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Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a 1996 real-time strategy game by Westwood Studios that serves as a prequel to the original Command & Conquer, set in an alternate history where the Allied Forces battle an aggressive Soviet Union for control of Europe. ...

Shan Masood Khan, born on 14 October 1989 in Kuwait, is a Pakistani left-handed batter who has represented the national team since 2013, after his family fled to Karachi during the Gulf War. He captained Pakistan in Test matches from 2023 to 2026 and has also led domes...

Daegu (formerly spelled Taegu) is South Korea's third-largest urban agglomeration after Seoul and Busan, home to over 2.3 million residents in the southeastern Yeongnam region. Historically, the area was part of the proto-kingdom Jinhan, later absorbed into the Silla Kingdom, and serve...

Interstate 81 (I-81) is a major north-south (physically northeast-southwest) Interstate Highway running from I-40 in Dandridge, Tennessee, to the Canadian border on Wellesley Island, New York, where the Thousand Islands Bridge connects it to Ontario's Highway 401. Following ancient ani...

Karen Grasso (born August 9, 1993) is a pioneering Mexican mixed martial artist who made history as the first Mexican female fighter to win a UFC championship, holding the title of former UFC Women's Flyweight Champion. She began her professional career in 2012 with an undefeated 5-0 start, later compe...

New Jersey is the fourth studio album by Bon Jovi, released on September 19, 1988, by Mercury Records and produced by Bruce Fairbairn. The highly anticipated follow-up to Slippery When Wet debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 (staying for four consecutive weeks) and was ...

The GeForce RTX 50 series, unveiled at CES 2025 on January 6, 2025, serves as Nvidia's successor to the GeForce 40 series, initially launching with the RTX 5070, 5080, and 5090. Built on the Blackwell architecture (manufactured by TSMC), these GPUs introduce fourth-generation RT cores for ray tracing a...

A catastrophic flash flood surged through Bright Angel Creek at the Grand Canyon on 29 August 2026, marking the national park's most destructive flooding event since 1966. Triggered by a dangerous convergence of the Arizona monsoon, a marine heatwave, and a heat dome drawing moisture from Tropical Storm Iselle, the rai...

Yorman Bazardo (born July 11, 1984) was a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher who played in MLB for the Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers, and Houston Astros. Signed as an undrafted free agent by the Marlins in 2000, he made his MLB debut in May 2005, when manager J...

The 2024 list of Philippine television events opened with major disruptions on January 1, as providers like Cignal and G Sat dropped or terminated channels (including Aniplus Asia, K-Plus, and Warner Bros. Discovery networks like HBO and Cartoon Network) due to failed contract renewals, while BEAM TV removed All TV fro...

The PlayStation, a fifth-generation home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment, launched in Japan on 3 December 1994 and arrived in North America and Europe in September 1995, competing directly with the Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn. Its origins trace back to a failed 1988 joint venture with Ninten...

Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor and producer born on 25 May 1976 in Cork, who has achieved international stardom and won an Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe. Initially set on a rock-music career while studying law, he pivoted to acting after seeing a production of A Clockwork Orange, debuting profession...