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Portals is a global public art initiative that connects people around the globe through real-time video audiovisual technology housed inside a gold-painted, converted shipping container or other structure. [1] [2] [3] Individuals and groups enter local Portals and engage with individuals or groups in distant Portals through live, full-body video conferencing. The experience has been described ...
The Connecticut Portal. Connecticut ( / kəˈnɛtɪkət / ⓘ kə-NET-ik-ət) is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. As of the 2020 United States census, Connecticut was home to over 3.6 million residents, its highest decennial count ever, growing every decade since 1790.
Sahara India Pariwar was founded by Subrata Roy Sahara in 1978. [3] [4] In 2004, Sahara group was termed by the Time magazine as 'the second largest employer in India' after the Indian Railways. The group operates more than 5,000 establishments across India [5] with the employee strength around 12 lakh (both field and office) under the Sahara India umbrella. [6]
The word elephant is based off of the Latin word elephas ( genitive elephantis) 'elephant', which is the Latinised form of the ancient Greek ἐλέφας ( elephas) (genitive ἐλέφαντος ( elephantos [1] )), probably from a non- Indo-European language, likely Phoenician. [2] It is attested in Mycenaean Greek as e-re-pa (genitive e-re-pa-to) in Linear B syllabic script. [3] [4] As in ...
The Great Wall of China ( traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng, literally "ten thousand li long wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic groups from the Eurasian Steppe. Several walls were built from ...
Labour Day is a national holiday in the Bahamas, celebrated on the first Friday in June in order to create a long weekend for workers. [6] The traditional date of Labour Day in the Bahamas, however, is 7 June, in commemoration of a significant workers' strike that began on that day in 1942. Labour Day is meant to honour and celebrate workers and the importance of their contributions to the ...
Siberia is known for its long, harsh winters, with a January average of −25 °C (−13 °F). [6] Although it is geographically in Asia, Russian sovereignty and colonization since the 16th century have rendered the region culturally and ethnically European. [7] Over 85% of its population are of European descent, [8] [9] chiefly Russian (comprising the Siberian sub-ethnic group), and Eastern ...
Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz (also known as Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz) (30 July 1893 – 25 April 1968) was a German officer of aristocratic descent in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.