Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.
As the size of Britain’s empire declined rapidly after 1945, so too did the UK's global military commitments. There are also more recent developments, such as the UK government’s Strategic Defence and Security Review of 2010, which outlined personnel would be cut throughout the 2010s to ...
To address these questions, the number of newly diagnosed and reported HIV infections in MSM in the year 2009 derived from national surveillance systems in Europe were compared with self-reported survey derived data on newly diagnosed HIV infections in survey participants of EMIS who were tested for...
of white feathers on the breast. Galapagos penguins, the most northerly of all penguin species, inhabit the western part of theGalapagos Islands; however, some individuals may occasionally venture to other islands in the archipelago. Compared with other penguin species, the population is small, ...
diameter is likely to be the controlling dimension. Nevertheless, meaningful and useful results are obtained, especially when different batches of nominally similar powder are being compared. For very small subsieve size powders other methods have to be employed. This is the primary domain of laser...
Britain’sfirst strategic submarines, of the Resolution class, entered service in 1967 with 16 Polaris missiles. Between 1994 and 1999 four Vanguard-class vessels, comparable to the U.S. Ohio vessels, entered service to carry as many as 16 Trident missiles each. ...
Legend has it that during World War II, British bureaucrats curtailed the budget for the department of culture to fund the war efforts. When the then Prime Minister of Britain found out he wondered aloud, “then what are we fighting for?” The budgetary cuts were restored. Ever since the ...
Harris S (1979) Breeding season, litter size and nestling mortality of the harvest mouse, Micromys minutus (Rodentia: Muridae), in Britain. J Zool Lond 188:437–442Harris S. 1979a. Breeding season, litter size and nestling mortality of the harvest mouse, Micromys minutus (Rodentia, Muridae...
New houses in Ireland and the UK are four to five times as costly compared to affordable markets such as Indianapolis and Winnipeg (Figure 2). 10 Hugh Pearlman, "The Greening of 10 MPH Suburbia, The Sunday Times, (November 20, 2005), www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1879922,00....
According to The Office for National Statistics (UK), total construction output in Great Britain increased by 12.7% in 2021 compared to the previous year. This was the most significant increase since annual records began in 1997. This trend is expected to continue, highlighting the region's grow...