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According to Roman myths, Romulus founded the city of Rome on the site of Mount Palatine on the Tiber on April 21, 753 BC.

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Induced pluripotency involves "reprogramming" a differentiated cell into a stem cell by reactivating the expression of genes associated with the embryonic stage. For this discovery, researcher Shinya Yamanaka was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2012.

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Charlie Mingus is an American double bassist, composer and jazz pianist. In 1959 Mingus composed the music for the film Shadows by John Cassavetes.

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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.

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Spring is an allegorical painting by Sandro Botticelli, executed in tempera on wooden panels between 1478 and 1482, during the First Renaissance. This work was found in the Medici villa in Castello of its patron Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici.

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Allyson Felix was voted IAAF Female Athlete of the Year in 2012, following her outstanding performance at the London Olympics that same year.

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Gitega is the capital and second largest city of Burundi, located east of Bujumbura, with a population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants. It is the capital of the province of Gitega, one of the 18 provinces of the country.

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The Lonicera genus is also known as honeysuckle. These climbing or shrubby plants are prized for their fragrant flowers.

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The carob tree is a member of the Fabaceae family. It is grown mainly for its edible pods, called carobs.

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Euclid's geometric construction is based on five axioms, or postulates, set out in his major work The Elements, written around 300 BC.

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