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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL (/ ˈruːl ˈtɒlkiːn /, ROOL TOL-keen; [a] 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke ...
J&T Express is an international delivery company founded in August 2015 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Its core business is express services and cross-border logistics. With over 300,000 service personnels worldwide, J&T Express’ network spans 13 countries including China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Cambodia, Singapore, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Mexico and Egypt.
Courier services operate on all scales, from within specific towns or cities, to regional, national and global services. Large courier companies include DHL, DTDC, FedEx, EMS International, TNT, UPS, India Post, J&T Express and Aramex. These offer services worldwide, typically via a hub and spoke model. Couriers services utilizing courier ...
Contents. Get Down on It. " Get Down on It " is a 1981 song by American band Kool & the Gang. It was originally released on their Something Special album in 1981. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA. Record World called it a "kinetic dancer" and said that the "chant-like chorus hook is contagious."
In 1803, William Jessop opened the Surrey Iron Railway, a double track plateway, sometimes erroneously cited as world's first public railway, in south London. [21] In 1789, William Jessop had introduced a form of all-iron edge rail and flanged wheels for an extension to the Charnwood Forest Canal at Nanpantan, Loughborough, Leicestershire. In ...
L2 is a common lineage in Africa. It is believed to have evolved between 87,000 and 107,000 years ago [4] or approx. 90,000 YBP. [1] Its age and widespread distribution and diversity across the continent makes its exact origin point within Africa difficult to trace with any confidence. [5] Several L2 haplotypes observed in Guineans and other ...
The 1998 design of the BNS built on earlier work on the "consensual definition of poverty" by Mack and Lansley in the UK [7] and Hallerod in Sweden. [8]Mack and Lansley defined items as necessities if, as above, more than 50% of respondents identified them as such, Results were summarised in terms of percentages of the respondents lacking 1, 2, 3 to N number of necessities.
Contents. New Zealand at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Australasia (1908–1912) New Zealand competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The New Zealand Olympic Committee was represented by 80 athletes, 71 men and 9 women, and 29 officials. [ 1 ] The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was wrestler David Aspin .