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  2. Maldives - Wikipedia

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    The Maldives, [c] officially the Republic of Maldives, [d] and historically known as Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean. [10] The Maldives is named after the main island and capital, Malé. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about 750 kilometres (470 miles; 400 nautical miles ...

  3. History of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    Early history (1994–1996) Upon the April 1994 renaming of Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web to Yahoo!, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

  4. Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines is generally mountainous; uplands make up 65 percent of the country's total land area. [54]: 38 [199] The Philippines is an archipelagoof about 7,641 islands,[200][201]covering a total area (including inland bodies of water) of about 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi).

  5. Friedrich Nietzsche - Wikipedia

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    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ( / ˈniːtʃə, ˈniːtʃi / NEE-chə, NEE-chee, [10] German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈniːtʃə] ⓘ or [ˈniːtsʃə]; [11] [12] 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the ...

  6. Switzerland - Wikipedia

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    Switzerland has a stable, prosperous and high-tech economy. It is the world's wealthiest country per capita in multiple rankings. The country ranks as one of the least corrupt countries in the world, [124] [125] [126] while its banking sector is rated as "one of the most corrupt in the world". [127]

  7. Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. [2] Microsoft's best-known software products are the Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity applications, and the Edge web browser.

  8. Iran - Wikipedia

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    Iran, [a] also known as Persia [b] and officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ( IRI ), [c] is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Iraq to the west and Turkey to the northwest, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman & the Persian Gulf to the ...

  9. List of HTTP status codes - Wikipedia

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    An expansion of the 400 Bad Request response code, used when a client certificate is required but not provided. 497 HTTP Request Sent to HTTPS Port. An expansion of the 400 Bad Request response code, used when the client has made a HTTP request to a port listening for HTTPS requests. 499 Client Closed Request.