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14 hours ago · Tristan da Cunha (/ ˌ t r ɪ s t ən d ə ˈ k uː n (j) ə /), colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately 2,787 kilometres (1,732 mi) from Cape Town in South Africa, 2,437 kilometres (1,514 mi) from Saint Helena, 3,949 kilometres (2,454 mi) from Mar del Plata in Argentina, and 4,002 kilometres (2,487 mi) from the Falkland Islands.
14 hours ago · African diaspora. The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. [38] The African populations in the Americas are descended from haplogroup L genetic groups of native Africans. [39] [40] The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the native West ...
14 hours ago · Zanzibar is an insular semi-autonomous region which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25–50 km (16–31 mi) off the coast of the African mainland, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba Island.
14 hours ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
14 hours ago · Valencia ( Spanish: [baˈlenθja] ⓘ, officially in Valencian: València [vaˈlensia]) [a] is the capital of the province and autonomous community of the same name in Spain. It is the third-most populated municipality in the country, with 807,693 inhabitants (2023). [1] The wider metropolitan area accounted for about 1.6 million people in 2021.
14 hours ago · Clockwise from top left: U.S. troops in Manila, Gregorio del Pilar and his troops around 1898, Americans guarding the Pasig River bridge in 1898, the Battle of Santa Cruz, Filipino soldiers at Malolos, the Battle of Quingua. Date. Philippine–American War: February 4, 1899 – July 4, 1902. (3 years, 2 months, 1 week and 5 days) [i] Moro ...
