Croatia,officially the Republic of Croatia,is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe. It shares a coastline along the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest,Hungary to the northeast,Serbia to the east,Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast,and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west and southwest. Croatia's capital and largest city,Zagreb,forms one of the country's primary subdivisions,with twenty counties. The country spans an area of 56,594 square kilometres,hosting a population of nearly 3.9 million.
India is the second most populated country in the world with a sixth of the world's population. According to official estimates,India's population stood at 1.38 billion.
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden,also transliterated as Usama bin Ladin,was a Saudi Arabian-born terrorist and founder of the Pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda. The group is designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council,the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),the European Union,and various countries. Under bin Laden,al-Qaeda was responsible for the September 11 attacks in the United States and many other mass-casualty attacks worldwide. On 2 May 2011,he was killed by U.S. special operations forces at his compound in Abbottabad,Pakistan.
George Michael was an English singer,songwriter,and record producer. He is considered one of the most significant cultural icons of the MTV generation and is one of the best-selling musicians of all time,with sales of over 120 million records worldwide. Michael is known as a leading creative force in music production,songwriting,vocal performance,and visual presentation. He achieved seven number-one songs on the UK Singles Chart and eight number-one songs on the US Billboard Hot 100. Michael won various music awards,including two Grammy Awards,three Brit Awards,three American Music Awards,twelve Billboard Music Awards,and four MTV Video Music Awards. In 2015,he was ranked 45th in Billboard's list of the "Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time". The Radio Academy named him the most played artist on British radio during the period 1984–2004.
Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River,the city is approximately 80 km (50 mi) west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business,commercial,and financial hub of Eastern India and the main port of communication for North-East India. According to the 2011 Indian census,Kolkata is the seventh-most populous city in India,with a population of 45 lakh (4.5 million) residents within the city limits,and a population of over 1.41 crore (14.1 million) residents in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. It is the third-most populous metropolitan area in India. In 2021,the Kolkata metropolitan area crossed 1.5 crore (15 million) registered voters. The Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port and its sole major riverine port. Kolkata is regarded as the cultural capital of India.
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan revolutionary,politician and political theorist. He was the de facto leader of Libya from 1969 to 2011,first as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then as the "Brotherly Leader" of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism,he later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.
Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional football club,based in Newcastle upon Tyne,that plays in the Premier League –the top flight of English football. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End. The team play their home matches at St James' Park in the centre of Newcastle. Following the Taylor Report's requirement that all Premier League clubs have all-seater stadiums,the ground was modified in the mid-1990s and currently has a capacity of 52,305.
Washington,D.C.,formally the District of Columbia,also known as just Washington or simply D.C.,is the capital city and federal district of the United States. It is located on the east bank of the Potomac River,which forms its southwestern and southern border with the U.S. state of Virginia,and it shares a land border with the U.S. state of Maryland on its remaining sides. The city was named for George Washington,a Founding Father and the first president of the United States,and the federal district is named after Columbia,a female personification of the nation. As the seat of the U.S. federal government and several international organizations,the city is an important world political capital. It is one of the most visited cities in the U.S.,seeing over 20 million visitors in 2016.
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country musician. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie (1973),combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978),made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country,a subgenre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films,co-authored several books,and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the legalization of marijuana.
Derek Sanderson Jeter is an American former professional baseball shortstop,businessman,and baseball executive. As a player,Jeter spent his entire 20-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the New York Yankees. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 2020;he received 396 of 397 possible votes (99.75%),the second-highest percentage in MLB history and the highest by a position player. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) and part owner of the league's Miami Marlins from September 2017 to February 2022.
Carlos Irwin Estévez,known professionally as Charlie Sheen,is an American actor. He has appeared in films such as Platoon (1986),Wall Street (1987),Young Guns (1988),The Rookie (1990),The Three Musketeers (1993),and The Arrival (1996). In the 2000s,when Sheen replaced Michael J. Fox as the star of ABC's Spin City,his portrayal of Charlie Crawford earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. He then starred as Charlie Harper on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003—11),for which he received multiple Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy nominations,and as Dr. Charles "Charlie" Goodson on the FX series Anger Management (2012–14). In 2010,Sheen was the highest-paid actor on television,earning US$1.8 million per episode of Two and a Half Men.
Amy Jade Winehouse was an English singer and songwriter. She was known for her deep,expressive contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres,including soul,rhythm and blues and jazz.
James Edward Franco is an American actor and filmmaker. For his role in 127 Hours (2010),he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Franco is known for his roles in films,such as Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007),Milk (2008),Eat,Pray,Love (2010),Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011),Spring Breakers (2012),and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He is known for his collaborations with fellow actor Seth Rogen,having appeared in eight films and one television series with him,examples being Pineapple Express (2008),This Is the End (2013),Sausage Party (2016),and TheDisasterArtist (2017),for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island —and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area,covering 268,021 square kilometres (103,500 sq mi). New Zealand is about 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the islands of New Caledonia,Fiji,and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks,including the Southern Alps,owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington,and its most populous city is Auckland.
The September 11 attacks,commonly known as 9/11,were a series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda against the United States. On the morning of Tuesday,September 11,2001,nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners mid-flight while traveling from the northeastern U.S. to California. The attackers were organized into three groups of five members and one group of four,with each group including one designated flight-trained hijacker who took control of the aircraft. Their goal was to crash the planes into prominent American buildings,inflicting mass casualties and major structural damage. The hijackers successfully crashed the first two planes into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City,and the third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington,Virginia. The fourth plane was intended to hit a federal government building in Washington,D.C.,but instead crashed down in a field outside Shanksville,Pennsylvania,following a passenger revolt that foiled the attack.
Steven Paul Jobs was an American entrepreneur,industrial designer,business magnate,media proprietor,and investor. He was the co-founder,the chairman,and CEO of Apple;the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar;a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar;and the founder,chairman,and CEO of NeXT. He is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s,along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Pirates of the Caribbean is an American fantasy swashbuckler film series produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and based on Walt Disney's theme park attraction of the same name. The film series serves as a major component of the eponymous media franchise.
Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical physicist,cosmologist,and author who,at the time of his death,was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009,he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist,he served as the president of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.
The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami occurred at 14:46 JST on 11 March. The magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake had an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean,72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region,and lasted approximately six minutes,causing a tsunami. It is sometimes known in Japan as the "Great East Japan Earthquake",among other names. The disaster is often referred to in both Japanese and English as simply 3.11.
