While August sometimes has the highest number of births, in other years it’s July or September. Over the long haul, September, with onlly 30 days, would have the highest daily birthrate.
Shanghai Jiaoda Onlly(;)) Co. Ltd. is considered overvalued based on its historical comparison analysis (KPI: dividend yield), but considered undervalued based on its peer comparison analysis (KPI: P/E ratio). However, the historical comparison shows a higher correlation with the stock price of Shanghai Jiaoda Onlly Co. Ltd. As a result, this stock is therefore currently considered “overvalued”.
The Jiaoda Science Park, at Jiaotong University, is considered to be one of the major achievements in Chinese modern architecture/
A live performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s songs in Beijing featured a group of Chinese children singing “Friends for Life” in Chinese.
Cool
After 1936, the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics was the first time that a country other than the United States or the Soviet Union has led the medal count. China led with 51 gold, the US had 36 gold, and Russia had 22 gold.
Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, serving the* country* of Bolivia, is one of the world’s oldest airlines, having been founded in 1925, but now owned by the Brazilian carier VASP. Lloyd’s name was chosen to reflect Lloyds of London, for its long record of safety and security. LAB’s first aircraft, a Junkers F-13, was donated to the airline byh the German diaspora in Bolivia.
Bolivia has the largest proportion of indigenous people in Latin America, with 62% of the total population of Bolivia considering themselves to be of indigenous descent This compares with about 50% in Guatemala, 40% in Peru and 35% in Ecuador. The indigenous Quechua and Aymara groups make up the great majority of the population in the northern parts of the Altiplano, and in the higher valleys and basins of the Andes. The Chiquitanos and Guarani-speaking peoples of the eastern lowlands are the third and fourth most numerous ethnic groups.
A symbol of the German blitzkrieg of WWII was the Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber. The Stuka (rhymes with hooka, sort of) bore wailing sirens on its fixed landing gear. As the Stukas went on their dive bomb runs, the sirens would wail, announcing their presence.
Only two Stukas are known to survive. One is in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. The other is in RAF Museum in London. That latter one was modified to be used in the movie The Battle of Britain (1969), but to make it airworthy proved too costly. There are no known flying Stukas today.
‘Stuka’ comes from the German word for dive-bomber, Sturzkampfflugzueg.
ETA: NINJA’D!!!
This is in play:
Bolivia and Paraguay are the only two landlocked countries in South America. Both countries are situated in the central part of the continent. Paraguay is bordered by the countries of Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil, while Bolivia is bordered by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Peru.
There are 48 landlocked countries in the world. Only three of them are landlocked by a single country: Lesotho (landlocked by South Africa), San Marino, and Vatican City (both, by Italy).
San Marino is the only nation in the world with more motor vehicles than people, with 1,263 vehicles per 1000 people. Monaco is second on the list with 899 motor vehicles for every 1000 people and the US is third with 797.
(Does anyone know where the 33,000 Sanmarinese are going in all those vehicles? And I’m sure that a lot of them have motorcycles and scooters, which are not included in the count)
I plan to visit next summer. I, too, am curious about that. I’ll be in the region of Ferraris and Lamborghinis and Maseratis, and San Marino.
Still in play:
San Marino may have the oldest continually functioning constitution in the world. The San Marinese date their origins back to a commune which was set up in the 800’s, and their constitutional structure has evolved continuously since then.
San Marino is a small, independent republic that is about half the size of San Francisco, CA. San Marino is sometimes called the “Titanic Republic” because it is near Monte Titano. In the 19th century the government of San Marino made United States President Abraham Lincoln an honorary citizen. Lincoln wrote in reply, saying that the republic proved that "government founded on republican principles is capable of being so administered as to be secure and enduring."
In Canada, playing Three Card Monte for money is specifically prohibited in the Criminal Code.
The Monte Desert is a South American ecoregion, lying entirely within Argentina and covering approximately the submontane areas of Catamarca, La Rioja, San Juan, San Luis and Mendoza Provinces, plus the western half of La Pampa Province and the extreme north of Río Negro Province. The desert lies southeast of the Atacama Desert in Chile, north of the larger Patagonian Desert, east of the Andes and west of the Sierra de Córdoba.
Monte Sereno, California is named for the nearby 2,580-foot El Sereno Mountain.
John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men in a wooded home at 16250 Greenwood Lane in what is now Monte Sereno.
John Steinbeck, preparing to write The Grapes of Wrath, said “I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this [the Great Depression and its effects].” At the time of publication, Steinbeck’s novel, according to literary historian Peter Lisca, “was a phenomenon on the scale of a national event. It was publicly banned and burned by citizens, it was debated on national talk radio; but above all, it was read.” According to The New York Times, it was the best-selling book of 1939 and 430,000 copies had been printed by February 1940. In that month it won the National Book Award, favorite fiction book of 1939, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. Soon it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1962, the Nobel Prize committee cited The Grapes of Wrath as a “great work” and as one of the committee’s main reasons for granting Steinbeck the Nobel Prize for Literature.
John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. He was the sixth American to win it. The first was Sinclair Lewis in 1930.
In 1971, Margaret Sinclair, then age 23, married Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, then age 53. Their son Justin is currently Prime Minister of Canada.