These include: Albania, Afghanistan Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, DR Congo, Egypt, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Holy See ( Vatican City ), Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Order of Malta, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

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Albania, Andorra, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City,

Esperanto is currently the language of instruction of the International Academy of Sciences in San Marino.

Esperanto is also the first language of teaching and administration of one university, the International Academy of Sciences San Marino.

He died of cerebral thrombosis ( a spontaneous blood clot in his brain ) on September 28, 1953, in San Marino, California.

* Liberation from the Alberoni Occupation ( San Marino )

* 1984 – Alex de Angelis, San Marino motorcycle racer

During this period it was the title sponsor for the Australian GP ( 1986 – 1993 and 2002 – 2006 ), the British GP ( 1990 – 1993 and 2000 – 2006 ) and the San Marino GP ( 2003 – 2006 ).

That same year, the strong and unwarrantable measures he adopted to subject the grand republic of San Marino to the papal states incurred the pope's displeasure, and left a historical scar in that place's memory.

* The San Marino event of 1739-40

A collective head of state can exist in republics ( internal complexity ): e. g. nominal triumvirates ; the Directoire ; the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, where each member acts in turn as ceremonial chief of state ); Bosnia and Herzegovina ( three member presidium, from three different nations ); San Marino ( two " Captains-regent "), which maintains the tradition of Italian medieval republics, where there always was an even number of consuls.

San Marino () and Vatican city () are enclaves.

Italian ( or lingua italiana ) is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia.

It is also the official language of San Marino, as well as the primary language of Vatican City.

Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino and is spoken fluently by the majority of the countries ' populations.

File: Mrs Siddons by Joshua Reynolds. jpg | Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, painting at The Huntington, San Marino, California

Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa, making it one of only three countries in the world that are enclaves within another country ; the other two are San Marino and Vatican City, both located within Italy.

Liechtenstein is the fourth smallest country of Europe, after the Vatican City, Monaco, and San Marino.

* San Marino

** Captains Regent of San Marino, 1900 – present

** Captains Regent of San Marino, 1700 – 1900

** Captains Regent of San Marino, 1500 – 1700

** Captains Regent of San Marino, 1243 – 1500

* In San Marino, there are also eight minor municipalities, castelli.

* 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.

Raised between Fez and San Sebastian, Chef Najat Kaanache has served as an unofficial Culinary Ambassador of Morocco, sharing Moroccan flavors and cooking techniques with many of the world's top chefs during her pilgrimage through the best restaurant kitchens of Spain, Denmark, Holland and the US.

During the California gold rush of 1848-1850s, San Francisco Bay instantly became one of the world's greatest seaports, dominating shipping and transportation in the American West until the last years of the 19th century.

Yachting and yacht racing are popular pastimes and the San Francisco Bay Area is home to many of the world's top sailors.

* 301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.

The D & RGW's sense of its unique geographical challenge found expression in what is arguably the world's most famous passenger train, the California Zephyr, which was jointly operated with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad ( CB & Q ) from Chicago to Denver and the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to Oakland, California ( with ferry and bus connections to San Francisco ).

The region is also home to Los Angeles International Airport, the second-busiest airport in the United States by passenger volume ( see World's busiest airports by passenger traffic ) and the third by international passenger volume ( see Busiest airports in the United States by international passenger traffic ); San Diego International Airport the busiest single runway airport in the world ; Van Nuys Airport, the world's busiest general aviation airport ; major commercial airports at Orange County, Ontario, Burbank and Long Beach ; and numerous smaller commercial and general aviation airports.

The world's best-known version of the rainbow flag, sometimes called ' the freedom flag ', was popularized as a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) pride and diversity by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker in 1978.

This inspired him to create the world's second bus line from San Bernardino to Big Bear Valley using White trucks with several rows of seats.

( It is no longer the world's largest, or even the largest in the country ; " Luecke ", near San Antonio, Texas, is much larger.

Gunther von Hagens ' Body Worlds, San Diego, California, 2009Body Worlds exhibitions have received more than 32 million visitors, making them the world's most popular touring attraction.

The world's five smallest sovereign states: Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu and San Marino, shown in the same scale for size comparison

From that moment, and until his retirement in 1961, he fought only sporadically, but 3 of his last fights were attempts to recover the world's Middleweight title, losing twice to Gene Fullmer ; by a knockout in 14 at San Francisco ; and by a knockout in 12, in Fullmer's home state of Utah ( in Salt Lake City ), and then also later, when he lost a 10 round decision to defending world champion Paul Pender.

On Memorial Day 2008, two friends from Muscatine, Iowa, Kevin Whittaker and Cory Jens set the Guinness World Record for the world's longest handshake at 9 hours and 30 minutes in San Francisco, CA.

Today, the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site commemorates the battle and includes the San Jacinto Monument, the world's tallest memorial column, at.

Many experts thought that San Juan's warm weather would affect Buchanan, but he upset those who thought that way and beat Laguna by a 15 round decision to become world's Lightweight champion.

According to a Friday, March 30, 2012 online Associated Press news article in the online edition of the Peoria, Illinois-based Peoria Journal Star ,: " The logistics subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. ( which is based in Peoria ), the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, said Friday it opened a parts distribution center in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

He appeared in " the world's first mountain biking video, aptly named, The Great Mountain Biking Video ,", released in 1988 by New & Unique Videos of San Diego, California.

Full text: " The Condor ; Where it all began ; The birthplace of the world's first topless & bottomless entertainment ; Topless – June 19, 1964 Bottomless – September 3, 1969 Starring Ms. Carol Doda ; San Francisco, California "

The world's only albino koala in a zoological facility was born September 1, 1997, at the San Diego Zoo and was named Onya-Birri, which means " ghost boy " in an Australian Aboriginal language.

István Kertész ( August 28, 1929April 16, 1973 ) was an internationally acclaimed Jewish Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor who, throughout his brief but distinguished career led many of the world's great orchestras, including the Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Detroit, San Francisco and Minnesota Orchestras in the United States, as well as the London Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, and L ' Orchestre de le Suisse Romande.

Indeed, two of the world's leading geologists at the time, John C. Branner of Stanford University and Carl E. Grunsky, had found no fault with the San Francisquito rock.