Circee
Warlord
I don't know Az... But I know that the deepest oceanic point is the Mariannes's Deep, in Pacific ocean
Last Cumulative Quiz: Geography (I hope)
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Az
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Hahahaha
Gotcha here Circee!
Anyone else?
do I tell the answer?
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Gotcha here Circee!
Anyone else?
do I tell the answer?
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Circee
Warlord
I beg your pardon?
Was I right with the Mariannes'?
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Was I right with the Mariannes'?
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Az
Emperor
No you were right for the Marianas!
It was about the kingdom
So the Kingdoms are.........in Wallis and Futuna
There are three : Wallis, Uvea, and Suve
Ok I don't have any new question in mind and we are a bit confused now so anyone can ask a Geography question for this time
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It was about the kingdom
So the Kingdoms are.........in Wallis and Futuna
There are three : Wallis, Uvea, and Suve
Ok I don't have any new question in mind and we are a bit confused now so anyone can ask a Geography question for this time
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Johnny_c
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Alright, I'll jump in.
One capital outside of the United States was named after an American citizen. Who was it and what is the name of the capital?
One capital outside of the United States was named after an American citizen. Who was it and what is the name of the capital?
Mongol Horde
Resident Savage Army
Monrovia, Liberia named after Monroe of course.
Next Question:
Where are officialy the hottest, wettest and driest places on Earth?
Next Question:
Where are officialy the hottest, wettest and driest places on Earth?
Circee
Warlord
Hottest...I'm not sure...
I would say the Death Valley(california) but the hottest temperature ever recorded occured in Libya...
Wettest, It's Mawsyrnam, India (11 873 milimeters per years...) and the driest is the well-known Atacama desert, in Chile.
What are the 10 most LITTLE countries in the world?
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I would say the Death Valley(california) but the hottest temperature ever recorded occured in Libya...
Wettest, It's Mawsyrnam, India (11 873 milimeters per years...) and the driest is the well-known Atacama desert, in Chile.
What are the 10 most LITTLE countries in the world?
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Answer: Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis, Seychelles, Maldives.
Next question: As a pilot I have to deal with units of distance in three different systems. I measure altitude in feet, visibility in meters and distance in nautical miles. Nautical miles are about 15% bigger than ordinary miles, and I even use the knot - 1 nautical mile per hour - as my unit of speed. Why are nautical miles so useful? Why are they used in preference to miles or kilometers?
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Next question: As a pilot I have to deal with units of distance in three different systems. I measure altitude in feet, visibility in meters and distance in nautical miles. Nautical miles are about 15% bigger than ordinary miles, and I even use the knot - 1 nautical mile per hour - as my unit of speed. Why are nautical miles so useful? Why are they used in preference to miles or kilometers?
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Johnny_c
Chieftain
Nautical miles are useful in that one nautical mile is approximately equal to the mean value of 1 minute of latitude. This is an important number because more boats travel horizontally (across the Atlantic and Pacific) than vertically making it simpler to calculate distances from destinations. This also means that the distance of a nautical mile changes as you head north or south. The nautical mile being 1,843 metres at the equator and 1,861.6 metres at the pole. Good enough?
If it is, I'd like to know what part of Boston was known as Mount Whoredom in the 18th century.
If it is, I'd like to know what part of Boston was known as Mount Whoredom in the 18th century.
Az
Emperor
Wow Johnny c! I had no idea.
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Hi Johnny_c. You're half right and half wrong! Which is good enough.
Half right: Yes, a nautical mile is defined as equal to 1 minute of latitude, so the shortest distance between two parallels of latitude 1 degree apart is 60 nautical miles.
Half wrong: The distance is measured north-south along a meridian of longitude, so it doesn't help sailors travelling east-west. The change in the length of the nautical mile at the poles vs. the equator is insignificant. What really changes as you drift north or south is how many minutes of <u>longitude</u> you cross when travelling for 1 nautical mile east-west at different latitudes. That changes dramatically.
But it's good enough!
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Half right: Yes, a nautical mile is defined as equal to 1 minute of latitude, so the shortest distance between two parallels of latitude 1 degree apart is 60 nautical miles.
Half wrong: The distance is measured north-south along a meridian of longitude, so it doesn't help sailors travelling east-west. The change in the length of the nautical mile at the poles vs. the equator is insignificant. What really changes as you drift north or south is how many minutes of <u>longitude</u> you cross when travelling for 1 nautical mile east-west at different latitudes. That changes dramatically.
But it's good enough!
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Warlord56
Warlord
Johnny_c I'm going to take a wild guess at Cambridge, I am probably wrong so I won't post another question but inform me if I'm right
I reckon it's Beacon Hill.
(If I'm right, my question is: "How old is the English Channel?")
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(If I'm right, my question is: "How old is the English Channel?")
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Johnny_c
Chieftain
Cambridge is unfortunately not correct.
Beacon Hill is 100% right.
How old is the English Channel? Ummm, I dunno, how long has Great Britain and France been separated?
Wild guess: 23,104,201 years.
I'm probably misinterpreting the question
Beacon Hill is 100% right.
How old is the English Channel? Ummm, I dunno, how long has Great Britain and France been separated?
Wild guess: 23,104,201 years.
I'm probably misinterpreting the question
It will be shince the last ice age, if someone want to look up how long ago that was.
England and France were joined by a "land bridge" until the end of the last Ice Age. It was some time after that this bridge became flooded.
So Lefty is right. Want to take a guess at how long ago it became flooded? Plus or minus 1000 years will do.
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So Lefty is right. Want to take a guess at how long ago it became flooded? Plus or minus 1000 years will do.
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Athos
Chieftain
Give or take 4,000 years, I'd say about 10,000 B.C. (This guess is based upon migrations across the Bering Land Bridge).
If I happen to be in the ball park:
Give or take 20,000,000 years, what is the age of the rocks that make up the oldest sea floor in the oceans?
If I happen to be in the ball park:
Give or take 20,000,000 years, what is the age of the rocks that make up the oldest sea floor in the oceans?
I would say 180 - 200 million years. Right? If that's right, my question is this:
Local winds sometimes have special names. Some well-known examples are "Mistral", "Levant", "Scirocco".
There is a wind called The Helm. Where does it blow, and why is it called that?
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Local winds sometimes have special names. Some well-known examples are "Mistral", "Levant", "Scirocco".
There is a wind called The Helm. Where does it blow, and why is it called that?
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Az
Emperor
Well storm I'm se for the word for more than half an hour and all I've found is the dictionary deinition (which is the first place I searched anyway).
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I've searched Britanica, Encarta, World Book, The Almanac, I asked my father, my uncle (who both know some things about boats) but.....
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Maybe I just didn't see it....
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I've searched Britanica, Encarta, World Book, The Almanac, I asked my father, my uncle (who both know some things about boats) but.....
I could get nothing about this #@$%$#^& wind!!! <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif" border=0>
Maybe I just didn't see it....
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animepornstar
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the helm blows in britain and it´s called the helm because it is streching clouds like helmets over the hills. right?
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