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1 day ago · Lancashire (/ ˈ l æ ŋ k ə ʃ ər / LAN-kə-shər, /-ʃ ɪər /-sheer; abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west.
- Lancashire County Council
Lancashire County Council is the upper-tier local authority...
- Lancashire County Council
7 hours ago · The world's first submarine telephone cable was laid between England and France in 1891 by HMTS Monarch, enabling London-Paris calls from April 1891. On 3 December 1992, Neil Papworth of Reading, an engineer from Sema Group Telecoms at Vodafone in Newbury, sent the world's first text message from his computer to an Orbitel 901 handset of Richard Jarvis, Vodafone's technical director.
7 hours ago · [41]: 17 By World War II, almost all of these large houses had been replaced with apartment buildings. [ 20 ] In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Norwegian and Danish sailors emigrated to Brooklyn, including Bay Ridge and neighboring Sunset Park ; Lapskaus Boulevard, referring to the salted Norwegian beef stew , is the nickname of Eighth Avenue in this area.
1 day ago · In 2015, the International World Game Executive Committee selected Birmingham over Lima, Peru and Ufa, Russia, for the 2021 World Games, but the event was delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] After the 2020 census, Birmingham lost its long-standing status as Alabama's largest city, with Huntsville overtaking Birmingham in total population, though Birmingham remains the ...
1 day ago · The size of Africa compared to other continents. Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [9]
1 day ago · A state's number of electors equals the number of representatives plus two electors for the senators the state has in the United States Congress. [ 117 ] [ 118 ] Each state is entitled to at least one representative, the remaining number of representatives per state is apportioned based on their respective populations, determined every ten years by the United States census .
7 hours ago · After the United States, Germany is the second-most popular immigration destination in the world. [227] In 2015, following the 2015 refugee crisis , the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs listed Germany as host to the second-highest number of international migrants worldwide , about 5% or 12 million of all 244 million migrants. [ 228 ]
