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3 unusual facts about Tropic


Geographical zone

In the Torrid or tropical Zone, also known as the Tropic, the Sun is directly overhead at least once during the year.

Lotus, Florida

Lotus along with Tropic, south of the Pineda Causeway lost their identity as individual villages during the beginning of the Space Age in the 1960s as the entire area fell under single family residential zoning only as part of the larger Merritt Island.

Tropic, Florida

Tropic is an unincorporated area in Brevard County, Florida, United States.


Catholic University of Dry Tropic Farming and Livestock

The Catholic University of Dry Tropic Farming and Livestock (Spanish: Universidad Católica Agropecuaria del Trópico Seco (UCATSE)) is a private catholic university located in Estelí, Nicaragua.

Climate of Kosovo

Important factors that affect Kosovo's climate are: its position towards Eurasia and Africa, hydrographic masses (Atlantic ocean and Mediterranean sea), atmospheric masses (tropic, arctic and continental) etc.

David Belasco

Belasco was mentioned as a contemporary celebrity in Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn.

Honda Prelude

First generation Preludes were modified into full convertibles by a company called Tropic Design, located in Crailsheim, Germany.

Jean Le Couteur

The two architects suggested to Jean Prouvé the prefabricated "Tropic" metal house design to meet the requirements of tropical climates.

John Katzenbach

Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, Katzenbach worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and Miami News , and a featured writer for the Herald’s Tropic magazine.

Jorge Otero Barreto

He served in the 101st Airborne Division and the 25th Infantry Division "Tropic Lightning".

MS Batory

After these incidents, she was withdrawn from the North Atlantic route, refurbished at Hepburn for tropic service, and sailed in August 1951 from Gdynia and Southampton to Bombay and Karachi, via Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, and Suez.

Southern Hemisphere

During solar eclipses viewed from a point to the south of the Tropic of Capricorn the Moon moves from left to right on the disc of the Sun (see, for example, photos with timings of the Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012), while viewed from a point to the north of the Tropic of Cancer (i.e., in the Northern Hemisphere) the Moon moves from right to left during a solar eclipses.

Takutea

Copra cutters from Atiu visit once a year to cut coconuts from the trees, and a quantity of the tail feathers of the tropic birds.

Tropic of Ice

Tropic of Ice (Jään kääntöpiiri) is a Finnish spy film shot in Finland and the UK.

World War II ship camouflage measures of the United States Navy

Tropic Green system: Through 1942 the Camouflage Section had issued no instructions for landing craft, PT boats, Tank Landing Ships (LSTs) and other vessels expected to operate close inshore in Pacific jungle conditions, so individual commands resorted to overall green, or ad-hoc camouflage patterns in whatever green or brown paints could be obtained.


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