Looking out the front window at Mount Gambier in all its 190m (620ft) stature made reading this article on Today I Found out about the difference between hills and mountains all the more intriguing. Apparently there are objective matters of height, and more subjective matters of prominence in play. Not content with one contentious subject …
There are jobs in big cities that I find bemuse my small town perspective. Years ago I was intrigued to hear radio ads for a business that did nothing else but mount plasma screen tvs on walls. Today we saw this business in operation at Costco fuel in Adelaide. Wrong Fuel Rescue. The name tells …
To take a quote from Douglas Adams and apply it to the subject at hand, the Pacific Ocean “is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to” the Pacific Ocean. This …
This infographic identifies each country’s oldest school or university still in operation. Some will surprise by how old they are, perhaps more surprising are how recent some of these institutions began. If you click on the image you’ll see a larger size image. At Online Schools Report the original is accompanied by others focussing on …
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