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Hace 15 horas · The Keys to the White House is a prediction system for determining the outcome of presidential elections in the United States.It was developed by American historian Allan Lichtman and Russian geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok in 1981, adapting prediction methods that Keilis-Borok designed for earthquake prediction.. The system is a thirteen-point checklist that assesses the situation of the ...
Hace 15 horas · Tiger. The tiger ( Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia. It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail and orange fur with black, mostly vertical stripes. It is traditionally classified into nine recent subspecies, though some recognise only two ...
Hace 15 horas · English auxiliary verbs are a small set of English verbs, which include the English modal auxiliary verbs and a few others.: 19 : 11–12 Although the auxiliary verbs of English are widely believed to lack inherent semantic meaning and instead to modify the meaning of the verbs they accompany, they are nowadays classed by linguists as auxiliary on the basis not of semantic but of grammatical ...
Hace 15 horas · Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in 1988, as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 ...
Hace 15 horas · UNESCO and its mandate for international cooperation can be traced back to a League of Nations resolution on 21 September 1921, to elect a Commission to study the feasibility of having nations freely share cultural, educational and scientific achievements. This new body, the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC), was created in 1922 and counted such figures as Henri ...
Hace 15 horas · Africa seen by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972. Afri was a Latin name used to refer to the inhabitants of what was then known as northern Africa, located west of the Nile river, and in its widest sense referring to all lands south of the Mediterranean, also known as Ancient Libya. This name seems to have originally referred to a native Libyan tribe, an ancestor of modern Berbers; see Terence for ...
Hace 15 horas · The Golden Temple (also known as the Harmandir Sahib ( lit. 'House of God', Punjabi pronunciation: [ɦəɾᵊmən̪d̪əɾᵊ saːɦ (ɪ)bᵊ] ), or the Darbār Sahib, ( lit. ''exalted court'', [d̪əɾᵊbaːɾᵊ saːɦ (ɪ)bᵊ] or Suvaran Mandir [2]) is a gurdwara located in the city of Amritsar, Punjab, India. [3] [4] It is the pre-eminent ...
