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| I've found some really cool geographic stuffs, and I really want to share it here~
United States:
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight.
These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
Alaska: More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.
Chicago: Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
Detroit: Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1,
so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.
Los Angeles: Los Angeles' full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula
-it can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.
Ohio: There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , every one is man made.
Canada:
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village.'
Roads: Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A : 1%, in Canada : 75%
Amazon:
The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles
at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.
The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined
and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.
Brazil:
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
Venezuela
The water of Angel Falls (the World's highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.
Pitcairn Island
The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.
Damascus, Syria
Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC,
making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.
Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.
Spain:
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
Rome, Italy:
The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy in 133 B.C.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
SMOM:
The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. (S.M.O.M).
It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two tennis courts,
and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican.
It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is.
Russia:
The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Super deep Borehole, in Russia.
It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles).
It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries,
one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen
- so massive that the mud coming from the hole was boiling with it.
Siberia:
Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.
Sahara Desert:
In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, Algeria,
which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.
Antarctica:
Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica . This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water
in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert.
The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.),
Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.
The driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island.
There has been no rainfall there for two million years.
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| Job has started for more than a week~
I've got a very good partner called David,
and I do enjoy the work with him.
I've also got several good supervisors,
who're willing to give help and advices whenever we ask them.
The work is not much important to the department,
but I do learn a lot, especially about the knowledge of trees.
I've never seriously studied this subject but I'm very eager to learn more.
In fact, I'm very interested in every aspect of the environment,
since every part of it is somehow related.
This job has some side-effects though, like I've been tanned for several days,
and I'm sure than my skin would turn more and more brown as the days go on.
Also, there're a lot of mosquitoes in some of the parks.
But oh well~ I don't really care about it. I just love the Nature.
Moreover, I can get pay to travel in outlying islands in such a detail
that I've gone through almost every single street.
I'm glad that I can really fulfill what my goal of travelling the special places in HK and review the traditional culture.
Today, I've had a fresh made 砵仔糕 that is still warm when I eat it.
(It's soooo yummy that I can't describe in words)
Overall, it's an very interesting experience.
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| 決定了會下星期二返香港
Toronto -> Hong Kong
AC 0015
Departure: May 26, 2009 (Tue) 10:00am
Arrive: May 27, 2009 (Wed) 1:20pm
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| 昨天終於受浸了
受浸是每一個Christian的起點
而我, 也開始了我與神的旅程
昨天表哥問了我一個問題:
為甚麼會在耶穌受難日舉行浸禮呢?
這不是應該在耶穌復活日做的嗎?
這問題相當有意思~
我也不明白為何會在記念日做喜事
感謝神在我受浸前給我的一課
感謝神付了這麼大的代價去換我們跟神的關係
除了感謝, 還是感謝
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| 其實呢幾日心情都唔好
但真的太忙
忙到暫時想唔理個人心情
但其實個人心情真的會影響學業
算啦~ 我都係決定唔理住
等我忙完先算
真係煩~ 一忙就心情大上大落~
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