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  2. Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Mexico, [a] [b] officially the United Mexican States, [c] is a country in the southern portion of North America. It covers 1,972,550 km 2 (761,610 sq mi), [11] making it the world's 13th-largest country by area; with a population of almost 130 million, it is the 10th-most-populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country. [12]

  3. Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] ( USSR) [s], commonly known as the Soviet Union [t], was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with twelve countries.

  4. Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire, [j] historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, [22] [23] was an imperial realm [k] that spanned much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

  5. Vendor-managed inventory - Wikipedia

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    Vendor-managed inventory ( VMI) is an inventory management practice in which a supplier of goods, usually the manufacturer, is responsible for optimizing the inventory held by a distributor. Under VMI, the retailer shares their inventory data with a vendor (sometimes called supplier) such that the vendor is the decision-maker who determines the ...

  6. Karcham Wangtoo Hydroelectric Plant - Wikipedia

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    4 x 250 MW Francis-type. Installed capacity. 1,000 MW. Annual generation. 4,560 GWh est. [1] The Karcham Wangtoo Hydroelectric Plant is a 1,091 megawatts (1,463,000 hp) [2] run-of-the-river hydroelectric power station on the Sutlej River in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh state of India. [3]

  7. Titanic - Wikipedia

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    RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg on the ship's maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, approximately 1,500 died, making the incident the deadliest sinking of a single ship at the time.

  8. Rajesh Exports - Wikipedia

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    1409 (March 2019) [2] Website. www .rajeshindia .com. Rajesh Exports Limited is an Indian multinational gold retailer headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. The company refines, designs, and sells gold and jewelry. It was ranked 7th on the Fortune India 500 list in 2022, with revenues of ₹ 2.90 trillion, [3] and 462nd in the Fortune Global 500.

  9. Richard Nixon - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.