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13 hours ago · Tiger. The tiger ( Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia. It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail and orange fur with black, mostly vertical stripes. It is traditionally classified into nine recent subspecies, though some recognise only two ...
13 hours ago · Capital punishment by country. Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the state -sanctioned killing of a person as a punishment for a crime. It has historically been used in almost every part of the world. Since the mid-19th century many countries have abolished or discontinued the practice.
13 hours ago · Nancy Pelosi (born 1940), Congresswoman, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2007-2011, 2019–2023) [629] Aaron Peskin (born 1964), San Francisco Supervisor [630] James Duval Phelan (1861–1930), civic leader and banker. Mayor of San Francisco from 1897 to 1902 U.S. Senator from 1915 to 1921.
13 hours ago · e. The 1990s (often referred to as the "' 90s " or " Nineties ") was a decade that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s are culturally imagined as the period between the Revolutions of 1989 and the September 11 attacks in 2001. [1] The dissolution of the Soviet Union marked the ...
13 hours ago · British Chinese ( simplified Chinese: 英籍华人; traditional Chinese: 英籍華人; pinyin: Yīng jí huárén ), also known as Chinese British or Chinese Britons, are people of Chinese – particularly Han Chinese – ancestry who reside in the United Kingdom, constituting the second-largest group of Overseas Chinese in Western Europe after ...
13 hours ago · As of 2009, there were also approximately 133,000 immigrants living in Romania, primarily from Moldova and China. [235] The total fertility rate (TFR) in 2018 was estimated at 1.36 children born per woman, which is below the replacement rate of 2.1, and one of the lowest in the world, [376] it remains considerably below the high of 5.82 children born per woman in 1912. [377]
13 hours ago · Hangul is the official writing system throughout Korea, both North and South. It is a co-official writing system in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County in Jilin Province, China. Hangul has also seen limited use by speakers of the Cia-Cia language in Indonesia.
