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1 hari yang lalu · A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people over cargo.. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal ...
1 hari yang lalu · 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 directly between the two superpowers, but they ...
1 hari yang lalu · Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the liturgical year in Christianity, it follows the season of Advent (which begins four Sundays before) or the Nativity Fast, and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically ...
18 minit yang lalu · The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. The African populations in the Americas are descended from haplogroup L genetic groups of native Africans. The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the native West and Central Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas via the Atlantic ...
1 hari yang lalu · The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and Okanagan in British Columbia, Canada.Established in 1908, it is the oldest university in British Columbia. With an annual research budget of $747.3 million, UBC funds 9,675 projects a year in various fields of study within the industrial sector as well as governmental and non-governmental ...
1 hari yang lalu · Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression.A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium, served as the director ...
1 hari yang lalu · Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Lady Ferguson (/ ɑː ˈ j ɑː n ˈ h ɪər s i ˈ ɑː l i /; Dutch: [aːˈjaːn ˈɦiːrsi ˈaːli] ⓘ; Somali: Ayaan Xirsi Cali: Ayān Ḥirsi 'Alī ; born 13 November 1969) is a Somali-born, Dutch-American writer, activist and former politician. She is a critic of Islam and advocate for the rights and self-determination of Muslim women, opposing forced marriage, honour ...
