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Encyclopedia > January 21, 2004

January 21, 2004

January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The International Olympic Committee is an organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 to reinstate the Ancient Olympic Games held in Greece, and organise this sports event every four years. ... The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. ... The 2004 Summer Olympics are officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (the 28th Summer Olympic Games). ... August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining. ... His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Haakon Magnus of Norway was born on July 20, 1973 in Oslo and is styled HRH the Crown Prince. ... Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (born Mette-Marit Tjessem-Høiby in Kristiansand, Norway, on August 19, 1973), styled HRH the Crown Princess is the wife of Crown Prince Haakon, She became a controversial member of the Norwegian royal family, due to a readily admitted past... County Oslo NO-03 Landscape Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ... The gram or gramme, symbol g, is a unit of mass. ... The metre, or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Geneva-based foundation whose Annual Meeting of chief executives of the worlds richest corporations, some national political leaders (presidents, prime ministers and others), and selected intellectuals and journalists, about 2000 people in all, is usually held in Davos, Switzerland. ... Davos viewed from air Davos (population 13,000) is a town in eastern Switzerland, in the canton of Graubünden, on the Landwasser River. ... Order: 5th President of Iran First Vice President: Hassan Habibi (1997–2001), Mohammad Reza Aref (2001–2005) Term of office: August 3, 1997 – August 2, 2005 Preceded by: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Succeeded by: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Date of birth: 1943 Place of birth: Ardakan, Iran Political party: Militant Clerics Society Hojjat... The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP or Mounties; French, Gendarmerie royale du Canada, GRC) is both the federal police force and the national police of Canada. ... A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media. ... Maher Arar (born 1970) is a Canadian software engineer born in Syria. ... Deportation is the expelling of someone from a country. ... A scandal is a widely publicized incident involving allegations of wrong-doing, disgrace, or moral outrage. ... A civil libertarian is one who is actively concerned with the protection of individual civil liberties and civil rights. ...


 

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