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*<!--22 Feb--> ''[[Birdman (film)|Birdman]]'' wins four Oscars, including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], at the '''[[87th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]'''. |
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*<!--18 Feb--> '''[[Limpet#Teeth|Limpet teeth]]''' are found to have the highest [[Ultimate tensile strength|tensile strength]] among [[biomaterial]]s, outperforming [[spider silk]]. |
*<!--18 Feb--> '''[[Limpet#Teeth|Limpet teeth]]''' are found to have the highest [[Ultimate tensile strength|tensile strength]] among [[biomaterial]]s, outperforming [[spider silk]]. |
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Revision as of 05:52, 23 February 2015
- Birdman wins four Oscars, including Best Picture, at the Academy Awards.
- Prokopis Pavlopoulos (pictured) is elected President of Greece.
- Limpet teeth are found to have the highest tensile strength among biomaterials, outperforming spider silk.
- At least sixteen people are killed in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
- Egypt strikes ISIS targets in Libya after a video is released showing the beheading of twenty-one Egyptian Copts.
- Taxi, by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, wins the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Ongoing:
Boko Haram – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – War in Ukraine
Recent deaths:
Daniel Topolski – D. Ramanaidu
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