For many, Orwell captured as well as anyone the essence of whatShakespearecalled “this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.” Get Unlimited Access Try Britannica Premium for free and discover more. Subscribe Land England is bounded on the north byScotland; on the west by the...
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Origin of Himalayans Since the birth of the earth, the crustal plates have kept separating and merging. Each convergence creates scars on the earth - mountains. About 65 million years ago, the Tibetan Plateau was still at the bottom of the Neo-Tethys Ocean, the second-largest ocean in the...
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In the top 10 only the Netherlands and Australia have populations over 15 million. In the top 20, only Canada and the UK have populations over 30 million. Afghanistan, ranked last, has the lowest happiness on the scale (1.7) and is the only Asian country in the bottom 10, which is mos...
Floristic regions reflect the geographic organization of floras and provide essential tools for biological studies. Previous global floristic regions are generally based on floristic endemism, lacking a phylogenetic consideration that captures floristic
Animated map of how Earth will look in 250 million yearsGene Kim
maps by C.R. Scotese of the PALEOMAP Project, Webster's map can show you how the earth under your current address changed over the course of some 750 million years. It's humbling to know 400 million years ago, the woods outside my home in Ithaca, New York, w...
(seesynodic period) have changed regularly for at least the past 600 million years because oftidal frictionand other forces that slow Earth’s rotation. The rate of change in the synodic month was minimal for most of the Cretaceous but has accelerated since. The reasons for these twoanomalies...