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2 days ago · A map of uncontacted peoples, around the start of the 21st century. Estimates of the population of Indigenous peoples range from 250 million to 600 million. The United Nations estimates that there are over 370 million Indigenous people living in over 90 countries worldwide. This would equate to just fewer than 6% of the total world population.
2 days ago · The League of Nations ( French: Société des Nations [sɔsjete de nɑsjɔ̃]) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. [1] It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
3 days ago · The 1991 University of Florida bat house is the largest occupied artificial roost in the world, with around 400,000 residents. In Britain, thickwalled and partly underground World War II pillboxes have been converted to make roosts for bats, [256] [257] and purpose-built bat houses are occasionally built to mitigate damage to habitat from road ...
4 days ago · About 213 million pregnancies occurred in 2012, of which, 190 million (89%) were in the developing world and 23 million (11%) were in the developed world. The number of pregnancies in women aged between 15 and 44 is 133 per 1,000 women. About 10% to 15% of recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage.
4 days ago · GameStop. GameStop Corp. is an American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer. [1] The company is headquartered in Grapevine, Texas (a suburb of Dallas ), and is the largest video game retailer worldwide. [2] As of January 28, 2023, the company operates 4,413 stores including 2,949 in the United States, 216 in Canada ...
4 days ago · Jurassic World is a 2015 American science fiction action film directed by Colin Trevorrow, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Derek Connolly from a story by Jaffa and Silver. [5] It is the first installment in the Jurassic World trilogy and the fourth installment overall in the Jurassic Park film series, following ...
2 days ago · Russia maintains the world's third-highest military expenditure, spending $109 billion in 2023, corresponding to around 5.9% of its GDP. In 2021 it was the world's second-largest arms exporter, and had a large and entirely indigenous defence industry, producing most of its own military equipment. Human rights
