Econstudentlog

Wikipedia articles of interest

1. Münchhausen Trilemma.

2. Gastropoda.

3. Hansom cab. A frequently mentioned mode of transport in the Sherlock Holmes stories I’ve been reading.

4. Andes. The mountain range is 7,000 km long – this is more than the distance between Copenhagen and Cape Town, South Africa. The average height is about 4,000 m. In Europe, there is only 1 km^2 of land > 4500m and 225 km^2 > 3500m. Denmark don’t have any mountains of course, but compared to this neither does the rest of Europe.

5. Heracles.

6. Patagonia. Overlaps a little with 4, but only a little. A few images from the article:

August 29, 2010 Posted by | wikipedia | Leave a comment

   

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 136 other followers
https://econstudentlog.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/
econstudentlog.wordpress.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2014-10
77758
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:OMBIXTL4KT6UDP3OADA3OTZWSCBVCDOJ
<urn:uuid:c991c430-59f1-4a75-b12d-5482fc0bd45c>
2014-03-08T22:33:15Z
192.0.80.250
sha1:35IEWZGMSGMER7TBI6UGDRK6674ISNSD
<urn:uuid:d2c34045-7eb3-4dc0-924c-ab76ceed2a4d>
https://econstudentlog.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/
length
response
<urn:uuid:9faced5c-6cbb-4071-a728-ea335225a39f>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-10
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for March 2014
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf