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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › TigerTiger - Wikipedia

    17 hours ago · As of 2009, tigers were the most traded circus animals. Tigers have become popular in the exotic pet trade, particularly in the United States, where 5,000 tigers were estimated to have been kept in captivity in 2020, with only 6% of them being in zoos and other facilities approved by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Private collectors are ...

    • Sumatran Tiger

      The Sumatran tiger is a population of Panthera tigris...

    • White Tiger

      A captive white tiger at the Singapore Zoo. The white tiger...

    • Indochinese Tiger

      The Indochinese tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris...

  2. 17 hours ago · The National Basketball Association ( NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). It is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional basketball league in the world. [3]

    • June 6, 1946; 77 years ago, (as BAA), New York City, New York, U.S.
  3. 17 hours ago · The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) [1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists based mainly in the United States. Sovereign citizens have their own pseudolegal belief system based on misinterpretations of common law and claim to not be ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › InfanticideInfanticide - Wikipedia

    17 hours ago · Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants or offspring. Infanticide was a widespread practice throughout human history that was mainly used to dispose of unwanted children, [1] : 61 its main purpose being the prevention of resources being spent on weak or disabled offspring.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › HypertensionHypertension - Wikipedia

    17 hours ago · Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated. [9] High blood pressure usually does not cause symptoms itself. [1] It is, however, a major risk factor for stroke, coronary artery disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, peripheral ...

    • Usually lifestyle and genetic factors
    • None
    • 9.4 million / 18% (2010)
    • Lifestyle changes, medications
  6. 17 hours ago · Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of ...

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Soap_operaSoap opera - Wikipedia

    17 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 ...