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While in the immediate aftermath there was a short-lived controversy over the quality of primary education in India, ultimately India decided to not participate in PISA for 2012, [199] and again not to for 2015 and 2018. [200] [201] While the quality of free, public education is in crisis, a majority of the urban poor have turned to private ...
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, it became the largest and oldest corporation in Canada, before evolving into a major fashion retailer, operating retail stores across both the United States and Canada.
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the U.S. and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [49] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [50] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 12th most visited website in the ...
For 2012 the World Bank forecast a rate of 4% growth for Morocco and 4.2% for following year, 2013. [ 161 ] The services sector accounts for just over half of GDP and industry, made up of mining, construction and manufacturing, is an additional quarter.
Darius I (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš; Greek: Δαρεῖος Dareios; c. 550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE.
Most are in the passive configuration, lacking thermal imaging sights. 700 ex-U.S. Army M60A1 were acquired for the cost of shipping and delivered 1990-1992. Another 168 M60A3 were acquired from Austria. 550 in storage T-80 Russia: Main battle tank: T-80U T-80UK 34 1997– Purchased in 1997. [71] (possibly no less than 100 in total) T-62 Soviet ...
Dred Scott was a slave who was temporarily taken from a slave state to a free territory by his owner, John Sanford. After Scott returned to the slave state, he filed a petition for his freedom based on his time in the free territory. [53] Associate Justice Robert C. Grier leaked the decision in the "Dred Scott" case early to Buchanan.