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Where's Wally? (titled Where's Waldo? in North America) is a series of children's books created by British illustrator Martin Handford. The books consist of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depicting dozens or more people doing a variety of amusing things at a given location. Readers are challenged to find a character named Wally hidden in the group. Wally's distinctive red-and-white striped shirt, bobble hat, and glasses make him slightly easier to recognize, but many illustrations contain "red herrings" involving deceptive use of red-and-white striped objects. Later entries in the long-running book series added additional targets for readers to find in each illustration.

 

The first book in the series, originally titled Where's Wally?, was published in 1987. The books became extremely popular and were localized for many different territories, including name-changes for Waldo. The franchise also spawned other media in a more storyline-based form, including a a TV series, a comic strip and a series of video games.

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The Mariana Trench or the Challenger Deep got its name from the British survey ship Challenger II, which pinpointed the deep water off the Marianas Islands in 1951. Then in 1960, the US Navy sent the Trieste (a submersible - a mini-submarine designed to go really deep) down into the depths of the Marianas trench to see just how far they would go. They touched bottom at 35,838 ft/10,923m. That means, while they were parked on the bottom, there were almost seven miles/11km of water over their heads!

 

If you cut Mount Everest off at sea level and put it on the ocean bottom in the Mariana Trench aka Challenger Deep, there would still be over a mile of water over the top of it!

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