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Snypaz are a Chicago hip hop group formed in 1993. Their first release was the 1995 cassette tape Ridin' High; their 1996 EP, My Life as a Snypa, sold 80,000 copies.[1] Relocating to Houston, Texas, the group recorded tracks with Do or Die for their album Headz or Tailz, and soon after appeared on Scarface's 1998 album, My Homies. In 2001, Snypaz signed with Virgin Records and issued their major...
any snypaz fans??? I've never heard of them :)
 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomez's_Hamburger#/random

Gomez's Hamburger, also known as IRAS 18059-3211, is believed to be a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk.[1] It was initially identified as a planetary nebula, and its distance was estimated to be approximately 6500 light-years away from Earth.[2] However, recent results suggest that this object is a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, at a distance of about 900 light-years away.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_period_of_Sri_Lanka

The Transitional period of Sri Lanka spans from the end of the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa, in 1236, to the start of the Crisis of the Sixteenth Century. The period is characterised by the succession of capitals that followed the fall of the Polonnaruwa Kingdom and the creation of the Jaffna kingdom.

Kind of interesting to be honest. I don't know much of anything about Sri Lankan history at the moment.
 
Henry Landau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Landau

Henry Jacob Landau is an American mathematician known for his contributions to information theory, including the theory of bandlimited functions and on moment issues.

Landau received an A.B. (1953), A.M. (1955) and Ph.D. (1957) from Harvard University. His thesis On Canonical Conformal Maps of Multiply Connected Regions was advised by Lars Ahlfors and Joseph Leonard Walsh.

Landau later became Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and a twice visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has also served as an adjunct professor at City University of New York, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Columbia University.
 
Peter Tonti
Peter Tonti was a Belizean tourism pioneer who died on April 16, 2015 at his home in San Ignacio Town Belize. He was known by Belizeans as a visionary and inspirational leader in Belize's tourism industry, and was one of the chief advisers of the Belize Tourism Industry Association, the country’s tourism watchdog he helped found in 1985.

At the time of his death, Tonti was Chief Executive Officer of Cahal Pech Village Resort and Breaking Belize News(BBN), an internet news company (Breakingbelizenews.com) which he founded. BBN is considered one of the most widely read news sites in Belize.

Long ago before he died, Tonti was once asked, how he wanted to be remembered and he didn’t hesitate to respond to the question by saying: “I want to be remembered as the guy who made a difference in the lives of people in Belize and in the world.”

Tonti was buried in San Ignacio, Cayo on April 22, 2015.
 
Bir Udhowal is a village in Nakodar in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 15 km from Nakodar, 48 km from Kapurthala, 39 km from district headquarter Jalandhar and 162 km from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by a sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per Panchayati raj (India).
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSF_Alliance_Health_Project

The UCSF Alliance Health Project (AHP), formerly the AIDS Health Project, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides mental health and wellness services for the HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ communities in San Francisco. It is part of the University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry. In addition to direct service to individuals, it also undertakes HIV prevention and LGBTQ mental health research and educates mental health and health care providers about best practices.

AHP describes its mission as, “to support the mental health and wellness of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) and HIV-affected communities in constructing healthy and meaningful lives.”[1] It has 100 part and full-time staff and serves more than 6500 clients each year. Its budget is approximately $7 million per year.[2] As a program of the University of California, AHP's governing board is the Regents, but for 22 years, AHP has constituted a Community Advisory Board (CAB), which meets monthly to advise the AHP Executive Committee on community needs and program development.
 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dumitrescu#/random

George Dumitrescu (April 22, 1901 – October 22, 1972) was a Romanian poet.

Born in Cocioc, Ilfov County, he attended high school in Ploiești,[1] where one of his teachers was Ioan A. Bassarabescu.[2] He then entered the University of Bucharest's literature and philosophy faculty, graduating in 1924 and earning a doctorate in 1938. He was Mihail Dragomirescu's teaching assistant from 1925 to 1931,[1] and also worked as a high school teacher.[2] Dumitrescu's published debut took place in 1920, with poems in Convorbiri Literare. His first book, the short volume Poezii, appeared the same year. He headed Ritmul vremii magazine from 1925 to 1929. His poetry books were Primăveri scuturate (1924), C?ntece pentru madona mică (1926), Priveliști (1928), Elegii (1933) and Zăpezi și purpură (1936). He also wrote collections of verses for children: Zvon și joacă de copii (1955), Ce mai faceți, florilor? (1957) and Glasuri limpezi (1961). The 1927 Opinii literare collected his criticism; Poezia lui Cerna (1939), in the same genre, was a monograph about the lyric poetry of Panait Cerna. He won the Romanian Academy Prize in 1927 and the Romanian Writers' Society prize in 1934. He died in Bucharest.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Oreshnikov

Victor Mikhailovich Oreshnikov (Russian: Виктор Михайлович Орешников) (January 7 (O.S. January 20), 1904, Perm – March 15, 1987, Leningrad) was a Soviet Russian painter, People's Artist of the USSR, active member of the Soviet Academy of Arts (1954–1987), Stalin Prize winner, rector of Repin Institute of Arts (1953–1978).
 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino_Verzini#/random

Dino Verzini (born 26 November 1943) is a retired Italian track cyclist who specialized in the sprint and tandem events. He was a national sprint champion in 1966 and 1968 and finished fifth at the 1968 Summer Olympics. In 1967 he won the tandem event at the national and World Championships, together with Bruno Gonzato; they also finished second at the 1969 Italian Championships.
 
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