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The Trishaw has been discontinued for usage as a means of transportation after 1980 However there are some trishaws left which now serve as tourist attractions taking tourists for a ride around the downtown district, The first part of the Geography is a discussion of the data and of the methods he used As with the model of the Solar System in the Almagest Ptolemy put all this information into a grand scheme Following Marinos he assigned coordinates to all the places and geographic features he knew in a grid that spanned the globe Latitude was measured from the equator as it is today but Ptolemy preferred to express it as climata the length of the longest day rather than degrees of arc: the length of the midsummer day increases from 12h to 24h as one goes from the equator to the polar circle In books 2 through 7 he used degrees and put the meridian of 0 longitude at the most western land he knew the "Blessed Islands" often identified as the Canary Islands as suggested by the location of the six dots labelled the "FORTUNATA" islands near the left extreme of the blue sea of Ptolemy's map here reproduced. The bilingual policy was first adopted in 1966. One of its primary objectives is to promote English as the common (and neutral) language among the diverse ethnic groups in Singapore The designation of English as the first language is also intended to facilitate Singapore's integration into the world economy. . Variations in solar activity during the last several centuries based on observations of sunspots and beryllium isotopes The period of extraordinarily few sunspots in the late 17th century was the Maunder minimum, A life-size figure in white marble by Sir Francis Chantrey depicts Raffles in a seated position The sculpture was completed in 1832 and it is in the north choir aisle. Bak kut teh Local water supply and first water imports during colonial time (until 1979), Gardens and gardening have a special place in Singaporean culture as well as in politics Historically this is all officially attributed to Lee Kuan Yew who apparently spearheaded this philosophy in 1963. In a rare interview with Monty Don shown in the TV series Around the World in 80 Gardens Lee Kuan Yew reveals that after visits to other big Asian cities such as Hong Kong and Bangkok he feared that Singapore would turn into another concrete jungle and he decided that gardens and parks should be established everywhere and made this a priority of the government; .

. The VOC set their foothold on Batavia in the 17th century and was succeeded by the Dutch East Indies in the 19th century During these colonial times the Dutch introduced the cultivation of commercial plants in Java such as sugarcane rubber coffee tea and quinine In the 19th and early 20th century Javanese coffee gained global popularity Thus the name "Java" today has become a synonym for coffee. 3 Economic growth and health: Reports such as GDP employment levels retail sales capacity utilization and others detail the levels of a country's economic growth and health Generally the more healthy and robust a country's economy the better its currency will perform and the more demand for it there will be, Kranji NEWater Factory Kranji 2002 12 million imperial gallons (55,000 m3) PUB, Australia Australia Parliament: Research and development 5.8 Animals. . At one end of the room sits a large chair for the Speaker of the House The speaker usually wears black robes and in some countries a wig Robed parliamentary clerks often sit at narrow tables between the two rows of seats as well These narrow tables in the centre of the chamber is usually where ministers or members of the house come to speak.