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A time zone is an area that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it is convenient for areas in frequent communication to keep the same time.

Uganda ( Yuganda in Ugandan languages ), officially the Fourth Republic of Uganda ( Swahili: Jamhuri ya Ugandaa nne [11] ), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the East by Kenya, to the North by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania.

The Hellenistic period spans the period of Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC [1] and the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year. [2] The period of Greece prior to the Hellenistic era is known as Classical Greece ...

Candy Cane texture in Windows XP. Windows 1.0 includes an Easter egg which includes a list of people who worked on the software. The instructions for getting to the Easter egg vary depending on the version: 1.xx: Press Alt + ⇧ Shift + Esc + ↵ Enter. 1.01 and later: Hold Alt then Esc, release Alt then Esc, press Esc twice then press ...

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, that take turns batting and fielding. The game is in play when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat.

Tyvek is a nonwoven product consisting of spun bond olefin fiber. It was first discovered in 1955 by a researcher for the DuPont textile company working in an experimental lab, who noticed a type of white fluff coming out of a pipe. [2] That fluff was a form of polyethylene, which DuPont requested a patent for within a year of the discovery.