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Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and preserve in south central Alaska.The park, the largest in the United States, covers the Wrangell Mountains and a large portion of the Saint Elias Mountains, which include most of the highest peaks in the United States and Canada, yet are within 10 miles (16 km) of tidewater, one of the highest reliefs in the ...
4 BC to 30–33 AD: Province of Judaea – during the reign of Herod II (son of Herod the Great) and princess Herodias: Monty Python's Life of Brian: 1979: 6-4 BC to 30 AD: Province of Judaea - Comedy parodying the life of Jesus Christ, through a man who lived his life parallel to Jesus. [2] [3] Massacre in the Black Forest: 1967: 9 AD
Stop-loss insurance is a form of reinsurance that insures self-funded plans and their assets. Due to the limited assets at the disposal of an average employer as compared to an insurance company, an employer could easily bankrupt itself if its employees incur a large number of high-dollar claims and the employer is unable to fund them all. This ...
A form of what is now called general average was included in the Lex Rhodia, the Rhodes Maritime Code of c. 800 BC. [4] Julius Paulus quoted from the law around the turn of the 3rd century, and these quotes are preserved, and an excerpt is included in Justinian's 6th-century Digest of Justinian (part of the Corpus Juris Civilis), although the Lex Rhodia is itself now lost.
Takaful (Arabic: التكافل, sometimes translated as "solidarity" or mutual guarantee) [1] is a co-operative system of reimbursement or repayment in case of loss, organized as an Islamic or sharia-compliant alternative to conventional insurance, which contains riba (usury) and gharar (excessive uncertainty).
The Cowesett Inn restaurant across the street from the Station acted as an ad-hoc burn triage and command center for first responders. [29] A portion of the nightclub roof collapsed at 11:57 p.m., and a second portion in the building's sunroom collapsed at 12:07 a.m.. [26]
Mary Fallin (/ ˈ f æ l ɪ n /; née Copeland; born December 9, 1954) [1] is an American politician who served as the 27th governor of Oklahoma from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was elected in 2010 and reelected in 2014.