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19 hours ago · 2016 (Tuesday) 2015 (Sunday) May 10 is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 235 days remain until the end of the year.
19 hours ago · This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal ...
19 hours ago · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
19 hours ago · 1942 10-inch 78 rpm release of the single "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby 1997 7-inch 45 rpm release of "Candle in the Wind 1997"/" Something About the Way You Look Tonight ", double A-side single by Elton John This is a compendium of the best-selling music singles. The criterion for inclusion is to sell at least ten million copies worldwide. The singles listed here were cited by reliable ...
19 hours ago · Independent Party of Oregon – 137,972. Oregon Progressive Party – 3,213. Others – 16,703. ^ "Other" political affiliations listed as follows: American Independent Party – 85,243. United Utah – 3,087. Forward Party – 65. ^ Includes three Independent Senators who all caucus with the Democratic Party.
19 hours ago · Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 210–211. Zoltán Farkas and Judit Sós, Transylvania Guidebook; Patrick Leigh Fermor, Between the Woods and the Water (New York Review of Books Classics, 2005; ISBN 1-59017-166-7). Fermor travelled across Transylvania in the summer of 1934, and wrote about it in ...
19 hours ago · The University of British Columbia ( UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and Okanagan in British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1908, it is the oldest university in British Columbia. With an annual research budget of $773 million, UBC funds over 10,000 projects a year. [4]
