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World Almanac for Kids 2008

...The Antarctic Circumpolar Current or West Wind Drift transports more water than any other current, about 100 times the flow of all the world’s rivers combined. It flows across the entire Antarctic continent and eastward through the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans.

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It's All in the Numbers

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Suez Canal

400,000,000 - $ estimated property damage (in 1906 dollars) as a result of the San Francisco earthquake and fire.

300,000 - number of people who attended the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

30,100 - approximate number of known species of fish.

3,105 - number of people who lived in the Falkland Islands in 2007.

101 - length (in miles) of the Suez Canal.

19 - age of Joan of Arc at the time of her death.

8 - Grammys won by Luther Vandross; four were in 2003.

7:22 a.m. - time of Abraham Lincoln’s death, the day after he was shot.

.349 - Jackie Robinson’s batting average in his last year with the Montreal Royals.

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