Nations compete to join wealthiest countries with the highest Gross National Product (GNP) per capita. Which countries made the top-ten list for best living standards?
GNP per capita is the most widely accepted index for a country's financial More...
In the second half of the 1990s the average per capita income in the world's poorest countries, when measured in terms of current prices and official exchange rates, was $0.72 a day and the average per capita consumption was $0.57 a day. This More...
A noted marine explorer named Jacques-Yves Cousteau wrote: "It is all strange, unearthly, and yet familiar. Strange because the sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonders forever."
Diving is becoming a much more popular More...
Do you remember – when you were a child – learning (then gleefully reciting) what you thought was the longest word in the English language? Was it ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM? Or the similarly long More...
Known as "the Sistine Chapel of crystals," Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales (Cave of Crystals) contains some of the world's largest known natural crystals—translucent beams of gypsum as long as 36 More...
The world's natural wonders differ from the other grouping of wonders in that they were not made or improved upon by humans. They actually humble humanity.
The local native peoples have known these wonders for millenia, however this list More...