was granted self-government in 1979. After concerns by the UN's Special Committee on Decolonization in 2009, Greenland was given further autonomy, including...

buildings many built with locally quarried limestone. The Municipal Heritage Committee helps in preserving the historic stone buildings and publishes a useful...

under the Canadian constitution. The Judicial Committee of the British Privy Council ultimately granted their appeal and found in their favour. Alix is...

Kensington Expressway. The Scajaquada's Grant Street exit makes for a convenient route to Grant-Ferry, Grant-Amherst and Buffalo State College. There's...

slopes in the world. The city is the host to the International Olympic Committee and two major universities. As you might expect the large student population...

of the Zunyi Conference where Mao Zedong joined the Politburo Standing Committee  29.915102.23211 Luding (泸定). Site of a famous forced crossing of a high...

March 1977, President Ngouabi was assassinated. An 11-member Military Committee of the Party (CMP) was named to head an interim government with Col. (later...

artworks. It is held once every two years around the Houtkamphal. The committee of the event wants to ensure quality of all submissions. Each year about...

employed by Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President were arrested for breaking and entering at the Democratic National Committee's rooms at the Watergate...

designated as landmark buildings by the New York City Landmarks Preservation committee. On the border between Morningside Heights and Harlem is Morningside Park...

instead of the infamous muttawa (pl. mutawain), the volunteers from the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. In practice...

St. Peter Line[dead link]. The ancient right to access (allemansrätten) grants everybody a right to move freely on most land on foot, swimming, by horse...

non-indigenous Australians. The National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee has a week of events in the Australian winter each year. In all of the...

community projects as decided by the local village tourism development committee. The program also acts as an important mechanism to learn, share and conserve...

[email protected]. (updated Oct 2021) In 1639, the seigneury of Batiscan was granted to the Jesuits; their objective was the evangelization and the settling...

development, particularly in the field of recreation and as a member of the committee for the 125th anniversary of the municipality. (updated Dec 2021)...

welcomes their Spanish-speaking tourists with bilingual signs and welcome committees. In Salvador, the largest city of the Northeast, anyone talking, acting...

Seagate, and Jabil Circuit. Penang was granted Cyber-City status on 21 June 2004. At the World Heritage Committee Session in July 2008, George Town and...

Established with the approval of the International Olympic Committee and the China Olympic Committee. ¥50. (updated Feb 2019) 24.514189118.16964712 Wuyuan...

highest court of appeal since taking over that role from the Judicial Committee of the UK Privy Council in 1949. Each province has its own provincial...