Magan (also Makkan) was an ancient nation. It is mentioned in Sumerian cuneiform texts of around 2300 BC. It lasted to 550 BC as a source of copper and diorite for Mesopotamia.
Magan's exact location is not known. Most of the archeological geological evidence suggests that Magan was part of what is now Oman. However, some archaeologists place it in the region of Yemen known as Ma'in, in the south of Upper Egypt, in Nubia or the Sudan, and others as part of today's Iran or Pakistan.
With the disappearance of trade from the Indus region, the copper from Magan was later replaced by copper imports from ancient Cyprus.
Trade was common between Magan and Ur before the reigns of the Gutian kings over Ur. After they were deposed, Ur-Nammu of Ur restored the roads and trade began again between the two nations (c. 2100 BC).
Bozdar Wada
Bozdar Wada (, ) is a town in Thari mirwah in Sindh province of Pakistan. It is about 50 kilometers from the city of Khairpur, and 30 kilometers from the ancient Kot Diji fort.
Paras Khadka
Paras Khadka (; born 24 October 1987) is a Nepalese cricketer and the current captain of the Nepal national team. He is an all-rounder. He is a right-handed batsman, a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He also plays as an off break bowler. He made his debut for Nepal against Malaysia in April 2004. He was in the team which played Nepal's first One Day International (ODI) match. The match was against the Netherlands, in August 2018.
He is the no. 92 ranked T20I batsman in the world. And he is no. 36 T20I ranked all rounder in the world, in September 2018.
Paras Khadka is the sixth Nepali cricketer to score an international century. He scored 106 runs off 77 balls against Kuwait during the 2012 ACC Trophy Elite in October 2012.
He is also the captain of APF Club in the National League and Vishal Warriors in the Nepal Premier League.
With him as the captain, Nepal won the 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Five in Nepal, 2012 ICC World Cricket League Division Four in Malaysia, 2012 ACC Trophy Elite in UAE, 2013 ICC World Cricket League Division Three in Bermuda, 2014 ICC World Cricket League Division Three in Malaysia. Nepal also participated in the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh and gained the Twenty20 International status.
He married his girlfriend Prapti Rajyalaxmi Rana on 26 February 2015.
Cetiosauriscus
Cetiosauriscus is a sauropod dinosaur that lived between 166 and 164 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic in what is now England. The fossil was originally confused with "Cetiosaurus", a similar sauropod.
"Cetiosauriscus" was discovered in May 1898 by clay workers south of Peterborough and east of the Great Northern Railway. Pits in this region expose the fossil-rich sedimentary rocks of the marine Oxford Clay, one of the classic geological formations of British palaeontology.
New Walk Museum
The New Walk Museum and Art Gallery is a museum in Leicester, England. It opened in 1849 as one of the first public museums in the United Kingdom. New Walk contains displays of both science and art, international and local.
Two skeletons are permanently on display — a cetiosaur found in Rutland, and a plesiosaur from Barrow upon Soar. The dinosaur is a specimen of "Cetiosaurus oxoniensis". The 15 metre dinosaur is among the most complete sauropod skeletons in the world. The bones in the display are mostly replicas of the originals, which are too fragile to be used.
The Barrow Kipper, named after the flatfish, is a skeleton of a plesiosaur discovered in Barrow upon Soar in 1851. It has been wrongly classified twice, and at present has no accepted name. Other "star attractions" of the gallery are a "Leedsichthys" (a giant fossil fish) and a piece of the Barwell meteorite.
The museum has a specimen of international importance, the Charnia fossil. This was the first fossil ever described from undoubted Precambrian rocks. Until then, no large (non-microscopic) forms of life were known to exist at that time. The object in the museum – "Leicester's fossil celebrity" – is a holotype. It is the actual physical example from which the species was first identified and formally described. "Charnia masoni" was named after Roger Mason. He discovered it in Charnwood Forest in 1957, when he was a schoolboy. He who went on to a career as an academic geologist. The fossil had been discovered a year earlier by a schoolgirl, Tina Negus, "but no one took her seriously".
The museum holds the UK's largest collection of German Expressionist art. These paintings, including works by George Baselitz, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, were smuggled out of Nazi Germany before World War II. The Nazis condemned the work of these painters. Hans Hess, son of the German-Jewish industrialist and art collector, Alfred Hess, was assistant curator at the museum.
In 2007, more than 100 pieces of art went on display at the museum, donated by Richard Attenborough, namely a collection of Picasso ceramic art.
On the first floor of the museum is an exhibition area that changes periodically. Recent exhibits have included a display focusing on the search for the remains of Richard III, a "Wallace and Gromit" display, and "Spirits of War to Hands of Peace", an exhibit of paintings and sculpture on the horrors of war and the power of peace.
Weinstein effect
The Weinstein effect is a trend in which men and women come forward to accuse other famous or powerful men and women of sexual abuse, harassment or misconduct. The term "Weinstein effect" came into use in October 2017. That's when media outlets began reporting on alleged sexual abuse against movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
The effect gave rise to the Me Too movement. That movement encourages people to share any experience of sexual harassment or sexual assault. The two events caused a cascade of allegations. The allegations brought about a fast removal of many men and women in positions of power in the United States.
As a result, many notable figures were accused of sexual harassment/abuse such as Kevin Spacey, Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Dustin Hoffman, Matt Lauer, U.S. Representative John Conyers, United States Senator Al Franken, former Senate candidate Roy Moore, Les Moonves, Garrison Keillor, Welsh MP Carl Sargeant, Asia Argento and U.S. Associate Justice-nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Pragya Abhishek Mehra
Pragya Abhishek Mehra is a character from the Indian television series Kumkum Bhagya. The character is created by Ekta Kapoor and portrayed by Sriti Jha. Pragya means Insight, Prowess, wisdom, intelligence (Things related with genius) in sanskrit
Pragya is one of the most popular characters on Indian television. Pragya, the elder daughter, is practical, hardworking and initially teaches at a college. Purab and Bulbul fall in love but in a bitter twist of fate, Aliya, Tanushree, and Abhishek feels that Purab loves Pragya. The trio plans revenge and arranges for Pragya to marry Abhishek.