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Emishi. The Emishi ( 蝦夷) (also called Ebisu and Ezo ), written with Kanji that literally mean " shrimp barbarians ," constituted an ancient ethnic group of people who lived in parts of Honshū, especially in the Tōhoku region, referred to as michi no oku (道の奥, roughly "deepest part of the road") in contemporary sources.
Genghis Khan (born Temüjin; c. 1162 – 25 August 1227), also Chinggis Khan, [a] was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire, which he ruled from 1206 until his death in 1227; it later became the largest contiguous empire in history.
Ötzi, also called the Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC. Ötzi's remains were discovered on 19 September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps (hence the nickname "Ötzi", German: [œtsi]) at the border between Austria and Italy. He is Europe's oldest known natural human mummy, offering an unprecedented view of ...
Gehazi, Geichazi, or Giezi ( Douay-Rheims) ( Hebrew: גֵּיחֲזִי ; Gēḥăzī; "valley of vision"), is a figure found in the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible . A servant of the prophet Elisha, Gehazi enjoyed a position of power but was ultimately corrupt, misusing his authority to cheat Naaman the Syrian, a general afflicted with ...
Elizabeth Lynne Cheney [1] ( / ˈtʃeɪni /; born July 28, 1966) [2] is an American attorney and politician. She represented Wyoming's at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023, and served as chair of the House Republican Conference —the third-highest position in the House Republican leadership ...
Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping ( Chinese: 习近平; pinyin: Xí Jìnpíng, pronounced [ɕǐ tɕîn.pʰǐŋ]; [a] born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus the paramount leader of China, since 2012.
Recorded 23 March 2023. Chew Shou Zi ( Chinese: 周受资, born 1 January 1983), commonly known as Shou Zi Chew, is a Singaporean businessman and entrepreneur who has been serving as the chief executive officer of TikTok, an online video platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance, since 2021. [1] [2] [3]
Atishi Marlena Singh, [4] also known as Atishi Singh or Atishi Marlena or Atishi [5] is an Indian politician, political activist and MLA from Kalkaji, Delhi. [6] She is a member of the Political Affairs Committee of Aam Aadmi Party and currently serving as Minister of Education, P.W.D, Culture and Tourism in the Delhi Government.