Did you know that a person can live without water for a whole month? A human can only live for one week without water which is coherent, or makes sense. We need water more than a we …show more content…
need food. About 97% of earth's water is in the oceans, just 3% of the water can be used for drinking water, and 75% of the world's’ freshwater is frozen in the north and South pole ice caps.
January 21, 1976 is a historic day, two supersonic Concorde aircraft made their first flights.
One took a path from London and the other to Paris. Later that year the first Concorde flew to New York. The passengers on the flight had to bear a three hour ride. While other planes took twice as long to take that exact same flight. The fleet of Concorde’s retired in 2003, over the years the planes had carried more than 2.5 million passengers!
Do you know where the longest road on Earth can be found? The Pan-American highway begins in Alaska, passes through Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Then it continues down to the West coast of South America, all the way to Chile. Altogether the highway passes through 12 countries, jungles, and mountains. It is about 16,00 miles long. At the time only one 54-mile stretch remains until the road can burgeon and grow.
Are you familiar with the work of Marie Curie? Born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. Curie was a chemist and physicist. She and her husband, Pierre, won the Nobel Prize in 1903 for their discovery of the element radium. In 1911, MAries became the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice! She won the second award for her study of radioactivity. In 1934 death befell upon Maries, caused by her long period of contact with
radiation.