The disparity between coal mining and other industries was greatest in North Dakota. Workers across all industries in that state had average salaries of $38,028 a year, while coal mining professionals, including engineers, earned an average salary of $88,567.(References 4). 2011 report by the Bureau of Labor of Statistics found that coal mining engineers in the U.S. have an average annual salary of $86,900. This amounts to an hourly average wage of $41.78.
The Most Beautiful Written Language in the World was Arabic, chosen by 18% of those who filled out this part of the survey (some chose a Spoken Language but neglected to choose a favorite Written Language).
Posted by Daniel Echevarria on April 15, 2010. Robert E. Wolverton Sr., a Mississippi State classics professor, occasionally asks his students to vote on the most beautiful and the ugliest words in English. In his last survey conducted in 2009, the words vomit, moist, puke, phlegm, slaughter, snot, ugly, damp, and mucus, topped the list for ugliest.