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  2. Influence and legacy of Swami Vivekananda - Wikipedia

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    Bipin Chandra Pal felt, Vivekananda's message was "the message of modern humanity". [8] On 6 February 1921, Mahatma Gandhi came to Belur Math and paid homage to Vivekananda. On this occasion he said: [9] I have come here to pay my homage and respect to the revered memory of Swami Vivekananda, whose birthday is being celebrated today.

  3. Contents of the Voyager Golden Record - Wikipedia

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    The Voyager Golden Record contains 116 images and a variety of sounds. The items for the record, which is carried on both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Included are natural sounds (including some made by animals), musical selections from different ...

  4. Master of ceremonies - Wikipedia

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    A master of ceremonies, abbreviated MC or emcee, is the official host of a ceremony, staged event, conference, convention, or similar performance.. The term is earliest documented in the Catholic Church since the 5th century, where the master of ceremonies is an official of the Papal Court responsible for the proper and smooth conduct of the elaborate rituals involving the pope and the sacred ...

  5. Tengwar - Wikipedia

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    The Tengwar (/ ˈtɛŋɡwɑːr /) script is an artificial script, one of several scripts created by J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Within the fictional context of Middle-earth, the Tengwar were invented by the Elf Fëanor, and used first to write the Elven tongues Quenya and Telerin.

  6. Cherokee syllabary - Wikipedia

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    The Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language. His creation of the syllabary is particularly noteworthy as he was illiterate until its creation. [ 3 ] He first experimented with logograms, but his system later developed into the syllabary.

  7. A Psalm of Life - Wikipedia

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    The didactic message is underscored by a vigorous trochaic meter and frequent exclamation. [9] Answering a reader's question about the poem in 1879, Longfellow himself summarized that the poem was "a transcript of my thoughts and feelings at the time I wrote, and of the conviction therein expressed, that Life is something more than an idle dream."

  8. Amanda Gorman performs new poem at DNC - AOL

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    Amanda Gorman performed her new spoken-word poem titled "This Sacred Scene" at the Democratic National Convention. Read the full text here.

  9. Skywriting - Wikipedia

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    Skywriting is the process of using one or more small aircraft, able to expel special smoke during flight, to fly in certain patterns that create writing readable from the ground. These messages can be advertisements, general messages of celebration or goodwill, personal messages such as a marriage proposals and birthday wishes, or acts of protest.