Society

Australia had been inhabited for thousands of years by Indigenous Australians before European contact.

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Also known as squatter settlements, these communities' impoverished residents build their homes from whatever improvised building materials they can find.

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Several varieties of infantry weapons developed during the Cold War continue to take their places on today's battlefields.

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Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and the other major cities in the UAE are all well developed and modern, with excellent infrastructural facilities and cosmopolitan in nature.

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Most of the Ibo people of today are found living in the African nation of Nigeria, especially in the southern portions of the country.

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Togo is a multilingual country where the official language is French, and other national languages are Ewé and Kabiyé.

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The Goiânia Accident has been dubbed as one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.

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According to recent statistics, the United States has one of the highest absolute totals for annual burglaries in the world. Certain areas, however, feel the effects of burglary far worse than others.

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HIV (17% of all deaths) is the leading cause of death in Tanzania, followed by lower respiratory infections (11%) and malaria (7%).

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Tashkent is Uzbekistan's capital and largest city, housing almost 5 times as many residents as second place Samarkand.

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Chaguanas is the most populous city in Trinidad and Tobago, located in Central Trinidad around 18 kilometers to the south of the national capital city of Port-of-Spain.

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The University of Paris has been an active institution of higher education since the 12th Century.

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A culture hearth is a location that saw the origins of a culture from which it later spread.

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Around 1 in 9 Burmese citizens live in the Yangon Metro area, an area which also yields close to one-fourth of the entire country's Gross Domestic Product.

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While some research shows humans are expanding their cognition alongside technology, other evidence suggests a different pattern is in place.

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For almost nine centuries, the Althing assembly met at Thingvellir to govern and administer Iceland.

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Lomé, located along the Gulf of Guinea, is the capital and the most populous city of Togo, and is also the country's chief port.

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Norwegian Roald Amundsen beat his British rival Robert Falcon Scott in the race to the South Pole, a race that claimed the life of the latter and his team-mates.

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One of the top universities in the world in numerous courses of study, Yale has educated numerous U.S. leaders and brilliant minds in a variety of fields.

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Topped by Everest, more than half of the earth's 8,000+ meter mountains are in Nepal either wholly or shared between the country and India or China.

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