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The Yang di-Pertua Negeri Sarawak in English is Governor of Sarawak, [1] is the ceremonial head of state of Sarawak. [2] The Yang di-Pertua Negeri is styled Tuan Yang Terutama ( lit. ' His Excellency ' ). The official residence of the governor is The Astana, located on the north bank of the Sarawak River in Kuching. [3]
A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film about the mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, played by Russell Crowe. The film is directed by Ron Howard based on a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, who adapted the 1998 biography by Sylvia Nasar.
The Generals of the Yang Family is a collection of Chinese folklore, plays and novels on a military family from the earlier years of imperial China 's Song Dynasty (960–1279). The stories recount the unflinching loyalty and the remarkable bravery of the Yangs as they sacrificed themselves to defend their country from foreign military powers ...
Ivan IV Vasilyevich ( Russian: Иван IV Васильевич; [d] 25 August 1530 – 28 March [ O.S. 18 March] 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, [note 1] was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584. [4]
The 2018 Surabaya bombings were a series of terrorist attacks that initially occurred on 13 May 2018 in three churches in Surabaya, the second largest city in Indonesia and the capital of East Java province. The explosions occurred at Immaculate Saint Mary Catholic Church ( Gereja Katolik Santa Maria Tak Bercela, SMTB) on Ngagel Madya Street ...
Battle of Dien Bien Phu. / 21.38694°N 103.01556°E / 21.38694; 103.01556. The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954. It was fought between the French Union 's colonial Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries.
Yang Xianrong (羊獻容) (died 13 May 322 [4] ), posthumous name (as honored by Former Zhao) Empress Xianwen (獻文皇后, literally "the wise and civil empress"), was an empress —uniquely in the history of China, for two different dynastic empires and two different emperors. Her first husband was Emperor Hui of Jin, and her second husband ...
Background. Furuta was born on 18 January 1971 and grew up in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, where she lived with her parents, older brother, and younger brother. At the time of her murder, she was a 17-year-old senior at Yashio-Minami High School, and worked a part-time job at a plastic molding factory from October 1988 to save up money for a planned graduation trip.