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Greater Khorāsān [2] or Khorāsān or Khurāsān ( Middle Persian: Xwarāsān; Persian: خراسان [xoɾɒːˈsɒːn] ⓘ) is a historical eastern region in the Iranian Plateau between West and Central Asia that encompasses western Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, the eastern halves of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, and ...
Roxas City. / 11.5894°N 122.7511°E / 11.5894; 122.7511. Roxas, officially the City of Roxas ( Capiznon / Hiligaynon: Dakbanwa sang Roxas; Filipino: Lungsod ng Roxas ), is a 3rd class component city and capital of the province of Capiz, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 179,292 people.
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 after the bombing of ...
The Indus Valley Civilisation [1] ( IVC ), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. [2] [a] Together with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, it was one of three early civilisations of the Near East ...
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The Red Sea crisis [41] [42] began on 19 October 2023, when the Iran -backed Houthi movement in Yemen launched missiles and armed drones at Israel, demanding an end to the invasion of the Gaza Strip. [43] The Houthis have since seized and launched aerial attacks against merchant and naval vessels in the Red Sea, drawing attacks on missile sites ...
The Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба, tr. Tsar'-bomba, IPA: [t͡sarʲ ˈbombə], lit. ' Tsar bomb'; code name: Ivan [5] or Vanya ), also known by the alphanumerical designation " AN602 ", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. The Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov oversaw the ...
Metamorphic. sedimentary. The Himalayas, or Himalaya ( / ˌhɪməˈleɪ.ə, hɪˈmɑːləjə / HIM-ə-LAY-ə, hih-MAH-lə-yə) [b] is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the Earth 's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest.