THE NP CHRONICLE : 12TH JULY

The NP Chronicle 

12th July

Malala Yousafzai (born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, receiving the Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17, and is the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native district, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen".

"One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world" and "Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons..."

-- Malala Yousafzai 

"Education is a fundamental right and a tool for change... With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism."

-- Malala Yousafzai 

Pablo Neruda ( born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

-- Pablo Neruda

"Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life."

-- Pablo Neruda

Gaius Julius Caesar (12 or 13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general, statesman, and author who was the dictator of the Roman Republic almost continuously from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC. A member of the First Triumvirate, he led the Roman armies through the Gallic Wars and defeated his political rival Pompey in Caesar's civil war. He consolidated power and proclaimed himself dictator for life in 44 BC, helping create the political conditions that led to the collapse of the Roman Republic and the emergence of the Roman Empire. For his role in these events, he is regarded as one of history's most influential figures.

"Experience is the teacher of all things."

-- Julius Caesar 

Today is:

▪︎ Malala Day

▪︎ Paper Bag Day

▪︎ National Simplicity Day

▪︎ Kiribati Independence Day 

▪︎ NABARD Foundation Day 

▪︎ Birth anniversary of Malal Yousafzai, Julius Caesar

KIRIBATI

Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an archipelagic country spanning the Micronesia and Polynesia sub-regions of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. The state comprises 32 atolls and other islands and one remote raised coral island, Banaba. Its total land area is 811 km2 (313 sq mi) dispersed over 3,441,810 km2 (1,328,890 sq mi) of ocean. The spread of the country's islands, from Banaba in the west to Kiritimati in the east straddles the equator and the 180th meridian. The International Date Line goes around Kiribati and swings far to the east, almost reaching 150°W. This brings Kiribati's easternmost islands, the southern Line Islands south of Hawaii, into the same day as the Gilbert Islands and places them in the most advanced time zone on Earth.

Kiribati ranks 192nd globally in population with approximately 138,445 residents, 190th in total land area at 810 square kilometers, and its passport ranks 44th globally, providing visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 122 destinations.

Other notable global rankings and statistics for Kiribati include:

▪︎ Economy: Ranked 192nd in the world by nominal GDP and classified as a lower-middle-income, least developed economy.

▪︎ Environment: Ranked 54th out of 180 countries in the global Environmental Performance Index (EPI), which evaluates national efforts toward environmental health and climate change mitigation.

▪︎ Education: Acknowledged for its high proportion of public spending dedicated to education relative to its overall size.

▪︎ Geography: The 10th largest country in Oceania, notable for straddling the equator and being one of the first nations to experience the new year due to its location across the International Date Line.