Elizabeth Arden
While working in a New York beauty salon 1908, Florence Nightingale Graham (1881-1966) became known as “the little Canadian woman with the magic hands.” An ambitious nursing school dropout from Woodbridge, Ontario, she borrowed...
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Moxy Fruvous
This satiracal and sometimes political band from Thornhill, Ontario, often gave frivolous answers about its name, which comes complete with heavy metal umlaut (possibly borrowed from Motley Crue?). A member eventually admitted that, contrary...
Tim Hortons Donuts
What does hockey have to do with doughnuts? In most ways, not much, except that Tim Horton, a Hockey hall of Farmer from Cochrane, Ontario, helped start the now-famous doughnut chain. Tim Horton was...
Forensic Anthropology Research Facility
The Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (FARF) is maintained under the jurisdiction of the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University (FACTS) This unusual outdoor research laboratory focuses on “reconstructing the postmortem interval to determine...
Top 10 Biggest Wii Games
Name Genre Released Unit Sales (Millions) 1. Wii Sports Sports 2006 82.39 2. Mario Kart Wii Racing 2008 35.11 3. Wii Sports Resort Sports 2009 32.61 4. Wii Play Party 2006 28.88 5. New...
Top 10 Carnivories
Type Name Heaviest Recorded (lbs) Heaviest Recorded (kg) Whale Blue Whale 418,877 189,999.4 Shark Whale Shark 47,000 21,318 Dolphin Killer Whale 22,000 9,979 Seal Southern Elephant Seal 11,000 4,989.5 Crocodile Saltwater Crocodile 4,409 2,000...
Top 10 Biggest Masses in Our Solar System
Object Mass(x10 To The Power Of 21kg Sun 1,989,100,000 Jupiter 1,898,130 Saturn 568,319 Neptune 102,410 Uranus 86,810.3 Earth 5,972.2 Venus 4,867.3 Mars 641.69 Mercury 330.1 Ganymede (A Jupiter Moon) 148.2
Countries and Statistics: South America
Country Capital Area (km²) Population Argentina Buenos Aires 2,780,400 43,132,000 Bolivia La Paz 1,098,581 10,520,000 Brazil Brasilia 8,515,799 204,519,000 Chile Santiago 756,102 18,006,000 Colombia Bogotá 1,141,748 48,549,000 Ecuador Quito 276,841 16,279,000 Guyana Georgetown 181,034...
Countries and Statistics: Africa
Country Capital Area (km ²) Population Algeria Algiers 2,381,741 42,008,054 Angola Luanda 1,246,700 30,774,205 Benin Porto-Novo 112,622 1,485,674 Botswana Gaborone 581,726 2,333,201 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 274,000 19,751,651 Burundi Bujumbura 27,830 11,216,450 Cabo Verde Praia...
Top 10 Widest Wingspans
Bird Wingspan (Feet) Wingspan (M) Wandering Albatross 11.8 3.6 Great White Pelican 11.8 3.6 Dalmatian Pelican 11.3 3.45 Marabou Stork 11.2 3.4 Andean Condor 11.2 3.4 Mute Swan 10.2 3.1 Bearded Vulture 9.8 3...
