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Business and economy Greek government-debt crisis Bundestag, the German lower house of parliament, approves Greece's bailout plan by 439–119 with 40 abstained. (Reuters) Disasters and accidents 2015 Pacific typhoon season Typhoon Nangka passes through the western part of the main Japanese island of Honshu, causing at least two deaths, widespread flooding and the evacuation of 100,000 people ...
The Ryugyong Hotel (Korean: 류경호텔; sometimes spelled as Ryu-Gyong Hotel), or Yu-Kyung Hotel, [3] is a 330 m (1,080 ft) tall unfinished pyramid-shaped skyscraper in Pyongyang, North Korea. Its name ( lit. "capital of willows") is also one of the historical names for Pyongyang. [ 4 ]
The most notable expansion added accounting and financial services for the hospitality industry. WHI emerges as one of the first franchises to be selected to grow the full service Marriott brand in 1994. In 1996, the company opened its first full-service Marriott hotel. It expanded into development of upscale, full-service, lifestyle, select ...
Liza Maza, a human rights activist and former Filipino congresswoman, and the Center for Women's Resources criticized the United States and the Philippines governments for preventing Maza's boarding of a July 9, 2015, Korean Air flight destined for Washington, D.C. Maza, who has a U.S. visa valid until 2018, was scheduled to speak before a left ...
The Djoser pyramid in Egypt is known as the oldest in the world at 4,700 years old. A new paper published in Archaeological Prospection calls that record into question with the strong claims of a ...
On 14 July 2015, a spacecraft is visiting the dwarf planet and its moons for the first time: the New Horizons probe is performing a flyby and attempting to take detailed measurements and images. NASA has invited the general public to suggest names for surface features that will be discovered on Pluto and Charon.
Pyramid Management Group (also known as The Pyramid Companies) is an American real estate development company founded in 1968 by Robert J. Congel. It is the largest privately held shopping mall development firm in the Northeastern United States , with a large concentration on New York State . [ 1 ]
The oldest known complex societies with settlements, which would be required to build pyramid-type structures, is 9,000 years old and located in modern-day Turkey.