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The HPI concentrates on the deprivation in the three essential elements of human life already reflected in the HDI: longevity, knowledge and a decent standard of living. The HPI is derived separately for developing countries (HPI-1) and a group of select high-income OECD countries (HPI-2) to better reflect socio-economic differences and also ...
Flyover City Tours were released around 2014, but was inaccessible for a time until the feature was debugged by an Apple Maps developer, making it public. [17] City Tours is a feature that allows users to view various landmarks in a given city via a "flying" animation, [3] a feature only available to cities that already contain Flyover 3D maps ...
Blackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England.It is located on the Irish Sea coast of the Fylde peninsula, approximately 27 miles (43 km) north of Liverpool and 14 miles (23 km) west of Preston.
Blackpool Council's Parks Service designed the plans for the memorial woodland, while rangers worked with local school children and community groups to plant trees. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Officially opened on 26 June 2009 with a service of dedication, [ 4 ] the arboretum has a main memorial plaque as well as 16 smaller plinths. [ 5 ]
The 13-mile (21 km) Clifton to Blackpool section of the A583 was formerly a privately owned toll road owned by the Clifton and De Hoghton estates. The tolls were abolished in 1902, when it became a main road as a result of an agreement made by Lancashire County Council and Fylde Rural District three years earlier which also saw the construction of new sections of road at Clifton and Blackpool.
Carleton Crematorium, together with the adjacent necropolis, Carleton Cemetery, is a graveyard located within the Greenlands ward of Blackpool, [1] with its main entrance on Stocks Road in Carleton, Lancashire, England. It was opened on 18 July 1935. [2]
The only other significant passenger airport in the region was Blackpool Airport, which was refurbished in 2006 and handled around half a million passengers annually. Destinations ranged from the Canary Islands in Spain to the Republic of Ireland. Commercial flights ended there in March 2017. Cumbria
An allegorical map included in In Darkest England, illustrating Booth's proposed scheme for salvation of the poor, including three forms of colony: city, farm, and across the sea. In Darkest England and the Way Out is an 1890 book written by William Booth in which Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army , proposed a number of social reforms to ...