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[2] [3] The median age of women tends to be much greater than that of men in some of the ex-Soviet republics, while in the Global South, the difference is far smaller or is reversed. In this article, two sets of data based on Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and United Nations (UN) estimates are provided.
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena in Siena, Italy, is the oldest surviving bank in the world and Italy's third largest bank. It was founded in 1472. It was founded in 1472. The Raeapteek in the center of Tallinn city, Estonia is one of the oldest continuously running pharmacies in Europe, having always been in business in the same exact house ...
How the age of a Korean person, who was born on June 15, is determined by traditional and official reckoning. Traditional East Asian age reckoning covers a group of related methods for reckoning human ages practiced in the East Asian cultural sphere, where age is the number of calendar years in which a person has been alive; it starts at 1 at birth and increases at each New Year.
China: c. 279 BC Guangzhou (as Panyu) Qin dynasty China: 214 BC [145] [146] Some traditional Chinese histories placed Nanwucheng's founding during the reign of Ji Yan, [147] [148] king of Zhou from 314 to 256 BC. It was said to have consisted of little more than a stockade of bamboo and mud. [149] [148] Hangzhou (as Lin'an, Yuhang, Qiantang ...
The partnership between China and the World Bank began on December 27, 1945, when it joined the organization. After the Communist victory in 1949 in the Chinese Civil War, the Chinese Communist Party proclaimed the People's Republic of China (PRC) on the mainland while the Republic of China (ROC) government retreated to the island of Taiwan, formerly a Japanese colony it acquired in 1945 after ...
In 1829, Mexican trader and explorer Antonio Armijo led a group consisting of 60 men and 100 mules along the Old Spanish Trail from modern day New Mexico to California. . Along the way, the group stopped in the what would become Las Vegas and noted the natural water sources, now referred to as the Las Vegas Springs, which supported extensive vegetation such as grasses and mesquite
Crowned Miss Japan this week, Ukrainian-born Carolina Shiino cried with joy, thankful for the recognition of her identity as Japanese. Shiino has lived in Japan since moving here at age 5 and ...
1 November 1981: 1 Nov 1981 [65] 1 Nov 1981 United Kingdom: 1981–present: Antigua and Barbuda. 1632–1981: Part of the British Empire as its West Indies (interrupted by France in 1666) Since 3100 BC, humans have been settled starting with the indigenous peoples of the Americas. St. John's Argentina: The Americas 18 October 1884: 25 May 1810