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It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world, with a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/sq mi). [10] As of 2020, the overall life expectancy in Russia at birth was 71.54 years (66.49 years for males and 76.43 years for females). [1]
The nadir of American race relations was the period in African-American history and the history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country, and particularly anti-black racism, was more open and pronounced than it had ever been during any other period in the nation's ...
1890 – Saint Brigid's Church (Ottawa) completed. 1891 – Ottawa Car Company founded. 1891 – First electric streetcar line opens. 1892 – Ottawa Horticultural Society founded. 1895 – Ottawa's first paved street exists as of this date. 1897 – Caplan's opened. 1900 – Hull-Ottawa fire decimates much of Hull and many buildings in Ottawa.
History of rail transport in Great Britain 1830–1922. The history of rail transport in Great Britain 1830–1922 covers the period between the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), and the Grouping, the amalgamation of almost all of Britain's many railway companies into the Big Four by the Railways Act 1921.
Hemp in the United States. Hemp in the United States was a legal crop in the 18th and 19th centuries. Production was effectively banned in the mid-20th century, but it returned as a legal crop in the 21st century. By 2019, the United States had become the world's third largest producer of hemp, behind China and Canada. [1]
20 - 23 février : occupation de Cotonou par les troupes du lieutenant-colonel Terrillon. La France tente un coup de force contre le Dahomey. La marine bombarde Cotonou et massacre une partie de sa population ; Béhanzin échoue à reprendre la ville le 4 mars. 1er mai : émeute place de la Concorde.
Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux ( née Duchesne; born 1 September 1940) is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". [1] [2] Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close ...
