Illyria: Baby Name of the Day. By appellationmountain 6 Comments. Sheâs a Shakespearean place name with a romantic sound and a sci fi twist. Thanks to Felecia for suggesting Illyria as our Baby Name of the Day. Illyria is the setting for Shakespeareâs Twelfth Night, and the Bard borrowed it from the map.In real life, it was once the name for the western part of the Balkan peninsula, a part of the world with a reputation as being contentious and war-torn, but also incredibly beautiful. The Romans are responsible for the name.llyria: Baby Name of the Day. By appellationmountain 6 Comments. Sheâs a Shakespearean place name with a romantic sound and a sci fi twist. Thanks to Felecia for suggesting Illyria as our Baby Name of the Day. Illyria is the setting for Shakespeareâs Twelfth Night, and the Bard borrowed it from the map.
The earth rotates once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09053 seconds, called the sidereal period, and its circumference is roughly 40,075 kilometers. Thus, the surface of the earth at the equator moves at a speed of 460 meters per second--or roughly 1,000 miles per hour. As schoolchildren, we learn that the earth is moving about our sun in a very nearly circular orbit. It covers this route at a speed of nearly 30 kilometers per second, or 67,000 miles per hour.
Nevertheless, the statement is correct. At any given moment, we are all moving at a speed of up to 1,674 kilometers an hour, thanks to the Earthâs rotation, By definition, the Earthâs rotation is the amount of time that it takes to turn around once on its axis. This is, apparently, accomplished once a day â i.e. every 24 hours.. However, there are actually two different kinds of rotation that need to be considered here. For one, thereâs the amount of time it take for the Earth to turn once on its axis so that it returns to the same orientation compared to the Universe.