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Research hospitals

Which hospitals are considered to be the best research hospitals in the USA? 2601:646:8A00:A0B3:D572:F62A:ECB8:F316 (talk) 05:51, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. News list the top hospitals in the U.S. as the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Michigan Hospitals, UCSF Medical Center, UCLA Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell.[1] Notice that most of these are closely related to universities. (Mass General is paired with Harvard, Cleveland has ties to Case Western Reserve University) St. Jude Children's Hospital might also merit notice. Rmhermen (talk) 06:56, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! 2601:646:8A00:A0B3:D572:F62A:ECB8:F316 (talk) 01:24, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Game Farms

Hi All, I asked a question here some time ago but failed to gain a response (unusual). Please assist. Can anyone tell me how many game farms there are in South Africa not including the government owed nature reserves. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.131.40.58 (talk) 16:44, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

According to South Africa’s game farm industry is booming {08 Dec 2015): "more than 2,000". Alansplodge (talk) 17:39, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What is your definition of a "game farm"? Given that you say "not including the government owed (sic) nature reserves" it's not at all clear.--Phil Holmes (talk) 17:40, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Photo indentification Comment

Is anyone able to tell me what the large, green objects are on the right of the photo, here? The article is Karine A affair and I can't match the objects with the list on the page, my first thoughts were that they could be the buoys mentioned? Regards, Willbb234 (talk) 19:23, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Followed the first reference to here: [2] which explains that those are the special submergable waterproof delivery containers that the weapons were packed inside. Rmhermen (talk) 00:10, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Size of Vatican City

I'm trying to use TheTrueSize.com to visualize how big Vatican City is. (Well to be more precise, I'm trying to visualize how big VC is and happen to be using that site.) But if I overlay Vatican City over something I'm familiar with, Burlington, Vermont, then the whole of Vatican City covers just City Hall Park. I could throw a baseball across City Hall Park! So, is this site just really far off on the size of Vatican City? After all, how could St. Peter's Basilica et al fit in it? †dismas†|^(talk) 23:59, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In much of the U.S., farmland is commonly in quarter sections of 160 acres (1/2 mile by 1/2 mile squares). The Vatican City is only 110 acres. City Hall Park Historic District is less than 10 acres according to our article. Rmhermen (talk) 00:19, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Using two copies of Google Maps and scaling them so that they match, it seems clear that City Hall Park would fit within the Piazza San Pietro at the east end of Vatican City. In units that a person in Vermont would be most familiar with, the whole of Vatican City is about 1/2 to 5/8 mile across depending on which way you measure. (Added later) Or in terms of parks in Burlington, the Vatican is about twice the size of Red Rocks Park. --76.69.46.228 (talk) 07:22, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The borders for Vatican City in that site are wrong. They just cover half of the Basilica. Шурбур (talk) 07:30, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. So, I'm not crazy. The site has the wrong size for Vatican City. And thank you for pointing out the City Hall Park article. I didn't know it existed. †dismas†|^(talk) 16:47, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Feast your eyes on this infographic about the size of the Vatican: http://maptd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/true-size-of-the-vatican-city-large.jpg . --M @r ē ino 03:14, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]