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A new World Bank report says 733 million people globally have no access to electricity, while 2.4 billion people are still using fuels detrimental to their health and the environment.

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Captain Cook is considered one of the greatest navigators and explorers of all time and, even before his death, was celebrated as a British national hero and icon.

He mapped the east coast of Australia – this paved the way for British settlement 18 years later.

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The World Trade Center complex in New York City was destroyed on September 11, 2001.

September 11 attacks, also called 9/11 attacks.

On September 11, 2001, the complex was destroyed in a terrorist attack when two hijacked commercial airliners were flown into the Twin Towers.

The attacks killed 2,606 people in and around the towers, as well as all 157 on board the two aircraft.

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the immediate cause of the war

between two great powers—Russia and the Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire

It was a global war originating in Europe

It lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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It was held in 1944

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Both Headquarter are in Washington DC

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Wonder	Location	Image	Year
1: Giza Pyramids (honorary status)	Giza Necropolis, Egypt		2560 BC
2: Great Wall of China	China		700 BC
3: Petra	Ma'an, Jordan		312 BC
4: Colosseum	Rome, Italy		AD 80
5: Machu Picchu	Cuzco Region, Peru		AD 1450
6: Taj Mahal	Agra, India		AD 1643
7: Christ the Redeemer	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		AD 1931

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International Development Association

The International Development Association (IDA) is the part of the World Bank that helps the world's poorest countries. 

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The Jeddah Flagpole is a flagpole in King Abdullah Square in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Standing 171 metres (561 ft) high, it has been the tallest flagpole in the world since its erection in 2014

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The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) grows in natural stands in a long,

thin coastal area along the Pacific Ocean in the west and northwest of the US (mostly California).

It is the tallest tree in the world.

Height is 115.92 m (380.3 ft)

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According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tallest living man in the world (between 1982 and 1998), was Pakistan's Mohammad Alam Channa.