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The fight took place in October 1974 at Kinshasa, then the capital of Zaire and today the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is how the bout came to be called the Rumble in the Jungle.

At the Montreal Olympics, the fourteen-year-old Nadia Comaneci was awarded a perfect score of 10 on the uneven bars, the first such mark in Olympic gymnastics; the scoreboards of the day could not display it and showed 1.00 instead.

Bradman played 52 Test matches between 1928 and 1948 and scored 6,996 runs with 29 centuries, leaving him with an average of 99.94, a figure no batter has approached since.

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay in Louisville in the United States, he won the light heavyweight gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics, took the world heavyweight title from Sonny Liston in 1964 and changed his name to Muhammad Ali soon afterwards.

The American swimmer competed at five Olympic Games and finished with 28 medals, of which 23 are gold, far ahead of anyone else in any sport.

At the World Athletics Championships held in Berlin in August 2009, Usain Bolt of Jamaica lowered his own world records to 9.58 seconds over 100 metres and 19.19 seconds over 200 metres, the two fastest times ever recorded.

The Brazilian forward, whose full name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, was part of the Brazil squads that won the World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970, and no other player has three winners' medals.

This Act gave electronic records and digital signatures the same legal standing as paper records and handwritten signatures, and its amendment of 2008 broadened the provision to electronic signatures generally.

The Advanced Encryption Standard is the Rijndael cipher, designed by the Belgian cryptographers Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, which won an open competition and was adopted in 2001 in place of the ageing Data Encryption Standard.

In a key pair, whatever one key locks only the other can unlock. So a message encrypted with the receiver's public key can be opened only by the receiver's private key, which nobody else holds; that is exactly what confidentiality requires.

A digital signature is made by hashing the document and encrypting that digest with the signer's private key.

The Message Digest 5 algorithm takes an input of any length and returns a 128-bit digest.

RSA, named after Rivest, Shamir and Adleman, works with a linked pair of keys and takes its security from the difficulty of factorising the product of two large prime numbers; it is used both to exchange keys and to create digital signatures.

HTTPS is HTTP carried inside an SSL or TLS tunnel, and the port reserved for it is 443, which is why a padlock appears in the address bar when a site is reached on that port with a valid certificate.

SSL was developed by Netscape in the mid-1990s to encrypt the traffic between a web browser and a web server, and its successor, Transport Layer Security or TLS, standardised from 1999, is what actually protects websites now; the older name survives in common speech and in the phrase SSL certificate.

The defining feature of symmetric encryption is that a single shared secret key performs both operations: the sender encrypts the plaintext with it and the receiver decrypts the ciphertext with the very same key.

Symmetric encryption uses one shared secret key for both locking and unlocking data, and because it is the older and simpler of the two families it is variously called conventional, secret key or private key encryption.

The Sangai, also called the dancing deer, is the state animal of Manipur and survives only in the floating meadows of the Keibul Lamjao National Park on Loktak Lake; the festival named after it is held in late November and shows the state's crafts, cuisine, indigenous sports and the Ras…

Established in 1953 with its seat at New Delhi, it is the national academy for the performing arts, it supports festivals, archives and training, and it is the authority whose recognition decides which dance styles are counted as classical.

Mamallapuram, also written Mahabalipuram, lies on the coast south of Chennai and is a World Heritage site of Pallava rock-cut architecture; the dance festival is staged there from late December into January, with the great relief called Arjuna's Penance as its backdrop.