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Hace 3 horas · The Hunter, by Tana French. We first met Cal, a retired American cop, in the pages of French’s previous novel “The Searcher,” when he moved from Chicago to rural Ireland.
Hace 20 horas · The cosmic microwave background (CMB or CMBR) is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe.It is a remnant that provides an important source of data on the primordial universe. With a standard optical telescope, the background space between stars and galaxies is almost completely dark.However, a sufficiently sensitive radio telescope detects a faint background glow ...
Hace 20 horas · Silent Hill (Japanese: サイレントヒル, Hepburn: Sairento Hiru) is a horror anthology media franchise centered on a series of survival horror games created by Keiichiro Toyama and published by Konami.The first four video games in the series, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, and Silent Hill 4: The Room, were developed by an internal group called Team Silent, a development staff ...
Hace 20 horas · Nikola Tesla (/ ˈ t ɛ s l ə /; Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла, [nǐkola têsla]; 10 July [O.S. 28 June] 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist.He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.. Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla ...
Hace 20 horas · Gilles de Rais (c. 1405 – 26 October 1440), Baron de Rais, was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army during the Hundred Years' War, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc.He is best known for his reputation and later conviction as a confessed serial killer of children.. In 1429, he formed an alliance with his cousin Georges de La Trémoille, the ...
Hace 20 horas · A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state. The specific naming of the head of state depends on the country's form of government and separation of powers; the head of state may be a ceremonial figurehead or concurrently the head of government and more.. In a parliamentary system, such as India or the United Kingdom, the head of state usually has mostly ...
Hace 20 horas · Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania or Ardeal; Hungarian: Erdély; German: Siebenbürgen or Transsilvanien, historically Überwald, also Siweberjen in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania.To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains and to the west the Apuseni Mountains.
