# The word ALPHABET is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - ALPHA and BETA.
# The word vaccine originates from the Latin word for cow - VACCA from which they were first derived from.
# 33 + 43 + 53 = 63
# Humpty Dumpty was a cannon.
# The maximum prize one could earn on a single day of Jeopardy! is $566,400.
# Ice is a mineral.
# 97% of the Earth's water is in the oceans.
# Lake Baikal in the south central part of Siberia is 5,712 feet (1.7 kilometers) deep. It's about 20 million years old and contains 20 percent of Earth's fresh liquid water.
# On average, there are about 100 lightning strikes every second worldwide.
# There is a glacier at the equator on Mt. Cotopaxi in Ecuador.
Thursday, 31 July 2008
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# The word ALPHABET is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - ALPHA and BETA. - Yes, and we have two words for Alphabet in Russian: АлфаВит = AlphaBet and АзБука where Aз and Буки are ancient names first two letters of Russian alphabet.
SK
OK..... :)
Kyle
That's already several days but I can not understand what does 33 + 43 + 53 = 63 means?
Could you help me, please.
SK
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