THE NP CHRONICLE : 27TH OCTOBER

The NP Chronicle 

27th October

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Previously serving for six months as vice president under William McKinley, Roosevelt became president after McKinley's assassination in 1901. He was 42 years old upon his first inauguration, making him the youngest person to hold the office. Roosevelt prioritized conservation and established national parks, forests, and monuments to preserve U.S. natural resources. In foreign policy, he focused on Central America, beginning construction of the Panama Canal. Roosevelt expanded the U.S. Navy and sent the Great White Fleet on a world tour to project naval power. His successful efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War won him the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize, the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize. Polls of historians and political scientists rank him as one of the greatest presidents in American history.

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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and her works include The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her suicide. The Collected Poems were published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth person to receive this honor posthumously.

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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

-- Sylvia Plath

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood. He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime, and remained so after his death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet".

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"Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

-- Dylan Thomas

"A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him."

-- Dylan Thomas

Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara (Sinhala: කුමාර් චොක්ශනාද සංගක්කාර; born 27 October 1977) is a Sri Lankan cricket commentator and former cricketer who represented Sri Lanka from 2000 to 2015. A former captain for Sri Lanka in all formats. Born in Matale, Central Province, Sangakkara played first-class cricket for Nondescripts Cricket Club from 1997–98 to 2013–14 and for Surrey County Cricket Club from 2015 to 2017. He was a key part of the Sri Lankan squads which won the 2001-02 Asian Test Championship, 2002 ICC Champions Trophy and 2014 T20 World Cup. He has received four individual ICC awards. In 2012 he won Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year) and ICC Test Cricketer of the Year. Also he won ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year twice in 2011 and 2013. He was named Wisden Leading Men's Cricketer in the World for both 2011 and 2014.

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Anuradha Paudwal née Nadkarni (born 27 October 1954) is an Indian playback singer and politician who works predominantly in Hindi cinema and Odia cinema. She is considered as one of the greatest and most popular Bhajan singer of all time and also as one of the most successful playback singers of Bollywood. The recipient of several accolades including a National Film Award, four Filmfare Awards (winning consecutively during 1990–92), six Maharashtra State Film Awards and two Odisha State Film Awards, she has been honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri, the country's fourth-highest civilian honour for her contribution in the field of arts. Her contribution in Indian devotional music and Bollywood Industry gained her the honorific titles such as "Bhajan Queen", "Melody Queen, and "The Eternal voice of devotion".

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Today is:

▪︎ World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 

▪︎ World Occupational Therapy Day

▪︎ Sylvia Plath Day

▪︎ National Civics Day in USA

▪︎ National Black Cat Day in UK and Canada

▪︎ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Independence Day

▪︎ Turkmenistan Independence Day

▪︎ Birth anniversary of Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roosevelt, Kumar Sangakkara, Anuradha Paudwal

▪︎ Death anniversary of Akbar the Great

SAINT VINCENT

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, sometimes known simply as Saint Vincent, is an archipelagic country in the eastern Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies, at the southern end of the eastern border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. To the north lies Saint Lucia, to the east is Barbados and Grenada lies to the south.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines holds several notable international and global rankings across development, governance, and sports categories:

▪︎ Human Development Index (HDI): Ranked 77th out of 193 countries with an HDI score of 0.798. View the Atlas of Today's World for country demographic and development metrics.

▪︎ Corruption Perceptions Index: Ranked 35th out of 182 countries (with a score of 63/100) by Transparency International. Check Transparency International for transparency and public sector integrity data.

▪︎ Passport Power (Mobility Index): Ranked 23rd in the world, offering visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to over 145 countries. Explore the Passport Index for global mobility rankings.

▪︎ Economic Freedom: Ranked 89th freest in the world with a score of 60.0 (17th out of 32 countries in the Americas region). Read the Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom for economic policy evaluations.

▪︎ Rule of Law: Ranked 38th out of 139 countries globally (and 5th out of 32 in the Latin America and Caribbean region) in the WJP Rule of Law Index. Review the World Justice Project Report for legal system and justice metrics.

▪︎ FIFA Men's Football Ranking: Ranked 166th globally by FIFA. See Inside FIFA for national team statistics and historical ranking trends.

• Population: Ranked 194th globally with a population of approximately 109,557 to 111,000 people. Check Rankedex for comparative demographic profiles.

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TURKMENISTAN

Turkmenistan, formerly known as Turkmenia, is a landlocked country in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to the north, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, and the Caspian Sea to the west. It is one of six independent Turkic states. Ashgabat is the capital and largest city. With over 7 million people, Turkmenistan is the 35th most-populous country in Asia and has the lowest population of the Central Asian republics while being one of the most sparsely populated nations located on the Asian continent.

Turkmenistan holds various global rankings across economy, military, governance, and development:

• Economic Freedom: Ranked 160th out of 39/Asia-Pacific region/global countries (score of 47, classified as "repressed") in the The Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom.

• Military Strength: Ranked 78th out of 145 countries (PowerIndex score of 1.7459) in the Global Firepower Military Review.

• Human Development Index (HDI): Ranked 95th out of 193 countries (score of 0.764) according to data profiled via the Atlas of Today's World.

• E-Government Development: Ranked 145th out of 193 countries (GNI per capita $6,650) in the United Nations E-Government Knowledgebase.

• Liberal Democracy Index: Ranked 174th out of 179 countries (score of 3.4 out of 100) by V-Dem, as detailed via Model Diplomat Politics & Democracy.

• Natural Gas Reserves: Holds the 4th-largest proven natural gas reserves in the world, which account for roughly 80% of its national exports, according to the World Bank Turkmenistan Overview.

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