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The Red was a key trade route for the company, and contributed to the settlement of British North America. The river was long used by fur traders , including the French and the Métis people , who established a community in this area some time before the British defeated France in the Seven Years' War .
A country's gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita is the PPP value of all final goods and services produced within an economy in a given year, divided by the average (or mid-year) population for the same year.
The Bank of North America, First Bank of the United States, and Bank of New York were the first shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange. After the passage of the National Bank Act in 1862, the Bank of North America converted its business to operate under the new law. Its unique history presented a problem: the act required a national bank ...
Starbucks was founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker at Seattle's Pike Place Market.During the early 1980s, they sold the company to Howard Schultz who—after a business trip to Milan, Italy—decided to convert the coffee bean store into a coffee shop serving espresso-based drinks.
Kalki 2898 AD (pronounced) is a 2024 Indian Telugu-language epic science fiction film [8] directed by Nag Ashwin and produced by Vyjayanthi Movies.The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan, Prabhas, Deepika Padukone and Disha Patani.
Latin America can be subdivided into several subregions based on geography, politics, democracy, demographics and culture. The basic geographical subregions are North America, Central America, the Caribbean and South America; the latter contains further politico-geographical subdivisions such as the Southern Cone, the Guianas and
In December 2021, debt held by the public was estimated at 96.19% of GDP, and approximately 33% of this public debt was owned by foreigners (government and private). [10] The United States has the largest external debt in the world. The total number of U.S. Treasury securities held by foreign entities in December 2021 was $7.7 trillion, up from ...
August 16 – Lynmouth, North Devon, England is devastated by floods; 34 die. August 18 – A 7.5 earthquake shakes the Tibet region leaving a balance of 54 fatalities. August 22 – The most damaging aftershock of the 1952 Kern County earthquake sequence strikes with a moment magnitude of 5.8, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII ( Severe ).