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This quirky work will reel in geography aficionados and trivia buffs like nothing else. It reveals ordinary, extreme and surprising facts about places around the world, including their names, topography, transportation, idiosyncrasies, climates, demographics, finances, recreational pursuits and politics. Among the facts readers will glean: Argentinas highest speed limit is 130 km/hr (81 mph); East Orange, NJ, is the most populous U.S. city or town with a population thats less than 5% white; Seoul, South Korea, is the largest world city with a one-syllable name; Lake Forest, Ill., is the richest city in the U.S. (with a per capita income of $77,092); and Socorro, Tex., is the poorest (its per capita income is $7,287). Like census figures, these pieces of information beg for analysis, which Maxwell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, does not provide. Yet the facts he presents (which come from the CIA World Factbook, the 2000 U.S. Census and elsewhere) still fascinate.
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Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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2004/11/13
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For anyone who is interested in facts and figures about the world we live, this is an incredible book. As a learning tool for kids (using interesting lists to find these places on a map of the world) this would also be valuable.
In general, there is everything you wanted to know and more about the world: find out the antipodes (where you end up if you drill through the center of the earth) of places around the world; discover the earliest or latest sunrises and sunsets; all the cities mentioned in songs that hit the Billboard Top 40. In other words, its hard to believe this data exists, let alone that someone was able to think of all the interesting ways to use it.
Looking through this book you'll learn more about our world and the people in it in a short time than you'll find anywhere. Some of the lists are particularly poignant: want to know the 7 countries that apply the deat penalty for crimes that happen when a person is under 18? CONGO, IRAN, NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, SAUDI ARABIA, YEMEN and, of course, THE UNITED STATES. Makes you think...
In general, there is everything you wanted to know and more about the world: find out the antipodes (where you end up if you drill through the center of the earth) of places around the world; discover the earliest or latest sunrises and sunsets; all the cities mentioned in songs that hit the Billboard Top 40. In other words, its hard to believe this data exists, let alone that someone was able to think of all the interesting ways to use it.
Looking through this book you'll learn more about our world and the people in it in a short time than you'll find anywhere. Some of the lists are particularly poignant: want to know the 7 countries that apply the deat penalty for crimes that happen when a person is under 18? CONGO, IRAN, NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, SAUDI ARABIA, YEMEN and, of course, THE UNITED STATES. Makes you think...
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