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Where do North Atlantic icebergs come from?

The principal origin of those icebergs that reach the North Atlantic Ocean are the 100 or so major tidewater glaciers of West Greenland. Between 10,000 to 15,000 icebergs are calved each…

2006 Men's Olympic Hockey Medalists

Bronze Medal Game Czech Republic 3 Russia 0 Gold Medal Game Sweden 3 Finland 2   Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.     Ice…

Skiboarding

Year 1998Mike Nick1999Chris Hawks2000Neal Lyons2001Event discontinuedCrossOverWinter X GamesIce Climbing

Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton was a British explorer of the South Pole who is best remembered for leading his crew to safety after the failed expedition of the Endurance (1914-16). Ernest Shackleton had been a…

Geometry: Cylinders and Cones

Cylinders and ConesGeometryThe Next Dimension: Surfaces and SolidsPrismsPyramidsCylinders and ConesPolyhedraSpheresPlatonic Solids In the definition of a prism, the bases were forced to be…

World Indoor Records Set in 1998

World indoor records set or equaled between Oct. 1, 1997 and Sept. 1, 1998.Men Event RecordOld MarkFormer Holder60 metersMaurice Greene, USA6.41*6.41Andre Cason, USA (1992)60 metersMaurice…

A. E. Housman: Others, I am not the first,

Others, I am not the first, Have willed more mischief than they durst: If in the breathless night I too Shiver now, 'tis nothing new.More than I, if truth were told, Have stood and sweated…