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12 hours ago · Heathrow Airport (/ ˌ h iː θ ˈ r oʊ, ˈ h iː θ r oʊ /), [6] called London Airport until 1966 (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL), [7] and now known as London Heathrow, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
12 hours ago · The Holocaustwas the genocideof European Jewsduring World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germanyand its collaboratorssystematically murdered some six million Jewsacross German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootingsand poison gas in extermination camps ...
12 hours ago · Bali (English: / ˈbɑːli /; ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller offshore islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan to the southeast. The provincial capital, Denpasar, [ 10 ] is ...
12 hours ago · An aerial view of BWI Marshall Airport with downtown Baltimore in the background in September 2009. Planning for a new airport on 3,200 acres (1,300 ha) to serve the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area began in 1944, just prior to the end of World War II, when the Baltimore Aviation Commission announced its decision that the best location to build a new airport would be on a 2,100-acre ...
12 hours ago · The Dutch East Indies, [ 3 ] also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands (ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda), was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
12 hours ago · Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (IATA: AMS, ICAO: EHAM), known informally as Schiphol Airport (Dutch: Luchthaven Schiphol, pronounced [ˌlʏxtɦaːvə(n) ˈsxɪp(ɦ)ɔl; sxɪpˈɦɔl]), [g] is the main international airport of the Netherlands, and is one of the major hubs for the SkyTeam airline alliance. [8]
12 hours ago · Pittsburgh (/ ˈpɪtsbɜːrɡ / PITS-burg) is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, and the 68th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census. The city is located in southwestern Pennsylvania ...
