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Website. www .peta .org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA; / ˈpiːtə /) is an American animal rights nonprofit organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president. PETA says that its entities have more than 9 million members globally. [citation needed]
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. [2] Countries are sorted by nominal GDP estimates from financial and statistical institutions, which are calculated at market or government official exchange rates. Nominal GDP does not take into account differences in the cost of ...
Indonesia, [a] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [b] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at ...
Ptolemy's world map. The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman societies in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy 's book Geography, written c. 150. Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria .
The Hohenstaufen dynasty (/ ˈ h oʊ ə n ʃ t aʊ f ən /, US also /-s t aʊ-/, German: [ˌhoːənˈʃtaʊfn̩]), also known as the Staufer, was a noble family of unclear origin that rose to rule the Duchy of Swabia from 1079, and to royal rule in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages from 1138 until 1254.
The Sea Toll Program (Indonesian: Tol Laut ), sometimes called the Sea Highway Program, [1] is a program initiated by Indonesian president Joko Widodo. Its aim is to reduce price disparity between the main islands of Indonesia and smaller isolated islands, especially those in East Indonesia. It was launched in 2015, and has legal basis under ...
Nusantara ( Indonesian pronunciation: [nusanˈtara] ), officially the Capital City of Nusantara ( Indonesian: Ibu Kota Nusantara, IKN), [2] is the future capital of Indonesia, scheduled to be inaugurated on 17 August 2024, coinciding with Indonesian Independence Day. [3] Nusantara will replace Jakarta as the national capital, a position the ...
Electors (2023) [1] 40,015. Kuala Kubu Baharu is a state constituency in Selangor, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly since 1974. The seat has been represented by Pang Sock Tao of Pakatan Harapan (PH) since 2024. The state constituency was created in the 1974 redistribution and is mandated to return a ...