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  U.N.E.S.C.O.  U.N.E.S.C.O. stands for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization. It is a specialized wing of the United Nations. Its goal is to promote world peace and security through international collaboration in education, arts, sciences and culture. U.N.E.S.C.O. is made up of 193 member countries and 12 associate members, along with non-governmental, intergovernmental, and private organizations. It is headquartered at the World Heritage Center in Paris, and also has 53 regional field offices and 199 national committees that make its global mandate easier.   U.N.E.S.C.O.  was founded in 1945 as the successor to the League of Nations's International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. Its constitution establishes the agency's goals, governing structure, and operating framework. U.N.E.S.C.O.'s founding mission, which was shaped by the Second World War, is to advance peace, sustainable development and human rights by facilitating coll...

  Nunavut Nunavut is the largest and Northernmost territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, through the Nunavut Act , along with the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, which provided this territory to the Inuit natives for independent government.  The boundaries had been drawn in 1993. The creation of Nunavut resulted in the first major change to Canada's political map in half a century since the province of Newfoundland was created on March 31, 1949. Nunavut takes up a large chunk of Northern Canada, and accounts for most of the islands within the Arctic Circle. Its huge area makes it the fifth-largest country subdivision internationally, and is also North America's second-largest after Greenland. The capital of Nunavut is called Iqaluit, which was formerly known as Frobisher Bay. It was chosen as capital by a capital plebiscite in 1995. One of the other major regions in the territory include Rankin Inlet and Cambridge ...

  Babylon Babylon was the capital city of the ancient Babylonian Empire. The city, built along both banks of the Euphrates river, had steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods. The earliest known mention of Babylon as a small town appears on a clay tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad (2334–2279 BC) of the Akkadian Empire. The site of the ancient city lies 88 kilometers south of present-day Baghdad. The last known record of habitation of the town dates from the 10th century AD, when it was referred to as the "small village of Babel" . The town became part of a small independent city-state with the rise of the first Babylonian Empire, now known as the Old Babylonian Empire, in the 19th century BC. The Amorite king Hammurabi founded the short-lived Old Babylonian Empire in the 18th century BC. He built Babylon into a major city and declared himself its king. Southern Mesopotamia became known as Babylonia, and Babylon eclipsed Nippur (an ancient Sumerian c...

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states. They consist of 28 European and two North American countries. It was established after World War II, the organization applied the North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949. NATO is a collective security system where its independent members agree to defend each other against attacks by third parties.  During the Cold War, NATO operated as a check on the perceived threat posed by the Soviet Union. The alliance remained in place after the breakup of the Soviet Union. They have been involved in military operations in the Balkans, the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. NATO formed with twelve founding members and has added new members eight times. NATO's main headquarters are located in Brussels, Belgium, while NATO's military headquarters are near Mons, Belgium. The North Atlantic Treaty was largely dormant until...