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Hace 12 horas · J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈ ɒ p ən h aɪ m ər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.
Hace 12 horas · California's Great America, or simply Great America and abbreviated CGA, is a 112-acre (45 ha) amusement park located in Santa Clara, California, United States.Owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, it originally opened in 1976 as one of two parks built by the Marriott Corporation.California's Great America features over 40 rides and attractions, with Gold Striker among its ...
Hace 12 horas · The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn or UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in ...
Hace 12 horas · Early life Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig Jr. was born June 19, 1903, at 1994 Second Avenue (according to his birth certificate) in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan ; he weighed almost 14 pounds (6.4 kg) at birth. He was the second of four children of German immigrants Christina Foch (1881–1954) and Heinrich Gehrig (1867–1946). Christina was born in 1881 in Wilster, Schleswig-Holstein, a ...
Hace 12 horas · Aubrey Drake Graham was born on October 24, 1986, in Toronto, Ontario.His father, Dennis Graham, is an African-American drummer from Memphis who once performed with musician Jerry Lee Lewis. His mother, Sandra "Sandi" Graham (née Sher), is a Canadian Ashkenazi Jew, who worked as an English teacher and florist.Graham performed at Club Bluenote in Toronto, where he met Sandra, who was in ...
Hace 12 horas · Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Named for Continental Army Major General Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico.The population was 200,603 at the 2020 census. It is now the third most populous city in the state, after Huntsville and Birmingham, and is the 128th most ...
