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[29] [30] Hawking's mother was born into a family of doctors in Glasgow, Scotland. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] His wealthy paternal great-grandfather, from Yorkshire , over-extended himself buying farm land and then went bankrupt in the great agricultural depression during the early 20th century. [ 32 ]
The auction was revived in 17th- and 18th-century England when auctions by candle began to be used for the sale of goods and leaseholds, some of which were recorded in Samuel Pepys's diary in 1660. [76] Headquartered in King Street, London, Christie's, the world's largest auction house, was founded in 1766 by auctioneer James Christie in London ...
Trump had hoped to develop the land with a golf course or houses, but apparently abandoned those plans in 2015. [ 191 ] Beverly Hills house: A 5-bedroom home purchased by Trump in 2007 for $7 million, [ 192 ] and valued between $8.5 and $10 million as of 2013 [update] . [ 181 ]
Robeson County (/ ˈ r ɒ b ɪ s ə n / ROB-ih-sun) [1] is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of North Carolina and is its largest county by land area. Its county seat and largest community is Lumberton.
They are often much larger than fossil fuel power plants, needing areas of land up to 10 times greater than coal or gas to produce equivalent energy amounts. [253] More than 2000 renewable energy facilities are built, and more are under construction, in areas of environmental importance and threaten the habitats of plant and animal species ...
Dubai [a] is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populous of the country's seven emirates. [5] [6] [7] As of 2024, the city has a population of around 3.79 million, [8] more than 90% of which are expatriates.
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