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  2. List of largest cities - Wikipedia

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    UNICEF defines city proper as, "the population living within the administrative boundaries of a city or controlled directly from the city by a single authority." A city proper is a locality defined according to legal or political boundaries and an administratively recognised urban status that is usually characterised by some form of local ...

  3. MBC Media Group - Wikipedia

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    The Manila Broadcasting Company, doing business as the MBC Media Group, [1] is a multimedia company in the Philippines.It is currently owned by the FJE Group of Companies of Fred J. Elizalde, which also operates hotels and Pasay-based amusement park, Star City.

  4. Oklahoma City bombing - Wikipedia

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    At 4:00 p.m., President Clinton declared a federal emergency in Oklahoma City [114] and spoke to the nation: [100] The bombing in Oklahoma City was an attack on innocent children and defenseless citizens. It was an act of cowardice and it was evil.

  5. Ancient Corinth - Wikipedia

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    Corinth (British English: / ˈ k ɒr ɪ n θ / KORR-inth, American English: / ˈ k ɔːr ɪ n θ /; Greek: Κόρινθος Korinthos; Doric Greek: Ϙόρινθος; Latin: Corinthus) was a city-state on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnese peninsula to the mainland of Greece, roughly halfway between Athens and Sparta.

  6. List of earthquakes in 2024 - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of earthquakes in 2024. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in significant damage and/or casualties. All dates are listed according to UTC time. The maximum intensities are based on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. Earthquake magnitudes are based on data from the USGS.

  7. Portal:Current events - Wikipedia

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    Yemeni Shia Islamist group Houthi fires for the first time a ballistic missile into an open area in Tel Aviv. Disasters and accidents. 2024 Pacific typhoon season. The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in Myanmar increases to 74 people, with 89 others still missing and nearly 240,000 displaced.

  8. Pompeii - Wikipedia

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    Pompeii in Latin is a second declension masculine nominative plural noun (Pompeiī, -ōrum).According to Theodor Kraus, "The root of the word Pompeii would appear to be the Oscan word for the number five, pompe, which suggests that either the community consisted of five hamlets or perhaps it was settled by a family group (gens Pompeia)."

  9. Mass media in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Communication towers in Zamboanga City. Mass media in the Philippines consists of several types of media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, cinema, and websites.. In 2004, the Philippines had 225 television stations, 369 AM radio broadcast stations, 583 FM radio broadcast stations, 10 internet radio stations, 5 shortwave stations and 7 million newspapers in circulation.