Amanda S. C. Gorman (born March 7, 1998) is an American poet, writer, speaker, and political activist. She read one of her poems during the installment ceremony of the American President Joe Biden in January 2021, getting praise.
León, Nicaragua
León () is the second largest city in Nicaragua, after Managua. It is the capital and largest city of León Department.
Cecilia Mangini
Cecilia Mangini (31 July 1927 – 21 January 2021) was an Italian movie director and screenwriter. She was thought to be the first female documentary filmmaker in Italy. Mangini wrote the screenplay for the 1973 drama movie "Black Holiday". She was born in Mola di Bari, Italy.
Mangini died on 21 January 2021 in Rome at the age of 93.
Mola di Bari
Mola di Bari, commonly referred to simply as Mola (Barese: ), is a town and "comune" of the Metropolitan City of Bari, in the region of Apulia, in Southern Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
Tony Ferrer
Antonio Laxa (June 12, 1934 – January 23, 2021) better known by his stage name Tony Ferrer, was a Filipino actor, movie director and producer. He was called the James Bond of the Philippines for his movie role as Tony Falcon in the "Agent X-44" spy movie series. Ferrer was born in Macabebe, Pampanga. He also played Inspector Ramos in "The Vengeance of Fu Manchu" and Ben Guevara in "Blind Rage".
Ferrer died on January 23, 2021 in Quezon City from heart disease, aged 86.
Pampanga
Pampanga (; ) is a province in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines.
Ricardo Durão
Ricardo Fernandes Durão (13 June 1928 – 22 January 2021) was a Portuguese modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Durão died on 22 January 2021, aged 92.
Feliks Gromov
Fleet Admiral Feliks Nikolayevich Gromov (; August 29, 1937 – January 22, 2021) was a Russian admiral. He was the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy from 1992 to 1997. Gromov was born in Vladivostok, Soviet Union.
Gromov died on January 22, 2021 at the age of 83.
Juan Guzmán Tapia
Juan Salvador Guzmán Tapia (22 April 1939 – 22 January 2021) was a Salvadoran-born Chilean politician and lawyer. He was the first Chilean judge to prosecute Augusto Pinochet over human rights violations during his dictatorship. Guzmán Tapia was born in San Salvador, El Salvador.
Guzmán Tapia died on 22 January 2021 in Santiago de Chile, aged 81.
Gianfranco Lombardi
Gianfranco "Franco" Lombardi (20 March 1941 – 22 January 2021) was an Italian professional basketball player and coach. During his playing career, his nickname was "Dado". He was born in Livorno, Italy. He played for the national team. He participated in the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics.
In 2006, he was honored into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame.
Lombardi died on 22 January 2021 in Cocquio-Trevisago, Varese, Italy at the age of 79.
Cocquio-Trevisago
Cocquio-Trevisago (; ) is a "comune" (municipality) in the Province of Varese in the Italian region of Lombardy. It is about northwest of Milan and about northwest of Varese.
F. X. Sudjasmin
Fransiskus Xaverius Sudjasmin (26 August 194322 January 2021) was an Indonesian military officer. He was the deputy chief of staff of the Indonesian Army from 1995 until 1997. Sudjasmin was born in Salatiga, Japanese Dutch East Indies.
Sudjasmin died on 22 January 2021 in Jakarta at the age of 77.
Marius van Heerden
Marius van Heerden (8 September 1974 – 22 January 2021) was a South African middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 800 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He was born in Clanwilliam, South Africa.
Van Heerden died on 22 January 2021 in Cape Town from COVID-19, aged 46.
Farah Pahlavi
Farah Pahlavi (, née Farah Diba ; born 14 October 1938) is an Iranian royal. She is the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi was the "Shahbanu" (empress) of Iran from 1961 to 1979. Pahlavi was born in Tehran.
Fawzia Fuad of Egypt
Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (; ; 5 November 1921 – 2 July 2013), also known as Muluk Fawzia of Iran and Fawzia Chirine, was an Egyptian princess who became Queen of Iran as the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.
Fawzia died on 2 July 2013 at the age of 91.
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (; 22 June 1932 – 26 October 2001) was the queen consort of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whom she married in 1951.
Soraya died on 26 October 2001 in her apartment in Paris, France; she was 69.
Khuyol Haoba
Khuyol Haoba () or Khuyon Haoba () is one of the principal characters in the ancient Moirang Kangleirol legends. He is the son of Khuyol Khuntoulempa, and a lover of Yaithing Konu, the fair daughter of Huiningsumba. Right from childhood, he grew up as an orphan man.
Shahnaz Pahlavi
Shahnaz Pahlavi (, born 27 October 1940) is the first child of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his first wife, Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt.
Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran
Reza Pahlavi (; born 31 October 1960) is the oldest son of Iranian Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife Farah Diba. Until the Iranian Revolution in 1979, he was the crown prince and the last heir apparent to the throne of the Imperial State of Iran.
Farahnaz Pahlavi
Farahnaz Pahlavi (; born 12 March 1963) is the eldest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi by his third wife, Farah Diba.
In a 2004 article in "Los Angeles Times", she tried to work at an international aid agencies such as UNICEF, but was rejected because of her name.
Pilgrimage (Wishbone Ash album)
Pilgrimage is the second studio album by English rock band Wishbone Ash. The album is more like folk music than the last album, which was more like blues rock. The album sold many copies and reached number 14 on the UK Albums Chart. Their next album, "Argus" sold more than this album, and was their most popular.
All songs written by Martin Turner, Steve Upton, Ted Turner and Andy Powell, except where noted.
Ali-Reza Pahlavi
Ali-Reza Pahlavi (; 28 April 1966 – 4 January 2011) was a member of the Pahlavi Imperial Family of the Imperial State of Iran. He was the younger son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran and his third wife Farah Diba.
He was second in order of succession to the Iranian throne before the Iranian Revolution.
Pahlavi, who had depression, shot himself on 4 January 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 44.
Leila Pahlavi
Leila Pahlavi (, 27 March 1970 – 10 June 2001) was a princess of Iran and the youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and his third wife, Farah Pahlavi.
On 10 June 2001, Pahlavi was found dead in her room in Leonard Hotel in London by her doctor. She was found to have more than five times the lethal dose of barbiturate and cocaine. She was found in bed and she suffered from anorexia and bulimia.
Hyman G. Rickover
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Moirang Shayon
The "Moirang Shayon" () or "Moirang Saiyon" ()(lit. "Moirang incarnations") is a genre of the seven incarnations of a God and a Goddess, induced by Lord Thangjing, in the ancient Moirang kingdom, a southern province in Ancient Manipur (Antique Kangleipak).
The list of the seven pairs of incarnations are:
Akongjamba is a mortal man and Phouoibi is a goddess, who became the first pair of lovers in the epic.
Henjunaha, an orphan lad and Thongnang Lairoulembi, daughter of a rich man, are the second pair of lovers in the epic.
Khuyol Haoba, son of a late minister, and Yaithing Konu, daughter of a royal court man, are the third pair of lovers in the epic.
Kadeng Thangjahanba, a blacksmith, and Tonu Laijinglembi, the queen of the Moirang king, are the fourth pair of lovers in the epic.
Khubomba, the son of Tonu Laijinglembi, and Pidonu, a lady from Moirang, are the fifth pair of lovers in the epic.