How to Buy Your Own Country : The Biggest Real Estate Deal in History – Alaska
In August 2019 Newspapers started to report, what on the face of it seemed to be just another of President Trumps crazy rambling stream of consciousness ideas. He wanted to buy another country!
Why Does the Wind Blow?
Another thing that we take for granted because, “that just the way it works”, but how and why does the wind blow ?
How Will Continental Drift Affect Future Maps of the Earth?
This is something to warm the heart of every Brexiteer, because Britain will NEVER in a million years (or even 250 of them) ever be a part of continental Europe … so read on
If All Time Zones Converge at the North and South Poles – How Do They Tell Time There?
All those vertical line markings on globes do reflect the reality. All the time zones do meet at the two poles, so how do the denizens of the South Pole (and the much fewer and usually shorter-term residents of the North Pole) handle the problem ?
How long has Antarctica been frozen over ?
Almost a century ago, the expeditions of both Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton found evidence, in the form of fossil ferns and coal, that Antartica has not always been a frozen wilderness. So what is it’s history ?