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Ayman al-Zawahiri

Ayman al-Zawahiri — Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri, Ayman al-Zawahiri is usually spelled Zawahiri. Al-Zawahiri has also gone under the names of Abu Muhammad, Abu Fatima, Muhammad Ibrahim, Abu Abdallah, Abu al-Mu’iz, The Doctor, The Teacher, Nur, Ustaz, Abu Mohammed Nur al-Deen, Abdel Muaz (Abdel Moez, Abdel Muez). Ayman al-Zawahiri was born on June 19, 1951 to a prominent upper middle …

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Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini

Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini Biography Born — 24 September 1902 in Khomein, Iran 1964-78 — Is exiled to Iraq for criticizing the Shah and sparking riots, evicted by Saddam Hussain, he moves to Paris suburb. 1979 — Returns to Tehran, is acclaimed as leader of Iran’s revolution 1979-81 — His followers hold fifty-two Americans captive in the U.S. embassy in Tehran 1989 — In February, he demands the death of Salman …

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Avicenna – Abu Ali al-husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina

Avicenna – Abu Ali al-husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina Born: 980 CE approx Worked: The Canon of Medicine, The Book of Healing, Logic, Metaphysics, Physics, De Caelo, The Life of Ibn Sina, Remarks and Admonitions, Essay on the Secret of Destiny, The Book of Scientific Knowledge. Died: 1037 CE approx Abu Ali al-usayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina, also known …

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Aryabhata

Aryabhata (476–550 CE) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His most famous works are the Aryabhatiya (499 CE, when he was 23 years old) and the Arya-siddhanta. Nearly five hundred years after the birth of Christ a ritual was held near Khagola, the famous astronomical observatory at …

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Arun Sarin

Arun Sarin (born: October 21, 1954) Chief Executive Officer of the British based Global Mobile Telecommunications Company Vodafone Group Plc. He is one of the few Indians to head a global multi national company. Arun Sarin was born on October 21, 1954 at Panchmari, Madya Pradesh. His father was an army officer and Arun Sarin did his schooling from military boarding …

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Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington, I first met Arianna in 1995 at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. We had both been invited by the Washington Times, and I insisted on sitting next to the striking Greek-born redhead (though not, strictly speaking, redheaded-born Greek). We hit it off. Arianna introduced me to her friend Newt Gingrich. I told her the Gingrich revolution was a fraud. …

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