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1 day ago · About one-sixth of the national population were urban by 1950. [162] A US Dollar was exchanged at 4.79 rupees. Karl Marx , writing in 1857, suggested the Nominal (Silver) per capita income of East India Company, in 1854, was approximately 1:12 that of the UK, as was the Nominal per capita tax burden 1:12 of the UK, 1:10 of France, and 1:5 of Prussia. [ 163 ]
1 day ago · This timeline of the National Football League (NFL) tracks the history of each of the league's 32 current franchises from the early days of the league, through its merger with the American Football League (AFL). The history of franchises that began as independent teams, or as members of the Ohio League, New York Pro Football League, and other ...
1 day ago · Resentment towards Jews, for the aforementioned reasons, existed in Russian society, but the idea of a Protocols-esque international Jewish conspiracy for world domination was minted in the 1860s. Jacob Brafman , a Lithuanian Jew from Minsk , had a falling out with agents of the local qahal and consequently converted to the Russian Orthodox Church and authored polemics against the Talmud and the qahal . [ 7 ]
8 hours ago · Demographics of China. China is the second most-populous country in the world and Asia with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, only surpassed by India. Historically, China has always been one of the nation-states with the most population. China has an enormous population with a relatively small youth component, partially a result of China's ...
1 day ago · The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is the oldest NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives in 1896, it predates the founding of its regulating organization, the NCAA.
8 hours ago · The following year, the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park was established as a National Historic Site [510] and in 2021, renamed as a national historical park. [511] In 1991, Carter was made an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Kansas State University , [ 512 ] and was elected to the American Philosophical Society . [ 513 ]
8 hours ago · Xinjiang, [ a ] officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, [ 11 ][ 12 ] is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia. Being the largest province-level division of China by area and the 8th-largest country subdivision in the world ...
