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16 hours ago · Age of the gunpowder empires. The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century. [1] [2] [3]
16 hours ago · From the start of the 17th century, more accounts of marsupials arrived. For instance, a 1606 record of an animal, killed on the southern coast of New Guinea, described it as "in the shape of a dog, smaller than a greyhound", with a snakelike "bare scaly tail" and hanging testicles.
16 hours ago · The Bronx Zoo (also historically the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens) is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York.It is one of the largest zoos in the United States by area and is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States by area, comprising 265 acres (107 ha) of park lands and naturalistic habitats separated by the Bronx River.
- November 8, 1899
- 4,000 (2010)
- 265 acres (107 ha)
16 hours ago · Zambia is a landlocked country in southern Africa, with a tropical climate, and consists mostly of high plateaus with some hills and mountains, dissected by river valleys. At 752,614 km 2 (290,586 sq mi) it is the 39th-largest country in the world, slightly smaller than Chile.
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16 hours ago · Pennsylvania's history of human habitation extends to thousands of years before the foundation of the colonial Province of Pennsylvania in 1681. Archaeologists believe the first settlement of the Americas occurred at least 15,000 years ago during the last glacial period, though it is unclear when humans first entered the area now known as ...
- 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)
- 9 Democrats, 8 Republicans (list)
16 hours ago · Botswana ( English: Land of the Tswana; / bɒtˈswɑːnə / ⓘ, also UK: / bʊt -, bʊˈtʃw -/ [17] ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( Setswana: Lefatshe la Botswana, [lɪˈfatsʰɪ la bʊˈtswana] ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the ...
