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  2. Earth - Wikipedia

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    Earth is the only known place that has ever been habitable for life. Earth's life developed in Earth's early bodies of water some hundred million years after Earth formed. Earth's life has been shaping and inhabiting many particular ecosystems on Earth and has eventually expanded globally forming an overarching biosphere. [242]

  3. List of places referred to as the Center of the Universe

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    Sign outside of the John B. Lindale House proclaiming Magnolia, Delaware as "The Center of the Universe around which the Earth revolves" A concrete circle at the apex of a rebuilt span of the old Boston Avenue viaduct, between 1st and Archer Streets, in Tulsa, Oklahoma is known as "The Center of the Universe".

  4. List of uninhabited regions - Wikipedia

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    The only truly uninhabited places in the Sahara are the ergs: sand dune fields. Even the hot and salty dried lake beds have Bedouin communities within them that graze their animals in the salt marshes and at nearby oases, for example the below-sea level Qattara Depression contains the tiny village of Qara Oasis and cannot be said to be truly ...

  5. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A place in Barbados populated by zombies, mummies, the walking dead, and Michael Jackson. Gravity: A very down-to-earth city in Iowa. Great Cockup: A fell in northern England. Also a Little Cockup. Great Kills: A New York City neighborhood. Kill is another word for creek. Great Snoring: A village in Norfolk. Also see Little Snoring. Greece, New ...

  6. Game of the Day: WordChuck - AOL

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    How many words can a woodchuck chuck if he could chuck words? Well you're the WordChuck in today's Game of the Day! From the makers of Just Words comes WordChuck, a multiplayer game that delivers ...

  7. From temperatures sometimes plummeting to below minus 30 (-34.4 Celsius), to polar bears and arctic foxes occasionally roaming local streets, it takes a unique individual to forgo life on the ...

  8. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    An accurately measured line of known length on the Earth's surface, used as a base or reference line in triangulation and other surveying operations. [4] basin Another name for a depression, particularly one that is approximately circular, level or nearly level at the bottom, and/or surrounded on all sides by land of uniform elevation. batholith

  9. Midgard - Wikipedia

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    The runes a:miþkarþi, Old Norse á Miðgarði, meaning "in Midgard" – "in Middle Earth", on the Fyrby Runestone (Sö 56) in Södermanland, Sweden.. In Germanic cosmology, Midgard (an anglicised form of Old Norse Miðgarðr; Old English Middangeard, Old Saxon Middilgard, Old High German Mittilagart, and Gothic Midjun-gards; "middle yard", "middle enclosure") is the name for Earth ...