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EarthCam, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, United States, provides webcam content, technology and services. Founded in 1996, EarthCam.com is a network of scenic webcams offering a complete searchable database of views of places around the world. As the company grew, EarthCam expanded beyond building its network of tourism cameras ...
Piel Island lies in Morecambe Bay , around 1⁄2 mile (800 metres) off the southern tip of the Furness peninsula in the administrative county of Cumbria, England. It is one of the Islands of Furness, three of which sit near to Piel at the mouth of Walney Channel. The island is the location of Piel Castle, built by the monks of Furness Abbey in ...
12 October 1992. 13 October 1992. Concorde FAI "Westbound Around the World" world air speed record from Lisbon, Portugal. [27] [28] [29] Michel Dupont and Claude Hetru ( Air France ) 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds. 15 August 1995. 16 August 1995. Concorde with 98 passengers and crew, no equatorial crossing.
IDEC 3, current outright record holder at 40 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds. The first around the world sailing record for circumnavigation of the world can be attributed to the surviving crew of Ferdinand Magellan 's expedition, including the last captain Juan Sebastián Elcano who completed their journey in 1522.
From the beginning of the current century there is a tendency to also estimate healthy life expectancy (HALE), the average number of years that a person can expect to live in "full health". [2] [3] Comparing life expectancies across countries can be problematic.
Live Around the World is the second (first internationally) live album by Queen + Adam Lambert, released on 2 October 2020 by Hollywood Records in North America and EMI worldwide. [1] It is a compilation of songs performed at various shows between June 2014 and February 2020. The album was also released on DVD and Blu-ray with additional songs ...
The world has hundreds of major cities, mostly in coastal regions. As of 2022, the world had 159 metropolitan areas with a population of over 3,000,000 people each. [31] As of 2010, about 3 billion people live in or around urban areas. [7] The following table shows the populations of the top thirteen conglomerations.
National Trust and Northumberland National Park. The Sycamore Gap tree or Robin Hood tree was a sycamore tree next to Hadrian's Wall near Crag Lough in Northumberland, England. Standing in a dramatic dip in the landscape created by glacial meltwater, it was one of the country's most photographed trees and an emblem for the North East of England.