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He continued tweaking elements to improve the special effects, but even with ILM staff working up to 24 hours a day, six days a week, there was not enough time to do everything they wanted. [182] A Dagobah pick-up scene, in which R2-D2 is spat out by a monster, was filmed in Lucas's swimming pool; [ 183 ] the Emperor's scenes were filmed in ...
Since March 2014, Vietnam has allowed all foreign tourists to visit Phú Quốc visa-free for a period of up to 30 days. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] By 2017, the government of Vietnam planned to set up a Special Administrative Region which covered Phú Quốc Island and its peripheral islets and upgrade it to a provincial city with special administration.
The area surrounding the city is suffering from deforestation which is contributing to the temperature extremes, summers being hot and dry with mean temperatures around 32 °C (90 °F) and days above 40 °C (104 °F) being common. Winters are short (less than 2 months usually) and mild (though considered cold for the area) with normals around ...
The 1926 general strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike that lasted nine days, from 4 to 12 May 1926. [1] It was called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the British government to act to prevent wage reductions and worsening conditions for 1.2 million locked-out coal miners.
On Fortune magazine's list of the best companies to work for, Google ranked first in 2007, 2008 and 2012, [250] [251] [252] and fourth in 2009 and 2010. [ 253 ] [ 254 ] Google was also nominated in 2010 to be the world's most attractive employer to graduating students in the Universum Communications talent attraction index. [ 255 ]
This list of metro systems includes electrified rapid transit train systems worldwide. In some parts of the world, metro systems are referred to as subways , undergrounds , tubes , mass rapid transit ( MRT ), metrô or U-Bahn .
The population of the United Kingdom was estimated at 67,596,281 in 2022. [1] It is the 21st most populated country in the world and has a population density of 279 people per square kilometre (720 people/sq mi), with England having significantly greater density than Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. [1]
The jack jumper ant (Myrmecia pilosula), also known as the jack jumper, jumping jack, hopper ant, or jumper ant, is a species of venomous ant native to Australia.Most frequently found in Tasmania and southeast mainland Australia, it is a member of the genus Myrmecia, subfamily Myrmeciinae, and was formally described and named by British entomologist Frederick Smith in 1858.