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Jerusalem, from 'Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam' by Bernhard von Breydenbach, 1486. The 13th to 15th centuries was a period of frequent building activity in the city, as evidenced by the 90 remaining structures from this time. [189] The city was also a significant site of Mamluk architectural patronage.
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [18] is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. [19] Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country.
Mount St. Helens. / 46.1912000°N 122.1944000°W / 46.1912000; -122.1944000. Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, [1] in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), representing approximately 16.5% of the Earth 's land area and 4.8% of its total surface area. It is the third-largest continent by size after Asia and Africa, and the fourth-largest continent by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe.
The Earth and most of the planets in the Solar System, as well as the Sun and other stars, all generate magnetic fields through the motion of electrically conducting fluids. [53] The Earth's field originates in its core. This is a region of iron alloys extending to about 3400 km (the radius of the Earth is 6370 km).
Wikipedia entry for Google Patents.Google Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Google data centers are the large data center facilities Google uses to provide their services, which combine large drives, computer nodes organized in aisles of racks, internal and external networking, environmental controls (mainly cooling and humidification control), and operations software (especially as concerns load balancing and fault tolerance).
On August 10, 2015, Google announced plans to create a new public holding company, Alphabet Inc. Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page made this announcement in a blog post on Google's official blog. Alphabet was created to restructure Google by moving subsidiaries from Google to Alphabet, thus narrowing Google's scope.