Grahame was born in Edinburgh. He married Elspeth Thomson in 1899. Their son, Alastair, was born in 1900 and had health issues during his life. Alastair took his own life in 1920.
Grahame died on 6 July 1932 in Pangbourne, Berkshire, at the age of 73.
Stevens MRT station
Stevens MRT Station (DT10/TE11) is an underground interchange station on the Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system.
This station is one of four to have faregates on the same level as the platforms. The others are Bishan, Expo and Changi Airport stations.
Due to space constraints, the two platforms at the station are seperated from each other and have their own faregates. A ten minute grace period was put in place by the Land Transport Authority in case passengers tap in at the wrong faregates.
The Stevens station is located at the junction of Bukit Timah road and Stevens road, where the station takes its name from.
This station opened on 27 December 2015, along with the rest of the Downtown line stage 2. The Thomson East Coast line section will open in 2021, as part of stage 3 of the line.
Kalu Thapa Kshatri
Maharaja Kalu Thapa Kshatri () or simply, Kalu Thapa was the first King of Takam State. The Thapa dynasty of Takam Kingdom (1246-1545 B.S.) (also called 4000 Parvat State) continued for 300 years only to be defeated by Dimba Bam Malla to form bigger Parbat State. Yashodhara Thapa, King of Jyamrukot (Jamarik), is the male progenitor of the Bhimsen Thapa family and leading Bada Kaji Amar Singh Thapa.
In the Thapa genealogy, he is also accredited to have ruled over Doti from Kāndāmalika. The genealogy claims that he was son of fictitious Kshatriya named Vatsaraja () born from Ashwamedha Yagya (holy fire) and fictitious Vasundhara Devi, daughter of fictitious Kanyakubji Rajput chief Radha Madhav Rajput. The genealogy claims Vatsaraja to be giant sized and thus achieving title of "Abhaya Narsingh Maharaja" and his son Kalu Thapa achieving title of "Abhaya Narsingh Kumar". The genealogy traces the lineage of all Bagale Thapas to a male progenitor ("Mūlapuruṣa") King Kalu Thapa Kshatri, who first ascended to the throne at Kāndāmālikā on Saka Era 1111.
He had four sons who descended the four divisions of his state;
Later, all these states were conquered by Samalvanshi Thakuri King Dimba Bam Malla.
Sir Bani Yas
Sir Bani Yas is a natural island located 170 km southwest of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
It is a popular tourist destination. The island is home to Arabia's largest wildlife reserve. Spread over 87 km square, the reserve was established in 1977 by Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan. It also houses a bird sanctuary.
Libyan Desert
The Libyan Desert forms the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert. It describes that part of the Sahara that lies within the present-day state of Libya; it also historically describes the desert to the south of Ancient Libya, a territory which lay to the east of the present-day state. The Libyan Desert is one of the driest, harshest and most remote parts of the Sahara, the world's largest hot desert. This extended desert country is barren, dry and rainless.
Lenno
Lenno is a small village on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy. It is located about north of Milan and about northeast of Como. Lenno is on a small bay of Lake Como called the "Golfo di Venere" (Bay of Venus).
Ancient Romans started the village. Julius Ceasar invited 500 Greeks to come live in the village. The Greeks planted olive trees all around Lenno. The historian Paolo Giovio (1483-1552) and the geographer Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) wrote that Pliny the Younger had a villa in Lenno. It was called the Comedy villa.
Today, the village is popular with tourists. It has mansions, hotels, restaurants, and a small harbor. In 2014, Lenno was joined with three other nearby villages (Mezzegra, Ossuccio and Tremezzo) to make a single municipality called Comune di Tremezzina.
Lenno was twinned with:
Abraham Ortelius
Abraham Ortelius (also Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels; 14 April 1527 – 28 June 1598) was a Flemish cartographer (mapmaker) and geographer. He is generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (Latin: "Theatre of the Earth's Globe"). One of the founders and the notable representatives of the Netherlandish school of cartography in its golden age (the 16th and 17th centuries), he is also believed to be the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Augustin-Louis Cauchy (21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857) was a French mathematician and physicist who made many important contributions to mathematical analysis and mathematical physics, including elasticity. Importantly, he created complex analysis, which studies complex functions and their properties. Cauchy graduated the École Polytechnique. Cauchy did not like mathematicians making assumptions, and he particularly did not like the way that earlier mathematicians, such as Euler and Lagrange, assumed that properties of finite expansions, meaning that we can count the number of terms, also worked for infinite series. Cauchy was able to give examples of where this did not work, and called the assumptions that the earlier mathematicians made, the generality of algebra. More theorems have been named after Cauchy than any other mathematician in history.
Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Addison Smith (born 9 January 1933) is a South African-British author. He mostly writes historical fiction books set in Southern Africa. His best known books include "When the Lion Feeds", "The Burning Shore", "River God" and "The Seventh Scroll". He has three major book sets, "The Courtney Novels", "The Ballantyne Novels" and the "Ancient Egypt" series. As of 2017, he has written forty books since 1964. He has sold over 120 million copies in total.
Smith was born in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia). He was educated in South Africa. He has been married four times: the first two marriages ended in divorce, his third wife died of brain cancer in 1999, and he married his current wife in 2000. He has four children. He lives in London.
Georges Charpak
Georges Charpak (August 1, 1924 – September 29, 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist of Jewish descent. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber".
Charpak was born in Dabrovica, Poland, now Ukraine. He moved to France when he was seven. During the war he was a member of the French Resistance and was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp.
He died in Paris, France, at the age of 86.
Arthrostylidium merostachyoides
Arthrostylidium merostachyoides is a species of "Arthrostylidium" bamboo in the grass family.
Anthrostylidium merostachyoides is endemic to Costa Rica in Central America.
Arthrostylidium multispicatum
Arthrostylidium multispicatum is a species of "Arthrostylidium" bamboo in the grass family.
"Arthrostylidium multispicatum" is native to Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
Arthrostylidium pubescens
Arthrostylidium pubescens is a species of "Arthrostylidium" bamboo in the grass family.
"Arthrostylidium pubescens" is native to Puerto Rico and Venezuela.
Ogdoad (Egyptian)
In Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad are a group of eight deities (divine beings) worshipped in Hermopolis. The gods of the Ogdoad were mostly seen as humans with the heads of animals, or just depicted as snakes and frogs. They were arranged in four male-female pairs, with the males associated with frogs, and the females with snakes. Their story is part of the Egyptian creation myth.
The Egyptians believed that before the world was formed, there was a watery mass of dark, directionless chaos. In this chaos lived the Ogdoad of Khmunu (Hermopolis). These were four frog gods and four snake goddesses of chaos. Together they represented balance in infinity.