By Gary Fuller
Gary Fuller’s exciting and fascinating consultant complements geographic knowledge with stable, out of date enjoyable, utilizing trivialities to open up new worlds of data for all readers. usually disregarded as unimportant, trivialities the following highlights matters which are faraway from trivial, wondering, for instance, what peaceable kingdom calls for electorate to maintain weapons of their houses? what continent comprises not less than seventy five percentage of the world’s clean water? and why arent big apple, la, Chicago, and Philadelphia the capitals in their respective states? An inveterate visitor and geographer extraordinaire, Fuller presents wide heritage, transparent illustrations, and thorough causes for every fascinating query, rigorously grounding the textual content in useful geographic ideas. either relaxing and enlightening, this e-book demanding situations today’s international new release to really get to understand their international.
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One of the major characteristics of a religion is that it involves worship. ” The Buddha was silent. Buddhism spread throughout South Asia, into Southeast Asia, and into East Asia as far north as Mongolia. Eventually it was absorbed by the older Hindu religion in India and became mixed with other religious beliefs in much of China, Korea, and Japan. One form of Buddhism, Lamaism, is found in both Tibet and Mongolia and is the state religion of Bhutan. Answer 13: Lamaism is also the majority religion of a European country: Kalmykia, an autonomous EUROPEAN country within the Russian 60 Federation.
Tourism can be defined much the same way, but there’s a difference. While plantation workers were expected to adopt some cultural norms of the host country, tourists aren’t expected to do so in the countries they visit. It’s increasingly difficult to find a tourist destination where English isn’t the 55 dominant language. For those who desire to learn what another culture is like, it’s growing ever more difficult to do so as a tourist. Not only language but also accommodations and food are modified to serve the tourist.
Answer 9: A British clockmaker, John Harrison, spent more than thirty years attempting to develop a timepiece that could be used by ships. The clock mechanism needed to survive the often violent movement of ships at sea. If time at the starting point of a voyage could be accurately known throughout the voyage, then it could be compared with local time and, after numerous computations, longitude determined. Harrison finally succeeded in 1761. Harrison’s invention gave the British a huge technological advantage over every other seagoing power, but the cost of Harrison’s chronometer was so high that it was slow to come into widespread use.