Dunedin (/ d ʌ ˈ n iː d ɪ n / duh-NEE-din; Māori: Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from Dùn Èideann, the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The city has a rich Scottish, Chinese and Māori heritage.. With an estimated population of 130,400 …

2000 AD The Ultimate Collection is a fortnightly partwork collection of hardback books published by Hachette Partworks.The series is made up of 180 volumes featuring some of the biggest stars of 2000 AD’s 45-year history. The spine art on the books combine to display a new image by artist Boo Cook.. The series is the second collaboration between Hachette Partworks and 2000 AD …

Formal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.

Korean gardens are a type of garden described as being natural, informal, simple and unforced, seeking to merge with the natural world. They have a history that goes back more than two thousand years, but are little known in the west. The oldest records date to the Three Kingdoms period (57 BC – 668 AD) when architecture and palace gardens showed a development noted …

A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname.The term given name refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the …

元正天皇（げんしょうてんのう、680年〈天武天皇9年〉- 748年 5月22日〈天平20年4月21日〉）は、日本の第44代天皇（在位:715年 10月3日〈霊亀元年9月2日〉- 724年 3月3日〈養老8年2月4日〉）。. 父は天武天皇と持統天皇の子である草壁皇子、母は元明天皇。 文武天皇の姉。

Dal X a.C. Hybla, nucleo primigenio, viene fondata dai siculi . 700 I bizantini fortificano la città. 1700 Viene fondata Ragusa superiore in seguito al terremoto del 1693 . 1843 Ragusa si espande verso sud tramite il primo ponte cittadino . 1930 Elevazione a capoluogo ed espansione verso sud e ovest. 1980 Disordinata espansione (effetto sprawl) verso ovest. L'urbanistica di Ragusa Ibla ...

タラナキ山（たらなきさん、英語: Mount Taranaki ）はニュージーランド・北島のタラナキ地方にある標高2,518メートル の山。 安山岩を基岩とする成層火山で 、エグモント山（英語: Mount Egmont ）とも呼ばれる 。. ほぼ全山がエグモント国立公園になっている 。 初登頂は1839年、エルンスト・ディッ ...

John Loudon McAdam (23 September 1756 – 26 November 1836) was a Scottish civil engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface, using controlled materials of mixed particle size and predetermined structure, that would be more durable and less muddy than soil-based tracks.Modern road construction still …

Although localized to certain parts of Britain (the London area was not included), its impact was felt worldwide on migration and trade, society and politics, on cities and countryside, and affected the remotest areas. The growth rate in the British GDP was 1.5% per year (1770–1815), doubling to 3.0% (1815–1831).

대영 제국(大英帝國, 영어: British Empire) 혹은 브리튼 제국은 15세기 유럽인들이 해양을 통해 유럽 밖으로 진출한 대항해 시대 이후 1931년 영국 연방이 성립할 때까지 영국에 복속되거나 영국이 건설한 세계 각지의 식민지와 통치 지역을 거느린 제국이다. 이 때 대영제국의 통치 지역은 세계 역사상 ...

An air gun or airgun is a gun that fires projectiles pneumatically with compressed air or other gases that are mechanically pressurized without involving any chemical reactions, in contrast to a firearm, which pressurizes gases chemically via oxidation of combustible propellants that generates propulsive energy by breaking molecular bonds.. Air guns come in both long gun (air …

ノヴォロシア（ロシア語: Новоро́ссия, ウクライナ語: Новоросія ）は、18世紀末にロシア帝国が征服した黒海北岸部地域を差す歴史的な地域名である。 「新しいロシア」を意味する。これにはザポロージャのシーチの支配権の南部、そしてザポロージャとそれ以前にオスマン帝国と ...

The Antonine Plague of 165 to 180 AD, also known as the Plague of Galen (after Galen, the physician who described it), was the first known pandemic impacting the Roman Empire, possibly contracted and spread by soldiers who were returning from campaign in the Near East.Scholars generally believe the plague was smallpox, although measles has also been suggested.