Facts and Figures (Geography)

A small firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) announced a computer kit called the Altair, which met the social as well as technical requirements for a small personal computer.

Edward Jenner was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire on 17 May 1749, the son of the local vicar.

The state earned its Badger State nickname from itinerant miners who burrowed into hills for shelter rather than building homes.

In addition, dairy is a major driver of Wisconsin's economy, generating more than $20 billion a year.

The city's name commemorates on of the foundering fathers of the US close friend of Thomas Jeffeson.

In 1792, Madison and Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) founded the Democratic-Republican Party, which has been called America’s first opposition political party.

At its heart is the Vieux-Port (Old Port), where fishmongers sell their catch along the boat-lined quay.

Marseille, also spelled Marseilles, is the administrative and commercial capital of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, one of France’s fastest growing régions.

Mining is the state’s largest export industry, and tourism plays a major role in the state’s economy thanks to standing if Las Vegas as the Entertainment Capital of the World

Bordered by Oregon, Idaho, California, Utah and Arizona, Nevada is the seventh largest state by area.

The city is generally considered a Republican stronghold, often voting for Republicans by wide margins.

When Nevada became a state in 1864 during the American Civil War, Carson City was confirmed as Nevada's permanent capital.

Located in the center of the Great Lakes, the state is divided into two land masses known as the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

The Mackinac Bridge, which connects Michigan’s upper peninsula to the rest of the state, spans five miles and is one of the world’s longest suspension bridges.

The Thomas M. Cooley Law School is the largest law school in the nation and is located in downtown Lansing.

The city was known as Titograd (Титоград) between 1946 and 1992.

Podgorica (Подгорица; lit. '"[little area] below the mountain"') is the capital and largest city of Montenegro.

The native name Crna Gora, also meaning "black mountain" or "black hill", came to denote the country in the 15th century.

Following the independence referendum held in May 2006, Montenegro declared its independence and the confederation peacefully dissolved.

Federal laws of Germany hold the FLI responsible for national and international animal disease control; it also poses the international reference lab for several viral diseases

Fort McHenry is best kown for its role in the war of 1812, when it defended the city's harbour from an attack by the British navy.

The Battle of Baltimore was a pivotal engagement during the War of 1812, culminating in the bombardment of Fort McHenry, during which Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that would become "The Star-Spangled Banner".

Tourists, pivotal to the economy, are drawn by the architectural treasures of Bath and Wells; by Bristol Channel resorts such as Weston-super-Mare, Minehead, and Burnham.

Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.

The most striking ecclesiastical building there is the church of St. Mary Redcliffe, a 14th-century structure whose grandeur of proportion and majestic Perpendicular Gothic design have made it one of the most celebrated parish churches in England.

Bristol is located about 120 miles (190 km) west of London at the confluence of the Rivers Avon and Frome.

On 22 May 2017, an Islamist extremist suicide bomber detonated a shrapnel-laden homemade bomb as people were leaving a concert by American singer Ariana Grande.

The IRA detonated a 1,500-kilogram lorry bomb on Corporation Street in the centre of Manchester. It was the biggest bomb detonated in Great Britain since the Second World War.

Throughout 1942, Jews from Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were taken by train to the village to be lined up in front of the pits and were shot.

the capital of one of the most powerful maritime republics for over seven centuries, from the 11th century to 1797.

On the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea, Genoa has historically been one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean: it is currently the busiest in Italy and in the Mediterranean Sea and twelfth-busiest in the European Union.

On May 25, 2020, video captured the murder of George Floyd, an African-American man, by a white police officer, who knelt on Floyd's neck and back for more than nine minutes while he struggled to breathe and died.

Saint Anthony Falls northeast of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the only natural major waterfall on the Upper Mississippi River.

Two complementary treaties were signed on 24 October 1648 to end the Thirty Years War.