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Know about Allama Iqbal

Born: November 9, 1877 (Sialkot)

Father: Sheikh Noor Muhammad

Mother: Imam Bibi

Received PhD: Germany

Title: Poet of the East

Famous books: Bang-e-Dara, Zarb-i-Kalim, Armughan-e-Hijaz

Famous Punjabi Books/Poem: Piyaara Jedi, Baba Bakri Wala

Died: 21 April 1938

Burial: Badshahi Mosque in Lahore

AGM  5.2.23

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Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician and leader of the National Fascist Party.

He ruled Italy as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943.

He is known for his authoritarian and fascist regime, which allied with Nazi Germany and Japan during World War II.

Mussolini was born in Predappio, Italy in 1883.

He was executed in Milan, Italy in 1945.

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Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008.

Born: August 13, 1926

Died: November 25, 2016

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Ricky Ponting was captain of the Australian national team during its "golden era", between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket

and 2002 and 2011 in One Day Internationals (ODIs)

Ricky Ponting played 168 Tests for Australia 

Ricky Ponting is the most successful captain in international cricket history, with 220 victories in 324 matches with a winning rate of 67.91%.

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Mikhail Sergeyevich was a Russian and former Soviet politician.

The eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union

he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991.

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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics

It was the largest country in the world, covering over 22,402,200 square kilometers (8,649,500 sq mi)

spanning eleven time zones.

Capital and largest city: Moscow

Leader  

• 1922–1924: Vladimir Lenin

• 1924–1953: Joseph Stalin

• 1953: Georgy Malenkov

• 1953–1964 : Nikita Khrushchev

• 1964–1982: Leonid Brezhnev

• 1982–1984: Yuri Andropov

• 1984–1985: Konstantin Chernenko

• 1985–1991: Mikhail Gorbachev

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Currency: Soviet ruble (Rbl) (SUR)

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Dr. Abdus Salam was Died: Nov. 21, 1996

Dr. Abdus Salam was Born in Jhan Punjab: Jan. 29, 1926

Abdus Salam became the first Pakistani to win a Nobel Prize.

n 1979,  Dr. Abdul Salam won the Nobel Prize for physics.

Dr. Abdul Salam received Nobel Prize for combining two forces: 

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Aung San (founder of Myanmar)

Aung San Suu served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021

Aung San born: in 1915

Aung San died: in 1947

Profession: Independence activist/revolutionary

Aung San was instrumental in Myanmar's struggle for independence

Myanmar's independence from Britain

Aung San is considered the founder of modern-day Myanmar 

Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991)

The Case against Aung San Suu Kyi: corruption cases

A Myanmar junta court jailed Aung San Suu Kyi for six years for corruption on 15 August 2022.

5 years Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to prison in April 2022

A Myanmar court jailed Aung San Suu Kyi for seven years for corruption on 30 December 2022

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Thomas O. Mensah is a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor.

He joined Corning Glass Works in 1983, working on fiber optics research in Sullivan Park, New York.

Charles Kuen Kao is known as the "father of fiber optic communications."

Shirley Ann Jackson made a breakthrough in fiber optics.