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- The World Trade Center in New York City (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC or the Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings, mostly ...31 KB (4,719 words) - 11:15, 19 May 2023
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- million tonnes (2006). About 20 percent of world production goes into belts ... tires because they provide better trade-off for fuel efficiency and ...7 KB (1,036 words) - 22:13, 25 November 2023
- The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was ... The organization's goals are to "maximize the trade, investment ...10 KB (1,369 words) - 11:43, 3 May 2023
- completion in 1973, it surpassed the World Trade Center towers in New York ... height of New York's unfinished World Trade Center, to become the world ...13 KB (2,043 words) - 15:23, 14 May 2023
- Mali grew famous due to their immense riches obtained through trade ... C.E. While it would not be considered the center of the Songhai Empire until ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:15, 4 February 2023
- with China. By 1768, Sulu had become the center of trade network extending ... launching attacks which destroyed the Sulu trade network, and Spanish troops ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
- relations between European states, improved trade and access to resources, ... In the aftermath of World War II, several people proposed that an ...13 KB (1,869 words) - 04:30, 23 March 2024
- to this rule are found in the west and center of Ethiopia and the most ... The Horn of Africa became a major center for trade and commerce around ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 14:19, 7 February 2024
- The World Trade Center in New York City (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC or the Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings, mostly ...31 KB (4,719 words) - 11:15, 19 May 2023
- arose in Mauritania in order to serve the trade caravans crossing the Sahara ... sand, drought, and the end of the caravan trade, what remains illustrates ...17 KB (2,566 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- eminence as a vitally important historical trade route. Smaller political ... no significant island developments in the center of the Arabian Sea, despite ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- and centralization in modern cities around the world. The bazaar first appeared along the important trade routes. The constant ...13 KB (1,933 words) - 03:11, 26 September 2023
- states) are among the wealthiest in the world (with the exception of Yemen). ... the largest uninterrupted sand dune in the world, called the Empty Quarter ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- 1931 until the construction of the World Trade Center North Tower in 1972. Preservation Commission. After the World Trade Center was destroyed in the ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
- brought about a gradual revolution in trade, and for the first time, ... The Empire grew rich from the trans-Saharan trade in gold and salt ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 23:55, 6 December 2022
- The Manhattan Center building, built in 1906 and located in the heart ... as a multi-purpose facility, the Manhattan Center has been a premier venue ...11 KB (1,594 words) - 06:48, 5 November 2022
- peoples from the north. A premier trading center for West Africa that often ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- the emergence of Cambridge University as a center of economic research in the ... a small number of tracts on international trade and the problems of protectionism ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 18:02, 20 July 2023
- economic policy and planning throughout the world since the middle of the twentieth ... From 1927 to 1930 Leontief worked at the Institute for World Economics ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
- Muslims throughout the world face the Ka'bah during prayers. ... the annual pilgrimage, to worship and to trade. Caravan-raiding, common ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 21:48, 4 October 2022
- of the profit possibilities in the Saharan trade routes that terminated there ... sent there, but for the rest there was no center of navigational science or ...10 KB (1,543 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2017
- Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common ... dangerous coastal voyage, helped enhance trade between India and Rome. ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- advocated on behalf of women’s suffrage, world peace, and the rights of ... Settlement, in founding the Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL). This ...8 KB (1,096 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- policy of expanding Denmark's overseas trade, as part of the mercantilist ... main peacefully via treaties, purchase and trade concessions. Denmark did ...10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
- * When the World Trade Center towers were completed in 1973, many ... the centerpiece building of the new World Trade Center complex planned for ...21 KB (3,158 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- history of prosperity accrued from economic trade with Rome, India, and elsewhere ... to the emphasis it placed on commerce and trade. It minted its own coins ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- the nineteenth century. China stood at the center of the system and regarded ... and Manchus, took their place at the center with varying degrees of success ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- in the vast network of Saharan and Sudanic trade routes. The prosperity gained ... at the southern end of the trans-Saharan trade route between Tripoli and ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 02:36, 5 October 2022
- as being the oldest inhabited city in the world. Aleppo was the capital of ... place, as it sat at the crossroads of two trade routes and mediated the trade ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- although it is viewed as having a right of center view on politics. The paper ... Labour Party and had a liberal or left of center political orientation. In ...8 KB (1,170 words) - 02:34, 1 August 2022
- The city is in an isolated location in the center of the Kazakh Steppe and ... Made a provincial center in 1939, many Russian-Germans were resettled ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 05:07, 18 August 2023
- in 1628, a major portion of the slave trade from Africa to the English ... is ranked as one of the highest in the world. The literacy rate is 98 ...20 KB (2,790 words) - 23:06, 20 November 2023
- become one of the greatest golfers in the world, and then who rose again ... game for rich men, every man should have a trade, you should stick to carpentering ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 21:10, 23 October 2022
- indiatimes.com/india/nathu-la-reopens-for-trade-after-44-years/articleshow/1710090 ... the plains of Bengal to the south. In 1815, trade picked up in volume after ...20 KB (2,900 words) - 23:53, 29 May 2023
- to prominence through wealth gained from trade with both its African neighbors ... Empire. Ife was considered the religious center of the world, and many Yoruba ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- waters of the Red Sea, is one of the world's premier diving locations ... one of the northernmost and most diverse in the world. ...15 KB (2,306 words) - 08:25, 8 January 2024
- object of commercial hunting. The fur seal trade often included clubbing them ... breeding season three-quarters of the total world population congregates on ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- poet king. In 1968, UNESCO declared him a World Heritage Person. ... placed Buddhism and Buddhist ethics at the center of Thai life. He sent monks ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- ideal lever). The lever only allows one to trade effort for distance. ... on the opposite side. The fulcrum is the center of the lever on which the ...8 KB (1,282 words) - 22:06, 25 October 2022
- is the political, cultural, and economic center of the emirate. a small gulf sheikdom known locally as a center for pearl diving and shipbuilding ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- deemed to be one of the sacred languages of the world. ==Etymology == ... alphabets were used for household and trade purposes. Compared to the ...20 KB (2,621 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2024
- books introducing Korean culture to the western world. ==Preparation ... and Korea had signed a Treaty of Amity and Trade, one stipulation of which ...8 KB (1,205 words) - 15:02, 2 February 2024
- industry. The Reciprocity Agreement, a free trade agreement between Hawaii ... "Queen Liliuokalani's Children Center," which is still in ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 15:42, 7 December 2022
- and played a major role in facilitating trade between China and Central ... and played a major role in facilitating trade between China and Central ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- Dār as-Salām), formerly Mzizima, is the largest city, industrial ... Tanzania remains one of the poorest countries in the world, but has ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
- such as Nalanda, founded in 427 C.E., were world famous, and their Buddhist ... Trade-routes were therefore ideal locations for a vihara and donations ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 22:03, 17 April 2023
- The Circus World Museum is a large museum complex in Baraboo, Wisconsin ... company in the United States. The Circus World Museum was established in ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
- The Enlightenment had placed humanity at the center of the world, ... he had neither found a promising area for trade nor a useful new shipping ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- or "brought to light") is in the center of the roughly circular ring ... her twin children, Apollo and Artemis, into the world. Delos is a 15 ...9 KB (1,335 words) - 09:22, 28 January 2024
- annually, it is the busiest vehicular tunnel in the world. ... terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center's Twin Towers ...7 KB (1,127 words) - 04:15, 29 October 2022
- on the Silk Road, the city has long been a center of trade, scholarship, culture ... Its old city section, which was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
