The face of our planet is shifting continuously by geological processes. Splitting supercontinent Pangaea, these tectonic plates have arranged the planet’s surface into 7 continent landmasses and 5 oceans. Here is a visualization of the significant events on planet Earth through its four billion year history.
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The United States has had a military presence worldwide, from the practically first day of its sovereignty. The U.S. has been implicated in many foreign invasions during its history. The United States invaded twenty-two countries just in the last 20 years.
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The transport network in Russia is one of the world’s most large transport systems. The national web of roads and railways and airways stretches about 7,700 kilometers (4,800 miles) from the city of Kaliningrad in the west to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in the east.
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Now that 2019 is almost done, we think it would be interesting to look backward at our most favored maps of the year.
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Nowadays, wine is the most popular alcoholic beverage drunk worldwide. Generally produced from fermented grape extract, many civilizations have created and liked wine for thousands of years. The starting of wine production can be traced back to 6 thousand years BCE from the territories where Georgia and Armenia are now located.
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Black Americans compose the 2nd-largest racial group in the United States, after White Americans and Hispanic Americans. African Americans make up 14.6% (47.8 million) of the U.S. population. In recent decades, there has been an increase in U.S. counties with a predominance of blacks.
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The 1402 Kangnido Map: A revolutionary Korean cartographic achievement that challenged medieval geographical understanding, integrating Chinese, Korean, and Islamic knowledge into a single, remarkable document.
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he estimated average GDP per capita of all of the world’s countries is Int$18,381 (2019). Luxembourgers have the highest per capita gross domestic product in the world. According to the International Monetary Fund, in 2021, the GDP per capita in Luxembourg amounted to about US$122,740.
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We know that the world ocean is bottomless and that the deepest trench in the world has almost 11 kilometers. We also know that the world ocean covers about 70 percent of our planet, making more than 2/3 of Earth’s surface unseen to us. But assume we obtained a way to drain oceans of our world, what would Earth’s exterior look like, exactly?
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 144.7 million total employees in the United States. The retail industry is regular in 33 out of the 50 US states. Health care and social assistance jobs are the most common at the county level in more than 1200 counties, followed by manufacturing and retail trade.
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