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Warrior ancestor figure; 19th century; wood; 84.1 cm × 26 cm × 23.2 cm (33.1 in × 10.2 in × 9.1 in); by Hemba people; Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, Texas, USA) Statuette of a woman; 19th century or early 20th century; by Holoholo people ; Ethnological Museum of Berlin (Germany)
African Americans constitute the nation's third-largest ancestry group and are 12.1% of the total U.S. population. [225] Asian Americans are the country's fourth-largest group, composing 5.9% of the U.S. population, while the country's 3.7 million Native Americans account for about 1%. [225] In 2020, the median age of the U.S. population was 38 ...
These quakes originate just east of the city on the creeping section of the Calaveras Fault, which is a major source of earthquake activity in Northern California. On April 14, 1984, at 1:15 pm local time, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Calaveras Fault near San Jose's Mount Hamilton. [77]
New activities sprang up and Ferrol was employing 2,000 workmen [79] in its foundries, now in full operation. A School of Naval Engineers [ 78 ] was established where 40 students were taught the scientific principles of their profession by competent instructors educated in England and France.
Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes, 1921. The word surrealism was first coined in March 1917 by Guillaume Apollinaire. [10] He wrote in a letter to Paul Dermée: "All things considered, I think in fact it is better to adopt surrealism than supernaturalism, which I first used" [Tout bien examiné, je crois en effet qu'il vaut mieux adopter surréalisme que surnaturalisme que j'avais d'abord employé].
The photons of ultraviolet have greater energy than those of visible light, from about 3.1 to 12 electron volts, around the minimum energy required to ionize atoms. Although long-wavelength ultraviolet is not considered an ionizing radiation because its photons lack sufficient energy, it can induce chemical reactions and cause many substances ...
Apr Archived 1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine, May Archived 1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Jun Archived 1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine: 2006 Q1 90.01%: 6.77%: 1.40%: 0.58%: 0.05% Jan Archived 1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Feb Archived 1 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Mar Archived 3 December 2011 at the ...
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Lisbon was −1.2 °C (30 °F) in February 1956; although other locations in its metropolitan area can record lower temperatures, not being as affected by the urban heat island of the city centre, with Sintra and Setúbal having reached −4 °C (25 °F) and −5.1 °C (23 °F) respectively, both ...