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Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Director
Flush from Delicatessen's success, Jeunet and Caro finally made a feature they'd been planning for 14 years, the adult fairy tale The City of Lost Children (1995). Shot o... |
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The Lynching of Emmett Till
In the summer of 1955, Mamie Till gave in to her son's pleas to visit relatives in the South. But before putting her only son Emmett on bus in Chicago,... |
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs is CEO of Apple, a leader in personal computing devices which he co-founded in 1976, and CEO of Pixar, the Academy-Award-winning computer animation studi... |
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Bill Gates, Founder Microsoft
William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for person... |
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Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of The Web
In 1989, he proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. Based on the earlier "Enquire" work, it was designed to allow people to work together... |
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The Crying Crocodile, Appel
The Crying Crocodile Tries to Catch the Sun, 1956. Oil on canvas, 145.5 x 113.1 inches. Peggy Guggenheim.
Appel’s paint handling activates a frenzy of rhythmic movement... |
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Anthony Gottlieb, Writer
Anthony Gottlieb is Executive Editor of The Economist and a former departmental fellow in philosophy at Birkbeck College, London University. He studied philosophy at Cam... |
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Hans Christian Andersen Awards
Every other year IBBY presents the Hans Christian Andersen Awards to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children's l... |
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Tunisian Republic
The Tunisian Republic or Tunisia, is a Muslim Arab country situated on the North African Mediterranean coast. It is the easternmost and smallest of the nations situated a... |
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The Treaty of Rome
The 25th March 1957, two treaties were signed in Rome that gave existence to the European Economic Community (EEC) and to theEuropean Atomic Energy Community (Euratom): t... |
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John Lasseter, Director
Lover of traditional hand-drawn animation since adolescence, Lasseter made his mark in the field as a pioneering director of computer generated animation helming both the... |
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Sputnik 1 : First Satellite in Space
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a basketball, weig... |
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Osama bin Laden, Leader al-Qaeda
The U.S. government considers Osama bin Laden to be the most dangerous terrorist in the world. Bin Laden joined the Afghanistani resistance in 1979 and became a commander... |
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Nasa Timeline of Planetary Exploration
This chronology gives a list of a known (successful and unsuccessful) lunar and planetary missions including a few historical missions which were instrumental in the deve... |
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The Netherlands, EU Fouding Member
The official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs offers a general description of the Netherlands, together with practical information for foreign nationals intend... |
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