In 1958, the United States Coast Guard off western Greenland measured the tallest known iceberg at five hundred and fifty feet.

Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978.

Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.

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