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[1] [2] Area C forms a contiguous territory on 61% of the West Bank , and is administered solely by Israel via the Judea and Samaria Area administration. As of 2015, it is home to 150,000 Palestinians [ 3 ] in 532 residential areas, and roughly 400,000 Israelis [ 4 ] in 135 settlements and more than 100 unrecognized outposts .
The World Bank defined the new international poverty line as $1.27 a day for 2005 (equivalent to $1.00 a day in 1996 US prices) [4] but it was later updated to $1.25 and $2.50 per day. [5] Absolute poverty, extreme poverty , or abject poverty is "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking ...
Demographic trends in the Balkans are also specific: the number of inhabitants is declining for two main reasons: the fertility rate is below 1 child per woman [3] (compared with 1.4 on average in Europe - well below the generational renewal rate of 2.1), and with significant income and development gaps compared with the rest of Europe, a ...
For 2016 and 2017, the league split a ten-game package of Thursday night games between NBC and CBS, with each paying an estimated $225 million per season for five games; CBS's games were in the early part of the season as before, while NBC's games were later in the season. [24] Under the terms of NFL Network's retransmission agreements with ...
The first organ for St. Luke's Church was built in 1840 by E. and G.G. Hook of Boston and is located in the gallery at the rear of the Church. It had 3 manuals (keyboards) and pedals. The full organ comprised 29 1/2 stops and 1,552 pipes; at that time, it was noted to be one of the best church organs in Philadelphia.
Lebanese Shiite Muslims (Arabic: المسلمون الشيعة اللبنانيون), communally and historically known as matāwila (Arabic: متاولة, plural of متوال mutawālin; [2] pronounced as متوالي metouali or matawali in Lebanese Arabic [3]), are Lebanese people who are adherents of Shia Islam in Lebanon, which plays a major role alongside Lebanon's main Sunni, Maronite ...
The cost of commissioning written translations and producing such a large work in manuscript was also a factor; the three copies of the Vulgate produced in 7th century Northumbria, of which the Codex Amiatinus is the only survivor, are estimated to have required the skins of 1,600 calves. [18]