Chapter 36
Section 36 of 1000 Things Worth Knowing. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Betty B. 1000 Things Worth Knowing by Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr.
Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico contains about 3,600 square miles and has a population of considerable more than a million. The climate is tropical and the land is extremely fertile. Postage stamps.
They were invented in 1834 and were introduced into America in 1847. Poultry and egg industry. Nearly 500 million of poultry, including chickens, turkeys, geese, and pigeons, are raised in the United States annually. The total value is about $203 million.
Each year the production of eggs is about 1,600,000,000 dozen. The people of the United States eat about 5.5 fouls per year per capita and a little over 17 dozen eggs. Presidents of the United States. 1.
George Washington. 2. John Adams. 3. Thomas Jefferson.
4. 5. James Monroe. 6. John Quincy Adams.
7. Andrew Jackson. 8. Martin Van Buren. 9.
William Henry Harrison. 10. John Tyler. 11. James K. Polk.
12. Zachary Taylor. 13. Millard Fillmore. 14.
Franklin Pierce. 15. James Buchanan. 16. Abraham Lincoln.
17. Andrew Johnson. 18. Ulysses S. Grant. 19.
James A. Garfield. 21. Chester A. Arthur. 22. Grover Cleveland.
23. Benjamin Harrison. 24. William McKinley. 25.
Theodore Roosevelt. 26. William H. Taft. 27. Woodrow Wilson.
Principle countries of the world. The first name read will be the country, followed by the capital city, followed by the area in square miles, and lastly the population. Abyssinia. Adis Ababa.
200,000. 11 million. Afghanistan. Kabul. 250,000.
4,750,000. Argentina. Buenos Aires. 1,135,840. 6,210,428.
Australia. No capital. 2,000,000. 1,000,000. 2,000,000.
1,000,000. 1,000,000. 1,000,000. 1,000,000. 1,000,000.
1,000,000. 1,000,000. 1,000,000. Capital. 2,974,581.
4,197,037. Austria-Hungary. Vienna. Budapest. 241,333.
45,176,230. Belgium. Brussels. 11,373. 6,693,548.
Bolivia. Sucre. 605,400. 1,953,916. Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro. 5,000,000. 5,000,000. 6,000,000. Canada.
Ottawa. 3,745,574. 6,153,789. Chile. Santiago.
3,076,20. 3,399,928. Chinese Empire. Peking. 2,.
0, 6,997,026. 1,726,047,325. Colombia. 5,005,000.
4,303,000. Costa Rica. San Jose. 1,840,351,176. 2,605,268. Ecuador. Quito. 116,000. 1,400,000. Egypt. Cairo. 400,000. 11,189,978.
France. Paris. 207,054. 39,252,245. Germany. Berlin. 208,780. 60,641,278. Great Britain and Ireland. London. 121,390. 44,538,718. Greece. Athens. 25,014. 2,631,952. Guatemala. New Guatemala. 48,290. 1,882,992. Haiti. Port-au-Prince. 10,204. 1,500,000. Honduras. Tegucigalpa. 46,250. 650,000. India. Calcutta. 1,776,517. 294,317,082. Italy. Rome. 110,550. 33,909,776. Japanese Empire. Tokyo. 175,050,000. Luxembourg. 998,236,543. Mexico.
Mexico. 767,005. 13,605,919. Montenegro. Cetanei. 3,630,250,000. Morocco. Fez, Morocco. 219,005,000. Netherlands. The Hague. 12,648,5747,269. Nicaragua. Managua. 49,200. 500,000. Norway. Christiania. 124,129. 2,240,032. Panama. Panama. 31,571. 300,000. Paraguay. Ascension. 157,631,347. Persia. Tehran. 628,000. 9,500,000. Peru. Lima. 695,733. 4,609,999. Portugal. Lisbon. 35,490. 5,423,132. Romania. Bucharest. 50,720. 5,956,690. Russia. St. Petersburg. 8,647,657. 152,009,300.
San Salvador. 7,225,1,700,000. San Marino. 38,11,439. Santo Domingo. 18,045,610,000. Serbia. Belgrade. 18,650,2,493,882. Siam. Bangkok. 195,686,846. Spain. Madrid. 190,050, 18,618,086. Sweden. Stockholm. 172,876,580,000. Switzerland. Bern. 15,976,3,463,609. Turkey and tributary states. Constantinople. 1,165,020, 25,414,300. United South Africa. Pretoria, CT. 473,184. 5,450,217. United States. Washington. 3,567,563. 88,566,034. Uruguay. Montevideo. 72,210,1,140,799. Venezuela. Caracas. 364,000, 2,646,835.
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