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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO / ˈ aɪ s oʊ /; [3] French: Organisation internationale de normalisation) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.
Following the international recognition of the independence of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (later Kingdom of Romania) in 1878, after a long period of negotiations with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Patriarch Joachim IV granted recognition to the autocephalous Metropolis of Romania in 1885, which was raised to the rank of ...
Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films digitally on request. These multimedia are accessed without a traditional video playback device and a typical static broadcasting schedule, which was popular under traditional broadcast programming, instead involving newer modes of content consumption that have risen as Internet ...
According to Josephus (Ant. 8:165–173), the queen of Sheba was the queen of Egypt and Ethiopia, and brought to Israel the first specimens of the balsam, which grew in the Holy Land in the historian's time. [12] [47] Josephus (Antiquities 2.5‒10) represents Cambyses as conquering the capital of Aethiopia, and changing its name from Seba to ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has an area of 8.12 sq mi (21.0 km 2), with land accounting for 4.20 sq mi (10.9 km 2) and water covering the remaining 3.92 sq mi (10.2 km 2). [65] The average elevation of the town is 7 ft (2.1 m); [ 9 ] the highest point is 30 ft (9.1 m) above sea level on the golf course at the Palm Beach ...