Trivia
For You
Wednesday February 10, 2010 |
| In 1507, the first globular map was published showing the Western Hemisphere. It was printed at St. Die in the Vosges Mountains of Alsac, and it was the first map to use the term "America." |
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| Starting from his farm near Philadelphia during the 1700s, John Bartram traveled north to Lake Ontario, south to Florida, and west to the Ohio River in search of plants and natural history specimens for his own botanic garden and for collectors at home and abroad. He and his son William are credited with identifying and introducing into cultivation more than 200 of America's native plants. By 1765, Bartrams international reputation earned him the notice of King George III who honored him as Royal Botanist, a position he held until his death in 1777. The Historic Bartram Garden is America's oldest living botanical garden. |
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| Located in the Indian Ocean just north of the equator, Sri Lanka had a highly developed civilization as early as the fifth century B.C. Translation of Sri Lanka is beautiful country". |
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| Because orange roughy grows slowly -- the average fish is between 30 and 50 years old -- the New Zealand government has imposed fishing restrictions. Consequently, the fish is not as abundant in stores as during the 1980s. |
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| Joseph Priestley, the English chemist, invented carbonated water. It was a by-product of his investigations into the chemistry of air. |
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