Tuesday 22 May 2012

Finale of the Geography of Wicked V




Also If it wasn't for Winnie Holzman the story would not have been created as she wrote the novel in 2003 and  then Stephen Schwartz made It a Broadway debut!


Winnie Holzman grew up In New York City and was born in in 1954, she is an dramatist, screenwriter and poet. She studied English and Creative Writing in Princeton and she graduated with a Masters in Musical Theatre from New York City in 1934.

Therefore, since now we have learned that "Wicked- The Musical" has been so
popular,it has  - from Singapore to the USA to London, it is simply GLOBAL! So guess what I'm dedicate my last blog post to, the geography of the WORLD!


Fun geographic facts about the world

  • About four billion gallons of water is used worldwide each day
  • The moon is about 100 times drier than the Gobi Desert.
  • Earth travels through space at at 66,700 miles per hour.
  • From a distance Earth would be the brightest of all nine planets as sunlight is reflected by the planets water.
  • The Persian Gulf sea is the warmest of all the seas as it reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade in the summer.
  • Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water until the depth of 240 feet.
  • The total surface area of the of the Earth is 197 million square miles.
  • The worlds deadliest recorded earthquake happened in 1557 in China when over 300'000 people were killed.
  • The deepest depth in the ocean is 36'198 feet in the Pacific Ocean well south of Japan near the Mariana Trench.
  • Only 3 percent of the water is fresh , rest 97 percent salted. Of that three percent, over two percent, is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. Means less that 1 percent fresh water is found in lakes, rivers and underground. 

I hope you have enjoyed reading my project as much as I have enjoyed doing it!

Here is the number one hit of Wicked "Defying Gravity" Enjoy :)



Image of Winnie Holzman: http://www.google.ie/imgres?hl=en&biw=1920&bih=924&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=D-mb6CKqXs7pZM:&imgrefurl=http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photos-editorial-photo-winnie-holzman-opening-night-musical-image20854893&docid=NThCJlCA8BbWiM&itg=1&imgurl=http://www.dreamstime.com/winnie-holzman-at-the-opening-night-of-the-musical--thumb20854893.jpg&w=293&h=450&ei=xNq7T77zMcaZhQfH5tXzCA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=1696&vpy=258&dur=280&hovh=278&hovw=181&tx=169&ty=181&sig=100547586202292015474&page=1&tbnh=112&tbnw=74&start=0&ndsp=55&ved=1t:429,r:24,s:0,i:132
Image of the World: http://www.google.ie/imgres?hl=en&gbv=2&biw=1920&bih=924&tbm=isch&tbnid=o5CImxu38RLArM:&imgrefurl=http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/what-is-a-world/&docid=Ca3dp3PbWJH-QM&imgurl=http://larvalsubjects.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/earth_from_space1.jpg&w=320&h=320&ei=9Nq7T6iEEcO7hAft68iICQ&zoom=1
Video of Defying Gravity:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMBcTGJ4YM



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