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  • Jeanne Matthey

    Jeanne Matthey

    Jeanne-Marie Matthey-Jonais (25 January 1886 – 24 November 1980) was a French tennis player. She competed during the first two decades of the 20th century. Matthey won the French Open Women's Singl

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  • Germaine Golding

    Germaine Golding

    Anne Germaine Golding (French pronunciation: [ʒɛʁmɛn gɔldiŋ] ; née Régnier; 6 June 1887 – 14 August 1973) was a French tennis player who was mainly active during the interwar period and achieved mo

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  • William Gowland

    William Gowland

    William Gowland FRAI (16 December 1842 – 9 June 1922) was an English mining engineer who carried out archaeological work at Stonehenge and in Japan. He has been called the "Father of Japanese Archa

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  • Moran Sarkar

    Moran Sarkar

    Moran Sarkar (c. 1781 –1862) was an Punjabi queen, the wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Sikh Empire. She was a nautch girl before she became a queen.Moran SarkarA miniature painting of Moran.Bo

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  • Pul Kanjri

    Pul Kanjri

    Pul Kanjri is a historical site situated 35 km away from Amritsar on Amritsar-Lahore road, near the villages of Dhanoa Khurd and Dhanoa Kalan on the Attari border. It is one of the heritage sites b

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  • Amritsar district

    Amritsar district

    Amritsar district is one of the twenty three districts that make up the Indian state of Punjab. Located in the Majha region of Punjab, the city of Amritsar is the headquarters of this district.Amri

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  • Facultative anaerobe

    Facultative anaerobe

    A facultative anaerobic organism is an organism that makes ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present, but is capable of switching to fermentation if oxygen is absent.Aerobic and anaerobic bac

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  • Domenico Ghislandi

    Domenico Ghislandi

    Domenico Ghislandi (c. 1620–1717) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Bergamo as a quadratura painter during the Baroque period.He was born circa 1620 in Bergamo. He is perhaps better known du

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  • Fra Galgario

    Fra Galgario

    Fra’ Galgario (4 March 1655 – December 1743), born Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, and also called Fra’ Vittore del Galgario, was an Italian painter, mainly active in Bergamo as a portraitist during th

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  • Carlo Ceresa

    Carlo Ceresa

    Carlo Ceresa (January 20, 1609 – January 29, 1679) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly around Bergamo. He was mainly known for his portrait paintings of local nobility and cl

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