At 312,528 mi² in total area, NSW is a little larger than Texas (268,596 mi²) and not quite half the size of Alaska (665,384 mi²).
Western Australia is the largest sub-national semi-autonomous political division in the world. Previously, it had been the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, a part of the USSR, which is now the world’s biggest sovereign country.
At 20,105 mi², San Bernardino County in California is the largest county subdivision in the USA. San Bernardino County is larger than nine states: Maryland, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island.
Unlike most states, Alaska is divided into boroughs and census areas that serve as county-equivalents for the Census Bureau. If included with the remainder of the counties and county-equivalent areas in the United States, Alaska’s boroughs and census areas would occupy the largest 11.
The largest of these is the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (147,842.51 mi²). This is larger than the 4th-largest state, Montana (147,040 mi²) and smaller than the 3rd-largest state, California (163,695 mi²).
California is now the most populous U.S. state; about one-fifth of the entire national population lives there.
Of the six hemispheres into which the world is divided (northern, southern, eastern, western, land, water), it is the Water Hemisphere that is the least populous, with an estimated 6% of the world’s population and 2% of the world’s industry.
(There is a staggering paucity of citations referenced in this Wiki article, suggesting that the whole thing is one man’s fancy.)
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Conceptually, though, it makes sense doesn’t it?
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The Water Hemisphere is the hemisphere on the Earth with the highest area of water. It is centered near New Zealand. The other half of the Earth is the Land Hemisphere which is centered in France.
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Water Hemisphere: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Water_hemisphere.png
Land Hemisphere: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Land_hemisphere.png
ETA: more trivia about this –
The Water Hemisphere has only one-eighth of the world’s land, including Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, Hawaiʻi, the Maritime Southeast Asia, and the southern part of South America. Most of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean are on the Water Hemisphere. Proportionately, the Water Hemisphere is approximately 89% water, 6% dry land and 5% polar icecap.
The Land Hemisphere has just under seven-eighths of the land on the Earth, including Europe, Africa, North America, nearly all of Asia and most of South America. However, even in the Land Hemisphere, the ocean area still slightly exceeds the land area.
In 2008 you should have bought a John Ellis Electron Water Machine. After all
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is located in Menlo Park, CA and accelerates electrons. The main accelerator is 2 miles long—the longest linear accelerator in the world—and has been operational since 1966.
The name of Menlo Park, CA is derived from Mionloch (meaning “small lake”), a small village in Ireland. The city was named after two Irish immigrants purchased the land in the 19th century and named the ranch after their hometown. Today, Menlo Park is home to many technology corporations, including Facebook. Only by coincidence does it share the same name as Menlo Park, New Jersey, the home of Thomas Edison’s famous laboratory.
Worth mentioning, even if off-topic here. I recently read about a woman who heated two pans of water, one in microwave and one on stove, and let them cool Plants watered with the microwaved water died.
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The name of Menlo Park, CA is derived from Mionloch (meaning “small lake”), a small village in Ireland. The city was named after two Irish immigrants purchased the land in the 19th century and named the ranch after their hometown. Today, Menlo Park is home to many technology corporations, including Facebook. Only by coincidence does it share the same name as Menlo Park, New Jersey, the home of Thomas Edison’s famous laboratory.
Christie Street in Menlo Park, NJ was the first street in the world to use electric lights for illumination.
According to the 2012 campaign book Double Down, President George W. Bush’s nickname for future New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was “Big Boy.”
In the early 1920s Agatha Christie and her husband toured the world promoting the British Empire Exhibition. They visited South Africa, where they learned to surf prone. They also visited Hawaii, where they learned to surf standing up. They were among the earliest Britons to do so.
With the creation of the Order of Canada in 1967, Canadians are no longer eligible to receive the Order of the British Empire.
US Marines on sentry and standing a post have 11 General Orders governing their actions. Marine recruits going through boot camp are required to memorize these General Orders.
For me it’s been 34 years since I was in boot camp and I still have these General Orders memorized, taking up brain cells that could be used for more important things.
From memory - I sure hope I get these correctly:
- To take charge of my post and all government property in view.
- To walk my post in a military manner, keeping always on the alert, and observing everything within sight or hearing.
- To report all violations of orders I am instructed to enforce.
- To repeat all calls from posts more distant from the guardhouse than my own.
- To quit my post only when properly relieved.
- To receive, obey, and pass on to the sentry who relieves me, all orders from the commanding officer and officer of the guard. (Okay, I’m a little hazy on the exact wording there.)
- To talk to no one except in the line of duty.
- To give the alarm in case of fire or disorder.
- To call the Corporal of the guard in any case not covered by instructions. (Again, hazy…)
- To salute all officers, all colors, and all standards not cased.
- To be especially watchful at night, and, during the time for challenging, to challenge all persons on or near my post.
Holy shit I can’t believe I still know that crap. Anyway, Semper Fi.
There have been nine different automobiles in the world that were sold under the brand name Standard, in the USA, England, Germany, Italy, and most recently as 1988 in India.
International standards are developed and published by the International Organisation for Standardisation. To avoid having different acronyms in different languages it uses the short form name ISO, from the Greek ισος, meaning ‘equal’.
John D. Rockefeller founded & chaired the Standard Oil Company. It was founded in 1870 with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio.