The Corroboree frogs are two species of small, ground dwelling frogs, native to Southern Tablelands of Australia and are considered critically endangered.
Meryl Streep made her film début in The Deadliest Season, a 1977 made-for-TV film about sports violence directed by Robert Markowitz, co-starred Michael Moriarty.
The endangered Mazumbai warty frog and the more common Krefft's warty frog are both found in the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania.
The Australian state of Western Australia is approximately 2,645,615 km2 in area.
The USSR set off the largest nuclear explosion in history, detonating a 50 megaton bomb (2600 times the Hiroshima bomb) in an atmospheric test over the Novaya Zemla Islands, October 30 1961.
Robert John Sholl, the only Resident Magistrate in north-west Western Australia between 1865 and 1883, had so much power that he was described as "virtually a Lieutenant Governor"
The Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque in Homs, western Syria, contains the mausoleum of 7th century Arab military commander Khalid ibn al-Walid, an ornate dome with interiors which depict over 50 victorious battles that he commanded.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Endemic to India, the Bombay night frog has been found near Mahabaleshwar living in a cave piled high with fruit bat droppings which is inhabited by many invertebrates on which the frogs feed.
Fistmele is a term used in the popular sport of Archery and describes the correct distance between a bow and its string.
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