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The Grand University of Nalanda

A Beacon of Ancient Wisdom and Learning

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2023
A freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, releasing hazardous materials into the surrounding area.
2014
Russia's first school shooting took place when a student opened fire at School No. 263 in Moscow, resulting in the deaths of a teacher and a police officer.
2010
An edition of L'Homme qui marche I, a bronze sculpture by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, was sold for £65 million, setting the record for the most expensive sculpture sold at auction.
2006
Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen: 23 convicts, including several militants associated with al-Qaeda, escaped from a prison administered by the Political Security Organization in Sanaa, Yemen.
1998
Despite a large international movement advocating the commutation of her sentence to life imprisonment, Karla Faye Tucker became the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984.
1995
In mission STS-63, astronaut Eileen Collins (pictured) became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle.

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