Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
1-0-0, also written 100, is an emergency telephone number in several countries. It is used to contact the police in Afghanistan , Nepal , Israel , Turkey , and Palestine . In Iraq , 1-0-0 is the number for emergencies, while in Mongolia it is used for infectious disease .
Year 100 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 100 for this year has been used since the early medieval period.
A list of 100 words that occur most frequently in written English is given below, based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus (a collection of texts in the English language, comprising over 2 billion words). [1]
In astronomy, 100,000 metres, 100 kilometres, or 100 km (62 miles) is the altitude at which the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight to begin. In paleoclimatology , the 100,000-year problem is a mismatch between the temperature record and the modeled incoming solar radiation .
It can be identified using the IETF language tag en-GB-oxendict (or, historically, by en-GB-oed). [ 63 ] In Ireland, India, Australia, and New Zealand [ 64 ] -ise spellings strongly prevail: the -ise form is preferred in Australian English at a ratio of about 3:1 according to the Macquarie Dictionary .
Augusto Ghio Del'Rio, Inglés Básico, 1954 translation of Ogden's Basic English Course for Spanish Speakers; Simple English Helper Tool — Detect words which are not in a given dictionary, Ogden's Basic English dictionary list included; Essential World English — some criticisms of Basic English and suggestions for overcoming its problems
House Republicans are scrambling to find a way to avoid a government shutdown after their second funding proposal was rejected, and are now planning to vote on a third proposal soon.
Former president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter (pictured) dies at the age of 100. Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashes at Muan International Airport, South Korea, killing 179 people. Acting president and prime minister of South Korea Han Duck-soo is impeached by the National Assembly.