Light Pollution From Coast To Coast


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Passenger Railway Network 2020


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An Image Of GPS Tracking Of Multiple Wolves In Six Different Packs Around Voyageurs National Park Shows How Much The Wolf Packs Avoid Each Other’s Range


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How Much Snow Does It Usually Take To Cancel Schools?




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You Can Fit the Entirety of Poland Into Texas And Still Be Able To Drive Around It


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Out Of Service Railways


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Every State Ranked by Healthiness


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World’s Smallest Country vs. Largest Building








List of Countries Mentioned Or Referred In The Bible







Most Common Country Of Birth For Foreign-born Residents In The US, Excluding Mexico








Japan, How Big It Is in Reality?

Size Comparison Between Australia And the United States

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Tracking Of An Eagle Over A 20 Year Period

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Blue States Have A Smaller Population Than Los Angeles County

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50 Percent Of Canadians Live South Of The Red Line

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The Biggest Non-Government Employer in Each State

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Each Section Has 10% Of the World’s Population

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The Red and Orange Sections Have Equal Populations

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These Two Areas of Africa Have Roughly Equal Populations

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Alaska

More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.

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Amazon

The Amazon rain forest produces more than 20% of 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.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. 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.

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Brazil

Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.

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Canada

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ‘ Big Village’.

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Chicago

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

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Detroit

Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.

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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.

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Los Angeles

The full name of Los Angeles is: l Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula. It can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.

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New York City

The term ‘The Big Apple’ was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s 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.

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 .

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Ohio

There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, everyone is man-made.

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Pitcairn Island

The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq Km.

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Rome

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.

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Siberia

Siberia contains more than 25% of the world’s forests.

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S.M.O.M.

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, and 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.

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Sahara Desert

In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, Algeria, that 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
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Spain

Spain literally means ‘the land of rabbits’.

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St. Paul, Minnesota

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.

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Russia

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.

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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.

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Waterfalls

The water of Angel Falls (the world’s highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters.) It is 15 times higher than Niagara Falls

There is no egg in eggplant,

nor ham in hamburger;

neither apple nor pine in

pineapple. English muffins

weren’t invented in England

or French fries in France.

Sweetmeats are candies while

sweetbreads, which aren’t

sweet, are meat. We take

English for granted. But if we

explore its paradoxes, we find

that quicksand can work

slowly, boxing rings are

square and a guinea pig is

neither from Guinea nor is it

a pig. And why is it that

writers write but fingers

don’t fing, grocers don’t groce

and hammers don’t ham? If

the plural of tooth is teeth,

why isn’t the plural of booth,

beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So

one moose, 2 meese? One

index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it

seem crazy that you can make

amends but not one amend?

If you have a bunch of odds

and ends and get rid of all but

one of them, what do you call

it? If teachers taught, why

didn’t preachers praught? If a

vegetarian eats vegetables,

what does a humanitarian

eat? Sometimes I think all the

English speakers should be

committed to an asylum for

the verbally insane. In what

language do people recite at a

play and play at a recital?

Ship by truck and send cargo

by ship? Have noses that run

and feet that smell? How can

a slim chance and a fat

chance be the same, while a

wise man and a wise guy are

opposites? You have to

marvel at the unique lunacy

of a language in which your

house can burn up as it burns

down, in which you fill in a

form by filling it out and in

which, an alarm goes off by

going on. English was

invented by people, not

computers, and it reflects the

creativity of the human race,

which, of course, is not a race

at all. That is why, when the

stars are out, they are visible,

but when the lights are out,

they are invisible.

PS. – Why doesn’t ‘Buick’

rhyme with ‘quick’?

Dr. Jeff Young, a psychologist who specializes in sleep, mood and anxiety disorders at UCLA, and his private practice in Encino, CA, is with us today to talk about the Oculus Quest 2.

Oculus Quest 2 is a virtual reality (VR) headset that is now owned by Facebook Technologies. It’s an all-in-one gaming library of inspiring games and experiences.

There is no better person to tell us all about this virtual reality experience than Dr. Jeff because he is a user and understands the technology.

Welcome Dr. Jeff to “Lying On The Beach On Camera.”

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You lovers of the English language might enjoy this.

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is ‘UP.’

It’s easy to understand UP , meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?

Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends.
And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.

We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.

At other times the little word has real special meaning.

People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary.

In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used.

It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.

When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.

When it doesn’t rain for awhile, things dry UP.

Michael Sommer is my secret weapon. Thank you Michael!

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Don’t miss Lincoln Road on the last Sunday of every month. Food and exotic treasures galore. We bumped into friends every few feet, Tom DeSantis and Wendy Unger Schapira pictured here. Stay tuned for the print and digital newspaper Jayda Knight and I will be publishing every few weeks about LR and other interesting Miami activities. It’s called The Peeker.