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  2. History of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The wikipedia.com and wikipedia.org domain names were registered on 12 [73] and 13 January, [74] respectively, with wikipedia.org being brought online on the same day. [75] The project formally opened on 15 January (" Wikipedia Day "), with the first international Wikipedias – the French, German, Catalan , Swedish , and Italian editions ...

  3. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Country of origin: United States: Owner: Wikimedia Foundation ... Wikipedia [c] is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of ...

  4. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Gerald Durrell (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer and zookeeper. He was born in British India and moved to England in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, but the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the United Kingdom.

  5. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The continental part of the country bore the name Tanah Melayu (literally 'Malay Land') or Malaya until 1963, when Federation of Malaysia was formed together with the territories of Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore (the latter withdrew in 1965). The name change indicated the change of the country's boundaries beyond Malay Peninsula.

  6. Country of origin - Wikipedia

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    Country of origin labelling (COL) is also known as place-based branding, the made-in image or the "nationality bias". In some regions or industries, country of origin labelling may adopt unique local terms such as terroir used to describe wine appellations based on the specific region where grapes are grown and wine manufactured.

  7. History by country - Wikipedia

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    History of the Netherlands Antilles – Netherlands Antilles (Self-governing country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) History of New Caledonia – Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies ( French community sui generis )

  8. Georgia (country) - Wikipedia

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    The country has sizeable hydropower resources. [274] Throughout Georgia's modern history agriculture and tourism have been principal economic sectors, because of the country's climate and topography. For much of the 20th century, Georgia's economy was within the Soviet model of command economy.

  9. Country - Wikipedia

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    In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.