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  2. Course Hero - Wikipedia

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    Course Hero was founded by Andrew Grauer at Cornell University in 2006 for college students to share lectures, class notes, exams and assignments. [4] In November 2014, the company raised $15 million in Series A Funding, with investors that included GSV Capital and IDG Capital. Seed investors SV Angel and Maveron also participated. [5]

  3. Katherine Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Katherine Johnson Johnson in 1983 Born Creola Katherine Coleman (1918-08-26) August 26, 1918 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, U.S. Died February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24) (aged 101) Newport News, Virginia, U.S. Other names Katherine Goble Education West Virginia State University (BS) Occupation Mathematician Employers NACA NASA (1953–1986) Known for Calculating trajectories for NASA ...

  4. Saving Private Ryan - Wikipedia

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    Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat.Set in 1944 in France during World War II, it follows a group of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (), on their mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan and bring him home safely after his three brothers have been killed in action.

  5. Storm Force Accelatron - Wikipedia

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    The attraction opened in the Marvel Super Hero Island of the theme park in 2000, a year after the opening of the park. The premise of the attraction is that Magneto , the archenemy of the X-Men , is threatening the world, so Storm and Professor Xavier recruit riders into the "Storm Force Accelatron", a device that they hope will stop Magneto.

  6. Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui - Wikipedia

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    Squadron Leader Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui HJ SJ was a Pakistani fighter pilot who is known for his gallant actions in two of the aerial dogfights during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, and is a recipient of both the Hilal-e-Jurat (Crescent of Courage) and the Sitara-e-Jurat (Star of Courage) military awards from the Government of Pakistan.

  7. Vostok 1 - Wikipedia

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    Vostok 1 (Russian: Восток, East or Orient 1) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 12 April 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to reach orbital velocity around the Earth and to complete a full orbit around the Earth.

  8. Madeleine de Verchères - Wikipedia

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    Madeleine's seigneury at Verchères was transferred to her new husband. The complex land titles led to numerous lawsuits over the course of her life, and Madeleine sailed to France at least three times to represent herself and her husband in court. Marie-Madeleine died at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade on 8 August 1747 at age 69.

  9. Nick Hague - Wikipedia

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    Tyler Nicklaus Hague (born on September 24, 1975) is a United States Space Force colonel and a NASA astronaut of the class of 2013. Selected to be a flight engineer on the International Space Station, his first launch was on Soyuz MS-10, which aborted shortly after take-off on October 11, 2018.