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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind ( Hebrew: קיצור תולדות האנושות, Qitzur Toldot ha-Enoshut) is a book by Yuval Noah Harari, first published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 based on a series of lectures Harari taught at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in English in 2014. [ 1][ 2] The book, focusing on Homo sapiens ...
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam BR ( / ˈəbdʊlkəˈlɑːm / ⓘ; 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the 11th president of India from 2002 to 2007. Born and raised in a Muslim family in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, he studied physics and aerospace engineering.
Timeline. (novel) Timeline is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his twelfth under his own name and twenty-second overall, published in November 1999. It tells the story of a group of history students who travel to 14th-century France to rescue their professor. The book follows in Crichton's long history of combining ...
Aryabhata ( ISO: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I[ 3][ 4] (476–550 CE) [ 5][ 6] was the first of the major mathematician - astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Āryabhaṭīya (which mentions that in 3600 Kali Yuga, 499 CE, he was 23 years old) [ 7] and the Arya- siddhanta .
Life of William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 [ a] in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England, in the Holy Trinity Church. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had ...
Daniel (Dn'il, or Danel) is also the name of a figure in the Aqhat legend from Ugarit. [ 4] (. Ugarit was a Canaanite city destroyed around 1200 BCE – the tablet containing the story is dated c. 1360 BCE.) [ 11] This legendary Daniel is known for his righteousness and wisdom and a follower of the god El (hence his name), who made the god’s ...
Mark Twain bibliography. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [ 1] well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called the " Great American Novel ," and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
Jorge Luis Borges bibliography. Borges in 1976. This is a bibliography of works by Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet, and translator Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). Each year links to its corresponding " [year] in literature" article (for prose) or " [year] in poetry" article (for verse).