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Tim Marshall
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January 22 - February 7, 2023
freezing out China’s Huawei company from Australia’s 5G network – a bold move.
It is the largest continuous area of sand in the world, covering a region bigger than France, with dunes as high as 250 metres, and stretches into the UAE, Oman and Yemen.
In 2015 an economic blockade was imposed on Qatar amid accusations that it was not only siding with Iran but supporting Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
By 2020 Turkey had fallen out with Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Israel, Iran, Armenia, Greece, Cyprus and France and had irritated all of its NATO allies by buying the S-400 missile defence system from NATO’s great rival – Russia.
The Americans were so angry about what they regarded as a breach of trust that in December 2020 they imposed sanctions on the Turkish defence industry and pointed out that the S-400 had been designed to shoot down the US F-35 stealth fighter.
The single-humped camel can carry four times the load of a horse and still travel 50 kilometres in a day. It can do this for more than two weeks without a drop of water, withstanding dehydration of up to 25 per cent of its body weight.
Burkina Faso where child soldiers stormed a village and killed 160 people
Some of the non-licensed illegal mines are in conservation areas designed to protect elephants, but as central government is weak and the territory so large, more than 2,000 such mines are thought to be in operation.
This is reflected in a handful of words still used by Spaniards, often without realizing how offensive they are; for example judiada means a dirty trick or cruel act, and in the city of León a drink called matar judíos – ‘kill Jews’ – is still consumed during Holy Week.
Russia may be a NASA partner on the International Space Station but was frozen out after the newly formed US Space Force accused it of tracking US spy satellites in a dangerous and ‘unusual and disturbing manner’.
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Congress has banned NASA from working with Beijing.
velocity required to get into space was 8 kilometres a second
WRS recovers about 93 per cent of the moisture in the space station, whether it is from the astronaut’s breath, sweat or urine. It is distilled and processed before being mixed with treated wastewater and goes back into the system for drinking and washing.
environment is the best place to grow the complicated crystal structures of human proteins that are used to develop medical treatments; and its robotic-arm technology has been adapted for numerous uses on Earth, including surgery.
there are currently 3,000 dead satellites and 34,000 pieces of space junk at least 10 centimetres in size, and many smaller, orbiting the planet.
the crew who made it to Pluto in just two years were still 20,000 years from our nearest star (apart from the sun) – Proxima Centauri.
When we see the Andromeda constellation in the night sky, we are seeing it as it was 2.5 million years ago.
Some mathematicians even guess that there are more Earth-like planets than there are grains of sand on all of our beaches!
