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  2. Frida Kahlo - Wikipedia

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    Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954 [1]) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions ...

  3. Halo (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Halo is an American military science fiction television series developed by Kyle Killen and Steven Kane for the streaming service Paramount+.Based on the video game franchise created by Bungie and developed by 343 Industries, the series follows a 26th-century war between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant, a theocratic-military alliance of several alien races determined to ...

  4. Richter scale - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Richter scale [1] ( / ˈrɪktər / ), also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, [2] is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Francis Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it ...

  5. Harry Houdini - Wikipedia

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    Harry Houdini. Erik Weisz (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), known as Harry Houdini ( / huːˈdiːni / hoo-DEE-nee ), was a Hungarian-American escape artist, illusionist, and stunt performer, noted for his escape acts. [3] Houdini first attracted notice in vaudeville in the United States and then as Harry 'Handcuff' Houdini on a tour of ...

  6. Elizabeth Holmes - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American biotechnology entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud in connection to her blood-testing company, Theranos. [2] The company's valuation soared after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that needed only very small volumes of blood, such as from a ...

  7. Affordable Care Act - Wikipedia

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    No. 20-219, 596 U.S. ___ (2022) The Affordable Care Act ( ACA ), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( PPACA) and colloquially known as Obamacare, is a landmark U.S. federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

  8. We Were the Lucky Ones - Wikipedia

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    We Were The Lucky Ones is an American historical drama miniseries developed by Erica Lipez for Hulu that premiered on March 28, 2024. It is an adaptation of the 2017 book of the same name by Georgia Hunter, inspired by the story of her own family. It depicts the Holocaust from the perspective of the Kurc family, Polish Jews.

  9. Deaths in 2024 - Wikipedia

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    Abdul Aleem Farooqui, 76, Indian Islamic scholar. [57] Terry Hill, 52, Australian rugby league player ( Manly Warringah, New South Wales, national team ), heart attack. [58] Leonid Ishchuk [ uk], 73, Ukrainian football player ( Avanhard Sevastopol, Kosmos Pavlohrad) and coach ( FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi ).