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Herman Wouk ( / woʊk / WOHK; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author and centenarian who wrote historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as ...
This is a list of Indonesians ordered by their net worth. According to Forbes (2007), [1] there were only two Indonesians who were listed among the world's billionaires. Robert Budi Hartono (and family) was ranked 664th with a total net worth of US$1.5 billion. They made profit from kretek (clove cigarettes) company Djarum and their shares in Bank Central Asia, respectively.
Herman (comic strip) Herman (film), a 1990 Norwegian film. Herman the Bull, a bull used for genetic experiments in the controversial lactoferrin project of GenePharming, Netherlands. Herman the Clown (Finnish: Pelle Hermanni ), a Finnish TV clown from children's TV show performed by Veijo Pasanen. Herman's Hermits, a British pop combo.
This Earth of Mankind is the first book in Pramoedya Ananta Toer 's epic quartet called Buru Quartet, first published by Hasta Mitra in 1980. The story is set at the end of the Dutch colonial rule and was written while Pramoedya was imprisoned on the political island prison of Buru in eastern Indonesia. The story was first narrated verbally to ...
Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone (born 5 November 1947) [1] is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist and actor. He was the lead singer "Herman" in the 1960s pop group Herman's Hermits.
Indonesia, [a] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [b] is a country in Southeast Asia between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square ...
The president is the head of state and also head of government of the Republic of Indonesia. The president leads the executive branch of the Indonesian government and is the commander-in-chief of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. Since 2004, the president and vice president are directly elected to a five-year term.The presidency was established during the formulation of the 1945 ...
History of Indonesia. The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, natural resources, a series of human migrations and contacts, wars and conquests, as well as by trade, economics and politics. Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands stretching along the equator in Southeast Asia.