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  2. Null Island - Wikipedia

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    Null Island is the location at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude), i.e., where the prime meridian and the equator intersect. Since there is no landmass located at these coordinates, it is not an actual island. The name is often used in mapping software as a placeholder to help find and correct database entries that have ...

  3. Mu (mythical lost continent) - Wikipedia

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    The 64 million inhabitants were separated as ten tribes that followed one government and one religion. Churchward claimed that the landmass of Mu was located in the Pacific Ocean, and stretched east–west from the Marianas to Easter Island, and north–south from Hawaii to Mangaia. According to Churchward the continent was supposedly 5,000 ...

  4. The World of Null-A - Wikipedia

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    The World of Null-A, sometimes written The World of Ā, is a 1948 science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt. It was originally published as a three-part serial in 1945 in Astounding Stories. It incorporates concepts from the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski. The name Ā refers to non-Aristotelian logic.

  5. List of islands by population - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population, which includes all islands with more than 100,000 people. For comparison, continental landmasses are also shown, in italics. The population of the world's islands is over 730 million, approximately 9% of the world's total population.

  6. List of people with the most children - Wikipedia

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    A 2003 study speculated that 16 million men alive today are likely direct descendants of him and/or his male relatives. [107] [108] However, later studies have cast doubt on this claim. [109] 868–1171: Moulay Ismail Ibn Sharif: 1727 (c.) [a] The monarch of Morocco who had a harem of 500 women, and fathered 525 boys and 342 girls.

  7. Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic

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    The "Null Island" buoy in 2017. The Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic (PIRATA) [note 1] is a system of moored observation buoys in the tropical Atlantic Ocean which collect meteorological and oceanographic data. The data collected by the PIRATA array helps scientists to better understand climatic events in the Tropical ...

  8. List of countries by infant and under-five mortality rates

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    The under-five mortality rate (U5MR) is the number of deaths of infants and children under five years old per 1000 live births. The under-five mortality rate for the world is 39 deaths according to the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO). 5.3 million children under age five died in 2018, 14,722 every day. [1] [2] [3]

  9. Child mortality - Wikipedia

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    The total number of under-5 deaths worldwide has declined from 12.6 million in 1990 to approximately 5.5 million in 2020. Since 1990, the global under-5 mortality rate has dropped by 59%, from 93 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 36 in 2020. This is equivalent to 1 in 11 children dying before reaching age 5 in 1990 compared to 1 in 27 in 2019.