101 Amazing Facts about World Capitals - Volume 1

Jack Goldstein

Description

Do you know which two people have been granted free food for life at Ben's Chili Bowls in Washington? Which country's capital is known as the city of a thousand minarets? Where could you have found Hairy Bottom Road? And why can you never seem to find the fourth floor in your Seoul hotel? All of these questions and more are answered in this fantastic book of facts. This volume contains over one hundred facts about Berlin, Cairo, Canberra, Cape Town, London, Paris, Seoul, Tbilisi, Washington and Wellington, with the facts separated into sections for easy navigation. So if you want to know which big cats can be found on Table Mountain's Lion's Head (it's not lions) or why the Australians were rather upset by a particular gift from the British, then this is the book for you.

Informations

• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 16 juillet 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781783338993
• Langue: English

Extrait

Title Page
101 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT WORLD CAPITALS
Volume 1
Jack Goldstein



Publisher Information
Published in 2014 by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
The right of Jack Goldstein to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998
Copyright © 2014 Jack Goldstein
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Any person who does so may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
All facts contained within this book have been researched from reputable sources. If any information is found to be false, please contact the publishers, who will be happy to make corrections for future editions.
Oriental Bay photograph courtesy of Octagon
Parliament House, Canberra photograph courtesy of Andrea Schaffer from Sydney, Australia



Introduction
Do you know which two people have been granted free food for life at Ben’s Chili Bowls in Washington? Which country’s capital is known as the city of a thousand minarets? Where could you have found Hairy Bottom Road? And why can you never seem to find the fourth floor in your Seoul hotel? All of these questions and more are answered in this fantastic book of facts. This volume contains over one hundred facts about Berlin, Cairo, Canberra, Cape Town, London, Paris, Seoul, Tbilisi, Washington and Wellington, with the facts separated into sections for easy navigation. So if you want to know which big cats can be found on Table Mountain’s Lion’s Head (it’s not lions) or why the Australians were rather upset by a particular gift from the British, then this is the book for you.
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London London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. The city has a population of around 8.5 million people, who speak in more than three hundred languages - more than in any other city in the world. Whereas coffee houses didn’t become popular in many cities across the world until the 20 th Century, London was well ahead of the time - Pasqua Rosee’s Coffee House opened in 1652, but was sadly burned down during the Great Fire of London. Speaking of the Great Fire, it started in Pudding Lane on the 2 nd of September 1666 and burned for three whole days. It destroyed the houses of 88% of London’s inhabitants as well as 87 churches and of course the old St Paul’s Cathedral. Amazingly though, official records show that only eight people died in the fire! It should be noted however that scholars have recently suggested there were actually a few hundred deaths which weren’t put in the records. One thing that did survive though was wine and cheese belonging to the diarist Samuel Pepys, who had buried the goods in his garden to escape the flames! One of the most recognisable sights in London is that of the Elizabeth Tower, the clock tower which houses the famous bell Big Ben. The entire nation set their watches to the chimes of the bell, which is kept accurate by a whole team of engineers. However, in 1995 a flock of starlings landed on the minute hand of one clock face and the weight of them put the time back by five minutes! The new St Paul’s Cathedral, designed by Sir Christopher Wren was the tallest building in London from its construction in 1710 until 1962, when construction on the BT Tower surpassed its 111 metres. The reason there were no other tall buildings in London was that Queen Victoria had introduced a law limited the height of new buildings to just 25 metres after someone had erected a twelve-story apartment building that blocked her view of the Houses of Parliament from her desk in Buckingham Palace! Hitler said that he would take Nelson’s Co