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What did Captain Cook prove in the Southern Hemisphere?

As a result of Tasman’s discoveries, Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand were thought to be part of one enormous continental island. It was shown on maps of the time as Terra Australis Cognita (or Southern Known Land) separated from another to the south shown as Terra Australis Incognita (or Unknown). Captain Cook, however, proved that the former was not one …

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What day of the week will it be, a year from today?

Suppose that today is February 13, 2053. The day of the week is a Thursday. One week (seven days) from today, on February 20, 2053, it will be Thursday again. After two weeks (fourteen days), it will be Thursday once more. We need to figure out how many weeks and days will have passed after a year. 2053 is not …

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What creates a dust bowl?

In 1934, people in the city of Boston in the north-eastern USA watched in amazement as clouds of choking yellow dust passed over them on their way to the Atlantic Ocean. The dust had come from the Great Plains in the American Midwest. These plains are generally treeless, because the average yearly rainfall is less than 500mm (20 in) and …

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टिकिया साबुन की

Tikiya Sabun ki

तालाब किनारे राेती थी, कल बिटिया इक बैरागन की, जब जालम कागा ले भागा, बिन पूछे टिकिया साबुन की। ये बाल भी लतपत साबुन में, पाेशाक भीतन पर नाजक सी, था अब्र में सूरज भी पिनहां, आैर तेज हवा थी फागुन की। आंचल भी उसका उड़ता था, आैर हवा के संग लहराता था, इक हाथ में दामन थामा था, इक …

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What causes the changes of sea-level?

We know how great sheets of ice extended over many areas of the Earth’s surface at certain times during geologic history called Ice Ages. The water which made up these icy masses came from seas so that the sea-level fell, but at the same time the weight of the ice pressed down upon the Earth and when the ice retreated …

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