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Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state.This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-localised and has limited powers. While in some countries, "government" is normally reserved purely for a national administration (government) …

Apr 09, 2020 · Yellow fever appeared in 1738, and the so-called Spanish influenza in 1890 (reduced to Spanish flu during the great epidemic of 1918). Poliomyelitis appeared in 1878 (shortened to polio in 1911), although the epidemic that attacked children especially and struck fear into the heart of parents was at its worst just after WWII. Recent decades ...

Anarcho-communism, also known as anarchist communism, (or, colloquially, ancom) is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought which advocates communism. It calls for abolition of private property but retains respect for personal property along with collectively-owned items, goods and services. It supports social ownership of property and direct democracy among …

French (français or langue française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages.French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul.Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in …

Spanish (español or castellano, lit.“Castilian”) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial spoken Latin in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.Today, it is a global language with nearly 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain.Spanish is the official language of 20 countries.It is the world's second …

English, in various dialects, is the most widely spoken language of the United Kingdom, but a number of regional languages are also spoken. There are 14 indigenous languages used across the British Isles: 5 Celtic, 3 Germanic, 3 Romance, and 3 sign languages: 2 Banzsl and 1 Francosign language. There are also many languages spoken by people who arrived more …

Jun 30, 2018 · 12. Andorra has the most tourists per capita in the world. With over 10,000,000 visitors per year and a population of only 77,000, Andorra has the most visitors in the world per capita. The vast majority of the visitors to Andorra are Spanish and French citizens who go there to shop and purchase fuel at cheaper prices. 13.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC; French: Comité international de la Croix-Rouge) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. State parties (signatories) to the Geneva Convention of 1949 and its Additional Protocols of 1977 (Protocol I, Protocol II) and 2005 have given the ICRC a mandate to protect …

Andorra: Catalan (official) 57.7%, Spanish 56.4%, French 14.5%, Portuguese 13.9% ... the immigrants often speak Spanish and some English, while their children are fluent English speakers because they were born and educated in the United States. ... They found that twenty percent of Spanish males have Y-chromosomes associated with Sephardic ...