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George Raymond Richard Martin (27 November 2012) An American screenwriter and author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of Thrones. Martin was selected by Time magazine ... -
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (27 November 2012) A military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and released by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. A sequel to the award-winning 1998 video game StarCraft and its expansion set released by Blizzard, the game was released worldwide ... -
J-15 fighter jet (26 November 2012) Also known as the Flying Shark, J-15 is the first generation Chinese carrier-based fighter aircraft developed by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. Comparable to the Russian Su-33 jet and the U.S. F-18, J-15 is powered by two domestically produced Taihang engines to give ... -
Su Shulin (26 November 2012) The Chairman of Sinopec Corp. Su Shulin was born in 1960, graduated from Daqing Petroleum Institute and received a master's degree at the Harbin Institute of Technology. He is a senior engineer with many years experience in China's oil and gas industry.
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Bryce Courtenay (23 November 2012) Bryce Courtenay (1933-2012) was a South African born Australian writer who rose to fame with his first novel, 'The Power of One', which told of a young boy growing up under Apartheid in South Africa. After studying journalism in London and moving to Australia in the 1950's ... -
Peter R. Voser (23 November 2012) The CEO of Royal Dutch Shell plc. He started his career at Royal Dutch Shell in 1982, working in a number of finance and business roles in different countries. In 2004, he was appointed Shell’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Voser was born in Switzerland. From 2002 ... -
Happy Thanksgiving (22 November 2012) Happy Thanksgiving is a popular expression people use to mark the celebration of the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Thanksgiving is celebrated primarily in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November of each year. Family members often use this occasion to get together ... -
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) (22 November 2012) SAM is NASA's Mars Curiosity rover's onboard chemistry instrument suite or lab. Taking up more than half the science payload onboard the Curiosity rover, the instrument suite features chemical equipment similar to those found in scientific laboratories on Earth. Provided by ... -
West Nile virus (22 November 2012) A mosquito-borne zoonotic arbovirus belonging to the genus Flavivirus in the family Flaviviridae. This flavivirus is found in temperate and tropical regions of the world. It was first identified in the West Nile subregion in the East African nation of Uganda in 1937. Prior ... -
Hamas (21 November 2012) The Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Since June 2007 Hamas has governed the Gaza portion of the Palestinian Territories, after it won a majority of seats in the ...
George Raymond Richard Martin (27 November 2012) An American screenwriter and author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of Thrones. Martin was selected by Time magazine ...
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (27 November 2012) A military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and released by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. A sequel to the award-winning 1998 video game StarCraft and its expansion set released by Blizzard, the game was released worldwide ...
J-15 fighter jet (26 November 2012) Also known as the Flying Shark, J-15 is the first generation Chinese carrier-based fighter aircraft developed by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. Comparable to the Russian Su-33 jet and the U.S. F-18, J-15 is powered by two domestically produced Taihang engines to give ...
Su Shulin (26 November 2012) The Chairman of Sinopec Corp. Su Shulin was born in 1960, graduated from Daqing Petroleum Institute and received a master's degree at the Harbin Institute of Technology. He is a senior engineer with many years experience in China's oil and gas industry. From August ...
Bryce Courtenay (23 November 2012) Bryce Courtenay (1933-2012) was a South African born Australian writer who rose to fame with his first novel, 'The Power of One', which told of a young boy growing up under Apartheid in South Africa. After studying journalism in London and moving to Australia in the 1950's ...
Peter R. Voser (23 November 2012) The CEO of Royal Dutch Shell plc. He started his career at Royal Dutch Shell in 1982, working in a number of finance and business roles in different countries. In 2004, he was appointed Shell’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Voser was born in Switzerland. From 2002 ...
Happy Thanksgiving (22 November 2012) Happy Thanksgiving is a popular expression people use to mark the celebration of the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Thanksgiving is celebrated primarily in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November of each year. Family members often use this occasion to get together ...
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) (22 November 2012) SAM is NASA's Mars Curiosity rover's onboard chemistry instrument suite or lab. Taking up more than half the science payload onboard the Curiosity rover, the instrument suite features chemical equipment similar to those found in scientific laboratories on Earth. Provided by ...
West Nile virus (22 November 2012) A mosquito-borne zoonotic arbovirus belonging to the genus Flavivirus in the family Flaviviridae. This flavivirus is found in temperate and tropical regions of the world. It was first identified in the West Nile subregion in the East African nation of Uganda in 1937. Prior ...
Hamas (21 November 2012) The Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Since June 2007 Hamas has governed the Gaza portion of the Palestinian Territories, after it won a majority of seats in the ...
