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The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum...

The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919, popularly known as the Rowlatt Act, was a law, applied during the British India period. It was a legislative...

Wijeyananda Dahanayake (Sinhala: විජයානන්ද දහනායක Tamil: விஜயானந்த தகநாயக்கா; 22 October 1902 – 4 May 1997) was a Sri Lankan politician. He was the Prime...

Chris Terrio (born December 31, 1976) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the 2012 film Argo...

Dingiri Banda Welagedera (31 October 1915 – 2 April 1989) also known as D. B. Welagedera was the Deputy Minister of Plan Implementation and Minister a...

Silva Dedinuni Robert Jayaratne (1931–2011) was a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the Deputy Minister of Fisheries and was a Member of Parliament from...

Antoine Lefèvre (born 18 February 1966) is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who has been serving as a member of the Senate of France since 2008...

Blondel de Nesle – either Jean I of Nesle (c. 1155 – 1202) or his son Jean II of Nesle (died 1241) – was a French trouvère. The name 'Blondel de Nesle'...

Albrecht von Haller (also known as Albertus de Haller; 16 October 1708 – 12 December 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist...

M. S. B. T. B. Dharmasena Bandara Monnekulame was a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Nationalised Services...

Hal Mohr, A.S.C. (August 2, 1894 in San Francisco – May 10, 1974 in Santa Monica, California) was a famed movie cinematographer who won an Oscar for his...

Ahmed Idris CON (known as Ahmed Idris Wase; born 1 June 1964) is a Nigerian politician who served as deputy speaker of the House of Representatives of...

Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (Russian: И́горь Дми́триевич Но́виков; born November 10, 1935) is a Russian (and former Soviet) theoretical astrophysicist and...

Bannon Goforth Thibodeaux (December 22, 1812 – March 5, 1866) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives...

Welikala James Charles Munasinha was a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the Minister of Industries and Fisheries and Member of Parliament from the Chilaw...

Eustace II, (c. 1015 – c. 1087), also known as Eustace aux Grenons ("Eustace with long moustaches"), was Count of Boulogne from 1049 to 1087. He fought...

Giovanni di Cosimo I de' Medici (29 September 1543 – 20 November 1562), also known as Giovanni de' Medici the Younger, was an Italian cardinal. He was...

Dennis Keith "Fred" Phillis (born 9 September 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Glenelg Football Club in the South Australian...

SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) is an architectural firm based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1995 by architects Kazuyo Sejima (1956–)...

Stanley de Zoysa (27 June 1907 – 10 December 1970) was a Sri Lankan businessmen and politician. He was the former Cabinet Minister of Finance (1956–1959)...