Search results for "Cost of living" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Vagrancy is the condition of being a vagrant, defined as a person ... While societies have made efforts to deal with the large numbers of ...25 KB (3,643 words) - 14:08, 3 May 2023
- American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in ... John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807, the second ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- Following the post-World War II division of Germany, he was elected to ... during the Cold War (specifically the deaths of 192 Germans who tried to escape ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- between Ethiopia and Eritrea, forming one of the conflicts in the Horn of ... also engaged in civil wars) is a tragedy of immense proportion. ...22 KB (3,294 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- circumference displaying the first example of the successful amalgamation ... Rohtasgarh, situated on the upper course of the river Son, 20 37’ ...24 KB (3,894 words) - 02:42, 16 December 2022
- The Value Added Tax (VAT) is a form of consumption tax that taxes ... quot; of wage increases, because of cost-of-living adjustments and these ...31 KB (5,015 words) - 14:16, 3 May 2023
- of Political and Social Science, The Cost of Living (Philadelphia, 1913) ... *American Academy of Political and Social Science. The Cost of Living ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 18:50, 9 November 2022
- Bolivia located in the northeastern portion of the Santa Cruz Department. ... industrialized nor polluted. The isolation of its cerrado habitats provides ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- 1839 – October 24, 1922), the third son of the Quaker tea and coffee dealer ... program for their benefit. Through ownership of several newspapers, he promoted ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 08:39, 6 November 2022
- Genome is one complete set of hereditary information that characterizes ... genetic content stored on a complete set of nuclear DNA (i.e., the "nuclear ...18 KB (2,592 words) - 15:43, 11 February 2023
- produced by hydropower—that is, the energy of moving water. It is the world ... about 715,000 megawatts (or 19 percent) of the world's electricity ...23 KB (3,052 words) - 21:35, 9 February 2024
- 16, 1774) was a French economist, founder of the Physiocratic school. He ... economic state as a balanced, circular flow of funds—a system he saw as ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 03:39, 4 June 2021
- 1966) was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. ... He guarded information about his private life and instead focused ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- The gorilla, the largest of the living primates is a ground-dwelling ... pounds). Females are about half the weight of males. Gorillas' facial ...12 KB (1,781 words) - 07:13, 1 January 2024
- city in Africa, it has the highest cost of living of any city in North ... euros. The city had the highest cost of living of any city in North ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 00:36, 9 January 2023
- 1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine ... fail to place their skills at the service of humanity. Instead, what they ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- Caviar is the processed, salted roe of certain species of fish, most ... in the United States, high consumption of caviar led to over-fishing ...16 KB (2,370 words) - 16:22, 3 December 2023
- has been shaped by the passionate pursuit of modernization. Since the end ... The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- The name roughly translates as "Sea of Islands," referring ... 50 percent its original size in a matter of decades. This reduction came ...21 KB (3,162 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of ... Extinction has occurred throughout the history of living organisms ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 06:16, 13 September 2023
