Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of society", established in the 19th century.In addition to sociology, it now encompasses a wide array of academic disciplines, including anthropology, …

A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity.Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, town, or neighbourhood) or in virtual space through communication platforms. Durable good relations that extend beyond immediate genealogical …

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The Middle East (Arabic: الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ash-Sharq al-Awsat) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (European part of Turkey), Egypt, Iran, the Levant (including Ash-Shām and Cyprus), Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), and the …

Toluca Lake is an affluent neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, located in the San Fernando Valley 12 miles (19 km) northwest of downtown.The name is also given to a private natural lake fed by wells and maintained by neighboring property owners. Prior to the paving of the Los Angeles River in 1938 and L.A. well extraction in the late 19th and 20th century which …

In physical geography and physical geology, aspect (also known as exposure) is the compass direction or azimuth that a terrain surface faces.. For example, a slope landform on the eastern edge of the Rockies toward the Great Plains is described as having an easterly aspect.A slope which falls down to a deep valley on its western side and a shallower one on its eastern side …

Wealth is the abundance of valuable financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions.This includes the core meaning as held in the originating Old English word weal, which is from an Indo-European word stem. The modern concept of wealth is of significance in all areas of economics, and clearly so for growth …

Heywood is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, in the historic county of Lancashire.It had a population of 28,205 at the 2011 Census. The town lies on the south bank of the River Roch, 2.4 miles (3.9 km) east of Bury, 3.7 miles (6.0 km) southwest of Rochdale, and 7.4 miles (11.9 km) north of Manchester. ...

RFC 5646 Language Tags September 2009 conveys the same meaning: Mongolian written in the Cyrillic script as used in Mongolia. The ABNF syntax also does not distinguish between upper- and lowercase: the uppercase US-ASCII letters in the range 'A' through 'Z' are always considered equivalent and mapped directly to their US- ASCII lowercase equivalents in the range 'a' …

Oct 12, 2022 · Microsoft pleaded for its deal on the day of the Phase 2 decision last month, but now the gloves are well and truly off. Microsoft describes the CMA’s concerns as “misplaced” and says that ...