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The total civilian death toll would surpass Ukraine's total of 9,614, as of 10 September 2023, [44] including around 600 children, [45] some days later, but in a fraction of the Ukraine invasion's duration. In a statement, UNICEF regional director Adele Khodr stated Gaza's child death toll was a "growing stain on our collective conscience". [46]
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. [3]Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history". [4]
Japan has 108 inmates with finalized death sentences as of February 2, 2024, after Yuki Endo, who was sentenced to death on 18 January, by the Kofu District Court for murdering the parents of his love interest and setting fire to their home in Yamanashi prefecture on 12 October 2021, when Endo was 19 years old at the time of the double murder ...
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (French pronunciation: [nikɔla leɔnaʁ sadi kaʁno]; 1 June 1796 – 24 August 1832) was a French military engineer and physicist.A graduate of the École polytechnique, Carnot served as an officer in the Engineering Arm (le génie) of the French Army.
A funeral procession in the Philippines, 2009. During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. [1] This belief, which stemmed from indigenous ancestral veneration and was strengthened by strong family and community relations within tribes, prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals.
Jonathan Brandis was born in Danbury, Connecticut, the only child of Mary, a teacher and personal manager, and Gregory Brandis, a food distributor and firefighter.At the age of two, he began his career as a child model for Buster Brown shoes. [1]
Condoleezza Rice (/ ˌ k ɒ n d ə ˈ l iː z ə / KON-də-LEE-zə; born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat and political scientist.She currently directs the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Srinivasa Ramanujan [a] (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician.Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable.