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January 18th, 2014, 06:43 PM | #3221 |
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Alaska is the most western , northern and eastern state in the USA. It also has a longer coastline than all the other states combined.
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January 18th, 2014, 06:48 PM | #3222 |
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I'm sure I'm going to regret this but could you please explain this? As far as I know everyone has always considered Alaska to be a western state and west of the Mississippi river. No argument on the length of the coastline though. |
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January 18th, 2014, 07:17 PM | #3223 |
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As far as I know, the border between Alaska and Russian Siberia is the International Date Line. In order to be the easternmost point, Alaskan territory would need to cross the line, wouldn't it?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line And you can see from their map that the people who put this together back in the 1880's kept Alaska separate from Siberia. Maybe there is some small Alaskan island out in the middle of the straight that was forgotten about by the people that drew the line. |
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January 18th, 2014, 08:15 PM | #3225 |
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The Aleutian Islands lie in the Eastern Hemisphere, beyond 180 degrees. In the sense that they are nearer to Greenwich travelling west than east, they are the easternmost point of the United States, but this is surely some different meaning of the word 'eastern' than we're used to. It seems to me nonsense on every count - they're not actually closer to Greenwich than Maine is, as if that mattered, and because of the kink in the International Date Line, they get the sunrise latest of all.
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January 19th, 2014, 10:39 PM | #3226 |
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...a human baby born by C-section is often less healthy than one born the normal way?
That's because while in the uterus a baby is free of all bacteria but when it passes through the birth canal it starts to acquire some of the bacteria that's essential to human health, especially bacteria for the gut. Babies born by ceasarean either don't get all this bacteria or at least don't get it at the optimum time. (Source: a book on squid ). In a link to the above topic, it's called a ceasarean because Julius Caesar was supposed to have had an ancester born this way. |
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January 20th, 2014, 04:04 PM | #3227 |
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More gems from the QI book mentioned(see other posts) as source.
Regular use of sunblock has increased the incidents of rickets among British children. The remote control was developed during World War I by the German Army. Gambrinous means 'being full of beer' (something to bandy about darn the pawb!) A garden snail would take three years and two months to make it's way from John O'Groats to Land's End ( how the hell do they know that? More gems to come.
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Apparently the average speed of a snail is 1mm/sec or 3.6 metres/hour. It is 1,545,000 metres from Lands End to John o Groats. I make that 48.99 years, travelling non-stop! (I have not allowed for leap years). To do it in just over 3 years, it must have hitched a lift. Last edited by henryf; January 20th, 2014 at 04:19 PM.. |
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I was born by C-section, as were my 3 sisters. In fact until fairly recently my mum held the record in having 4 kids by C-section. As for health, well Ive not had a day off sick for over 10 years and apart from being born Ive never been an in patient.
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