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Zones of French and British influence and control imagined by the 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement.. The territories of what would become the states of Israel and Lebanon were once part of the Ottoman Empire which lasted from 1299 until its defeat in World War I and subsequent dissolution in 1922.
2 August 2009: World Championships: Rome, Italy [29] 100m freestyle: 52.70 Penny Oleksiak Canada 11 August 2016: Olympic Games: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [30] 100m freestyle: 52.49 not ratified, fastest all-time junior: Mollie O'Callaghan Australia 18 May 2022: Australian Championships Adelaide, Australia: 200m freestyle: 1:53.65 Summer McIntosh ...
This is a list of conflicts involving the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its predecessor states (the Kingdom of Great Britain (and Ireland), Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland and generally the British Isles).
This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [1]A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".
Even The Return of the Herd (thought to be the painting for November) and The Gloomy Day (known to be for February) show landscapes free of snow. [29] Winter landscape with iceskaters, c. 1608, Hendrick Avercamp. Burroughs says that snowy subjects return to Dutch Golden Age painting with works by Hendrick Avercamp from 1609 onwards. There is a ...
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Lebanon (/ ˈ l ɛ b ə n ɒ n,-n ə n / ⓘ LEB-ə-non, -nən; Arabic: لُبْنَان, romanized: Lubnān, local pronunciation: [lɪbˈneːn]), officially the Republic of Lebanon, [c] is a country in the Levant region of West Asia, bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west; Cyprus lies a short distance from the country's coas
Shipping has significantly contributed to marine pollution. Some statistics indicate that in 1970, commercial shipping fleets around the world dumped over 23,000 tons of plastic waste into the marine environment. In 1988, an international agreement (MARPOL 73/78, Annex V) prohibited the dumping of waste from ships into the marine environment ...