Explanation

A Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile shot down an American U-2 plane over Cuba, killing the pilot, Major Rudolph Anderson.

President Kennedy posthumously awarded Anderson the Distinguished Service Medal.

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Qutab ud Din Aibak was the first ruler of the Muslim dynasty in Sub-Continent

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Qutb al-Din Aibak  was a general of Muhammad Ghori.

Qutab ud Din Aibak was in charge of the Ghurid territories in northern India, and after Muhammad Ghori's death.

he became the ruler of an independent kingdom that evolved into the Delhi Sultanate ruled by the Mamluk dynasty.

Qutab ud Din Aibak is buried in Lahore. 

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The Lodhi Dynasty was the last dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.

It was ruling from 1451 until the defeat by Babur in 1526, which led to the establishment of the Mughal Empire.

The first dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate was the Mamluk Dynasty (also known as the Slave Dynasty), which began with Qutb al-Din Aibak in 1206.

The first dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate was the Mamluk Dynasty (also known as the Slave Dynasty), which began with Qutb al-Din Aibak in 1206.

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Al-khafif was the first ruler of soomra dynasty (1011-1026)

Mughal emperor Akbar the first Muslim ruler who tried to reconcile the differences between Muslims and Hindus

Razia Sultana the first woman ruler of Indiar

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Weight of the adult men brain $=49$ ounces
So, $49$ ounces
$=\frac{49}{16}$  pounds
$=3.0625$ pounds
Therefore, the weight in pounds is $3.0625$.

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Carbon dioxide is a colorless and non-flammable gas at normal temperature and pressure.

The bubbles in fizzy drinks are caused by carbon dioxide (CO2).

Soft drink manufacturers add fizz by dissolving carbon dioxide into the water at high pressures.

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Explanation

Pakistan: The Formative Phase, 1857-1948” published in 1968.

Explanation

Mikhail Sergeyevich was a Russian and former Soviet politician.

The eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union

he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991.

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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics

It was the largest country in the world, covering over 22,402,200 square kilometers (8,649,500 sq mi)

spanning eleven time zones.

Capital and largest city: Moscow

Leader  

• 1922–1924: Vladimir Lenin

• 1924–1953: Joseph Stalin

• 1953: Georgy Malenkov

• 1953–1964 : Nikita Khrushchev

• 1964–1982: Leonid Brezhnev

• 1982–1984: Yuri Andropov

• 1984–1985: Konstantin Chernenko

• 1985–1991: Mikhail Gorbachev

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Currency: Soviet ruble (Rbl) (SUR)

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Umrao Jaan Ada is an Urdu novel by Mirza Hadi Ruswa (1857–1931).

It was first published in 1899.

It is considered the first Urdu novel by many scholars.

The story revolves around a tawaif and poet named Umrao Jaan Ada from 19th-century Lucknow.

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During the 1947 independence, some people in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) frontier region desired independence from both Pakistan and India.

The All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference passed a resolution in Srinagar on July 19, 1947 to join Pakistan.

Explanation

Andrew Jassy is an American business executive who is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Amazon.

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