In the United States, a county is an administrative and political subdivision of U.S. states. There are nowadays 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 U.S. states and D.C. The quantity of U.S. counties per state varies from the three counties of Delaware to the 254 counties of Texas.
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In the 1960s, American urban planner David A. Jokinen proposed a controversial plan to modernize Amsterdam. This car-centric vision, known as the Jokinen Plan, would have dramatically altered the city’s landscape. Discover how Amsterdam narrowly avoided this fate and instead became the bicycle-friendly city we know today.
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The history of the European continent is mind-blowing complicated. That’s why the borders of many European countries have changed many times.
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More than five billion videos are viewed on YouTube each day, and the creators of those videos aren’t making them for free. Some of the most prominent YouTube stars are gathering in millions of dollars every year.
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A survey of more than 25 thousand people in ten Arabic nations, organized by Arab Barometer and Princeton University, discovered that trust in religious leaders decreased in the Arab world in recent years. Moreover, the proportion of people considering themselves as “not religious” rose from 11 percent in 2012-2014 to 18 percent this year.
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The Arab World consists of the 22 Arab nations: Algeria, Bahrain, the Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen). It combines a population of around 423 mln people. The preponderance religion is Islam.
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Maps have been one of the most significant human creativity for millenary. People have invented and used maps to describe, clarify, and navigate their route within the world. Here is an atlas of the most famous maps, from the prehistoric period to modern times.
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Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania may be small, but their history and culture are anything but. Learn about the quirky, cultural, and historical ways to divide the Baltic States.
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A journey into Nordic-American heritage: discover the waves of migration from Scandinavia, the communities they formed, and where their descendants live today.
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The term “big cat” is are commonly used to relate to any of the five species of the genus Panthera: lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard. Except for the snow leopard, these big cat species can roar. A more broad interpretation of the term covers species outside of Panthera including the cougar, clouded leopard, Sunda clouded leopard, cheetah and even the several lynxes species. However, these added species also do not roar.
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