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Main Building of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, it is the oldest Institute of technology in the world, founded in 1782 Research and development centre of Gedeon Richter Plc. in Budapest, one of the largest biotechnology company in Central and Eastern Europe László Lovász was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010; he is the ...
Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [11] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,569 km 2 (138,058 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
The adoption of rail transport lowered shipping costs compared to water transport, leading to "national markets" in which prices varied less from city to city. In the 1880s, railway electrification began with tramways and rapid transit systems. Starting in the 1940s, steam locomotives were replaced by diesel locomotives.
Lebanon (/ ˈ l ɛ b ə n ɒ n,-n ə n / ⓘ LEB-ə-non, -nən; Arabic: لُبْنَان, romanized: Lubnān, local pronunciation: [lɪbˈneːn]), officially the Republic of Lebanon, [c] is a country in the Levant region of West Asia, bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west; Cyprus lies a short distance from the country's coas
The United States Congress authorized the construction of Texas, the second Navy ship to be named after that state, on 24 June 1910. [16] [17] Bids for Texas were accepted from 27 September to 1 December with the winning bid of $5,830,000—excluding the price of armor and armament—submitted by Newport News Shipbuilding.
Since 2012, BNY has expanded its number of sponsorships. [224] BNY was the title sponsor of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race from 2012 to 2015. [224] [225] [226] The company also sponsors the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston. [224] In 2013, the company became a 10-year sponsor of the San Francisco 49ers and a founding partner of Levi's ...
U.S. M4 Sherman tank clearing an Imperial Japanese bunker on Iwo Jima during the Second World War. The "Grand Area" as per the CFR planners, October 1940. A series of Neutrality Acts passed by the U.S. Congress in the 1930s sought to return foreign policy to non-interventionism in European affairs, as it had been prior to the American entry into World War I.