Count On
Numberland
Ninety-three
93 (GUESS THE MONTHS)
He said: 'If you take the first letters of
these three months you'll find that
they spell a word that means:
'angry' in America but in Britain
means:
'daft'.
Then if you add together all the days of
these three months, you'll find that it comes to 93.' 'Really?' I said, and
laughed.
'So? Can you guess which months they
are?' he
said.
I said, 'No, I can't be bothered, I'm going
to
bed.'
Michael Rosen
Plutonium dust is much hated
And Uranium gets badly slated
Yet the one between these-
Element NINETY-THREE's
Neptunium (much under-rated)
A Stanton
93% of Thailand was rainforest in 1961. By 1988 this had been reduced to 18%.
93% of the total number of atoms in the universe are thought to be hydrogen.
93% of the world's rubber is produced in Asia.
Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola, who died in AD 93 , was the first person to prove that Britain was an island. He sailed around the north of Scotland.
An astronomical unit (AU) is the average distance of the Earth from the Sun. It is used to describe distances that are too large to be easily described in miles, but too small to be measured in light years. One AU is about 93 million miles.
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