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Famous play of William Shakespeare First performed in 1603

Henry VI was the first play by William Shakespeare.

 Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark is probably the best-known of William Shakespeare's works,

and may well be the most famous English-language play ever written.

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vacuum Tubes were replaced by Transistors.

Second-generation computers emerged with the development of Transistors.

The transistor was invented in 1947 by three scientists J. Bardeen, W.H Brattain and W. Shockley.

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The degree of the Greenwich meridian in England is 0° 0' 0", or the Prime Meridian: 

It is an imaginary line that runs through Greenwich, a borough of London and ends at the North and South poles.  

It was last established in 1851

Greenwich is an area in south-east London, England

It lies on the south bank of the River Thames in the historic county of Kent.

It is used as the reference for Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Greenwich is famous for calculating the time for all countries.

The Greenwich meridian, also known as the prime meridian, passes through the following countries:

• England
• France
• Spain
• Algeria
• Mali
• Burkina Faso
• Togo
• Ghana 
• Antarctica

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Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that is produced when coal is burned without sufficient oxygen.

CO is highly toxic.

It can be deadly in high concentrations, as it displaces oxygen in the bloodstream.

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Diamond is composed of the single element carbon, 

 it is the arrangement of the C atoms in the lattice that give a diamond amazing properties.

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The equator passes through 13 countries:

1.      Ecuador,

2.      Colombia,

3.      Brazil,

4.      Sao Tome & Principe,

5.      Gabon,

6.      Republic of the Congo,

7.      Democratic Republic of the Congo,

8.      Uganda,

9.      Kenya,

10.  Somalia,

11.  Maldives,

12.               Indonesia

13.               Kiribati.

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On 13 October 2006, he was elected as the eighth secretary-general by the United Nations General Assembly

On 1 January 2007, he succeeded Kofi Annan.

Ban Ki-Moon  serves as the eighth Secretary-General until 2016.

He belongs to the Republic of Korea 

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Omer-Khayam was born in Iran in 1048 AD.

Omer-Khayam was a poet, Mathematician & Astronomer. 

Omer-Khayam introduced modern Solar Hijri calendar, the Jalali calendar.

Omer-Khayam  was the first to develop the binomial theorem and determine binomial coefficients.

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AB-positive blood type is known as the “universal recipient” because AB-positive patients can receive red blood cells from all blood types.

The blood group system was discovered by Austrian physician Karl Landsteiner in 1901.

He identified the ABO blood group system,

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Steel is most elastic among the rubber, steel, glass and sponge.

Steel having the most steep linear stress-strain curve among all.

A stiffer material will have a higher elastic modulus.

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