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The Ark Two Shelteris a nuclear fallout shelterbuilt by Bruce Beach (14 April 1934 – 10 May 2021)[1][2]in the village of Horning's Mills(north of Toronto, Ontario).[3] The shelter first became habitable in 1980 and has been continuously expanded and improved since then.[4] The 930 m2(10,000 sq ft) shelter is composed of 42 school buses, which ...
Ouachita National Recreation Trail is a 223-mile (359 km) long, continuous hiking trail through the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma and Arkansas. It is the longest backpacking trail in the Ouachita National Forest, spanning 192 miles across its length. [1] Approximately 177 miles of the trail is in Arkansas and 46 miles of the trail is in Oklahoma.
The Durupınar site ( Turkish: Durupınar sitesi) is a geological formation of 164 metres (538 feet) made of limonite on Mount Tendürek, [1] [2] adjacent to the village of Üzengili in eastern Anatolia or Turkey. The site is 3 km (1.9 mi) north of the Iranian border, 16 km (9.9 mi) southeast of Doğubayazıt in the Ağrı Province, and 29 ...
Noah’s Ark is said to have come to rest on the mountains of Ararat following a 150-day flood about 5,000 years ago.
Ararat anomaly. Coordinates: 39°42′10″N 44°16′30″E. Picture of the Ararat anomaly taken by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1949. 1973 Keyhole-9 image with Ararat anomaly circled in red. The Ararat anomaly is an alleged structure appearing on photographs of the snowfields near the summit of Mount Ararat, Turkey, and advanced by some ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault ( Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. [5] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage of duplicates of seeds conserved in genebanks around the world.
An ongoing excavation in Damietta, Egypt, has uncovered 63 tombs from more than 2,500 years ago, alongside a trove of gold artifacts, coins and pottery. The artifacts could provide further insight ...
Mount Elbrus. / 43.35500°N 42.43917°E / 43.35500; 42.43917. Mount Elbrus[ a] is the highest mountain in Russia and Europe. It is a dormant volcano rising 5,642 m (18,510 ft) above sea level, and is the highest stratovolcano in the supercontinent of Eurasia, as well as the tenth-most prominent peak in the world. [ 7]