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[Thomas Jefferson]
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Beyoncé (born 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead vocalist of Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling girl groups. Beyoncé then embarked on a successful solo career, releasing eight chart-topping studio albums—from Dangerously in Love (2003) to Cowboy Carter (2024)—and becoming one of the best-selling musicians in history. Her singles include nine US Billboard Hot 100 number ones, among them "Crazy in Love", "Irreplaceable", "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", "Break My Soul", and "Texas Hold 'Em". Her accolades include a record 35 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Peabody Award. A cultural icon spanning three decades, Beyoncé was named Billboard's greatest pop star of the 21st century and Rolling Stone's eighth-greatest singer of all time. Her business endeavors include the nonprofit BeyGood, the hair care brand Cécred, the whiskey SirDavis, and Parkwood Entertainment. (Full article...)
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On this day: April 23
April 23: National Sovereignty and Children's Day in Turkey (1920)
- 1016 – Edmund Ironside became King of England, reigning for only seven months before the country was conquered by Cnut the Great.
- 1891 – Chilean Civil War: The armored frigate Blanco Encalada (pictured) was sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay, the first ironclad warship lost to a self-propelled torpedo.
- 1976 – The American band the Ramones released their debut album, which became highly influential on the emerging punk rock movement.
- 2009 – The gamma-ray burst GRB 090423 was detected coming from the most distant astronomical object of any kind known at the time.
- Ngaio Marsh (b. 1895)
- E. B. Ford (b. 1901)
- Patricia Paputsakis (b. 1986)
- Dan Kaminsky (d. 2021)
Knowledge about Earth
Facts and Figures
- Age of Earth: ~ 4.568 billion years
- World Population: 7.3 billion (July 2015)
- Continents: 7 (Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia)
- Mean Radius: 6371.0 km
- Axial Tilt: 23,44°
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Our Solar System
Our solar system consists of
1 star (Sun) and 8 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
- 1 AU (astronomical unit) is roughly the distance between Earth and the Sun (about 150 million kilometres).
- The space probe Voyager 1 was launched by the NASA in 1977 and is meanwhile (autumn 2015) about 133 AU away from Earth.
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Why you should extend your general knowledge:
There are many reasons why one should or wants to extend his knowledge.
First you should consider that "general knowledge" is knowledge which a group of humans - who belong together regional, temporal or otherwise - owns. Thus, it describes a basic understanding of specific categories of knowledge.
As the English philosopher Francis Bacon said before: "Wisdom is Power" [Bacon 1597].