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The early life of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, began with his birth on June 14, 1946, in the borough of Queens in New York City. Donald Trump's father was Fred Trump, a real-estate developer; his mother, Mary Anne Trump, was a Scottish immigrant. Donald was enrolled at age five at the Kew-Forest School, a private school in Queens. When Donald was in seventh grade, Fred discovered that his son was secretly going into Manhattan to obtain knives. Donald was sent to the New York Military Academy (NYMA); he graduated in May 1964. Trump attended Fordham University from 1964 to 1966, studying economics. His college enrollment—and later a medical exemption—allowed him to defer the Vietnam War draft. In his sophomore year, seeking a larger business network, Trump applied to transfer to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school favored by his father. Trump graduated from Penn in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in economics. (Full article...)
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Makemake is a dwarf planet orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune. It has a diameter 60% that of Pluto, and is the fourth-largest trans-Neptunian object and the largest member of the Solar System's classical Kuiper belt, a disk of icy bodies beyond Neptune's orbit. Its discovery on March 31, 2005, by American astronomers Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz at Palomar Observatory contributed to the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006. Makemake's surface, like Pluto's, is largely covered by frozen methane and stained reddish-brown by tholins. It has one known satellite, unnamed, whose orbit suggests that Makemake's rotation has a high axial tilt. Makemake shows evidence of geochemical activity and cryovolcanism, which has led scientists to suspect that it might harbor a subsurface ocean of liquid water. No high-resolution images of its surface exist because it has not been visited up close by a space probe. (This article is part of a featured topic: Solar System.)
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Eric Bana (born 1968) is an Australian actor and producer. He began his career in the comedy series Full Frontal before gaining notice in the comedy drama The Castle (1997) and in Chopper (2000) for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Bana gained Hollywood's attention for his performance in the war film Black Hawk Down (2001) and for playing Bruce Banner in the superhero film Hulk (2003). In 2009, he played the villain Nero in the science-fiction film Star Trek, which was a critical and commercial success. Bana continued to work steadily in the 2010s, portraying Lieutenant Commander Erik S. Kristensen in Lone Survivor (2013), and playing police Sergeant Ralph Sarchie in the horror film Deliver Us from Evil (2014). In 2020, he returned to Australia to star in outback thriller The Dry. Bana is the recipient of several Australian Film Institute awards and was appointed a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2019 for his services to drama. (Full article...)