Nearly 1/2 of the world’s population — more than 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day. More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty — less than $1.25 a day.
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11 Facts About Global Poverty | DoSomething.org | America's largest organization for yo... - 0 views
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1 billion children worldwide are living in poverty. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty.
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As of 2011, 19 million children worldwide are not vaccinated.
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hour (unit of time) -- Encyclopedia Britannica - 0 views
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in timekeeping
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3,600 seconds, now defined in terms of radiation emitted from atoms of the element cesium under specified conditions. The hour was formerly defined as the 24th part of a mean solar day—i.e., of the average period of rotation of the Earth relative to the Sun. The hour of sidereal time, 1/24 of the Earth’s rotation period relative to the stars, was about 10 seconds shorter than the hour of mean solar time.
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It also has 24 hours the earth because in the system of the egyptians it said that it also has 24 hours because of the earth spinning.
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In even earlier systems of timekeeping, an hour was 1/12 of a period of daylight or darkness—hence, variable in length with seasonal changes in the length of day and night. The custom of dividing the cycle of day and night into 24 periods seems to have originated with the ancient Egyptians.
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Bartholomew Dias Info
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Pit Bulls: Dog Breed Discrimination With Breed Specific Laws | Global Animal - 0 views
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(DOGS/DOG BREED DISCRIMINATION) Pit bulls have been the target of breed-specific legislation for years despite evidence these laws do not diminish dog attacks.
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What Causes Teens Not to Do Homework? | Everyday Life - Global Post - 0 views
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Teens who do their homework without complaining might do it because they want to get good grades, and some teens don’t want their parents to get mad at them for not doing their homework. As for those teens who fail to do their homework, child behavioral therapist James Lehman believes it’s not that kids aren’t motivated, it’s just that they're motivated to do the things they want to do. What they want to do might not involve doing homework.
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Some teens do their homework because they want to have good grades on academics. Or in other cases they do it because they don't want their parents to get mad.But on almost all of the cases they don't do homework.Because they don't have things social things to do.
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