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4 godz. temu · The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia.It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail and orange fur with black, mostly vertical stripes. It is traditionally classified into nine recent subspecies, though some recognise only two subspecies, mainland Asian tigers and the island tigers of the Sunda ...
1 dzień temu · Etymology. The English word car is believed to originate from Latin carrus / carrum "wheeled vehicle" or (via Old North French) Middle English carre "two-wheeled cart", both of which in turn derive from Gaulish karros "chariot". It originally referred to any wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, such as a cart, carriage, or wagon. "Motor car", attested from 1895, is the usual formal term in British ...
1 dzień temu · Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French pronunciation: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).
4 godz. temu · This cluster of assumptions was captured by E. H. Man in his essay “A Brief Account of the Nicobar Islands” (1886), when he suggested that “more correct information [can] be obtained from photography than from any verbal description” (quoted in Pinney, 2011, pp. 14–15). In this way, photography was understood as a crucial and ...
4 godz. temu · You’ll notice the word “Left” is absent there. That’s because, by and large, the Left hasn’t necessarily crumbled. Many who adopt the moniker have. Ostensibly “Left” movements in the political sphere have been caught on. TL;DR: Wilder thing #1: A snake sunning itself on the hot asphalt as we came riding towards it.
4 godz. temu · The forced and voluntary movement of Africans in the Indian Ocean remains one of the least known of the African migratory routes, although it had an impact on millions of people through personal contact, cultural influence, or the fruits of Black labor. 10 At least 1,500 years before European slave trading, Arabs had taken African peoples across the Sahara Desert, the Mediterranean Sea, the ...
4 godz. temu · 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 ...
