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1795 – Jack Russell, English priest, hunter, and dog breeder (d. 1883) 1795 – Leopold von Ranke, German historian, author, and academic (d. 1886) [20] 1803 – Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (d. 1894) 1804 – Benjamin Disraeli, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881) [21]
Armed conflicts and attacks. Syrian civil war. 2024 Syrian opposition offensives. Operation Dawn of Freedom. 2024 Manbij offensive. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports that pro-Turkish factions have begun revenge operations involving the identity-based killings of at least three Kurdish civilians in Manbij, as well as burning and looting civilian homes.
The Great Wall of China (traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng, literally "ten thousand li long wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic groups from the Eurasian Steppe.
In December 2010, an article, first published in examiner.com and later referenced in the English-language edition of Pravda [142] claimed, citing a Second Digitized Sky Survey photograph as evidence, that SETI had detected three large spacecraft due to arrive at Earth in 2012. [143]
1. World population growth 1700–2100, 2022 projection. Human population projections are attempts to extrapolate how human populations will change in the future. [1] These projections are an important input to forecasts of the population's impact on this planet and humanity's future well-being. [2]
Bi-variate choropleth map comparing the estimated percent of the population 65 and older and 17 and younger in the Contiguous United States by county, 2020 The dependency ratio is the age-population ratio of people who are normally not in the labor force (the dependent population, which includes those aged 0 to 14 and 65 and older) to those who ...
Because of this, the texting language is integrated into the way that students think from an earlier age than ever before. [84] In November 2006, New Zealand Qualifications Authority approved the move that allowed students of secondary schools to use mobile phone text language in the end-of-the-year-exam papers. [85]
The exponentiation inherent in floating-point computation assures a much larger dynamic range – the largest and smallest numbers that can be represented – which is especially important when processing data sets where some of the data may have extremely large range of numerical values or where the range may be unpredictable.