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[Aristotle]
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Tropical Storm Henri was a moderate tropical storm that struck Florida during the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. The eighth storm of the season, Henri formed from a tropical wave in the Gulf of Mexico on September 3. Moving generally to the east, it strengthened to peak winds of 60 mph (97 km/h) two days later. Henri weakened to a tropical depression before making landfall near Clearwater, Florida, dropping heavy rainfall with minor flooding damage. Henri degenerated into a remnant low on September 8 and persisted off the east coast of the United States for a few days before moving back ashore over North Carolina. The system brought heavy rainfall across parts of the Mid-Atlantic before dissipating on September 17. In Delaware and Pennsylvania heavy rainfall damaged hundreds of houses and businesses. The resulting floods in Delaware were described as a 1-in-500-year event. The total damage by Henri along its path amounted to $19.6 million, but no deaths were reported. (Full article...)
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On this day: April 18
- 1881 – The painted ceilings of the Natural History Museum, London, were unveiled when the building opened its doors to the public.
- 1946 – The final session of the League of Nations concluded in Geneva, with delegates agreeing to transfer much of its assets to the United Nations.
- 1958 – Controversial American poet Ezra Pound (pictured) was released from St. Elizabeths Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., in which he had been incarcerated for twelve years.
- 2023 – Dominion Voting Systems agreed to a $787 million settlement with Fox News over defamation claims related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
- Theobald of Bec (d. 1161)
- Waxy (d. 1818)
- Morgan Hwang (b. 1941)
- Dzsenifer Marozsán (b. 1992)
Knowledge about Earth
Facts and Figures
- Age of Earth: ~ 4.568 billion years
- World Population: 7.3 billion (July 2015)
- Continents: 7 (Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia)
- Mean Radius: 6371.0 km
- Axial Tilt: 23,44°
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Our Solar System
Our solar system consists of
1 star (Sun) and 8 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
- 1 AU (astronomical unit) is roughly the distance between Earth and the Sun (about 150 million kilometres).
- The space probe Voyager 1 was launched by the NASA in 1977 and is meanwhile (autumn 2015) about 133 AU away from Earth.
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Why you should extend your general knowledge:
There are many reasons why one should or wants to extend his knowledge.
First you should consider that "general knowledge" is knowledge which a group of humans - who belong together regional, temporal or otherwise - owns. Thus, it describes a basic understanding of specific categories of knowledge.
As the English philosopher Francis Bacon said before: "Wisdom is Power" [Bacon 1597].