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21st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: General CQ Brown is only the second Black man to serve as chairman – following Gen. Colin Powell – where he will act as the principal military adviser to President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and the National Security Council.

Predecessor: Mark Milley

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About men's cricket Asia Cup 2023

Edition: 16th

Starting date: 30 Aug 2023

Final held: 17 Sep 2023

Winner: India (8th title)

Runner-up: Sri Lanka 

Venue: Pakistan & Sri Lanka 

Matches in Pakistan: 04

Matches in Sri Lanka: 09

Total matches: 13

Participating teams: 06

Player of the series/Player of the Tournament : Kuldeep Yadav (India)

Most runs made by: Shubman Gill (made 302 runs) (belong to India)

Most wickets taken by: Matheesha Pathirana (took 11 wickets) (belongs to Sri Lanka)

Player of the series in the final: Mohammed Siraj (India)

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• The Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho, awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, is the only person who has declined the Nobel Peace Prize.
• They were both awarded the prize for negotiating the Vietnam peace accord.
• Le Duc Tho said that he was not in a position to accept the Nobel Prize, citing the situation in Vietnam as his reason.
  

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• Anne L'Huillier  is a French physicist, and professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden.
• In 2003 she and her group beat the world record with the smallest laser pulse of 170 attoseconds.
• In 2023, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Lloyd J. Austin  is the 28th secretary of defense, sworn in on Jan. 22, 2021

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About men's cricket Asia Cup 2023

Edition: 16th

Starting date: 30 Aug 2023

Final held: 17 Sep 2023

Winner: India (8th title)

Runner-up: Sri Lanka 

Venue: Pakistan & Sri Lanka 

Matches in Pakistan: 04

Matches in Sri Lanka: 09

Total matches: 13

Participating teams: 06

Player of the series/Player of the Tournament : Kuldeep Yadav (India)

Most runs made by: Shubman Gill (made 302 runs) (belong to India)

Most wickets taken by: Matheesha Pathirana (took 11 wickets) (belongs to Sri Lanka)

Player of the series in the final: Mohammed Siraj (India)

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• Narges Mohammadi is a woman, a human rights advocate, and a freedom fighter.
• Her brave struggle for freedom of expression and the right of independence has come with tremendous personal costs. Altogether, the regime in Iran has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.
• Narges Mohammadi is still in prison.
  

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• The oldest Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry to date is John B. Goodenough, who was 97 years old when he was awarded the chemistry prize in 2019.
• He is also the oldest laureate to be awarded in all prize categories.
  

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Cristiano Ronaldo has been nominated for the Ballon d'Or a record eighteen times, and is a five-time winner.(2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)