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10 facts about global warming. 2007-03-05 10:48:02 1. Global warming is the gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans in recent decades, caused by the emission of gases that trap the sun’s heat in the Earth’s atmosphere.
2. Latest report. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded it was “very likely” — or more than 90 % probable — that human activities led by burning fossil fuels explained most of the warming in the past 50 years.
3. There is general agreement that the our planet is naturally warmed to some extent by atmospheric gases, principally water vapor, in what is often called a “greenhouse effect”. Carbon dioxide is a minor greenhouse gas. In the atmosphere there is over a hundred times the concentration of water vapour, which is the dominant greenhouse gas.
4. All forms of life at Earth needs “greenhouse effect”. Without the “greenhouse effect” we would all be dead.
5. Over the last million years the Earth has fluctuated between Read more:facts
10 facts about Forex. 2007-03-02 07:48:01 1. FOREX(FX) is foreign exchange market. The Foreign Exchange market is a cash interbank market established in 1971 when floating exchange rates began to materialize. The Forex
is larger than all other financial markets combined.
2. You can trade at Forex 24 hours a day.
3. More than 1 000 000 000 000 000 000.00 $ are traded every day in the FX market that’s why FX have a great market liquidity.
4. Forex market at the beginning was not available for small traders like you and me.
5. Sellers are ASKing for a high price. Buyers are BIDding at a lower price. The difference between the ASK and the BID price is the Spread .
6. There are 2 main analysis of Forex: Technical analysis and Fundamental analysis.
7. As a trader you use three types of orders: a market order, a limit order, and a stop order.
8. The U.S. dollar is major currency at forex.
9. 90% of the forex traders lose all their money in the first three months.
10. You must be really good trader to make 25% income month after m Read more:facts
10 facts about Spain. 2007-03-01 14:10:50 1. Spain
: capital and largest city is Madrid, land area of Spain 192,873 sq mi (499,542 sq km), population: 40,397,842; languages: castilian spanish 74% , catalan 17%, galician 7%, basque 2%.
2. Spain is parliamentary monarchy.
3. National Day , 12 October.
4. Majorca (Mallorca) is the largest of Balearic Islands. Majorca’s area forms 3.620,86 kv. km, length 96 km, width 78 km.
5. Most big Spanish archipelago are Canary islands in Atlantic ocean in 100 km from Africa. 13 Islands enter in their composition with general area 7.273 sq km. The archipelago consists of five main holiday islands - La Palma, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.
6. The Tajo River, running on territory Spain and Portugals , is the longest from Pyrenees rivers (1.120 km).
7. Highest mountain in Spain is Teide at Tenerife , 3,718 m.
8. 50 days a year there is a storm somewhere in Spain .
9. The official record of the lowest temperature in Spain is -32ºC in 1956 at Estany Gento in Lerida.
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10 facts about earthquakes 2007-03-01 08:51:52 1. Earthquake: shaking and trembling at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity. An earthquake is a vibration or a shaking movement of the Earth’s surface. Earthquakes typically result from the movement of faults, quasi-planar zones of deformation within its uppermost layers.
2. Earthquakes can’t be prevented, but they can be mitigated.
3. Hypocenter is the point where the earthquake rupture begins, usually deep down on the fault.
4. Epicenter is the point on the surface directly above the hypocenter.
5. The Circum-Pacific belt is the zone in Pacific Ocean where about 90% of the world’s earthquakes
occur.
6. The world’s deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China (more than 830000 people were killed).
7. The Richter Scale is used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes, as determined by seismograph measurements of the height of ground oscillations during an earthquake. The Richter sca Read more:facts
10 facts about water 2007-02-28 11:59:03 1. Without water
on earth you did not read this post - you simply don’t be live, because about 60 percent of the weight of the human body is water :). You can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.
2. There are 326 million cubic miles of water on earth and so 75 % of the earth is covered with water, and only one percent of the earth’s water is available for drinking.
3. 97 % of earth’s water is in the oceans. 75 % of the world’s fresh water is frozen in the polar ice caps.
4. One gallon of water is equal to 3.785 liters of water.
5. Water boils at 100 deg Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit). Water freezes at zero deg Celsius (32 Fahrenheit).
6. All living things on earth need water.
7. Water molecules consist of one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms.
8. Water contains no calories.
9. Water is the only substance on Earth that occurs in all three forms of aggregation, as a gas, a liquid and ice.
10. Drink more water is very healthy, ‘cos your body n Read more:facts
10 facts about William Shakespeare. 2007-02-27 12:45:20 1. WilliamShakespeare
was born (April 1564) and died on the same day April 23.
2. Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets.
3. If you will search on Google exactly “William Shakespeare” - there are exactly 2 million pages about him on Google.
4. There are many well-known authors that don’t believe that Shakespeare wrote his plays.
5. Fact about Shakespeare’s family: Williams parents: John and Mary Arden Shakespeare and they were all illiterate.Before William was born, two sisters died, Joan and Margaret. William married Anne when he was 18.
6. W.Shakespeare was buried in the chancel of the church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford.
7. W.Shakespeare used over 600 refferences to birds in all of his works.
8. William was left handed.
9. Shakespeare never published any of his plays.
10. Main question of William: To be, or not to be: that is the question. Read more:facts
10 facts about Jupiter. 2007-02-26 15:11:50 1. Jupiter
is the largest planet in the solar system.
2. Jupiters diametr is 142,984 kilometers
3. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun.
4. Jupiter is about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium (by numbers of atoms, 75/25% by mass) with traces of methane, water, ammonia and “rock”.
5. Jupiter travels around the sun in a slightly elliptical (oval-shaped) orbit. The planet completes one orbit in 4,333 Earth days, or almost 12 Earth years.
6. Jupiter rotates faster than any other planet. It takes 9 hours 56 minutes to spin around once on its axis. For example Earth has 24 hours.
7. Jupiter is heavier than any other planet. Its mass: 1.900e27 kg . Jupiter mass is 318 times larger than that of Earth.
8. Jupiter was first visited by Pioneer 10 in 1973 and later by Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and Ulysses.
9. Jupiter has moon - it is Ganymede. It’s the largest moon in the solar system.
10. The force of gravity at the surface of Jupiter is up to 2.4 times stronger than on Eart Read more:facts
10 facts about Neptune. 2007-03-07 08:19:02 1. Neptune
was discovered by Johann Galle in 1846. Before, on 27 Jan. 1613, Galileo recorded two stars, one of which was Neptune.
2. Blue Neptune is one of the solar system’s gas giants. In Roman mythology Neptune (in Greek: Poseidon) was the god of the Sea.
3. Neptune is one of the two planets that cannot be seen without a telescope and it has four faint rings.
4. Neptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2 on Aug 25 1989.
5. Neptune has 13 moons. Neptune’s moon, Triton, is slowly getting closer to Neptune. Triton, Neptune’s largest satellite.
6. Neptune is made up chiefly of hydrogen, helium, water, and silicates.
7. Neptune’s blue color is the result of absorption of red light by methane in the atmosphere. The methane gas on Neptune gives the planet its blue color because the gas absorbs red light and reflects the blue back into space.
8. Neptune’s figures: diameter at the equator is 30,775 miles (49,572 kilometers), effective temperatu Read more:facts
10 facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. 2007-03-06 10:48:51 1. MartinLuther
King was born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929. His real name was Michael not Martin Luther
. Michael was decided that ‘Martin Luther’ had a more prominent ring, and he never legally changed his name. Martin Luther King Jr Day is always celebrated on the third Monday in January.
2. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested 30 time in the act of peaceful protesting.
3. King had a role model - Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi.
4. Martin Luther received the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 35 for leading none violent civil right demonstrations in 1964.
5. King went to college at age 15.
6. Martin Luther King got 20 Doctorate degrees.
7. King was a Baptist priest.
8. King was first black American to be honored as Man of the Year in Time magazine.
9. August 28, 1963. At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his speech “I Have a Dream” to over 250,000 people. Famous words: ‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day l Read more:facts
10 facts about India 2007-03-08 10:13:25 1. India
is the country that occupies the greater part of South Asia. The area of India is the 3,287,6 sq km
2. India is the largest democracy in the world.
3. India is the second most populous country, after China. 16 % of a world’s population live in India.
4. The capital of India is New Delhi, and the country’s largest cities are Bombay, Delhi, and Calcutta. About 13 million people live in the capital,
New Delhi.
5. In India 17 major languages and 844 dialects.
6. Тhere are two main religions In India: Hinduism (80%) and the Muslim religion (10%).
7. India was one of the richest countries on earth until the British invasion in the early 17th century.
8. The old Indian medicine is the earliest school of medicine known to people.
9. India invented the number system. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
10. Chess was invented in India. Read more:facts
10 facts about Mars. 2007-03-09 08:51:29 1. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and seventh in size and mass in the solar system.
2. Mars named for the Roman god of war, also it’s called the Red Planet.
3. Mars has clouds, winds, a roughly 24-hour day, seasonal weather patterns, polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons, and other familiar features similar to those found on Earth.
4. Mars has an equatorial diameter of 6,780 km.
5. Mars has the largest canyon in the solar system.
6. Mars has Olympus Mons, a 550 km wide volcano. Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. It is 27 km high in contrast to Mt Everest on Earth at 8.85 km.
7. Mars has a very thin atmosphere, mostly carbon dioxide, but dust storms can cover the whole planet for months at a time.
8. Every two years the Sun, Earth and Mars line up. This is called an opposition.
9. Mars has two moons: Diemos and Phobos.
10. Average temperature on Mars -59 С. Read more:facts
10 facts about Chile. 2007-03-12 07:58:20 1. Chile is the longest and narrow country planet. Chile stretches along the coast of the Pacific Ocean, 4,300 km. Total land area is 756.9 thousand sq. km.
2. The country’s population is about 15 million people. The population of the country is ranked seventh place among Latin American countries.
3. The official language of Spanish. His religion majority of the population of Catholics.
4. Santiago is the capital of Chile. It’s one of the most modern cities in South America. Santiago is home to 4.5 million residents is a third of the entire population of Chile.
5. Chile is the southernmost country in the world because is only 900 km. away from the Antarctic. City Puerto-williams is the southernmost city of the world.
6. Atacama Desert, is one of the driest places on the Earth.
7. Chilean Patagonia is the most environmentally sound place planet.
8. Easter Island is full of mysteries. One of the main mysteries of the island, which does not authorize relief already several genera Read more:facts
10 facts about Japan. 2007-03-13 08:45:22 1. Japan
ese call their country “Nippon”, which means “the source of the sun”.
2. Japan is an island nation with a long - 3400 km from the north to the south along the eastern part of the Asian continent. It took 4 large islands (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku), and about 900 smaller islands and has a total area of 372.6 thousand sq km.
3. Japan has volcanoes and the devastating earthquake. The earthquake was huge wave, the tsunami that intruding into coastal areas.
4. In terms of the number of the population is 125 million people, the country is the sixth largest in the world. At one sq km area in Japan are on average 340 people.
5. In Japan, there are eight cities with a population exceeding one million people. It is, first and foremost, the capital of a country which is one of the largest cities in the world, Tokyo, which are 8,323 thousand and the suburban - 11373 thousand people.
6. Japan is a country of “economic miracle”. One such book Read more:facts
10 facts about Brazil. 2007-03-14 12:03:35 1. Brazil
is the largest country in South America, more than 175 million people.
2. Brazil stretches roughly 2,700 miles (4,350 km) from north to south and from east to west to form a vast.
3. In 1500 Pedro Alvares Cabral coming to India accidentally hit in Brazil. When the flag of their country in the sands Portu-seguru, Cabral made a speech in the native language, Brazil still speak Portuguese.
4. Brazilian Big Falls is the biggest in the world. The horseshoe-shaped falls are 269 feet (82 meters) high and 1.7 miles (2.7 km) wide.
5. Brazil has the longest beach strip - 7500 km.
6. National Park Tijuka in Rio de Janeiro will be the world’s largest urban forest.
7. Rio recognized capital of the incendiary and beautiful carnival from all around the world. Coming here on tropical soil centuries ago, a carnival for the Brazilians than just holiday, and the life.
8. Municipal Theatre in Ouro Preto, the oldest theatre on the continent (the 18th century).
9. The highest in Latin Ameri Read more:facts
10 facts about Antarctica. 2007-03-15 12:40:53 1. Antarctica
is the south polar region of the Earth.
2. The name Antarctica is meaning “opposite to the Arctic.” It’s comes from the Greek.
3. Antarctica covers at 14.4 million sq. km., or 10% of the Earth’s land surface.
4. Antarctica is the 90% of the total ice on the Earth. It’s contains 90 % of the Earth’s fresh water.
5. Antarctica is the coldest, driest and loneliest continent on the planet Earth. Antarctica has the world’s lowest temperature of -89C and winds of up to 320 km/hour.
6. Antarctica is the thick column of ice on Earth is 4800 m, it is almost the same height as the height of Mount Blanc in the Alps (4807 m).
7. The Antarctic Treaty was negotiated in 1959 by 12 countries for the purpose of promoting international peace and scientific cooperation in the continent.
8. Antarctica has no native human inhabitants. About 900 people in winter and 3 000 people in summer to operate in the 34 scientific stations.
9. Theе cold Antarcti Read more:facts
10 facts about sharks. 2007-03-16 07:43:02 1. Sharks are the most terrible predators of the seas. There are 375 described species of sharks.
2. The great white, tiger, oceanic whitetip and bull sharks have been involved in a significant number of fatal, unprovoked attacks on humans.
3. Sharks have especially thin sense of smell. They feel one part of blood of an animal in 100 million parts of water.
4. Sharks have a sharp sense of hearing. They can hear prey many miles away.
5. Sharks have a skeleton consisting of an elastic cartilage.
6. The biggest fish in the world is whale sharks. It is reaching 15 meters in length and mass exceeding 10 tones.
7. Teeth are the main weapon of a shark. They are powerful enough to bite through sheet steel. Loading on teeth at sharks is so great, that they should have 3-4 additional of some teeth.
8. Sharks are some of the world’s most misunderstood predators, as they very rarely attack humans unless intimidated.
9. The number of shark attacks on humans worldwide each year about 50 to 70, Read more:facts
10 facts about the Great Wall of China. 2007-03-19 13:50:45 1. The Great
Wall of China
is one of the largest building construction projects in the world architecture.
2. The Great Wall of China was built as a military-old facility. Its history could be traced back more than 2,000 years.
3. The idea of the wall belonged to the great reformer and a tyrant, Shi-huandi Prince of Qin Dynasty. The total length of wall building was estimated at more than 6 thousand kilometers. It is incomprehensible!
4. The Great Wall used to be called the Ten Thousand Li Wall which referred to the wall’s length.
5. The Great Wall is the only manmade Earth objects, which clearly visible from space.
6. The Great Wall’s height averages from 6.6 meters to 10 meters high.
7. Its thickness ranged from about 4.5 to 9 meters and was up to 7.5 meters tall.
8. The Great Wall of China was built by millions people who happened to be peasants, prisoners and soldiers. Thousands of them died in the process.
9. The Great Wall was during the Qin (pronounced as &ldq Read more:facts
10 facts about Kenya. 2007-03-20 14:48:47 1. Kenya
’s full name is The Republic of Kenya. This country is located on the equator in East Africa.
2. The population of Kenya is 32.8 million.
3. The capital of Kenya is Nairobi. It is one of the biggest and fastest-growing cities in East Africa. Nairobi has lots of modern buildings and skyscrapers.
4. Kenya has an area of 582,646 sq km (224,961 sq miles).
5. Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya (5,199 m ) and the second of Africa after Kilimanjaro.
6. Kenya is one of the most important countries in Africa and is developing very fast.
7. Kenya is famous for its safaris, which are held in the Kenya’s national parks.
8. Kenya was a British colony (1895 - 1963).
9. Most people in Kenya are very rich or very poor. There are not many people in the middle.
10. Swahili and English are the major languages in Kenya, but are distributed among 75 other languages. Read more:facts
10 facts about Charles Dickens 2007-03-21 15:18:38 1. Charles
John Huffam Dickens
was born February 7, 1812 and diad on June 9, 1870.
2. Charles Dickens was British writer, one of the greatest English proses nineteenth century.
3. At the age of twelve, Dickens was forced to leave school. He was sent off to work in a factory after his father was thrown in jail for outstanding debts.
4. Dickens’ first book was published in 1836. A collection of stories titled Sketches by Boz (Boz was a news nickname of Dickens).
5. Charles Dickens always slept head to the north. When he wrote his great works he sat face to the north.
6. Dickens has seven sons and three daughters.
7. Charles Dickens was a journalist, a director and an actor in amateur theatres.
8. “Adventures of Oliver Twist” is the most famous novel by the great Dickens.
9. The quotation of Dickens: We made life from the prerequisite fight to defend it until the last minute.
10. Charles Dickens was passing rich. After the death of Dickens left of the 93,000 pounds. Read more:facts
10 facts about Saturn 2007-03-23 09:46:54 1. Saturn
is the second largest planet in the Solar System and the sixth planet from the Sun. It is more than 800 times larger than Earth.
2. Saturn makes one revolution about the Sun in 29.42 Earth years.
3. Galileo discovered this planet in 1610. Saturn was named after the Roman god of agriculture. Saturn was the father of Jupiter (the king of the Roman gods).
4. Total system Saturn has 18 satellites. Perhaps there are more, in fact, but this is very little education. Saturn is also the only planet that has a satellite (Titan) with a dense atmosphere.
5. On the planet across the strongest winds in our Solar System. Machines recorded air speed of 500 meters per second. The strongest winds are found near the equator. They speed up to 1100 km/h.
6. Saturn’s atmosphere is primarily composed of hydrogen (91%), with small amounts of helium and methane.
7. Saturn is the only planet of the Solar System that is less dense than water.
8. Saturn is well known for its beautiful system of Read more:facts
10 facts about Venus 2007-03-22 13:24:23 1. Venus
is the second planet from the Sun. The average distance between this planet and the Sun is about 67,221,648 miles (108,182,755 km).
2. The planet named after an ancient goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite (in Roman-Venus).
3. Venus shines as a bright star. This planet is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon.
4. Venus names an evening and morning star. Venus is visible only in the evening and in the morning because it is closer to the Sun than the Earth.
5. The cloudy environment of Venus is a dense mix of carbonic dioxide and a sulfuric acid which are formed owing to eruption of volcanoes on this planet.
6. The temperature at the surface of Venus is the highest in Solar system. It is more than 460 C (860 F).
7. The reason for the high temperature on Venus is a greenhouse effect created dense atmosphere, which is composed mostly of carbon dioxide (96%) and with virtually no water.
8. The pressure at the surface of Venus in 90 times greater than the atmosp Read more:facts
10 facts about Peru. 2007-03-28 15:27:22 1. Peru is the 3rd largest country in South America after Brazil and Argentina. The total area of 1.28 million sq km.
2. Much of the country is covered by the Peruvian Andes, Nevado Huascaran (6,768 m) is the highest point in Peru.
3. Lake Titicaca, located on the border of Bolivia and Peru, is the highest navigable lake in the world and the largest lake in South America with an area of 8.287 sq km.
4. Lima is the capital of Peru. More than 30 % of the population of 25 million lives in the capital.
5. Peru is the world-recognized sanctuary vestiges of the past. Culture of Chavin, Chimu, the Nazca, Tiahuanko, Mochika and, of course, Inca left many mysteries, potent Machu Picchu ruins, palaces, pyramids, mausoleums and worship Lambaske Valley.
6. In Nazca desert, in the famous mysterious drawings well preserved numerous monuments of ancient indigenous cultures of Peru, Mochika, Chan-chan, religious and jrecheski Pachakamak Center.
7. Holy city Caral is the oldest city in the Americas. Read more:facts
10 facts about Christmas. 2007-03-30 08:51:35 1. December 25th was not celebrated as the birthday of Jesus Christ until the year AD 440.
2. The German-American cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902) “invented” the popular image of Santa Claus. Nast first drew Santa in the 1862.
3. The Christmas
cracker was invented in 1847 by London confectioner Thomas Smith.
4. Christmas for Americans has become a family holiday with “Christmas stories” of Charles Dickens (1843).
5. In 1649, Oliver Cromwell abolished Christmas. He declared Christmas to be an ordinary working day. Anybody caught celebrating Christmas was arrested. The ban was lifted in 1660.
6. The first Christmas card was created on the instructions of an Englishman, Sir Henry Cole in 1843. J.C. Horsley designed the card and sold a one thousand copies in London.
7. The first Christmas stamp was released in Canada (1898).
8. The popular Christmas song “Jingle Bells” was composed by James Pierpont in 1857. It was written for Thanksgiving, not Christm Read more:facts
10 fact about buddhism 2007-04-02 09:27:44 1. Buddhism is the fourth largest world religion, being exceeded in numbers only by Christianity, Islam and Hinduism.
2. It was founded in Northeastern India.
3. Siddhartha Gautama (”the Buddha”) - the founder of Buddhism philosophy and considered to be Buddhism god.
4. There are over 360 million adherents of Buddhism in the world.
5. Buddhism locations in China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia.
6. Buddhism has two main divisions or traditions: Mahayana and Theravada.
7. The sacred book of Buddhism is called the Pali Canon (Tripitaka). It is written in an ancient Indian language called Pali. The Tripitaka is a very large book. The English translation of it takes up nearly 40 volumes.
8. Buddah Day is the main Buddhist holiday. It is celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha.
9. Spiritual leader of Buddhism is called the monk (lama in Tibetan Buddhism). The meditation hall is a place of ritual.
10. There are 5 precepts of Buddhism: do not kill,
10 facts about Leonardo da Vinci 2007-05-08 07:23:49 1. Leonardo
da Vinci
was an Italian artist, one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, celebrated as a painter, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer.
2. He was born in Vinci, Italy in 1452. Leonardo was the son of a wealthy Florentine notary Ser Piero and a peasant woman Caterina.
3. Leonardo was the first to explain why the sky is blue. It’s because of the way air scatters light.
4. Leonardo left no definitive image of himself. Scientists have doubted the famous portrait Leonardo, depicts him in old age is such. Another theory says the Mona Lisa is a portrait of Leonardo himself.
5. According to one theory, Mona Lisa smiles from the sense of mystery for all pregnancies. In another, she was amused by the musicians and clowns who entertained her while Leonardo painted her.
6. Leonardo was the first of the painters has become dismembering the bodies, in order to understand the location and building muscles.
7. Leo Read more:facts
10 facts about Canada 2007-09-24 02:48:23 1. Canada
is the 2nd largest country in the world after Russian Federation. It is on the continent of North America and it is stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
2. The name “Canada” comes from the Huron-Iroquois word “Kanata” meaning “village”.
3. There are ten provinces and three territories in Canada. The capital city of Canada is Ottawa (Ontario). The largest cities are Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
4. The population is over 32 million. Most of Canadians live in the southern part of Canada. About 77 % of the people live in cities and towns.
5. Nearly one-fourth of all the fresh water in the world is in Canada.
6. Forests cover almost half of Canada. This country has one-tenth of the world’s forests.
7. The largest park in Canada is Wood Buffalo National Park, in Alberta and the Northwest Territories. It is home to the largest herd of bison in the world, and it is the only nesting site of the whooping crane.
8. White Read more:facts
10 facts about Italy. 2007-09-18 07:06:39 1. Located in southern Europe, Italy
borders Austria, France, Slovenia and Switzerland. The Italian peninsula is surrounded by 5 seas (the Adriatic, Ionian, Tyrrhenean, Ligurian, and Mediterranean). Italy has 2 large islands, Sardinia and Sicily, and some smaller islands.
2. Italy has 16 regions and 4 autonomous regions. Italy is home to 2 microstates, Vatican City and San Marino.
3. Italy has a population more then 58 million. With over 5 million people, Rome is Italy’s largest Italy. Milan is the second-largest city in Italy. Naples is the largest city in southern Italy.
4. 98% of Italians are Roman Catholic. The Roman Catholic Church is based in Italy.
5. With almost 40 million visitors, Italy is the fourth most visited country in the world. Italy has over 3,000 museums. Florence is home to Italian art. Venice is one of Italy’s most beautiful and romantic cities. It’s built on the water in a lagoon. The area around Venice is the wealthiest region Read more:facts
10 Facts about Australia. 2007-10-04 01:39:23 1. Australia
located south of Indonesia. Its lies between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean.
2. The name “Australia” is derived from the Latin Australis, meaning “of the South”.
3. Australia consists of 6 states, 2 major mainland territories, and other minor territories.
4. The population of Australia is 20.1 million people - that’s jast under the number of people who live in Texas!
5. The capital of Australia is Canberra. Sydney is the capital city of the State of New South Wales.
6. Australia is the Worlds Largest Exporter of Wool. There are around 120 million sheep in Australia.
7. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is the world’s largest (but not the longest) steel arch bridge. The top of the bridge standing 134 metres above the harbour.
8. The Sydney Opera House is one of the world’s best-known twentieth-century buildings, as well as one of the most famous performing arts theaters.
9. Koala Park Sanctuary, located in Sydney, is the wor
10 facts about Earth 2007-10-31 06:07:31 1. Earth
is the third planet from the Sun. It is the fifth-largest planet in the Solar System.
2. Earth’s diameter of around 7,926 miles or 12,756 kilometres.
3. Earth has a magnetic and electric fields.
4. Earth formed 4,7 billion years ago.
5. Most of the Earth’s surface is Ocean (70,8%); Land is 149,1 mln.km2 . Land is formed six continents and islands.
6. Land rises above the level of the world’s oceans by an average of 875 meters (the maximum height of 8848 meters - g. Dzhomolungma).
7. Mountains are took 30% of the land, deserts are close about 20% of the land surface, savannas and woodlands are around 20%, forests are about 30%, glaciers are 10%.
8. The average depth of the Ocean, about 3800 meters. Marian gutters in the Pacific is the the largest (11,022 meter).
9. The atmosphere of Earth is consists of air. Air is a mixture of air-mainly nitrogen (78,1%) and oxygen (21%), the rest is the water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other gases.
10. Life on Earth created Read more:facts
10 facts about Sun. 2007-10-31 06:06:27 1. The Sun is the largest object of the Solar System. It is the center of our Solar System. Our Sun is a huge sphere supports life on Earth.
2. The Sun has a diameter of 1.39 million kilometers or 865000 miles. Its diameter is more than 100 times the diameter of Earth.
3. The Sun consists of Helium to 24%, of Hydrogen to 75% and of other elements to 1%.
4. The Sun has 6 major layers that define its structure: the core, radiation zone, the convection zone, photosphere, chromosphere and the corona.
5. The distance between Earth and Sun is 150 million kilometers.
6. The Su’s temperature is about 6000 Kelvin (about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit) and it has no solid surface.
7. About 700 million tons of Hydrogen is converted to Helium every second.
8. The Sun moves through a cycle of high and low activity about every 11 years.
9. Sunlight takes 8 minutes to reach the Earth.
10. Solar flares are rapid releases of energy from a localized region on the Sun. Read more:facts
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