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Fossil fuels today account for 80 percent of global primary energy demand. Despite lowering costs for renewable energy, developing countries continue to invest in coal to ensure uninterrupted power supply and support their industry. As a result, global coal use is expected to grow slowly in the coming years despite declining demand in the US and Europe.
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The French got Senegal in Africa which helped it to gain monopoly over slave trade from Africa.
So, option D is the right answer.
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The France had lost all its territories in North America, in the Seven Years wars (1756 - 1763) because of the British. So, it wanted to take revenge and weaken the British. France started helping the American Revolutionary war in 1775.
In 1776, Benjamin Franklin visited France seeking its support. In 1778, a treaty was signed between U.S and France by which France supplied money and arms to the United States. France help was so crucial for U.S because it lacked arms and allies and ultimately, it helped the U.S to gain independence from British. But France accumulated debt because of the costs incurred during its participation in the war.
During the war, France conquered several areas in the Caribbean islands but returned them all except the Tobago, which was a fertile area. After the war, France got Senegal in Africa, which was an important slave trading station, and hence France got a monopoly on the slave trade from Africa. Hence, option D is the correct answer.
These are the Baby Boomers. They are called this due to the explosion of baby births that occurred after World War 2. Some historians believe this was a push to get back to "normal life" after the aftermath of such a deadly war.
Auguste and Louis Lumière, collectively called as the Lumière brothers, is credited as the first people who projected a movie to a paying audience with more than one person.
The brothers are widely known among the motion picture industry, and is commonly mentioned as the people who gave birth to the era of motion pictures.
ANSWER: The Lumière brothers
