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Website. www.diananyad.com. Diana Nyad / ˈnaɪˌæd / (née Sneed; born August 22, 1949) is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. [2] Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan (28 mi or 45 km) in record time, and in 1979 when she swam from Bimini, The Bahamas, to Juno Beach ...
Publish or perish. " Publish or perish " is an aphorism describing the pressure to publish academic work in order to succeed in an academic career. [1] [2] [3] Such institutional pressure is generally strongest at research universities. [4] Some researchers have identified the publish or perish environment as a contributing factor to the ...
Nora Lum [1] (born June 2, 1988), [2] known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress, rapper, and comedian. She rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song "My Vag" became popular on YouTube. She then released her debut album, Yellow Ranger (2014), and appeared on the MTV comedy series Girl Code (2014–2015).
State of Palestine. Territory claimed by Palestine (green). [2] Claimed territory annexed by Israel (light green). Palestine ( Arabic: فلسطين, romanized : Filasṭīn [e] ), officially the State of Palestine ( دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn ), [f] is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. It is officially recognized as a ...
Category:Visual arts media. Category. : Visual arts media. —The artistic methods, processes, or means of expression, used in the visual arts to produce a work of art. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Art media.
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), also known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself, for " bind, torture, kill "), is an American serial killer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although Rader occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, he typically targeted women.
An ancient hydraulic telegraph being used by Aeneas to send a message. A hydraulic telegraph ( Greek: υδραυλικός τηλέγραφος) refers to two different semaphore systems involving the use of water-based mechanisms as a telegraph. The earliest one was developed in 4th-century BC Greece, while the other was developed in 19th ...
Virgin Media Three, also called Virgin Three, is an Irish free-to-air television channel owned by Virgin Media Television.. The channel was first launched by Northern Irish broadcaster UTV Media on 1 January 2015 as UTV Ireland; it primarily carried programmes licensed from British broadcaster ITV, along with some local news and lifestyle programmes.