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Apr 19, 2024 · “He is talking about laying the groundwork for the country for the next 1,000 years.” Narendra Damodardas Modi was born in 1950 in a small town in northern Gujarat, as the third of six ...
1 day ago · The history of Cambodia, a country in mainland Southeast Asia, can be traced back to Indian civilization. [1] [2] Detailed records of a political structure on the territory of what is now Cambodia first appear in Chinese annals in reference to Funan , a polity that encompassed the southernmost part of the Indochinese peninsula during the 1st to ...
2 days ago · The Three Gorges Dam ( simplified Chinese: 三峡大坝; traditional Chinese: 三峽大壩; pinyin: Sānxiá Dàbà) is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. The world's largest power station in terms of installed ...
2 days ago · The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet. The two colonial empires used military interventions and diplomatic negotiations to acquire and redefine territories in Central and South Asia. Russia conquered Turkestan, and Britain ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Russia is actually in both Europe and Asia ! It’s a transcontinental country, meaning its territory spans across two continents. The Ural Mountains are often used as a dividing line between the two parts of Russia. Most of Russia’s population lives in the European part, even though most of its landmass lies in Asia.
1 day ago · Antwerp became a margraviate in 980, by the German emperor Otto II, a border province facing the County of Flanders. In the 11th century, the best-known leader of the First Crusade (1096–1099), Godfrey of Bouillon , was originally Margrave of Antwerp , from 1076 until his death in 1100, though he was later also Duke of Lower Lorraine (1087 ...
4 days ago · Morris County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about 30 mi (48 km) west of New York City.According to the 2020 census, the county was the state's tenth-most populous county, with a population of 509,285, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 17,009 (+3.5%) from the 2010 census count of 492,276, which in turn reflected an increase of 22,064 (+11.6%) from the ...
