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The Mackinac Bridge ( / ˈmækənɔː / MAK-ə-naw; also referred to as the Mighty Mac or Big Mac) [4] is a suspension bridge that connects the Upper and Lower peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan. It spans the Straits of Mackinac, a body of water connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, two of the Great Lakes.
The Strait of Gibraltar [1] is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Europe from Africa . The two continents are separated by 13 kilometres (8.1 miles; 7.0 nautical miles) of ocean at the Strait's narrowest point between Punta de Tarifa in Spain and Point Cires in Morocco. [2]
Media of Singapore. List of newspapers. The Straits Times (also known informally by its abbreviation ST) is a Singaporean daily English-language newspaper owned by the SPH Media Trust. [2] [3] [4] Established on 15 July 1845, it is the most-widely circulated newspaper in the country and has a significant regional audience.
In 1994, a court in Singapore sentenced an American teenager, Michael Fay, to be lashed six times with a cane for violating the Vandalism Act. This caused a temporary strain in relations between Singapore and the United States. Fay was arrested for stealing road signs and vandalizing 18 cars over a ten-day period in September 1993.
The Straits of Mackinac ( / ˈmækənɔː / MAK-ə-naw; French: Détroit de Mackinac) are the short waterways between the U.S. state of Michigan 's Upper and Lower Peninsulas, traversed by the Mackinac Bridge. The main strait is miles (5.6 kilometers) wide with a maximum depth of 295 feet (90 meters; 49 fathoms), [2] and connects the Great ...
Beringia sea levels (blues) and land elevations (browns) measured in metres from 21,000 years ago to present. Beringia is defined today as the land and maritime area bounded on the west by the Lena River in Russia; on the east by the Mackenzie River in Canada; on the north by 72 degrees north latitude in the Chukchi Sea; and on the south by the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The timing of the Zanclean flood is uncertain, with one possibility being a flood around 5.33 million years ago; [41] the end of the Messinian / Miocene and beginning of the Zanclean / Pliocene is usually associated with the flood. [42] The main Zanclean flood may have been preceded by an earlier smaller flood event, [10] [43] and the presence ...
Mankind: The Story of All of Us. America: The Story of Us (also internationally known as America: The Story of the U.S.) [2] is a 12-part, 9-hour documentary -drama television miniseries [3] that premiered on April 25, 2010, on History. [4] Produced by Nutopia, the program portrays more than 400 years of American history (with emphasis on how ...