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Anarkali Honaryar

Anarkali Honaryar Honaryar celebrates her 25th birthday this week, she already wears many hats – physician, human rights activist, and member of Afghanistan’s Constitution Committee. Honaryar added another distinction to her impressive resume – Radio Free Afghanistan’s ‘Person of the Year.’ Honaryar is a member of Afghanistan’s minority Sikh community and works for the Independent Human Rights Commission of Afghanistan. …

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Ananda M. Chakrabarty

Ananda M. Chakrabarty — Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, Ph.D. is an Bengali American microbiologist, scientist, and researcher, most notable for his work in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE. Ananda (generally called “Al” by scientific colleagues) Chakrabarty was born in India on 4 April 1938. He attended Sainthia High …

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Amanda Bartrim

Amanda Bartrim represent Australia in the pole vault at the 2010 IAAF world junior championships. Competition Stats Australian Championships: Pole vault: 2009 – 5th (open), 2010 – 1st (U20), 7th (open) International Championships: Australian Youth Olympic Festival: 2009 – Pole vault 2nd Pacific Schools Games: 2008 – Pole vault 1st (3.81m) Commonwealth Youth Games: 2008 – Pole vault 4th (3.70m) Annual …

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Alvaro Pereira

Alvaro Pereira — Alvaro Daniel Pereira Barragan is another fine example of how perseverance and sacrifice are crucial ingredients for a successful football career. The Montevideo native started out with lowly Miramar Misiones where he made his debut in 2004. Two years he later he crossed the Rio de la Plata to try his luck with Argentinean outfit Quilmes, with …

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Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock — Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director, producer and cameo appearance actor. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. In 1956, he became an American citizen …

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Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin — Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, [Born. June 6 (N.S.), 1799, Died. Feb. 10 (N.S.), 1837], was Russia’s greatest poet. His use of the vernacular as the language of poetry freed Russian writing from the constraints of tradition and set new literary standards for novelists and poets, and his preference for subjects from history and folklore brought fresh vitality to …

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Biography The name echoes through the language: It doesn’t take an Einstein. A poor man’s Einstein. He’s no Einstein. In this busy century, dominated like no other by science – and exalting, among the human virtues, braininess, IQ, the ideal of pure intelligence – he stands alone as our emblem of intellectual power. We talk as though humanity …

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