Posts tagged ‘travel’
9 lesser known facts about Australia
The Commonwealth of Australia is the sixth largest country (after Russia, Canada, China, the USA, and Brazil) in the world, occupying the […]
05/04/2016. Category: trivia. Tags: travel
First travel book
Tourism is a $4 trillion-a-year industry, affecting more than 200 million jobs, or 1 in 10 workers. But tourism actually is an […]
05/12/2011. Category: literature. Tags: travel
Record for most passengers on an airplane
It is not clear who was the first to fly an airplane: Richard Pearse, Gustave Whitehead or Orville Wright. Whoever it may […]
10/28/2010. Category: vehicles. Tags: aircraft, airplane, passengers, travel
13% of people are left-handed
In medieval times, left-handed people could not become knights because it was thought that they were descendants of the devil, it is […]
09/21/2010. Category: did you know. Tags: driving, left-handed, travel
Thanksgiving held twice in 1815
Thanksgiving was a centuries-old tradition held by most cultures around the world. After the autumn harvest, communities held 3-day-long feasts, sharing meat, […]
02/08/2010. Category: did you know. Tags: thanksgiving, travel, turkey
World’s worst traffic conjestion and travel
The amount of time that people spend on travel has been consistent at 1,1 hours per person per day in all societies. […]
02/07/2010. Category: vehicles. Tags: traffic, travel
New age in space travel
The VentureStar is was envisioned to be the space delivery system of the 21st century. As a fully reusable, single-stage-to-orbit vehicle, it […]
02/04/2010. Category: vehicles. Tags: space, travel, x33
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