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Panama, [ a ] officially the Republic of Panama, [ b ] is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Its capital and largest city is Panama City, whose ...
The Facebook real-name policy controversy is a controversy over social networking site Facebook 's real-name system, which requires that a person use their legal name when they register an account and configure their user profile. [1] The controversy stems from claims by some users that they are being penalized by Facebook for using their real ...
The Panama Papers (Spanish: Papeles de Panamá) are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) that were published beginning on April 3, 2016. The papers detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. [1][2][3][4][5][6] The documents, some dating back to the 1970s, [7] were created by ...
Panama City, [4] also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama. [5][6] It has a total population of 1,086,990, [1][7] with over 2,100,000 in its urban area. The city is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of Panama. The city is the political and administrative center of ...
TheFacebook. [edit] A " facebook " is a student directory featuring photos and basic information. [ 9 ] In 2003, there were no universal online facebooks at Harvard, with only paper sheets distributed [ 10 ] and private online directories. [ 11 ][ 12 ] Zuckerberg told the Crimson that "Everyone's been talking a lot about a universal face book ...
The domain had belonged to AboutFace Corporation. In May 2005, Accel Partners invested $12.7 million ($19.8 million in 2023 dollars [ 20 ]) in Facebook, and Jim Breyer [ 36 ] added $1 million ($1.56 million in 2023 dollars [ 20 ]) of his own money. A high-school version of the site launched in September 2005. [ 37 ]
In 1501, Rodrigo de Bastidas was the first European to explore the Isthmus of Panama sailing along the eastern coast. A year later Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage, sailing south and eastward from upper Central America, explored Bocas del Toro, Veragua, the Chagres River and Portobelo (Beautiful Port) which he named.
The use of Facebook can have negative psychological and physiological effects [ 8 ] that include feelings of sexual jealousy, [ 9 ][ 10 ] stress, [ 11 ][ 12 ] lack of attention, [ 13 ] and social media addiction that in some cases is comparable to drug addiction. [ 14 ][ 15 ] Facebook's operations have also received coverage.