BOOK OF THE WEEK
- 13 Jan - 19 Jan, 2024
The leaf symbolises the country's forests, the middle white stripe the arctic snow, and the red stripes the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
The global warming pact was ratified by 191 countries to date - excluding the United States.
The art exhibition featured works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh and marked the advent of artistic modernism in the United States.
Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered the dwarf planet when sifting through photographs taken a month earlier.
It was the first machine able to reproduce recorded sound.
Canberra is an entirely planned city and was chosen as the Australian capital as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne.
The symbol was commissioned by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and combines the semaphore symbols for the letters N and D - an abbreviation of “Nuclear Disarmament”.
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