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Harvard was founded in 1636, making it the oldest university in the United States. The school has produced 47 Nobel Prize winners, 32 heads of state, and 48 Pulitzer Prize winners. It has the largest academic library in the world (Widener Library, home to some 6 million volumes).
Founded in 1209, Cambridge University is one of the oldest universities in the world. The alumni includes Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, James Clerk Maxwell, Augustus De Morgan, Ernest Rutherford, Roger Penrose, and Stephen Hawking. Its over 18,000 students represent more than 135 countries and its faculty have earned over 80 Nobel Prize winners.
MIT was founded in 1861 and is one of the world`s premier science research center. There has been 80 Nobel award winners, 56 National Medal of Science winners, 43 MacArthur Fellows, and 28 National Medal of Technology and Innovation winners. Since 1899, MIT Technology Review has continuously researched developing trends in the industrial sciences and other related fields. Notable alumni from MIT include Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, father of linguistics Noam Chomsky, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, and former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
While there is no founding date for Oxford, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Oxford’s academic community includes 80 Fellows of the Royal Society and 100 Fellows of the British Academy. President Bill Clinton attended Oxford along with many other heads of state.
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is known by its German acronym ETH and the highest-ranked school on the continent of Europe. It was once home to Albert Einstein. Twenty-one Nobel Prize winners came from ETH.
University of Tokyo is not only the leading school in Japan, but also the leading school in all of Asia and now attracts students from over 100 nations.University of Tokyo runs numerous research institutes studying multiple fields, including medical science, earthquakes, Asian culture, molecular bioscience, cosmic ray research, solid state physics, and environmental science. The school has produced seven Nobel Prize winners and one Field’s Medalist.
The oldest Catholic university in the world was founded in 1425 by Pope Martin V. It is the Catholic University of Louvain located in Louvain, Belgium. KU Leuven is Belgium’s largest university. Even though its library burned down in both world wars, the school now has 30 auxiliary libraries with 4.3 million volumes. The school has produced multiple Nobel Prize winners.
Moscow State University (MSU) is located in Russia’s capital. The school has over 40,000 students, 6,000 professors and lecturers .About 4,000 international students come to MSU each year. MSU`s alumni include 11 Nobel Prize winners and 7 Fields Medalists. Famous politicians like Mikhail Gorbachev and Mikhail Suslov were affiliated with the university, as well as many famous writers such as Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov. It also houses Russia’s largest supercomputer.
Ohio State University is located in the state capital of Columbus. The school is one of the top public universities in the U.S., with 44,000. besides its academic excellence, its sports programs are top rated throughout the country.
Founded in 1386, Heidelberg University is Germany’s oldest research university. Heidelberg focuses on four broad areas of research: materials and structures; molecular and cellular pattern formation; self-organization and regulation; and global culture. The school’s 30,000 students study and work in 12 different faculties and can choose from 160 different programs. The school is also connected to 55 Nobel Prizes.
With over 38,000 students and over 4,400 academic and research staff, The University of Manchester is the largest single campus-university in the United Kingdom. The school has 25 Nobel Prize winners. Several famous scientific experiments were performed here, such as Ernest Rutherford’s historic Gold Foil Experiment proving that the so-called “atom” has an internal structure (a nucleus). Alan Turing laid the foundations for the field of computer science at Manchester, and later on it was here that the world’s first supercomputer was built.
Founded in 1870, The University of Akron is a public research university in Akron, Ohio, and is known for its polymer research. As a STEM-focused institution, it focuses on industries such as polymers, advanced materials, and engineering.
The University of Akron offers about 200 undergraduate and more than 100 graduate majors. With an enrollment of approximately 27,000 students from throughout Ohio, the United States, and 71 foreign countries, the University of Akron is one of the largest campuses in Ohio. UA’s Archives of the History of American Psychology, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, contains famous psychology artifacts and is visited regularly by researchers from around the world.
The Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is the tallest structure in the world, standing at 829.8 m (2,722 ft).
The Beipanjiang Bridge Duge in Dugexiang, Guizhou, China, is the world's Highest Bridge. It has a height of 1,854 feet--565 meters and a length of 2,362 feet--720 meters. It was completed in 2016.
While Tokyo, Japan is considered the largest city in the world because of its population of 35,700,000 New York City is the largest city in the area it covers. The population of New york is 20,464,000 and has a land area of 11,842 square miles--30,671 SqKm.
The world`s largest swimming pool is more than 1,000 yards long, covers 20 acres, has a 115-ft deep end and holds 66 million gallons of water. It is located at the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo, Chile.
The Large Hadron Collider or LHC, is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, the largest and the largest single machine in the world. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometers (17 mi) in circumference, as deep as 175 meters (574 ft) beneath the France–Switzerland border near Geneva, Switzerland.
The Antonov An-225, a Ukrainian cargo jet named "Mriya" is the only plane of its kind. It is a cargo plane that has six jet engines and 32 wheels. Its wingspan measures 290 feet (88 meters), Which is longer than five 53-foot semi-truck trailers set end-to-end. Its maximum total weight at takeoff: 640 tons.
The MV CSCL Globe is a container ship owned and operated by China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL). It has an overall length of 400 m (1,312 ft) and a maximum capacity of 19,100 twenty-foot containers. The ship a service speed of 20.5 knots (38 km/h).
The Airbus A380 is the world's largest passenger airliner. The A380-800 has a cabin that has 550 square metres (5,920 sq ft) of usable floor space, 40% more than the next largest airliner, the Boeing 747-8, and provides seating for 525 people in a typical three-class configuration or up to 853 people in an all-economy class configuration. The A380-800 has a range of 8,500 nautical miles (15,700 km) and a cruising speed of Mach 0.85, or about 900 km/h, 560 mph.
The world`s largest passenger cruise ship is named The Harmony of the Seas. It has a weight of 226,963 gross registered tons, a length of 1,188.1 ft (362.12 m), with a passenger capacity of 5,479 guests at double occupancy (it fits 6,780 guests total) and 2,100 crew members.
In Chiatura, Georgia there is an old monastery, that is no longer in use and is accessible via an iron ladder that extends from the ground up to the top. While it is not the largest, it is one that can be classified as extreme.
In Australia this four-story home is still only in the conceptual stages, but is in the extreme category.
Known by the names, Seawise Giant, Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, Oppama, and finally Mont, is a supertanker and the longest ship ever built. Seawise Giant was the longest ship ever constructed. It is 458 Meters (m)---1502.62467 Feet (ft) in length. It is longer than the Empire State building is in height. She can reach speeds up to 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h).
Made in Germany, the Bagger 288 stands some 311 feet tall, is 705 feet long and weighs 45,500 tons. It is used in strip mining.
The Panama Canal is a man-made 48-mile (77 km) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. France began work on the canal in 1881, but stopped due to engineering problems and a high worker mortality rate. The United States took over the project in 1904, and opened the canal on August 15, 1914. One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken.-----
The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable artificial satellite. It is the largest artificial body in orbit and can often be seen with the naked eye from Earth.
The Great Wall of China stretches from Dandong in the east, to Lop Lake in the west, along the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. The Ming walls measure 8,850 km (5,500 mi).
Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Its test on October 30, 1961, remains the most powerful man-made explosion in human history.
The Rungrado 1st of May Stadium seats 114,000 and is located in Pyongyang, North Korea,
The Troll A platform is an offshore natural gas platform off the west coast of Norway. At 1.2 million ton ballasted under tow, 472 meters high, with underwater concrete structure at 369 meters, and dry weight of 656,000 tons, the Troll A is among the largest and most complex engineering projects in history. It is the largest object ever to be moved by man across the surface of the Earth.
Simply an amazing feat of engineering and work done by an ancient civilization. To this day, we really do not know how they were built. However, we have a good idea in how they could have done this.
https://youtu.be/C1y8N0ePuF8
or-- https://youtu.be/Bj0RnvIl9cQ
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Do they have seat-belts "on" the plane?
Let`s all go to grandma`s house.
If you actually think of what he says, you will see why-----
If you ever debated on a social media site like Facebook, you will come across those that can only rebut your position by using memes.
If aliens from another planet were observing us, what would they truly think????????
This should be easy to do
Have you ever listened to someone and just had to look like this after they said something??
Of course this is very dangerous and should never be done--but it is however a way to solve the problem-
And of course they will tell you how smart they are.
seriously??????????
and a little studying helped also
place your answer here---
The Normans from France were the first to build castles that were made of dirt and wood. they were called, Motte and Bailey Castles. The term motte and bailey castle comes from Norman French words for mound and enclosed land.
In the Romanian countryside, is the 12th century fortress of Prince Vlad Dracul, also known as Vlad the Impaler. It was the setting of Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel, Dracula.
Neuschwanstein Castle is a nineteenth-century palace built on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. It was built as a retreat and as a homage to Richard Wagner by Ludwig II of Bavaria. The palace was intended as a personal refuge for the king.
Caerlaverock Castle has that familiar castle surrounded by a moat look. It was first built in the 13th century. It is located on the southern coast of Scotland, on the edge of the Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve. Caerlaverock was a stronghold of the Maxwell family from the 13th century until the 17th century when the castle was abandoned.
Hohensalzburg Castle is translated into English as, "High Salzburg Fortress." The castle sits atop the Festungsberg, a small hill in the Austrian city of Salzburg. It is one of the largest medieval castles in Europe.
Eltz Castle, or the German translation, Burg Eltz, is a medieval castle that was built in the hills above the Moselle River between Koblenz and Trier, Germany. It is still owned by a branch of the same family (the Eltz family) that lived there in the 12th century,
The Château de Suscinio or de Susinio is a French castle, built in beginning of the 13th century. It is a moated castle and was the residence of the Dukes of Brittany. It is located in the commune of Sarzeau in the département of Morbihan, near the coast of the Atlantic ocean. It was designed to be a place of leisure.The castle was fortified and enlarged, at the end of 14th century, when the heirs of the duchy had to fight to keep their lands.
Hohenwerfen Castle (German: Burg Hohenwerfen) stands above the Austrian town of Werfen. The castle is surrounded by the Berchtesgaden Alps. The castle was built between 1075 and 1078 by the order of Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg. Formerly the castle belonged to the Habsburg family of Austria , currently, their relatives The House of Sforza, Count Andreis reside within it.
Burghausen Castle in Burghausen, Upper Bavaria, is the longest castle complex in the world.
The castle's history started in the Middle Ages when a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Pena was built on the top of the hill above Sintra. According to tradition, construction occurred after an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
One of the most famous castles in the world is Windsor Castle. It is the residence of the Roayal Family od England. The original castle was built in the 11th century after the Norman invasion of England by William the Conqueror. Windsor Castle is owned by Queen Elizabeth II
A moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England. It was built in 1385.
Hohenzollern Castle is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern. It has gone through 3 changes since first constructed in the 11th century. The final castle was built between 1846 and 1867. It is the most visited castle in Germany.
The Alcázar of Segovia began as an Arab fort, which itself was built on a Roman fort. It has served as a royal palace, a state prison, a Royal Artillery College and a military academy since then. It is currently used as a museum and a military archives building.
Le Mont-Saint-Michel or Saint Michael's Mount, is an island commune in Normandy, France.The island has held strategic fortifications since ancient times and since the 8th century AD has been the seat of the monastery from which it draws its name. According to legend, the archangel Michael appeared in 708 to Aubert of Avranches, the bishop of Avranches, and instructed him to build a church on the rocky islet. Aubert repeatedly ignored the angel's instruction until Michael burned a hole in the bishop's skull with his finger.
Camelot the castle associated with the legendary King Arthur. Most scholars regard it as being entirely fictional. It brings up the stories of The Knights of the Round Table. However, no direct evidence has been provided to show it actually existed.
The castle has a long association with legends related to King Arthur. Local tradition, founded largely on the writings of Geoffrey of Monmouth in his twelfth-century History of the Kings of Britain, claims this is the birthplace of King Arthur. The ruins of the castle, dates back to the twelfth or thirteenth centuries.
Truly beautiful----but eventually, it will be washed into the sea
A wonderful form of art.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, Prague Castle is the largest ancient castle in the world. From its beginnings in the 9th century, the castle was a seat of power for kings of Bohemia, Holy Roman emperors, and presidents of Czechoslovakia. It is the official residence of the President of the Czech Republic.
Might be a difficult castle to defend. Here is the story behind this small castle------http://anitasnotebook.com/travelstories/the-smallest-castle-in-the-world/
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Just a small fraction of the stars that are in our Milky Way Galaxy
The reflection of the colors from water is breathtaking
7 separate waterfalls, each a sister to the other
it is not a scene from the Wizard of Oz
Such a peaceful scene from what was once a war torn country
We can see how it got its name.
A lenticular cloud is a lens-shaped cloud that normally develops on the downwind side of a mountain or mountain range. This occurs when stable, moist air flows over a mountain, creating a series of oscillating waves.
One could stand on the bridge for hours.
simply beautiful
From the green pastures to the top of the mountains in a spectacular view.
imagine being in the lighthouse at that time.
The water is so clear, it looks like the boats are floating.
Ever wonder how a cave formed up there?
Didn`t take much thought into naming this. lol
Mammatus are most often associated with the anvil cloud and also severe thunderstorms. They often extend from the base of a cumulonimbus, but may also be found under altocumulus, altostratus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds, as well as volcanic ash clouds.
And with this, i say good night.
