Top 10 Natural Wonders Of The World
Author: Nathan Martyn
Part of what makes the Grand Canyon so beautiful is an understanding of how much time when into its creation. Millions of years were spent by the Colorado River sculpting and carving away at the rock to develop what can be seen today. The depth of the canyon is breathtaking. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long and up to 18 miles in width from rim to rim. The Canyon also goes down a full mile.
Auroras are natural displays of light in the sky but the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, is the most beautiful of all. Visible from the Northern Hemisphere, the Aurora Borealis can be seen as a greenish glow or even faint red.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's hugest coral reef system and is home to 3,000 single reefs and stretches about 1,600 miles. The reef is located off the coast of Australia and can even be seen from space. Although humanity and environmental causes threaten the reef, it remains one of the most concentrated spots for unique aquatic life on Earth.
The Niagara Falls are stunning waterfalls located on the border of Canada and the United States. Formed during the last ice age by receding glaciers, the Niagara Falls is the most powerful and beautiful waterfall in North America.
Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world and reaches 29,029 feet at its summit. Mount Everest, located in the Himalayas in Asia, has attracted climbers from around the world. Many have died attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest, considered the worlds most physically demanding challenge.
Victoria Falls, located in southern Africa, are some of the largest waterfalls in the entire world. The width of the falls is about 5,600 feet and the height is almost 360 feet, creating one large sheet of water.
Paricutin is a cinder cone volcano located in Mexico that is located near a village covered by lava. In 1943 the volcano started merely as a fissure in a cornfield. Farmers witnessed the initial eruption of stones and ash and the volcano grew quickly afterward, reaching the height of five stories in only one week. After a year the volcano had reached over a thousand feet and continued erupting for eight years.
The harbor of Rio de Janeiro is considered one of the most beautiful harbors in the world with wonderful weather and free beaches. Located in Brazil, the harbor is surrounded by mountains and was formed by the Atlantic Ocean.
The Amazon Rainforest, or Amazonia, covers 1.4 billion acres and is home to 2.5 million insect species, 2,000 birds and mammals, 40,000 plant species, 3,000 fish and over 300 reptiles. 20% of all birds in the entire world live in the beautiful Rainforest, making it the most diverse place on earth.
The Galapagos Islands are volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean with a population around 40,000. What makes the area so unique is the diversity of the animal life and it's reputation as the place that created the theory of evolution due to natural selection.
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Which Presidential Candidate has the best solution to illegal immigration?
The words illegal immigrants define people who are officially in this Country without legitimate authorization and who have crossed over our boundaries of criminology. In the same light undocumented reference is intended to reflect the chaos and confusion associated with such criminology. Thus, the line between legal and illegal is thin and squiggly, and at best any idea of officially incorporating the two circumstances into a roadmap to U.S. citizenship is the equivalent of the Government officially granting a form of amnesty to criminals, which may open a can of worms that could completely infect our current criminal justice system with dire consequences of irreversible imperfection. From that point on how can there ever be a set standard by which to determine any legality, in a situation that began illegally?
Just as legalizing smoking pretty much destroyed America’s health system, legalizing illegal immigrants may overwhelm the already stretched to the limit criminal justice system with civil and felony crimes, motor vehicle offenses and domestic disputes. At the time no one anticipated the extremely adverse effect smoking would have on America’s healthcare over the years. Current statistics show that more than one hundred thousand people die each year from second hand cigarette smoke. And another one hundred thousand suffer from smoking related diseases at a staggering healthcare expense on the economy.
Smokers addicted to nicotine are hardcore liars who will do just about anything to continue their smoking habit; including outright pretending they don’t know that their second hand smoke effects everyone around them from anywhere between fifteen and twenty-five cubic feet of air space. They have no consideration for their own children let alone other people’s children or their supposed loved pets. In essence smokers are worse than illegal drug users. Unlike smokers, at least illegal substance abusers go off into their own little world and pollute themselves. In addition, smoking is the common link to most people going on to illegal drug abuse.
Using smoking as an example in which many people experiment with harsher drugs, it would only be a matter of time before amnesty granted illegal immigrants tire of doing the job Americans supposedly don’t want to do, and begin competing with Americans for higher paying more prestigious jobs. As well, using smoking as a learning experience, it is inevitable that amnesty granted illegal immigrants will have a devastating effect on America’s economy costing far more than their worth when it comes to healthcare, education, social services, pregnancies, housing and unforeseen mishaps.
One unforeseen mishap is that it would only be a matter of time before hardcore criminals behind bars begin using illegal immigrant amnesty laws to challenge the criminal justice system keeping them behind bars. After all, how can the law grant amnesty for whatever reason to people who are not even citizens of this country without granting some sort of amnesty to its own criminals who are behind bars for illegality? In my opinion immigration is not the answer to America’s work force problem. Instead, why not kill two birds with one stone: Alleviate the overcrowding costs of America’s prisons, by developing and supervising sentence reduction and early release work incentive programs for non-violent prisoners in exchange for them doing the jobs Americans supposedly don’t want to do as opposed to amnesty immigration?
Copyright 2007 by Aaron Westley Powell
Ron Paul
Do You Like America?
people automaticlly love america because they were born here and say that they are proud of it. but think deeply about what goes on and then answer this question.
america is the most obese country in the world.
every 8 seconds, somebody die from lung cancer from smoking in america.
every 10 seconds somebody dies of a car accident in america.
every 4 minutes somebody gets killed by a gun in america.
1 out of 4 sexually active people doesnt know they have aids.
about 40 percent of men deny the fact that they are their baby’s daddy.
every 15 minutes someone is killed or injured driving under the influence.
about every 45 seconds, a child is molested.
every 20 minutes, somebody is raped.
every 12 minutes someone is abducted.
54 percent of teens are sexually active.
there are much more FACTS that can go on here, but i dont have enough character. this is based on the statistics in 2006. one question, Do You Really Like America?
Yes. Statistics are stupid. There are 300 million people in the US. All of those horrible things are going to happen faster and faster just because of population increase.
Do You Really Like America?
people automaticlly love america because they were born here and say that they are proud of it. but think deeply about what goes on and then answer this question.
america is the most obese country in the world.
every 8 seconds, somebody die from lung cancer from smoking in america.
every 10 seconds somebody dies of a car accident in america.
every 4 minutes somebody gets killed by a gun in america.
1 out of 4 sexually active people doesnt know they have aids.
about 40 percent of men deny the fact that they are their baby’s daddy.
every 15 minutes someone is killed or injured driving under the influence.
about every 45 seconds, a child is molested.
every 20 minutes, somebody is raped.
every 12 minutes someone is abducted.
54 percent of teens are sexually active.
there are much more FACTS that can go on here, but i dont have enough character. this is based on the statistics in 2006. one question, Do You Really Like America?
1. I doubt these statistics.
2. These issues exist everywhere.
3. Many countries with handgun laws have more murders per-capita.
4. It’s easy to post a lot of negative stuff and ignore the good and think you have made your point.
5. I love it here. I love the wide open places, the freedom to express how I feel and the ability to be whatever I want to be. Try those in many of the other countries.
Do You Honestly Like America?
people automaticlly love america because they were born here and say that they are proud of it. but think deeply about what goes on and then answer this question.
america is the most obese country in the world.
every 8 seconds, somebody die from lung cancer from smoking in america.
every 10 seconds somebody dies of a car accident in america.
every 4 minutes somebody gets killed by a gun in america.
1 out of 4 sexually active people doesnt know they have aids.
about 40 percent of men deny the fact that they are their baby’s daddy.
every 15 minutes someone is killed or injured driving under the influence.
about every 45 seconds, a child is molested.
every 20 minutes, somebody is raped.
every 12 minutes someone is abducted.
54 percent of teens are sexually active.
there are much more FACTS that can go on here, but i dont have enough character. this is based on the statistics in 2006. one question, Do You Really Like America?
I love America no matter what. You must not be an American citizen.
Did you know?!……?
In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles
Every person has a unique tongue print
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.
Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they’re still sitting on it.
You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air
The average person is half an inch taller upon rising in the morning.
A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at up to 600 m.p.h.
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t give her coffee.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones – Bhutan
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
The world population of chickens is about equal to people
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana
About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it to make more money.
It’s against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
Some toothpaste brands contain antifreeze.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star
About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it to make more money.
It’s against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
Some toothpaste brands contain antifreeze.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food
27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is “a meaningless existential hell.”
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The numbers ’172′ can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, “Well, are you there?”. It wasn’t until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase “number please?”
The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Karoke means “empty orchestra” in Japanese.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.”
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.
It would take 11 Empire
Adding to that $1.19 thing, take the numbers and put them backwards and the numbers are 911. 911=9/11. 9+1+1=11.
3, 7, and 40 are the most frequently used numbers/factors in the Bible (40 days & nights in the desert, 40 years of Moses wandering in the desert, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles, 3 days of the Triduum, Lent is 40 days, Ordinary Time has 33 weeks before Christ the King, 34 weeks of Ordinary time (3×4=12), 3 ppl in Blessed Trinity, etc…)
Coca-Cola was once green
111,111,111 x 111,111,111= 12,345,678,987,654,321