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1 day ago · Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank has a population of 107,337. [8] The city was named after David Burbank, who established a sheep ranch there in 1867. [9]
7 hours ago · Appel, Mason, and Watts divide oil anthropology into four approaches: (a) the resource curse focused on oil money, oil politics of states and the political elite; (b) oil as violence, focused on big oil and big military, and imperial states competing for a diminishing resource; (c) oil as modernity, focused on the relationship between oil and consumerism, modern amenities, carbon emissions and ...
7 hours ago · The history of the United Kingdom begins in 1707 with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [a] Of this new state, the historian Simon Schama said:
