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  FACTS ABOUT THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON 1. The fire spread largely thanks to building manufacture. Buildings were mainly made of wood at this time in London. They were also packed together tightly across narrow streets. Combined with the strong easterly wind, the conditions were perfect for the fire to spread rapidly. 2. It all started on Pudding Lane. The Pudding Lane house of Thomas Farriner is where the fire started. It is believed a spark from the oven had fallen into a pile of fuel at 1 am in the morning. Most of the people in the house were able to clamber to safety. Unfortunately, one of the maids could not escape and was the first victim of the Great Fire. Most people tried to gather as many belongings as they could and fled to the river, trying to get out safely, while others rushed through the gates of London to the fields outside. 3. Pepys led the way to save London. Samual Pepys is the person that famously first informed the King of the fire, and who ...

 FACTS ABOUT THE ROAYL ALBERT HALL 1. It’s a massive draw. The Royal Albert Hall plays host to 5,200 people at any one TIME, making it one of London’s biggest venue landmarks. 2. A legendary queen opened the Hall. Queen Victoria oversaw its grand opening! The Hall’s doors swung open in 1871, and since then, it has played host to thousands of different shows and acts. 3. Many, many different acts book in here. In fact, over 350 performances take place here each year – that’s nearly one for each day on the calendar. 4. It survived conflict. The Hall withstood bombing attempts in both World Wars, despite the fact that its eye-catching design from above was a clear marker for attackers. However, there are parts of the Hall that have fallen over the years. For example, the Queen’s Hall took its final bow in 1941. 5. The Hall’s main organ is a behemoth. The main organ in the Hall weighs around 150 tons and has just fewer than 10,000 different pipes. The organ cost around £1.5 m...

           FACTS ABOUT CAMEROON 1. The country is famous for its wildlife. Cameroon is a beautiful, wildlife-rich country in Central Africa. 2. What are some of Cameroon’s neighbors? It is bordered by Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south, and Nigeria to the west. It also has a coastline along the South Atlantic Ocean to the southwest. 3. Here are the compass details you’ll need. Fancy trekking through the jungle or hiking up the MOUNTAINS? Head for the coordinates of 3.8667° N, 11.5167° E to enjoy your own Cameroonian adventure! 4. It’s a mixed terrain, to say the least! The terrain here is a mix of desert plains in the north, a rainforest in the south, and stunning mountains in the center. 5. It’s the same size as a European country. The total land area of Cameroon is 183,569 square miles (475,442 square kilometers)…that’s roughly the same size as Spain. 6. How...

              FACTS ABOUT ETHIOPIA 1. Where on Earth is Ethiopia? Ethiopia is a landlocked country in the ‘Horn of Africa’, located in Northeast Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea to the north and northeast, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south and Sudan and South Sudan to the west. 2. Here are the precise compass details. The coordinates for Ethiopia are 9.0167° N, 38.7500° 3. It’s a very high and rocky country! The terrain is mostly high plateau with a central mountain range divided by the Great Rift Valley. Flag of Ethiopia 4. It’s larger than you’d think. The total land area of Ethiopia is 437,600 square miles (1,133,380 square kilometers). 5. And the population is enormous! Ethiopia’s population was 115 million in 2020. 6. What’s the capital of Ethiopia? The capital is Addis Ababa; it covers an area of 203 square miles (527 square kilometers) and according to the 2007 census had a population of 3,384,569. 7. The capital also ho...

             FACTS ABOUT COMOROS 1. What exactly is Comoros, anyway? Comoros, or the Union of Comoros, is an archipelagic country. Simply put, this means that the country is made up of a group of small islands. More specifically, Comoros is made up of four volcanic islands in the Indian Ocean. 2. Many island nations! The four islands to make up Comoros are Grande Comore, Mohéli, Anjouan, and Mayotte. Although Mayotte is technically a part of the Comoros country, it is administered by France. 3. It’s up and down out here… Although the islands are, on paper, all connected parts of one nation, they are actually pretty different from one another. For example, some of the islands only have very low hills while others have big mountains! Anjouan, Comoros 4. It never rains, but it pours! Comoros has what is known as a tropical marine climate. This basically means that while they get some beautiful weather on the islands, they also have a long rainy seaso...

               FACTS ABOUT EARTH 1.Earth knows its place. Earth is the third planet from the sun. It’s composed of iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon. 2. We even know its mass. It has a mass of 5.9×1024 kg and a diameter of 12,000 km. It’s also roughly 150 million km from the Sun. 3.The inner Earth is hot stuff. It has a core (composed primarily of nickel) whose temperatures can reach an incredible 6,000 degrees celsius! 4.The Earth has lots of layers, in fact. The other layers of Earth are the crust (40km deep), upper mantle (400km deep), and the lower mantle (2700 km deep). The core consists of two layers, namely: the outer core (5150 km deep) and the inner core (6378 km deep). There’s also the transition region at 650 km and the D” layer at 2890 km in depth. 5.The Earth is truly old. Planet Earth as a physical object is 4.5 billion years old. However, its surface as we know it today is believed to be 500 million years old. 6.Earth is mos...