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  1. 1 day ago · The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), i.e., "the Mainland", became a British colony in 1858. [27] It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.

  2. 1 day ago · Climate change is the result of greenhouse gas emissions, which are produced by human activity. Canada was the world's 7th largest greenhouse gas emitter in terms of GHG Inventory data, as of 2021. [4] In 2020, Canada emitted a total of 678 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO 2 eq) into the atmosphere.

    • t CO 2 Eq
    • 12.60
    • 11.82
    • 9.55
  3. en.wikipedia.org · wiki · ZurichZurich - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Zurich (‹See Tfd› German: Zürich; Alemannic German: Züri) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, [5] at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. As of January 2023, the municipality had 443,037 inhabitants, [6] the urban area 1.315 million (2009), [7] and the ...

  4. 1 day ago · The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 American animated comedy film based on the Fox animated sitcom The Simpsons by Matt Groening.The film was directed by series veteran David Silverman (in his directorial debut) and stars the series' regular cast of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, and Tress MacNeille reprising their roles ...

  5. en.wikipedia.org · wiki · AfricaAfrica - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth 's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [ 9 ]

  6. 14 minutes ago · These are books of epic ideas; a pithy summary is difficult. The characters are mostly from a town in southern Norway, and shining down on them is a star – an unexplained object that just appears. I read Knausgaard’s books compulsively, as soon as I get my hands on them. They are concerned with meaning – of modern life and of reality.

  7. 14 minutes ago · A PAIR of jets blasting out of a black hole spans 23 million light years, the equivalent of 220 Milky Way galaxies in length. This is so large that it may change our understanding both of black holes and the structure of the universe.

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