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A statue of Isaac Newton, looking at an apple at his feet, can be seen at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. A large bronze statue, Newton, after William Blake , by Eduardo Paolozzi , dated 1995 and inspired by Blake 's etching , dominates the piazza of the British Library in London.
Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region. With regard to the first table, original studies and sources should be consulted for details on methodology and the exact populations measured, surveyed, or considered.
Energy Use Index (EUI) represents kBtu per square foot of conditioned floor area. "k" stands for 1,000. [11] The unit Mbtu is used in natural gas and other industries to indicate 1,000 Btu. [12] [13] However, there is an ambiguity in that the metric system (SI) uses the prefix "M" to indicate 'Mega-', one million (1,000,000). Even so, "MMbtu ...
Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, and third largest in the Americas, with a total area of 8,515,767.049 km 2 (3,287,956 sq mi), [177] including 55,455 km 2 (21,411 sq mi) of water. North to South, Brazil is also the longest country in the world, spanning 4,395 km (2,731 mi) from north to south, [ 14 ] and the only country in the ...
Covering an area of 163,696 sq mi (423,970 km 2), California is the third-largest state in the United States in area, after Alaska and Texas. [121] California is one of the most geographically diverse states in the union and is often geographically bisected into two regions, Southern California , comprising the ten southernmost counties, [ 122 ...
From top left, clockwise: The World Trade Center on fire and the Statue of Liberty during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001; the euro enters into European currency in 2002; a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled during the Iraq War in 2003, and in 2006, Hussein would be executed for crimes against humanity; U.S. troops heading toward an army helicopter in Afghanistan during the war ...