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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. [2] President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. [3]
The following lists are lists of countries by military spending as a share of GDP - more specifically, a list of the 15 countries with the highest share in recent years. The first list uses the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute as a source. The second list gets its data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Realistic humanoid automata were built by craftsman from many civilizations, including Yan Shi, [20] Hero of Alexandria, [21] Al-Jazari, [22] Haroun al-Rashid, [23] Jacques de Vaucanson, [24] [25] Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, [26] Pierre Jaquet-Droz and Wolfgang von Kempelen. [27] [28] The oldest known automata were the sacred statues of ancient ...
The first list includes estimates compiled by the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook, the second list shows the World Bank's data, and the third list includes data compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division. The IMF's definitive data for the past year and estimates for the current year are published twice a year in ...
Only countries for which sourced data is available are listed. Data for some countries, including Libya and Saudi Arabia, remains unavailable. It was usually accepted that over one third (33.3%) of the population in Libya and Saudi Arabia were living in the previous decade below the poverty line. [ 9][ 10]
American retail corporation Walmart has been the world's largest company by revenue since 2014. [ 1] The list is limited to the largest 50 companies, all of which have annual revenues exceeding US$130 billion. This list is incomplete, as not all companies disclose their information to the media or general public. [ 3]
[9] [10] It includes direct sexual contact, the adult or otherwise older person engaging indecent exposure (of the genitals, female nipples, etc.) to a child with intent to gratify their own sexual desires or to intimidate or groom the child, asking or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities, displaying pornography to a child, or ...
The Comac C929 is a planned long-range 250-to-320-seat wide-body twinjet airliner family being developed by Chinese Comac, to challenge the Airbus and Boeing duopoly. The programme was previously developed by CRAIC (China-Russia Commercial Aircraft International Corporation), a joint venture between Comac and Russian UAC, and the aircraft was ...