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2. List of planned cities - Wikipedia

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   At its peak, the population of the city was 300,000. [4] Heracleion – A city built in the 12th century B.C. [5] The city had been a major port in ancient Egypt before it subsided below sea level. Alexandria – A city built by order of Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C. It was the first city in Egypt to have a population of half million.

3. Interstate Highway System - Wikipedia

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   August 22, 1986: The final section of the coast-to-coast I-80 (San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey) is dedicated on the western edge of Salt Lake City, Utah, making I-80 the world's first contiguous freeway to span from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean and, at the time, the longest contiguous freeway in the world.

4. World War II by country - Wikipedia

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   The Free City of Danzig, a semi-autonomous city-state under League of Nations protection, was predominantly German and had a Nazi government by 1936. [92] On 30 August 1939, Germany gave great Poland an ultimatum demanding control of the city, provoking the Danzig crisis and the invasion of Poland on 1 September. The city-state aided Nazi ...

5. Women in China - Wikipedia

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   These statutes declared marriage as a free association between a woman and a man without the interference of other parties and permitted divorce on mutual agreement. [37] At the time, they were the most progressive marriage laws in China and created the conditions for women to divorce men they had been forced to marry, leave abusive spouses ...

6. Sean Combs - Wikipedia

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   Sean John Combs was born on November 4, 1969, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.Raised in Mount Vernon, New York, [19] his mother Janice Combs (née Smalls) was a model and teacher's assistant, [20] and his father, Melvin Earl Combs, served in the U.S. Air Force and was an associate of convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas.

7. History of New Zealand - Wikipedia

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   Linguistic and archaeological evidence suggests that humans emigrated from Taiwan via southeast Asia to Melanesia and then radiated eastwards into the Pacific in pulses and waves of discovery which gradually colonised islands from Samoa and Tonga all the way to Hawaii, the Marquesas, Easter Island, the Society Islands and, finally, New Zealand. [4]