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1 day ago · In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus 's voyage of 1492. Usually, the era covers the history of Indigenous cultures until significant influence by Europeans ...
1 day ago · From 2006 to 2016, the Indigenous population has grown by 42.5 percent, four times the national rate. [34] According to the 2011 Canadian census, Indigenous peoples ( First Nations – 851,560, Inuit – 59,445 and Métis – 451,795) numbered at 1,400,685, or 4.3% of the country's total population.
2 days ago · British and other Commonwealth English use the ending -logue while American English commonly uses the ending -log for words like analog (ue), catalog (ue), dialog (ue), homolog (ue), etc, etymologically derived from Greek -λόγος -logos ("one who speaks (in a certain manner)").
1 day ago · British Columbia. / 54°N 125°W / 54; -125. British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada. Situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts ...
2 days ago · The Most Honourable Order of the Bath [2] is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725. [3] . The name derives from an elaborate medieval ceremony for preparing a candidate to receive his knighthood, of which ritual bathing (as a symbol of purification) was an element.
- Service to the Crown
- currently constituted
- 18 May 1725; 298 years ago
- Tria juncta in uno ('Three joined in one') (Civil Division), Ich dien (Military Division)
4 days ago · Agulo, un pequeño pueblo situado en La Gomera (Islas Canarias), ha sido elegido como el pueblo más bonito de España por el periódico británico The Times. Con menos de 1.100 habitantes, este...
3 days ago · The Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ), commonly known as MI6 ( Military Intelligence, Section 6 ), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners. SIS is one of the British intelligence ...
