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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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 Sumerian and Egyptian seem to have the earliest writing systems and are among the earliest recorded languages,

dating back to around 3200BC.

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Mass media refers to a diverse array of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. 

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South Africa: a country in southern Africa

South Africa executive capital: Pretoria

South Africa legislative capital: Cape Town

South Africa judicial capital: Bloemfontein

Currency of South Africa: Rand

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• Know everything about Queen Elizabeth II
• Queen Elizabeth died on 8 September 2022 in Scotland.
  
• Queen Elizabeth II was born in Mayfair, London on 21 April 1926.
  
• Elizabeth became Queen on 6 February 1952 after the death of her father King George.

• Elizabeth became Queen at the age of 25.

• Elizabeth administrated oath to the 15th Prime minister of UK Liz Truss on 6 September 2022 (2 days before death).

• Elizabeth II is the first female monarch to have the longest reign in British history.

• Elizabeth reigned over 70 years and 214, longest of any British monarch.

• Elizabeth II was also the queen of 14 other commonwealth realms in addition to the UK.

• Elizabeth visited Pakistan in 1961 & 1997.

• Elizabeth II also remained monarch of Pakistan from 6 February 1952 to 23 March 1956.
• Her eldest son Charles, automatically became king of the United Kingdom and the head of state of 14 other realms including Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

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Mount Fuji, with its graceful conical form, has become famous throughout the world and is considered the sacred symbol of Japan.

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Margaret Hamilton, the actress whose role as the cackling Wicked Witch of the West in ''The Wizard of Oz'' unnerved generations of children, died yesterday, apparently of a heart attack, at a nursing home in Salisbury, Conn.

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The Tramp was British actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon in world cinema during the era of silent film. The Tramp is also the title of a silent film starring Chaplin, which Chaplin wrote and directed in 1915.

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Terminator 2 is a 1991 American science fiction action film produced and directed by James Cameron, who co-wrote the script with William Wisher. 

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The Mask is a 1994 American superhero comedy film directed by Charles Russell, produced by Bob Engelman