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Robert Strange McNamara (/ ˈ m æ k n ə m ær ə /; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War. He remains the longest-serving secretary of ...
The Asian Development Bank estimates India's population to be at 1.28 billion with an average growth rate of 1.3% from 2010 to 2015. In 2014, 9.9% of the population aged 15 years and above were employed. 6.9% of the population still lives below the national poverty line and 6.3% [additional citation(s) needed] in extreme poverty (December 2018 ...
Jeffrey Edward Epstein (/ ˈ ɛ p s t iː n /, EP-steen; [1] January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and child sex offender. [2] [3] Born and raised in New York City, Epstein began his professional career as a teacher at the Dalton School, despite lacking a college degree.
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] [h] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Hamas, like its predecessor the Muslim Brotherhood, assumed the administration of Gaza's waqf properties, endowments which extend over 10% of all real estate in the Gaza Strip, with 2,000 acres of agricultural land held in religious trusts, together with numerous shops, rentable apartments and public buildings.
He built a bungalow at Gatundu, near to where he was born, and began farming his 32-acre estate. [175] Kenyatta met with the new Governor of Kenya, Philip Euen Mitchell , and in March 1947 accepted a post on an African Land Settlement Board, holding the post for two years. [ 176 ]
In 1521, a force under António Correia conquered Bahrain, ushering in a period of almost eighty years of Portuguese rule of the Gulf archipelago. [140] In the Red Sea, Massawa was the most northerly point frequented by the Portuguese until 1541, when a fleet under Estevão da Gama penetrated as far as Suez.