The Naming of Mount Everest The Naming of Mount Everest
The Great Trigonometric Survey of British India, spanning several decades during the 19th century, identified a stupendous snowy mass through surveying instruments from above the hill resort of Darjeeling, over 140 miles away. The peak was initially named Gamma and then subsequently changed to peak b in 1847; it was suspected that peak b might be the highest mountain in the world, slightly higher than Kangchenjunga which was considered to the highest mountain in the world at that time. After several more surveying measurements over the next few years, the great height of this new
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Since American writer Margaret Wise Brown and Illustrator Clement Hurd published the children’s book “Goodnight Moon” in 1947, people globally have recited the story of “little rabbit” observing the surroundings of his bedroom and then saying goodnight to supposedly notable items, including a “cow jumping over the moon.”
Among readers of this roughly 30-page picture book, of course, were parents and caregivers. Some of them took to social media in recent years, however, to report an alleged finding of their repeated analysis of Brown and Hurd’s work: The fictional rabbit supposedly spent 70 minutes preparing for sleep, based on two illustrated clocks in the character’s bedroom.