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The time 8:45 may be spoken as "eight forty-five" or "(a) quarter to nine". [20] In older English, it was common for the number 25 to be expressed as "five-and-twenty". [21] In this way the time 8:35 may be phrased as "five-and-twenty to 9", [22] although this styling fell out of fashion in the later part of the 1900s and is now rarely used. [23]
3 May: SeaWorld Abu Dhabi is scheduled opens. [3] 4–6 November: 2023 United Nations Climate Change conference is held in Dubai. [4] 17 November: The Al Dhafra solar farm, the largest solar farm in the world, comes online in the United Arab Emirates. The solar farm is expected to power around 200,000 homes. [5]
Expatriates in the United Arab Emirates represent about 88% of the population, while Emiratis constitute roughly 12% of the total population, making the UAE home to one of the world's highest percentage of expatriates. [1][2] Most of immigrants reside in Dubai and the capital, Abu Dhabi. [3] The UAE is home to over 200 nationalities. [4]
Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, before her remarriage her name was Joanne Rowling, [2] or Jo. [3] At birth, she had no middle name. [2] Staff at Bloomsbury Publishing suggested that she use two initials rather than her full name, anticipating that young boys – their target audience – would not want to read a book written by a woman. [2]
A record number of 290 people joined the list for the first time, of whom 25% hail from China, which produced a world-leading 71 newcomers. The United States came in second, with 57, followed by India, with 28, and Germany, with 23. [2] Mark Zuckerberg, the social media magnate and founder of Facebook, was placed at number 16 with $33.4 billion ...
1.8 km 2 (0.7 sq mi) The Jumeirah Lakes Towers (JLT) (Arabic: أبراج بحيرات الجميرا) is a large development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates which consists of 80 towers constructed along the edges of three artificial lakes (Lake Almas West, Lake Almas East, JLT Lake) as well as the JLT Embankment of eight towers facing Jumeirah ...
The following list gives the latest available gross state domestic product (GSDP) figures for all Indian States and Union Territories at current prices in millions or trillions of Indian rupees. No data is available for the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Ladakh and Lakshadweep.
Crude birth rate refers to the number of births over a given period divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period. It is expressed as number of births per 1,000 population.