On Thursday, April 26, 2012, Keith In Tampa wrote:
--Hey PlainOl'!Are you in Tennessee? I guess I knew that, but had somehow misplaced that information. I guess you can't be all that bad, just confused from time to time and on occasion! <Grin>!
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:47 AM, plainolamerican <plainolamerican@gmail.com> wrote:
in my backyard
At 256 feet, Fall Creek Falls is said to feature the highest vertical
drop of any waterfall east of the Mississippi. (The highest vertical
drop in the west is Yosemite Creek Waterfall in California at 2,425
feet; Niagara Falls in New York state has vertical drop of but 180
feet.)
http://tn.gov/environment/parks/FallCreekFalls/gallery/nature/index.shtml
On Apr 26, 10:39 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *You're** **gonna say "I didn't know that!" at
> least 5 times.** **Really neat stuff here**. *
>
> *
> **More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska .
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> **
> **Amazon*
>
> *
> **The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20%
> of the world's oxygen supply.*
>
> *The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more
> than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh> the flow of all rivers in the United States . *
> water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater
> than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times
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> **
> **Antarctica*
>
> *
> **Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any
> country..> with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.*
> Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica .
> This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the
> world.
> As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert;
> the average yearly total precipitation is about two inches.
> Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.),
> Antarctica is the driest place on the planet,
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> **
> **Brazil*
>
> *
> **Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.*
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>
> **
> **Canada*
>
> *
> **Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an
> Indian word meaning ' Big Village '.*
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> **
> **Chicago*
>
> *
> **Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population
> in the world.*
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> *
> **Detroit*
>
> *
> **Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1,
> so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.*
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> **
> **Damascus , Syria*
>
> *
> **Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years
> before Rome was founded in 753 BC,> making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.*
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> **
> **Istanbul , Turkey*
>
> *
> **Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world
> located on two continents.*
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> **
> **Los Angeles*
>
> *
> **Los Angeles ' full name is:
> El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula> -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.*
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> **
> **New York City*
>
> *
> **The term 'The Big Apple' was coined
> by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s
> who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city.
> Therefore, to play New York City
> is to play the big time - The Big Apple.
>
> There are more Irish in New York City
> than in Dublin , Ireland ;
> more Italians in New York City
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