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20 godz. temu · Jamaica (/ dʒ ə ˈ m eɪ k ə / ⓘ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies.At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about 145 km (90 mi) south of Cuba, 191 km (119 mi) west of Hispaniola (the ...
20 godz. temu · Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...
20 godz. temu · Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.Located in Middle Tennessee, it had a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census. Nashville is the 21st most populous city in the United States, and the fourth most populous city in the southeastern U.S. Located on the Cumberland River, the city ...
20 godz. temu · Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt.Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt's death, Truman implemented the Marshall ...
20 godz. temu · A train in Alaska transporting crude oil in March 2006. Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport.It is used for about 8% of passenger and freight transport globally, thanks to its ...
20 godz. temu · Europe (including Russia) 158.7: 172.4 North America: 136.6: 140.0 ... (2.4 million square miles) remain of the original 16 million square kilometres (6 million square miles) of tropical rainforest that ... at 3.9 million ha, followed by South America, at 2.6 million ha. The rate of net forest loss has increased in Africa in each of the three ...
20 godz. temu · Sierra Leone, (/ s i ˌ ɛr ə l i ˈ oʊ n (i)/ ⓘ, also UK: / s i ˌ ɛər ə-/, US: / ˌ s ɪər ə-/; Krio: Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.It shares its southeastern border with Liberia and is bordered by Guinea to the north. With a land area of 71,740 km 2 (27,699 sq mi), Sierra Leone has a tropical climate and with a ...
