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Hace 1 día · The Doctor is the protagonist of the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.An extraterrestrial Time Lord, the Doctor travels the universe in a time travelling spaceship called the TARDIS, often with companions.Since the show's inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by fourteen lead actors.The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the show ...
Hace 7 horas · Sir Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor, known for his portrayal of fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 and eight performances in general. Connery originated the role in Dr.No (1962) and continued starring as Bond in the Eon Productions films From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964 ...
Hace 1 día · The door to All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, where Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses in 1517 detailing his concerns with what he saw as the Catholic Church's abuse and corruption. The Ninety-five Theses gave rise to Christian Protestantism as one of the world's primary religions, making Wittenberg the "cradle of Protestantism". ...
Hace 7 horas · Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...
Hace 7 horas · The Gambino crime family (pronounced [ɡamˈbiːno]) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.The group, which went through five bosses between 1910 and 1957, is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the ...
Hace 1 día · Donald Trump named his running mate as JD Vance, a populist who opposes Ukraine aid and who called the UK the "first Islamist country to get a nuclear weapon". Angela Rayner hit back at the ...
Hace 1 día · In Scotland, a Baron or Baroness is a rank of the ancient nobility of the Baronage of Scotland, a title of honour, and refers to the holder of a barony, formerly a feudal superiority or prescriptive barony attached to land erected into a free barony by Crown Charter, this being the status of a minor baron, recognised by the crown as noble, but ...
