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2 hours ago · The Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC; French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, it became the largest and oldest corporation in Canada, and now owns and operates retail stores across the country. [3] [4] The company's namesake business division is Hudson's Bay ...
2 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.”
1 day ago · Located at the northwest corner of North America, Alaska is the northernmost and westernmost state in the United States, but also has the most easterly longitude in the United States because the Aleutian Islands extend into the Eastern Hemisphere. [34] Alaska is the only non- contiguous U.S. state on continental North America; about 500 miles ...
2 hours ago · From left, clockwise: The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, lifts off in 1981; US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ease tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the end of the Cold War; The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is considered to be one of the most momentous events of the 1980s; In 1981, the IBM Personal ...
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