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• Agatha Christie is renowned as a prolific writer of mystery novels, particularly for her detective characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
• She is often referred to as the "Queen of Crime" and holds a Guinness World Record as the best-selling fiction author.

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• Her famous works include "Murder on the Orient Express" and "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd."
• Christie also wrote plays, with "The Mousetrap" being the longest-running play in history.

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• Know everything about BRICS: 
• BRICS founded: June 2009
  
• BRICS Member countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
  
• BRICS total members: 10 
• South Africa joined BRICS: 2010
• BRICS headquarters: Shanghai, China
• BRICS first conference hosted by: Russia (2009) 

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SAARC Secretariat was established in Kathmandu on 16 January 1987 by Bangladeshi diplomat Abul Ahsan.

He was its first Secretary-General.

It was inaugurated by King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal.

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CSS stands for Central Superior Services.

It is a civil service examination and recruitment process in Pakistan for high-ranking government positions.

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Algeria got independence in 1962 from France. 

Dinar is the currency.

Algiers is capital of Algeria. 

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Galileo made his first telescope in 1609

The telescope is an optical instrument used to view distant objects/small object

Barometer Inventor: Evangelista Torricelli

Steam engine Inventor: Thomas Savery

Microscope Inventor : Zacharias Janssen

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Abu Al-Qasim Firdausi was a Persian poet.

He was the court poet of Mahmud of Ghazni.

• "Shahnama" is an epic poem that was written in 1010 and contains about 60,000 couplets
• The author of "Shahnama" was Abu Al-Qasim Firdausi
• The epic poem is also known as the "Book of Kings"

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