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Hace 1 día · Enrico Fermi (Los Alamos 1945) The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence. [1] [2] As a 2015 article put it, "If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have come calling by now."[3]Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi's name is associated with the paradox because of ...
Hace 1 día · Björk Guðmundsdóttir was born on 21 November 1965 in Reykjavík. [12] She was raised by her mother, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir (7 October 1946 – 25 October 2018 [13]), an activist who protested against the development of Iceland's Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, [14] having divorced from Björk's father, Guðmundur Gunnarsson, an electrician and union leader, after Björk was born.
Hace 1 día · David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in The X-Files FOX. The 1990s conspiracy thriller made stars of its leads, Anderson and Duchovny – but they didn’t always appreciate what they had done for ...
Hace 4 horas · The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905. The nickname's origin is uncertain. [5] Its ideology combines general unionism with industrial unionism, as it is a general union, subdivided between the various industries which employ its members.The philosophy and tactics of the IWW are described as ...
Hace 4 horas · Waits as a high-school senior at Hilltop High School in 1967. He dropped out at the age of 18. [5]Thomas Alan Waits was born on December 7, 1949, in Pomona, California. [6] He has one older and one younger sister. [7] His father, Jesse Frank Waits, was a Texas native of Scots-Irish descent, and his mother, Alma Fern (née Johnson), hailed from Oregon and had Norwegian ancestry.
Hace 1 día · Because if a mother can kill her own child – what is left for me to kill you and you kill me – there is nothing between." [ 120 ] Barbara Smoker of the secular humanist magazine The Freethinker criticised Mother Teresa after the Peace Prize award, saying that her promotion of Catholic moral teachings on abortion and contraception diverted funds from effective methods to solve India's ...
Hace 1 día · The main cast of Watchmen (from left to right): The Comedian, Silk Spectre II, Doctor Manhattan, Ozymandias, Nite Owl II, and Rorschach. Production for Watchmen began casting in July 2007 for look-alikes of the era's famous names for the film—something director Zack Snyder declared would give the film a "satirical quality" and "create this '80s vibe."
