Countries which have had successful & failed coups since 2000
Via countrydigest.org
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Maps of world
Map of all of the surface of Earth. Maps of continents, countries, regions, and cities.
The threat level of terrorism around the world
In the aftermath of the attack in Nice on Bastille Day, it has been confirmed that 84 people have been
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Disability Adjusted Life Years per 100,000 (2000 – 2012)
Via ourworldindata.org
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Female to male ratio, by NUTS level 3 region
The world average for the ratio of females/males is 0.999, which means there are (fewer) 1.00 females for (more) 1.01
Read MoreWhat’s across the ocean?
Europe is not across the ocean from New York… but Australia is. By Max Galka via Metrocosm
Read MoreThe big picture of global finance (U.S. $81.6 tn)
The graph clearly shows that Anglo-America is the undisputed core of global finance, with the US-UK axis being the largest
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The spread of the word for “tea”
The etymology of the different words for tea reveals the history of the spread of tea-drinking culture and trade from China to countries worldwide. Almost all the words for tea worldwide fall into three broad groups: ‘te,’ ‘cha,’ and ‘chai,’ present in English as tea, ‘cha’ or ‘char,’ and ‘chai.’
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