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The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 UN member states, [1] 2 UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and 10 other states. The sovereignty dispute column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and 1 ...
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu. Language Log is a collaborative language blog maintained by Mark Liberman, a phonetician at the University of Pennsylvania . Most of the posts focus on language use in the media and in popular culture. Text available through Google Search frequently serves as a corpus to test hypotheses about language.
The Wa States in an early 20th century The Imperial Gazetteer of India map.. The Wa people (Wa: Vāx; Burmese: ဝလူမျိုး, [wa̰ lùmjóʊ]; Chinese: 佤 族; pinyin: Wǎzú; Thai: ว้า) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in Northern Myanmar, in the northern part of Shan State and the eastern part of Kachin State, near and along Myanmar's border with China ...
As-salamu alaykum ( Arabic: ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ, as-salāmu ʿalaykum, Arabic: [as.sa.laː.mu ʕa.laj.kum] ⓘ ), also written salamun alaykum and typically rendered in English as salam alaykum, is a greeting in Arabic that means 'Peace be upon you'. The salām ( سَلَام, meaning 'peace') has become a religious ...
12. This Art Club Has a Problem! ( Japanese: この美術部には問題がある!, Hepburn: Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru!) or Konobi for short, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Imigimuru. It focuses on the adventures of the members of Tsukimori Middle School's art club, where only Usami Mizuki cares about art at all.
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"). The Confederacy had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether slavery ...
The speed of sound is the distance travelled per unit of time by a sound wave as it propagates through an elastic medium. At 20 °C (68 °F), the speed of sound in air is about 343 m/s (1,125 ft/s; 1,235 km/h; 767 mph; 667 kn ), or 1 km in 2.91 s or one mile in 4.69 s. It depends strongly on temperature as well as the medium through which a ...
Hansville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. Its population was 3,858 as of the 2020 census. [2] The coastal community is located at the northern end of the Kitsap Peninsula and is about 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Poulsbo, the nearest city.