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It is also home to many highly venomous spiders.

This is the Turfańska Valley, the bottom of which lies at a depth of -154 m below sea level. The Turfan Basin is located in western China, in the Xinjiang autonomous region.

Pits dug by illegal miners form a river trail as these people follow the paths of old rivers where v ...

Vatican Hill is not among the seven hills of Rome (the seven hills on the eastern left side of the T ...

Temperatures there do not particularly vary on an annual basis. Winters are usually warm, with an av ...

Kazakhstan is a signatory to the so-called Washington Convention. This is the International Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

This is a remnant of the English colonial era.

A unique contact tracing method was used there. It proved so effective that it became a method later ...

It is mostly a symbolic figure, with little power.

During World War II, Ugandans fought in the ranks of the British army. After the end of the war, Afr ...