Geography

The largest of them is Olkhon, which is the third largest lake island in the world. It is inhabited by about 1500 people - Buryats. The deepest place of Baikal (- 1637 m) is located near the island.

It is believed that the natives completely stripped the island of trees, using them to build boats, ...

Mining was carried out by the Pacific Coast Borax Company formed by Francis Marion Smith. Before the ...

He called it Aramava in his list of cities in Arabia, indicating that the valley was at a point tang ...

Greenland's waters are home to bowhead whales, narwhals, walruses and several species of seals. On land there are polar bears, reindeer, arctic foxes, arctic wolves, muskoxes and lemmings.

The newcomers brought with them various diseases that decimated the native population. Around 1770, ...

The streams of lava erupting from the volcano were recorded by witnesses as "liquid fire".

Although some classify Elbrus as an Asian peak, which would give the title of Europe's highest peak to Mont Blanc, most scientists consider Elbrus a European peak.

It is home to over 10,000 tropical plants, 1,000 species of birds, 700 species of fish, and 400 mammals, many of which are endemic to Africa.

In place of the WTC office buildings destroyed in the attack, a complex of four skyscrapers was buil ...