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Radhanath Ray (28 September 1848 – 17 April 1908) was an Odia writer of initial modernity era in Odia poetry during the later part of nineteenth century. He was born in a Zamindar family in Baleshwar (Bengal Presidency), now in Odisha, and is honoured in Odia literature with the title Kabibara ( transl. Poet Boon ) .
On 16 November 2004, a Public Health white paper proposed a smoking ban in almost all public places in England and Wales.Smoking restrictions would be phased in, with a ban on smoking in NHS and government buildings by 2006, in enclosed public places by 2007, and pubs, bars and restaurants (except pubs not serving food) by the end of 2008.
In 1890 Britain handed control of the strategically important island of Heligoland in the North Sea to Germany in return for control of Zanzibar, in part to help enforce the ban on slave trading. [ 28 ] [ 29 ]
A total ban on teaching German in both public and private schools was imposed for a time in at least fourteen states, including California, Indiana, [23] Wisconsin, [24] Ohio, Iowa and Nebraska. California's ban lasted into the mid-1920s, and German was banned again in California churches in 1941.
The Hunting Act 2004 (c. 37) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which bans the hunting of most wild mammals (notably foxes, deer, hares and mink) with dogs in England and Wales, subject to some strictly limited exemptions; the Act does not cover the use of dogs in the process of flushing out an unidentified wild mammal, [4] nor does it affect drag hunting, where hounds are ...
Thomas Matthew Crooks (September 20, 2003 – July 13, 2024) was an American man who attempted to assassinate former U.S. president Donald Trump, who at the time was the presumptive Republican Party nominee for the 2024 presidential election.
Balinese language (ISO 639-2 and -3 code "ban"), spoken in Indonesia; BAN, the National Rail code for Banbury railway station in the county of Oxfordshire, UK; BAN, the Chapman code for Banffshire, historic county in Scotland; BAN, the IOC code for Bangladesh at the Olympics; BAN, the IATA code for Basongo Airport in the Democratic Republic of ...
In December 2019, The New York Times cited The Three-Body Problem as having helped to popularize Chinese science fiction internationally, crediting the quality of Ken Liu's English translation, as well as endorsements of the book by George R. R. Martin, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and former U.S. president Barack Obama. [15]