The southernmost university in the world is the National University of Tierra del Fuego, located in the city uf Ushuaia in Argentina.
The southernmost point in the USA is on the big island of Hawaii.
(Been there, done that)
The most southerly point on the earth’s surface is the South Pole, where the temperature is currently -63C (or -85C with windchill).
The South Pole experiences only one sunrise (at the September equinox) and one sunset (at the March equinox) every year. From the South Pole, the sun is always above the horizon in the summer and below the horizon in the winter. This means the region experiences up to 24 hours of sunlight in the summer and 24 hours of darkness in the winter.
Only 10% of the world’s population lives in the southern hemisphere.
The worldwide human population density is around 7 billion ÷ 150 million = 47 per km² (120 per mile²). This includes all continental and island land area, including Antarctica.
An overall average population density of 120 per mile² means the world, on average, is about as crowded as Anchorage AK or Suffolk VA.
According to Wikipedia, the most densely populated country or territory in the world is Macau, with 21,190 people per km[sup]2[/sup], and the least densely populated is Greenland with 0.03 people per km[sup]2[/sup].
Of the 100 most populous countries, Bangladesh is the most densely populated and Australia the least.
In 1946 the United States offered to buy Greenland from Denmark for $100,000,000, but Denmark refused to sell.
HRH the Crown Princess of Denmark (born Mary Donaldson) studied at the University of Tasmania in Hobart and graduated with degrees in commerce and law (BCom LLB).
Legend has it that when an editor at Ballantine Books read the manuscript for Stephen Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant novels, he said, “I hate this book. But it’s going to make a ton of money” and published it.
Years later, when he read Terry Brooks’s Shannara books, he said, “I hate this book. But in the same way I hated Donaldson.” He published that, too.
In upstate New York, specifically Geneva NY near Seneca Falls in the Finger Lakes Region, is HWS, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Hobart was originally founded in 1822 for men, and William Smith in 1908 for women. They operate cooperatively as a two-college system and they share the same campus, faculty and curriculum, but when the men graduate they do so from Hobart, and the women from William Smith.
ETA: ninja’d, so to make this play valid I’ll add that the colleges also share their bookstore facilities.
NYC’s Strand Bookstore was opened by Benjamin Bass in 1927 on Fourth Avenue, in what was known as “Book Row”, which had at the time 48 bookstores. Bass’s son Fred took over the business in 1956 and soon moved the store to the present location at the corner of East 12th Street and Broadway. Fred’s daughter Nancy is co-owner of the store, and is also married to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon.
Many of the Sherlock Holmes short stories first appeared in the Strand Magazine.
The Strand in Westminster, London, runs from Trafalgar Square to Temple Bar, where it continues into Fleet Street, City of London. At its eastern end is the church of St. Clement Danes, the Central Church of the Royal Air Force.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express, which originally ran in London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre for 12 years, opened on June 12. 1988, at a specially built venue, the Starlighthalle in Bochum, Germany. The Starlighthalle was built especially for the production in an extraordinary time of less than one year. Both the special building and record breaking build time were documented in the Guinness Book of Records. The Starlighthalle was specially designed for the show, with large tracks on two levels in a U-like shape with the audience sitting in the middle and around these tracks. On stage the tracks even run over three levels which allows several race combinations. In 2003 a ‘Y’ shaped track was added to the smallest inner track, the Parkett, dividing it into 3 seating areas and allowing greater flexibility of staging and more tricks for the skaters.
Bochum, Germany, dates from the 9th century, when Charlemagne set up a royal court at the junction of two important trade routes. It was first officially mentioned in 1041 as Cofbuokheim in a document of the archbishops of Cologne.
The lyrics to Kid Charlemagne were loosely inspired by the exploits of infamous 1960s San Francisco-based LSD chemist Owsley Stanley.
LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann in 1938 from ergotamine, a chemical derived by Arthur Stoll from ergot, a grain fungus that typically grows on rye. The short form “LSD” comes from its early code name LSD-25, which is an abbreviation for the German “Lysergsäure-diethylamid” followed by a sequential number.
The Number of the Beast in the Book of the Revelation is 666. There have been many explanations over the past two millennia for the significance of 666.
Albert I, King of the Belgians, died in a mointaineering accident in 1934.