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For What It's Worth is a Buffalo Springfield song released as a single in January 1967. Its success led to a re-release of the band's first album, Buffalo Springfield.

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A Trip to the Moon is a French science fiction film written, produced and directed by Georges Méliès, and released in 1902. The film gave birth to a popular genre: science fiction.

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The Black Sea owes its name to a Turco-Mongolian tradition associating black with the north. Located to the north of Turkey, it was named the Black Sea.

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The Red Sea owes its name to natural phenomena, notably the presence of cyanobacteria such as Trichodesmium erythraeum, which give the water a reddish hue when they bloom.

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The Rougon-Macquart cycle is a series of 20 novels written by Émile Zola, one of the greatest French naturalist writers of the 19th century.

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Firs belong to the family Pinaceae, which includes about 600 species of conifers, and are characterized by their pyramidal shape.

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John Steinbeck's 1937 novel Of Mice and Men tells the touching story of two itinerant workers during the Great Depression.

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Naypyidaw has been the capital of Myanmar since November 2005. The name Naypyidaw replaces the name Pyinmana, which was the name of the city before it was designated as the country's capital.

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Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is the administrative capital of Sri Lanka. It is located in the south-eastern suburbs of Colombo, the economic capital. Both cities are part of the Western Province.

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Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) recounts the quest of Emma Bovary, married to a provincial doctor, to escape boredom through adventure and excessive luxury.

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