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Agnes Smedley American feminist Agnes Smedley played a key role in assisting Indian freedom fighters in the U.S. and in Europe in the beginning of the th century. An unbashed feminist, fearless journalist and writer as well as relentless activists for the causes she believed in, Smedley inspired socially concerned writers like Alice Walker, because...

Item Response Theory(IRT) Item Response Theory(IRT) attempts to model students ability using question level performance instead of aggregate test level performance. Instead of assuming all questions contribute equally to our understanding of a students abilities, IRT provides a more nuanced view on the information each question provides about a...

5/20 Rule  5/20 is an anti-competition policy. According to 5/20 rule indian carriers wanting to fly on international routes need to have a fleet of at least 20 aircrafts and must have operated for at least five years. This rule works against the interest of Indian carriers. Presently, a one-day old airline registered abroad with a one-aircraft...

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MAJOR RIVERS(By Length) Nile, Africa - 6,825km Amazon, South America -6,437 km Chang Jiang(Yangtze), Asia - 6380 km Mississippi, North America - 5,971 km Yenisey-Angara, Asia - 5,536 km Huang (Yellow), Asia - 5,464 km Ob-Irtysh, Asia - 5,410 km Amur, Asia - 4,416 km Lena, Asia - 4,400 km Congo, Africa - 4,370 km ...

MAJOR ISLANDS(By sizes) Australia: 7,617.930 sq. km;  widely considered part of a continental landmass, not officially an island. but without doubt it is the largest island on the planet, and when combined with oceania, the smallest continent on the earth. Greenland: 2,175,500 sq.km New Guinea : 792,500 sq.km Borneo : 725,500 sq km Madagaskar...

Major Seas(By size) South China Sea-2,974,600 sq km Caribbean sea-2,515,900 sq km Mediterranean Sea-2,510,000 sq km Bering Sea-2,261,100 sq km Gulf of Mexico-1,507,600 sq km Arabian Sea-1,498,320 sq km Sea of Okhotsk-1,392,100 sq km Sea of Japan(East Sea)-1,012,900 sq km Hudson Bay-730,100 sq km East China Sea-664,600 sq km ...

Dry cask storage Dry cask storage is a method of storing high-level radioactive waste, such as spent nuclear fuel that has already been cooled in thespent fuel pool for at least one year and often as much as ten years. Casks are typically steel cylinders that are either welded orbolted closed....

DEEPEST OCEANS & SEAS Pacific Ocean-35,827 ft (10924 m). Atlantic Ocean-30,246 ft(9,219 m) Indian Ocean-24,460 ft(7,455 m) Southern Ocean- 23,736 ft(7,235 m) Caribbean Sea-22,788 ft (6,946 m) Arctic Ocean-18,456 ft(5,625 m) South China Sea-16,456 ft(5,016 m) Bering Sea-15,659 ft(4,773 m) Mediterranean Sea-15,197 ft(4,632 m) Gulf...

OCEANS GREATEST DEPTHS Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean-35,827 ft Puerto Rico Trench, Atlantic Ocean-30,246 ft Sunda Trench, Indian Ocean-24,460 ft South Sandwich Trench, Southern Ocean-23,736 ft Arctic Basin, Arctic-18,456 ft ...

International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is an inter-governmental organisation representing the hydrographic community.The principal role of the IHO is to ensure that the world’s seas, oceans and national waters are properly surveyed and charted. It does this through...

LARGEST OCEAN ON EARTH(By Size) Pacific Ocean : 155,557,000 sq km Atlantic Ocean: 76,762,000 sq km Indian Ocean: 68,556,000 sq km Southern ocean: 20,327,000 sq km Arctic Ocean: 14,056,000 sq km Note: The Southern ocean was approved in 2000 by the International Hydrographic Organization. It is now the fourth largest ocean....

EARTH RECKONER Estimated Weight mass : 5,940,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons Estimated Age : 4.6 billion years Current Population : 7,000,000,001 Surface Area: 510,066,000 sq km Land Area: 148,647,000 sq km 29.1% Ocean Area: 335,258,000 sq km Total Water Area: 361,419,000 sq km 70.9% Type of Water: 97% salt, 3% fresh Circumference...