General Knowledge Facts and Figures
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009
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- Baht is the unit of currency in Thailand, a country in Southeastern Asia
- Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen
- San Marino is one of the smallest independent countries in the world. It is in northern Itlay, on the slopes of Mount Titano in the Appennine mountains
- Odessa is a Russian seaport on the Black Sea, a sea south of Ukraine and north of Turkey
- Darling is the longest river of Australia
- A nomad travels about from place to place
- A decade is a period of 10 years
- Kilim is a woollen rug from West Asia
- De Havilland Comet was the name of the world’s first jet airliner which made its first flight in June 1949
- Paris, Capital city of France in Western Europe, stands on Seine river
- Ossicle is the name of a small bone in the middle ear of a human being
- Periscope is an optical instrument designed for observation from a concealed position. For example, Submarine
- Batik is a design on textiles
- Deimos and Phobos are moons of Planet Mars
- ‘Modern Times‘ was the name of Charlie Chaplin’s first talkie that opened in 1937
- Queen Maud Land is in Antartica, a large area of land, completely covered with ice, around the South Pole
- Gnu is a large, strong and hardy antelope- a swift, graceful animal, a little like a deer with horns. It is seen in Africa
