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List of ongoing armed conflicts. Map of ongoing armed conflicts (number of combat-related deaths in current or previous year): Major wars (10,000 or more) Wars (1,000–9,999) Minor conflicts (100–999) Skirmishes and clashes (1–99) The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
The timeline of wars has been split up in the following periods: List of wars: before 1000. List of wars: 1000–1499. List of wars: 1500–1799. List of wars: 1800–1899. List of wars: 1900–1944. List of wars: 1945–1989. List of wars: 1990–2002.
Nellie Bly traveled around the world with public steamboats and trains in 72 days (from 14 November 1889, to 25 January 1890), a world record, resembling the Around the World in Eighty Days novel. Clärenore Stinnes and Carl-Axel Söderström were the first persons to drive around the world in a car between 25 May 1927 and 24 June 1929.
STEVE McMORRAN. August 13, 2024 at 9:52 PM. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The omission of New Zealand from the world map which was a centerpiece of the Paris Olympics closing ceremony might ...
World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
A map of all active curling clubs in the United States. This is a list of the curling clubs in the United States.. In October 2022, the membership of USA Curling ratified the board of directors' vote to remove the Grand National Curling Club (GNCC) as a regional association.
Jessica Watson OAM (born 18 May 1993) is an Australian sailor who was awarded the Order of Australia Medal after attempting a solo circumnavigation [1] at the age of 16. . Although her voyage did not meet the distance criterion of 21,600 nautical miles (40,000 km) for a circumnavigation, Watson was nevertheless named the 2011 Young Australian of the Year [2] and awarded the Medal of the Order ...
Around the world sailing record. IDEC 3, current outright record holder at 40 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds. The first around the world sailing record for circumnavigation of the world can be attributed to the surviving crew of Ferdinand Magellan 's expedition, including the last captain Juan Sebastián Elcano who completed their ...