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Michael Faraday (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
Happy birthday Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. Since 1978, Tolkien fans all over the world have been celebrating 22 September as Hobbit Day.
Frodo Baggins is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, and the main protagonist of The Lord of the Rings.
Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 was a scheduled flight from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, California, United States, on a Boeing 777-200ER.
Nintendo Co., Ltd. Founded on 23 September 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto. Nintendo is one of the world's largest video game companies by market capitalization, creating some of the best-known and top-selling video game franchises, such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon.
Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google. It is based off of a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software, and is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom served as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro.
Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor, voice actor, and writer. Hamill is known for playing Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars films, which won him the Saturn Award for Best Actor twice.
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (26 September 1849 – 27 February 1936) was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning.
September 27 is all about recycling. At least when it comes to our transatlantic neighbours in the USA, who celebrate this date as the so-called crush-one can day.
in the year 3021 3. ZA. At the Graue Anfurten Círdan waited with the last remaining ship, which was to sail to Valinor. It was supposed to bring some of the most powerful of Middle-earth to Valinor: Galadriel, Elrond and Gandalf, the bearers of the three Elbenrings, Celeborn, Galadriels husband, and Frodo the Halfling, who destroyed the One Ring, because the bearers of the One Ring were allowed to enter Valinor.
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger (30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German physicist. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus. He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger.
Wolverine is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, mostly in association with the X-Men.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C for short) is the committee for the standardization of techniques in the World Wide Web. It was founded by Tim Berners Lee on 1 October 1994.