How do people get their names in the book They do something new and different, such as (比如) making the world's largest(最大的) cake with more than(多于)54,000 eggs. For many people, it is fun to make world records. It' s exciting. But who eats the cake While (当……时候)...
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India has the 3rd largest urban population in the world after the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and is expected to be 45% urban by 2000. Dharavi covers 4.5 square km possibly the largest slum in Asia with 800000 people. Most of the dwellings are single-story huts home 3-8 people about...
A woman looks through a large hole on a concrete wall as she rests from searching for her belongings from charred home after a fire at a slum area in Rizal Province, the Philippines, March 26, 2021. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali) Naim Louis is seen at his shattered house in Homs city in ce...
Another coupling contrasts Daniel Burnham's plan for Manila, in America's then newly acquired territory of the Phillipines, with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's eco-plan for Chongming Island, the world's largest alluvial island, just outside of Shanghai. William LeBaron Jenney's Home Insurance ...
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held on Friday in Mathare, Nairobi's second-largest slum area. The event, initiated by an agricultural company, and organized by a non-governmental organization founded by Chinese young volunteers, distributed a total of 1.2 tons of sweet corn to the people living in Mathare area. [Photo/...
Insurgent activities have made travel to the northern area of the country risky. Highway travel at night is particularly dangerous. Photographing security forces or government installations is prohibited.<index>ZaireZaire is the largest sub-Saharan African country. Although Zaire has substantial human ...
was down 3.9 percent from 2006 levels, but America’s investments in war still eclipsed all other potential adversaries at $596 billion – more than the total for the next six largest spenders combined. Even though its military spending has declined in the last five years, the U.S. still ...
Today Lunik IX is home to an estimated number of between 6,000 and 8,000 Roma making it the largest Roma community within Slovakia. Over the years Lunik IX evolved into an urban slum. The unemployment rate is nearly 100%, inhabitants aren�t able to pay their water,...