The word "billion" and its equivalents in other languages refer to one of two different numbers, depending on whether the writer is using the long or short scale. Billion - 10^12. The original meaning, established in the 15th century, was "a million of a million" (1,000,0002, hence the name billion), or 1012 = 1 000 000 000 000. This system, known in French as the échelle longue ("long scale"), was used unti ...

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This very short story tells of a Buddhist monastery whose monks have long sought to discover the one true name of God. The monks create a writing system in which, they calculate, they can encode all possible names of God in no more than nine characters, with the same character not repeated more than three times consecutively. They purchase a computer capable of printing all the possible permutations, and they hire two Westerners to install and program the machine. The computer operators are skeptical, but the monks believe that when the computer has printed all the names, existence wi ...

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The world population is the total number of humans alive on the planet Earth at a given time. According to estimates published by the United States Census Bureau, the world population in June 2005 was ~6,450,000,000[1]. In line with population projections, this figure continues to grow at rates that are unprecedented prior to the 20th century. Approximately one fifth of all humans in the last six thousand years are currently alive. By some estimates, there are now one billion (thousand million) ...

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Baltica is the craton beneath northwestern Eurasia. Occasionally, Baltica was an independent continent. This is a brief history of Baltica: Baltica - Partial history of Baltica in chronological order. ~2 billion years ago, Baltica formed. ~1.8 billion years ago, Baltica was part of the major supercontinent Columbia. ~1.5 billion years ago, Baltica along with Arctica and Eastern Antarctica were part of the minor supercontinent Nena. ~1.1 billion years ago, Baltica was ...

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The African Development Bank (AfDB) is a development bank established in 1964 with the intention of promoting economic and social development in Africa. It has 77 member countries from around the world. African Development Bank - African Development Bank. A.D.B. Group in Brief (AfDB) ADB Authrorized capital : UA 21.87 billion (US$ 33 billion) ADF X Replenishment : UA 3.7 billion (US$ 5.6 billion) Funded operations (1967-2004) : 3.007

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The last 70 years of the 20th century saw the biggest increase in the world's population in human history. The following table shows when each billion milestone was met: 1 billion reached in 1802. 125 years later... 2 billion reached in 1927. 34 years later... 3 billion reached in 1961. 13 years later... 4 billion reached in 1974. 13 years later... 5 billion reached in 1987. 12 yea ...

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Allianz AG, (NYSE: AZ) with $128 billion of revenue during 2003, is Germany's largest, and one of the world's largest financial services providers with a focus on the insurance business. In 2001, it acquired Dresdner Bank, a large German bank. It operates worldwide under the name Allianz Group. Allianz - League table. Allianz in the revenue league table Allianz: $130 billion (2004) AXA: $124 billion (2003) ING Group N.V.: 115,324.00 M (2004) < ...

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Rail usage statistics by country - Passenger-km of rail transport by country in billion/year:. China 405 India 404 Japan 241 Russia 141 Germany 73 Egypt 68 France 67 Ukraine 48 USA 42 Italy 41 South Korea 30 UK 29 Poland 26 Pakistan 19 Spain 18 Indonesia 16 Netherlands 14 Belarus 13 Romania 12 Argentina 11 Thailand 10 Sou ...

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Rail usage statistics by country - Freight rail by billions of tonne-kilometers. United States 2238 China 1231 Russia 1205 India 282 EU 240 Germany 71 France 55 Poland 55 Japan 23 Italy 23 England 18 Korea 10 Source: [1] Rail usage statistics by country - Freight rail by tonne-kilometer per capita. United States 7312 Russian Federat ...

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The future growth of population is difficult to predict. Birth rates are declining slightly on average, but vary greatly between developed countries (where birth rates are often at or below replacement levels) and developing countries. Death rates can change unexpectedly due to disease, wars and catastrophes, or advances in medicine. The UN itself has issued multiple projections of future world population, based on different assumptions. Over the last 10 years, the UN ha ...

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In 1798, Thomas Malthus predicted that population growth would eventually outrun food supply, resulting in catastrophe. In 1968 Paul R. Ehrlich reignited this argument with his book The Population Bomb, which helped give the issue significant mindshare throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The dire predictions of Ehrlich and other neo-Malthusians were vigorously challenged by a number of economists, notably Julian Simon. On the opposite end of the spectrum there are a number of doomsayers who argue that today's low fertility rates will have ...

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Millionaire - United States. According to TNS Financial Services 8.2 million U.S. households had a net worth of at least $1 million at the end of 2004 ([3]). At the end of the third quarter of 2004 the "households and nonprofit organizations" net worth was $46,681.4 billion ([4]). If divided by 131 million tax paying households that makes $356,347 for each (46,681.4/0.131) ([5]). "L.10 Assets and Liabilities of the Personal Sector" net worth was $21,022.8 billion excluding "corporate farms" ...

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The "World Wealth Report" is a report on individuals with a net worth of at least $1 million in financial assets. The report is compiled annually by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini. Millionaire - 2003. The 2004 report for the year 2003 tells that "7.7 million people globally each hold more than US$1 million in financial-asset wealth, an increase of 7.5% over 2002." That's ...

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4000-3000 B.C.E. A powerful cloaking device is installed to shield the planet of Aldea. The device is run and maintained by a computer called the Custodian. 3834 B.C.E. The nearly immortal Flint is born in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq). He goes on to live under a variety of identities, many of which are recognized in history and myth, including Solomon, Lazarus, Methuselah, Merlin, Leonardo da Vinci, and Johannes Brahms. (Flint described his life in the third ...

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1367 C.E. The inhabitants of Ventax II, who suffer from wars, pollution and overcrowding, enter into a pact with an allegedly supernatural being calling herself Ardra, who promises the Ventaxians a thousand years of peace and prosperity in return for their total worship after that period. (The Ventaxian leader Jared described this in the fourth-season TNG episode “Devil’s Due.”) The Promelians and the Menthars fought a war near Orelious X, resulting in their mutual destruction, and the destruction of the planet, which is now an asteroid field. (The war was said to be a millennium prior to ...

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1647 C.E. A man named Ronin is born in Glasgow, Scotland. He eventually is infused with a noncorporeal, anaphasic life-form, and survives through the centuries by keeping company with women whose biochemistry is compatible with his energy matrix, using a process that compromises the reasoning faculties of these women. The women he chooses are ancestors of Enterprise-D Chief Medical Officer Dr. Beverly Crusher. (Ronin told the story to Crusher in ...

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1821 C.E. Historically renown poet John Keats dies at the age of 30 in Rome. Unbeknownst to anyone, his death is caused by a noncorporeal alien called Onaya, who uses the neural energy his brain creates during creative periods to sustain her. (Historical accounts establish Keats’ death. Onaya’s involvement revealed in the fourth-season DS9 episode “The Muse.”) 1864 C.E. Colonel Thaddius Riker, an American Civil War Union soldier known as “Old Iron Boots” and ancestor of future Starfleet Cap ...

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The Sea Org was founded by Scientology leader L. Ron Hubbard in 1968, purportedly as an organization for implementing Scientology technology around the world. It began as a ship controlling crew but was intended to be the management and most trusted of Church of Scientology staff. [1] In practice, throughout the 1970s the Sea Org provided a means for Scientology management to avoid legal entanglements by being able to remain at sea outside of the jur ...

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Most Sea Org members are paid about US$20 per week. At production level organizations, bonuses can bring this up to around US$100 for a week. Bonuses paid at the upper international management levels can be in the thousands of dollars US. Weekly pay is calculated on post status, rank, and production statistic for that week. In some cases, Sea Org members are not given their weekly pay. Members receive basic medical and dental care as resources permit. Unmarried members live communally and share sleeping rooms. This can mean that twenty people live ...

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