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in PlacesWhich country does Viktor Orban lead?
Viktor Orban has been Hungary’s authoritarian anti-migrant, anti-semitic, anti-LGBT Prime Minister since 2010, previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002.
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in PlacesWho Wrapped an Epic Paris monument in 2021?
On Sept. 12, 2021, a team of 95 rope technicians began wrapping Paris’s Arc de Triomphe in 25,000 sq. meters of material, concluding a 60-year project for the artist Christo.
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in PlacesHow many floors did the World Trade Center twin towers have?
The World Trade Center twin towers had 110 floors – more than any other building before the construction of the Burj Khalifa, which opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2010. Chicago’s Sears tower tied in for 110 floors in 1974.
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in PlacesWhich is currently the tallest building in the United States?
One World Trade Center, AKA Freedom Tower, is the tallest building in the United States, reaching a total height of 1,776 feet (541 m). Its height in feet is a deliberate reference to the year when the United States Declaration of Independence was signed. It is the 6th-tallest building in the world. Three other towers…
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in PlacesWhich country recorded its warmest winter ever in 2021?
New Zealand had the warmest southern winter ever recorded in 2021. New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research scientists say that climate change is driving temperatures ever higher.
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in PlacesWhich image represented El Salvador on South Korean MBC’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics opening ceremony broadcast?
South Korean broadcaster MBC has apologized for its choice of “inappropriate” images that appeared next to the names of several countries during its coverage of the Friday, July 23, 2021, Tokyo 2020 Olympic opening ceremony. El Salvador was introduced with a picture representing Bitcoin. When Italy took the stage, they showed a pizza. For Romania,…
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in PlacesWhat is Greece’s second largest island?
Euboea (or Evia) is Greece’s second-largest island, the closest to Athens, and a favorite holiday destination for the Greek capital’s residents._x000D_
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in PlacesWhat is the British Freedom Day?
Britain lifted most of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions on July 19 in what has been dubbed “Freedom Day.” Freedom from face masks, that is.
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in PlacesIn Russia, sparkling wine can be called champagne only if it comes from where?
According to a new Russian law adopted on Friday, July 2, 2021, wine manufacturers can only use Champagne for Russian wine. In the European Union and over 70 countries, the name Champagne is legally protected under an 1891 treaty, which reserved it for the sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region in France, protection reaffirmed in…
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in PlacesWhat is the third option for gender Argentina added on its identity documents and passports?
Argentinean nonbinary people can now choose to have their gender marked as an X on their national identity documents and passports if they do not identify as either female or male. The International Civil Aviation Organization accepts the use of X to mark a gender._x000D_
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in PlacesWhat was the first independent nation of Latin America and the Caribbean?
Haiti became the first independent nation of Latin America and the Caribbean on January 1, 1804, when Jean-Jacques Dessalines defeated Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces. Haiti was also the first country in the region to abolish slavery._x000D_
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in PlacesWho is the first Black woman buried at the Pantheon monument in Paris?
Le Parisien newspaper reported Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021, that singer, dancer, actress, civil rights activist, and perhaps most notable, French Resistance agent, Josephine Baker, will be reburied at the Pantheon monument Paris. Baker is the first Black woman to get France’s highest honor. French President Emmanuel Macron decided on a Nov. 30, 2021, ceremony at…
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in PlacesWhere is the famous Little Mermaid sculpture displayed?
Edvard Eriksen’s famous The Little Mermaid bronze statue has been displayed on a rock by the waterside in Copenhagen, Denmark, since 1913, representing the story of Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen._x000D_
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in PlacesWhat is the Iron Lady (La Dame de Fer) of Paris?
The Eiffel Tower was given the nickname The Iron Lady in 1925 and is still called this today._x000D_
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in PlacesWhat’s connecting the Dutch town of Venlo, the Belgian town of Pepinster, and the Austrian town of Kufstein?
The Dutch town of Venlo, the Belgian town of Pepinster, and the Austrian town of Kufstein were all severely damaged during the floods of July 17, 2021 – the same floods that hit the Ahrweiler area in western Germany.
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in PlacesIn the US, what is the top producing state of bee honey?
North Dakota is the top-producing US state of bee honey._x000D_
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in PlacesWhich of these happened in Siberia during July 2021 for the 3rd year in a row?
For the third year in a row, residents of northeastern Siberia are reeling from the worst wildfires they can remember. In recent years, summer temperatures in the Russian Arctic have gone as high as 100 degrees, feeding enormous blazes. Last year, wildfires scorched more than 60,000 square miles of forest and tundra, an area the…
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in PlacesWhere is Spaceport America base located?
Virgin Galactic’s first licensed space tourism flight took off from Spaceport America, near the city of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, where spectators were invited to watch the historic liftoff on Sunday, July 11, 2021._x000D_
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in PlacesWhere is the world’s largest coral reef system?
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is the world’s most extensive coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands, stretching for over 2,300 kilometers over an area of about 344,400 square kilometers._x000D_