Japan is greatly famous for earthquakes.

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Austria is also famous for its Mozartkugeln and its coffee tradition.

The Rinkeby district of Stockholm, Sweden is famous for its high concentration of immigrants.

Both countries have a reputation for corruption in government.

Mahatma Gandhi Pietermaritzburg is also famous for an incident early in the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

Djamila is famous for for its unique adaptation of Roman architecture highlighted by an impressive arch.

The town is renowned for its institute of higher education Technikum , which is the largest school of technology in Switzerland.

La Scala operahouse in Milan is also renowned as one of the best in the world.

Nógrád is famous for its historic architecture of ancient Gothic churches and stone castles dated to the 13th century.

GV While Brazil is a pioneer in Internet rights and freedom, Syria is infamously known for being one of the worst Internet enemies.

Silphidae is a family of beetles that are known commonly as large carrion beetles, carrion beetles or burying beetles.

In turn, this likely contributed to the fact that Pan Germanism never caught on in Denmark as much as it did in Norway.

In societies where girls are normally married off young, there can seem little point to investing in their education.

Tochigi is also known for strawberries, Chinese chives, and Japanese pears sold throughout Japan and exported to other countries.

Ödemiş is famous for its potatoes, which has the best quality in Turkey, as well as its Ödemiş Kebab .

When the filmmakers looked to take it abroad, they sent it to Jolie, a well known advocate for women's rights in Africa.

About 15 of these visitors (over one million per year) are involved with naturism, an industry for which Croatia is world famous.

Absentee agriculture also bolsters national pride and pride in traditional diets by specializing in vegetables specific to the region.

Auvergne s inhabitants have a reputation for being parsimonious and stern, and, despite substantial recent progress, for a relative dearth of high culture.

The cinema of the United States, often generally referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century.

Yeongcheon is also well known for its Herbal Medicine Festival, which takes place in October and hosts traditional singing and lots of herbs.

Algeria infamously has the slowest Internet speed in the world, ranked last out of 176 countries last year.

Most early English literature was obtained from Britain and it was not until the 1950s when local publishing outlets increased that New Zealand literature started to become widely known.

Today, the Swiss canton of Zug is world renowned for its Zuger Kirschtorte , a cookie biscuit based cake which formerly contained no Kirschwasser.

The storage compound that they use to store the amino acids that these organisms take up under anaerobic conditions has not been identified.

Love songs, dance music, wedding and other celebratory songs (, dîlok narînk and bend ), erotic poetry and work songs are also popular.

Gang members emerge out of dysfunctional and violent families, the historic and systematic socioeconomic marginalization of the region s poor, and a culture of aggression.

This area famous for the Iguaçu falls and the triple border where Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet, will now be home to a decorated highway honouring children and teenager's rights.

Southeast Asia is famous for exotic destinations like Phuket and Bali and modern cities like Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, but its religious landmarks are also recognized for their architectural beauty and global cultural significance.

Notwithstanding its renowned software industry, India plays little part in the production chains that underpin Asia s regional trade patterns.

Ghana is best known for producing cocoa and gold, but today Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), a Texas company that runs the outsourcing operation, is the country's largest private employer.

In these countries, public education is excellent, and the transition from school to work often involves programs like the apprenticeships for which Germany is especially famous.

Southeast Asia is more than just white sand beaches, temples and resorts it is also one of the most war ravaged regions of the planet.

As an adult, I now live in the land of gazpacho, La Tomatina and pa amb tomàquet, and have grown to love the sweet but tangy flavor and even the drippy pulp.

With a population increase of 5.6 percent per year from 2002 to 2012, the city is the third fastest growing in Africa (ninth fastest in the world), after Bamako and Lagos.

New Zealand New Zealand is reputed to have the most open agricultural markets in the world after radical reforms started in 1984 by the Fourth Labour Government stopped all subsidies.

For example, Seinäjoki is known for hosting three large summer events Tangomarkkinat , which is a tango festival attracting more than 100,000 visitors annually, Vauhtiajot , which is a motor racing event music festival, and Provinssirock , which is one of the largest and oldest rock festivals in Finland.

Allowing a state of affairs in which Jews are frightened to leave their homes? This does not sound like the tolerant, fair, and just society for which Sweden would like to be known.

On a more personal note, this betrayal of our principles, our decency, our hope, made it impossible for me to avoid the question, What will I say, years from now, when people ask, 'Where were you?' As president of a leading liberal arts college, famous for its innovative history, there were no excuses.

But I also sit on the boards of Yandex in Russia, one of a small number of companies around the world who beat Google in their local markets, and of WPP, a worldwide advertising marketing company famous for its rivalry with Google.

Whereas Israel notoriously exacts grim retribution for every attack on its soil, India has endured with numbing stoicism an endless series of bomb blasts, including at least six major assaults in different locations in 2008 alone.

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