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8 hours ago · Isaac Barrow. Succeeded by. William Whiston. Signature. Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [7] He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the ...
8 hours ago · Box office. $411 million [4] Pacific Rim is a 2013 American science fiction monster film directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, and Ron Perlman, and the first film in the Pacific Rim franchise. The screenplay was written by Travis Beacham and del Toro from a ...
1 day ago · Sean John Combs was born on November 4, 1969, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.Raised in Mount Vernon, New York, [20] his mother Janice Combs (née Smalls) was a model and teacher's assistant, [21] and his father, Melvin Earl Combs, served in the U.S. Air Force and was an associate of convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas.
8 hours ago · Spinosaurus (/ ˌspaɪnəˈsɔːrəs /; lit. 'spine lizard') is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period, about 100 to 94 million years ago. [4] The genus was known first from Egyptian remains discovered in 1912 and described by German palaeontologist Ernst ...
1 day ago · Patcheye (great-grandfather) Aunt Jones (aunt) Poopdeck Pappy (father) Pipeye, Peepeye, Poopeye and Pupeye (nephews) Popeye the Sailor is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. [17][18][19][20] The character first appeared on January 17, 1929, in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre.
8 hours ago · Bismarck, North Dakota. Bismarck (/ ˈbɪzmɑːrk /; from 1872 to 1873: Edwinton) is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. [8] It is the state's second-most populous city, after Fargo. The population was 73,622 at the 2020 census, [4] and was estimated to be 75,092 in 2023, [5] while its ...
8 hours ago · The Persian soldier who embarrassed his king, Artaxerxes II, by boasting of killing his rival, Cyrus the Younger (who was the brother of Artaxerxes II), was executed by scaphism. The king's physician, Ctesias, reported that Mithridates survived the insect torture for 17 days. [32] [33] Anaxarchus: 320 BC
