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22 hours ago · A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.. Tagalog (/ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ /, tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority.
22 hours ago · The result was the 1898 Treaty of Paris, negotiated on terms favorable to the U.S., which allowed temporary U.S. control of Cuba and ceded ownership of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine islands. The cession of the Philippines involved payment of $20 million ($732,480,000 today) to Spain by the US to cover infrastructure owned by Spain.
22 hours ago · Origin and history of the genre The first program generally considered to be a "soap opera" or daytime serial by scholars of the genre is Painted Dreams, which premiered on WGN radio Chicago, on October 20, 1930. It was regularly broadcast in a daytime time slot, where most listeners would be housewives; thus, the shows were aimed at – and consumed by – a predominantly female audience ...
22 hours ago · t. e. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( ISKCON ), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organization. It was founded on 13 July 1966 in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. [2] Its main headquarters is located in Mayapur, West Bengal, India .
22 hours ago · The National Hockey League ( NHL; French: Ligue nationale de hockey [liɡ nɑsjɔnal də ɔkɛ], LNH) is a men's professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 33 teams (32 of which are active) [nb 1] – 26 in the United States (with the Arizona operation inactive) and 7 in Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports ...
22 hours ago · Bill Walton. William Theodore Walton III (November 5, 1952 – May 27, 2024) was an American professional basketball player and television sportscaster. [1] He played college basketball at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Portland Trail Blazers, San Diego / Los Angeles ...
22 hours ago · 1994. Biology – Presented to W. Brian Sweeney, Brian Krafte-Jacobs, Jeffrey W. Britton, and Wayne Hansen, for their breakthrough study, "The Constipated Serviceman: Prevalence Among Deployed US Troops," and especially for their numerical analysis of bowel movement frequency.
