The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 24900 miles and the residents of the tropic areas travel that distance every 24 hours. They are traveling over a thousand miles an hour. At 38Â° latitude we are traveling about 820 miles per hour. That is quite impressive but it pales in comparison with the orbital speed of the Earth, The average distance of the Earth from sun is 93.5 million miles.
The Sargasso Sea is characterized by a free-floating mass of seaweed, predominately S. natans and S. fluitans, in the western Atlantic Ocean. Sargassum is also known as sea holly because of its highly branched thallus with hollow, berrylike floats (pneumatocysts) and many leaflike sawtooth-edged blades.
Bertha Mason. Bertha Antoinetta Mason is a fictional character. In Charlotte BrontÃ«'s 1847 novel Jane Eyre she is the violently insane first wife of Edward Rochester, moved to Thornfield Hall and locked in the attic. The 1966 parallel novel Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys acts as a prequel to BrontÃ«'s novel and is the story of Mason, from the time of her youth in the Caribbean to her unhappy marriage and relocation to England. Rhys's novel re-imagines BrontÃ«'s devilish madwoman in the attic.