Laxmikanta Mohapatra, who passed away on 24 February 1953, aged 64 years, in Bhadrak,was an Indian Odia poet, writer, performance artist, and freedom fighter. He authored more than ten published works. Mohapatra was a prominent campaigner in the Odisha State Unification Movement and an active member of the Utkala Sammilani.
Pinocchio Day is celebrated on
February 23 every year. The day marks the anniversary of the release of the
Disney film of the same name in 1940. Disney’s “Pinocchio” went on to become a
global sensation due to its familiarity as a folk tale in Europe. It was based
on the 1883 Italian book “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi.
Pinocchio followed up as the studio’s second animated feature-length film after
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” The film follows a puppet named Pinocchio in
his attempt to become a human boy.
Amerigo Vespucci, who passed away on 22 February
1512, was an Italian merchant, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of
Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived. Between 1497
and 1504, Vespucci participated in at least two voyages of the Age of Discovery,
first on behalf of Spain and then for Portugal.
Kittur Chennamma, who passed away on 21 February 1829,
was an Indian revolutionary, freedom fighter and Rani of the Kittur, a former
princely state in Karnataka. She led an armed force against the British East
India Company in 1824 in defiance of the doctrine of lapse in an attempt to
maintain Indian control over the region, but was defeated in the third war and
died imprisoned. The one of the first female rulers to rebel against British
rule, she has become a folk hero in Karnataka and symbol of the independence
movement in India.
Frederick Douglass, who passed away on 20 February
1895, was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and
statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader
of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for
his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by
abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments
that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent
American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a
great orator had once been a slave. It was in response to this disbelief that
Douglass wrote his first autobiography.
Nicolaus Copernicus, born on 19 February 1473, was a
Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer, who formulated a model of the
universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at the center of the universe,
in all likelihood independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated
such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, born on 18 February 1946, was the
supreme personality of Godhead and the chief proponent of the Achintya Bheda
Abheda Vedanta school and the Gaudiya Vaishnavism tradition within Hinduism.
Laxmikanta Mohapatra , who passed away on 24 February 1953, aged 64 years, in Bhadrak, was an Indian Odia poet, writer, performance artist, ...
