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Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.
Mobile phones use geographic area codes (two digits): after that, all numbers assigned to mobile service have nine digits, starting with 6, 7, 8 or 9 (example: 55 15 99999–9999). 90 is not possible, because collect calls start with this number.
In English-speaking Canada—the balance of Britain's former North American colonies—it is called the Seven Years' War (1756–1763). In French-speaking Canada, it is known as La guerre de la Conquête (the War of the Conquest ).
Shortages persisted for years after each war; individual lines in Montreal remained in short supply at the end of 1919 [11] and similar shortages were reported by telephone companies in Florida as late as 1948. [12] [13] Some rural users had to run their own wires to reach the utility's lines. [14] 1959 rates for telephone lines in Indiana.
A series of four wars erupted in colonial North America between 1689 and 1763; the later wars of the period constituted the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War. [48] Mainland Nova Scotia came under British rule with the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht and Canada and most of New France came under British rule in 1763 after the Seven Years' War ...
The Battle of Fort Frontenac took place on August 26–28, 1758 during the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War in the United States) between France and Great Britain. The location of the battle was Fort Frontenac , a French fort and trading post which is located at the site of present-day Kingston, Ontario , at the ...
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On 16 April 1945 HMCS Esquimalt was hit by a torpedo fired by U-190. 44 crew died from exposure. 26 survived. After the war, on 21 October 1947, as part of "Operation Scuttled", the surrendered U-190 was scuttled at about the same position as where HMCS Esquimalt was sunk.