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1 day ago · 1. English isn’t the only language spoken. Many people assume that English is the only language spoken here, but that’s not true. Toronto, much like other parts of Canada, is a bilingual city, with French being spoken by over 60,000 people according to the most recent census of 2021.
1 day ago · The city of Gdańsk had the privilege of minting its own coinage. In 1794, Tadeusz Kościuszko began issuing the first Polish banknotes. The country played a significant role in the supply of Western Europe by the export of grain (rye), cattle (oxen), furs, timber, linen, cannabis, ash, tar, carminic acid and amber.
1 day ago · Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ ɜːr n ɪ s t ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ /; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image.
1 day ago · This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service.
1 day ago · Falun Gong was founded by its leader Li Hongzhi in China in the early 1990s. Falun Gong has its global headquarters in Dragon Springs, a 427-acre (1.73 km 2) compound in Deerpark, New York, United States, near the residence of Li Hongzhi. [10] [11] [12] [13]
1 day ago · Asia ( / ˈeɪʒə / ⓘ AY-zhə, UK also / ˈeɪʃə / AY-shə) is the largest continent [note 1] [10] [11] in the world by both land area and population. [11] It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometers, [note 2] about 30% of Earth 's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area.
1 hour ago · He eventually became ambassador to Turkey from 1939 to 1944, where he attempted to keep that country out of an alliance with the Allies. After the war, he was indicted by the International Military Tribunal on the charge of crimes against peace , but was acquitted; he was later sentenced to eight years of hard labour by a West German court, but was acquitted on appeal.
