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Lhakpa Sherpa , the Most Successful Female Everest Climber of All Time
Lhakpa Sherpa awoke before dawn on a cold Connecticut morning in shuffled into the kitchen of her two-bedroom apartment in…
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Florence Nightingale Birth Anniversary: The Lady With the Lamp
Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820–August 13, 1910), a nurse and social reformer, is considered the founder of the modern nursing profession…
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World’s first viral meme, ‘Dancing Baby’, resurfacing as NFT
After almost 26 years, the Dancing Baby, one of the earliest viral memes that all 90s’ kids remember, is now…
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Rabindranath Tagore: Poet and Painter
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) is best known as a poet, and in 1913 was the first non-European writer to…
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100-Year-Old Man Sets Record by Working for Same Company for 84 Years
A man set a record for working at the same company for the longest time, reported Guinness World Records (GWR). Walter Orthmann…
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Social media threatening press freedom: Nobel laureate Maria Ressa
The rise of social media has allowed dangerous propaganda to flourish and left professional journalists facing constant threat of attack,…
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World’s tallest woman awarded three more Guinness World Records titles
The Turkish woman who holds the Guinness World Record for tallest woman living was awarded three more records for the…
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The origin of song “O mon Romjaner oi rojar sheshe elo khushir Eid”
Historically Bangalees are passionate music lovers. We have songs based on different occasions. When it comes to celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr, a particular…
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The Legend of John Henry: A symbol of the worker’s foredoomed struggle against the machine
In the early 1870s, construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway along the Greenbrier and New Rivers employed thousands of…
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The Bloody Story of May Day
May Day is a May 1 celebration with a long and varied history, dating back millennia. Throughout the years, there…
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