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2009

In 2009, he portrayed former South African President ‘Nelson Mandela’ in the Clint Eastwood-directed sports drama film ‘Invictus.’ Freeman stated that it was his fondest dream to play Nelson Mandela on screen.

1987

He got his first big break in 1987 when he was cast as the violent pimp ‘Fast Black’During the mid-in ‘Street Smart.’ The role earned him positive reviews and an ‘Academy Award’ nomination for ‘Best Supporting Actor.’acting and dancing classes during the early 1960s at the ‘Pasadena Playhouse.’

1960

He moved to Los Angeles and took acting and dancing classes during the early 1960s at the ‘Pasadena Playhouse.’ During the mid-1960s, he joined the ‘Opera Ring’ musical theater group and became part of the touring company version of ‘The Royal Hunt of the Sun.’
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1988

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Morgan Freeman - IMDb

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June 1, 1937

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Who is Morgan Freeman? Everything You Need to Know

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Morgan Freeman is a versatile actor who has performed in numerous roles from children's television to Shakespearean drama. He is best known for his appearances in a string of well-regarded motion pictures, including Driving Miss Daisy, Lean on Me, Glory, and Million Dollar Baby
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October 1999

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1988

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Oscar Wilde. Оскар Уайльд - Топик (тема) по английскому языку

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1895

An Ideal Husband

1887

The Canterville Ghost
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Jules Verne

French author

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Jules Gabriel Verne 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905 was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always very well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.

In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games.

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Jules Verne | Biography & Facts

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February 4, 2022

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Mathias Sandorf

1855

A Winter amid the Ice
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Francés Carles Mauriac

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François Mauriac died in Paris on 1 September 1970 and was interred in the Cimetière de Vemars, Val d'Oise, France.

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François Mauriac | French author

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1932

Vipers' Tangle | work by Mauriac

February 21, 1925

The Desert of Love by François Mauriac

1922

The Kiss to the Leper | work by Mauriac
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François Moriac

Francés Carles Mauriac

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François Charles Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, France. He studied literature at the University of Bordeaux, graduating in 1905, after which he moved to Paris to prepare for postgraduate study at the École des Chartes.

On 1 June 1933 he was elected a member of the Académie française, succeeding Eugène Brieux.

A former Action française supporter, he turned to the left during the Spanish Civil War, criticizing the Catholic Church for its support of Franco. After the fall of France to the Axis during the Second World War, he briefly supported the collaborationist régime of Marshal Pétain, but joined the Resistance as early as December 1941. He was the only member of the Académie française to publish a Resistance text with the Editions de Minuit.

Mauriac had a bitter dispute with Albert Camus immediately following the Liberation of France. At that time, Camus edited the Resistance paper Combat (thereafter an overt daily, until 1947), while Mauriac wrote a column for Le Figaro. Camus said newly liberated France should purge all Nazi collaborator elements, but Mauriac warned that such disputes should be set aside in the interests of national reconciliation. Mauriac also doubted that justice would be impartial or dispassionate given the emotional turmoil of the Liberation. Despite having been viciously criticised by Robert Brasillach he campaigned against his execution.

Mauriac also had a bitter public dispute with Roger Peyrefitte, who criticised the Vatican in books such as Les Clés de saint Pierre (1953). Mauriac threatened to resign from the paper he was working with at the time (L'Express) if they did not stop carrying advertisements for Peyrefitte's books. The quarrel was exacerbated by the release of the film adaptation of Peyrefitte's Les Amitiés Particulières and culminated in a virulent open letter by Peyrefitte in which he accused Mauriac of homosexual tendencies and called him a Tartuffe, hypocrite.

Mauriac was opposed to French rule in Vietnam, and strongly condemned the use of torture by the French army in Algeria.

In 1952 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life". He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958. He published a series of personal memoirs and a biography of Charles de Gaulle. Mauriac's complete works were published in twelve volumes between 1950 and 1956. He encouraged Elie Wiesel to write about his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust, and wrote the foreword to Elie Wiesel's book Night.

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He was the father of writer Claude Mauriac and grandfather of Anne Wiazemsky, a French actress and author who worked with and married French director Jean-Luc Godard.

François Mauriac died in Paris on 1 September 1970 and was interred in the Cimetière de Vemars, Val d'Oise, France.

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Author of
A Kiss for the Leper
A Kiss for the Leper
Vipers' Tangle
Vipers' Tangle
The Desert of Love
The Desert of Love
Awards received
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Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
Birthdate
October 11, 1885
Date of death
September 1, 1970
Nationality
France
France
Occupation
Journalist
Journalist
Novelist
Novelist
Birthplace
Bordeaux
Bordeaux
Place of death
Paris
Paris
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François Moriac

French author

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Tigranes the Great

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Tigranes II The Great, Tigranes also spelled Tigran, orDikran, (born c. 140—died c. 55 BC), king of Armenia from 95 to 55 BC, under whom the country became for a short time the strongest state in the Roman East.

Tigranes was the son or brother of Artavasdes I and a member of the dynasty founded in the early 2nd century by Artaxias. He was given as a hostage to the Parthian king Mithradates II, but later he purchased his freedom by ceding 70 valleys bordering on Media, in northwestern Iran.

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Thereafter, Tigranes began to enlarge his kingdom, first annexing the kingdom of Sophene (east of the upper Euphrates River). He also entered into alliance with Mithradates VI Eupator of Pontus, whose daughter Cleopatra he married. The interference of the two kings in Cappadocia (in eastern Asia Minor) was successfully countered by Roman intervention in 92 BC.

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Child
Artavasdes II of Armenia
Artavasdes II of Armenia
Birthdate
140
Date of death
54
Father
Tigranes I
Tigranes I
Nationality
Armenia
Armenia
Birthplace
Armenia
Armenia
Place of death
Armenia
Armenia
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Karen Demirchyan Karen Demirchyan

Politician

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Demirchyan had a difficult childhood. Both his parents died when he was still an infant. He decided on a career in engineering, and took up studies at the Yerevan Polytechnical Institute in 1949. After graduating in 1954 he worked briefly for a research institute in Leningrad before returning to Armenia to join the Yerevan Electrotechnical Factory. A member of the Communist Party since 1954, he soon became secretary of the factory party committee.

His party career flourished and in 1959 was sent to Moscow to the Higher Party School, gaining his diploma in 1961, a prerequisite for higher party service. He returned to work as chief engineer of the Yerevan Electrotechnical Factory and later director. In 1966 he became third secretary of the Yerevan party committee, joining the secretariat of the Armenian Central Committee in 1972.

Demirchyan was elected first secretary of the Armenian Communist Party in November 1974, effectively the leader of Soviet Armenia. Two years later he also became chairman of the Armenian Supreme Soviet. During his fourteen-year rule, Armenia was prosperous by Soviet standards, its economy helped by semi-legal and illegal businesses. However, Demirchyan failed to quell popular demonstrations in Armenia calling for Nagorno-Karabakh to be transferred to Armenian jurisdiction, even siding with the protesters. He lost the support of the Moscow Kremlin leadership and was removed "on health grounds" in May 1988.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 when Armenia regained its independence, Demirchyan became director of the Hayelectromekena electrical equipment plant, the biggest plant in Armenia. He kept out of politics and was a half-forgotten figure from the past, until his surprise reemergence into politics in 1998.

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Birthdate
April 17, 1932
Date of death
October 1999
Educated at
National Polytechnic University of Armenia
National Polytechnic University of Armenia
Nationality
Armenia
Armenia
Occupation
Politician
Politician
Birthplace
Yerevan
Yerevan
Place of death
Yerevan
Yerevan
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AK-47

Automatic Kalashnikov

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The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikov (Russian: Автомат Калашникова, lit. 'Kalashnikov's automatic [rifle]'; also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is a gas-operated assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge. Developed in the Soviet Union by Russian small-arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, it is the originating firearm of the Kalashnikov (or "AK") family of rifles. After more than seven decades, the AK-47 model and its variants remain the most popular and widely used rifles in the world.

The number "47" refers to the year the rifle was finished. Design work on the AK-47 began in 1945. It was presented for official military trials in 1947, and, in 1948, the fixed-stock version was introduced into active service for selected units of the Soviet Army. In early 1949, the AK was officially accepted by the Soviet Armed Forces and used by the majority of the member states of the Warsaw Pact.

The AK-47 was designed to be a simple, reliable fully automatic rifle that could be manufactured quickly and cheaply, using mass production methods that were state of the art in the Soviet Union during the late 1940s. The AK-47 uses a long stroke gas system that is generally associated with great reliability in adverse conditions. The large gas piston, generous clearances between moving parts, and tapered cartridge case design allow the gun to endure large amounts of foreign matter and fouling without failing to cycle.

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Main article: 7.62×39mm

The AK fires the 7.62×39mm cartridge with a muzzle velocity of 715 m/s (2,350 ft/s). The cartridge weight is 16.3 g (0.6 oz), the projectile weight is 7.9 g (122 gr). The original Soviet M43 bullets are 123 grain boat-tail bullets with a copper-plated steel jacket, a large steel core, and some lead between the core and the jacket. The AK has excellent penetration when shooting through heavy foliage, walls or a common vehicle's metal body and into an opponent attempting to use these things as cover. The 7.62×39mm M43 projectile does not generally fragment when striking an opponent and has an unusual tendency to remain intact even after making contact with bone. The 7.62×39mm round produces significant wounding in cases where the bullet tumbles (yaws) in tissue, but produces relatively minor wounds in cases where the bullet exits before beginning to yaw. In the absence of yaw, the M43 round can pencil through tissue with relatively little injury.

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Most, if not all, of the 7.62×39mm ammunition found today is of the upgraded M67 variety. This variety deleted the steel insert, shifting the center of gravity rearward, and allowing the projectile to destabilize (or yaw) at about 3.3 in (8.4 cm), nearly 6.7 in (17 cm) earlier in tissue than the M43 round. This change also reduces penetration in ballistic gelatin to ~25 in (64 cm) for the newer M67 round versus ~29 in (74 cm) for the older M43 round. However, the wounding potential of M67 is mostly limited to the small permanent wound channel the bullet itself makes, especially when the bullet yaws.

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Launch date
1947
Founded date
January 1, 1947
Named after
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Product parent company
Kalashnikov Concern
Kalashnikov Concern
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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.

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An Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband
The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost
Child of
William Wilde
William Wilde
Jane Wilde
Jane Wilde
Birthdate
October 16, 1854
Date of death
November 30, 1900
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Oscar Wilde

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Jules Verne

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Jules Gabriel Verne 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905 was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always very well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.

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In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games.

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Author of
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Winter amid the Ice
A Winter amid the Ice
Around the world in 80 days
Around the world in 80 days
Matthias Shandor
Matthias Shandor
Child
Michel Verne
Michel Verne
Birthdate
February 1828
Date of death
March 24, 1905
Educated at
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Lycée Georges Clemenceau
Genre
Science fiction
Science fiction
Notable work
Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Occupation
Geographer
Geographer
Stockbroker
Stockbroker
Esperantist
Esperantist
Birthplace
Nantes
Nantes
Place of death
Amiens
Amiens