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Tourism is an important sector for the Philippine economy. The travel and tourism industry contributed 6.2% to the country's GDP in 2022; [1] this was lower than the 12.7% recorded in 2019 prior to the COVID-19 lockdowns. [2] Coastal tourism, encompassing beach and diving activities, constitutes 25% of the Philippines' tourism revenue, serving ...
Page was born on February 21, 1987, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Page, a graphic designer. [8] He was assigned female at birth and used the birth name of Ellen prior to transitioning in 2020. [9] Page attended the Halifax Grammar School until grade 10, and spent some time at Queen Elizabeth High School.
129,000–226,000. On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days ...
Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report. The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report was first published in 2007 by the World Economic Forum (WEF). [1] The 2007 report covered 124 major and emerging economies. The 2008 report covered 130 countries, [2] the 2009 report expanded to 133 countries, [3] and the 2011 report to 139 countries. [4]
Tourism in Nigeria centers largely on events, due to the country's ample amount of ethnic groups, but also includes rain forests, savannah, waterfalls, and other natural attractions. [1] Tourists spent US$2.6 billion in Nigeria in 2015. This dropped to US$1.5 billion in 2017.
This followed the retirement of Delta II in 2018 and single-stick (non-Heavy) variants of the Delta IV in 2019. With the start of 2024, Vulcan Centaur took its first flight in time to maintain continuity of ULA's service in the heavy-lift launch vehicle market before the Delta IV Heavy program came to an end three months later on April 9, 2024.
Delta Delta Delta. Delta Delta Delta ( ΔΔΔ ), also known as Tri Delta, is a global [2] women's fraternity and Greek life organization founded on November 27, 1888 at Boston University by Sarah Ida Shaw, Eleanor Dorcas Pond, Isabel Morgan Breed, and Florence Isabelle Stewart. With over 200,000 living initiates at 141 chapters and over $450M ...
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.