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Moldova has one partially closed city: the village of Cobasna (Rîbnița District), which is under the control of the unrecognized state of Transnistria internationally recognized as part of Moldova. The village, on the left bank of the Dniester river, contains a large Soviet-era ammunition depot guarded by Russian troops.
A comprehensive list of sports, including various physical activities and games.
This portrayal of modern urban life as empty or lonely is a common theme throughout Hopper's work. [ 137 ] American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood from 1930 portraying a pitchfork -holding farmer and a younger woman in front of a house of Carpenter Gothic style, it is one of the most familiar images in 20th-century American art . [ 138 ]
The period is marked by a heavy superstrate influence from the Germanic Frankish language, which non-exhaustively included the use in upper-class speech and higher registers of V2 word order, [45] a large percentage of the vocabulary (now at around 15% of modern French vocabulary [46]) including the impersonal singular pronoun on (a calque of ...
London was chosen over Birmingham to represent Great Britain's bid by the British Olympic Association.. By 15 July 2003—the deadline for interested cities to submit bids to the International Olympic Committee (IOC)—nine cities had submitted bids to host the 2012 Summer Olympics: Havana, Istanbul, Leipzig, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York City, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro. [24]
Without the modern GLONASS, precision-guided munitions could not be used and the US-controlled GPS was unavailable, since the war zone was blacked out. [360] Due to the negligence of Russian defence minister, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles was not sanctioned; [ 360 ] an RIA Novosti editorial said that Russian forces were without reliable ...
Iraq, [a] officially the Republic of Iraq, [b] is a country in the Middle East and West Asia.It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Saudi Arabia to the south, Iran to the east, Syria to the west, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, and Jordan to the southwest.