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- Rank: 1st - Criteria for Ranking: 306 death (the most deadly earthquake in year 2012) - Date: August 11‚ 2012 - Location: East Azerbaijan Province‚ Iran - Type: Twin earthquakes (Magnitude 6.3 and 6.4) - Description: The earthquake resulted in an estimated 306 deaths‚ over 5000 injured‚ most of houses destroyed. - Sources of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquakes_in_2012#cite_note-98 and http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usb000bupa.php#details -
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25‚ 1991‚ Christmas day the Soviet flag flew over Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier from this event‚ 11 of the Soviet republics met in the city of Kazakh. It was announced that all the satellite states like Ukraine‚ belarus‚ Armenia‚ Azerbaijan‚ Kazakhstan‚ Kyrgyzstan‚ Moldova‚ Turkmenistan‚ Tajikistan and Uzbekistan would no longer be apart of Soviet union and they said they would establish a commonwealth and not be controlled by the Soviet Union. Once one of the most powerful and scary
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northern and eastern hemispheres. The country is dissected by the Arctic Circle‚ and also separated into two recognized landmasses by the Ural Mountains.Russia is bordered by the Arctic and Pacific Oceans‚ a dozen seas‚ and 14 countries‚ including Azerbaijan‚ Belarus‚ China‚ Estonia‚ Finland‚ Georgia‚ Kazakhstan‚ North Korea‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania‚ Mongolia‚ Norway‚ Poland‚ and Ukraine
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1500’s “Shiism had been a minority belief in Iran‚ a distinguishing characteristic of a few provincial areas and towns such as Qom. Then‚ at the beginning of the sixteenth century‚ the Safavis‚ drawing their support from Shia Turkoman tribes of Azerbaijan‚ the northwest province of Iran. Imposed Shiism on almost all parts of the Iranian nation” (Mottahedeh‚ 93). He concludes this segment by acknowledging how tensions with Sunni Muslims of Afghanistan eventually brought down the Safavid state. However
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Russian Airlines is Russia’s civil aviation leader‚ serving flights to 95 locations in 48 countries‚ including 27 locations inside Russian ‚ 42 in Europe‚ 4 in South America‚ 2 in Africa‚ 5 in the Middle East‚ 9 in Asia‚ and 6 in CIS countries (Azerbaijan‚ Armenia‚ Kirghizia‚ Ukraine and Uzbekistan). The airline has 4 affiliates in Russia (St. Petersburg‚ Sochi‚ Magadan and Krasnoyarsk). Priority is given to internal market development‚ primarily in Siberia and the Far East. Being the largest carrier
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CHARLES & KEITH is a fast fashion brand specializing in ladies footwear and accessories. It was founded in 1996 by brothers Charles and Keith Wong‚ under the CHARLES & KEITH Group which also owns the brands CHARLES & KEITH Signature Label and Pedro. [1] From beginnings in 1996 at a 500 square feet store in Amara Shopping Centre Singapore‚ CHARLES & KEITH has made significant growth over the years. Since its launch in 1996‚ CHARLES & KEITH has been churning out ladies accessories and footwear. To
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are more than 1 billion Muslims worldwide‚ fewer than one fifth of whom are Arab. Islam is the principal religion of much of Asia‚ including Indonesia (which has the world ’s largest Muslim population)‚ Malaysia‚ Pakistan‚ Bangladesh‚ Afghanistan‚ Azerbaijan‚ Turkmenistan‚ Uzbekistan‚ Tajikistan‚ Kyrgyzstan‚ Kazakhstan‚ Iran‚ Iraq‚ Syria‚ Jordan‚ the Arabian Peninsula states‚ and Turkey. India also has one of the world ’s largest Muslim populations‚ although Islam is not the principal religion there
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The Iranian revolution that toppled the monarchical shah system is the worst a revolution in the past century. The revolution created a hostile regime to the countries in the region‚ it lacks of dialogue language and good neighborliness. The Pahlavi dynasty was ruling Iran in the modern era‚ the last kings is Mohammad Reza (Shah)‚ who took the throne after the dismissal of his father by the British and Soviet forces‚ it has been known for Mohammad Reza tendency to the Western Camp on the Eastern
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Greater Arabia The 23 countries of the Middle East‚ North Africa‚ and Greater Arabia include some countries not traditionally part of the Middle East but their cultures cause their placement in this region (such as Pakistan). Afghanistan Algeria Azerbaijan* Bahrain Egypt Iran Iraq Israel** Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Morocco Oman Pakistan Qatar Saudi Arabia Somalia Syria Tunisia Turkey United Arab Emirates Yemen * The former republics of the Soviet Union are typically lumped into
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