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9 hours ago · The 1800 United States presidential election was the fourth quadrennial presidential election.It was held from October 31 to December 3, 1800. In what is sometimes called the "Revolution of 1800", the Democratic-Republican Party candidate, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, defeated the Federalist Party candidate and incumbent, President John Adams.
9 hours ago · Zionism. Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern Zionist movement. In his 1896 pamphlet Der Judenstaat, he envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century. Zionism [a] (derived from Zion) is an ethnic or ethno-cultural nationalist [1] [fn 1] movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and ...
9 hours ago · A 2021 study which mapped likely migration routes suggests that the populating of the Sahul took 5,000–6,000 years to reach Tasmania (then part of the continent), with a rate of one kilometre per year, after making landfall in the Kimberley region of Western Australia around 60,000 years ago.
9 hours ago · Molenbeek is a mostly residential municipality consisting of several historically and architecturally distinct districts. [13] [14] As of 1 January 2022, the municipality had a population of 97,697 inhabitants. [15] The total area is 6.02 km 2 (2.32 sq mi), which gives a population density of 16,268/km 2 (42,130/sq mi), twice the average of ...
9 hours ago · This system, as it were, developed gradually. The core of it, the United Kingdom (UK)—then the largest economy and the largest empire in the world, and also the country that spearheaded the industrial revolution, first adopted a de facto gold standard in 1717, and a formal one shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1819, together with some of its colonies.
