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Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York. Her father ascended the throne on the abdication of his brother King Edward VIII in 1936. She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In 1947 she married...
Tyler Christopher Herro is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat. He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. Herro was selected by the Heat in the first round of the 2019 NBA draft with the 13th overall pick. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team in 2020.
Sana Khan is a former Indian actress, model and dancer. She has acted in 14 films across 5 languages and has appeared in over 50 ad films. She was a contestant on the reality show Bigg Boss in 2012 and became a finalist. Khan confirmed her relationship with choreographer Melvin Louis in February 2019.
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active and the seventh costliest on record. The season featured a total of 31 tropical cyclones, all but one of which became a named storm. Of the 30 named storms, 12 made landfall in the contiguous United States, breaking the record of nine set in 1916. This season also featured a record 10 tropical...
Daniel Richard Green Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the University of North Carolina. He was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the 46th overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft. Green has also played for the New York Knicks, New York City Knicks, and...
Michael Schumacher won seven World Drivers’ Championship titles. He also holds the records for the most fastest laps and the most races won in a single season. He retired from Formula One in 2006, after finishing runner-up to Fernando Alonso. In December 2013, he suffered a severe brain injury in a skiing accident. He died in Switzerland in September 2014,...
Jennifer Anne Doudna is an American biochemist known for her pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing. She was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Emmanuelle Charpentier. She is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.
This article details the list of men’s singles Grand Slam tournaments tennis champions. Some major changes have taken place in history and have affected the number of titles that have been won by various players. The Australian and US tournaments have only been officially regarded as majors by the ILTF since 1924. The French Championships haveonly been a major since...
Armenia is a landlocked country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. It is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and Azerbaijan’s exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. The Kingdom of Armenia reached its height under Tigranes the Great in the 1st...
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous notable films that were originally scheduled for release from mid-March to December were postponed to release in mid through late 2020. The highest-grossing American films released in 2020, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows: