Santa Maria (full name Santa Maria da Boca do Monte) is a city in Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. It is located at 29 ° 41'03 S latitude and 53 ° 48'25 west longitude and 151 meters above sea level. Its population is approximately 270,000. Santa Maria is located about 300 kilometers from Porto Alegre in the geographic ...

Falakro Oros ("Bald mountain") is a mountain in the Drama regional unit, eastern Greek Macedonia, northern Greece. The elevation of its highest summit, Profitis Ilias, is 2232 meters above the sea level. There is a ski resort on the mountain. The traditional Turkish name of the mountain is Bozdağ ...

Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York, and the largest in area. Since 1899 it has been conterminous with Queens County. It boasts the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world, as 48% of its citizens are foreign-born. It is located at the west end of Long Island, and its Long Island City is ...

Taking a boat at least 10 miles off the coast to go fishing. Deep sea fishing trips yield larger fish as a whole, ranging up to 300 pounds, and maybe larger. The rush of having a fish on your line that is the same size as you is invigorating. Trips range anywhere from $50-$500 per person depending on the boat, number ...

Electrofishing is the practice of feeding a weak electrical charge into the water to stun fish so that they become momentarily incapacitated and float to the surface, usually motionless. The fish are then scooped up with a net and placed into a holding tank. The practice is often used by biologists to conduct studies ...

Shark finning is the illegal practice of removing shark fins (as they are really valuable goods) while they are alive and then throwing sharks to the ocean again as the rest of the animal don’t have economic worth, so they died from suffocation or eaten by other animals as they cannot move properly. Finning is ...

The complex is a historic building that is located at Les Bons and it includes the church of Sant Roma of the 12th century, water tank for irrigation that carved out of the rock; remain of a fortified house representing civil architecture from 17th century, and two dovecotes from modern times. The church is a ...

The Summer Palace is a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing, China. The Summer Palace is mainly dominated by Longevity Hill and the Kunming Lake. It covers an expanse of 2.9 square kilometres (720 acres), three-quarters of which is water. Longevity Hill is about 60 metres (200 feet) high and has ...

Archimedes of Syracuse ( 287 BC –  212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Among his advances in physics are the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and an ...