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12 hours ago · Iran, a mountainous, arid, and ethnically diverse country of southwestern Asia. The country maintains a rich and distinctive cultural and social continuity dating back to the Achaemenian period, which began in 550 bce. In recent decades it has become known for its unique brand of Islamic republic. Although the system of government was intended ...
2 days ago · Literature. With the development of language, the human imagination has found a way to create and communicate through the written word. A literary work can transport us into a fictional, fantastic new world, describe a fleeting feeling, or simply give us a picture of the past through novels, poems, tragedies, epic works, and other genres.
3 days ago · Every U.S. president is assigned a code name by the Secret Service. This quiz will show you a code name along with two presidents’... 43 Questions About Politics (Mostly in the United States) Compiled from Britannica’s Quizzes. This quiz gathers together questions from Britannica’s quizzes about politics, law, and government.
2 days ago · Donald Trump (born June 14, 1946, New York, New York, U.S.) 45th president of the United States (2017–21). Trump was a real estate developer and businessman who owned, managed, or licensed his name to hotels, casinos, golf courses, resorts, and residential properties in the New York City area and around the world.
4 days ago · bacteria, any of a group of microscopic single-celled organisms that live in enormous numbers in almost every environment on Earth, from deep-sea vents to deep below Earth’s surface to the digestive tracts of humans. Bacteria lack a membrane-bound nucleus and other internal structures and are therefore ranked among the unicellular life-forms ...
1 day ago · police, body of officers representing the civil authority of government. Police typically are responsible for maintaining public order and safety, enforcing the law, and preventing, detecting, and investigating criminal activities. These functions are known as policing. Police are often also entrusted with various licensing and regulatory ...
1 day ago · India became the world’s most populous country in 2023, according to estimates by the United Nations. India. It is known from archaeological evidence that a highly sophisticated urbanized culture—the Indus civilization —dominated the northwestern part of the subcontinent from about 2600 to 2000 bce.
