nggak ada gambarnya... On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:19 PM, aga madjid <[email protected]> wrote:
> ------------------------------ > *From: *[email protected] > *Sender: *[email protected] > *Date: *Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:50:37 EST > *To: *<[email protected]> > *Subject: *Chumma:*) INTERESTING GEOGRAPHY AROUND DINESH VORA > > > ** > > *IT'S YOUR WORLD* > > > INTERESTING GEOGRAPHY AROUND > DINESH VORA > > > > *[1] *ALASKA, USA > > *[image: alaska-map.gif]* > > * **More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in > Alaska . ** > ------------------------------ > [2] **AMAZON, SOUTH AMERICA** > > **The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply. > * > > [image: South America.gif] > > *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 .** > > ------------------------------ > * > > *[3] ANTARCTICA* > > *** > * *Antarctica** is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any > country.* > > *[image: Antiartica.gif]* > > *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. > ** > ------------------------------ > **[4] BRAZIL, SOUTH AMERICA* > > *[image: Brazil.gif][image: Hand2.gif][image: Brazil_nut.gif]* > > * * *Brazil** got its name from the nut, not the other way around. > ** > > ------------------------------ > **[5] CANADA, NORTH AMERICA* > > ** > > * * *Canada** has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada > is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village .'** > ------------------------------ > **[6] CHICAGO, USA* > > *[image: cid:[email protected]]* > > * **Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population in the > world. > ** > ------------------------------ > **[7] DETROIT, USA* > > *[image: cid:[email protected]]* > > *Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so > named because it was the first paved road anywhere.** > > > ------------------------------ > **[8] DAMASCUS, SYRIA* > > *[image: Syria.gif]* > > * **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. > ** > ------------------------------ > **[9] ISTANBUL, TURKEY* > > *[image: Istanbul.gif]* > > * **Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two > continents. > ** > ------------------------------ > **[10] LOS ANGELES, USA* > > *[image: cid:[email protected]]* > > * **Los Angele's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los > Angeles de Porciuncula -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A. > ** > > > ------------------------------ > > **[11] NEW YORK CITY, USA > **The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of the > 1930's who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city. > Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time - The Big Apple.* > > *[image: Big Apple.gif]* > > *There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin , Ireland ; more > Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy ; and more Jews in New York > City than in Tel Aviv, Israel . > ** > > ------------------------------ > **[12] OHIO, USA* > > *[image: cid:[email protected]]* > > *There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , everyone is manmade. > *** > > * > ------------------------------ > > **[13] PITCAIRN ISLAND, POLYNESIA* > > *[image: cid:[email protected]]* > > * **The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia , at > just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km. > ** > > ------------------------------ > > * *[14] ROME, ITALY* > > *[image: cid:[email protected]]* > > * **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. > ** > > ------------------------------ > > **[15] SIBERIA, RUSSIA* > > *[image: Siberia.gif]* > > *Siberia** contains more than 25% of the world's forests. > ** > ------------------------------ > > **[16] S.M.O.M. ITALY* > > *[image: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta]*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta> > > *The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign > Military Order of > Malta<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. > * > ** > * > > ------------------------------ > > * *[17] SAHARA DESSERT, AFRICA* > > *[image: cid:[email protected]]* > > *In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt , Algeria , which > did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.* > > *Technically though, 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.* > > *[image: cid:[email protected]]* > > ------------------------------ > *[15] SPAIN, EUROPE* > > *[image: cid:[email protected]]* > > *Spain** literally means 'the land of rabbits.'** > > ------------------------------ > > > **[16] ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA* > > *[image: Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant.gif]* > > *St. Paul**, Minnesota , was originally called Pig's Eye after a man named > Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant who set up the first business there. > ** > ------------------------------ > **[17] ROADS, USA* > > *[image: cid:[email protected]][image: > cid:[email protected]] * > > *Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A : 1%, > IN Canada : 75%* * > IN OTHER COUNTRIES VERY HIGH* > * > > ------------------------------ > * > > *[18] RUSSIA * > > * **[image: cid:[email protected]]** * > > *The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep 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. > ** * > > * > ------------------------------ > > * *[19] UNITED STATES * > > *[image: cid:[email protected]]* > > * **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.** > > ------------------------------ > **[20] WATERFALLS > ** > **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 .* > > [image: Angel Falls-s.jpg] > > ------------------------------ > > INTERESTING GEOGRAPHY AROUND > DINESH VORA > > > > > > -- > you have this email because you join to "aga-madjid" GoogleGroups. > to post emails, just send to : > [email protected] > to join this group, send blank email to : > [email protected] > to quit from this group, just send email to : > [email protected] > please visit to www.facebook.com/aga.madjid, > add my Yahoo Messenger at [email protected] or > add my twitter @aga_madjid > thanks for joinning this group. > -- Thanks, Deasy Rajagukguk -- you have this email because you join to "aga-madjid" GoogleGroups. to post emails, just send to : [email protected] to join this group, send blank email to : [email protected] to quit from this group, just send email to : [email protected] please visit to www.facebook.com/aga.madjid, add my Yahoo Messenger at [email protected] or add my twitter @aga_madjid thanks for joinning this group.
