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Box office. $89.5 million [6] The Hundred-Foot Journey is a 2014 comedy-drama film directed by Lasse Hallström from a screenplay written by Steven Knight, adapted from Richard C. Morais ' 2010 novel of the same name. [b] It stars Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, and Charlotte Le Bon, and is about a battle in a French village between two ...
India is situated north of the equator between 8°4' north (the mainland) to 37°6' north latitude and 68°7' east to 97°25' east longitude. [2] It is the seventh-largest country in the world, with a total area of 3,287,263 square kilometres (1,269,219 sq mi). [3][4][5] India measures 3,214 km (1,997 mi) from north to south and 2,933 km (1,822 ...
Along constant latitude. The longest continuous east–west distance on land is 10,726 km (6,665 mi) along the latitude 48°24'53"N, from the west coast of France (Pointe de Corsen, 48°24′53″N 4°47′44″W / 48.41472°N 4.79556°W / 48.41472; -4.79556. ) through Central Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China ...
The highest and lowest points in China constitute the greatest elevation range within any single country at 9,002 metres (29,534 ft). The elevation ranges are also great in Nepal 8,789 metres (28,835 ft), Pakistan 8,611 metres (28,251 ft), and India 8,588 metres (28,176 ft). Monaco 's elevation range is among the greatest relative to surface ...
George Meegan (2 December 1952 – 10 January 2024) was a British adventurer and alternative educator best known for his unbroken walk of the Western Hemisphere from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay. This journey was 19,019 miles (30,608 km) on foot, completed in 2,426 days [1] (1977–1983 ...
India's capacity to generate electrical power is 300 gigawatts, of which 42 gigawatts is renewable. [341] The country's usage of coal is a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions by India but its renewable energy is competing strongly. [342] India emits about 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The foot (standard symbol: ft) [ 1 ][ 2 ] is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. The prime symbol, ′, is commonly used to represent the foot. [ 3 ] In both customary and imperial units, one foot comprises 12 inches, and one yard comprises three feet. Since an international agreement in ...
A Passage to India is a 1984 epic historical drama film written, directed and edited by David Lean. The screenplay is based on the 1960 play by Santha Rama Rau , which was in turn based on the 1924 novel by E. M. Forster .