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Where is the prestigious area where cars are prohibited?

Freiburg, Germany, has an upmarket Vauban residential area that is completely car-free, but real estate is in high demand here.

On the border of the district there are special garages where you can leave your cars, and inside the residents move on foot or on bicycles.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What is an ice age?

The Ice Age is the time when most of the continents were covered with a thick layer of ice. These ice sheets formed when glaciers on the high mountains and in the polar regions reached large sizes. Slowly, over hundreds and hundreds of years, glaciers spread across the continents. They covered the ground with a layer of ice over 1000 meters thick! Throughout the history of the Earth, there have been several ice ages. The largest of these began about 2 years ago.

Four times during the Ice Age, the ice retreated and advanced again. Four times they melted and reappeared. The last such period ended about 18 years ago. At this time, most of North America was covered with ice. The ice moved south to what is now New York City.

Other continents in the Northern Hemisphere were also partially covered in ice, but not to the extent of North America. Earth has undergone great changes under the influence of ice. Air and ocean temperatures dropped. Today's deserts were well watered and covered with vegetation. The sea level dropped by 100 meters because a lot of water turned into ice. Then the ice began to disappear. Partly it evaporated directly into the air, partly melted.

About 6 thousand years ago, the continents of the Northern Hemisphere were almost completely free of ice. Will another Ice Age come? Scientists cannot answer this question because first they must discover the causes of the Ice Ages.

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