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The ten poorest countries in the world, as measured by GDP per capita, are: South Sudan, Burundi, Central African Republic, ...
Mullen says the bank picked its new headquarters with the company’s flexible structure front of mind. The ground floor, ...
Some of the millions of Americans with Italian ancestry have been left in limbo, with some granted citizenship and others thwarted, even within the same family.
On 1 July 1925, the oldest railway in the world celebrated its 100th birthday. The Stockton to Darlington Railway was the ...
The exodus of British-owned betting company Ladbrokes from the traditional model of bookmaker shops in favour of online ...
Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School delivered a truly outstanding performance of Elephant/Man, brimming with ...
By 1880, Abdur Rehman Khan became Emir of Afghanistan ... Pictures and text from government accounts of the earthquake show that the clock at the Central Post Office was stuck at 3:03am] the city of ...
From their first encounters with Europeans in 1642 to the Musket Wars in the first half of the 19th century, the Māori, the ...
I enjoy sharing books with others, which was the genesis of this annual list. Six previous reviews have included monographs ...
It appears that George Kemp (1826-1893), a wealthy merchant born in Ireland, who later lived in New York City, admired the sculpture so much that he commissioned a full-scale replica for Central Park ...
The Central YMCA had been operating from its Great Russell Street base since 1977. A petition to save the premises received more than 8,000 signatures however it shut as planned on 7 February. The ...
Aging population and anti-immigration rhetoric in rich countries are forcing companies building electricity infrastructure to ...