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7 hours ago · More than 250 women have played on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, and most contributed to the battle for equal pay. This narrative nonfiction book by the award-winning author and journalist Elizabeth Rusch traces the evolution of that fight, bringing this important rights issue in sports and in our culture to the attention of young readers. Features extensive back matter. With the ...
7 hours ago · Nanjing [b] is the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China. The city has 11 districts, an administrative area of 6,600 km 2 (2,500 sq mi), and a population of 9,423,400 as of 2021. [6] Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as the capital of various Chinese ...
7 hours ago · Early life and background Further information: Nehru–Gandhi family Gandhi along with Sonia Gandhi, then POI Pratibha Patil, then VPOI Ansari, then PM at the memorial of his grandmother Indira Gandhi Gandhi was born on 19 June 1970 at Holy Family Hospital in Delhi. He was the first of two children born to Rajiv Gandhi, who later served as the 6th Prime Minister of India, and Sonia Gandhi, who ...
7 hours ago · Edward Elgar. Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO ( / ˈɛlɡɑːr / ⓘ; [1] 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and ...
7 hours ago · São Tomé and Príncipe, [a] officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, [b] is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, about 150 km (93.21 mi) apart and about 250 and 225 km (155 and 140 ...
7 hours ago · Democracy (from Ancient Greek: δημοκρατία, romanized : dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') [1] is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state. [2] [3] Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitive elections while more ...
7 hours ago · 我们很少有幸能够接触到一个由小说（或者其他文学体裁）引出的思想史作品，圣安德鲁斯大学的科林·基德（Colin Kidd）的这本《卡苏蓬先生的世界：英国神话战争，1700-1870》（Colin Kidd, The World of Mr Cassaubon: Britain’s Wars of Mythography, 1700-1870, Cambridge University Press, 2016）便是其中一例。
