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Numberland: The World in Numbers - Hardcover

Symons, Mitchell

 
9781782430605: Numberland: The World in Numbers
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1782430601 ISBN 13: 9781782430605
Verlag: MICHAEL OMARA BOOKS LTD, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

The world is full of fascinating facts and statistics, but presented without context and in no particular order they can be overwhelming. Numberland: The World in Numbers interprets the world around us through numbers, breaking the most amazing and revealing of facts down to their bare bones. For example, did you know that the average eyelash lasts five months? That 400 quarter-pound hamburgers can be made out of one cow? Or that the average human will grow 590 miles of hair in their lifetime?
Ordered in easily digestible sections such as 'Around the World', 'the USA', 'Money', 'Religion' and 'History', the book navigates an ordered path through a noisy world of information overload.

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Symons, Mitchell

Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied Law. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. He wrote an award-winning weekly column for the Daily Express and currently writes a weekly column for the Sunday Express. He has written over sixty books - including fifteen for children with more in various stages of preparation.

He has won the Blue Peter Best Book With Facts Award for the past two years running.

In naming Mitchell as the friend he would phone (as a Phone-A-Friend) if he were appearing on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Chris Tarrant said: "Mitch knows more totally useless things about useless subjects than anybody on earth".

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Numberland

The World in Number

By Mitchell Symons

Michael O'Mara Books Limited

Copyright © 2013 Michael O'Mara Books Limited
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-78243-060-5

Contents

Introduction, 
Around the World, 
The UK, 
The USA, 
Humans Being, 
The Human Body, 
Celebrities, 
Music, 
Art & Literature, 
Movies & TV, 
Oscars, 
Food & Drink, 
Money, 
Numbers, 
Religion & the Bible, 
History, 
Sports, 
Games, 
Science & Nature, 
Meteorology, 
Astronomy, 
Creepy-crawlies, 
Sea creatures, 
Birds, 
Reptiles, 
Animals, 
Words, 
Love & Marriage, 
Pure trivia, 
Index,


CHAPTER 1

AROUND THE WORLD


0

The number of airports in Monaco (the nearest is Nice in France).

* * *

0

The number of continents that are wider in the south than they are in the north.

* * *

1

The number of countries crossed by both the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn (Brazil).

* * *

1

The number of countries that officially measure their nation's total Happiness (Bhutan).

* * *

1

The number of countries in the Middle East that don't have deserts (Lebanon).

* * *

1

The number of countries that don't have a rectangular flag (Nepal).

* * *

1

Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives: the Great Pyramid of Giza.

* * *

1

The number of countries that have every type of climate (New Zealand).

* * *

1

The number of countries that have a national flag with a Bible in it (The Dominican Republic).

* * *

1

The number of towns in the world whose names begin with ABC (the Dutch town of Abcoude).

* * *

1

The number of countries that are entirely higher than 1,000 metres above mean sea level (Lesotho).

* * *

1

The number of countries that start with a Q (Qatar).

* * *

1

The number of countries that end with a Q (Iraq).

* * *

1

The number of English-speaking countries in South America (Guyana).

* * *

1

The number of countries where you can see the sun rise in the Pacific and set in the Atlantic (Panama).

* * *

1

The number of countries with a jaguar preserve (Belize).

* * *

1

The number of underwater restaurants in the world (in the Maldives).

* * *

1

The number of countries that don't carry their name on their stamps. It is the United Kingdom because the British invented the modern postage stamp (in 1840) and so are allowed this special dispensation – but only on the understanding that the monarch's head appears on each stamp.

* * *

1.75

The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn, which is just 1.75 square miles.

* * *

2

The number of doubly landlocked countries in the world (i.e. both entirely surrounded by landlocked countries) (Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan).

* * *

2

The number of continents that Istanbul is in (Europe and Asia).

* * *

2

The number of countries that have borders on three oceans (the US & Canada).

* * *

2

The number of minor earthquakes that occur every minute somewhere in the world.

* * *

2

The number of countries with flags that have

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Verlag
MICHAEL OMARA BOOKS LTD
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1782430601
ISBN 13 
9781782430605
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Anzahl der Seiten
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