An old-fashioned George Washington joke from the Charlottesville (Virginia) Chronicle, 25 May 1883: âWhen did George Washington die?â asked a teacher of a large boy. âIs he dead?â was the astonished reply.
Natural Resources. The Himalayas are a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot and a repository of the most amazing biodiversity and a wealth of other resources that provide succor to humans that live in the region as well as at the base of the high mountains.atural Resources. The Himalayas are a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot and a repository of the most amazing biodiversity and a wealth of other resources that provide succor to humans that live in the region as well as at the base of the high mountains.
Confidence votes 261. The Himalayas are situated on continental-continental convergent boundaries. Two plates, the Eurasian Plate and the Australian-Indian Plate, are colliding into each other. The Eurasian plate is traveling 3.7-5.4 centimeters each year and this continental collision of two buoyant plates created such tall mountains.