California Name Origin and Space Facts Quiz
California was named by Spanish explorers who sailed the coast in the 1500s, likely from a tale’s treasure hunting title. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. A tropical storm has wind speeds from 39 to 74 mph, becoming a hurricane at 74 mph. Space begins where the atmosphere is too thin, roughly 100 miles above Earth.
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California
Pluto
Clyde William Tombaugh
Space
Earth
Austrian Mountaintop Weathermen View Four Nations TV
In Salzburg Austria two weather observers on Somblick Mountain endure isolation as Europe s oldest meteorological post. They monitor from three rooms and receive four countries TV signals while awaiting weekly rotation. The job pays about 200 dollars monthly plus room and board.
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Salzburg
Austria
Somblick Mountain
Austrian Alps
Europe
Luitpold Binder
The
Somblick Society
Central
Salzburg Meteorological Station
Central Meteorological Institute
Ocean area island famed for vast storms
Java is noted as an island in the region of the world’s greatest oceanic activity with about 223 storm days annually. Saint Rose of Lima was the first American canonized in 1671. The peanut is not a nut but a legume.
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Java
Rose of Lima
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Jack Pox
Eddie Leary
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Jackie Smith
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4 Nation
Mountain Lodge
South Dakota
Childress
Gillettes
Coats & Clark
RED Heart
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AIR Step
Dionesta
Sunbeam
IBOYS
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