Interesting Facts & Statistics

[haiducii]

50 words for snow!

Here is a list of 50 Swedish words related to snow.



Not surprisingly for a country where it snows a lot.

 

[gorgik9]

Here is a list of 50 Swedish words related to snow.



Not surprisingly for a country where it snows a lot.

While I've heard of and used most of these "snow-words" there are a few I didn't know about...:thumbs up:

 

[larryisreal]

Here is a list of 50 Swedish words related to snow.



Not surprisingly for a country where it snows a lot.

So... the general word for snow is snö?

 

[haiducii]

So... the general word for snow is snö?

Yes!

 

[gorgik9]

Let's translate some snö/snow terminology into Latin (yeah, my kind of perversion...)!

So we have snö/snow (noun)=nix (in large quantities=nives), snöa/snow (verb)=níngere, snöboll/snowball=globus níveus, snöflinga/snowflake=floccus nivis, snögubbe/snowman: pupus níveus (alternative: simulacrum nivale), snöplog/snowplough: máchina nives diffindens, snöig/snowy: nivosus; snömannen/snowman (in Himalaya): homo nivalis, snöskottning/snow shoveling: remótio nívium, snöskovel/snow shovel: pala nivi egerendae.

 

[haiducii]

Let's translate some snö/snow terminology into Latin (yeah, my kind of perversion...)!

So we have snö/snow (noun)=nix (in large quantities=nives), snöa/snow (verb)=níngere, snöboll/snowball=globus níveus, snöflinga/snowflake=floccus nivis, snögubbe/snowman: pupus níveus (alternative: simulacrum nivale), snöplog/snowplough: máchina nives diffindens, snöig/snowy: nivosus; snömannen/snowman (in Himalaya): homo nivalis, snöskottning/snow shoveling: remótio nívium, snöskovel/snow shovel: pala nivi egerendae.

Thank you Mr. Professor for teaching us Latin!

 

[gorgik9]

Thank you Mr. Professor for teaching us Latin!

Ah, I'm just reading from the Swedish-Latin dictionary.

 

[golfdelta21]

I'm doing my bit for... the snowfall

 

[gorgik9]

Thanks a lot for this elegant lecture!!! All the things we learn on GH!!! :thumbs up:

 

[golfdelta21]

Latin vs. Italian

 

[haiducii]

Pan American Highway

The longest driveable road in the world, the Pan American Highway, passes through 14 countries and is 48,000 kilometres long.

 

[Bast Leon]

Mercury is the Most Close planet overall to all other planets.

 

[haiducii]

Top 10 Facts About Lake Superior, North America



1. Lake Superior contains 10% of all planet Earth's fresh surface water.

2. It covers 82,000 sq km (31,700 sq mi) with an average depth of 147 metres or 483 feet.

3. The deepest point in the lake is 405 metres or 1,333 feet.

4. There have been about 350 shipwrecks recorded in Lake Superior and Lake Superior is known to not give up her dead. Over 10,000 lives have been lost in her waters.

5. Lake Superior is, by surface area, the largest lake in the world.

6. It contains as much water as all the other Great Lakes combined, plus three extra Lake Eries!

7. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America with water one foot deep.

8. There are 78 different species of fish that call the big lake home.

9. The maximum wave ever recorded on Lake Superior was 9.45 metres or 31 feet high.

10. If you stretched the shoreline of Lake Superior out to a straight line, it would be long enough to reach from Duluth, Minnesota to the Bahamas.

 

[haiducii]

Rare bird

A bird that appears to be half-female and half-male has been photographed in Pennsylvania by a birder who rushed out with his camera when he heard a friend had spotted the northern cardinal.



Though not unheard of, mixed sex birds are rare.

Male cardinals are bright red but females are pale brown, suggesting this specimen may be a mix of the two sexes.

Retired ornithologist Jamie Hill, 69, told the BBC it was a "once-in-a-lifetime, one-in-a-million encounter".

MORE HERE

 

[haiducii]

ESC: Greece and Cyprus voting history



Since 1981, Greece and Cyprus met 22 times in the Eurovision final. Greece gave Cyprus 12 points 14 times, while Cyprus gave the maximum points to Greece 16 times.

Below, you can see the occasions when the two countries did not give 12 points to each other and to which country they gave them.

 

[haiducii]

Great Basin bristlecone pine

The oldest known bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva), estimated to be 4852 years old, is found in Inyo National Forest, Madera Co, California, USA.

 

[haiducii]

The marvelous journey of coffee

 

[gorgik9]

The Kingdom of Kaffa - so THAT'S what I put in my cup!!! :rofl:

 

[haiducii]

I like all of these Estonian words very much

That's a whole lotta vowel action

 

[haiducii]

Finland ranked happiest country in the world



Finland has been named the happiest place in the world for a fourth year running, in an annual UN-sponsored report. The Nordic nation of 5.5 million people has managed far better than the majority of Europe during the pandemic, with just over 70,000 cases and 805 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Data from analytics researcher Gallup asked people in 149 countries to rate their own happiness. Measures including social support, personal freedom, gross domestic product (GDP) and levels of corruption were also factored in.

According to the report, the ten happiest countries are:

01. Finland
02. Denmark
03. Switzerland
04. Iceland
05. Netherlands
06. Norway
07. Sweden
08. Luxembourg
09. New Zealand
10. Austria