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A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size.
Martha Bradley (fl. 1740s–1755) was a British cookery book writer.Little is known about her life, except that she published the cookery book The British Housewife (pictured) in 1756 and worked as a cook for more than 30 years in the fashionable spa town of Bath, Somerset.
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size.
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 [20] (referred to as Wikipedia Day) as a single English-language edition with the domain name www.wikipedia.com, [W 6] and was announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list. [22] The name originated from a blend of the words wiki and encyclopedia.
A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart of a city. The term "city centre" is primarily used in British English, and closely equivalent terms that exist in other languages, such as "centre-ville" in French, Stadtzentrum in German, or shìzhōngxīn (市中心) in Chinese.
This is a list of city and town halls in France. The list is sortable by building age and height, and provides a link to the database of monuments historique , which is a listing of buildings and structures important to France's architectural and historical cultural heritage , [ 1 ] where relevant.
A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory. [1] They have existed in many parts of the world throughout history, including cities such as Rome, Carthage, Athens and Sparta and the Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, such as Florence, Venice, Genoa and Milan.
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