How many people have plunged down the Niagara falls in a barrel or some other contraption? How many have survived/died?

Ocean currents that move away from the equator carry warm, moist air and ocean currents that move away from the poles carry cooler, dryer air. based upon this information in the map above, which of the following statements is true? a. the climate on the western coast of south africa is warm and rainy.b. the climate on the eastern coast of south africa is warm and rainy.c. the climate on the eastern coast of australia is cool and dry.d. the climate on the eastern coast of japan is warm and rainy.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

Which us president proposed a decimal based measurement system for the us