June 4
"Mosi oa Tunya" ("The Smoke that Thunders")
is what the native Africans call Victoria Falls.
June 5
The construction of the Great Wall
began in the seventh century.
June 6
The current fee for one car to enter the
Grand Canyon National Park for seven days is $20.
June 7
The Taj Mahal is located in Agra, India.
June 8
The base of the Great Pyramid of Khufu
covers 13 acres.
June 11
The Galapagos giant tortoise is named
after the Ecuadorian islands with the same name.
June 12
Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain
in the world. Its summit is 29,000 feet
(8,800 meters) high.
June 13
The Temple of Artemis was built on
a marshy strip in Ephesus, Greece.
June 14
The frigate Isere carried the
Statue of Liberty across the Atlantic Ocean from
France.
June 15
Phidias sculpted the famous statue of Zeus.
June 18
The total weight of the Eiffel Tower is 10,100 tons.
June 19
The volcano Paricutin is the
only Natural Wonder of the World located in Mexico.
June 20
Giacomo della Porta was the architect
of St. Peter's Church in Vatican City, Italy.
June 21
Garcia Lopez de Cardenas was the
first European to see the Grand Canyon.
June 22
The Amazon River is 4,195 miles long.
June 25
Thinking it was the mouth of a large
river, the Portuguese explorers named the harbor in
honor of the month in which they arrived. Rio de Janeiro means
"the river of January."
June 26
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
were the first to reach the summit of Mt. Everest on
May 29, 1953.
June 27
Artemisia built the Maussoleum at
Halicarnassus in honor of her husband Mausolus.
June 28
Captain James Cook called the Great
Barrier Reef "a wall of coral rock rising almost
perpendicular out of the unfathomable ocean."
June 29
The Eiffel Tower is painted every
seven years. Each time painters use 50 tons of paint.
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