The official name is the United States of America. It is in third place in the world in terms of territory and fourth in terms of population. The United States was founded in 1776 by uniting 13 British colonies that declared independence from Britain. The United States has the world’s […]
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It is possible that precisely for these reasons the genre most related to the incredible, together with horror, that is science fiction, found in the 1950s a much larger space than in the past. On the one hand, in fact, the atomic danger was a natural theme, on the other the threats […]
The United States has huge deposits of all sorts of metallic and non-metallic minerals and fossil fuels. The exploitation of these riches, insignificant in the eighteenth century and just started in the first half of the century. XIX, after 1860 it grew so rapidly that by the end of the […]
Even more than for North America in general, the contrast between the modest extension of the Pacific catchment area and the great breadth of those of the Atlantic and Arctic Ocean is striking in Canada. While only small and non-navigable rivers belong to the former (with the exception of the […]
With over 380,000 residents, Wichita is the largest city in the US state of Kansas. After oil was discovered there in 1914, Wichita developed into a prosperous city. According to computerminus, Kansas is a US state that is considered typically American. Prairies, mountains, men with cowboy hats and boots, horses […]
The structure The World Bank, which consists of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Fund (IDA), is part of the World Bank Group. This also includes IFC (International Financing Company), Miga (International Investment Guarantee Agency) and ICCID (International Center for Investment Conflict). According to Abbreviationfinder, […]
Yearbook 2002 USA. According to Countryaah website, national day of United States is every July 4. The war on terror declared by President George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001 attacks dominated the agenda both domestic and international. In a speech to the nation in January, Bush warned of […]
Yearbook 2002 Trinidad and Tobago. According to Countryaah website, national day of Trinidad and Tobago is every August 31. Major turbulence characterized the policy in Trinidad and Tobago during the year. The run was a parliamentary election in December 2001 that ended in a deadlock between the country’s two major […]
Yearbook 2002 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. According to Countryaah website, national day of Saint Vincent and Grenadines is every October 27. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines deepened their cooperation during the year with other Eastern Caribbean countries. In March, the eastern Caribbean organization OECS decided that residents of the […]
Yearbook 2002 Saint Lucia. Integration between the countries of the Eastern Caribbean deepened during the year. According to Countryaah website, national day of Saint Lucia is every February 22. Saint Lucia, together with the other member states of the eastern Caribbean cooperative organization OECS, decided that a joint economic union […]
Yearbook 2002 Saint Christopher and Nevis. According to Countryaah website, national day of Saint Kitts and Nevis is every September 19. Saint Christopher and Nevis were removed during the year from the Economic Cooperation Organization’s OECD list of countries that do not cooperate against money laundering and tax evasion. The […]
Yearbook 2002 Panama. During the year, an agreement was reached with the United States on increased cooperation in the fight against drug smuggling and terrorism. According to Countryaah website, national day of Panama is every November 3. The US government has expressed fears that any of the 6,500 panama-registered cargo […]
Yearbook 2002 Nicaragua. The year was dominated by the power struggle between newly elected President Enrique Bolaños and President, former President Arnoldo Alemán, who belong to the same party. In September, Bolaños had managed to gather support from a majority of the members of the National Assembly for a decision […]
Yearbook 2002 Mexico. During the year, party leadership elections were held in Mexico’s most important parties. On February 24, Roberto Madrazo won with almost a majority the presidency of the PRI (Partido Revolucionário Institucional), the party that dominated Mexican politics for most of the 20th century. However, since the party […]
Yearbook 2002 Jamaica. On October 16, parliamentary elections were held in Jamaica. The Social Democratic People’s National Party (PNP) won clearly and thus remained in power for the fourth term in a row. PNP leader Percival Patterson continued on the prime minister post. The opposition party Jamaica’s workers’ party (JLP), […]
Yearbook 2002 Honduras. According to Countryaah website, national day of Honduras is every September 15. The already high crime rate in the country was renewed by the spectacular kidnapping on May 18 by former Finance Minister Reginaldo Panting, who was later found murdered. President Ricardo Maduro won the presidential election […]
Yearbook 2002 Haiti. According to Countryaah website, national day of Haiti is every January 1. The political crisis that has raged in Haiti ever since the May 2000 debates, when both foreign observers and the opposition accused the ruling party Fanmi Lavalas of manipulating the election results, continued during this […]
Yearbook 2002 Guatemala. According to Countryaah website, national day of Guatemala is every September 15. Central Bank Governor Lizardo Sosa was kidnapped on February 24 under mysterious circumstances. He was released four days later, but refused to comment on the incident. Rumors said the government negotiated with the kidnappers and […]
Yearbook 2002 Grenada. In the spring, the eastern Caribbean organization OECS, to which G. belongs, decided that nationals of the Member States could travel freely within the region for six months. A joint passport for the OECS countries will be issued from 1 January 2003. The OECS will also establish […]
Yearbook 2002 Greenland. Denmark’s new Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen visited in January Greenland President of the National Government Jonathan Motzfeldt demanded that Greenland be allowed to participate in the negotiations when the US and Denmark decide the future of the US robotic base Thule in northern Greenland. Motzfeldt was […]
Yearbook 2002 El Salvador. In January, six members of the FMLN (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional) formed their own Social Democratic bloc in Congress after being excluded from the party. According to Countryaah website, national day of El Salvador is every September 15. The leader of the group, […]
Yearbook 2002 Dominican Republic. On May 16, congressional and municipal elections were held in the Dominican Republic. The opposition party Partido Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC) went strongly ahead and doubled the number of members in the House of Representatives. The ruling party Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) thus lost the majority […]
Yearbook 2002 Dominica. The cooperation between Dominica and the eight other member countries of the eastern Caribbean organization OECS became more sealed. In the spring, it was decided that citizens could travel freely within the region, and that a joint passport would be issued from 1 January 2003. According to […]
Yearbook 2002 Cuba. Former US President Jimmy Carter, as a representative of the Carter Center, made a five-day visit to Cuba in May to explore the potential for diminished tension between the two countries. He was allowed to give a live television talk in which he, among other things, urged […]
Yearbook 2002 Costa Rica. In the second round of the presidential election April 7, the psychiatrist and TV personality Abel Pacheco (Partido Unidad Social Cristiana, PUSC) won 58% of the votes over Rolando Araya (Partido de Liberación Nacional, PLN). The aftermath of the election became tumultuous; inter alia Araya was […]
Yearbook 2002 Canada. Dissatisfaction within the largest opposition party Canadian Alliance in March led to a shift on the party leader post, when Stockwell Day was succeeded by Stephen Harper. According to Countryaah website, national day of Canada is every July 1. Four Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan under US […]
Yearbook 2002 Belize. In early February, following pressure from the United States, the so-called economic citizenship program was terminated, through which foreigners were able to purchase Belizean citizenship for compensation of $ 50,000 per family or $ 40,000 per individual. According to Countryaah website, national day of Belize is every […]
Yearbook 2002 Barbados. According to Countryaah website, national day of Barbados is every November 30. Tourism in the country declined at the beginning of the year as a result of the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. Although the government issued a crisis package, the economic […]
Yearbook 2002 Bahamas. According to Countryaah website, national day of Bahamas is every July 10. The country’s major tourism industry was hit hard by the downturn in the travel industry following the terrorist attacks against the United States in 2001. With the promise of an improved economy with the help […]
Yearbook 2002 Antigua and Barbuda. The integration between the country and the other members of the eastern Caribbean cooperation organization OECS was deepened during the year. From spring, residents could travel freely within the region for up to six months. According to Countryaah website, national day of Antigua and Barbuda […]
North America belongs to the American continent, which is also formed by Central America and South America. According to Countryaah.com, North America has its limits to the east with the Atlantic Ocean, to the west with the Pacific Ocean, and to the north with the Arctic Ocean and to the […]