The Nile River is the longest river in the world, stretching approximately 6,650 kilometers (4,130 miles) from its source in Lake Victoria to its mouth in the Mediterranean Sea.
- (Alpine-Himalayan Belt) : This belt stretches from the Mediterranean through the Middle East to the Himalayas and Southeast Asia.
In the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily, Italy's iconic southern island, is facing an unprecedented agricultural crisis.
" said Cyrus Harding, "should a day arrive when the sea, rushing through the wall of the cavern, penetrates by the central shaft into the interior of the island to the boiling lava, Lincoln Island will that day be blown into the air—just as would happen to the island of Sicily were the Mediterranean to precipitate itself into Mount Etna.
The sea was as tranquil and blue as that of a Mediterranean gulf, when the sky is clear.
" If Cyrus Harding was not mistaken in his calculation, the island had almost the extent of Malta or Zante, in the Mediterranean, but it was at the same time much more irregular and less rich in capes, promontories, points, bays, or creeks.
When he set out on his holiday in the Mediterranean he had every intention of returning to London and his appointment at St.
For now I had done with islands for the time, and ports and shipping were plentiful; so I led a lazy life among the peasants, lying and watching them work, or stretched high on the hillside with the blue Mediterranean far below me.
If she could have seen her adored Scrap, more delightful to look upon than any other mother's daughter had ever yet been, the object of her utmost pride, the source of all her fondest hopes, sitting staring at the empty noonday Mediterranean considering her three possible sets of twenty-eight years, she would have been miserable.
Small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be Let Furnished for the month of April.
Many of those gaps are found in Africa, Southeast Asia, the Eastern Mediterranean, and parts of Latin America.
Malta Malta is a beautiful southern European country in the Mediterranean Sea, which has a rich history and culture.
Boir includes a small bottle of concentrated salt water from the Mediterranean.
Researchers say eating habits may provide clues to health levels enjoyed by Spain and Italy, as a "Mediterranean diet, supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts, had a lower rate of major cardiovascular events than those assigned to a reduced-fat diet," according to a study led by the University of Navarra Medical School.
This year, the Mediterranean Diet continues its reign at the top of the rankings, followed by the DASH Diet and the Flexitarian Diet.
The team will soon conduct an audit of fin whales in the Mediterranean.
" 'There is a great demand for hamburgers in the US, but in the Mediterranean area we usually prefer to eat a piece of actual fibrous meat, and not just products derived from minced meat.
The sample also showed Brucella melitensis, a bacterium that leads to the potentially deadly disease brucellosis -- also called Mediterranean fever -- and typically transmitted via unpasteurized dairy products.
France, approximately hexagonal in shape, has a boundary on the east with Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and is bounded on the southeast by Monaco and the Mediterranean Sea; on the south are Spain and Andorra, with the Bay of Biscay on the west and the English Channel on the north as natural borders.
A Diet for the Brain The MIND diet is a hybrid of the popular Mediterranean and the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diets.
