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The Unsung Genius: Jagadish Chandra Bose

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The Unsung Genius: Jagadish Chandra Bose

A Visionary Scientist Who Unlocked Nature's Secrets

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2013
Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech prime minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption.
2011
A 6.0 Mw earthquake (aftermath pictured) caused up to NZ$6 billion of additional damage to Christchurch, New Zealand, which was still recovering from an earthquake four months earlier.
2007
Insurgents carried out a second bombing at the al-Askari Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam.
1983
Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.
1981
English teenager Marcus Sarjeant fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony.
1971
The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.

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