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The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
The Rana dynasty (Nepali: राणा वंश, romanized: Rāṇā vaṃśa, Sanskrit: [raːɳaː ʋɐ̃ɕɐ], Nepali: [raɳa bʌŋsʌ]) was a Chhetri [note 1] dynasty that [6] imposed authoritarianism in the Kingdom of Nepal from 1846 until 1951, reducing the Shah monarch to a figurehead and making the Prime Minister and other government positions held by the Ranas hereditary.
Nepali Congress leader Bal Chandra Poudel attacked by maoists in Dandagaun, Rasuwa during election 10 Apr: The First Nepalese Constituent Assembly election is held where the CPN (MC) emerged victorious winning 220 out of the 575 seats. It forms the government with seven other communist parties including the CPN (UML). [31] 28 May
Motiram Bhatta (Nepali: मोतीराम भट्ट; 1866–1896) (1923–1953 BS) was a Nepalese poet, singer, essayist, publisher, literary critic and biographer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is considered the first biographer and literary critic of Nepali literature and is credited for starting the first private printing press in Nepal in c. 1888 ...
1 March 1844 2 days Interim president of the Central Government Junta. Tomás Bobadilla (1785–1871) 1 March 1844 9 June 1844 100 days President of the Central Government Junta. Ousted from office by a coup d'état. Francisco del Rosario Sánchez (1817–1861) 9 June 1844 12 July 1844 33 days President of the Central Government Junta.
His poem Mero Pyaro Okhaldhunga (Nepali: मेराे प्याराे ओखलढुङ्गा, lit. 'My Beloved Okhaldhunga') in Nepali is considered to be one of his masterpieces. In this poem, he has expressed how proud he is to describe the place Okhaldhunga in eastern Nepal, where he was born and grew up.
Nepali Congress (Democratic) Deuba III — Direct rule by King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah (born 1947) 1 February 2005 25 April 2006 1 year, 83 days — (30) Girija Prasad Koirala (1924–2010) 5th time: 25 April 2006 1 April 2007 [22] 341 days — Nepali Congress: Girija V: Interim term: 1 April 2007 [22] [23] 18 August 2008 1 year, 139 days ...
When, as President, Fillmore sided with proslavery elements in ordering enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, he all but guaranteed that he would be the last Whig President. The first modern two-party system of Whigs and Democrats had succeeded only in dividing the nation in two by the 1850s, and seven years later, the election of the first ...