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• Marie Curie is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different natural sciences.
• She won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903.
• She won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
• She was awarded for her pioneering work on radioactivity.

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• China’s President Xi Jinping declared a “complete victory” over extreme poverty on 25 February 2021.
• The poverty-eradication target was achieved by the end of 2020.
• The campaign lifted the final 98.99 million rural residents out of absolute poverty.
• 832 impoverished counties were removed from the official poverty list.

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• NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on 18 February 2021.
• It landed in Jezero Crater, an ancient lakebed on Mars.
• The mission aimed to search for signs of ancient microbial life.
• It also collected rock and soil samples for possible future return to Earth.

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• The Indo-Pacific Strategy aims to promote a free, open, secure, and prosperous Indo-Pacific region.
• It emphasizes regional cooperation, security, stability, and economic prosperity.
• It also supports a rules-based international order.

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• Al-Arqam ibn Abi al-Arqam was a companion of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
• His house (Dar-e-Arqam) became the first center of Islamic preaching in Makkah.
• Early Muslims gathered there to learn Islam secretly.
• Birth → 597 A.D
• Death → 675 A.D

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• The idiom “piece of cake” means something very easy to do.
• Example: “The exam was a piece of cake.”

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• Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah strongly opposed the Rowlatt Act of 1919.
• The Act allowed the British government to detain people without trial and restricted civil liberties.
• Jinnah resigned from the Imperial Legislative Council in protest against the Act.

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• The Non-Cooperation Movement was launched by the Indian National Congress (INC) in 1920 under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.
• It aimed to oppose British rule through non-violent non-cooperation.
• The movement was formally adopted at the Nagpur Session of Congress in December 1920.

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• Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
• He was honored for his decades of effort in finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts.
• He served as the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981).

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