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Gol Gumbaz or Gol Gumbadh, from

Persian Gol Gombadh meaning "round

dome", is the mausoleum of Mohammed

Adil Shah Sultan of Bijapur. The tomb,

located in Bijapur, Karnataka in India, was

completed in 1656 by the architect Yaqut

of Dabul.

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Agrasen ki Baoli (also known as Agar Sain ki Baoli or Ugrasen ki Baoli), designated a protected monument by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) under the Ancient Monuments and Archeological Sites and Remains Act of 1958, is a 60-meter long and 15-meter wide historical step well on Hailey Road near Connaught Place, a short walk from Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, India.

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Fatehpur Sikri is a city and a municipal

board in Agra district in the state of Uttar

Pradesh, India. The city was founded in

1569 by the Mughal emperor Akbar, and

served as the capital of the Mughal

Empire from 1571 to 1585.

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The Jantar Mantar is located in the

modern city of New Delhi. It consists of

13 architectural astronomy instruments.

The site is one of five built by Maharaja

Jai Singh II of Jaipur, from 1724 onwards,

as he was given by Mughal Emperor

Muhammad Shah the task of revising the

calendar and astronomical tables.

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Arvind Subramanian ; a native of Tamil

Nadu is an Indian economist and the

current Chief Economic Adviser to the

Government of India, having taken

charge of the position on 16 October

2014 succeeding Raghuram Rajan. 

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Sushil Kumar : The wrestler from

Najafgarh on the outskirts of Delhi

created history by becoming the only

Indian to win two individual Olympic

medals.

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-

Churchill was a British politician and

Nobel Laureate who was the Prime

Minister of the United Kingdom from

1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to

1955. 

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Thomas Alva Edison was an American

inventor and businessman. He developed

many devices that greatly influenced life

around the world, including the

phonograph, the motion picture camera,

and a long-lasting, practical electric light

bulb. 

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Malala Yousafzai born 12 July 1997 is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize recipient. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school.

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Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. At an early age, Hawking showed a passion for science and the sky. At age 21, while studying cosmology at the University of Cambridge, he was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Despite his debilitating illness, he has done ground-breaking work in physics and cosmology, and his several books have helped to make science accessible to everyone.

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Albert Einstein was a German-born

theoretical physicist and philosopher of

science. He is best known in popular

culture for his mass-energy

equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has

been dubbed "the world's most famous

equation").