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USC Information Sciences Institute 15

1870

The largest cantilever bridge is the 549 meters Quebec Bridge in Quebec, Canada.

1871

With the span of 220 meters , the Solkan Bridge over the Soča River at Solkan in Slovenia is the second-largest stone bridge in the world and the longest railroad stone bridge.

1872

Its arch, which was constructed from over 5000 tonnes of stone blocks in just 18 days, is the second-largest stone arch in the world, surpassed only by the Friedensbrücke (Syratalviadukt) in Plauen, and the largest railroad stone arch.

1873

The arch of the Friedensbrücke, which was built in the same year, has the span of 90 meters and crosses the valley of the Syrabach River.

1875

The longest suspension bridge in the world is the 3909 meters Akashi Kaikyō Bridge in Japan.

1876

The longest cable-stayed bridge since 2012 is the 1104 meters Russky Bridge in Vladivostok, Russia.

1878

The body is 3 mm long, with 23 body segments and 19 pairs of appendages, but no carapace.

1880

Birds live and breed in most terrestrial habitats and on all seven continents, reaching their southern extreme in the snow petrel's breeding colonies up to 440 kilometers inland in Antarctica.

1881

Many species migrate annually over great distances and across oceans; several families of birds have adapted to life both on the world's oceans and in them, and some seabird species come ashore only to breed, while some penguins have been recorded diving up to 300 meters deep.

1883

Seabirds also undertake long migrations, the longest annual migration being those of sooty shearwaters, which nest in New Zealand and Chile and spend the northern summer feeding in the North Pacific off Japan, Alaska and California, an annual round trip of 64000 kilometers .

1884

This species has the longest known non-stop migration of any species, up to 10200 kilometers .

1885

The ability of birds to return to precise locations across vast distances has been known for some time; in an experiment conducted in the 1950s, a Manx shearwater released in Boston in the United States returned to its colony in Skomer, in Wales within 13 days, a distance of 5150 kilometers .

1886

Incubation can be an energetically demanding process; adult albatrosses, for instance, lose as much as 83 grams of body weight per day of incubation.

1887

With a territory of 110994 sqkm , Bulgaria is Europe's sixteenth-largest country.

1889

Its total area of 110994 sqkm ranks it as the world's 105th-largest country.

1890

Musala, at 2925 meters , is the highest point in both Bulgaria and the Balkan peninsula.

1891

The longest river located solely in Bulgarian territory, the Iskar, has a length of 368 kilometers .

1897

Stefka Kostadinova is the reigning world record holder in the women's high jump at 2 meters , achieved during the 1987 World Championships.

1898

Typically about 0.5 mm long, they are filter feeders that sieve food particles out of the water using a retractable lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles lined with cilia.

1899

Bryozoans form colonies consisting of clones called zooids that are typically about 0.5 mm long.

1900

Individual members of a bryozoan colony are about 0.5 mm long and are known as zooids, since they are not fully independent animals.

1902

However, the majority are under 10 cms across.

1903

Some encrusting colonies may grow to over 50 cms and contain about 2,000,000 zooids.

1904

Some freshwater species secrete a mass of gelatinous material, up to 1.0 meters in diameter, to which the zooids stick.

1905

A few species can creep at about 2 cms per day.

1906

A study estimated that one group of colonies in a patch measuring 1.0 meters square produced 800,000 statoblasts.

1907

Most marine species live in tropical waters at depths less than 100 meters .

1909

A RAF Avro Lancaster with a 22000 pounds Grand Slam bomb, 1945.

1910

Full-size snooker and English billiard tables are 12 feet long on the longest side.

1911

Pool halls tend to have 9 feet tables and cater to the serious pool player.

1912

Pubs will typically use 7 feet tables which are often coin-operated.

1913

Formerly, 10 feet tables were common, but such tables are now considered antique collectors items; a few, usually from the late 19th century, can be found in pool halls from time to time.

1914

The length of the pool table will typically be a function of space, with many homeowners purchasing an 8 feet table as a compromise.

1915

Full-size pool tables are 4.5 by 9 feet (interior dimensions).

1916

In the games of balkline – 18.1 and 18.2 (pronounced "eighteen-point-two") balkline, among other more obscure variations – the players have to drive at least one object ball past a balkline set at 18 inches from each rail, after one or two points have been scored, respectively.

1917

Bursa's Yenişehir Airport is 20 miles away from the city centre.

1920

The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas' territory as encompassing 180000 sqmi of ocean space.

1921

The Bahamas consists of a chain of islands spread out over some 500 miles in the Atlantic Ocean, located to the east of Florida in the United States, north of Cuba and Hispaniola and west of the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands (with which it forms the Lucayan archipelago).

1922

There are some 700 islands and cays in total (of which 30 are inhabited) with a total land area of 10010 sqkm .

1923

The highest point in the country is Mount Alvernia (formerly Como Hill) on Cat Island at 64 meters .

1925

Every few decades low temperatures can fall below 10 °C for a few hours when a severe cold outbreak comes down from the North American mainland, however there has never been a frost or freeze recorded in the Bahama islands.

1927

The 6 kilometers thick limestones, which predominate in The Bahamas, date back to the Cretaceous.

1928

Sedimentation from the "carbonate factory" of each bank, or atoll, continues today at the rate of about 20 mm per kyr.

1929

Coral growth was greater through the Tertiary, until the start of the ice ages, and hence those deposits are more abundant below a depth of 36 meters .

1930

In fact, an ancient extinct reef exists half a km seaward of the present one, 30 meters below sea level.

1931

Oolites form when oceanic water penetrate the shallow banks, increasing the temperature about 3 °C and the salinity by 0.5 per cent.

1932

The Bahamas contains about 1620 kilometers of paved roads.

1933

is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean about 3090 kilometers southwest of Honolulu.

1934

Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, 42 miles to the north-northwest; both have been claimed as territories of the United States since 1857, though the United Kingdom considered them part of the British Empire between 1897 and 1936.

1936

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area devoid of a lagoon with its highest point being 8 meters above sea level.

1937

Baker's abandoned World War II runway, 5463 feet long, is completely covered with vegetation and is unserviceable.

1939

In September 1943 a 5463 feet airfield was opened and was subsequently used as a staging base by Seventh Air Force B-24 Liberator bombers for attacks on Mili Atoll.

1940

On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within 12 nautical miles of the island.

1942

Five wooden antenna poles about 40 feet in height remain standing in the camp.

1943

In terms of land mass, Bangladesh ranks 92nd, spanning 147570 sqkm , making it one of the most densely-populated countries in the world.

1945

With an elevation of 1064 meters , Saka Haphong (also known as Mowdok Mual) near the border with Myanmar, is claimed to be the highest peak of Bangladesh.

1948

Bangladesh has a 2706 kilometers long rail network operated by the state-owned Bangladesh Railway.

1949

With 8046 kilometers of navigable waters, Bangladesh has one of the largest inland waterway networks in the world,. [

1950

The beach in Cox's Bazar, with an unbroken length of 120 kilometers , is often credited as the longest natural sea beach in the world

1952

It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometers east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; Chapter 4 – The Windward Islands and Barbados – U.S. Library of Congress therein, Barbados is east of the Windwards, part of the Lesser Antilles, roughly at 13°N of the equator.

1954

A hundred or so metres away is the sea and a further five hundred metres [ 500 meters ] out across a lagoon was the outlying reef where the Atlantic swells broke on the coral in shallow waters.

1955

The island rises gently to the central highland region known as Scotland District, with the high point of the nation being Mount Hillaby 340 meters above sea level.

1956

The rate of this depositing of material allows Barbados to rise at a rate of about 25 mm per 1,000 years.

1957

This subduction means geologically the island is composed of coral roughly 90 meters thick, where reefs formed above the sediment.

1958

Barbados has nearly 90 kilometers of coral reefs just offshore and two protected marine parks have been established off the west coast. [

1959

Although on the opposite side of the Atlantic, and some 4800 kilometers west of Africa, Barbados is one of many places in the American continent that experience heightened levels of mineral dust from the Sahara Desert.

1960

Although Barbados is about 34 kilometers across at its widest point, a car journey from Six Cross Roads in St. Philip (south-east) to North Point in St. Lucy (north-central) can take one and a half hours or longer due to traffic.

1963

Its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), 123700 sqkm in size, is contiguous with that of Europa Island.

1964

The atoll consists of ten barren rocky islets, with no vegetation, totalling 20 hectares in area.

1965

The reef, whose coastline measures 35 kilometers , is completely covered by the sea from three hours before high tide to three hours afterward.

1966

Over 40% of its 207600 sqkm is forested.

1969

The average elevation of Belarus is 160 meters above sea level.

1971

It has an area of 8867 sqmi and a population of 408,487 (2019).

1973

The British Army Garrison in Belize is used primarily for jungle warfare training, with access to over 5000 sqmi of jungle terrain.

1974

To the east in the Caribbean Sea, the second-longest barrier reef in the world flanks much of the 386 kilometers of predominantly marshy coastline.

1975

The area of the country totals 22960 sqkm , an area slightly larger than El Salvador, Israel, New Jersey or Wales.

1976

The many lagoon s along the coasts and in the northern interior reduces the actual land area to 21400 sqkm .

1978

The highest point in Belize is Doyle's Delight at 1124 meters .

1979

Belize's low human population and approximately 8867 sqmi of undistributed land make for an ideal home for the more than 5,000 species of plants and hundreds of species of animals, including armadillos, snakes, and monkeys.

1980

The Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary is a nature reserve in south-central Belize established to protect the forests, fauna, and watersheds of an approximately 400 sqkm area of the eastern slopes of the Maya Mountains.

1981

Both studies indicate that each year, 0.6% of Belize's forest cover is lost, translating to the clearing of an average of 24835 acres each year.

1984

In December 2015, Belize banned offshore oil drilling within 1.0 kilometers of the Barrier Reef and all of its seven World Heritage Sites.

1987

Seasonal differences in rainfall are greatest in the northern and central regions of the country where, between January and April or May, less than 100 mm of rainfall per month.

1989

On 9 October 2001, Hurricane Iris made landfall at Monkey River Town as a 145 mph Category Four storm.

1990

In 2007, Hurricane Dean made landfall as a Category 5 storm only 25 miles north of the Belize–Mexico border.

1991

In 2010, Belize was directly affected by the Category 2 Hurricane Richard, which made landfall approximately 20 miles south-southeast of Belize City at around 00:45 UTC on 25 October 2010.

1993

The race runs from San Ignacio to Belize City, a distance of 180 miles .

1994

Benin covers an area of 114763 sqkm and its population in was estimated to be approximately million.

1995

The distance from the Niger River in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the south is about 650 kilometers .

1998

An area of flat land dotted with rocky hills whose altitude seldom reaches 400 meters extends around Nikki and Save.

1999

The highest point, Mont Sokbaro, is at 658 meters .

2001

Rail transport in Benin consists of 578 kilometers of single track, railway.

2003

Bermuda is a group of low-forming volcanoes in the Atlantic Ocean, near the western edge of the Sargasso Sea, roughly 578 nautical miles east-southeast of Cape Hatteras on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States which is the nearest landmass.

2004

Although usually referred to in the singular, the territory consists of 181 islands, with a total area of 53 sqkm .

2005

The territory's coastline is 103 kilometers .

2006

The islands may experience modestly cooler temperatures in January, February, and March [average 17 Coulomb ].

2007

Summertime heat index in Bermuda can be high, although mid-August temperatures rarely exceed 30 °C .

2008

The highest recorded temperature was 34 °C in August 1989.

2010

Average monthly rainfall is highest in October, at over 6 inches , and lowest in April and May.

2011

Bermuda's 2016 Census put Bermuda's population at 63,779 and, with an area of 53 sqkm , it has a calculated population density of 1201/km² (3,111/mi²).