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Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made...

Christopher Hemsworth AM (born 11 August 1983) is an Australian actor. He rose to prominence playing Kim Hyde in the Australian television series Home...

The Massacre (or Slaughter) of the Innocents is a biblical story]] recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod...

Literacy is the ability to read and write with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in written form. Some researchers suggest that...

Kaja Kallas (Estonian: [ˈkɑjɑ ˈkɑlːɑs]; born 18 June 1977) is an Estonian politician and diplomat. She was the first female prime minister of Estonia,...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United...

Mary Dyer (born Marie Barrett; c. 1611 – 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan-turned-Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts...

This is a list of mothers said to have given birth to 20 or more children and men said to have fathered more than 25 children. This section lists mothers...

Sanjukta Panigrahi (24 August 1944 – 24 June 1997) was a dancer from India, who was the foremost exponent of Indian classical dance Odissi. Sanjukta was...

African immigration to the United States refers to immigrants to the United States who are or were nationals of modern African countries. The term African...

Anna Jacobson Schwartz (pronounced /ʃwɔːrts/; November 11, 1915 – June 21, 2012) was an American economist who worked at the National Bureau of Economic...

Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux (French pronunciation: [nikɔla fukɛ]; 27 January 1615 – 23 March 1680) was the Superintendent...

Rajesh Kumar Grover is an Indian oncologist and former director and chief executive officer of Delhi State Cancer Institute, New Delhi. The Government...

Jenny Anne Durkan (born May 19, 1958) is an American attorney, former federal prosecutor, and politician who served as the 56th mayor of Seattle, Washington...

Steven Alan Hassan (pronounced /hɑːsɪn/; born 1954) is an American writer and mental health counselor who specializes in the area of cults and new religious...

Jonah Smith is an American musician, singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. He began his career as a solo artist in 2000 in Brooklyn, New York. He has...

Vladimir Olegovich Potanin (Russian: Владимир Олегович Потанин; born 3 January 1961) is a Russian businessman. He acquired his wealth notably through the...

Stephen Parkinson, Baron Parkinson of Whitley Bay (born 30 June 1983) is a British Conservative member of the House of Lords who serves as Parliamentary...

Chen Kang (born 24 November 1965) is a Chinese badminton player. He competed in the men's doubles tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Men's doubles...

Douglas Clark Francis Kenney (December 10, 1946 – August 27, 1980) was an American comedy writer of magazine, novels, radio, TV and film, who co-founded...