Results: Earth, Wind & Fire
Published on 12/22/2018
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Earth, Wind & Fire is an American band that has spanned the musical genres of R&B, soul, funk, jazz, disco, pop, rock, dance, Latin, and Afro pop. They have been described as one of the most innovative and commercially successful acts of all time. Rolling Stone called them "innovative, precise yet sensual, calculated yet galvanizing" and declared that the band "changed the sound of black pop". VH1 also called them "one of the greatest bands" of all time. The band was founded in Chicago by Maurice White in 1970, and is still performing to this day. What is your favorite song by them?
Shining Star
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September
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Boogie Wonderland
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Let's Groove
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After The Love Has Gone
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Sing A Song
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Fantasy
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That's The Way Of The World
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Got to Get You Into My Life (yes the Beatles song)
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Keep Your Head to the Sky
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Reasons
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Don't know any of these songs
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Other (please specify)
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Surprisingly enough, although it is probably one of the best band names around, the original name of the band was not Earth, Wind & Fire. It was originally known as The Salty Peppers. Maurice White changed the band's name to Earth, Wind & Fire (after the three elements in his astrological chart). So, in homage to this band, let's also pay homage to the three elements it is named for: first off, earth. Here are a few interesting facts about earth. How many did you know?
The earth isn't round. Centrifugal force pushes outwards at the earth's equator giving it a slight wasteline.
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If you collected the gold in the Earth's core, you could cover the entire surface of the planet in 1.5 feet of the mineral.
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Every planet but Earth is named for a mythological god or goddess. Earth comes from the old English word, "ertha" which means ground or land.
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About 70 percent of the planet's surface is covered by water.
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Out of the whole solar system, Earth is the most dense with the average density 5.52 grams per cubic centimeter, according to The Planets.
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The oceans on Earth don't just house sharks and coral reefs, they have mountains as well. In fact, the longest mountain range on the planet stretches 80,000 km and it's called the mid-ocean ridge system. It's way longer than the Andes Mountains
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At its core, the earth is about the same temperature as the sun.
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There is actually no solid land under the North Pole. It is just sea ice. If you did visit the North Pole, you would weigh more than at the equator, because of the gravity.
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Lightening strikes the earth about 8.6 million times a day.
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Next up, is of course, wind. How many of these facts about wind did you know?
Wind power now provides four per cent of the world's energy.
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The first house in the world to have its electricity supplied by wind power was in Kincardineshire, Scotland in 1887.
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The strongest winds in the solar system are on Saturn where they reach speeds of over 1,100mph.
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A gale is officially defined as a wind of between 32 and 63 miles per hour. A wind blowing from 4 to 31 mph is a breeze.
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An instrument to measure wind speed is called an anemometer.
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In Greek mythology, the anemoi were four wind gods, causing wind from the four compass points.
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Early wind turbines all turned anti-clockwise (as viewed from the front). Since 1978, however, changes in design mean they all turn clockwise. Early windmills also turned anti-clockwise but later makers also shifted mainly to clockwise.
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The doldrums is a wind-free area around the equator where sailing ships used to get stuck for weeks. Hence the phrase 'in the doldrums'.
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Hurricane Camille of 1969 had the highest wind speed at landfall at an estimated 190 miles per hour when it struck the Mississippi coast. This wind speed at landfall is the highest ever recorded worldwide.
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The fastest wind speed not related to tornadoes ever recorded was during the passage of Tropical Cyclone Olivia on April 10, 1996: an automatic weather station on Barrow Island, Australia, registered a maximum wind gust of 408 km/h (220 kn; 253 mph; 113 m/s).
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Finally, we come to fire. How many of these fun fire facts (try saying that ten times fast) did you already know?
Earth is the only known planet where fire can burn. Everywhere else you don't find enough oxygen for fire to occur.
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The ancient Greeks amazingly started fire with concentrated sunlight. A parabolic mirror that focuses solar rays is still used to ignite the Olympic torch.
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Fire triangle represents the three components that fires need to exist: heat, oxygen and fuel. Fire is extinguished when one of these components is missing.
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Candle flames are blue at the bottom because that's where they take up fresh air, and yellow at the top because the rising fumes from below partly suffocate the upper part of the flame.
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A candle flame typically burns at around 1000 degrees Celsius (1800 Fahrenheit).
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During wildfires it's amazing that trees can explode if water deep inside the tree quickly turns to steam.
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The heat from a fire alone is enough to kill. It can get as hot as 315 degrees Celsius at eye level , hot enough to scorch your lungs if you breathe it in and to melt the clothes you're wearing into your skin.
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill! The steeper the slope, the faster the fire travels.
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