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The size of London's economy makes it the largest city by GDP in Europe. [ 21 ] In the 18th century the UK was the first country to industrialise , [ 22 ] [ 23 ] and during the 19th century it had a dominant role in the global economy, [ 24 ] accounting for 9.1% of the world's GDP in 1870. [ 25 ]
British African-Caribbean people or British Afro-Caribbean people are an ethnic group in the United Kingdom. [5] They are British citizens whose recent ancestors originate from the Caribbean, and further trace much of their ancestry to West and Central Africa or they are nationals of the Caribbean who reside in the UK.
In response to changing meat prices as well as health concerns about saturated fat and cholesterol, consumers have altered their consumption of various meats. Consumption of beef in the United States between 1970 and 1974 and 1990–1994 dropped by 21%, while consumption of chicken increased by 90%.
Import levies are applied to specified goods imported into the EU. These are set at a level to raise the World market price up to the EU target price. The target price is chosen as the maximum desirable price for those goods within the EU. Import quotas are used as a means of restricting the amount of food being imported into the EU.
Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) bloom on Lake Erie (United States) in 2009. These kinds of algae can cause harmful algal bloom. A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced toxins, water deoxygenation, mechanical damage to other organisms, or by other means.
Prospect Park is a 526-acre (2.13 km 2) urban park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.The park is situated between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, and Windsor Terrace, and is adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Oddworld Inhabitants Inc. is an American video game, film and television company founded in 1994 by special-effects and computer-animation veterans Sherry McKenna and Lorne Lanning.