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Mulan is a 2020 American action drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a live-action adaptation of Disney’s 1998 animated film of the same name, itself based on the Chinese folklore story, \”The Ballad of Mulan\”. The film stars Yifei Liu in the title role, alongside Donnie Yen, Tzi Ma, Jason Scott Lee, Yoson An, Ron Yuan, Gong...
The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019. It was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020 and a pandemic in March 2020. As of 11 February 2021, more than 107 million cases have been confirmed, with more than 2.35...
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player. He played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls. Jordan holds the NBA records for career regular season scoring average and career playoff scoring average. He is the principal owner of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association. In 2014,...
Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He devised and popularised the Pen rose triangle in the 1950s, describing it as ‘impossibility in its purest form’ and exchanged material with the artist M. C. Escher.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was an American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. Her family was involved in the Underground Railroad assisting those fleeing slavery. She was the first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher of a newspaper in Canada.
F5, Inc. is an American company that specializes in application services and application delivery networking. F5’s offering was originally based on a load-balancing product, but has since expanded to include acceleration, application security, and DDoS defense. In July 2020 F5 admitted a remote code execution vulnerability in the BIG-IP Traffic Management User Interface.
Ratched is an American psychological thriller streaming television series about the character of the same name from Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Created by Evan Romansky and developed by Ryan Murphy, the series stars Sarah Paulson in the title role and serves as a prequel to the novel. The first season premiered on Netflix on...
Sofia Anna Kenin, nicknamed Sonya, is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women’s Tennis Association ranking of No. 4 in the world. She is the reigning champion at the Australian Open and was also the runner-up at the 2020 French Open. Her best result at a Grand Slam tournament came at the 2019 French Open, where she...
Lovecraft Country is an American horror drama television series developed by Misha Green based on and serving as a continuation of the 2016 novel of the same name. Starring Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors, it premiered on August 16, 2020, on HBO. The series is about a young black man who travels across the segregated 1950s United States in search...
Donald Jasper Harris is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the father of Kamala Harris, U.S. Senator from California and vice president-elect of the United States. He took early retirement from Stanford in 1998 in order to pursue his interest in developing public policies to promote economic growth and advance social equity.