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Usage in Canada, especially Quebec and British Columbia. [182] Sea-Doo: Sit-down personal watercraft: Bombardier Recreational Products: Used regionally in the U.S. (where the company holds 50.3% of the market share) to refer to any type of sit-down PWC. Usage is strongest in Canada, especially in Quebec, where the manufacturer is based. [183 ...
Canada's fertility rate hit a record low of 1.4 children born per woman in 2020, [32] below the population replacement level, which stands at 2.1 births per woman. In 2020, Canada also experienced the country's lowest number of births in 15 years, [ 32 ] also seeing the largest annual drop in childbirths (−3.6%) in a quarter of a century. [ 32 ]
When the Soviets finally claimed victory, they initiated an orgy of violence, including the wholesale theft of anything they could lay their hands on, random executions and mass rape. An estimated 50,000 women and girls were raped, [ 220 ] : 348–350 [ 221 ] [ note 1 ] although estimates vary from 5,000 to 200,000.
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
The equation says nothing directly about the contact cross-section between an ETIS and contemporary human society". [73] Because it is the contact cross-section that is of interest to the SETI community, many additional factors and modifications of the Drake equation have been proposed.
Ronald Wilson Reagan [a] (February 6, 1911–June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, his presidency constituted the Reagan era, and he is considered one of the most prominent American conservative figures.
A QWERTY keyboard layout variant that is used in the US. Some countries, such as the UK and Canada, use a slightly different QWERTY (the @ and " are switched in the UK and both have an AltGr ("alternate graphic") key rather than a right-hand Alt key – as do most non-English language keyboards; see keyboard layout).