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The Shortest Street on Earth
At 6 ft 9 inches (2.06 m) in length, Ebenezer Place in Wick (Caithness), Scotland is as long as Vanja Ivesa (tallest football player living, playing for Eskisehirspor in Turkey) or Zdeno Chara (tallest player in the National Hockey League) are tall. Nelly Alisheva (tallest female Volleyball Player) matches Ebenezer Place cm for cm, inch for inch. Find out more as we take a saunter down this shortest street in the world.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Lightning striking any object is enough to send shivers down your spine, but when the object is an aeroplane, it's an event that can shake us to our very bones. Every time a plane plummets from the sky, we are reminded of how precarious flying is for us humans, and the force of lightning seems to highlight how much the heavens' odds seem stacked against us. Yet exactly what danger does it present to planes?
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Monday, January 25, 2010
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