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1973, Dean F. Bumpus, Senior Scientist Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Floating objects may ride gyres (large circulating current systems) that are present in each ocean, and may be transferred from one ocean's gyre to another's. Further, objects may be sidetracked by wind, storms, countercurrents, and ocean current variation. Accordingly, drift bottles have traveled large distances, with ...
A cat who got lost in Yellowstone National Park somehow traveled more than 900 miles to return home after two months, with help from the pet’s microchip, an animal welfare organization said.
This was an anti-free-market approach, designed to assure a sufficient flow of tin to consumer countries and a profit for producer countries. However, the buffer stockpile was not sufficiently large, and during most of those 29 years tin prices rose, sometimes sharply, especially from 1973 through 1980 when rampant inflation plagued many world ...
Following the success in addressing the UN, the "Return Our Land" movement evolved into the Aboriginal Constitution Movement, in which the indigenous representatives demanded appropriate wording in the ROC Constitution to ensure indigenous Taiwanese "dignity and justice" in the form of enhanced legal protection, government assistance to improve ...
Mohamed Abdel Moneim Al-Fayed [a] (/ æ l ˈ f aɪ. ɛ d /; 27 January 1929 – 30 August 2023) was an Egyptian billionaire businessman whose residence and primary business interests were in the United Kingdom from the mid-1960s.
Features include front vowel merger before/r/, low-back vowel merger, Canadian Raising, and Canadian lexical items. Still, the sample group in British Columbia showed a preference for UK and US English. [160] This attitude sees a change years later. A survey about attitudes towards CE was conducted with a diverse sample group in Vancouver, BC ...
The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. [ 8 ][ 9 ][ 10 ] In a broader sense, the party has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. [ 11 ] It is the governing party of the United Kingdom, having won ...
Rumors spread in late 1983 that Commodore would discontinue the C64, [36] but it was the only non-discontinued, widely available home computer in the US by then, with more than 500,000 sold during the Christmas season; [37] because of production problems in Atari's supply chain, by the start of 1984 "the Commodore 64 largely has [the low-end ...