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…the display makes it look like a giant 2,722-foot sparkler.  They have a similar New Year’s display at Taipei 101, the former tallest building in the world.  In Ecuador, their…

…from the coastal region of western South America, which today includes Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Northern Chile.  All tomatoes today are thought to originate from a single species known as…

…goes 6,680 kilometers, mostly hugging the Pacific coast and going through Cali, Colombia, Quito, Ecuador, Lima, Peru, and the Atacama Desert to Valparaiso, Chile.  From here, the road takes a…

…Big Island of Hawaii. There are also green sand beaches in Guam, Ecuador, and Norway. The green sand comes from the mineral olivine. Olivine is very common in the Earth’s…

…gas chambers that were responsible for killing 100,000 people.  He was actually captured by the Americans after the war, but he escaped. He made it to Ecuador in 1949, then…

…what is now Colombia and Ecuador, worked with platinum-like alloys as early as 600 BC.  Archaeologists have uncovered jewelry and artifacts composed of a naturally occurring mixture of platinum, gold,…