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1 day ago · Compulsory education refers to a period of education that is required of all people and is imposed by the government. This education may take place at a registered school or at other places . Compulsory school attendance or compulsory schooling means that parents are obliged to send their children to a state-approved school.
5 hours ago · Aggregate US hospital costs were $387.3 billion in 2011—a 63% increase since 1997 (inflation adjusted). Costs per stay increased 47% since 1997, averaging $10,000 in 2011 (equivalent to $13,544 in 2023 [31] ). [128] As of 2008, public spending accounts for between 45% and 56% of US healthcare spending. [129]
1 day ago · Glass phial of British Standard penicillin. The history of penicillin follows observations and discoveries of evidence of antibiotic activity of the mould Penicillium that led to the development of penicillins that became the first widely used antibiotics. Following the production of a relatively pure compound in 1942, penicillin was the first ...
1 day ago · Emma Abbott (1850–91), opera soprano. Born and raised in Illinois until age 16; funeral held in Illinois, but interred in Massachusetts. David Abidor (born 1992), soccer player
1 day ago · William Thomas Beckford (1760–1844), writer and collector. He inherited about 3,000 enslaved people from his father. [28] Benjamin Belcher (1743–1802), Nova Scotia politician and militia leader, he enslaved at least 7 people. [29] Zabeau Bellanton ( fl. 1782 ), free woman of color and slave trader in Saint Domingue.
1 day ago · The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict [28] between Maoist groups known as Naxalites or Naxals (a group of communists supportive of Maoist political sentiment and ideology) and the Indian government. The influence zone of the Naxalites is called the red corridor, which has been steadily declining in terms of geographical ...
5 hours ago · In terms of updates, news included, Catsuka represents at least 24754 "updates" in 24 years (that's 3 updates a day on average), which you can now go back to more easily via the advanced search engine I rolled out last February (and some old updates, those between 2000 and 2003, were in fact often big grouped updates).
