Interesting Facts - Page 143

The city of Novgorod is one of the oldest cities in Russia. Its name means "new town".

The oldest bridge in Paris is named Pont Neuf. Translation: "new bridge".

Naples is one of the oldest cities in Europe. Its original name was Neápolis, meaning "new city".

On the South Pole and North Pole, each year is divided into one extremely long day and one extremely long night.

The legend of the cyclops may have arisen when people discovered skeletons of woolly mammoths, which appear to have one giant eye socket in the middle of the face.