Category: Knowledge Desk

Antarctic Desert Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost continent, containing the geographic South Pole. With a area of 13,829,430 square km, it is the largest desert on Earth. About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages at least 1 mile (1.6 km) in thickness. Antarctica, on average, is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent. Antarctica… Read More…

Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world’s largest lake or a full-fledged sea. The sea has a surface area of 371,000 square km and a volume of 78,200 cubic km. It is in an endorheic basin (no outflows) and is… Read More…

Greenland Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean. Greenland has no land boundaries and 44,087 km of coastline. A sparse population is confined to small settlements along the coast. Greenland possesses the world’s second largest ice sheet. The Greenland craton is made up of some of the oldest rocks on… Read More…

In Search of Lost Time Written by Marcel Proust, ‘In Search of Lost Time’ or ‘Remembrance of Things Past’ is originally a french novel with a theme of involuntary memory, Separation anxiety, Nature of art and Homosexuality. Running to nearly 1.2 million words, it is the longest novel in world literature. The novel began to… Read More…

Library of Congress, USA The Library of Congress is located in Washington, D.C., as well as in Culpeper, Virginia. It is the largest library in the world. It is the research library of the United States Congress and de facto national library of the United States of America. Although it is open to the public,… Read More…