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The Unduk Ngadau beauty pageant is held to commemorate the spirit of Huminodun, the mythological maiden who was of total beauty of the heart, mind and soul. [2] The title is derived from the phrase runduk tadau which means "the girl crowned by the sunlight". [3]
Law and crime LGBT rights in the United States The full 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago rules (8-3) that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBT employees from workplace discrimination. (AP) (USA Today) Science and technology Bertha, once the world's largest tunnel boring machine, completes its 9,270-foot-long (2,830 m) tunnel under Seattle, Washington, after four years of digging ...
Politics and elections 2017 dissolution of Venezuelan National Assembly Venezuela's Supreme Court reverses their controversial ruling. The court restores legislative power to the National Assembly. However, the court's decision still allows President Nicolás Maduro to enter joint-venture deals. (BBC) (The Washington Post) After two weeks of social unrest in French Guiana, the French ...
The US State Department imposed a travel ban on September 1, 2017 following the death of Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American student who was imprisoned in North Korea and returned home in a ...
Aftermath of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. Monday, October 2, the day following the shooting, is now the saddest officially recorded day on Twitter, according to the Hedonometer, which has been measuring happiness since 2008. The increased use of negative words such as "shooting" and "gun" after the shooting resulted in a score of 5.77 on the 9 ...
[4] Common utilities may include electricity, pipe water, telephone lines, internet access and television services. [3] As of 2017, fixed wireless has been made available with the speed of up to 100 Mbps. [14] It has been implemented to eliminate the difficulty of house-to-house installation and overcome frequent internet cable theft. [15]
2017: Darul Quran madrasa fire: 2017: 2018 Subang Temple riot: 2018: 2020-21 Malaysia floods: 2021: LRT train collision: 2021: 2021-22 Malaysia floods: 2021–2022: 2022 Batang Kali landslide: 2022: 2023 Elmina plane crash: 2023: 2024 Lumut helicopters crash: 2024: 2024 Ulu Tiram police station attack: 2024
The CHIME telescopes in British Columbia detected the unusual fast radio burst, dubbed FRB 20240209A, in February 2024.