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Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in County Durham, England, with a population of 84,815 at the 2021 UK census. [1] It gives its name to and is the largest settlement in the wider Borough of Stockton-on-Tees.
Congolese soldiers of the colonial-era Force Publique pictured in 1928. The first organised Congolese troops, known as the Force Publique, were created in 1888 when King Leopold II of Belgium, who held the Congo Free State as his private property, ordered his Secretary of the Interior to create military and police forces for the state. [13]
London was chosen over Birmingham to represent Great Britain's bid by the British Olympic Association.. By 15 July 2003—the deadline for interested cities to submit bids to the International Olympic Committee (IOC)—nine cities had submitted bids to host the 2012 Summer Olympics: Havana, Istanbul, Leipzig, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York City, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro. [24]