeeds the latter. María Rostworowski indicates that Garcilaso de la Vega avoids mentioning the Inca diarchy, out of fear that this would make his chronicle less comprehensible to the European reader, who could deduce that Tupac Yupanqui is a usurper. |
2023–24 Santa Clara Broncos women's basketball team | 75,674,558 | The 2023–24 Santa Clara Broncos women's basketball team represents Santa Clara University in the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Broncos are led by eighth year head coach Bill Carr. The Broncos were members of the West Coast Conference and play their home games at the Leavey Center. |
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2023–24 Santa Clara Broncos women's basketball team | 75,674,558 | Previous season | The Broncos finished the 2022–23 season 15–17, 6–12 in WCC play to finish in a tie for seventh place. As the No. 8 seed in the WCC tournament, they lost in the first round to Pepperdine. |
2023–24 Santa Clara Broncos women's basketball team | 75,674,558 | Offseason | There was no recruiting class of 2023. |
2023–24 Santa Clara Broncos women's basketball team | 75,674,558 | Schedule and results | |
Dianne Gaines | 75,674,598 | Dianne Saulney Gaines (born September 29, 1940) is an American attorney and civic activist known for her significant contributions to the legal profession and civil rights advocacy. She is recognized for her groundbreaking achievements including being the first Black woman elected to the Florida Bar Board of Governors, as well as serving on many boards and leading or establishing various legal organizations. |
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Dianne Gaines | 75,674,598 | Early Life and Education | Gaines was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 29, 1940, to René Saulney and Anita Prevost Saulney. She attended Xavier University in New Orleans for her undergraduate studies. During her time at Xavier University Preparatory School in 1957, Gaines authored an opinion piece in the Louisiana Weekly discussing racial unrest in the South, demonstrating her early commitment to civil rights and education. |
Dianne Gaines | 75,674,598 | Early Life and Education | After completing her undergraduate education at Xavier University in 1962, she embarked on a career in teaching, in Miami, Florida. She left that because of the race-based pay disparities between Black and white teachers. After the birth of her first child, she became a counselor for the Neighborhood Youth Corp, a federal work-study program aimed at providing employment opportunities to disadvantaged youth. |
Dianne Gaines | 75,674,598 | Career and Advocacy | Inspired by the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision and driven by a desire to fight for civil rights and equality, Gaines decided to pursue a legal education. In 1968, following the passage of the Fair Housing Act, she entered the field of real estate and became the first Black realtor to work for the Keyes Company, a major white-owned realty company. She recognized the potential of the legislation to address housing discrimination and create avenues for racial integration. By actively engaging in the real estate industry, Gaines aimed to place Black families in historically white neighborhoods. During this time, Gaines' own children also faced instances of racism and discrimination in their new environments. |
Dianne Gaines | 75,674,598 | Career and Advocacy | At the age of 37, Gaines enrolled in the University of Miami School of Law and earned her law degree in 1980. Following her graduation, she worked as an assistant county attorney for the Miami-Dade County Attorney's Office, specializing in public finance law and serving as bond counsel. |
Dianne Gaines | 75,674,598 | Career and Advocacy | In 1985, Gaines founded the Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association, an organization empowering and supporting Black women in the legal profession. She addressed issues of racial and gender discrimination within the legal community and promoted the professional development of Black women attorneys. |
Dianne Gaines | 75,674,598 | Career and Advocacy | On her second run, Gaines made history as the first Black woman elected to the Florida Bar Board of Governors, promoting diversity and inclusion within the legal profession. Throughout her tenure, she actively worked to promote diversity and inclusion within the legal community. |
Dianne Gaines | 75,674,598 | Career and Advocacy | Gaines's commitment to advocacy extended beyond her legal career. She served as a member of the United Way Board, a renowned organization focused on improving the lives of individuals and families through community-driven initiatives, and many other boards and community organizations, such as the Off-Street Parking Authority. |
Dianne Gaines | 75,674,598 | Career and Advocacy | In 1991, Gaines served as special counsel to Senator Bob Graham in Washington, D.C. In 1993, Senator Bob Graham named Gaines to chair the Southern District of the Florida Federal Judicial Nominating Commission. |
Dianne Gaines | 75,674,598 | Personal Life | In 1993, Gaines married the renowned author, Ernest J. Gaines, five years after meeting him at a festival in Miami, Florida,where she was living with her four children, Jonathan, Maria, Jennifer and Stephen, from an earlier marriage to John Andrew Smith, an artist. |
1973 Mississippi Indoors | 75,674,604 | The 1973 Mississippi Indoors, also known by its full name Mississippi International Indoor Tennis Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson, Mississippi in the United States that was part of the 1973 USLTA Indoor Circuit. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from March 19 through March 25, 1973. Eddie Dibbs won the singles title and earned $3,000 first-prize money. |
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1973 Mississippi Indoors | 75,674,604 | Finals | Eddie Dibbs defeated Frew McMillan 5–7, 6–1, 7–5 |
1973 Mississippi Indoors | 75,674,604 | Finals | Zan Guerry / Frew McMillan defeated Jaime Pinto-Bravo / Tito Vázquez 6–2, 6–4 |
Kurzeme Planning Region (from 2021) | 75,674,621 | Kurzeme Region (Latvian: Kurzemes reģions), officially Kurzeme Planning Region (Latvian: Kurzemes plānošanas reģions) is one of the five planning regions of Latvia, it is situated in the western part of Latvia. The state institution was founded on 2 October 2006, based on the creation of the region territory as prescribed by Regulations No. 133 of the Cabinet of Ministers as of 25 March 2003, the "Regulations on Territories of Planning Regions". After the 2021 reform Tukums Municipality was incorporated into Kurzeme. |
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Emily Maver | 75,674,636 | Emily Yvette Maver (born January 13, 1993) is a Guadeloupean footballer who plays as a winger or striker for the Guadeloupe women's national football team. |
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Emily Maver | 75,674,636 | Early life | A native of Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, Maver started playing football at the age of five. She studied in the United States and Canada. |
Emily Maver | 75,674,636 | Career | Maver is the first and only Guadeloupean female professional footballer. |
Emily Maver | 75,674,636 | Style of play | Maver mainly operates as a winger or striker and is known for her speed. |
Júlia Rajk | 75,674,646 | Júlia Rajk (born Júlia Földi, Budapest, 9 February 1914 — Budapest, 6 September 1981) was a Hungarian politician. She was married to László Rajk and after he was executed in 1949, she worked to have him rehabilitated and to preserve the legacies of opponents to the communist Hungarian regime. |
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Júlia Rajk | 75,674,646 | Biography | Júlia Földi was born in 1914 to a family of Communist workers. During the 1930s, she lived in Paris and took part in the work of the International Red Aid. Földi returned to Hungary at the beginning of the Second World War. She met László Rajk as he was imprisoned in Budapest in 1941 and she served as courier between him and the then-clandestine Hungarian Communist Party. They married in 1946. From that date, she worked as a direector of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarian women (MNDSZ). In June 1949, László Rajk, then serving as foreign minister, was arrested by the regime of Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi and Interior Ministre János Kádár on charges of Titoisme. |
Júlia Rajk | 75,674,646 | Biography | Júlia Rajk was arrested at thee same time and sentenced to five year imprisonment in March 1950. Their son László, then only five month old, was taken to an orphanage, probably the Lóczy Institute, under the assumed name "István Kóvács" (the most common name in Hungary), and later adoptd by Júlia's sister's family under the name of "István Györk". |
Júlia Rajk | 75,674,646 | Biography | At her liberation in June 1954, she received identity documents with the name Györk, as the regime aimed at erasing the name Rajk. The following month, she went into an appeal court, where the documentation and archives of her trial proved to be missing; the missing documents had to be reconstituted as far as possible yielding her acquittal in July 1955 for a lack of evidence and her rehabilitation. Reacquainting herself with her contacts within the Communist Party, she managed to have her membership restored in August 1955. Meanwhile, the new administration at the Interior Ministry launched an inquiry into Rajk's trial; amongst the new elements taken into account were Júlia Rajk's activities and her informal communications with her networks, which jeopardised Rákosi's official version. Júlia Rajk testified during the revision of the trial as "Mrs László Györk", but made every effort to sign her testimonies with her married name. In November 1955, László Rajk was acquitted of a number of charges, but remained under suspicion. Dissatisfied with the outcome, Rajk requested an audience with the Central Committee of the Communist Party and obtained a meeting in early December, of which no written notes remain. |
Júlia Rajk | 75,674,646 | Biography | As part of he work to rehabilitate her husband, and in order to obtain a public inhumation ceremony, she gave a speech on 18 June 1956 at the Petöfi Circle, a reformist-leaning organisation. When the rehabilitation committee granted her a financial compensation, she donated the funds to the popular universities, then about to reopen in Hungary. On 27 September, she received the news that the body or her husband had been found, along with those of three other victims, and would be buried, after identification, in a ceremony restricted to the Party on 1 October. After tense negotiations with the authorities, where she threatened to boycott any ceremony closed to the public, Júlia Rajk obtained a public ceremony for 5 October with arrangements to allow the workers to witness the event. |
Júlia Rajk | 75,674,646 | Biography | On 6 October 1956, László Rajk was buried at Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest. Júlia Rajk attended, as well as Imre Nagy, leading a 300 000 person march. The event was a prelude to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 which started at the end of that same month. Rajk was in Berlin at the start of the events, and only returned to Budapest on 2 November. Imre Nagy chose her for new Information Minister Géza Losonczy's team. As the Soviet Army occupied the city on 4 November, Júlia Rajk sought shelter at the Yugoslav Embassy, along with her son, and requested political asylum; she was brought to Snagov, in Romania, with other members of Nagy's team. She was freed in 1958. From then she worked at rehabilitating Imre Nagy, took part in the first NGO to be authorised in Hungary since 1951 (a dog shelter), and promoted access to abortion. |
Júlia Rajk | 75,674,646 | Biography | Besides her activism, she worked at the national archives of Hungary until she retired. She died of cancer in 1981. |
Júlia Rajk | 75,674,646 | Posterity | Hungarian historian Andrea Petö published a monograph and several research articles based on interviews of Júlia Rajk's son and part of her archives, as well as journal sources of the era. |
Júlia Rajk | 75,674,646 | External links | Media related to Júlia Rajk at Wikimedia Commons |
Yala ibn Mohammed | 75,674,678 | Yala Ibn Mohamed (9th century, Achir - 958, Ifgan) was a Berber leader of the Banu Ifren tribe. He led the tribe from 950 to 958 and was allied to the Fatimids. |
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Yala ibn Mohammed | 75,674,678 | Life | He founded Ifgan, now called Frenda. The Umayyad rulers sought to enlist this leader in their cause, and Yala Ibn Mohamed would establish his power in the Maghreb. Yala captured Oran, displacd the entire population, and then set the city of Oran on fire. He captured Tiaret and the entire western Maghreb. Yala celebrated with a public prayer from Tiaret to Tangier. |
Yala ibn Mohammed | 75,674,678 | Life | Yala was initially allied with the Fatimids, but he would be assassinated by Jawhar al-Siqilli as the Fatimids suspected treason due to Yala's correspondence with the Umayyad rulers. The assassination of Yala would lead to significant changes in the Maghreb. The Zenata and the Maghrawa would wage war against the Fatimids. |
South Georgia (region) | 75,674,683 | South Georgia is a seventeen-county region in the U.S. state of Georgia, with a 2020 population of 292,759. |
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South Georgia (region) | 75,674,683 | Geography | South Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Economic Development, consists of the following counties: Appling, Bleckley, Candler, Dodge, Emanuel, Evans, Jeff Davis, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Tattnall, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, Wayne, Wheeler, and Wilcox. |
South Georgia (region) | 75,674,683 | Demographics | Tabulating South Georgia's counties according to the 2020 U.S. census, the region had a population of 292,759, making of Georgia's least-populated regions statewide. |
South Georgia (region) | 75,674,683 | Demographics | According to the Association of Religion Data Archives in 2020, Baptists formed the largest Christian tradition for the region, being part of the Bible Belt. The single largest Christian denominations were the Southern Baptist Convention, United Methodist Church, Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), National Missionary Baptist Convention of America, and the Catholic Church in the United States. Overall, non-denominational Protestants were the second-largest collective Christian tradition in South Georgia. |
South Georgia (region) | 75,674,683 | Demographics | Non-Christian religions accounted for a minority in South Georgia, with Buddhism being the second-largest religion, followed by the Baha'i Faith. |
1868 Victorian colonial election | 75,674,684 | The 1868 Victorian colonial election was held from 21 January to 20 February 1868 to elect the 6th Parliament of Victoria. All 78 seats in 49 electorates in the Legislative Assembly were up for election, though seven seats were uncontested. |
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1868 Victorian colonial election | 75,674,684 | There were 24 single-member, 21 two-member and 4 three-member electorates. |
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1868 Victorian colonial election | 75,674,684 | The circumstances leading to the 1868 general election in Victoria were linked to the controversial term of Sir Charles Darling, the colony's third Governor from September 1863 to May 1866. During his term of office Darling had supported Sir James McCulloch's ministry in its efforts to pass protectionist customs tariff legislation which was rejected on several occasions by the Legislative Council, dominated by conservative free-trade pastoralists. Darling was recalled in 1866 as a result of a petition of complaint by Council members. In April 1867 the Legislative Assembly voted a grant of £20,000 to Lady Darling, which was rejected by the Council. Darling resigned from the colonial service to bypass colonial regulations and enable the grant to be accepted. In August 1867 the grant to Lady Darling was included in the supplementary estimates of expenditure in the annual Appropriation Bill, but in October the Legislative Council rejected the bill, claiming that such a grant ought to have been the subject of a separate measure. The general election held in January and February 1868 was primarily fought on the question of the inclusion of the grant in the estimates of expenditure. |
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1868 Victorian colonial election | 75,674,684 | McCulloch's liberals won the election with a large majority. |
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1868 Victorian colonial election | 75,674,684 | Aftermath | Immediately after the election the Governor received a despatch from the Colonial Secretary in London, the Duke of Buckingham, which forbade the linking of the grant to Lady Darling with the Appropriation Bill, thereby enabling the Legislative Council "to exercise their discretion respecting it". When this was conveyed to the ministers of McCulloch's re-elected government, they expressed their displeasure on 6 March 1868 by tendering their collective resignation. |
1868 Victorian colonial election | 75,674,684 | Aftermath | When the parliament convened a week later, for the first time after the election, the assembly was paralysed while the Governor sought various ways to form a new ministry. Eventually, on 6 May 1868, a stop-gap ministry of conservatives from both houses of parliament was formed, under the premiership of the prominent Council member Charles Sladen. With little support in the Assembly, Sladen's government had no prospect of long-term survival. Despite the defeat of two ministers in the elections for the Upper House and a vote of no-confidence in the Assembly on June 9, his premiership lasted until July 7. Sladen's ministry finally come its end when the Legislative Assembly voted to refuse supplies. On the day before Sladen resigned, a message reached the colony that served to dissipate the Darling controversy. The Colonial Office and the ex-Governor had reached an agreement: Darling withdrew his resignation and stated that neither he nor his wife "could accept the generous bounty of his Victorian admirers", in return for which the British government granted him a pension of one thousand pounds a year (backdated to the day of his recall). In his two-month term of office, Sladen was the only member of the Legislative Council ever to serve as Premier in Victoria. His term in the Council expired soon afterwards and he did not renominate. |
1868 Victorian colonial election | 75,674,684 | Aftermath | McCulloch returned to office in July 1868 with a more radical ministry, but a number of his supporters became discontented with his non-consultative style. On various occasions during his tenure McCulloch "repeatedly insulted many of his most steadfast supporters by the singularity of the selections made for filling-up Cabinet vacancies". In early September 1869 McCulloch appointed George Rolfe to the vacant office of Commissioner of Customs. Rolfe was the president of the Loyal Liberal Association, but not a member of parliament of either House, and his appointment precipitated another ministerial crisis. A motion of no confidence over the issue was carried in the Legislative Assembly by 34 votes to 26, prompting McCulloch and his ministers to resign. |
1868 Victorian colonial election | 75,674,684 | Aftermath | On September 20 a new ministry was announced under the premiership of John MacPherson, "a comparatively young squatter with conservative instincts". Writs were then issued for by-elections in the constituencies represented by the new ministers, at which two of MacPherson's ministers were defeated. MacPherson's support base was substantially made up of disaffected McCulloch supporters and many of the ministers were inexperienced, but it managed to survive until April 1870 with support from the conservative opposition. Its most significant achievement was the passing of the Land Act in December 1869, which consolidated and amended all previous legislation on the sale and occupation of Crown Lands and remained in force until 1878. Under the Act, land on pastoral runs was opened to selection, initially under a lease arrangement, but with an option to purchase after improvement and enclosure conditions were met. |
1868 Victorian colonial election | 75,674,684 | Aftermath | In January 1870 the protectionist liberal Graham Berry was asked to take on the role of treasurer in the MacPherson ministry. MacPherson's first choice for treasurer, Robert Byrne, had been defeated in an October 1869 by-election and Berry's appointment came from the necessity of finding a minister with financial experience in a safe seat. Berry introduced a budget in early March 1870, a complex document which attempted to placate free-trade supporters of the government. After a month-long budgetry debate amidst shifting alliances in the parliament, a no confidence motion was carried in April 1870, after which MacPherson tendered the resignaton of his ministry to the Governor. Sir James McCulloch was once again called upon to form a cabinet. |
1868 Victorian colonial election | 75,674,684 | Aftermath | The ministry formed by McCulloch in April 1870 was moderate and with a depth of experience, though one surprise inclusion was the appointment of the defeated ex-premier MacPherson as Minister of Lands. An early success for the new government was a bill for the abolition of state aid to religion which passed both Houses in July 1870. McCulloch's government remained in place until the general election in early 1871, at which the central issue put forward to electors was a proposal to introduce a secular education bill. |
Melchor Terrazas | 75,674,733 | Melchor Terrazas Virreira (6 June 1825 – 3 November 1898) was a Bolivian politician and statesman who served as Minister of Government and Foreign Affairs and also as Minister of Justice, Public Instruction, and Worship during the presidencies of Tomás Frías and Agustín Morales. A lawyer and educator, he was an advocate for democratic, civilian governments and opposed caudillismo. |
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Melchor Terrazas | 75,674,733 | Early life | Terrazas was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on June 6, 1825, the son of Pedro Pablo Terrazas Villanueva and Micaela Petrona Virreira López. He belonged to a family of wealthy landowners, allowing him to travel abroad in his youth and study at the then prestigious University of San Francisco Xavier. |
Melchor Terrazas | 75,674,733 | Educator and politician | A lawyer by 1850, Terrazas began working at the Higher University of San Simón in 1852. By 1855, he was Vice-Chancellor at the university and had earned acclaim across Bolivia for his administrative capabilities. |
Melchor Terrazas | 75,674,733 | Educator and politician | He began his political career in 1857, when he officially joined the linarista movement of the civilian caudillo José María Linares. The overthrow of Jorge Córdova that year facilitated the rise of Linares to the presidency. Despite his early support for Linares, Terrazas soon found himself alienated for his critical views on the policies of the new President. Twice Terrazas was twice exiled during the Linares administration. |
Melchor Terrazas | 75,674,733 | Educator and politician | In 1860, Terrazas returned from Chile and upon his entry to the city of Cochabamba, denounced the presidency of Linares, who had by then declared himself dictator. The uprising in Cochabamba was a violent one as the garrison loyal to Linares resisted. On November 2, 1860, the garrison was defeated and Terrazas proclaimed the rule of José María de Achá in Cochabamba. |
Melchor Terrazas | 75,674,733 | Educator and politician | Despite his leading role in the overthrow of Linares, Terrazas was prohibited from returning to the public sphere, although he was able to become Chancellor at the Higher University of San Simón. Achá was particularly unpopular among the scholarly elite, a fact which was reflected when most of the country’s foremost educators, including Terrazas, rose in rebellion against the President in 1864. After months of turmoil, Manuel Isidoro Belzu had seized power, counting on the support of Terrazas. |
Melchor Terrazas | 75,674,733 | Educator and politician | However, days after his entry to La Paz, Belzu was assassinated by Mariano Melgarejo, who had launched a counter-coup against the belcistas. Terrazas decried the barbaric Melgarejo and fled to Peru. For the majority of Melgarejo’s presidency, Terrazas was away from Bolivia. In 1870, Terrazas heard of the revolution against Melgarejo and immediately left Puno for La Paz. Arriving in December, Terrazas joined the cause of General Morales, who ousted Melgarejo after he had defeated General José María Calderón. |
Melchor Terrazas | 75,674,733 | Educator and politician | Once Morales became President, he formed the new Ministry of Justice, giving the portfolio to Terrazas on October 22, 1871. Terrazas was one of the many politicians alienated when Morales closed the National Assembly on November 25, 1872. With most politicians expecting an impending coup, Morales was assassinated in the early hours of November 27. Despite the death of Morales, Tomás Frías maintained the cabinet intact awaiting for the upcoming elections. |
Melchor Terrazas | 75,674,733 | Educator and politician | On January 27, 1873, Frías appointed Terrazas as Minister of Government and Foreign Affairs, a position he held until May 9, 1873, when Adolfo Ballivián was elected President. |
Melchor Terrazas | 75,674,733 | Educator and politician | Terrazas continued his political and diplomatic career, serving as the Bolivian ambassador to Peru during the War of the Pacific, where he engaged in talks with the Peruvians about a possible federal union between the two Andean states. |
Melchor Terrazas | 75,674,733 | Marriage and family | Terrazas married María Manuela Benigna Urquidi Aguilar on July 16, 1848. The couple had eleven children: Melchor Fidel, Benigna, Melchor, Josefa Gavina, Pablo José, Guillermo, José Manuel, Carmen, María Teresa, María Alvina, and Benigno. He is a relative of Manuel Terrazas, Hernán Terrazas Céspedes, and David Terrazas. |
David Jakubovich | 75,674,739 | David Jakubovich (Hebrew: דוד יעקובוביץ', born 1948) is a former Paralympic athlete representing Israel. |
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David Jakubovich | 75,674,739 | Jakubovich was born in Teplice and emigrated to Israel in 1964. He enlisted to the Israeli Combat Engineering Corps and was injured in 1968 from a mine, causing him severe burn and the loss of his eyesight. |
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David Jakubovich | 75,674,739 | Jakubovich participated in three Summer Paralympics from 1980 to 1988 and took part in nine events, all in athletics. |
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David Jakubovich | 75,674,739 | At the 1980 Summer Paralympics Jakubovich won a bronze medal in pentathlon. He also competed in three other events, ranking 12th in the Men's 1500 metre event and 19th in the Men's 60 metre event. He was not ranked at the Men's 400 metre event. |
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David Jakubovich | 75,674,739 | At the 1984 Summer Paralympics Jakubovich competed in the men's events for 100, 400, 800 and 1500 metres. |
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David Jakubovich | 75,674,739 | At the 1988 Summer Paralympics Jakubovich won a silver medal in the Marathon B1 event. |
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David Jakubovich | 75,674,739 | Jakubovich's was the subject of a short documentary "Long distance running in the dark". |
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Nonhlanhla Mthandi | 75,674,756 | Nonhlanhla Mthandi (also Nhlanhla; born 19 August 1995) is a South African professional soccer player and football freestyler who plays as a midfielder for SAFA Women's League club Mamelodi Sundowns and the South African women's national team. |
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Nonhlanhla Mthandi | 75,674,756 | Club career | In 2015, Mthandi joined SAFA Women's League side Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies. In 2021, she was part of the treble winning Sundowns Ladies team. She scored in the final of the inaugural Cosafa Women's Champions League as they won 3-0 against Black Rhino Queens from Zimbabwe. This win qualified them to the CAF Women's Champions League held in Cairo, Egypt. The team won the inaugural CAF Women's Champions League. They completed the treble by defending their Hollywoodbets Super League title in December 2021. |
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