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A creditor or lender is a party (e.g., person, organization, company, or government) that has a claim on the services of a second party. It is a person or institution to whom money is owed. [1]
This is a list of cities in the world by nominal gross domestic product (GDP).The United Nations uses three definitions for what constitutes a city, as not all cities may be classified using the same criteria.
Predating Pomo de Ayala's writings, in 1596 The Jesuit father José de Acosta wrote: Well, seeing another group which uses kernels of corn is an enchanting thing, as a very embarrassing account, which he will have a very good accountant do by pen and ink, to see how each contribution fits with so many people, taking so much from over there and adding so much from here, with another hundred ...
In transportation, cargo refers to goods transported by land, water or air, while freight refers to its conveyance. In economics, freight refers to goods transported at a freight rate for commercial gain.
The name Abyla has been said to have been a Punic name ("Lofty Mountain" [11] or "Mountain of God") for Jebel Musa, [12] the southern Pillar of Hercules. [13] The name of the mountain was in fact Habenna (Punic: 𐤀𐤁𐤍, ʾbn, "Stone" or "Stele") or ʾAbin-ḥīq (𐤀𐤁𐤍𐤇𐤒, ʾbnḥq, "Rock of the Bay"), about the nearby Bay of Benzú. [14]
The Canary Islands (/ k ə ˈ n ɛər i /, Spanish: Canarias, Spanish: [kaˈnaɾjas]), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
The official name of the Balearic Islands in Catalan is Illes Balears, while in Spanish, they are known as the Islas Baleares.. The ancient Greeks usually adopted local names into their own language, but they called the islands Γυμνησίαι / Gymnesiai, unlike either the native inhabitants of the islands, the Carthaginians, or the Romans, who called them Βαλεαρεῖς, with the ...
Firearms are not defined the same way in each country.. Some terms are used in several countries in the context of gun laws. These include the following: shall-issue: granting of a required license or permit is subject only to the applicant's meeting determinate criteria laid out in the law; the granting authority has no discretion in the awarding of licenses.