Fascinating Facts and Stories from Around the World

VASA

To impress both the people

Two golden guns

The Vasa started her first voyage

Two weeks later in Poland

The Captain of the ship

The ship was badly proportioned

The Baltic Sea does not have a mollusc

More than one million people every year

A JOURNALIST IN

The high school paper

Because he thought it would be cool

It's the biggest in the world

Excited to write about something

The workers were so numb and that there

Both positive and negative

Is not important to Charlie, but it is

Affects his work as a journalist because it is

SVALBARD

Between Norway and the North Pole

The name means 'cold coast' in Norse

Probably Norse sailors

Svalbard became Norwegian

By boat

12°C below zero

Because of the Polar night there is no sun

Bears are known to hunt humans

SAVE THE ANIMALS

Most people know that they

Just as bad as it is for mammals

Contained an estimate of over 3.5

It died in the zoo in 1914

The effects of habitat loss

Before they are known to scientists

More difficult to study than land mammals

So that the tendency can be reversed

GOURMET GARBAGE

Even though they are in brand new

He eats the food

A market where people donate things

It is a way to fight the system

By using bicycles

Doesn't eat meat, eggs or milk

Are not animal friendly

Are serious people, not freaks

MICHAEL PALIN

He had no opportunities to travel

Enjoyed travelling as a means

Didn't have the feeling

Look at the world as an

It can bring you closer to

He had to improvise the interviews

Not impose our way of life on

We produce too much waste because

RUTH MANORAMA

Be getting 90,000 US dollars

Be mainly for Dalit women

She has economic difficulties

Her mother thought the schools

After she has been involved in activities

People would not understand why

She felt the situation of Dalit women was

One needs to explain the truth

A BETTER WORLD

The excessive use of coal and do it

Some people from the entertainment

The director, David Guggenstein

Won't be much more

Made mainly from waste

Are quite responsive to the

Some cities do

The change people's point

THE BEST SELLER CONNECTION

You can see people reading it

Simply enjoys observing them

She knows that some readers like

Accurate

Florence, Torino and the Sorbonne in Paris

They were doing works of

The information wasn't there

The information wasn't extremely relevant, so she

NO LONGER JUST CHILD'S PLAY

Has gone up

Some people collect toys to earn

Men do

They have some free time and can

Dolls

Are meeting places

Some toys are fake pieces or

It is the only shop that

MEETING AN OLD FRIEND

Her parents sold the house and moved to Florida

Collaborated with an org

They are good friends and they call each

Not seriously, he's not ready

When there aren't many

In spite of her parents

She'll spend most of the time

To help the children who suffered

A CHAMPION ON TWO WHEELS

He is not used to being famous

No, he doesn't. No time

You gain control without

Did the usual things

When Dani was running

Some rest and time for

He doesn't want to talk

He has no reason to be sad

PIECES OF AN ANCIENT CULTURE

Maya history in three months

Plane, bus, truck and on foot

Deciphered in the 20th century

Built around a central building used

Disintegration of their social

Discovered that the Maya

Was shocked by all the lights

Spend the summer in Yucatan

SOUND OF SUCCESS

To be together with

There were very few musical

Music courses were very cheap

A band lan formed in Valencia

Playing music, acting and singing

Composed the music for the inauguration

Lan's parents were surprised

As a musician and composer

ANNOYING CELL PHONES?

He sometimes finds them irritating

People of all kinds

What the actors said and the volume

The way the actors acted the

And heard both people involved

Some passengers were

Sat near the passenger and pretended

Were always more annoying than

THE DA VINCI CODE

Brown's first book

The Da Vinci Code has sold more than 10

It deals with conspiracies and we like

The combination of historical facts and

Debate themes like history, religion

Sacrificing unnecessary words and

In Seville, in the Vatican and in the Louvre

He writes very early in the morning

ANIMAL RIGHTS

Now the human beings

People should not eat beef or chicken

Not new. It goes back

Both animals and humans are able

Because they like meat

It is expensive and pollutes the environment

He feels quite optimistic

Is like any other form of oppression