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Greece's health care expenditures was 9.6% of GDP in 2007. By 2015, it declined to 8.4%, compared with the EU average of 9.5%. Nevertheless, the country maintains the highest doctor-to-population ratio of any OECD country [339] and the highest doctor-to-patient ratio in the EU. [340]
The near-empty arrival hall of Seoul–Incheon International Airport in South Korea on 6 March 2020 A COVID-19 testing centre for travellers at Heathrow Airport. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries and territories imposed quarantines, entry bans, or other travel restrictions for citizens of or recent travelers to the most affected ...
2020 Easter tornado outbreak. The death toll in a tornado outbreak that devastated the Southeastern United States on April 12–13 rises to 35.; Fourteen people are injured in a chain-reaction accident involving up to 60 vehicles, during the morning rush hour on Chicago's Kennedy Expressway, as unseasonable, wintry weather strikes the city.
X-15 pilots (Dana: far right) From 1960 through 1962 he was a pilot astronaut in the U.S. Air Force X-20 Dyna-Soar program. That program was canceled before the vehicle flew, but Dana later tested several other lifting-body space vehicle projects. He made one of the earliest flights in the plywood M2-F1, and flew the HL-10, the M2-F3, and the X ...
The popular tradition of taking a trip during Ferragosto arose under the Fascist regime.In the second half of the 1920s, during the mid-August period, the regime organised hundreds of popular trips through the fascist leisure and recreational organisations of various corporations, and via the setting up of the "People's Trains of Ferragosto", which were available at discounted prices.
The municipality (Center) of Athens is the most populous in Greece, with a population of 643,452 people (in 2021) [4] and an area of 38.96 km 2 (15.04 sq mi), [7] forming the core of the Athens Urban Area within the Attica Basin.
1934 – Tomie dePaola, American author and illustrator (d. 2020) 1934 – Fred Nile, Australian soldier, minister, and politician; 1935 – Dinkha IV, Iraqi patriarch (d. 2015) 1936 – Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player (d. 2020) 1936 – Sara Henderson, Australian farmer and author (d. 2005) 1937 – Joey Carew, Trinidadian cricketer (d ...
[16]: 15 Greeks regarded mythology as a part of their history. They used myth to explain natural phenomena, cultural variations, traditional enmities, and friendships. They used myth to explain natural phenomena, cultural variations, traditional enmities, and friendships.