Buying a can of white paint seems like a straightforward task. It’s just white, right?
But talk to any designer or paint expert and you’ll quickly learn that there is nothing simple about white paint. It is a color — or a non-color, depending on your view — with the capacity for extreme subtlety in its sheer number of shade and texture options. Sherwin-Williams alone offers nearly 200 shades of white. Read More...
COUNTRY DATE OF RECOGNITION Madagascar February 28, 1976 Burundi March 1, 1976 Algeria March 6, 1976 Benin March 11, 1976 (revoked March 21, 1997) Angola March 11, 1976 Mozambique March 13, 1976 Guinea- Bissau March 15, 1976 (revoked April 2, 1997) North Korea March 16, 1976 Togo March 17, 1976 (revoked) Rwanda April 1, 1976 South Yemen February 2, 1977 Seychelles October 25, 1977 Republic of the Congo June 3, 1978 (revoked September 13, 1996) Sao Tome and Principe June 22, 1978 (revoked August 23, 1996) Panama June 23, 1978 Tanzania November 9, 1978 Ethiopia February 24, 1979 Vietnam March 2, 1979 Cambodia April 10, 1979 Laos May 9, 1979 Afghanistan May 23, 1979 Cape Verde July 4, 1979 Grenada August 20, 1979 Ghana August 24, 1979 Guyana September 1, 1979 Dominica September 1, 1979 (revoked) Saint Lucia September 1, 1979 (revoked) Jamaica September 4, 1979 Uganda September 6, 1979 Nicaragua September 6, 1979 Mexico September 8, 1979 Lesotho October 9, 1979 Zambia October 12, 1979 Cuba January 20, 1980 Iran February 27, 1980 Sierra Leone March 27, 1980 Syria April 15, 1980 Libya April 15. Read More...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration took a first step Friday toward ending federal protections for grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, which would open the door to future hunting in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said state officials provided “substantial” information that grizzlies have recovered from the threat of extinction in the regions surrounding Yellowstone and Glacier national parks.
But federal officials rejected claims by Idaho that protections should be lifted beyond those areas, and they raised concerns about new laws from the Republican-led states that could potentially harm grizzly populations. Read More...