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  2. Battle of the Yarmuk - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the Yarmuk (also spelled Yarmouk) was a major battle between the army of the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate.The battle consisted of a series of engagements that lasted for six days in August 636, near the Yarmouk River (also called the Hieromyces River), along what are now the borders of Syria–Jordan and Syria-Israel, southeast of the Sea ...

  3. Khalid ibn al-Walid - Wikipedia

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    He was prompted by the approach of a large Byzantine army dispatched by Heraclius, [125] consisting of imperial troops led by Vahan and Theodore Trithyrius and frontier troops, including Christian Arab light cavalry led by the Ghassanid phylarch Jabala ibn al-Ayham and Armenian auxiliaries led by a certain Georgius (called Jaraja by the Arabs).

  4. Battle of al-Qadisiyyah - Wikipedia

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    However, Vahan, witnessing fresh reinforcements for the Muslims arriving daily from Madinah, felt compelled to attack the Muslim forces before they got too strong. Heraclius's imperial army was annihilated at Battle of Yarmouk in August 636, three months before the battle of Qadisiyyah, therefore ending the Roman Emperor's offensive in the west.

  5. Fourth Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Amazon Go, a cashierless store enabled by computer vision, deep learning, and sensor fusion. " Fourth Industrial Revolution ", " 4IR ", or " Industry 4.0 " [1] is a neologism describing rapid technological advancement in the 21st century. [2] The term was popularised in 2016 by Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum founder and executive ...

  6. 2024 Kolkata rape and murder - Wikipedia

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    Rape and murder. Deaths. 1. Arrests. 3 [1][2][3] On 9 August 2024, a 31-year-old female postgraduate trainee doctor [4] at R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, was raped and murdered in a college building. Her body was found in a seminar room on campus.

  7. List of firearms - Wikipedia

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    This is an extensive list of small arms—including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, multiple-barrel firearms, grenade launchers, underwater firearms, anti-tank rifles, anti-materiel rifles and any other variants.

  8. USB4 - Wikipedia

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    USB4 (Universal Serial Bus 4), sometimes erroneously referred to as USB 4.0, is the most recent technical specification of the USB (Universal Serial Bus) data communication standard. The USB Implementers Forum originally announced USB4 in 2019. USB4 enables multiple devices to dynamically share a single high-speed data link.

  9. GPT-4o - Wikipedia

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    openai.com /index /hello-gpt-4o. GPT-4o ("o" for "omni") is a multilingual, multimodal generative pre-trained transformer developed by OpenAI and released in May 2024. [1] GPT-4o is free, but with a usage limit that is five times higher for ChatGPT Plus subscribers. [2] It can process and generate text, images and audio. [3]