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World Heritage Sites in the United States

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has identified 878 World Heritage sites that it considers of “outstanding universal value.“ In the United States…

2008 Year in Review - Science News

Top events for the nation and the world Science 2008 Science Milestones, 2008 New Lab on ISS • Polar Bears Listed as a Threatened Species • Reducing Greenhouse…

Our Top 5 Stories for the Week of October 11, 2021

It’s been a busy week, from low voter turnout in Iraq to absolute violence across the globe. Who has time to keep track of it all? That’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top five stories of the…

Homework Helper Fun Facts: Geography

Geography Countries of the World U.S. States U.S. Cities World Geography The Continents World Land Areas and Elevations Continental Drift and Plate-Tectonics Theory Volcanoes of…

Searching and Browsing Infoplease

Search Simple Search To search, simply type the words you want to look up in the search box above and click the "Search" button. This will search all of the Infoplease Almanacs®, plus the…

October 2005 Disasters

Oct. 1, El Salvador: Ilamatepec volcano, the highest in El Salvador, erupted, killing 2. Thousand evacuated the area as boiling water poured down the slopes and a column of ash reached 50,000…

subsidence

(Encyclopedia) subsidence, lowering of a portion of the earth's crust. The subsidence of land areas over time has resulted in submergence by shallow seas (see oceans). Land subsidence can occur…

Quito

(Encyclopedia) QuitoQuitokēˈtō [key], city (1990 pop. 1,100,847), N central Ecuador, capital of Ecuador and of Pichincha prov. After Guayaquil it is Ecuador's largest city. The setting of Quito is…