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Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,569 km 2 (138,058 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
Iônn Tsú-khîng[ĩũ tsu kʰiŋ] Yeoh Choo Kheng PSM (Chinese : 杨紫琼; born 6 August 1962), [ 1 ][ 2 ] better known by the stage name Michelle Yeoh, is a Malaysian actress. Credited as Michelle Khan in her early films in Hong Kong, she rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s after starring in Hong Kong action films where she performed her own ...
e. Hezbollah (/ ˌhɛzbəˈlɑː /; [ 44 ] Arabic: حزب الله, romanized:Ḥizbu 'llāh, pronounced [ħizbu‿lːaːh], lit.'Party of God') [ a ] is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group, [ 45 ][ 23 ] led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, [ 46 ...
Vladivostok. Vladivostok (/ ˌvlædɪˈvɒstɒk / VLAD-iv-OST-ok; Russian: Владивосток, IPA: [vlədʲɪvɐˈstok] ⓘ) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia, located in the far east of Russia. It is located around the Golden Horn Bay on the ...
Hangar No. 1 was the first structure at LAX, built in 1929, restored in 1990 and remaining in active use. [14]In 1926, the Los Angeles City Council and the Chamber of Commerce recognized the need for the city to have its own airport to tap into the fledgling, but quickly growing, aviation industry.
Andorra is a parliamentary co-principality with the bishop of Urgell and the president of France as co-princes. This peculiarity makes the president of France, in his capacity as prince of Andorra, an elected monarch, although he is not elected by a popular vote of the Andorran people.
Denver has traditionally been home to one of the busier airports in the United States because its midcontinent location was ideal for an airline hub.Several airlines, notably United Airlines and Continental Airlines, had hubs at the former Stapleton International Airport, helping make it the sixth-busiest airport in the country by the 1960s.
13,000 m 3 /s (460,000 cu ft/s) [2] The Rhine[note 2] (/ raɪn / RYNE) [3] is one of the major European rivers. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms the Swiss-Liechtenstein border and partly the Swiss-Austrian and Swiss-German borders. After that the Rhine defines much of the Franco-German ...