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Location of Panama between the Pacific Ocean (bottom) and the Caribbean Sea (top), with the canal at top center. The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometer (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 September 2024. For the League of Nations, see Member states of the League of Nations. 193 United Nations member states 2 UN General Assembly observer states (the Holy See [a] and the State of Palestine) 2 eligible non-member states (the Cook Islands and Niue) 17 non-self-governing territories ...
Machu Picchu[a] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [9] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [10] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province [11] above the Sacred ...
The Inca Empire, [a] officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, lit. "land of four parts" [4]), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. [5] The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The Inca civilization rose from the Peruvian highlands sometime in the early ...
The Keys to the White House. The Keys to the White House is a prediction system for determining the outcome of presidential elections in the United States. It was developed by American historian Allan Lichtman and Russian geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok in 1981, adapting prediction methods that Keilis-Borok designed for earthquake prediction.
Palau, [ a ] officially the Republic of Palau, [ b ][ 7 ] is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific. The republic consists of approximately 340 islands and connects the western chain of the Caroline Islands with parts of the Federated States of Micronesia. It has a total area of 466 square kilometers ...
Latin (lingua Latina, pronounced [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Classical Latin is considered a dead language as it is no longer used to produce major texts, while Vulgar Latin evolved into the Romance Languages. [ 1 ]
Montenegro's (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ɪ ˈ n iː ɡ r oʊ,-ˈ n eɪ ɡ r oʊ,-ˈ n ɛ ɡ r oʊ / ⓘ MON-tin-E(E)G-roh, - AY-groh; [22] Montenegrin: Crna Gora [a] / Црна Гора; [b] Albanian: Mali i Zi) [23] [24] English name derives from a Venetian calque of the Montenegrin phrase "Crna Gora", meaning literally "Black Mountain", deriving from the appearance of Mount Lovćen which was covered ...