Geography

The earliest records of Cappadocia date back to the second half of the 6th century B.C. At that time, it was the property of two Achaemenid kings of Persia - Darius the Great and Xerxes I.

Minoans (Keftiu) erected several-story edifices supported by wooden, cracked columns.

Hawaii is still a volcanically active area. From time to time, the islands are hit by earthquakes and threatened by tsunami waves.

It is situated on the same level as Lake Michigan.

As early as the Stone Age, people were settling in the Nile Valley.

By the mid-19th century, most of the moai had been overturned.

Tourists can take a boat cruise that goes almost under the very cascades of the falls.

Death Valley National Park has more than a thousand plant species, among which twenty-three are endemic.

Manhattan is historically part of the Lenapehoking (Lenape homeland) territory, inhabited by the Munsee Lenape and Wappinger tribes.

Cappadocia is famous for its bizarre rock formations, which were created some 60 million years ago by hot lava and ash from three volcanoes: Erciyes, Hasan and Gullu.