Don't forget Independence Day

There are a few reasons. One is that sometimes there are different crimes where the sentence can be or need to be either legally or at least symbolically stacked on top of one another. A proper accounting of the crimes and the sentencings lead to that kind of eventuality.

I remember seeing a guy get 100 years as part of a three strikes law sentence for rape. On top of that he got 2 five year sentences for failing to register as a sex offender. That's 110 years. The last two just seemed kind of like an afterthought, but it's just how the law is administered.

You can also argue that if something is found to be amiss with the first conviction and sentence, instead of simply letting the guy out the government keeps them in prison because of the other convictions and sentences.

And finally, I don't know enough about the criminal justice system to know if people who get life without parole really stay in prison for life without parole.

If you have a bunch of weight you are trying to lose, the weight, which is typically calories stored as fat, is where you are getting those additional 500 calories from. Your math is a bit simplistic but the idea is the same. We often view our bodies as calorie burning machines with the goal to burn calories. We don't think of cars the same way. The purpose of calories is energy to move around. We just happen to take in a lot of fuel and move around a lot less than we should and then get annoyed when the fuel builds up. We tend to value inefficiency in our metabolism because we like eating so much. This is not natural.

From the Latin Germania which is what the Romans called the Germanic tribes who lived beyond the borders of the empire in that direction. I don't know where that term came from.

But an example is Bahamas is from the Spanish words "Baja mar" for "shallow sea"

The Atlantic Slave trade had a huge impact on the course of the Americas. Entire populations were displaced, entire wars were fought, large portions of empires rose and fell on its fortunes. It was a large endeavor and it impacted the history of the United States greatly, which has gone on to impact the history of the world greatly. So it is studied in great detail because those who influence media and culture have a vested interest in it, more so than they have an interest in some other episodes of history.

Sin and Cos are about the angles of the corners of the triangle other than the right angle, they are not about the length of the sides. Sin and Cos are really ratios - given a particular angle the ratio of the sides and the hypotenuse will always be the same (it's a fraction, or a decimal if you will, between 0 and 1). So squaring just the ratios and adding them together will always be 1 because for the ratio itself, the length does't matter.

It's basically one of two (or two and a half) ways.

1 - The name the country calls itself in its language is spread around and changes in spelling and pronunciation occur as it shifts between languages, but there is still the "root" of that name in that "home" language. Remember, a lot of place names came about before modern communications.

2 - The name is attributed because of some real or perceived characteristic of the country and some term is coined in another country to refer to the people and place of the other country.

2.5 - A name from 2 is then spread around to other countries and languages, kinda like in 1.

It's a bunch of factors combined. The terrain is part of it, but the elevation the terrain sits at is also a huge factor. Other factors include latitude, and also neighboring terrain features like how far to the ocean, where the mountains are, the nature and type of prevailing wind patterns. You can possibly build up an artificial mountain, but not a mountain range, and you're not moving oceans around.

Likely the best you can do is pick a perfect spot for an island and build it. Or you can dig canals and mess around with water flow. You have places like the Salton Sea and the current condition of the Aral Sea which are results of man-made water infrastructure.

Measurements relevant to electricity are a fairly new phenomenon and the pioneers who worked on it mostly impacted the entire world. Similar to how the "decibel" coined by Bell Laboratories is named after Alexander Graham Bell, and at that point the international community was on board with keeping up with the latest research relevant to modern technology.

Humans have been doing things like walking to market and baking bread and weighing witches to see if they'll float for a very long time. There was no international community to manage those measurements.

Then the French and the Europeans and the communists came along with the metric system and Americans said screw you all.

Nearly everything a wild animal has or gets is because they went and got it themselves or with the help of a few others. Most are naked and homeless. They are vulnerable to the elements, to predators, and to disease. Most have a very short lifespan. On Maslow's hierarchy of needs, they live at the bottom - survive and reproduce.

Humans have found ways to improve our lot in life and meet our needs for additional development. Some might say because we've evolved to do more with our minds and bodies and time, some might say it's because we are God's children and not animals and have a different destiny for life. Either way, we thrive because we divide up labor and help one another. This division of labor means that I can focus on one thing - producing food, or building shelter, or producing clothing or organizing excel sheets, etc. While others produce one thing, and then in this amazingly complex way we trade what we all do with one another, and we use money to make that happen.

So I organize excel sheets all day because I get money to do that and I trade that money with others who produce food and clothing and gasoline and electricity - so I don't have to.

In aggregate, we work less than animals do and we get more in return for our labor.

For a jurisdictional boundary the commonly accepted point is the Karman Line 100 kilometers above sea level. The idea is that manmade objects above that line are spacecraft and certain agreements apply to them, and below that are aircraft and different agreements (like territorial and airspace sovereignty) apply to them.

From a more sciency answer, the atmosphere thins out and there is a measure where they say it's not really atmosphere anymore. However, it is not uniform, in that kind of like waves on the sea, the "surface" of the atmosphere isn't flat but fluctuates.

There's more volume to move blood through.

Admittedly this stuff is rather complicated and open to tons of interpretation. In the current case in Ukraine, the US and other countries are supplying Ukraine with weapons. So without a doubt they are supporting Ukraine. However, it is not US "minds" deciding exactly on how those weapons are used, although the US is giving some guidelines to limit their offensive employment. That's on President Zelensky and his generals. No Americans are actually killing Russians in this regard. At least in terms of how a nation views its own involvement, its a pretty big difference. But just kind of how the politics play out it is possible to do so and kind of distance yourself from the war execution. WWII is a very good example in that the US supplied lots of weapons to the allies before entering the war "directly" at the end of 1941. Proxy wars are a thing, and this is one of the ways they are carried out.

Yes

It's used in lots of words, often meaning like or love or interest of some kind. It does't always mean like romantic love; but love of food, or arts, or something like that.

One is greek and one is latin. I once offered a foot massage to a girl who was not a native English speaker and she asked if I was a pedophile. I assured her I was not. 20 years married now.