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The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. [12] The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands'), is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of ...
Ship pollution is the pollution of air and water by shipping. It is a problem that has been accelerating as trade has become increasingly globalized, posing an increasing threat to the world's oceans and waterways as globalization continues. It is expected that "shipping traffic to and from the United States is projected to double by 2020."
Today, the majority of black carbon emissions are from developing countries [37] and this trend is expected to increase. [38] The largest sources of black carbon are Asia, Latin America, and Africa. [39] China and India together account for 25–35% of global black carbon emissions. [5] Black carbon emissions from China doubled from 2000 to ...
Gloucester County (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s t ər / GLOST-ər) is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 census, the county was the state's 14th-most populous county [5] with a population of 302,294, [2] [3] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 14,006 (+4.9%) from the 288,288 counted in the 2010 census, [6] which in turn represented an increase of 33,615 (+13.2%) from the ...
On 21 September 2012, while on a visit to New Zealand, US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the United States was lifting the 26-year-old ban on visits by New Zealand warships to US Department of Defense and US Coast Guard bases around the world [70] "These changes make it easier for our militaries to engage in discussions on ...
The island of Antigua was originally called Wadadli by the Arawaks and is locally known by that name today; the Caribs possibly called Barbuda Wa'omoni. Christopher Columbus, while sailing by in 1493, may have named it Santa Maria la Antigua, after an icon in the Spanish Seville Cathedral. The "bearded" of Barbuda is thought to refer either to ...
The Roanoke Colony (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared.