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Putney (/ ˈ p ʌ t n i /) is an affluent district in southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, five miles (eight kilometres) southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
College Point is a working-middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.It is bounded to the south by Whitestone Expressway and Flushing; to the east by 138th Street and Malba/Whitestone; to the north by the East River; and to the west by Flushing Bay. [4]
Kew Gardens Hills is a neighborhood in the middle of the New York City borough of Queens.The borders are Flushing Meadows–Corona Park to the west, the Long Island Expressway to the north, Union Turnpike to the south, and Parsons Boulevard to the east.
Miami, [b] officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a population of 6.14 million, is the second-largest metropolitan area in the Southeast after Atlanta, and the ninth-largest in the United States. [9]
Dry Dock 1's masonry superstructure uses 23,000 cubic yards (18,000 m 3) of granite from Maine and Connecticut, as well as supplementary material from New York. [301] [314] The stone floor of the dry dock is 30 feet (9.1 m) wide, and the floor curves in an inverted arch shape toward the edges of the sides and the landward (southwest) end. The ...
[96] (less than the Harrods department store [97] [98]), and employs 24,000 people, less than 0.1 per cent of the British workforce. [96] By comparison, the financial sector's £132 billion 2018 in revenue, including a £44 billion trade surplus, [w] accounts for 6.9 per cent of the UK's GDP, contributing £29 billion in tax. The 1.1 million ...
The Putumayo genocide (Spanish: genocidio del Putumayo) refers to the severe exploitation and subsequent ethnocide of the indigenous population in the Putumayo region.. The booms of raw materials incentivized the exploration and occupation of uncolonised land in the Amazon by several South American countries, gradually leading to the subjugation of the local tribes in the pursuit of rubber ...