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The Route of Hannibal's Army during the Italian Campaign in 218 BC
The route of Hannibal's army during the Italian campaign in 218 BC. Just imagine: the elephants, too, made the whole journey
Geography · Science · Nature
Bar-tailed godwit flew 13,560 km across the Pacific in 11 days without stopping
This small migratory bird, no more than 40 centimetres long, holds the record for the longest non-stop flight. The figure is phenomenal: 13,560 km. A five-month-old bar-tailed godwit chick flew over the Pacific Ocean for 11 days without stopping, travelling at a speed of about
Architecture · Geography · Observations
Infrastructure's effect on the landscape in an aerial view of a railway yard
A Queue of Trains at the Norfolk Railway Station in Virginia, USA. If anyone underestimates the influence of infrastructure on the landscape, do think again.
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The American traveller, explorer and photographer Harriet Chalmers Adams in the Gobi Desert
Faith · The East · Geography
All seven churches, the seven golden candlesticks named in the Apocalypse of John the Divine, lie in present-day Turkey
"..what thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea."
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A dog of one of the most ancient breeds, the Kazakh sighthound, the tazy, basks on a slope of the Turgen Gorge at an altitude of 2,750 metres
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442 years ago Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the globe, which I wish for you too
Geography
The ten largest countries in the world by land area in square kilometres
The 10 Largest Countries by Area: Knowledge You Cannot Do Without. Russia 🇷🇺 17,098,242 Canada 🇨🇦 9,984,670 USA 🇺🇸 9,826,675 China 🇨🇳 9,596,960 Brazil 🇧🇷 8,514,877 Australia 🇦🇺 7,741,220 India 🇮🇳 3,287,263 Argentina 🇦🇷 2,780,400 Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 2,724,900 Algeria 🇩🇿 2,381,
Geography · Society
Ten countries led by China, the United States and India, with their figures
Just in Case: The 10 Largest Countries by GDP. China 🇨🇳 27,312,548,291,586 United States 🇺🇸 22,996,100,000,000 India 🇮🇳 10,218,572,963,097 Japan 🇯🇵 5,396,818,536,178 Germany 🇩🇪 4,815,479,144,639 Russia 🇷🇺 4,785,445,021,584 Indonesia 🇮🇩 3,566,265,
Geography · Society
The ten most populous countries in the world and their population figures
In Case You Have Forgotten: The 10 Most Populous Countries. China 🇨🇳 1,451,420,250 India 🇮🇳 1,409,911,226 USA 🇺🇸 335,240,012 Indonesia 🇮🇩 279,910,730 Pakistan 🇵🇰 230,567,560 Nigeria 🇳🇬 217,817,375 Brazil 🇧🇷 215,868,823 Bangladesh 🇧🇩 168,307,149 Russia 🇷🇺 146,069,197 Mexico 🇲🇽 131,
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"The Portuguese of Hormuz Eat in Water, Because the Ground Is Very Hot"
"The Portuguese of Hormuz eat in water, because the ground is very hot." An illustration from a sixteenth-century Portuguese codex. Quite so, and quite literally: that is exactly what they did. Fleeing the unbearable heat, the Portuguese who had settled in the Persian Gulf began to fill