One big question is how far the split in American Anglicanism will spread to other places, including the English motherland.

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On the contrary, says Mr Ibrahimi, Albanians can be spread between several countries, just as German-speakers are split between Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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The time for a reverse split is when there are real earnings and you would want to make them appear larger when spread over a smaller share count.

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However, far from being a single species, it has split into six lines, one of which colonised India and the Middle East, and then spread to Europe at the dawn of agriculture about 10, 000 years ago.

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