Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy (/ vɪˈveɪk rɑːməˈswɑːmiː /; [1][2] vih-VAYK rah-mə-SWAH-mee; born August 9, 1985) is an American entrepreneur. He founded Roivant Sciences, a pharmaceutical company, in 2014. In February 2023, Ramaswamy declared his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination in the 2024 United States presidential election. He suspended his campaign in January 2024, after ...
Two houses collapsed in Rodanthe, North Carolina, just hours apart on the same day. This is the fourth house to collapse in the Outer Banks area this year.
In political studies, surveys have been conducted in order to construct historical rankings of the success of the presidents of the United States. Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians and political scientists or popular opinion. The scholarly rankings focus on presidential achievements, leadership qualities, failures, and faults. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Popular-opinion ...
The election of the president and the vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College. [ note 1 ] These electors then cast direct votes, known as electoral votes, for ...
Solomon (/ ˈsɒləmən /), [a] also called Jedidiah, [b] was a monarch of ancient Israel and the son and successor of King David, according to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. [4][5] He is described as having been the penultimate ruler of an amalgamated Israel and Judah.
Archimedes of Syracuse[a] (/ ˌɑːrkɪˈmiːdiːz / AR-kim-EE-deez; [2] c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. [3] Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Considered the greatest mathematician of ancient ...
The war started on 6 October 1973, when the Arab coalition launched a surprise attack on Israel during the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, which coincided with the 10th day of Ramadan. [ 75 ] The United States and Soviet Union engaged in massive resupply efforts for their allies (Israel and the Arab states, respectively), [ 76 ][ 77 ][ 78 ] which heightened tensions between the two superpowers ...
Hirohito[ a ] (29 April 1901 – 7 January 1989), posthumously honored as Emperor Shōwa, [ b ] was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989. He was one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world, with his reign of 62 years being the longest of any Japanese emperor.