A precise date is specified by the ISO week-numbering year in the format YYYY, a week number in the format ww prefixed by the letter 'W', and the weekday number, a digit d from 1 through 7, beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday. For example, the Gregorian date Tuesday, 25 October 2022 corresponds to day number 2 in the week number 43 of 2022, and is written as …

The 1918 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus.The earliest documented case was March 1918 in Kansas, United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April.Two years later, …

A total of 133 Saudi citizens have been held in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps at its naval base in Cuba since January 2002. Most had been swept up in Afghanistan following the US invasion in the fall of 2001, and they were classified by the US government as enemy combatants.. In addition, a United States citizen, Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was born in …

The United Arab Emirates (UAE; Arabic: الإمارات العربية المتحدة al-ʾImārāt al-ʿArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah), or simply the Emirates (Arabic: الإمارات al-ʾImārāt), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East).It is located at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula and shares borders with Oman and Saudi Arabia, while having maritime borders in the Persian ...

The 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama began on February 10, 2007, when Barack Obama, then junior United States senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for President of the United States in Springfield, Illinois. After winning a majority of delegates in the Democratic primaries of 2008, on August 23, leading up to the convention, the campaign announced that …

12 April – Italy – Merano derailment: A passenger train is hit by a landslide and partially derails near Merano, South Tyrol, killing 9 and injuring 28. 21 April – South Africa – 2010 Pretoria train accident: The coaches of a luxury tourist train operated by Rovos Rail run away and derail at Pretoria during a locomotive changeover. Three crew members died in the incident: two died at ...

Mario, who serves as Nintendo's mascot, is a fictional character created by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and voiced by Charles Martinet.This is a list of video games where the character Mario plays a part, either as the protagonist, antagonist, supporting character, as part of an ensemble cast, as a cameo, or in a game within a game.It does not include mere references …

Germany (German: Deutschland, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ()), officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe.It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union.Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of …

Civilian casualties: 6,741 killed and 14,257 wounded by the PKK until 2015 (Turkish claim). 18,000–20,000 Kurds killed and 2,400–4,000+ villages destroyed by the Turkish government (independent human rights reports and other estimates): Turkish Hezbollah also known as Kurdish Hezbollah or just Hizbullah in Turkey, is a mainly Sunni Islamist militant organization, …

Windows 2.1 was released in two different versions: Windows/286 and Windows/386. Windows/386 uses the virtual 8086 mode of the Intel 80386 to multitask several DOS programs and the paged memory model to emulate expanded memory using available extended memory. Windows/286, in spite of its name, runs on both Intel 8086 and Intel 80286 processors.

Detta är en lista över Sveriges kommuner efter indelningen vid årsskiftet 2011/2012. Det finns 290 kommuner. Tabellen nedan kan sorteras för respektive kolumn. Kolumnerna avser följande kategorier: Kod = Kommunkod Kommun = Kommun Län = Län Folkmängd = Folkmängd (2022-09-30) [1] Area = Totalareal, inklusive havsvattenareal (km²) (2018-01-01) [2] Land = Landareal …

IBM's PS/2 was designed to remain software compatible with their PC/AT/XT line of computers upon which the large PC clone market was built, but the hardware was quite different. PS/2 had two BIOSes: one named ABIOS (Advanced BIOS) which provided a new protected mode interface and was used by OS/2, and CBIOS (Compatible BIOS) which was included to be …

Westerplatte – uformowany w latach 1845–1847 półwysep (wcześniej wyspa) w Gdańsku, przy ujściu Martwej Wisły do Zatoki Gdańskiej.. W latach 1926–1939 eksklawa Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej wewnątrz terytorium Wolnego Miasta Gdańska, symbol wybuchu II wojny światowej.W okresie międzywojennym na terenie Westerplatte funkcjonowała Wojskowa Składnica …

Un ordenador personal, computador personal u ordenador, conocido como PC (siglas en inglés de Personal Computer), es un tipo de microordenador diseñado en principio para ser utilizado por una sola persona. Habitualmente, la sigla PC se refiere a los ordenadores IBM PC compatibles.Un ordenador personal es generalmente de tamaño medio y es usado por un solo …