Does the 'Spanish Main' still exist?
The 'Spanish Main' does not exist today, for the land around the now Gulf of Mexico was once conquered by Spain during the 16th to 19th centuries, and now the coastline is various countries, from modern-day Panama to the Orinoco delta in Venezuela, sometimes including parts of Central America and Mexico. Also, piracy has now ceased.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Main (Philip_Eno)
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Which wall is considered the second longest in the world after the Great Wall of China?
The Moroccan Western Sahara Wall (also called the Berm) is the second longest after China's Great Wall, at about 2,700 km (1,700 miles). Morocco built it from 1980 to 1987 to separate their controlled areas - with key resources like phosphates - from the Polisario-held Free Zone. The wall is heavily fortified with sand berms, bunkers, fences, radar and the world's longest continuous minefield.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_Western_Sahara_Wall (wellenbrecher)
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During which event did Alberto Korda take the most famous photo of Che Guevara?
Alberto Korda took the photograph "Guerrillero Heroico" in Havana, Cuba, on 5 March 1960. Che Guevara, an Argentinian, was there for a memorial for the 75-100 people blown to bits by the explosion of the French freighter Le Coubre on 4 March 1960. Fidel Castro blamed the US for the sabotage of 76 tons of munitions on board.
(FatherSteve)
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Why does Australia compete in the Eurovision song contest? It is about as far away from Europe as you can get!
This is what the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) says about it:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-07/why-is-australia-competing-in-eurovision-song-contest/103801224
[quote]Why is Australia in Eurovision?
In short, because Australian broadcaster SBS has been such a big supporter of the event. It's been covering the contest since 1983 - a whopping four decades - but Australian acts have only been taking the stage for 10 years.
It kicked off in 2014, when iconic Australian singer Jessica Mauboy was invited to be a guest singer during the interval. The following year, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) invited Australia to compete as a wildcard entry.[/quote]
So it's fun fan service, but geography-wise, it's like inviting Texans to the Oktoberfest contest. (wellenbrecher)
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Which wall is considered the second longest in the world after the Great Wall of China?
The Kumbhalgarh Fort, known for possessing the world's second-longest wall, after the Great Wall of China, is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is nestled 84 kilometres north of Udaipur amidst the beauty of the wilderness.
https://www.incredibleindia.gov.in/en/rajasthan/udaipur/kumbhalgarh-fort#:~:text=The%20Kumbhalgarh%20Fort%2C%20known%20for,the%20beauty%20of%20the%20wilderness.
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The Romanian David Stoliar was the sole survivor of which tragic shipwreck?
David Stoliar survived the torpedoing of the Struma in 1942. Out at sea, the ship's engine had died with no way to repair it. A distress signal was sent out, and although the vessel was towed, a Soviet torpedo destroyed the ship. David survived by clinging to debris, but everyone else died.
https://www.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/struma/david-stoliar.html (Buddy1)
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Feb 24 26 by pehinhota
In terms of passenger travel through, but not into or out of, its airspace, what would be the number 1 "flyover" state in the USA?
According to the link above, in raw numbers they calculate Virginia, but if you consider flyovers as a proportion of aircraft entering the airspace, it is West Virginia.
However, their analysis ignores Delaware - with no instate airports, there are no landings to divide by in producing their ratio, so the table has no entry at all. Given its location on the busy east coast airway, it may well be competitive! (looney_tunes)
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Feb 22 26 by etymonlego
Which immigrant printed the first Bible in the German language in North America, in 1743?
That would be Christopher Sower.
On a fun note, one can be yours for just under $7,000 USD at the moment.
https://hsp.org/blogs/question-of-the-week/christopher-sower-printed-and-published-the-first-american-edition-of-which-book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Sauer
https://moons-rare-books.myshopify.com/products/saurs-german-bible
(maripp2002)
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Feb 23 26 by pehinhota
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What is the 90 Mile Straight?
This is Australia's longest stretch of straight road situated on the Nullarbor Plain.
https://www.australia.com/en-nz/trips-and-itineraries/perth-and-surrounds/crossing-the-nullarbor.html
(elvislennon)
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Feb 22 26 by etymonlego
What is the 90 Mile Straight?
Driving along the Eyre Highway in Western Australia, we encountered the famous 90 Mile Straight, the longest straight road in Australia. This record-breaking stretch runs between the Balladonia and Caiguna roadhouses, covering a distance of 145.6 kilometers (about 90 miles) without a single bend.
https://dulkeith.net.au/90-mile-straight-western-australia
(pehinhota)
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Feb 22 26 by serpa
Which woman was the mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother of four Roman emperors?
Octavia the Younger
[quote]Octavia the Younger (69 BCE - 11 BCE), also known as Octavia Minor or simply Octavia, is the sister of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus (known also as Octavian), half-sister of Octavia the Elder, and fourth wife of Mark Antony.
She is also the mother-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, great-grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, maternal grandmother of the Emperor Claudius, and paternal great-grandmother and maternal great-great grandmother of the Emperor Nero.[/quote]
https://www.historyatlas.com/people/octavia-the-younger/ (elburcher)
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Feb 21 26 by pehinhota
How did Eric Clapton (according to "Rolling Stone" magazine, the second greatest guitarist of all time) earn the nickname 'Slowhand'?
It appears to have come from the fact that audiences would clap very slowly, out of boredom, while Clapton was changing a broken guitar string, something that happened often -- he must have been using cheap strings. A slow clap in the UK apparently signifies boredom or frustration. (After all the time I've spent there, I've learned something new.)
I personally consider Clapton to be the greatest guitarist of all time. I couldn't care less what RS has to say about it.
https://whereseric.com/faq/how-did-eric-clapton-get-his-nickname-slowhand/ (lanfranco)
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Feb 18 26 by odo5435
Where is the world's longest continuous staircase?
If you're keen on climbing over 11,000 steps in a single workout without using an indoor stepper or going back down between ascents, the annual Niesen Stairway Run on the Swiss mountain of the same name gives you the chance of doing these Guinness-recognized longest stairs. It is the service staircase for the tracks of a funicular railway for about 3500 meters with an elevation change of 1643 meters. If you take that challenge, you have a time limit of 2:20 hours to finish - a pace slightly better than one step per second!
(Technically, the staircase might not be called 100% continuous as there is an interchange station on the funicular, so there's a few meters between the lower and upper section. If you count that as an interruption, the lower section would be the record holder as it's longer and higher than the upper one.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niesenbahn
https://www.niesen.ch/treppenlauf/ (in German) (WesleyCrusher)
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Feb 17 26 by pehinhota
Which is the world's shortest river?
That would be the Tamborasi River in Indonesia.
[quote]Tamborasi River
The Tamborasi River in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, is 20 meters long, 15 m wide and flows into the Flores Sea in Bone Bay. It is a tourist attraction given its forest-clad rocky banks and cool waters, as well as the white sand of the Tamborasi beach at its mouth. It is situated 85 km from the city of Kolaka and is fed by the numerous streams that run through the mountainous Sulawesi province.[/quote]
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/shortest-rivers-in-the-world.html (elburcher)
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Feb 17 26 by odo5435
What was Operation Tic-Toc?
It could be either: [quote]Operation Tic Toc is a fictional project that the United States of Americas first venture into time travel. It is never stated, but hindered that the project has something to do with the 20th Century cold war.[/quote] https://scifi.fandom.com/wiki/Project_Tic-Toc
or it could be...
[quote]Seven alleged members of drug-trafficking gangs were jailed Tuesday at the end of a yearlong multi-agency investigation... According to court documents, the investigation, dubbed "Operation Tic Toc," revealed two networks of methamphetamine traffickers and distributors operating in San Diego.[/quote] https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/seven-alleged-drug-trafficking-gang-members-arrested/509-c756d95c-7a48-4288-8b14-a7ffc65ce85a
(elburcher)
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Which animal is closest to man - bonobos or chimpanzees?
So here's the deal - it's a tie! We humans share approximately 98.7% of our DNA with both bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). While bonobos and chimpanzees are more closely related to each other than they are to us, they are both equidistant from humans on the evolutionary tree. In the Hominidae family, about 5 to 7 million years ago, the lineage that led to humans split off from the lineage that led to the Pan genus (chimps and bonobos). Much later, roughly 1 to 2 million years ago, the Pan lineage split into two separate species: chimpanzees and bonobos.
If one looks at behaviour, the answer is equally equal - we're a healthy mix of both of these apes. The main difference between chimpanzees and bonobos stemmed from the fact that the chimpanzees had to compete with gorillas, whereas the bonobos had the Congo River to separate them from any aggressive adversaries. Humans, the weakest of the four major genii, had to develop advanced tools to survive in the wild.
Then we developed machines that would think for us, and then they became sentient, and that became our downfall...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fylC9yMm1nE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxrXMKyB-Ug
https://www.apeinitiative.org/bonobos-chimpanzees
And Wikipedia (LeoDaVinci)
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Astronaut Frank Borman (Apollo 8) is on the cover of which Led Zeppelin album?
Frank Borman appears on the cover of Led Zeppelin's second album titled "Led Zeppelin II". The album cover was based on a photo of The Red Baron (German pilot Baron Manfred Von Richthofen) amongst other German pilots. The artist David Juniper replaced the German faces with those of the band members, management and other famous people. Juniper stated he believed he used a photo of Neil Armstrong for one of the faces, however it turned out to be Frank Borman instead. Borman was Commander of Apollo 8, which was the first mission to fly humans around the moon.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140429124902/http://feelnumb.com/2014/04/26/led-zeppelin-twice-attempted-to-put-neil-armstong-on-album-covers-and-failed/ (patrickk)
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Feb 12 26 by serpa
In the U.S.A., which type of vehicle is required by law to meet more stringent passenger safety standards; a Sports Utility Vehicle or a standard sedan?
As SUVs are classified as "light trucks" they actually have less stringent safety standards than the traditional sedan. They're also both more likely to suffer rollover accidents, and for those rollover accidents to be fatal. In short, because of the additional size and weight of SUVs (light trucks) they're more statistically safer in a crash than a sedan, but also more likely to get into a crash in the first place.
"Under the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), passenger cars must adhere to stringent safety regulations that set specific requirements for bumper height, impact resistance, and crashworthiness. These "crash compatibility" requirements are designed to ensure that vehicles of different sizes and types interact as safely as possible during collisions. However, due to their classification, light trucks are subject to less stringent safety standards regarding their structure and crash compatibility, posing unique hazards to both pedestrians and occupants of smaller vehicles."
https://publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/jlpp/2024/11/25/the-unchecked-rise-of-trucks-and-suvs-in-america/
SUVs are considerably more dangerous to pedestrians as well, mainly due to the increased size, the shape of the front end, and the decreased visibility in the vehicles.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution
Also, interestingly consumer reports won't even compare trucks/SUVs safety with sedans because of their size. They're more likely to get into accidents in the first place because the additional weight and size mean that they just can't avoid accidents that traditional sedans would.
"You won't see any full-sized SUVs or pickups on this list, either. "Larger vehicles take longer to stop and don't handle as nimbly as smaller vehicles," he says. "A large vehicle might get into a crash that a small vehicle could have avoided." https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/how-to-find-safest-new-car-using-crs-safety-verdict-a3169270635/
So while your question was only about standards in the event of a crash, just overall, crashes are more likely in SUVs or trucks, but when they do happen they're slightly more safe from fatalities because larger vehicles tend to be safer in light impact crashes, especially between two vehicles.
(maripp2002)
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