Where was Sherwood Forest?
Sherwood Forest was the royal hunting ground frequented by Robin Hood and his merry men.
It was located in Nottinghamshire, England.
Today Sherwood Forest is under the protection of the British Forestry Commission.
The stretch between San Jose and San Francisco is called Silicon Valley and runs 55 miles.
The the five longest rivers are: 1. Nile, Africa 2. Amazon, South America 3. Mississippi, Missouri, United States 4. Yangtze, China 5. Ob, Irtysh, USSR
This ancient Greek city called Byzantium was on the shores of the Bosporus. It was renamed Constantinople when the Emperor Constantine moved the Roman capital there in A.D. 330. It became the seat of the Byzantine (or Eastern) Roman Empire. It is now called Instanbul and is one of the most commonly known cities in…
The Grand Canyon, which is the gorge of the Colorado River is 217 miles long. Fifty-six miles lie within Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The canyon varies in width from 4 to 18 miles.
What Homer referred to as “wind-swept Troy” was not what we would call a great city. The city of Troy was a village of some 7 acres.
The abyssal zone begins at a depth of 6,600 feet and runs to 19,800 feet. It covers 83 percent of the area of oceans and seas. Water temperature in the abyssal zone is about 39 degrees Fahrenheit.