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1 day ago · 19th century Gotthard line in 1882 Development of real GDP per capita, 1851 to 2018. Switzerland as a federal state was established in 1848. Before that time, the city-cantons of Zürich, Geneva, and Basel in particular began to develop economically based on industry and trade, while the rural regions of Switzerland remained poor and underdeveloped.
1 day ago · 06-43000. GNIS feature IDs. 1652747, 2410866. Website. www .longbeach .gov. Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is the 44th-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 451,307 as of 2022. [11] A charter city, [3] Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California, the second most ...
3 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 ...
1 day ago · The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état ( Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد ), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on 19 August 1953, with one of ...
3 hours ago · Baton Rouge (/ ˌ b æ t ən ˈ r uː ʒ / ⓘ BAT-ən ROOZH; French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge, pronounced [bɑtɔ̃ ʁuʒ]) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana.Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it had a population of 227,470 as of 2020; it is the seat of Louisiana's most populous parish (county-equivalent), East Baton Rouge Parish, and the center of ...
3 hours ago · The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 12 December 2019, with 47,567,752 registered voters [3] entitled to vote to elect 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons. The governing Conservative Party led by the prime minister, Boris Johnson, won a landslide victory with a majority of 80 seats, [n 5] a net gain ...
1 day ago · 2,000,000–4,500,000 displaced, [13] 500,000 of whom fled abroad [14] The Nigerian Civil War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), also known as the Biafran War, was a civil war fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state which had declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967. Nigeria was led by General Yakubu Gowon ...
