Tag: Largest

During my first couple of days in Prague, I’d seen Prague Castle from afar. But I knew that I needed to see it up close as well — after all, it’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the world’s largest castle complex (a local even told me that it holds the Guinness World Record)...

Spanning 183 acres, standing 191 feet high and costing over $100 million, the largest modern Hindu temple outside of India has opened in Robbinsville, New Jersey -but not without controversy. The breathtaking temple consists of a mandir made of intricately carved Italian marble, 10,000 ...

Nairobi in general is an up-and-coming city with a lot to offer. Great restaurants, lush greenery (at least in wealthy areas, like most cities), modern shopping malls, a vibrant arts scene, decent health care, access to wildlife. The weather is about as good as you can get, with warm but not hot day...

In 1937, astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky noticed that the movement of galaxies in the “Coma Cluster” was somewhat strange. The average speed of the galaxies was too high. It was so high that these galaxies should have dispersed in different directions long ago. Zwicky calculated the mass of ...

An enormous supernova spotted by the Gaia satellite may be the most massive ever seen by astronomers. This tremendous eruption, a billion light years from Earth, could rewrite what we know about the deaths of the largest stars in the Universe. The star, called SN2016iet, erupted before plant or a...

In January of 2020, the first drug for peanut allergies, Palforzia, was approved by the FDA. It was the first and only FDA-approved treatment to help reduce the severity and frequency of peanut allergies, which increased 3.5-fold over the past two decades reaching 1.4–2% of the ...

You are given an array of positive integers nums of length n. A polygon is a closed plane figure that has at least 3 sides. The longest side of a polygon is smaller than the sum of its other sides. Conversely, if you have k (k >= 3) positive real numbers a1, a2, a3, …, ak where a1 &l...