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Billy Morgan (16 April 2015) The British snowboarder Billy Morgan has landed the sport’s first ever 1800 quadruple cork. The rider, who represented Great Britain in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, was in Livigno, Italy, when he achieved the man-oeuvre. It involves flipping four times, while body ... -
Marzieh Afkham (15 April 2015) Marzieh Afkham, who is the country’s first foreign ministry spokeswoman, will head a mission in east Asia, the state news agency reported. It is not clear to which country she will be posted as her appointment has yet to be announced officially.
Afkham will only be ... -
Weekly Packet (3 April 2015) Weekly Packet or "Paquete Semanal" as it is known in Cuba is a term used by Cubans to describe the information that is gathered from the internet outside of Cuba and saved onto hard drives to be transported into Cuba itself. Weekly Packets are then sold to Cuban's without ... -
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) (1 April 2015) The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is an international financial institution established to address the need in Asia for infrastructure development. According to the Asian Development Bank, Asia needs $800 billion each year for roads, ports, power plants or ... -
Spartan (19 March 2015) Spartan is the codename given to the new Microsoft Windows 10 browser that will replace Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer.
The new browser will be built from the ground up and disregard any code from the IE platform. It has a new rendering engine that is built to ... -
NX (17 March 2015) NX is Nintendo's codename for its next generation of games machine which was made public in March 2015.
The news of the future gaming platform was given by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata at a press conference in Tokyo. -
Morton Salt Girl (12 March 2015) Also known as the Umbrella Girl, the Morton Salt Girl is a hand-drawn illustration that serves as the trademark of Morton Salt. Originally created in 1914, the Morton Salt Girl, with her yellow dress and umbrella, has become one of the ten best-known American icons. The ... -
Snowpocalypse 2015 (12 March 2015) Snowpocalypse 2015 is a term used to describe the crippling blizzard in the U.S. Northeast and bitter cold snaps in New York and Washington on January 27, 2015. In what the National Weather Service described as a historic blizzard, the Snowpocalypse 2015 dumped nearly 3 ... -
Jihadi John (9 March 2015) The nickname given to Mohammed Emwazi (born Muhammad Jassim Abdulkarim Olayan al-Dhafiri, 17 August 1988) is a British national who was identified as the masked executioner featured in several videos produced by the Islamic extremist group ISIL showing the beheadings of a ... -
Harrison Ford (6 March 2015) Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. He gained worldwide fame for his starring roles as archaeological adventurer Indiana Jones in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and its sequels, and as the space hero Hans Solo in the original “Star Wars” series. Born in ...
