Pichola Sok's List: Google Seach Activity 1

• Edwin Eugene (Buzz) Aldrin Jr American Pilot Astronaut. Born 20 January 1930. Second person on the moon.

• Pompeii: Portents of Disaster
• eruption of Vesuvius started on the morning of 24 August, AD 79

• List of Member States
• 192 Member States of the United Nations

• Number of 9/11 Deaths
• 343 NYFD firefighters and paramedics

• The dead include 341 firefighters and two paramedics from the New York City Fire Department who died Sept. 11, 2001.

• 1954 – Switzerland: West Germany
• 1954W. GermanyHungary3-2Fritz WalterSepp HerbergerAustria Switzerland 

• H5N1 has killed more than 250 people worldwide since it was first discovered in Hong Kong in 1997

• I stone = 14 pounds

• Unlike the standard mile that Americans are used to using, the nautical mile is based on standard dimensions of the Earth
• The international mile, used in the United States as a measurement of length, is derived from an ancient Roman measurement of one thousand paces.
• Much like the foot, based on the length of a man's foot, and the inch, based on the measure of the distance from the last knuckle of the thumb to the tip, the mile is fairly arbitrary and, in its original definition, varies from person to person
• The nautical mile, however, was based on a basic measurement of the size of the Earth.

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