Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ( President R.I )

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born September 9, 1949), is an Indonesian retired military general and the sixth President of Indonesia. Yudhoyono won the presidency in September 2004 in the second round of the Indonesian presidential election, in which he defeated incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri. He was sworn into office on October 20, 2004, together with Jusuf Kalla as Vice President.Javanese do not have surnames in the Western sense.[1] The name Yudhoyono was not inherited either from his...

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World Trade Center

The World Trade Center in New York City, United States (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC or the Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan, mostly designed by Detroit-based architect Minoru Yamasaki and engineer Leslie Robertson and developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It was initiated in 1960 by a Lower Manhattan Association created and chaired by David Rockefeller, who had the original idea of building the center, with strong backing from...

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Gerakan Non-Blok

Gerakan Non-Blok (GNB) (bahasa Inggris: Non-Aligned Movement/NAM) adalah suatu organisasi internasional yang terdiri dari lebih dari 100 negara-negara yang tidak menganggap dirinya beraliansi dengan atau terhadap blok kekuatan besar apapun. Tujuan dari organisasi ini, seperti yang tercantum dalam Deklarasi Havana tahun 1979, adalah untuk menjamin "kemerdekaan, kedaulatan, integritas teritorial, dan keamanan dari negara-negara nonblok" dalam perjuangan mereka menentang imperialisme, kolonialisme,...

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Iwo Jima, Okinawa, bom atom, penyerahan Jepang

Perebutan pulau-pulau seperti Iwo Jima dan Okinawa oleh pasukan AS menyebabkan Kepulauan Jepang berada dalam jangkauan serangan laut dan udara Sekutu. Diantara kota-kota lain, Tokyo dibom bakar oleh Sekutu, dimana dalam penyerangan awal sendiri ada 90.000 orang tewas akibat kebakaran hebat di seluruh kota. Jumlah korban yang tinggi ini disebabkan oleh kondisi penduduk yang padat di sekitar sentra produksi dan konstruksi kayu serta kertas pada rumah penduduk yang banyak terdapat di masa itu. Tanggal...

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Aristoteles

Aristoteles lahir di Stagira, kota di wilayah Chalcidice, Thracia, Yunani (dahulunya termasuk wilayah Makedonia tengah) tahun 384 SM. Ayahnya adalah tabib pribadi Raja Amyntas dari Makedonia. Pada usia 17 tahun, Aristoteles bergabung menjadi murid Plato. Belakangan ia meningkat menjadi guru di Akademi Plato di Athena selama 20 tahun. Aristoteles meninggalkan akademi tersebut setelah Plato meninggal, dan menjadi guru bagi Alexander dari Makedonia. Saat Alexander berkuasa di tahun 336 SM, ia kembali...

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Wage Rudolf Soepratman

Sewaktu tinggal di [[Makassar]], Soepratman memperoleh pelajaran musik dari kakak iparnya yaitu Willem van Eldik, sehingga pandai bermain biola dan kemudian bisa menggubah lagu. Ketika tinggal di Jakarta, pada suatu kali ia membaca sebuah karangan dalam majalah Timbul. Penulis karangan itu menantang ahli-ahli musik Indonesia untuk menciptakan lagu kebangsaan. Soepratman tertantang, lalu mulai menggubah lagu. Pada tahun [[1924]] lahirlah lagu Indonesia Raya.Pada bulan Oktober [[1928]] di Jakarta...

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Christopher Columbus

Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506), Italian Spanish navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but achieved fame by making landfall in the Americas instead. On October 12, 1492, two worlds unknown to each other met for the first time on a small island in the Caribbean Sea . While on a voyage for Spain in search of a direct sea route from Europe to Asia, Christopher Columbus unintentionally discovered the Americas. However, in four separate voyages to the Caribbean...

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mozart (musical maestro )

One of the most widely appreciated prominent musical maestro ever happened to live in the history, musical genius Mozart was born on 27 January 1756 in Salzburg, Austria to Leopold Mozart, a business-minded composer, violinist and an assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court and Anna Maria Pertl. He was named Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Gottlieb Mozart in honor of his grandfather (maternal) and a Saint Johannes Chrysostomus with whom he shared his birth date. Being born and brought up in...

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Ludwing Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was baptised on December 17th 1770 at Bonn. His family originated from Brabant, in Belgium. His father was musician at the Court of Bonn, with a definite weakness for drink. His mother was always described as a gentle, retiring woman, with a warm heart. Beethoven referred to her as his "best friend". The Beethoven family consisted of seven children, but only the three boys survived, of whom Beethoven was the eldest.find on this site:the lives of Beethoven's ancestorsAt an early...

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