This is an update to the first LDS (Mormon)meetinghouse map I posted here about 2 months ago. The first version of the map only showed the US and Canada; in this latest version, thousands of meetinghouses in dozens of countries can be seen, including most of the US and Canada, the UK, Scandinavia and Western Europe, Japan and Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand, and most of the South Pacific, plu...
Oymyakon is known as the Northern Pole of Cold. On January 26th, 1926, a temperature of -71.2°C (-96 °F) was recorded there. This is the lowest temperature ever recorded in any locality on Earth that has permanent, year-round human habitation. It is also the lowest temperature recorded for the Northern hemisphere.
Chain of about 50 small islands belonging to Russia, stretching from the northeast of Hokkaido, Japan, to the south of Kamchatka, Russia, area 14,765 sq km/5,700 sq mi; population (1990 est) 25,000. The islands include many volcanoes, 35 of which are still active; there are also many hot springs. Offshore is the Kuril Trench, one of the deepest ocean areas in the world, which reaches a depth of...
Fukuoka Dome is a baseball field located in Fukuoka, Japan. The stadium serves as the headquarters of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. In 2005, Yahoo! Japan, one of SoftBank's subsidiaries, bought the stadium's naming rights, and thus renamed it "Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome".