(Worldkings.org) Lake Volta is the world's largest artificial reservoir based on surface area. It lies along the Greenwich meridian, and just six degrees of latitude north of the Equator.
(Worldkings.org) Voortrekker Monument is home to the world's biggest marble frieze. The Voortrekker Monument is 40 metres high, with a base of 40 metres by 40 metres. The building shares architectural resemblance with European monuments such the Dôme des Invalides in France and the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Germany but also contains African influences.
(Worldkings.org) Great Man-Made River is the world's largest underground network of pipes and aqueducts. It consists of more than 1,300 wells, most more than 500 m deep, and supplies 6,500,000 m3 of fresh water per day to the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirte and elsewhere.
(Worldkings.org) Matobo National Park contains the world's highest concentration of leopards and black eagles. Nearly one third of the world's 47 eagle species nest in the hills.
(Worldkings.org) Boyoma Falls is the world's largest waterfall by flow rate. It falls at approximately 600,000 cubic feet of water per second over 7 separate cataracts.
(Worldkings.org) Steve Biko Academic Hospital has successfully completed the world's first ever middle ear transplant using 3D-printed middle ear bones.
The Vietnam Records Organization has formally proposed to the World Records Institute (WorldMark) and the USA Records Organization (USKings) beginning the Journey to nominate TOP...
A satellite launched by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has successfully received and transmitted solar power back to Earth, the first time solar...
Chinese American International School (CAIS) is a private, independent school in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood. Founded in 1981, with just ten students in...
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist and cryptographer known as the "father...