WebWorld War II officially ended in Asia on September 2, 1945, with the surrender of Japan on the USS Missouri.Before that, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, and the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, causing Emperor Hirohito to announce the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration on August 15, 1945, which would eventually lead …

WebNorth Asia or Northern Asia, also referred to as Siberia, is the northern region of Asia, which is defined in geographical terms and is coextensive with the Asian part of Russia, and consists of three Russian regions east of the Ural Mountains: Ural, Siberia, and the Russian Far East.. Topographically, the region is dominated by the Eurasian Plate, except for its …

WebMike Minor (baseball) (born 1987), American baseball pitcher; Solomon Zalkind Minor (1826/7–1900), Lithuanian-Russian rabbi and writer; William Chester Minor (1834–1920), American contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary; Places. Minor, Alabama, United States; Asia Minor, the westernmost region of Asia; Minor Creek (California) Minor ...

WebSection 19 – A person, on completion of 20 years of age, ceases to be a minor and becomes sui juris. Section 20 – A minor becomes sui juris upon marriage, provided the marriage is made in accordance with the provisions of Section 1448. Hence, a minor in Thailand refers to any person under the age of 20, unless they are married.

WebAlfred Wallace adopted Sclater's scheme for his book The Geographical Distribution of Animals, published in 1876.This is the same scheme that persists today, with relatively minor revisions, and the addition of two more realms: Oceania and the Antarctic realm. Major ecological regions. The Palearctic realm includes mostly boreal/subarctic-climate …

WebThe continent of Asia covers 29.4% of the Earth's land area and has a population of around 4.73 billion (as of 2021), accounting for about 60% of the world population. The combined population of both China and India are estimated to be over 2.8 billion people as of 2021.Asia's population is projected to grow to 5.26 billion by 2050, or about 54% of …

WebAnatolia, Turkish Anadolu, also called Asia Minor, the peninsula of land that today constitutes the Asian portion of Turkey. Because of its location at the point where the continents of Asia and Europe meet, Anatolia was, from the beginnings of civilization, a crossroads for numerous peoples migrating or conquering from either continent. This …

WebThe first phase of European colonisation of Southeast Asia took place throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. They wanted to gain monopoly over the spice trade as this trade was very valuable to the Europeans due to high demand for various spices such as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.This demand led to the arrival of Portuguese, Spanish, …

WebWhile Egypt is partially in Western Asia, its World Heritage Sites are listed under Africa instead. One site is located in Jerusalem. Kuwait is the only country in the region that does not have any World Heritage Sites. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary was designated as a World Heritage Site of Oman in 1994 but was delisted in 2007. As the protected area ...

WebDescription. According to Revelation 1:11, on the Greek island of Patmos, Jesus Christ instructs John of Patmos to: "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven Churches: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamum, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea." The churches in this context refers to the …

WebThe Monsoon of South Asia is among several geographically distributed global monsoons.It affects the Indian subcontinent, where it is one of the oldest and most anticipated weather phenomena and an economically important pattern every year from June through September, but it is only partly understood and notoriously difficult to …

WebBackground. The Asia Series began in 2005 as a tournament among the champions of NPB, KBO League and CPBL and an All-Star team from China Baseball League (CBL), which was called China Stars.Konami co-sponsored the competition until 2007, when the 2008 season became the first Asia Series.Additionally, it was the first time that the …

WebThis is the list of currencies presently in circulation in Asia. The Kuwaiti dinar, the official currency of Kuwait, is the world's most valued currency. Before its introduction in 1960, the Indian rupee was circulated in Kuwait. Asian currencies. Some currencies, such as the ...

WebAll African routes run from Hassi R'Mel the Algerian hub for natural gas, it supplies gas from the Hassi R'Mel gas field. (The planned Trans-Saharan gas pipeline will connect Nigeria to Hassi R’Mel). Pipelines from Hassi R’Mel: Greenstream pipeline, from Libya to Italy, part of the Western Libyan Gas Project.; Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline, from Algeria; Tanger, …