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Vanita Gupta (born November 15, 1974) is an American politician and lawyer. She was the United States Associate Attorney General from April 22, 2021 to February 2, 2024. Gupta was the president and chief executive officer of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and as the head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2014 to 2017. On January 7, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Gupta to be Associate Attorney General. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 21, 2021. On January 31, 2024, it was reported that Gupta would leave her role as associate attorney general the following week.
Protea inopina also called Large-nut Sugarbush is a flowering shrub belonging to the well-known Protea genus. The plant is endemic to the Western Cape, rare, extremely isolated and occurs only in the Olifants River Mountains near Palace Hill. The plant grows 1 m tall and has many stems. It blooms from September to December. The plant sprouts again after it has burned. The seeds are stored in a shell and spread by the wind. The plant is unisexual. Pollination takes place through the action of birds. The plant grows in sandstone soil at altitudes of 600 - 650 m. In Afrikaans it is known as the Groottolsuikerbos.
The Afghan Civil War was a war from 14 November 1928 to 13 October 1929. The Saqqawists group and the Soviet Union decided to invade the Kingdom of Afghanistan but were eventually defeated. Beginning of war. On 14 November 1928, the civil war started with the Shinwari Revolt in which Pashtun tribesmen from the Shinwari tribe started a siege of Jalalabad. Telegraph wires were also cut, and a manifesto had a list of or complaints that included changing the status of women. Siege of Jabal al-Siraj. Forces led by a Tajik leader, Habibullah Kalakani, were moving toward Kabul from the north. Kalakani was a native of Kalakan, a village 30 km north of Kabul. In late November, they put siege to Jabal al-Siraj, north of Kabul, and on 11 or 12 December, after 18 days of siege, Ahmad Ali Lodi surrendered the citadel and handed over all government funds, 18 machine guns, and some heavy weapons and rifles. After Amanullah's loss of power (January 1929). Rule by Kalakani and Saqqawist offensives (February – August 1929). Kalakani became King of Afghanistan. Ali Ahmad Khan was captured; his reign ended on 9 February. Kalakan's forces did fight anti-Saqqawist tribes. Saqqawist collapse and end of war (August – October 1929). On 8 August, an anti-Saqqawist uprising took place in Bamyan, Ghuri and Baghlan, blocking Kalakani's force's route to Turkistan and forcing them to retreat to Ghurband. On 21 August, the Sayyid of Shaykh Ali started an offensive (or attack) against Kalakani that advanced as far as Khanabad, Andarab and Ghurband. On 26 August, there were rumours in Kabul that Hazara settlers successfully attacked Mazar-i Sharif. In early September, the Saqqawists won their last victory by taking Jalalabad. On 23 September, a pro-N
Zahedan () is a city in Iran. It is the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province in Southeastern Iran. As of 2016, Zahedan has over 600,000 people. the city is near the borderlands between Iran and Pakistan where Baloch people live. History. The demographics of the inhabiants of Zahedan are mixed with Balochis, and Persians. They speak Persian and Balochi. Zahedan is east of the Dasht-e Loot. Zahedan is part of Baluchestan, a historic region of Asia. Sunni Muslims live in Zahedan as well. Shaikh Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi is the main and most influential religious and Sunni and the Baloch people. Geography. Zahedan is located in the southeastern part of Iran. It is 1,491 kilometers southeast of Tehran, 950 kilometers south of Mashhad, 1,189 kilometers southeast of Isfahan, 2,024 kilometers southeast of Tabriz, and 95 kilometers from the Iran-Pakistan border. It is also connected by rail to Pakistan and is near to Afghanistan. Zahedan is the Iranian city, which is the closest to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Demographics. As of 2016, Zahedan has 587,730 people. In the 1930s, Zahedan was a small village. In 1930, Zahedan's population reached 17,500. and increased more than fivefold to 93,000 by 1976. After 1980, large numbers of Iranians fleeing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan helped triple the population of Zahedan to more than 281,000 by 1986, a number which has since doubled again.
OceanHero is a search engine focused on collecting plastics, mostly bottle waste in the oceans. It has been certified by the United Nations (UN) Head of Marine and Freshwater Branch. OceanHero follows the model of a similar search engine, Ecosia, which finances tree planting. It earns revenue like most other search engines by displaying ads on search results. The revenue generated from ads are then used to finance collecting plastic bottles from oceans located in Southeast Asia. It can also be installed as a Chrome extension. OceanHero uses a "shell" system for their searches. Users earn 20 shells from each search. For opening a tab, users earn 10 shells. Similarly, different colored shells occasionally pop up on the search engine, asking questions where users can earn shells. Earning 100 shells is the equivalent of financing the recovery of 1 plastic bottle. Every recovered bottle is shown on a bottle counter.  They have developed a unique approach where low-income individuals are involved in the process of collecting plastic from local seas. These individuals receive financial support from the revenue generated through ads on search results. This innovative model allows them to contribute to the removal of plastic waste while also providing them with an income.
Natasha Chipo Mutungwazi is a Canadian actress based in Toronto, Ontario. Her first major recognition was for her role as Helen on the Amazon Prime Video series 'Zahara: The Return', for which she won Gold Movie Awards, UK for Best Actress in a Drama/Horror. She also nominated as the Best Digital Series writer at Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival. Early life and career. Natasha was born and raised in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. In 2004, her mother Marisa Moyo migrated to Canada, later she moved to Canada to live with her mother. It was reported that Natasha on numerous occasions skipped her school to attend dance classes. In 2013, she had to move to Paris with the plan to work and pay for her dancing classes. Natasha returned to Canada in 2014 and admitted herself into an acting school, . In June 2021, she released her debut EP "Imagine", which garnered over million views across digital platforms.
Wikimedia UK (WMUK) is a charity that helps people who work on Wikimedia projects in the United Kingdom. It is a Wikimedia chapter owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikimedia UK started out as Wiki Educational Resources Limited. However, because of money problems they became Wiki UK Limited. They failed to get charitable status at first. As a result, the group made changes to what it did so it could become a charity. The group has worked with museums and others. They have organised things for volunteers in the United Kingdom to do. Some of the organisation's board members have been in controversies because of what they've done on Wikipedia. There were claims that a Wikimedia UK staff member was promoting Gibraltarpedia.
Daniele Mortari (born 30 June 1955) is Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&amp;M University. He is known for inventing the Flower Constellations, the k-vector range searching technique, and the Theory of Functional Connections.
Nura Musa Inuwa (born 18 September 1989), also called M Inuwa, is a Nigerian Hausa musician, artist and movie producer. Career. Inuwa has over 500 songs which were used in Kannywood films. Inuwas successfully sang a campaign song to opposition candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in 2019, the former Vice President Nigeria. Discography. Inuwa discography includes the following  Hubbi, Dan Baiwi, Alkawariri, Dawo dawo, Wata Ruga, Yar Fulani, Salm, Labarina, Yan Arewa, Duniyar Masoya, Mailaya, In Kaiya Zance, Daren Alkhairi, Basaja, Alkawari, Mai Gadon Zin, Zurfin Ciki etci5]
Jordi Galí (born January 4, 1961) is a Spanish economist. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2012.
Richard Harris Clarida (born May 18, 1957) is an American economist. He was the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2018 until 2022. Clarida studied his Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of Illinois and did his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Harvard University.
Khemarak Phoumin () is a city in Cambodia. It is the capital of Koh Kong Province in Western Cambodia. History. Until the end of 1990, Koh Kong was one of the least parts of Cambodia. On 21 April 1984, the Khmer Rouge captured Koh Kong and held it for a night and day. They claimed via the Khmer Rouge Radio to have killed 1,107 Vietnamese troops and injured 125 more during the Vietnamese battle of Koh Kong. Environment. Koh Kong town is just below the southern end of the Cardamom Mountains. The Kah Bpow river runs through the town of Koh Kong, and begins in the Cardamoms and runs down to join the Gulf of Thailand. In 2000, wildlife traders from Thailand were reported to come to Koh Kong town each month to purchase wildlife products. In 2005, One of Cambodia"s tiger hunters, Yor Ngun, was finally captured in Koh Kong town. He was eventually charged with having killed and sold at least 19 tigers, 40 leopards, 30 elephants, 500 gaur, banteng and sambar, 40 Sun bears and three Asian black bears. Geography. Khemarak Phoumin is accessible by land, sea, and air. It is over 450 kilometers southeast of Bangkok, Thailand, 133 kilometers west of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and 138 kilometers northwest from Sre Ambel, Cambodia.
The Afghan Civil War happened from 1992 to 1996. War over Kabul (28 April 1992–27 September 1993). Fighting over Kabul started on 25 April 1992. The six groups that fought were Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, Jamiat-e Islami, Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami, Ittehad-e Islami, Hezb-i Wahdat and Junbish-i Milli. A mujahideen warlord, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, was offered the position of temporary prime minister in President Sibghatullah Mujaddidi's government. However, the agreement was broken on 29 May, when Mujaddidi accused Hekmatyar of having rockets fired at his airplane. By 30 May 1992, Jamiat-e Islami and Junbish-i Milli were mujahideen forces fighting against Hekmatyar's Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin again in southern Kabul. In May or early June, Hekmatyar's forces started to fire cannons and grenade launchers toward targets all around Kabul. Much support came from the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Junbish-i Milli and Jamiat-e Islami in June shelled [or fired cannons and grenade launchers toward targets in areas south of Kabul. Ittehad-e Islami and Hezb-i Wahdat fought each other in western Kabul. In late of June 1992, Burhanuddin Rabbani took over as temporary president of Afghanistan. The government was weak even from its start in April 1992. In the rest of 1992, hundreds of rockets hit Kabul, and thousands, mostly civilians, were killed, Half-a-million people fled the city. In 1993, the rivalling militia factions continued their fights over Kabul, amd several ceasefires and peace accords failed. According to Human Rights Watch, from 1992 to 1995, five different mujahideen armies fought, which contributed to heavily damaging Kabul, but other analysts blame especially the Hezb-e Islami Gulb
Lee Chae-yeon (; born December 10, 1978), is a South Korean K-pop singer.
The London Protocol of 3 February 1830 was an agreement between the three Great Powers (The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, The Kingdom of France and the Russian Empire), which amended the decisions of the 1829 protocol and established Greece as an independent, sovereign state. As a result of the Greek War of Independence which began in 1821, and the Great Powers' intervention in the conflict in the Battle of Navarino (1827), the creation of some form of Greek state in southern Greece had become certain. In 1827, the Greek Third National Assembly entrusted the governance of the fledgling nation to Ioannis Kapodistrias, who arrived in Greece in January 1828. Alongside his efforts to lay the foundations for a modern state, Kapodistrias undertook negotiations with the Great Powers as to the extent and constitutional status of the new Greek state. In March 1829, the foreign ministers of the Great Powers signed the first London Protocol, according to which Greece would become an autonomous, tributary state under Ottoman suzerainty, under an elected Christian prince and encompassing the heartlands of the Greek uprising, the Morea (Peloponnese), Continental Greece and the Cyclades. Kapodistrias' diplomatic manoeuvres, aided by the Russian victory in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–29, resulted in a revision of the protocol on 3 February 1830. According to it, Greece would be fully independent from the Ottoman Empire, but its borders were reduced to the Aspropotamos–Spercheios line. Leopold of Saxe-Coburg (the future King of Belgium) was selected as the first King of Greece, but he rejected the offer. The protocol was yet again amended in the London Conference of 1832, which established the final borders of the Kingdom of Greece and gave the crown to the Bavarian prince Otto.
Mominul Haque (; born 29 September 1991) is a Bangladeshi first-class cricketer. He is also the captain for the Bangladesh national team in Test matches. Mominul is a left-handed batsman. Mominul has the highest batting average in test cricket for a Bangladeshi player.
Boana aguilari is a frog that lives in Peru. Scientists have seen it between 1225 and 2080 meters above sea level. This frog lives in the Pasco part of Peru, in the eastern Andes Mountains. The adult male frog is 33.7–43.8 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 33.7–50.0 mm long. The adult male frog has thick, strong front legs and bony spines on its body. But it does not have the nuptial pad on its front feet the way some other adult male frogs do. This frog's head and back are light brown with light green marks. The throat is yellow-green in color. The belly is white in color and its feet are gray. The iris of the eye is light brown or pink with black marks.
The South Island oystercatcher, South Island pied oystercatcher, New Zealand oystercatcher, or tōrea ("Haematopus finschi") is a bird in the family Haematopodidae. It lives in New Zealand but it also goes to Australia. Appearance. This bird has black and white feathers, pink legs, and a long red bill, or beak. Habitat. This bird spends most of its time in estuaries places where rivers mix with the ocean or by the coast. When it is time for them to lay eggs, they go near rivers, in farmland, and sometimes grasslands. They build nests on the ground out of gravel or earth. Food. When this bird lives in estuaries or the coast, it eats mollusks, for example oysters and other animals with two shells. It also eats crustaceans, earthworms, and insect larvae. Scientists do not know what it eats when it flies inland to build nests. Threats. There were about 40,000 birds alive in the early 1970s and 112,000 in the early 1990s.
The giant clams are the members of the clam genus Tridacna that are the largest living bivalve mollusks. There are actually several species of "giant clams" in the genus "Tridacna", which are often misidentified for "Tridacna gigas", the most commonly intended species referred to as “the giant clam”. "Tridacna gigas" is one of the most endangered clam species. Antonio Pigafetta documented these in his journal as early as 1521. One of a number of large clam species native to the shallow coral reefs of the South Pacific and Indian oceans, they can weigh more than , measure as much as across and have an average lifespan in the wild of over 100 years. They are also found off the shores of the Philippines and in the South China Sea in the coral reefs of Sabah (Malaysian Borneo). The giant clam lives in flat coral sand or broken coral and can be found at depths of as much as 20 m (66 ft). Its range covers the Indo-Pacific, but populations are diminishing quickly, and the giant clam has become extinct in many areas where it was once common. The maxima clam is found most commonly among giant clam species; it can be found off high- or low-elevation islands, in lagoons or fringing reefs. Its rapid growth rate is likely due to its ability to grow algae in its body tissue. Although larval clams are planktonic, they become sessile in adulthood. The creature's mantle tissues act as a home for the symbiotic single-celled dinoflagellate algae (zooxanthellae) from which the adult clams get most of their food. By day, the clam opens its shell and extends its mantle tissue so that the algae get the sunlight they need to photosynthesize.
Trousers (called pants in American English) first showed up in recorded history with the nomadic people across Western Europe. Archeological studies show men/boys and women/girls wore trousers and pants in relation to past societal cultures. For most of modern history, though, wearing pants/trousers was usually restricted to men and boys. In several regions across the world, such patterns were applied not just by social rules but also through laws. Different United States cities, in the 19th and 20th centuries, passed legislation that banned women and girls from wearing trousers/pants. One such law was passed by the San Francisco Supervisors' Board in 1863. This law made appearing in public wearing clothes of the opposite sex (males wearing female clothing or females wearing male clothes) illegal. Similar laws were already in effect for Chicago (passed in 1851) and Columbus, Ohio (passed in 1848). Further laws against cross-dressing were put into effect for Houston, Texas (passed in 1864) and Orlando, Florida (went into effect in 1907). Another almost two dozen United States cities also had these laws. Further laws against cross-dressing were put into effect far into the 20th century. They were made effective for Detroit, Michigan and Miami, Florida as recently as the 1950s.  Early dress reform. In 1851, early women's rights advocate Elizabeth Smith Miller introduced Amelia Bloomer to a garment originally called the "Turkish dress" (knee length skirts over Turkish-style clothes). Bloomer was later working for and promoting the dress. Instructions for making the dress were included. The dresses were later called bloomers. Another woman who advocated publicly for dress changes was Mary Edwards Walker. She was an abolitionist in the 19th century and Civil War surgeon. Walker wore bloomers while working with a military hospital. In 1871, she wrote that women's dress should: "protect the person, and allow freedom of motion and circulation, and not make the wearer a slave to it". Walker publicly wore men's trousers. For doing so, she was arrested several times beginning in New York City in 1866. Other
Reproductive rights are the legal rights and freedoms related to reproduction and reproductive health that differ in countries across the world. The World Health Organization has defined women's reproductive rights as follows: Reproductive rights rest on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health. They also include the right of all to make decisions concerning reproduction free of discrimination, coercion and violence. Women's reproductive rights may include some or every of these: rights to receive education on sexually transmitted disease, freedoms from forced sterilizations or contraceptions, rights to menstrual health and abortion-rights movements. Criticisms. Some people that are against legalized abortion view the term "reproductive rights" as a euphemism to sway emotions in favor of abortion.
Ron Bushy (December 23, 1941 – August 29, 2021) was an American rock drummer. He was best known as a member of the rock band Iron Butterfly. He was the drum soloist on the band's iconic song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (1968). He was the only member of the group to appear on all six of their studio albums. On August 29, 2021, Bushy died at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California from esophageal cancer, at the age of 79.
Wang Kuang-hui (; 12 November 1964 – 30 August 2021) was a Taiwanese professional baseball player and coach. He spent his entire playing and coaching career in the Chinese Professional Baseball League with the Brother Elephants team. His playing career lasted from 1990 until 2004. Wang's managing career lasted from 2007 until 2009. Wang was born in Hualien County, Taiwan. Wang died on 30 August 2021 in Taipei from liver cancer, aged 56.
Latif Nassif Jassim (; born 1941 – 30 August 2021) was an Iraqi politician. He was the leader of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. Jassim was born in Baghdad, Iraq. From 1977 until 1979, he was the Minister of Agriculture. From 1979 until 1971, he was the Minister of Culture and Information. Jassim was arrested on 9 June 2003 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 in the case of the murder of Mohammad al-Sadr. Jassim died on 30 August 2021 in Baghdad at the age of 80.
Claude Guichard (11 November 1928 – 30 August 2021) was a French politician and academic. He was born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France. He was a member of the Independent Republicans. Guichard was a member of the National Assembly from 1967 until 1968 and from 1968 until 1973. Guichard died on 30 August 2021 at the age of 92.
Muhammad Hamza (20 March 1929 – 29 August 2021) was a Pakistani politician. He was a member of Senate of Pakistan from March 2012 to March 2018 and member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 1985 and 1999. He had been a member of the West Pakistan Legislative Assembly from 1962 to 1969. Hamza was born in Ludhiana, British Raj. Hamza died of COVID-19 on 29 August 2021 in Punjab, Pakistan at the age of 92.
Daniel Clarence Quinn (October 11, 1935 – February 17, 2018) was an American writer of novels and sociology-political commentary. He was born in 1935 during the Great Depression. He also is known for coining the term "Food Race" to describe the human overpopulation crisis of modern times.
Ranasinghe Hettiarachchige Tudor Edward Ranasinghe Gunasekara (23 January 1935 – 29 August 2021), known as Tudor Gunasekara (Sinhala: ටියුඩර් ගුණසේකර), was a Sri Lankan politician. He was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was a member of the United National Party. Gunasekara was a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from 1977 until 1983. Gunasekara died on 29 August 2021 in Colombo from COVID-19, aged 86.
Alexander McEachian Gallacher (1 January 1954 – 29 August 2021) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was a Senator for South Australia from 2011 until his death in 2021. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). Gallacher was born in New Cumnock, Scotland.  Gallacher was diagnosed with lung cancer in January 2020. He died on 29 August 2021 from the disease, aged 67.
Alioune Badara Cissé (7 February 1958 – 28 August 2021) was a Senegalese politician. He was a member of the Alliance for the Republic (APR). He was Foreign Minister of Senegal from 4 April to 29 October 2012. He was born in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Badara Cissé died in Dakar, Senegal on 28 August 2021 from COVID-19 at the age of 63.
Siegfried Matthus (13 April 1934 – 27 August 2021) was a German composer, conductor, and festival founder and manager. He was known for his operas, such as "Judith". In 1991, he founded the chamber opera festival Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and directed it until 2018. In 2005, he composed a Te Deum for the reopening of the Dresden Frauenkirche. Matthus died in Stolzenhagen, Germany on 27 August 2021 at the age of 87 after a long-illness.