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Hace 10 horas · The first story to address the logical paradoxes inherent in the concept of time travel. 1892. Golf in the Year 2000. J. McCullough. A man falls asleep in 1892 and wakes up in the year 2000. Trains are supersonic, and golf and politics are the only activities not yet dominated by masculinized women.
Hace 10 horas · Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson are credited with creating the Joker, but their accounts of the character's conception differ, each providing his own version of events. Finger's, Kane's, and Robinson's versions acknowledge that Finger showed them an image of actor Conrad Veidt in character as Gwynplaine (a man whose mouth is disfigured into a perpetual grin) in the 1928 film The Man ...
Hace 10 horas · Ayaan Hirsi Ali (/ ɑː ˈ j ɑː n ˈ h ɪər s i ˈ ɑː l i /; Dutch: [aːˈjaːn ˈɦiːrsi ˈaːli] ⓘ; Somali: Ayaan Xirsi Cali: Ayān Ḥirsi 'Alī; born 13 November 1969) is a Somali-born, Dutch-American writer, activist and former politician. She is a critic of Islam and advocate for the rights and self-determination of Muslim women, opposing forced marriage, honour killing, child ...
Hace 10 horas · The history of Germany from 1945 to 1990 comprises the period following World War II.The period began with the Berlin Declaration, marking the abolition of the German Reich and Allied-occupied period in Germany on 5 June 1945, and ended with the German reunification on 3 October 1990.. Following the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 and its defeat in World War II, Germany was stripped of its ...
Hace 10 horas · Case Closed, also known as Detective Conan ( Japanese: 名探偵コナン, Hepburn: Meitantei Konan, lit. 'Great Detective Conan'), is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It has been serialized in Shogakukan 's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday since January 1994, with its chapters collected in ...
Hace 10 horas · Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.As the seat of Cook County, the second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially ...
Hace 10 horas · Formaldehyde (/ f ɔːr ˈ m æ l d ɪ h aɪ d / ⓘ for-MAL-di-hide, US also / f ə r-/ ⓘ fər-) (systematic name methanal) is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH 2 O and structure H−CHO, more precisely H 2 C=O.The compound is a pungent, colourless gas that polymerises spontaneously into paraformaldehyde.It is stored as aqueous solutions (formalin), which consists mainly of ...
