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  #10 Epupa Falls The Epupa falls are located at the Kunene River, bordering Namibia and Angola in the Kaokoland area.  The falls are fored by a series of cascades that drop for about 60m over a distance of approximately 1.5 km.  It even reaches a total of about 500m at one point. The falls are also known as Monte Negro Falls in Angola.  The name Epupa is a word in the Herero language meaning plumes of spray created by falling water. #9 Olo’upena Falls Olo’upena Falls, situated on the northeastern part of the island of Molokai, in Maui County, is the tallest waterfall in Hawaii.  It is also the highest waterfall in the entire United States Measuring a vertical drop of 2953 feet, it cascades down the steep slopes on the northern side of Molokai Island.  Plus, the currents cause a series of consecutive falls from the cliff’s edge, creating a truly extraordinary sight. #8 Yosemite Falls Although Niagara Falls is the most famous, Yosemite Falls is also one of t...

  Facebook, American online social media platform and social network service that is part of the company Meta Platforms.  Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, all of whom were students at Harvard University.  Facebook became the largest social network in the world, with nearly three billion users as of 2021, and about half that number were using Facebook every day.  The company’s headquarters are in Menlo Park, California. Access to Facebook is free of charge, and the company earns most of its money from advertisements on the website.  New users can create profiles, upload photos, join a preexisting group, and start new groups.  The site has many components, including Timeline, a space on each user’s profile page where users can post their content and friends can post messages Status, which enables users to alert friends to their current location or situation and News Feed, which informs users...

Lion is a large, powerfully built cat that is second in size only to the tiger it is a famous apex predator (meaning without a natural predator or enemy).  The proverbial “king of beasts,” the lion has been one of the best-known wild animals since earliest times.  Lions are most active at night and live in a variety of habitats but prefer grassland, savanna, dense scrub, and open woodland.  Historically, they ranged across much of Europe, Asia, and Africa, but now they are found mainly in parts of Africa south of the Sahara.  An isolated population of about 650 Asiatic lions constitute a slightly smaller race that lives under strict protection in India’s Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary. General characteristics: The lion is a well-muscled cat with a long body, large head, and short legs.  Size and appearance vary considerably between the sexes.  The male’s outstanding characteristic is his mane, which varies between different individuals and populat...

The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it.  The largest of such objects form a planetary system of eight planets, in order from the Sun: four terrestrial planets, named Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars and four giant planets, including two gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, and two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune.  #MERCURY Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system and nearest to the Sun is only slightly larger than Earth's Moon.  Its surface is covered in tens of thousands of impact craters. From the surface of Mercury, the Sun would appear more than three times as large as it does when viewed from Earth, and the sunlight would be as much as 11 times brighter. Despite its proximity to the Sun, Mercury is not the hottest planet in our solar system that title belongs to nearby Venus, thanks to its dense atmosphere.  But Mercury is the fastest planet, zipping around the Sun every 88 Earth days. #VENUS  Venus i...

  Sunflower genus of nearly 70 species of herbaceous plants of the aster family (Asteraceae).  Sunflowers are native primarily to North and South America, and some species are cultivated as ornamentals for their spectacular size and flower heads and for their edible seeds.  The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) is cultivated for its edible underground tubers. The common sunflower (H. annuus) is an annual herb with a rough hairy stem 1–4.5 metres (3–15 feet) high and broad, coarsely toothed, rough leaves 7.5–30 cm (3–12 inches) long arranged in spirals.  The attractive heads of flowers are 7.5–15 cm wide in wild specimens and often 30 cm or more in cultivated types.  The disk flowers are brown, yellow, or purple, while the petallike ray flowers are yellow.  The fruit is a single-seeded achene.  Oilseed varieties typically have small black achenes, while those grown for direct seed consumption, known as confection varieties, have larger black-an...

  Freelancer or freelance worker, are terms commonly used for a person who is self-employed and not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term.  Freelance workers are sometimes represented by a company or a temporary agency that resells freelance labor to clients others work independently or use professional associations or websites to get work. While the term independent contractor would be used in a different register of English to designate the tax and employment classes of this type of worker, the term "freelancing" is most common in culture and creative industries, and use of this term may indicate participation therein. Fields, professions, and industries where freelancing is predominant include: music, writing, acting, computer programming, web design, graphic design, translating and illustrating, film and video production, and other forms of piece work that some cultural theorists consider central to the cognitive-cultural economy. How does freelancing w...

 Google LLC is an American multinational technology company focusing on artificial intelligence, online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, and consumer electronics.  It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" and as one of the world's most valuable brands due to its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the field of artificial intelligence. Alongside Amazon, Apple Inc., Meta Platforms, and Microsoft, Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. is one of the five Big Tech companies. Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California.  Together they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of its stockholder voting power through super-voting stock.  The company went public via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. In...

 Kangaroos are four marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot").  In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, and western grey kangaroo. Kangaroos are indigenous to Australia and New Guinea.  The Australian government estimates that 42.8 million kangaroos lived within the commercial harvest areas of Australia in 2019, down from 53.2 million in 2013. As with the terms "wallaroo" and "wallaby", "kangaroo" refers to a paraphyletic grouping of species.  All three terms refer to members of the same taxonomic family, Macropodidae, and are distinguished according to size.  The largest species in the family are called "kangaroos" and the smallest are generally called "wallabies".  The term "wallaroos" refers to species of an intermediate size. There are also the tree-kangaroos, anoth...

  Taj Mahal, also spelled Tadj Mahall, mausoleum complex in Agra, western Uttar Pradesh state, northern India.  The Taj Mahal was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahān (reigned 1628–58) to immortalize his wife Mumtaz Mahal (“Chosen One of the Palace”), who died in childbirth in 1631, having been the emperor’s inseparable companion since their marriage in 1612.  India’s most famous and widely recognized building, it is situated in the eastern part of the city on the southern (right) bank of the Yamuna (Jumna) River.  Agra Fort (Red Fort), also on the right bank of the Yamuna, is about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the Taj Mahal. In its harmonious proportions and its fluid incorporation of decorative elements, the Taj Mahal is distinguished as the finest example of Mughal architecture, a blend of Indian, Persian, and Islamic styles.  Other attractions include twin mosque buildings (placed symmetrically on either side of the mausoleum), lovely gardens, and a museum....

  Isaac Newton, in full Sir Isaac Newton, (born December 25, 1642, Wools Thorpe, Lincolnshire, England died March 20, 1727, London), English physicist and mathematician, who was the culminating figure of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century.  In optics, his discovery of the composition of white light integrated the phenomena of colours into the science of light and laid the foundation for modern physical optics.  In mechanics, his three laws of motion, the basic principles of modern physics, resulted in the formulation of the law of universal gravitation. In mathematics, he was the original discoverer of the infinitesimal calculus.  Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687) was one of the most important single works in the history of modern science. In the Principia, Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that formed the dominant scientific viewpoint for centuries until...

The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America.  This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km2 (2,700,000 sq mi), of which 5,500,000 km2 (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest.  This region includes territory belonging to nine nations and 3,344 formally acknowledged indigenous territories.  Amazon Rainforest, large tropical rainforest occupying the drainage basin of the Amazon River and its tributaries in northern South America and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square km).  Comprising about 40 percent of Brazil’s total area, it is bounded by the Guiana Highlands to the north, the Andes Mountains to the west, the Brazilian central plateau to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east . Amazonia is the largest river basin in the world, and its forest stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the tree line of...

  wolf, any of two species of wild doglike carnivores.  The gray, or timber, wolf (Canis lupus) is the better known.  It is the largest nondomestic member of the dog family (Canidae) and inhabits vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere.  The Ethiopian, or Abyssinian, wolf (C. simensis) inhabits the highlands of Ethiopia until recently it was considered a jackal. Grey Wolf Pervasive in mythology, folklore, and language, the gray wolf has had an impact on the human imagination and has been the victim of levels of misunderstanding that few animals have shared.  With the exception of humans and the lion, the gray wolf once had a larger distribution than any other land mammal, once ranging over all of North America from Alaska and Arctic Canada southward to central Mexico and throughout Europe and Asia above 20° N latitude.  It lived in every type of habitat except tropical forests and the most arid deserts, and it was the premier hunter of the large hoofed mammal...