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19 hours ago · This is a list of sovereign states in the 1950s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1950 and 31 December 1959. It contains 108 entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty. It includes 102 widely recognized sovereign states, 5 entities which ...
19 hours ago · Igor Smirnov, Chairman of the Provisional Supreme Soviet (1990), of the Republic (1990–1991) Andrey Manoylov, Acting Chairman of the Republic (1991) Igor Smirnov, Chairman of the Republic (1991), President (1991–2011) Prime ministers ( complete list) –. Stanislav Moroz, Acting Prime minister (1990) Romania.
19 hours ago · Alaska ( / əˈlæskə / ⓘ ə-LASS-kə) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. It borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory to the east; it shares a western maritime border in the Bering Strait with Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.
- 665,384 sq mi (1,723,337 km²)
- Anchorage
19 hours ago · 1950s The first man-made device to achieve ignition was the detonation of this fusion device, codenamed Ivy Mike. Early photo of plasma inside a pinch machine (Imperial College 1950/1951) The first successful man-made fusion device was the boosted fission weapon tested in 1951 in the Greenhouse Item test.
19 hours ago · Accumulated cyclone energy. Accumulated cyclone energy ( ACE) is a metric used to compare overall activity of tropical cyclones, utilizing the available records of windspeeds at six-hour intervals to synthesize storm duration and strength into a single index value. [1] The ACE index may refer to a single storm or to groups of storms such as ...
19 hours ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
19 hours ago · e. LGBT history dates back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love and sexuality of ancient civilizations, involving the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) peoples and cultures around the world. What survives after many centuries of persecution—resulting in shame, suppression, and secrecy—has only in more ...