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12 hours ago · List of Nobel laureates. Nobel laureates receive a gold medal together with a diploma and (as of 2023) 11 million SEK (roughly US $1.0 million, €0.95 million). Nobel laureates of 2012 – Alvin E. Roth, Brian Kobilka, Robert J. Lefkowitz, David J. Wineland, and Serge Haroche – during the ceremony. The Nobel Prizes ( Swedish: Nobelpriset ...
12 hours ago · Carl Linnaeus [a] (23 May 1707 [note 1] – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, [3] [b] was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy ". [4] Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is ...
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12 hours ago · Population Since 1980, the number of people of Danish descent, defined as having at least one parent who was born in Denmark and has Danish citizenship, has remained constant at around 5 million in Denmark, and nearly all the population growth from 5.1 up to the 2018 total of 5.8 million was due to immigration. Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2019. Population ...
- 9.85 births/1,000 population
- 1.0085% (2022 est.)
- 10.02 deaths/1,000 population
- 5,952,575 (2023 1 September est.)
12 hours ago · Kurds account for 9% of Syria's population, a total of around 1.6 million people. This makes them the largest ethnic minority in the country. They are mostly concentrated in the northeast and the north, but there are also significant Kurdish populations in Aleppo and Damascus. Kurds often speak Kurdish in public, unless all those present do not.
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- 63,818
- 1.2–1.5 million
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12 hours ago · The legal status of polygamy varies widely around the world. Polygyny is legal in 58 out of nearly 200 sovereign states, the vast majority of them being Muslim-majority countries. Some countries that permit polygamy have restrictions, such as requiring the first wife to give her consent.
12 hours ago · Jewish culture is the culture of the Jewish people, [1] from its formation in ancient times until the current age. Judaism itself is not simply a faith-based religion, but an orthoprax and ethnoreligion, pertaining to deed, practice, and identity. [2] Jewish culture covers many aspects, including religion and worldviews, literature, media, and ...
12 hours ago · This is an alphabetical list of countries by past and projected gross domestic product (nominal) as ranked by the IMF. Figures are based on official exchange rates, not on the purchasing power parity (PPP) methodology.
