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KVLY-TV mast, USA : Tallest Man made structure on the Earth

The KVLY-TV mast (formerly the KTHI-TV mast) is a television transmitting mast in Trail County, North Dakota, USA, used by Fargo station KVLY channel 11. At 2,063 ft (628.8 m), it is currently the world's tallest supported structure on land.

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The tower is located three miles west of Blanchard, North Dakota, which is roughly halfway between Fargo and Grand Forks. It became the tallest artificial structure upon the completion of its construction on August 13, 1963. The mast was surpassed in height by 18 m (57 ft) in 1974 by the Warszawa radio mast near Konstantynów, Poland, but the latter collapsed on August 8, 1991, making the KVLY mast again the tallest structure on land. If completed as planned, the UAE's Burj Dubai, presently slated for completion in 2008, will surpass the mast as the tallest land structure.

The tower was built by Hamilton Directors and Kline Iron and Steel, and took thirty days to complete, at a cost of US$500,000 ($3.3 million in 2007 dollars).

Owned by the Meyer Broadcasting Company (now North Dakota Television, LLC) of Bismarck, the tower broadcasts at 316 kW for television station KVLY (channel 11, an NBC affiliate) which is based in Fargo. The tower provides a broadcast area of roughly 30,000 square miles (78,000 km²).

Its overall height above mean sea level is 926 m (3,038 ft). Some time after its completion, the Federal Aviation Administration imposed a limit of 2,063 ft, based on this tower's height, on future construction; consequently, no taller structures may legally be built in the U.S. at present.

The call letters of the television station for which it was built were originally KTHI, the "HI" referring to the height of the mast. The top is reachable by service elevator or ladder.

Chile : Strongest Earthquake on the Earth

Chile, 1960 May 22 19 :11 :14 UTC - Severe damage from shaking occurred in the Valdivia-Puerto Montt area. Most of the casualties and much of the damage was because of large tsunamis which caused damage along the coast of Chile from Lebu to Puerto Aisen and in many areas of the Pacific Ocean. Puerto Saavedra was completely destroyed by waves which reached heights of 11.5 m (38 ft) and carried remains of houses inland as much as 3 km (2 mi). Wave heights of 8 m (26 ft) caused much damage at Corral.

The Largest Earthquake in the World measured measured 9.5 on the Richter scale. Approximately 1,655 killed, 3,000 injured, 2,000,000 homeless, and $550 million damage in southern Chile; tsunami caused 61 deaths, $75 million damage in Hawaii; 138 deaths and $50 million damage in Japan; 32 dead and missing in the Philippines; and $500,000 damage to the west coast of the United States.

Colca Canyon, Peru : Deepest Canyon on the Earth

Twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the USA. Unlike most of the Grand Canyon, portions of the Colca canyon are habitable, with pre-Colombian terraced fields still supporting agriculture and human life.
The river and valley were well-known to the Incas and their predecessors, and the Spaniards laid out townships along the valley, built churches along the way, notably the one at Coporaque, but for some reason, the towns never grew and the route faded from outside memory.

It wasn't until the early 1930's that the Colca valley was explored again, this time for the American Geographical Society. Colca Valley has been known by different names: The Lost Valley of the Incas, The Valley of Wonders, The Valley of Fire and The Territory of the Condor. It has even been called one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World."

In the 1980's, with the Majes Hydroelectric Project, roads opened the Colca to the outside. One of the attractions to visitors is a glimpse into a way of life that has endured in isolation for centuries[/LEFT]

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Mt. Washington Observatory : Windiest place on the Earth
From 1932 to 1937, the Mt Washington Observatory was operated in the Summit Stage Office then occupying this site. In a great storm April 12, 1934, the crew's instruments measured a wind velocity of 231 miles per hour, highest ever measured by an instrument

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Millau Viaduct : Tallest bridge On The Earth
The Millau Viaduct (French: le Viaduc de Millau) is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France. Designed by French bridge engineer Michel Virlogeux in collaboration with British architect Norman Foster, it is the tallest vehicular bridge in the world, with one pier's summit at 343 meters (1,125 ft)—slightly higher than the Eiffel Tower and only 38 m (125 ft) shorter than the Empire State Building. It was formally opened on 14 December 2004 and opened to traffic on 16 December 2004.

Its construction took only three years, thanks to a pre-fabrication process in which 2,000 sections of the steel roadway were manufactured off-site, lifted into place, and aligned with the help of a GPS. The technique also allowed for the minimum disruption of the surrounding environment -- echoing the bridge's overall goal of relieving the river valley of traffic while connecting the highway systems of France and Spain. Its remarkably slender profile and the way its graceful span emphasizes the drama of the landscape prove that cutting-edge building technology need not be at odds with the natural landscape

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Mt. Baker, Washington : Snowiest Place On The Earth

seasonally cumulative precipitation of snow ever measured was on Mount Baker, Washington during the 1998–1999 season. Mount Baker received a staggering 29 m of snow, thus surpassing the previous record holder, Mount Rainier, Washington which during the 1971–1972 season received 28.5 m of snow.
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Great Barrier Reef , Australia : Largest natural feature on the Earth

The Great Barrier Reef is undisputed as one of the world’s most important natural assets. It is the largest natural feature on earth stretching more than 2,300km along the northeast coast of Australia from the northern tip of Queensland to just north of Bundaberg.

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The Great Barrier Reef is one of the wonders of the natural world. It is World Heritage listed and is one of Australia's, and the world's, premier holiday destinations.

The Great Barrier Reef is home to more than 1500 species of fish
Photo courtesy of Voyages Australian Resorts
The area abounds with wildlife, including dugong and green turtles, varieties of dolphins and whales, more than 1500 species of fish, 4000 types of mollusc and more than 200 species of bird life. The Great Barrier Reef system consists of more than 3000 reefs which range in size from 1 hectare to over 10,000 hectares in area. The reef is scattered with beautiful islands and idyllic coral cays and covers more than 300,000 square kilometers.

Karl-Marx-Hof, Vienna, Austria : Longest residential building on the Earth

The Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna, Austria holds the distinction of being the longest single residential building in the world at over one kilometer in length (1100m) and spanning four tram stops.

Karl-Marx-Hof was built between 1927 and 1930 by city planner Karl Ehn, a follower of Otto Wagner. It held 1,382 apartments (with a size of 30-60 m² each) and was called the Ringstraße des Proletariats, or the Ring Street of the Proletariat. Only 18.5% of the 1,000 meters long, 156,000-m² large area was built up, with the rest of the area developed into play areas and gardens. Designed for a population of about 5000, the premises include many amenities, including laundromats, baths, kindergartens, a library, doctor offices, and business offices.

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Morecambe Bay : Largest Quicksand on the Earth

Morecambe Bay is a large bay in northwest England, nearly due east of the Isle of Man and just to the south of the Lake District National Park. It is the largest expanse of inter tidal mudflats and sand covering a total area of 310 km²

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The bay is also notorious for its quicksand and fast moving tides (it is said that the tide can come in "as fast as a horse can run"). There have been royally appointed local guides (holding the post of Queen's Guide to the Sands) for crossing the bay for centuries. This difficulty of crossing the bay added to the isolation of the land to its north which, due to the presence of the mountains of the Lake District, could only be reached by crossing these sands or by ferry, until the Furness Railway was built in 1867. This skirts the edge of the bay, crossing the various estuaries.

Coco de mer , Seychelles : Largest Seed on the Earth

Until the true source of nut was discovered in 1768, it was believed by many to grow on a mythical tree at the bottom of the sea; European nobles in the sixteenth century would often have the shells of these nuts cleaned and decorated with valuable jewels as collectibles for their private galleries. The coco de mer is now a rare protected species.

The name of the genus, Lodoicea, is derived from Lodoicus, the Latinised form of Louis, in honour of King Louis XV of France.

The species is grown as an ornamental tree in many areas in the tropics, and subsidiary populations have been established on Mahé and Silhouette Islands in the Seychelles to help conserve the species.

Jack Hills, Australia : Oldest piece of earth on th Earth

The Jack Hills are located in the Narryer Gneiss Terrane of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, and comprise an 80 km long northeast-trending belt of folded and metamorphosed supracrustal rocks.This is the oldest piece of earth on the earth

Sedimentary siliciclastic rocks, interpreted as alluvial fan-delta deposits, are the major lithology. Minor mafic/ultramafic rocks and banded iron formation (BIF) are also found in the sequence. The overall sequence is generally considered to be a granulite gneiss, which has undergone multiple deformations and multiple metamorphic episodes. The protolith age of the Narryer Gneiss Terrane is variable, but generally considered to be in excess of 3.6 Ga (billion years).

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Detrital zircons with ages >4000 Ma (billion years) have been found in these rocks and a 4,404 +/- 8 Myr zircon was found at Eranondoo Hill (Wilde et al., 2001), the oldest dated material on Earth. They were found within part of the 3.6-3.8 Ga (billion years) supracrustal sequence. These zircons are considered most likely to have been placed into these rocks by erosion of older material.

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Seoul, Korea : Most populated city on the Earth

Comparing the populations of the world's largest cities can be a confusing task, as the definition of a city for census consideration can vary from one nation to another. In the US, for example, a city's population includes only those who reside within its political limits. In other countries, a city's suburban and outlying rural area residents can also be included in its census figures.

This is based on information compiled by the Statistics Division Cities Population Database.
Seoul, South Korea with an approximate 10,321,449 is the most populated city on the earth. The capital of South Korea and once the ancient capital of the Baekje Kingdom (18 B.C. - 660 A.D.), Seoul literally means "capital" in Korean.

Metropolitan Seoul, with approximately 20.7 million people, is the world's fourth largest urban center, just behind Tokyo-Yokohama, Mexico City and Sao Paulo.

Founded in 1394 as the capital of the Kingdom of Choson, contemporary Seoul is the site of Caribbean Bay, the world's largest water park, which opened in 1996. It set a record for water park attendance, as more than 1.5 million people visited it within its first two years of inception

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Rafflesia arnoldii, Indonesia : Largest Single Flower / parasite on the Earth

Several species of Rafflesia grow in the jungles of Southeast Asia, all of them threatened or endangered. Rafflesia arnoldii is the largest; its blossom attains a diameter of nearly a meter and can weigh up to 11 kg. Not only is it the world's largest flower, it is one of the most bizarre and improbable organisms on the planet. The largest flower in the world is actually a parasite!

It produces no leaves, stems or roots but lives as a parasite on the Tetrastigma vine, which grows only in primary (undisturbed) rainforest. Only the flower or bud can be seen; the rest of the plant exists only as filaments within its unfortunate host.

The Rafflesia is rare and fairly hard to locate. It is especially difficult to see in bloom; the buds take many months to develop and the blossom lasts for just a few days. How many of these strange plants still survive is unknown, but the last of them can be expected to vanish as the remaining primary forests of Borneo and Sumatra are burned

The rare Rafflesia, found only in the forests of Indonesia and Malaysia, grows from spores and takes about nine months to produce a flower - the mahkota, or inner cup, of large Rafflesia can hold several quarts of water.

The blossom is pollinated by flies attracted by its scent, which resembles that of carrion.Like the Amorphophallus, this flower stinks - the dead meat smell attracts flies. Because of its nine month gestation period, Rafflesia is linked with fertility traditions by tribal people living in the areas where it grows.

Rafflesia bud, one day before opening

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