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WEB4 days ago · The Founding Ceremony of the Nation is a 1953 oil painting by Chinese artist Dong Xiwen. It depicts Mao Zedong and other Communist Party officials proclaiming the People's Republic of China at Tiananmen Square on October 1, 1949. A prominent example of socialist realism, it is one of the most celebrated works of official Chinese art.
World Wide Web - Wikiwand
WEBTim Berners-Lee states that World Wide Web is officially spelled as three separate words, each capitalised, with no intervening hyphens. [32] Nonetheless, it is often called simply the Web, and also often the web; see Capitalization of Internet for details. In Mandarin Chinese, World Wide Web is commonly translated via a phono-semantic matching to wàn wéi …
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WEBWikiwand, formerly stylized as WikiWand, [2] is a commercial proprietary interface developed for viewing Wikipedia articles. [3] Its interface includes a sidebar menu displaying the table of contents, a navigation bar, personalized links to other languages, new typography, access to previews of linked articles, display advertisements, and …
History of the Internet - Wikiwand
WEBComputer science was an emerging discipline in the late 1950s that began to consider time-sharing between computer users, and later, the possibility of achieving this over wide area networks. J. C. R. Licklider developed the idea of a universal network at the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) …
Bill Gates - Wikiwand
WEBWilliam Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington [3] as the only son of William H. Gates Sr. [lower-alpha 2] (1925–2020) and his first wife, Mary Maxwell Gates (1929–1994). [4] His ancestry includes English, German, and Irish/Scots-Irish. [5] His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of …
Internet Archive - Wikiwand
WEBMirror of the Internet Archive in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The Archive is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating in the United States. In 2019, it had an annual budget of $37 million, derived from revenue from its Web crawling services, various partnerships, grants, donations, and the Kahle-Austin Foundation. [42] The Internet Archive also manages …
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Wikiwand
WEBWolfgang Amadeus Mozart [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 2] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as …
20th century - Wikiwand
WEBThe 20th century began on 1 January 1901 (MCMI), and ended on 31 December 2000 (MM). [1] [2] It was the 10th and last century of the 2nd millennium and was marked by new models of scientific understanding, unprecedented scopes of warfare, new modes of communication that would operate at nearly instant speeds, and new forms of art and …
Leonardo da Vinci - Wikiwand
WEBLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [lower-alpha 2] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. [3] While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he …