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The former Institute for International Cooperation and Development (IICD), now One World Center, [1] is a private nonprofit organization in the United States with headquarters located in Dowagiac, Michigan. Their stated purpose is to train volunteers for humanitarian projects In South and Central America and sub-Saharan Africa.
Borneo (/ ˈ b ɔːr n i oʊ /; also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of 748,168 km 2 (288,869 sq mi). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia , it is one of the Greater Sunda Islands , located north of Java , west of Sulawesi , and east of Sumatra .
Papua New Guinea is one of the most heterogeneous nations in the world [118] with an estimated 8.95 million inhabitants as of 2020. [119] There are hundreds of ethnic groups indigenous to Papua New Guinea, the majority being from the group known as Papuans , whose ancestors arrived in the New Guinea region tens of thousands of years ago.
The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, [1] are Melanesians.There is genetic evidence for two major historical lineages in New Guinea and neighboring islands: a first wave from the Malay Archipelago perhaps 50,000 years ago when New Guinea and Australia were a single landmass called Sahul and, much later, a wave of Austronesian ...
One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and Freedom Tower, [note 1] is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City.. Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the United States, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the seventh-tallest in the
ONE: Union of the Senses is a mural by American artist José Parlá on display in the lobby of One World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City. Commissioned in 2014, the painting was completed and installed in 2015. Measuring 90 feet wide, the painting is believed to be the largest painting in New York City. [1][2][3][4][5]
Uncontacted peoples generally refers to Indigenous peoples who have remained largely isolated to the present day, maintaining their traditional lifestyles and functioning mostly independently from any political or governmental entities. However, European exploration and colonization during the early modern period brought Indigenous peoples ...
The Heart of Borneo, which straddles Indonesia, Malaysia, and parts of Brunei, is the largest contiguous forest area remaining in Southeast Asia. [2] The Sulu–Sulawesi Seas is a highly biodiverse, globally significant biogeographic unit in the Coral Triangle—the center of the world's highest concentration of marine biodiversity. [3] [4]