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Did you see Pippa's wedding gown? Designed by Giles Deacon, it was very simple and elegant. Similarly, Pippa's and James' invitations were tasteful and understated.
Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979), known professionally as Mindy Kaling (/ ˈ k eɪ l ɪ ŋ /), is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Known for her extensive work on television, she has received numerous accolades including two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Tony Award, and six Primetime Emmy Awards nominations.
RSVP is an initialism derived from the French phrase "Répondez s'il vous plaît", [1] meaning "Please respond" (literally "Respond, if it pleases you" ), to require confirmation of an invitation. The initialism "RSVP" is no longer used much in France, where it is considered formal and old-fashioned. In France, it is now more common to use ...
The Wieliczka Salt Mine ( Polish: Kopalnia soli Wieliczka) is a salt mine in the town of Wieliczka, near Kraków in southern Poland . From Neolithic times, sodium chloride ( table salt) was produced there from the upwelling brine. The Wieliczka salt mine, excavated from the 13th century, produced table salt continuously until 1996, [2] as one ...
Sunita Lyn Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965), nicknamed Suni in the United States and Sončka in Slovenia, is an American astronaut, United States Navy officer, and former record holder for most spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes).
Confucius. Confucius ( 孔子; pinyin: Kǒngzǐ; lit. 'Master Kong'; c. 551 – c. 479 BCE ), born Kong Qiu ( 孔丘 ), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages, as well as the first teacher in China to advocate for mass education. Much of the shared cultural heritage ...
Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home.