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1 day ago · The Indian Air Force contingent marching at the 221st Bastille Day military parade in Paris, on 14 July 2009. The parade at which India was the foreign guest was led by India's oldest regiment, the Maratha Light Infantry , founded in 1768.
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6 hours ago · Like many engaged scholars and Indigenous activists, Jen Preston (2013, 2017) uses the term “tar sands” to describe the bitumen-rich sands heavily exploited Athabasca region of Alberta and other parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan (see Figures 6 and 7). The oil and gas industry and the Canadian government prefer the term “oil sands.”
6 hours ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
6 hours ago · The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
