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...The world’s most northerly city is Longyearbyen, capital of the Norwegian Arctic territory of Svalbard. Longyearbyen, at 78°13’N, is a coal-mining center.
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From the World Almanac Newsletter
It's All in the Numbers
 U.S. Mint |
150,000,000,000 - approximate number of U.S. pennies in circulation.
20,000,000,000 $ cost of the Manhattan Project, through August 1945.
250,000,000 - $ estimated value of David Beckham's five-year contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy signed in 2007.
80,000,000 - $ price paid for Jasper John's "False Start" (1959), the most for a painting by a living artist, by a hedge fund manager in 2007.
1,700,000 - total length, in miles, of the Golden Gate Bridge and approaches.
182,000 - number of Peace Corps volunteers invited to 138 countries since its inception in 1961.
15,140 - $ amount of fake money in the bank of the standard Monopoly® game set.
3,300 - approximate number of people buried at Westminster Abbey, many of them unmarked; Charles Darwin was among famous scientists buried in the nave.
108 - number of Virginia Company members who set out from London to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in what would become the U.S.
38 - number of women nurses Florence Nightingale organized to serve in the Crimean War.
8 - number of U.S. presidents that have died in office; of these, four were assassinated.
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