This is the "cock-of-the-rock" bird. It's called that because the males ("cocks") are often found displaying on rocky outcrops during their spectacular courtship rituals.
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A man living close to nature, with umbrella made of leaves.
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When rapid population growth and poor harvests raised fears of mass famine in the 1960s, Norman Borlaug developed high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties that helped drive the Green Revolution.
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A rooster running late for his day shift.
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This is Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW), who developed the first web browser and web server, and introduced HTML, HTTP, and URLs as the fundamental technologies of the Web.
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There's a playback singer named Palak Muchhal in India who has dedicated years to raising funds for children's heart surgeries, helping over 3000 children till now.
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Born in 1919, Maurice Hilleman was a microbiologist who went on to develop over 40 vaccines, including those for measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and chickenpox, making him one of history's most impactful scientists.
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Grace Millane, a 22-year-old British backpacker, was murdered by Jesse Kempson after they met on Tinder in Auckland in 2018. Kempson strangled her, hid her body in a suitcase, buried it in the Waitākere Ranges, and was later convicted.
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Men rescue a baby elephant trapped in a mud pit.
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This elephant refused to let his favorite human waste time by sleeping.
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In 1951 Doctors removed Henrietta Lacks' cancer cells during treatment, creating HeLa, the first immortal human cell line, which helped develop the polio vaccine, advance cancer research, gene mapping and IVF, without her consent.
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In 2021, American travel vlogger Gabby Petito was strangled to death during a cross-country trip by her fiancé Brian Laundrie, who returned home alone, became the prime suspect after her disappearance, fled, and was later found dead by suicide with a notebook confessing to the killing.
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Alan Turing helped crack the Enigma cipher, a breakthrough widely credited with shortening WWII by about two years and saving millions of lives. Seven years after the war, Britain prosecuted him for homosexual acts and forced him to choose between prison and chemical castration.
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They Held One Man Upside Down to Save a Helpless Dog.
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