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...Colombia-born Paula Ibarra moved to a rented flat in Chamberí in December....
...But first he has opened up its entire 1,500 sq m to show more than 300 works from his extensive collection to the public....
...After paying for pricey internet and a £20 weekly bus pass, Ibarra-Rivadeneira says he had barely £1 a day to live on. “I needed the WiFi and the bus pass to make progress....
...That's people living on less than $1.90 per day. Now, that figure in 1820 was around 90 per cent. So it started declining fairly slowly....
...We see Cairo’s first modern medical school in the 1820s, Istanbul’s first independent newspaper in 1860, and the creation of Iran’s first constitution in 1906....
...According to the great historian of economic growth, Angus Maddison, the annual rate of growth in the Western world from AD 1 to AD 1820 was a mere 0.06 percent per year, or 6 percent per century....
...Since launching we have worked with just over 100 large corporations in 30 countries across 17 different industries....
...The International Monetary Fund has lowered its growth forecast for China this year from 7.1 per cent to 6.8 per cent and predicts the country’s gross domestic product will grow slower than India next year...
...Answers below. 1. Caspar David Friedrich’s “The Sea of Ice” was inspired by an 1819-1820 expedition in search of the Northwest passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific 2. William Shakespeare 3....
...1 “The Sea of Ice”, painted by Caspar David Friedrich in 1823-1824, was inspired by an 1819-1820 expedition in search of an Arctic sea passage....
...But in Scotland it generated 23.6 per cent, in the north-east 23.8 per cent, in Wales 23.7 per cent and in Northern Ireland 29.1 per cent....
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