Posted on 10/08/2004 8:49:00 PM PDT by missyme
Your right...she was the one that was axed...
None/all of the above?? LOL
Janet Reno!
I'm blind!
Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.
...or so I've been told by a Vietnam vet who learned to at least tolerate it while "in country".
LOL!
bump until I get some sleep.
That would be 78 inches (6'6')tall and 224 pounds maximum. About the same size as an NFL end.
Ping Kong. I know the crevo threads have been put on hold, but I found this interesting.
After November 2.
That is interesting .....considering that Africa has one of the smallest forest-to-area, as well as total area, of forests in the world. Infact the continents of North America (yeah, us guys in terms of both percentage and total area), South America (in both percentage and total), Europe (yep ...them too in terms of percentage area but NOT total area) and Asia (once you add the great Siberian 'Taiga' forests ....infact Russia by itself has more forest than Africa ....multiplied 6 times) ALL pass by Africa by a HUGE margin. Infact Africa is basically denuded, and has always been.
Most of Africa is Savannah, with deserts in the north (Sahara) and south (Namib). The only forests that can be found are those in and around central Africa (starting from the Virungas where east and central meet, up to the Congo basin). That is where you find the type of flora that one would see in 1930s Tarzan flicks. Otherwise Africa is almost entirely grassland, with desert taking up the second position.
The whole 'Jungle-Africa' is a myth that has been perpetuated for ages. True, there are deeply forested areas, but those are tiny as a percentage (again, both in terms of percentage ratio as well as total size, N.America and Europe surpass Africa in terms of trees ....infacf Russia by itself has more trees than Africa). If you want to see the type of foliage normally associated with Africa go to the jungles of Brazil, or those of S.E Asia. However for some reason there is this image of lliana vines, huge magrove swamps, and jungles that stretch for eternity in Africa. Are they there? Yes, in the Congo. But Africa is nowhere near the other continents (with the exception of Antartica and depending on how you look at it Australia) when it comes to forests/jungles/however-ya-wanna-call-it. Virtually all of the 'great African jungles' you have seen come from either the Virungas or the Congo Basin.
Forest Area in Thousands of square kilometers
Africa 527
Asia 844
North America 3,737
South America 4,439
Europe 14
Russia 3,448
Oceania 319
The whole 'African jungle' thing is perpetuated by people who base their knowledge of Africa (and the world) on b-grade movies, or people who happened to visit one of the areas that have jungle. Infact a simple look at a global foliage map would show Africa oscillates between Savannah and desert (with Savannah being numero uno and arid/semi-arid desert a close second).
I must've had my facts mixed up, as I was pulling that from memory. I know ran across some statistic like this when doing some research on arable land, development and forestation as it relates to carbon sequestering. In fact, maybe it was related to one of these other minor statistics.
I wasn't confused by any myths or anything, I was (very poorly) trying to recall some statistics that do suggest that Africa is highly under-developed in terms of land use compared to the rest of the world. Thanks for the correction though on the forestation.
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