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The NP Chronicle 1st August  Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels. Source: Wikipedia "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." -- Herman Melville "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." -- Herman Melville Today is: ▪︎ World Wide Web Day ▪︎ World Lung Cancer Day ▪︎ Muslim Women's Rights Day ▪︎ National Mountai...

The NP Chronicle  31st July  Joanne Rowling  ( / ˈ r oʊ l ɪ ŋ /     ⓘ   ROH-ling ; [ 1 ]  born 31 July 1965), better known by her  pen name   J. K. Rowling , is a British author, philanthropist, producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for writing  Harry Potter , a seven-volume series about a young wizard which is the  best-selling book series in history , with over 600 million copies sold. She also writes  Cormoran Strike , an ongoing  crime fiction  series, under the alias  Robert Galbraith . Source: Wikipedia "We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already". -- J.K. Rowling  "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." -- J.K. Rowling "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." -- J.K. Rowling Dhanpat Rai Srivastava  (31 July 1880   – 8 October 1936), better known as  Munshi Premchand  based on his...

The NP Chronicle  30th July Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, film producer, politician, and former professional bodybuilder who served as the 38th governor of California from 2003 to 2011. Schwarzenegger began lifting weights at the age of 15 and won the Mr. Universe bodybuilding championship at the age of 20. He won the Mr. Olympia title seven times, tying with Phil Heath for the second-highest number of wins. Nicknamed the "Austrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, he is regarded as one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time. He has written books and articles about bodybuilding, including the autobiographical Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder (1977) and The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding (1998). The Arnold Sports Festival, the second-most prestigious bodybuilding event after the Mr. Olympia competition, is named after him. He appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron (1977), which set ...

The NP Chronicle  29th July Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993) was a French-born Indian industrialist, and aviator, who was the chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Group from 1938 to 1991. Born into the Tata family, he was the son of noted businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata and his French wife Suzanne RD Tata. He is best known for being the founder of several industries under the Tata Group, including Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Motors, Titan Industries, Tata Salt, Voltas and Tata Airlines. In 1982, he was awarded the French Legion of Honour and in 1955 and 1992, he received two of India's highest civilian awards: the Padma Vibhushan and the Bharat Ratna. These honours were bestowed on him for his contributions to Indian industry. "No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means". -- J. R. D. Tata "I do not want India to...

The NP Chronicle  28th July Otto Hahn (8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the field of radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and discoverer of nuclear fission, the science behind nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered isotopes of the radioactive elements radium, thorium, protactinium and uranium. He also discovered the phenomena of atomic recoil and nuclear isomerism, and pioneered rubidium–strontium dating. In 1938, Hahn, Meitner and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission, for which Hahn alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. "Atomic energy holds out immense possibilities for the welfare of humanity, if used wisely and with foresight." -- Otto Hahn Sir David Frederick Attenborough ( born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster, natural historian, and writer. His presenting career began as host of Zoo Quest in 1954, and has spanned seven decades; it includes the...

The NP Chronicle   27th July  Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, known professionally as V. M. Bhatt, is an Indian Hindustani classical music instrumentalist who invented and plays a modified slide guitar that is widely called the Mohan veena. V.M. Bhatt has won Grammy Award (for best world music album), 1993; Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, 1998; Padma Shri, 2002; and Padma Bhushan, 2017. "Music is the language of God created for the benefit of Mankind. To me music is the medium to talk to God." -- Vishwa Mohan Bhatt  Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra (born 27 July 1963) is an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician. In a career spanning around five decades, she has recorded over 25,000 songs in various Indian languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Odia, Bengali, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Awadhi, Marathi, Tulu, Badaga, Braj, Banjara, Urdu, Assamese, Gujarati, Manipuri and Sanskrit, as well as foreign languages such as Malay, Latin, Arabic, Sinhalese, English and Fren...

The NP Chronicle  26th July  George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Source: Wikipedia  "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." -- George Bernard Shaw "Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." -- George Bernard Shaw "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." -- George Bernard Shaw Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 Jun...

The NP Chronicle  25th July  Edward James Corbett CIE VD (25 July 1875 – 19 April 1955) was an Anglo-Indian hunter and author. He gained fame through hunting and killing several man-eating tigers and leopards in Northern India, as detailed in his bestselling 1944 memoir Man-Eaters of Kumaon. In his later years, he became an outspoken advocate of the nascent conservation movement. Born in Naini Tal, Corbett explored and hunted in the jungles of India in childhood. He shot his first man-eater in 1907 and continued to hunt and kill such animals over the next four decades. Animals such as the Champawat Tiger, the Leopard of Rudraprayag, and the Panar Leopard had taken hundreds of victims in the divisions of Kumaon and Garhwal, before their deaths at Corbett's hands. Man-Eaters of Kumaon, which detailed several such hunts, became an international bestseller; it was followed by several other books and was adapted into a 1948 Hollywood film. Corbett increasingly disdained what he saw...

The NP Chronicle 24th July  Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and businesswoman. Lopez is regarded as one of the most influential entertainers of her time, credited with breaking barriers for Latino Americans in Hollywood and helping propel the Latin pop movement in music. She is also known for her cultural impact through fashion, branding, and shifting mainstream beauty standards. After appearing as a Fly Girl dancer on the sketch comedy series In Living Color (1991–1993), Lopez rose to wider fame as an actress with leading film roles in Selena (1997), Anaconda (1997), Out of Sight (1998), and The Cell (2000). She successfully ventured into music with her debut album, On the 6 (1999), which spawned the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "If You Had My Love". With her second album J.Lo and the romantic comedy The Wedding Planner (both 2001), she became the first woman to simultaneously have the number-one album an...

The NP Chronicle  23rd July  Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born 23 July 1989) is an English actor best known for portraying the title character in all eight films of the Harry Potter film series from 2001 to 2011. Radcliffe branched out to stage acting in 2007, starring in the West End and Broadway productions of Equus. He returned to Broadway in the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011), earning a Grammy Award nomination. His other Broadway roles include Martin McDonagh's drama The Cripple of Inishmaan (2014) and Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along (2023), the latter of which earned him a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and another Grammy Award nomination. He also starred in the London revivals of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (2017) and Samuel Beckett's Endgame (2020). "Working hard is important." -- Daniel Radcliffe  "I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to....

The NP Chronicle  22nd July  Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, businesswoman, and producer. Gomez began her career as a child actress on the children's television series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), and emerged as a teen idol for her leading role as Alex Russo on the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place (2007–2012). She signed with Hollywood Records in 2008 and formed the band Selena Gomez & the Scene, which released three albums: Kiss & Tell (2009), A Year Without Rain (2010), and When the Sun Goes Down (2011). "What you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside." -- Selena Gomez "Always be yourself, there's no one better!" -- Selena Gomez "You have every right to a beautiful life." -- Selena Gomez Mukesh Chand Mathur (22 July 1923 – 27 August 1976), better known mononymously as Mukesh, was an Indian playback singer. He is considered to be one of the m...

The NP Chronicle  21st July Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20, and spent most of his reign conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Asia and Egypt. By the age of 30, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered to be one of history's greatest and most successful military commanders. "I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well." -- Alexander the Great "There is nothing impossible to him who will try." -- Alexander the Great "A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough." (Alexander's tombstone epitaph) -- Alexander the Great "Through every generation of the human race there has been a const...