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French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps was behind the construction of the Suez Canal. Inaugurated in 1869, the canal links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.

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Libreville, the political and administrative capital of Gabon, the country's largest city by number of inhabitants, is the capital of the Estuary province.

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The Obninsk nuclear power plant was built in the "Scientific City" of Obninsk in Kaluga oblast. It is the first civil nuclear power station in the world. It was operational from 1951 to 2002, although electricity production for the power grid ceased in 1959.

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short story by Washington Irving, taken from his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, published in 1820.

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In the original version, Buzz Lightyear is dubbed by Tim Allen, while in the French version he is dubbed by Richard Darbois.

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Azerbaijan's capital is Baku, a city on the Caspian Sea renowned for its unique blend of modern and historic architecture.

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Thelonious Monk had a profound influence on bebop, the jazz movement born in the 1940s that revolutionized harmony, rhythm and improvisation.

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Gale is an impact crater about 155 km in diameter located on the planet Mars. The crater was selected by NASA in July 2011 as the landing site for the Curiosity rover of the Mars Science Laboratory mission.

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In 1667, French physician Jean-Baptiste Denys made the first attempt to transfuse blood from a lamb to a human being.

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The camphor tree, a resistant and symbolic tree, is the emblematic tree of Hiroshima, as some of them survived the atomic bomb of 1945.

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