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• Michel Talagrand has been awarded the 2024 Abel Prize for his contributions to probability theory and stochastic processes is mathematician from France. 

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Katharine Hepburn was a Hollywood actress.

Nationality: USA

She won four Academy Awards for Best Actress

She died in 2003

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Anna Qabale Duba is the winner of the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award 2022.

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Napoleon was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo.

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815

The battle was fought between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher.

Battle of Waterloo resulted in:

1. End of the Seventh Coalition 
2. Final Defeat of Napoleon
3. ENd of the Napoleonic War.

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Napoleon Bonaparte was the Emperor of the French.

He ruled France twice.

The first reign was from 1804 to 1814

The second reign was in 1815.

He fought more than 70 battles

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A community hospital in rural Bangladesh wins the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) International Prize 2021

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Field Medal is given: after 4 years

Field Medal purpose: to promote international cooperation in Mathematics

Field Medal given: Mathematicians under age of 40

Field Medal described as: Nobel Prize in Mathematics

Field Medal started: 1936

Note: Maryna Viazovska of Ukraine, James Maynard of United Kingdom, Hugo Duminil-Copin of France, June Huh of USA are winner of Field Medal Award 2022, given on 5 July 2022

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Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction on November 19, 2020 for Shuggie Bain, the story of a boy`s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow.

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Know about Oscar Awards

Oscar Awards also known: Academy Award 

Oscar Awards: most prestigious award of Hollywood 

Held: annually 

Organizer: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science 

First Oscar Awards: 16 May 1929

First ceremony held: Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

First Oscar award had: 12 categories 

Best Actor of First Oscar Award: Emil Jannings (German Actor)

Best Actress of First Oscar Award: Janet Gaynor (American Actress)

President of first Oscar Awards: Douglas Fairbanks (American Actor)

Oscar Awards broadcast to the general public for the first time through radio: 1930 

In 1953, Radio was replaced by television for the first time and the ceremony was televised.

Objective: To honour the participating artists of the motion picture industry  

Current Oscar award has: 24 categories 

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Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won the 2022 Booker Prize for fiction at a London ceremony on October 17, 2022 for his work, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about a murdered journalist.