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Information about the 2014 Tour de France and Vincenzo Nibali. |
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Sport |
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Tour de France Nibali |
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2014/07 |
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The 2014 Tour de France was the 101st edition of the Tour de France, it
is an annual multiple stage bicycle race primarily |
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held in France. It started on 5 July in Leeds, United Kingdom, and
concluded on 27 July in Paris, France. The Italian cyclist |
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Vincenzo Nibali won the race by more than seven minutes. |
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Information about the 2014 FIFA World Cup. |
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Sport |
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World Cup |
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2014/07 |
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The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial
world championship for men's national football |
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teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July
2014. It was the second time that Brazil staged the |
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competition, and the fifth time in South America. In the final Germany
national football team defeated Argentina in extra time, |
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with the only goal being scored by Mario Gštze. Lionel Messi won Golden
Ball award for best player of World Cup. |
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Information about the Germany national football team and the Brazil
national football team in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. |
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Sport |
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Germany Brazil |
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2014/07 |
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The Brazil vs Germany football match that took place on 8 July 2014 in
Belo Horizonte, was the first semi-final match of the |
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2014 FIFA World Cup. Brazil scored a goal in the last minute, ending the
match with the score 7–1. Germany's Toni Kroos was |
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selected Man of the Match. Joachim Lšw is the coach of the German
national football team and led the team to win the 2014 |
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World Cup in Brazil. Luiz Felipe Scolari was the coach of the Brazil
national football team during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. |
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Information about Miroslav Klose beyond Ronaldo becoming the top
goalscorer in the history of the FIFA World Cup . |
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Sport |
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Klose |
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2014/07 |
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Miroslav Josef Klose is a German professional football player and best
known for his performances in the German national |
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team. He scored twice at the 2014 World Cup, which put him ahead of Ronaldo in the all-time list
with 16 goals. He is the top |
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goalscorer in the history of the FIFA World Cup, having scored five goals in his debut
World Cup in 2002 and winning the Golden |
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Boot at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. |
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Information about Kobe Bryant replacing Michael Jordan becoming the 3rd
place of the List of NBA career scoring leader. |
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Sport |
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Kobe |
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2014/12 |
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Kobe Bean Bryant is an American professional basketball player for the
Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball |
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Association. On December 5th 2014 Bryant became the youngest player in
league history to score 30,000 points, listing |
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the 3rd place of List of National Basketball Association career scoring
leaders after Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and |
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Karl Malone, replaced Michael Jordan. |
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Information about the Super Bowl XLIX. |
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Sport |
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Super Bowl |
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2015/01 |
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Super Bowl XLIX was an American football game played to determine the
champion of the National Football League for the |
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2014 season. The American Football Conference champion New England
Patriots defeated the National Football Conference |
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champion Seattle Seahawks, to earn their fourth Super Bowl title. The
game was played on February 1, 2015, at University |
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of Phoenix Stadium. |
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Information about George Clooney's wedding. |
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Entertaiment |
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Clooney |
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2014/09 |
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-Description: |
George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, screenwriter, producer,
director, and activist. George Clooney and his fiancŽe |
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Amal Alamuddin exchanged wedding vows at Aman hotel in Venice, Italy. He was last
married to actress Talia Balsam. Celebrity |
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guests including Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Cindy Crawford joined couple in
Italy for the ceremony. |
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Information about the film about Kim Jong-un distributed by Sony Pictures
Entertainment . |
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Entertaiment |
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Sony Kim Jong-un |
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2014/12 |
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The Interview is a 2014 American political satire comedy film directed by
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The film stars |
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Rogen and James Franco as journalists who set up an interview with North
Korean leader Kim Jong-un, whom Randall Park |
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played as, and are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him. In November
2014, the computer systems of parent company |
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Sony Pictures Entertainment were hacked by the "Guardians of
Peace", a group in North Korea. The group also threatened |
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terrorist attacks against cinemas that showed the film. In December 2014,
Sony release it for online rental and purchase a |
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limited release at select cinemas. |
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Information about the 72nd Golden Globe Awards. |
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Entertaiment |
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Golden Globe Award |
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2015/01 |
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The 72nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American
television of 2014, was broadcast live from the |
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Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 11, 2015. The ceremony was produced by
Dick Clark Productions in association with the |
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Hollywood Foreign Press Association. George Clooney received the Cecil B.
DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. Tina Fey |
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and Amy Poehler were the co-hosts for the third consecutive and final
time. The Affair, Birdman, Boyhood, Fargo, The |
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Theory of Everything, and Transparent were among the films and television
shows that received multiple awards. |
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Information about the film, in which Eddie Redmayne played as Stephen
Hawking. |
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Entertaiment |
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Eddie Redmayne Hawking |
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2015/01 |
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Eddie Redmayne played as Stephen Hawking in the film The Theory of
Everything. Felicity Jones played as his wife. This film |
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was directed by James Marsh. Redmayne's performance as Stephen
Hawking was widely praised. The film received four |
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Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the Golden Globe Award for
Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Redmayne. |
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Information about Alibaba Group making an IPO in the United States. |
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Business |
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Alibaba |
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2014/09 |
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Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese E-Commerce company that
provides sales services via web portals. The group |
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began in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the website Alibaba.com. In September
2014, the company made an IPO in the |
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United States with Reuters Instrument Code "BABA.N". The
pricing of the IPO initially raised US$21.8 billion, which later |
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increased to US$25 billion, making it the largest IPO in history. On 19
September 2014, Alibaba's shares (BABA) began |
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trading on the NYSE. SoftBank and Yahoo! Inc. are as part of its
strategic partnership. |
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Information about the large online shopping day Cyber Monday of
Amazon.com. |
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Business |
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Cyber Monday Amazon |
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2014/11 |
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Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday after the Thanksgiving
holiday in the United States. The term "Cyber |
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Monday" was created by marketing companies to persuade people to
shop online. Cyber Monday has become an international |
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marketing term used by online retailers across the world. As of 2014,
amazon.de continues to advertise Cyber Monday and |
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has extended it to an 8-day period ("Cyber Monday week")
beginning on the Monday before Thanksgiving. |
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Information about the Singles Day, which becomes a large online shopping
day in China. |
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Business |
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Singles Day Jack Ma |
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2014/11 |
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Singles' Day is an entertaining festival widespread among young Chinese
people, to celebrate the fact that they are proud |
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of being single. The date November 11th is chosen because the number
"1" resembles an individual that is alone. This festival |
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has gradually become one of the largest online shopping days in
the world, with sales in Alibaba's sites Tmall and Taobao, |
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by the effort of Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group. |
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Information about the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 shot down in Ukraine. |
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Emergencies |
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Malaysia Airlines |
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2014/07 |
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to
Kuala Lumpur that crashed on 17 July 2014 after being |
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shot down. The plane was mistakenly shot down by pro-Russian insurgents
using a Buk surface-to-air missile fired from the |
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territory which they controlled. The Boeing 777 airliner lost contact
about 50 km from the Ukraine–Russia border and crashed |
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near Torez in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 40 km from the border. All 283
passengers and 15 crew on board were killed. |
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Information about the aviation accidents of Air AlgŽrie Flight 5017 MD-80
airplane. |
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Emergencies |
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MD-80 |
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2014/07 |
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Air AlgŽrie Flight 5017 was a scheduled flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, which crashed in Mali, |
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near Gossi, on 24 July 2014. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 with 110
passengers and 6 crew on board, operated by Swiftair |
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for Air AlgŽrie, departed from Ouagadougou Airport, was
scheduled to land at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, and |
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disappeared from radar about fifty minutes after take-off. There were
no survivors. |
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Information about the Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8051 crashed into the Java
Sea. |
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Emergencies |
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Indonesia Java |
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2014/12 |
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Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 was a scheduled flight from Surabaya,
Indonesia to Singapore, operated by Indonesia AirAsia. |
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On 28 December 2014, an Airbus A320 was scheduled to depart Juanda
International Airport and arrive at Singapore Changi |
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Airport. It lost contact with the Jakarta Area Control Centre and crashed
into the Java Sea during bad weather. Search and |
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rescue operations were activated by the Indonesia National Search and
Rescue Agency. All 155 passengers and seven |
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crew on board were killed. |
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Information about the Charlie Hebdo shooting. |
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Emergencies |
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Charlie Hebdo |
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2015/01 |
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On 7 January 2015 two gunmen forced their way into the offices of the
French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in |
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Paris. They killed 12 people and injured 11 others, including Cube,
Georges Wolinski, many cartoonists and a French |
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National Police officer. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to
the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda's branch in |
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Yemen, who took responsibility for the attack. Charlie Hebdo had
attracted attention for its controversial depictions of |
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Muhammad. Hatred for Charlie Hebdo's cartoons, which made jokes about
Islamic leaders as well as Muhammad, is |
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considered to be the principal motive for the massacre. |
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Information about Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend. |
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Society |
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Pistorius |
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2014/09 |
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Oscar Pistorius is a South African sprint runner with nickname ÒBlade
RunnerÓ and convicted murderer. Pistorius fatally shot |
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his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, in his Pretoria home. Pistorius was found
guilty of culpable homicide and received a five-year |
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prison sentence for culpable homicide and a concurrent three-year
suspended prison sentence for a separate reckless |
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endangerment conviction. Pistorius was the first athlete to compete at
the Paralympic games and Olympic games, where he |
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mainly entered the men's 400 metres and 4 × 400
metres relay races. |
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Information about Tim Cook announced coming out of the closet in a
magazine. |
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Society |
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Tim Cook |
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-Date range: |
2014/10 |
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Tim Cook is an American business executive, and is the chief executive
officer of Apple Inc., succeeded Steve Jobs. He is First |
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Fortune 500 to Come Out. In October 2014, the magazine Bloomberg Businessweek published a first-person
story of Tim Cook |
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Òproud to be gayÓ. |
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Information about Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics. |
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Science |
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Shuji Nakamura Nobel Prize |
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2014/10 |
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Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-born American electronic engineer and
inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor |
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technology, professor at the Materials Department of the College of
Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara |
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(UCSB). Nakamura is regarded as the inventor of the blue LED, a major
breakthrough in lighting technology. He has also |
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worked on green LEDs, and is responsible for creating the white LED and
blue laser diodes used in Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs. |
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Together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he is one of the three recipients of the 2014
Nobel Prize for Physics. |
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Information about the spacecraft Rosetta first successful landing on a
comet. |
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Science |
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Rosetta |
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2014/11 |
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-Description: |
Rosetta is a space probe built by the European Space Agency. On 12
November, the lander module Philae performed the |
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first successful landing on a comet and a detailed study of comet
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P). The probe is named |
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after the Rosetta Stone, and the lander is named after the Philae
obelisk. The spacecraft is controlled from the European |
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Space Operations Centre (ESOC), in Darmstadt, Germany. |
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Information about Donald Tusk becoming the President of the European
Council. |
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Politics |
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Donald Tusk |
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2014/12 |
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-Description: |
Donald Tusk is a Polish politician and historian who succeeded Herman Van
Rompuy as President of the European Council |
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since 1 December 2014. Previously he was Prime Minister of Poland from
2007 to 2014, having also been co-founder and |
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chairman of the Civic Platform party. He received strong support from a
number of high profile European leaders, particularly |
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel. |
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