Archive for the ‘What is the Biggest’ Category
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I have a Facebook account; as do most of the people I know. It is a wonderful social networking tool; a way for me to know the whereabouts and activities of extended family members. I am kept up to date on births, anniversaries, birthdays and other special occasions in peoples' ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
The Tsar Bomba was the biggest nuclear bomb ever detonated. The project to build the Tsar Bomba was commissioned by Nikita Krushchev in 1961 during the height of the Cold War. This bomb was detonated just one year before the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Tsar Bomba was a tool used ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
The biggest boat in terms of length in the world is the Knock Nevis at 458.45 meters. It is owned by Fred Olsen Production and is currently being used as a Floating Storage and Offloading Unit (FSO). The Knock Nevis is permanently moored at the Qatar al Shaheen Oil Field ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
I have chosen to answer this question in terms of the biggest amount of scheduled passengers. Southwest Airlines in the United States serves a relatively small geographic region. In 2007, they carried almost 102,000 passengers. In fact, the top 4 airlines in terms of scheduled passengers are all American: Southwest, ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
The biggest waterfall in the world defined by height is Angel Falls in Venuzuala at 979 meters tall. Much of the falls are transformed into mist by prevailing winds before reaching the water below. Angel Falls is in a remote part of the Venezuelan rainforest and is difficult to reach ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The biggest city in the world is a more complicated question than it appears on its surface. Biggest city can be defined by a number of different criteria. I have provided two figures; one based on municipality in square kilometers and one based on number of people.
The city with the ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
By far, the biggest animal in the world is the blue whale. It can reach lengths of just over 30 meters and weigh up to 136 tonnes. It can be found in almost all the world's oceans. The blue whale was nearly extinct until a ban on hunting was introduced ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
It is a close tie between the Polar bear and the Kodiak bear; a subspecies of brown bear found only in Alaska. The polar bear wins out weighing between 300 and 600 kg and are 2 to 3 meters long. They reside in the Canadian north, Alaska (USA), Greenland, Norway ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The largest bird in the world is the ostrich, a flightless bird that weighs up to 160 kg and stands almost 3 m. high. Although the ostrich is native to Africa, ostriches are farmed around the world including countries as far north as Finland. An ostrich egg weighs approximately 1.4 ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
With all jokes about pleasingly plump house cats aside, the biggest cat in the world is the Siberian Tiger. The only wild population of this tiger left in the world can be found in North Eastern China, the Amur region in Russia's far east and a very few in North ...
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